Chapter 16143 Discovery
Sects are different from nations. Sects have a religious feel, as well as a gang feel, because there are teacher-student relationships within sects. Once you join a sect, you become its disciple. If you are strong enough, you can even take a sect elder as your master. This relationship is much closer than a simple superior-subordinate one. Therefore, trying to bribe someone in a sect is actually very risky.

However, it is much easier to buy people off in a country's bureaucratic system, because many countries do not actually share a common belief. If a country has a common belief, that's better, but most countries do not have such a belief.

Without a unified faith, the country's bureaucratic system is easily corrupted by various forces. What does the Blood Slaughter Sect lack least? Resources. The Blood Slaughter Sect's resources are virtually inexhaustible. In the Divine Kingdom, as long as an official of sufficient status gains the support of the Blood Slaughter Sect, he can also receive endless material support. Under such circumstances, in a bureaucratic system without faith, it's really hard to say how high this person can climb.

However, if someone wants to climb up the ranks, they first need to have a certain status. If you support a low-ranking soldier, that soldier may not get much power. If he encounters a particularly greedy person, that person can firmly suppress him. Moreover, climbing up from a low-ranking soldier is too slow. They must support someone with status.

The person Chang Jun chose was the city lord of Zhenshou City. This city lord was a kingdom-level expert who commanded five thousand elite troops. It could be said that his status was actually very high. Under such circumstances, if he could also get the support of the Blood Slaughter Sect, then it would be too easy for him to climb up the ranks.

In the following days, people from various sects continued their training, mainly dealing with the people in those villages. At the same time, Chang Jun also sent people to scout out the villages where the civilians lived.

The Blood Slaughter Sect's fighting style has always been somewhat like that of assassins. They observe and understand their enemies, and only after they have a thorough understanding of them will they make their move. Once they do make their move, they strike with lightning speed and eliminate their enemies in one fell swoop.

Therefore, before any action, the Blood Slaughter Sect would spend a lot of time conducting reconnaissance. No matter how weak their enemy was, they would prepare in advance and then send out ten times the strength of the enemy to take them down in one fell swoop. This is why the Blood Slaughter Sect's actions are usually very smooth, because they have made thorough preparations before taking action.

Imagine an enemy you don't know, but who has been secretly observing you. He knows when you eat, when you sleep, what clothes you wear, what you eat, how strong you are, and how fast you are. After completely understanding you, he finds some helpers and designs an attack plan specifically for you, then launches a direct attack. In this situation, how could you possibly win?

Why did the Blood Slaughter Sect's reconnaissance seem to be completed in such a short time? Can they really understand the enemy this way? Of course they can. The Blood Slaughter Sect has two methods of reconnaissance. One is to send people to learn about the enemy. Just like when the Blood Slaughter Sect deals with other sects, they will first send some rogue cultivators into the territory of that sect and operate within that territory to investigate the situation of that sect. This is one method of reconnaissance.

The second method of reconnaissance is to transform the members of that sect into the undead race and then learn about the sect from within. Although these two methods seem simple, they can provide a good understanding of the sect, at least giving them a complete picture of its approximate strength.

Reconnaissance alone wasn't enough; before attacking, they would also make preparations. For example, they would send the sect disciple who had become an undead to return to their sect with the magic arrays and set them up. Before the Blood Slaughter Sect even attacked, their sect would already be sealed by the magic arrays. Their people wouldn't be able to leave the sect, and they wouldn't even be able to contact the outside world. Coupled with ten times their strength, how could this sect possibly fight back? They had already lost before the battle even started.

The biggest difference between the Blood Slaughter Sect and ordinary sects is that, thanks to the years of hard work by Zhao Hai and the others in the Blood Slaughter Sect, its strength is now on a completely different level from those sects. Individually, the strength of the Blood Slaughter Sect is overwhelming against any other sect. Now, the only opponents that the Blood Slaughter Sect can truly fear are powerful organizations like the Divine Kingdom. The Divine Kingdom is the nominal supreme ruler of the entire Divine Kingdom continent. If they really want to go to war with the Blood Slaughter Sect, they can order all the forces within the Divine Kingdom to attack the Blood Slaughter Sect in the name of the Divine Kingdom. Only such a force can make the Blood Slaughter Sect wary.

Of course, if it were just the strength of the Divine Kingdom, Zhao Hai wouldn't take them seriously. But don't forget, the Divine Kingdom also has the Creation God Cult, which is the state religion of the Divine Kingdom. They have many followers. If there is a god behind the Creation God Cult, then that god will definitely not easily give up a place like the Divine Kingdom.

The divine kingdom is so vast, with such a large population. Such a large area and so many people could provide an immense amount of faith power to that god. How could that god possibly abandon the divine kingdom? Moreover, because the faith power is abundant and powerful, the avatars descended by that god would also be incredibly strong. This is what Zhao Hai fears most. Therefore, Zhao Hai doesn't want to start a war with the divine kingdom now. He wants to weaken its power as much as possible first. Once the divine kingdom's power is weakened to a certain extent, then they can attack it, taking it down with minimal losses. Of course, it's also possible that the divine kingdom discovers their existence and attacks them directly. In that case, even if the Blood Slaughter Sect doesn't want to fight, they won't be able to. Therefore, until that day arrives, the Blood Slaughter Sect must secretly develop, strengthening itself as much as possible while weakening its enemy.

This is precisely why the Blood Slaughter Sect conducts extensive reconnaissance before taking action. Even when targeting civilians in villages, they first scout the village. However, since these villages are inhabited entirely by civilians, and the Divine Kingdom prohibits ordinary cultivators from contacting them, sending people to scout these villages is not an option for the Blood Slaughter Sect. Of course, turning the villagers into undead and then using them to learn about the villages is possible, but it's unnecessary. These villages are all civilian villages, and the Blood Slaughter Sect only needs to use radar to scout them.

The Blood Slaughter Sect's radar is now extremely powerful. It can not only know the strength of the people in the village, but also detect whether there is a magic array in the village. This is because as long as you build a magic array, even if the array is not used, it will still have faint energy fluctuations, which the radar can detect.

Don't think that the Blood Slaughter Sect is being overly cautious. They have their reasons for doing so, and their actions have indeed had a significant impact. They actually discovered anomalies in several villages. Not only did they find that some people in those villages had much stronger cultivation levels than others, but they also discovered that those villages actually had teleportation arrays. Most importantly, the people in those villages seemed completely unaware that there were teleportation arrays in their villages. In other words, those teleportation arrays were all secretly built and had never been used. This means that these villages are very likely a contingency plan left behind by the Divine Kingdom.

If the Blood Slaughter Sect hadn't conducted prior reconnaissance and had directly attacked those villages, they would likely have been exposed. Now that the Blood Slaughter Sect is aware of the anomalies in those villages, they are naturally making preparations in advance.

Chang Jun was quite surprised after seeing the intelligence about those villages. He immediately summoned all the sect leaders and elders of the various sects to the Yu Yang Sect. He set up a large conference room there, and once the representatives from all the sects had arrived, Chang Jun said, "I have sent you the information about each village. You can see the intelligence about each village now. Think about how to attack those villages." Chang Jun didn't stand on ceremony and directly sent them the intelligence about each village.

Everyone looked at it and discovered that the intelligence Chang Jun sent them was not just about the villages, but also indicated which sect was attacking which village. The people from each sect only needed to pay attention to the intelligence about the villages they were going to attack.

After reading the intelligence, they were all stunned. They really did not expect that there would be teleportation arrays in the villages where the civilians lived. If they had not collected intelligence in advance, their attack on those villages would likely have been discovered by the Divine Kingdom.

Once the Divine Kingdom finds out about this, even if they are unaware of the existence of the Blood Slaughter Sect, they will definitely not let the sect that attacked those villages go unpunished. In that case, the Blood Slaughter Sect's power in the Divine Kingdom will be weakened, which is not a good thing for them.

That's why the representatives of those sects looked so grim when they saw the intelligence about those villages. At the same time, they were also very relieved because they hadn't attacked those villages directly; otherwise, things would have been really troublesome.

After everyone had read the intelligence, Chang Jun spoke up: "So? You've all read the intelligence, what are your thoughts? Let's all share them."

The group exchanged glances, and then the sect leader of a small sect spoke up: "Elder Chang, are there any more experts in that village? If another expert suddenly appears, it will be even more troublesome."


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