15

While Hong was searching for the dark guild, many situations arose in glory city.

For one, the dark guild attacked the city lord mansion hoping to take out the geniuses. City lord had asked all exceptional students to stay within the mansion for their safety, even the clan heirs which had proved fortunate since the dark guild went all out on the attack.

The sacred family had over exaggerated the student's capabilities to make the dark guild take decisive action, so they could seize political power of glory city. The dark guild had attacked the mansion with six gold ranks, five four star Black gold and one peak black gold ranked spiritualist, along with two collosal abyss demon beasts they had summoned from a subsidary realm. But the attack was ultimately thwarted by city lord and other clan members, who had kept many experts in the premises in case of such a situation, which resulted in a full massacre thanks to the completed ten thousand demon beast array.

Even though a few of Hong's experiments on fusing demon beast body parts with human bodies went wrong, most of the volunteers survived. And many hunters, demon spiritualists and city guards who had been maimed in beast attacks chose to accept the ritual, thereby increasing the able bodied men and women in the city, which resulted in the completion of the ten thousand demon beast array in a faster time frame.

Both, city lord and Nei Li were suprised to see many people they had believed to be permanently disabled join the work force as well as rejoin the city guards.

"Ye Xiu, when did He Bai get his arms healed? Not only him but there are a lot of old faces I thought I would never see again in the battlefield." Ye Zong questioned after seeing many familiar faces.

"Ah, well recently an expert who stayed in medical pavilion found a method to graft demon beast parts into human body without side effects. Those are the people who underwent the proceedure. "

Ye Zong looked back at the fighting figures of the previously maimed men. "Tangible projection!!" A man nearby yelled as he charged towards a small flame demon and his right arm suddenly increased in size forming an arm of an abyss bear out of soul force before bringing it down with an impressive might.

Under the pointed look of Ye Zong, Ye Xiu sheepishly replied " well the procedure gave the ability to use the demon beast parts without having a demon spirit."

Looking at another man who formed hooved feet before charging in astonishing speeds towards the fray, Ye Zong stayed quiet for a few minutes before asking " did the expert leave already?"

Understanding his intent , Ye Xiu said " unfortunately yes, but before he left, he did the proceedure on all volunteers , roughly two hundred people. "

"Good, this gives another trump card to face demon beasts, find compatible demon spirits to them and form a seperate force of only them."

Then Ye Zong turned towards Nei Li. "Is this your master's work? Do you know how to do it too?" There were many serious injuries to fighter's and demon spiritualists in daily basis. If this method was given to the medical pavilion, then the manpower that could be saved as well as the overall power of spiritualists and fighter's would increase immensely.

But to his disappointment, Nei Li shook his head. He too was curious to know who would create such a disturbing but useful method, after all demon beast bodies are way stronger than human bodies. And a technique like that would increase the favour for humans in the event of a demon beast horde. Mentally noting himself to check out how the technique had worked Nei Li answered "No, my master isn't around glory city at the moment"

The attack on the city lord mansion was repelled with a very low casualty rate, and the clans began to put more security on the city lord mansion.

Later Nei Li and his group found the entrance to a subsidary realm called the dark prison realm, where they rescued a youth of name Duan Jian from silver light family, the rulers of that realm. With dragon blood line. His dragon bloodline awakened , he possessed a legend rank body and proved to be a very useful ally to the group.

They were able to find many treasures like scarlet crystals, which were beneficial to cultivation. A blizzard jem and a set of legend rank flying knives which would have cost a fortune along with few legend rank scrolls. All for a few cheap elixirs and food bags.