Cultivation Online
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chapter-1456
1456 Demon Sealing Faction's Challenge Request
When Chairman Lee heard Yuan planned on donating some techniques to the Cultivators' Association, he immediately jumped up and down in excitement. After all, anything that came from Player Yuan was definitely very precious and significant.
"Also, if you don't mind, can you spread the news about the Demon Sealing Faction challenging the Fiery Locust Swarm? If everyone is aware of it, it might be harder for them to reject our challenge," Yuan suddenly suggested.
"Of course, we can arrange that for you. Then I will call you back once I have a response from the Fiery Locust Swarm."
"Thank you."Yuan closed the call and turned to look at Bai Lianhua, who had been staring at him with wide eyes and a loose jaw throughout the entire call.
Seeing her reaction, he simply smiled in silence.
"Do you really plan on fighting 40,000 people with 12?" Yu Rou suddenly asked with a worried look on her face.
Yuan shook his head, but before they could say anything else, he spoke, "No, we don't plan on making everyone participate. Meifeng, for example. I don't want to make her fight, so we'll have 11 people at most."
"Unbelievable…" Bai Lianhua muttered in a dazed voice, "Nobody will think you have a chance of winning this Faction War, you know?"
"That's fine. I don't expect anyone to, anyway."
Then he dialed another number on his phone and raised it to his ear again."Hello? Miss Meifeng? This is going to be very sudden and out of the blue, but I just challenged another faction to a Faction War. If they agree, we'll begin in a few days."
"Huh? Faction War? With whom?" Meifeng didn't bother asking him why.
"Fiery Locust Swarm."
Yuan did not expect Meifeng to know about them, but to his surprise, she started mumbling about their statistics as though she was their manager.
"Fiery Locust Swarm is ranked 86th in the world. It had 39,500 members last month. It has approximately 30,000 Spirit Apprentices, 9,000 Spirit Warriors, 300 Spirit Masters, 7 Spirit Grandmasters, and one first-level Spirit Lord."
"How do you have so much information on them…?" Yuan couldn't help but ask.
"As the manager of the Demon Sealing Faction, it is my duty to know everything about our potential competitors. I have information on every faction that wasn't recently founded."
"I appreciate the effort, but there's really no point wasting your effort on this, Miss Meifeng."
"It hardly requires any effort on my part, so I don't mind it."
"If you say so… Anyways, can you let the others know about it whenever you see them? They are not required to participate, either."
"Okay, I will let them know. What about the nature of the Faction War?" Meifeng then asked.
"Siege mode."
"I understand."
"Then I will give you a call when I have a response from the Fiery Locust Swarm."
"Yes, Young Master."
After Yuan hung up the phone, Bai Lianhua said to him, "Yuan, do you know why it's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to win a Faction War alone even if you have a superior cultivation? It's because you need to hold back your strength so that you don't accidentally cripple or kill your opponents, especially when you're surrounded by enemies in a heated battle."
"In order to prevent players from killing each other, real weapons are strictly forbidden, and one's life is represented by a badge around their waist. In a fight, you cannot attack your opponent with the intention to kill or purposefully cripple them. However, with martial techniques allowed, it is still possible to accidentally cripple or kill someone with our bare hands. When that happens, you will automatically be disqualified and removed from the Faction War."
"During my first Faction War after the system update, I tried a little too hard and nearly killed a Spirit Apprentice, which got me disqualified and removed, costing us the match. Since then, I instinctively hold back and haven't used even half of my strength." Bai Lianhua sighed.
"I see… that does make sense."
After a moment of silence, Yuan suddenly suggested, "Hey, would you mind letting me spar with your members?"
"Huh? You want to spar with my members?" Bai Lianhua's eyes widened with shock.
"No way! Are you trying to bully my fellow sisters, Brother Yuan?!" Yu Rou spoke up in a somewhat joking tone.
Yuan chuckled and elaborated, "Of course not. I want to practice holding back my strength, and this will be good training for them since I will also be giving them combat advice."
"Training with you, huh? That might not be a bad idea. I won't mind it as long as you can guarantee that none of my members will be harmed too badly." Bai Lianhua said.
"Don't worry. It's not like I don't know how to control my strength at all, and I don't intend on actually hitting them."
"Huh? Then what's the point of sparring?"
"We will treat it like it's a Faction War and try to destroy the other's badge."
"Oh, I see what you are trying to do now. Okay, I approve of it. I will let the others know so you can start tomorrow." Bai Lianhua said.
"Okay." Yuan nodded.
Meanwhile, shortly after Chairman Lee sent the Demon Sealing Faction's challenge request to Fiery Locust Swarm, an anonymous source tipped off news agencies around the world. The source revealed that the Demon Sealing Faction had challenged the Fiery Locust Swarm to a Faction War, which quickly spread online like wildfire.
Forum threads and discussions about the challenge quickly filled every website and channel related to factions, but since Yuan was involved, it also spread to Cultivation Online networks.
In fact, news had spread so quickly that the Fiery Locust Swarm learned of the Demon Sealing Faction's challenge request to them through online forums before they even saw it in their personal notifications, which greatly shocked all of its members, sending the entire faction into a turmoil.
