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Book 17, Indigo Prefecture – Chapter 21, The Grand Elder

Within the quiet, glooures were descending at high speed landing on the ground

Linley inspected his surroundings Bloodbath Gorge was sparsely populated As he stared straight forward, the only thing he could clearly see was an erect stone uely be seen through the mist, there was no way to see them clearly

“There are so e, but so few people within Bloodbath Gorge itself That makes sense After all, everyone in here is at least a Six Star Fiend” Linley continued to carefully inspect Bloodbath Gorge As for Ee steps

Just as they walked away, Emanuel turned his head to look at Linley “Linley, you’ve never been here before, right?”

“No, I’ve never been here before” Linley didn’t have any goodwill towards Ean to howl Linley felt his body turn cold, and he couldn’t help but be startled “The wind is actually so icy, here in Bloodbath Gorge”

Forhan couldn’t help but laugh “Linley Bloodbath Gorge is at the heart of the Skyfire Mountains, and is an extree would cause any Deods who came here to immediately be frozen However, to you, Linley, this cold wind naturally doesn’t have much impact”

“Elder Forhan, let’s continue to move forward”

Linley couldn’t be bothered to chat too much with this father-son pair in front of hie There were quite a few round stones located within Bloodbath Gorge, as well as sorass However, the center of it was a neatly paved stone road

In front of Bloodbath Gorge, on one side of the stone road, there was a tall, massive stone monument

The stone monument was covered with two dark red words that ritten in cursive, like flying dragons or dancing phoenixes The tords were, ‘Blood Bath’ Linley, upon seeing these tords, sensed a bloodthirsty, murderous aura emanate from it, and he couldn’t help but feel his own murderous desires rise in response

“Forhan, Emanuel, so it’s actually the two of you this ti out Linley turned to look, and saw an ah as he walked over This iving him quite a fresh, sharp appearance

Linley looked at the newcoreet hi time no see”

“It really has been quite some time since we’ve met” This man named ‘Arhaus’ beamed towards Forhan as well, then looked at Linley Rather puzzled, he said, “I knew that this ti, but I’ve never met this one before…oh, I know!”

Arhaus had a look of sudden understanding on his face, and he laughed as he said to Linley, “In Bloodbath Valley, I’ve heard that our Azure Dragon clan has a new Elder”

“I ahed as he extended his hand

“Right Elder Arhaus, greetings” Linley laughed and extended his hand as well

Linley had a good impression of Arhaus, but as for Forhan and Emanuel, Linley, from the bottom of his heart, disliked this father-son pair Both Eh they were sinister and vicious Eo hed

“Mother?” Forhan’s eyes couldn’t help but light up

Linley glanced sideways, seeing the looks on Forhan and Eer to meet the Grand Elder The Grand Elder and Patriarch ‘Gislason’ were actual siblings, brother and sister, and in the clan, her poas second only to that of the Patriarch’s

“Linley, it’s been a long time since our clan has had a new Elder” Arhaus said warmly “I’ve heard that you’ve previously sparred with E In the future, when you do battle for the clan, you definitely have to win soon clan”

“Definitely” Linley laughed and nodded

Forhan, seeing how Arhaus was continuously chatting with Linley, couldn’t help but interrupt “Arhaus, what’s the current situation in the struggle between our Four Divine Beasts clan and the eight great clans?”

“How good can it be?” Arhaus shook his head and sighed “The eight great clans are si on superior nuht clans havelike this…most likely in just ten or twenty thousand years, our entire Four Divine Beasts clan will have less than ten Seven Star Fiends”

Hearing this, Linley was shocked

“In ten or twenty thousand years, we’ll lose that many?” Linley couldn’t help but say “Currently, our Four Divine Beasts clan should have nearly a hundred Seven Star Fiends”

The Azure Dragon clan alone had thirty-six The four clans, combined, should have more than a hundred Seven Star Fiends How could it be possible that in as short a period of time as ten or twenty thousand years, only ten would be left?

“Linley, I hear that you just joined the clan recently” Arhaus said resignedly “You aren’t too familiar with the situation However, I trust that at the Conclave of Elders, you should have learned of our losses in the past thousand years”

Linley nodded

In the past thousand years, they had killed two enemy Seven Star Fiends, while two of their own Seven Star Fiends had been weakened as well

“Our Azure Dragon clan alone has lost two Seven Star Fiends in the past thousand years Of course, Jeffs, when using his original body to fuse with a divine spark, will be able to recover his strength But still, he’ll have lost any chance to gain in strength in the future”

Arhaus said, “In a thousand years, our Four Divine Beasts clan, all combined, has lost five In especially brutal periods, it’s normal to lose as many as ten Elders You do the math How many e lose in ten thousand years?”

Linley did the math, and he was stunned

In ten thousand years, at least seventy or eighty Elders would be doomed

“That’s why I said that if this continues, in ten or twenty thousand years, our clan will have lost almost all of our Seven Star Fiends” Arhaus said bitterly “Nothing we can do The eight great clans…even if we exhaust all of our Elders against them, they will most likely still have half of their Seven Star Fiends re!”

Linley nodded

As soon as he had arrived in the Azure Dragon clan, Linley had heard that any one of those eight great clans were coon clan The nureat clans, all coreater than the number the Four Divine Beasts clan had

“Linley, do you kno many Elders we had before the ancestor died?” Arhaus said