Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

Chapter 477 Rotation Duty

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The antechamber of the Chief Town Heavenly Master's residence had fallen into a heavy silence.

The atmosphere was somewhat awkward.

The Guarding Heavenly Master who had just burst out was stupefied by Wang Chen's stick, and no one else felt confident to make a move, naturally not wanting to embarrass themselves, so everyone's gaze turned to Luo Han.

This was the person in charge!

All a bunch of useless rubbish!

Luo Han was secretly annoyed, but outwardly he remained composed, nodding his head and saying, "Since Junior Brother Wang considers these men to have deserved their deaths, then naturally, there is no crime in killing them. There's no need to alarm the sect over such a trivial matter."

With that, he reached out to destroy the heads on the ground.

However, Wang Chen had already taken a step ahead and collected all the heads into a new storage talisman.

"Cough cough!"

Luo Han's eye twitched, almost bursting into a curse.

But he swallowed his anger, and said, "Let's not dwell on this matter, Junior Brother Wang. Recently, the Sand People beyond the Pass have been increasingly active, attacking our Town Sand Pass three times, and in battling the Sand Tribe wizard, Heavenly Master Xiao Hong was injured, and is currently recovering."

He paused for a moment, and the Chief Town Heavenly Master continued, "It is our inescapable duty to defend Dayi and suppress the Sand Tribe. In light of the current situation, I hope you can start your rotation duty at the Town Sand Pass ahead of schedule."

Town Sand Pass is a vital part of Dayi City, holding the passage to the east for the Sand People, or the powers of the Western Region. It lies in a gorge, like a nail driven deep into the territory of the Sand Tribe.

Although the Sand People and the Buddhist Sect of the Western Region could simply bypass the Pass using flying warships, flying over lofty mountains, there would still be a severe threat of attack from both front and back if they didn't remove the "nail" that was Dayi City.

For hundreds of years, the natives of the desert have tried to destroy Town Sand Pass and breach Dayi City at all times.

As a Guarding Heavenly Master, it was one of Wang Chen's duties to defend Dayi and subdue the Sand Tribe.

However, according to past practice, a new Heavenly Master should guard the Heavenly Master Pavilion for half a year, familiarizing himself with the situation and gaining control before joining the rotation sequence.

Now Luo Han wanted to advance Wang Chen's duty.

But he made the proposal sound grand, a downright and straightforward scheme!

Wang Chen was calm and collected, "It is my duty to serve the sect, Wang Chen is willing to take part in the rotation."

Luo Han nodded, "Good!"

He flicked a command talisman to Wang Chen, "Junior Brother Wang, you have three days to arrange the affairs in your pavilion, and after three days, you will guard the Town Sand Pass. But let me be blunt..."

The Chief Town Heavenly Master stared sharply at Wang Chen, "If you neglect your duty and let bandits infiltrate the city causing chaos, then do not blame me for being ruthless!"

Town Sand Pass was impregnable, having been attacked by the Sand Tribe several times over the centuries, all ending in their utter defeat.

Having learned their lesson, they no longer made frontal assaults on the natural moat but sent small elite forces to sneak attack Town Sand Pass, aiming to kill the cultivators and martial artists defending the city as their primary target, before infiltrating the city to wreak havoc.

While Town Sand Pass was protected by the City Protecting Great Array, it wasn't practical to keep it activated at all times, and with the Sand People's elites practicing secret Buddhist Sect spells and adept at stealth, they were extremely difficult to defend against.

The main duty of the rotating Heavenly Master was to guard against these assassins and robbers among the Sand People!

So it was both a tough and dangerous job.

But Wang Chen was bound to take his turn sooner or later, and to him, there was no difference between sooner or later.

After Wang Chen left with the command talisman, the Guarding Heavenly Master who had spoken out earlier asked Luo Han in confusion, "Chief Master, why didn't you have the Department of Punishment send someone to verify the facts?"

His question was actually the common doubt of the other Guarding Heavenly Masters.

Wang Chen had killed seventeen people, and they had a hard time believing that not a single one was innocent!

Knowing that Wang Chen had only been in Dayi City for a short time, and had spent most of his time cultivating in the Heavenly Master Pavilion, aside from the Xi Family who had pledged loyalty to him, he hardly had any personal connections or influence.

Even the Xi Family couldn't possibly have chosen seventeen thoroughly wicked people from their ranks!

If just one or two of them were innocent, they could easily condemn Wang Chen.

But Luo Han looked at him as if he were an idiot, "Summoning the god is easy, but sending him away is hard. Do you think the Department of Punishment's people would only take away Wang Chen?"

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A group of Guarding Heavenly Masters were startled!

Dayi was hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Western Sea Sect Mountain Gate, which could be described as being far from the emperor's reach.

Without the stringent constraints of the Sect, each of them had dirty secrets; none were truly clean.

If people from the Department of Punishment really came, would they be willing to go back without filling their pockets?

How could the trivial gains from a newly-appointed Heavenly Master like Wang Chen compare with theirs?

When the time came, it was indeed possible that they'd be lifting a rock only to drop it on their own feet!

Everyone was at a loss for words.

Luo Han sneered, "A wet-behind-the-ears brat, I did underestimate him. Sending him to Town Sand Pass to test his mettle, we can then make arrangements for him afterward."

The Guarding Heavenly Masters were sincerely impressed: "The Lord is wise!"

No one doubted the methods of Luo Han.

Those who did had long since disappeared.

They didn't believe that Wang Chen, this wet-behind-the-ears brat, could withstand Luo Han once he got serious!

Accordingly, the news quickly spread from the Chief Town Heavenly Master's residence, swiftly reaching the upper echelons of Dayi City.

Not long after Wang Chen returned to the Heavenly Master Pavilion, Xi Manyun hurried over.

Wang Chen didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "I have three days. Bring me all the intelligence you have on the Sand People for me to review, as much as there is."

Knowing the enemy and knowing oneself, one can fight without danger in a hundred battles; with no one above him to rely on, he could only use the Xi Family to grasp the situation.

In the following three days, batches of data on the Sand People collected by the Xi Family were continuously sent into the Shangxun Heavenly Master Pavilion.

Wang Chen's current Divine Soul attributes were as high as 26 points, his photographic memory was just a minor skill; all the scrolls only needed to be read once for the information to be firmly embedded in his mind.

The problem of the Sand People had been a longstanding issue, and the West Sea Sect also found it quite troublesome.

Actually, with the strength of the West Sea Sect, exterminating the Sand Tribe wasn't a problem at all, but the issue was that the entire Western Region Buddhist Sect stood behind the Sand Tribe, and their power made the West Sea Sect hesitant.

What was most important was that the opponents and enemies of the West Sea Sect were not only limited to the Western Region Buddhist Sect.

Thus, after the top-level strategizing, the current situation was formed.

The warfare between the two sides was limited to those below the Golden Core, and then they would fight and duel based on their strength and means.

For hundreds of years, Guarding Heavenly Masters who died at the hands of the Sand Tribe were numerous.

And the casualties among the Cultivators and Wizards of the Sand Tribe were even more severe.

The grievances between them were simply irreconcilable!

The Sand People were fierce and cruel by nature, born warriors, and could be regarded as a nation of fighters.

Their tribal wizards could be classified as Demon Cultivators but had also received the secret methods of the Buddhist Sect. The spells they cast were unpredictable and notoriously difficult to deal with because of their sinister viciousness.

The Hunter Cultivators of the Sand Tribe were well-known; there were even precedents of Qi Cultivation assassins successfully killing Purple Mansion cultivators.

Once Wang Chen's turn came to serve at Town Sand Pass, he would inevitably be placed on the Sand Ancestor Hunter Cultivator's hit list—ranked second!

The first, of course, was the Chief Town Heavenly Master Luo Han.

It was rumored that Luo Han had also suffered assassination attempts by the Hunter Cultivators of the Sand Tribe, but all had failed.

After reading all of the documents, Wang Chen felt he had a good grasp of the situation.

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