Chapter 203: Eastern Continent Meeting
And yes, he could send in the Shadow soldiers to infiltrate, but he knows that most conversations often happen secretly, involving only their closest members.
However, for the Shadow members, it will take a few more years before they can reach the inner circle. This is where he comes in; his disguise can work wonders and serve as a silent knife when necessary.
With this method, he can attend all the future meetings that are likely to be important, as the top family heads will be leading figures shaping this part of the world.
Just like today, when Chen Zemin is gathering these top family heads to discuss the evil cultivators—a topic that has never come up in his last life.
This is because the evil cultivators don't appear for several more hundred years, and by then, they will have powerful cultivators who can rival the top cultivators from their side.
But now, the top cultivators have the chance to learn about the evil cultivators before they become a significant threat, potentially saving millions of lives.
However, Xu Qianghua is not going to attend the meeting in person. Instead, one of his clones will participate for him.
How is that possible? After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, cultivators can break off a small part of their soul and let it leave their body.
But since this process is both painful and damaging to one's foundation, not many people do it. However, after a cultivator reaches the Incarnation realm, the situation changes.
In the Incarnation realm, cultivators can remove a part of their soul without much effort, and the missing area will heal quickly.
With a few special items, the soul can take on a physical form without any defects, which is what Xu Qianghua did, creating more than one clone.
One of his clones is in the Eastern Continent, and it is this clone that will attend the meeting and find out what the family heads plan to do.
A few days later, under one of his fake identities, Xu Qianghua attended a meeting called by Chen Zemin, the head of the Chen family.
As he was the second person to create a family, every top-level family head came to the meeting to show respect and to find out why he called everyone together, especially since most had little information on the evil cultivators.
The meeting took place in a grand hall filled with important figures. Xu Qianghua's clone, disguised as a family head with a modest reputation, quietly took his seat.
As he had expected, no one paid him much attention. His role here was to observe, listen, and understand where the top leaders stood and how much they knew with the little information they were given.
He was doing this because he remembered that some top families were actually evil cultivators in disguise, here to gather information to warn their fellow cultivators.
And no, they were not doing it for free. Instead, they sold information for the yang energy they needed from these cultivators, which helped them minimize suspicion.
These families never showed any striking features that revealed their true identities.
But they always ruin the plans in the old timeline, which is why he is paying attention to see if he can find anyone who might be one of those spies.
And while he was looking at the crowd, Chen Zemin, who had initialed the meeting, came up to the stage in the center of the hall as he started his speech.
Chen Zemin addressed the room, his voice calm but commanding as he established his authority over the meeting.
"We all know about the recent attack, and we understand what's at stake. The evil cultivators aren't just a threat to one family but a danger to us all. If we don't act together, we'll be easy targets.
Like the city in the Northern Continent, a tragedy was avoided due to a group of people, but we can assume these are not all of them.
I mention this because, in the past few days, I managed to find a small group of these evil cultivators and gather some information about them.
From what I learned from this cultivator, I am sure that there are many more evil cultivators; this is because the manual they use comes from one of the lowest-level chests in the world."
He paused for a moment, taking out a talisman before continuing, "What I have in my hand is the manual I obtained from the person I captured.
Additionally, I found out that the requirements for this manual are very low. It aims at low-level talents who have no future.
This manual grants them strength in exchange for the lives of their fellow beings, which is how this evil cycle starts: the low-level sacrifice once and gains strength that they could only dream of, leading them to commit more evil deeds until it becomes a habit.
Hearing this, the room filled with murmurs as everyone tried to digest what Chen Zemin had said.
Their surprise turned into horror as they understood how the manual worked; it was similar to the carrot-and-stick method, but the carrot is given to the evil cultivators while the stick is left to the human race.
However, they soon realized that they could not do anything to stop these low-level cultivators from using this manual, as they knew these low-level cultivators would never listen to them.
In their eyes, the top cultivators were the luckiest bunch and also the most stingy, which is why many low-level cultivators were always against the top cultivators due to jealousy.
Chen Zemin continued, "And to deal with this I propose we create a joint task force made up of members from each of our families.
This group will hunt down the evil cultivators and eliminate them before they can strike again."