Zhou Clan Hunting Squad

"Brother Xuantian, I suddenly remembered there's an urgent matter in the sect. I'll be leaving first."

"Yes, yes, Brother Xuantian, me too. I'll be leaving first!"

Representatives from the other factions all took their leave and hurried back to their own forces without stopping.

While the Zhou Clan's experts were still tearing through the Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect and had yet to attack their resource sites, they needed to return quickly and set up defenses.

Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect, its second-largest resource site, Fallen Flower Valley.

"Zhou Clan, you call yourselves the overlords of the Azure World, yet you ambushed us? Have you no shame?!"

A heavily wounded Saint King expert of the Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect stood on the brink of death. Looking at the Zhou Clan's experts—especially the Sovereign expert leading them—his face was filled with fury, though his eyes held deep helplessness and despair.

"Too noisy!" The Fifth Grand Elder of the Zhou Clan snorted coldly and flicked his sleeve. A fierce gust of wind cut down the Saint King expert.

Afterward, the Grand Elder and the other Saint King experts gathered the resources of Fallen Flower Valley. Their methods were remarkably efficient; clearly, they had come prepared.

Before long, the Zhou Clan members departed, leaving only Fallen Flower Valley in utter ruins. When the Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect Master arrived with the other elders and saw the stripped-bare valley, he was heartbroken beyond measure.

"Zhou Clan, this isn't over between us!"

Even professional bandits would have felt ashamed of their speed and methods of plunder.

By this point, the Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect's top three major resource sites had all been ravaged by the Zhou Clan.

Thirty-one Saints and seven Saint Kings had fallen. The Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect's strength had been greatly reduced. The Zhou Clan's first strike had been like thunder, beating the Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect until it hurt beyond words.

Not long afterward, several major resource sites of the Azure Profound Divine Palace were also visited by the Zhou Clan. It was truly a miserable sight.

Even though the Azure Profound Divine Palace had been on guard and increased the number of defenders, those meant to die still died, and those meant to be robbed were still robbed.

Unless the Azure Profound Divine Palace's Sovereign expert personally stood guard. But even if he did, he could only guard that one super resource site. As for the major resource sites, he simply could not split himself apart.

After all, the Zhou Clan's squad was led by a Sovereign expert, and even its weakest members were Saint Kings. What could the Azure Profound Divine Palace use to resist them?

Worth mentioning was that the Azure Profound Divine Palace Master also met his end. By terrible luck, he happened to run into the Zhou Clan's forces.

Although the Azure Profound Divine Palace Master was a Saint King Great Perfection expert, before such a terrifyingly powerful squad, he died gloriously.

However, his sacrifice was not without meaning. As a top Saint King Great Perfection expert, he managed to send the information out.

The various factions were horrified. The Zhou Clan had actually dispatched such an elite force—were they not afraid that all the factions would join forces and wipe them out?

The Zhou Clan truly was not afraid. With the contingency left behind by the Savage Great Emperor, even several Sovereigns would have to fight without rest for days before they could break the Zhou Clan's Family Protection Array.

By then, the Zhou Clan's squad would already have robbed their home clean.

The Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect Master felt a lingering fear. If he had encountered the Zhou Clan's squad back then, he would probably already be dead.

The divine senses of the various faction representatives gathered once more in the Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect's main hall. They looked at one another, at a loss for words.

Which faction could stop the Zhou Clan's squad? If they stationed their own Sovereign experts at their major resource sites, what if the Zhou Clan's squad stole their super resource sites instead?

Then they truly would have nowhere to cry.

For a time, the various factions stopped attacking the Zhou Clan's resource sites and recalled their disciples, especially their Saint and Saint King Realm experts. Losing even one of those experts would pain them to death.

As for the resource sites, they arranged for Feather Ascension Realm cultivators to guard them. The Feather Ascension Realm was still within the Mortal Realm, so their deaths were not quite as painful.

Of course, these Feather Ascension Realm cultivators were not particularly talented. Most had no hope of advancing further, so they were treated as expendable pawns.

Meanwhile, those factions gathered their strength, preparing to deliver a thunderous blow to the Zhou Clan!

However, the squad led by the Fifth Grand Elder had no intention of stopping. They continued attacking and looting the major resource sites of the various factions.

The various factions were driven to the brink. What the hell was wrong with the Zhou Clan? We've stopped attacking you, so why are you still attacking us?

Shouldn't this be the time for us to once again keep to our own waters and leave each other alone?

If the Zhou Clan's experts heard that, they would definitely say, "Bullshit! I'm going after you, so what? Bite me if you can!"

The top sacred lands and super factions groaned in misery as they suddenly became extremely busy.

The Zhou Clan targeted only those factions that had openly attacked them. As for the other factions, the Zhou Clan did not bother with them at all.

This made the factions that had merely watched from the sidelines and waited for an opportunity breathe sighs of relief, lingering fear filling their hearts.

A starved camel was still bigger than a horse. Although the Savage Great Emperor had gone missing and the Zhou Clan had lost two Sovereigns and ten Saint King Great Perfection experts, it was still not an existence they could afford to provoke.

Just as these factions were at their wits' end, a Forbidden Land Creature arrived at the Mystic Heaven Hegemony Sect. In the end, those factions and the forbidden land reached a consensus.

They would no longer send people to guard their major resource sites. Let the Zhou Clan loot to their heart's content—once the Zhou Clan was destroyed, they would gain several times the returns!

The squad led by the Fifth Grand Elder swept forward like bamboo splitting beneath a blade, taking several major resource sites in one stroke. No one stood in their way during this time.

The Fifth Grand Elder revealed a surprised expression. These factions had actually been so decisive. They were not like the Zhou Clan, which possessed several super resource sites.

Every major resource site was extremely important to them. Losing even one would pain them to death, let alone when the Fifth Grand Elder and his men specifically targeted the large-scale, high-yield ones.

For the rulers of these factions to possess such resolve, they had to be brewing some great move. They could not let down their guard.

Besides the Zhou Clan's squad, quite a few independent cultivators and demonic cultivators were also looting these factions' resource sites. However, most of what they took were small and medium-sized resource sites.

They did not dare snatch food from the tiger's mouth against the Zhou Clan's terrifying squad. Even when they looted major resource sites, they specifically chose the smaller, lower-yield ones.

Such an opportunity was rare even in ten thousand years. To obtain resources so easily was truly thanks to the Zhou Clan.

These independent cultivators and demonic cultivators were overjoyed, while also marveling at just how vast the resources of these top sacred lands and super factions were. It made people green with envy.

Day after day, these independent cultivators and demonic cultivators lived in constant fear. Not only did they worry about when they might lose their lives, they also agonized over how to obtain fortuitous opportunities.

Now that heaven had bestowed such an opportunity upon them, they had to cherish it. These independent cultivators and demonic cultivators swept through like locusts, stripping places even cleaner than the Zhou Clan's squad. They had been hungry for too long.

With so many people involved, they could not possibly track it back to them, right?

That was what these independent cultivators and demonic cultivators thought, but they did not know that these factions had already marked them down.

Once this matter was resolved, the factions would settle the score with them properly. However much they had swallowed, they would have to spit out twice as much.

Couldn't pay it back? Then they would leave their lives behind to settle the debt!