“Everyone, rest assured. This sect was built by my disciple, so in a sense it was also built by me.”
Chu Fan smiled faintly and said to them, “Naturally, I cannot just stand by and watch the sect my disciple worked so hard to build decline. From now on, I, Chu Fan, will definitely lead everyone and let Joyous Sect rise to greatness!”
After hearing Chu Fan’s words, a bit more confidence rose in their hearts.
“All of you, please rise!”
Chu Fan smiled, then said seriously, “I have been in seclusion for far too long. I am not very clear on what Joyous Sect is like now, or what this world is like. Can you explain the current situation to me? It will help me take control of the overall picture.”
Ye Yanji and the others were delighted inwardly. With such a powerful Patriarch backing them, they suddenly felt emboldened.
Ye Yanji smiled and then explained the current situation to Chu Fan.
This place was the Great Yan Kingdom under Nan Commandery. Within the Great Yan Kingdom, there were many sect forces.
Many years ago, Joyous Sect was a very powerful sect, and most of its members were female disciples.
In particular, the founding patriarch, Chu Fan’s female disciple Liu Shishi, was exceptionally talented and created an evil technique.
In a normal Joyous Sect, one could rely on dual cultivation techniques between men and women to cultivate better and improve cultivation, and the speed of cultivation was much faster than that of ordinary people.
Moreover, disciples of Joyous Sect would also have their own fixed dual cultivation partners, and whenever they went out, they would travel in pairs of one man and one woman.
Of course, there were also cases where one man and several women became cultivation partners. Such men were usually extremely outstanding.
However, Liu Shishi created an evil technique that could forcibly seize a man’s cultivation during dual cultivation, treating the man entirely as a cultivation cauldron and draining him dry directly.
In severe cases, it could even cost lives. After some of Joyous Sect’s female disciples obtained this technique, they became even more licentious and caused the deaths of many male disciples from other sects.
At that time, Joyous Sect entered a period of great prosperity.
Later, Liu Shishi ascended, and the other sects joined forces to attack Joyous Sect, calling Joyous Sect a demon sect, and a great war broke out.
Joyous Sect gradually declined. By the time of the Seventeenth Sect Master, Ling Xue, the inheritance of that evil technique had already been severed, and Joyous Sect had long since corrected its path. No one was using the forceful plundering of others’ cultivation to improve their own cultivation anymore.
But some sects still regarded Joyous Sect as a demon sect. Even when Joyous Sect explained that it was an orthodox sect, no one believed it.
A few years ago, another sect attacked Joyous Sect. In the end, Sect Master Ling Xue died in battle, but she also severely wounded the other sect master before withdrawing.
At that time, Cold Spirit Sect, a second-rate sect in the Great Yan Kingdom, extended an olive branch to them and let Joyous Sect come under its wing. As long as Joyous Sect paid some cultivation resources every year, it would receive their protection.
Ye Yanji, who had just become Sect Master, had no other choice and agreed.
The Great Yan Kingdom had many forces, among which there were three huge behemoths known as the Three Great Sects. No one dared to provoke those three sects.
Below the Three Great Sects were eight relatively prominent forces. After years of conflict among sects, they had clearly become second-rate sects, and Cold Spirit Sect was among them.
Under the other side’s protection, things did improve somewhat, and not as many sects dared to come directly to their door anymore.
But there was still that damned Blazing Flame Sect. Blazing Flame Sect was also backed by Cold Spirit Sect and belonged to the forces under Cold Spirit Sect. Simply because it was much stronger than Joyous Sect, it often bullied Joyous Sect.
Recently, Cold Spirit Sect had been busy competing with another second-rate sect, Cangyue Sect, and there had been frequent clashes, so it simply did not bother with this matter.
After speaking, Ye Yanji clenched her fist and said, “The Blazing Flame Sect has become more and more excessive these past few months. Every month they demand that we hand over one hundred female disciples to them. They have too many male disciples and not many female disciples, so they say they want these female disciples to serve as cultivation cauldrons and reward them. But after our female disciples go there, many of them are tortured to death. They also said they would return our female disciples after using them, but not a single one has ever been returned.”
“Those people from the Blazing Flame Sect are that shameless? They are simply asking for death!”
After hearing this, Chu Fan also clenched his fist, and anger surged in his heart.
After all, in his previous life he had already encountered a few bastards who borrowed money and never paid it back. He never expected that after transmigrating, he would actually run into a case of borrowed people never being returned. That immediately struck a chord with him.
Shi Henshuang was also extremely angry. “Exactly. They are far too much. And we are no match for the Blazing Flame Sect at all. We can only select fifty quota spots each month from among the registered disciples with lower cultivation, because we are afraid they will slaughter our Joyous Sect. In any case, we will never agree to sending one hundred people every month.”
“Wait. You just said they want you to send female disciples over to reward their male disciples? Why are they being rewarded?”
Chu Fan frowned, somewhat puzzled.
“Because Blazing Flame Sect is stronger. Joyous Sect is just an unranked sect now, and we’re much worse than them.
Blazing Flame Sect has several experts with First-rank Spirit King cultivation. On top of that, their sect has more people. Recently, Cold Spirit Sect and Cangyue Sect have been fighting and need manpower support, so several Elders from Blazing Flame Sect have taken people over to help.
Ye Yanji said with a bitter smile, “Our few Elders are all Ninth-rank Spirit Venerables. Our sect is weak and has too few people, so we can’t help much, and…”
Shi Henshuang also said helplessly, “Cold Spirit Sect also looks down on our sect’s people. Seeing that none of us have Spirit King cultivation and that we didn’t go to help, they simply turned a blind eye, even though they knew Blazing Flame Sect was bullying us.”
Chu Fan gave a bitter smile and said, “They still collected the yearly cultivation resources. The people of Cold Spirit Sect take money and do nothing. They don’t seem like good people either.”
Ye Yanji said, “Sigh, Patriarch, this world is chaotic. Joyous Sect has long since become an orthodox sect, yet many disciples from other sects still bully our disciples by calling us a demon sect. This world is just like that; the lives of the weak are as insignificant as weeds.”
Chu Fan frowned slightly. Having once been the strongest person on the continent, how could he not know that this world was one where people devoured one another?
It was just that back then, under the leadership of his Nine Sun Divine Sect, many sects were fairly well-behaved. Although the whole continent was also chaotic, it was not this chaotic.
Now, it seemed even more chaotic than before.
“It looks like I need to find a way to raise my cultivation as soon as possible so I can protect myself. Those One-Punch Instant-Kill Gloves are indeed incredible… they can instantly kill any cultivator… but there are only five gloves, which means they can only be used five times.”
Chu Fan began to consider what to do.
He still did not dare tell Ye Yanji and the others the truth… that his cultivation was only at the First-rank Qi Practitioner level. After all, these people in front of him were treating him with utmost respect because they believed he was a strong expert. If they found out he was only a First-rank Qi Practitioner, they might decide he had no value and kill him on the spot.
So he still had to secretly become stronger. Only then would it be convenient to show off and to bully these beauties. Looking at the beauties before him, each with superb figures, Chu Fan could not help but feel a little heated.
“Rest assured. Now that this Patriarch has emerged from seclusion, no female disciple will ever again be sent to Blazing Flame Sect as a cultivation cauldron.”
Chu Fan looked at the others and said sternly, “Blazing Flame Sect… I will destroy it for you very soon!”