The Undying Immortal System

After escaping through the forest and returning safely to Golden River City, our group quickly made its way back to the sect.

As we had killed our ambushers, we wouldn’t be getting any contribution points for the mission, but I still needed to report the details of what happened to the Hall. We could have tried to hide the deaths and just reported a clean completion of the mission, but we would have been punished if we got caught doing so. In any event, there was very little reason not to report the details of the encounter.

We were doing the mission for experience. We didn’t need the contribution points, and Lord Hao would find out about his subordinates' deaths even if we didn’t say anything. It was best to just come clean.

However, visiting the Mission Hall could wait until later. Before that, we needed to figure out how we were going to deal with the mess we found ourselves in. Once we were safely secluded away in our apartment suite, I explained everything I knew about what led up to us being attacked.

Yan looked down at his hands as he rubbed his palms together. “This ‘Lord Hao’ is going to come for us. From what you said, I would guess that he didn’t even know about that attack. His flunkies probably set everything up behind the scenes to get some kind of reward for kidnapping a notable formation specialist. Now, we’ve killed his men. If he lets that stand without challenging us, he’ll lose the support of many of his subordinates.”

Everyone sat quietly as we digested those words. How were we going to handle this?

In one respect, a Lord wasn’t that impressive to me. I had been a Lord enough times now that I didn’t exactly see it as an accomplishment. However, that was not the current me. Right now, I was just a simple Grandmaster, and it seemed like this ‘Lord Hao’ might have a large faction behind him. He might have access to dozens more Lords that he could throw at us.

More worrying was his position as a core disciple. What additional privileges and benefits would that provide someone? When compared to an outer sect disciple, being in the inner sect gave me access to a few more items in the sect stores, opened up some new missions, and let me attempt the Trial twice a year instead of only once. If core just upped those existing benefits slightly, I wouldn’t be too worried, but I didn’t know if that was the extent of it.

I looked at everyone and carefully considered our options.