After finishing my meal of the sect leaders and the elder I felt my strength surge to the peak of intent manifestation
Then I looked at the beastly martial artists
"Surrender and I'll allow you to live, if you resist your dead!" I yelled with glee hoping some would resist for the fun of it
However my hopes were dashed as all of them layed down their weapons and chose survival
A bit disappointed I called out for my two disciples
"Jeong, Cao where are you!" I yelled and before long my two disciples bowed in front of me
"Tie them up, we're going to take them back to camp for now" I ordered my disciples to restrain the roughly 250 martial artists left
Looking at eachother they then looked to me and back to eachother
"Uh sir where do we get that much rope?" Cao asked
"Take it from their storage they should have some in there, I'm not telling you to tie up the ones who try and escape, if you can't do it just kill them" I explained as I started heading back to the main sect
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Arriving back the walls were a bit taller and thicker
A few miles behind me were the prisoners that we had so I had to make some preparations
Calling out to the Squad leader I started to give them orders to make a prison within the camp to hold captives
"I'll get right on that sir, but we have a tang clan member who was sent here to relay a message" The squad leader spoke
"Take him to my office we shall discuss there" I told him as I headed up and started looking at the map I had
Specifically the warring continent
There were 5 more beastly sects and 4 more orthodox sect left on the island
That and two demonic ones
Then my door opened and the tang clan member spoke
"Sir I have been told to relay the message that we are prepared, if you know what that means" The messenger spoke clearly confused
"Ok we will head over tomorrow as right now I have just returned from a… Annoying trip" I said as I also wanted to practice making the lightning more efficient before making a book on it for any future disciples if they want to learn it
Watching the man leave I continued to look at the map
'I don't want another blunder like last time, should I just keep to myself and slowly consolidate a few very strong martial artists or many probably weaker martial artists…' I started to wonder
'Both draw the risk of us being found out but going out and recruiting more so, thing is the potential power is the same but with less people we won't be able to cover nearly as much ground'
'For now I will increase the strength of the martial artists we already have along with converting those beastly martial artists. Once I get them all to be body reformation stage then I'll continue recruiting more people, because then even if we're found out we can defend ourselves' I came to an answer
"Cao! I'll teach you some more martial arts if you come and help me iron some things out with my plan!" I yelled out the window when I started hearing many footsteps outside
"Jeong after I teach Cao I want to see the progress you have made in the body obliteration arts, if subpar I will personnaly beat it into you!" I yelled at Jeong
"Yes master!" They both said in unison