Chapter 334: After Math
Sam never felt this overwhelmed in his two lifetimes.
As he moved within the shadow world, he saw the shadows of beasts, cultivators, and even some trees that gained sentience.
Every shadow exerted huge pressure on him and he could see the shadow energy corroding his body.
Even his soul and the spiritual core are under pressure.
After ten minutes, Sam finally exited the shadow world.
He reappeared at another end of the planet within some woods.
His body is bleeding and all the cells are corroded by the shadow element, but the spiritual core is absorbing the shadow elemental energy from the body, albeit slowly.
Sam, felt like the whole world is spinning, this bloodline technique is not something that can be used lightly, this took a toll on his body.
This is the price he had to pay for trying to use the power of the beasts. Entering the forbidden realm.
That is not the place or a position a puny human should tread on, but he broke the rules and made it, that is why he never used any of them. The shadow mouse is the bloodline with the lowest quality, he dared not to think what would have happened if he used the forbidden move of the other three beasts.
He was barely able to stand up. He let Philip, Watt, and Jack out before collapsing again, but this time, he lost consciousness.
Watt caught him in his arms without letting fall to the ground. The three of them looked at the surroundings.
They could feel that there is not a single powerful aura around. They don't know what exactly happened in the Beast faction, but according to the plan Sam said previously, they should have been able to leave the place safely and arrive at the vicinities of the thunder god temple.
But Sam suddenly sent a mental message when he threw Watt inside.
The Dark soul Raven is not in their plans at all, they don't anything about the presence of the Dark Soul Raven, so they didn't plan anything at all.
So, Sam said they might not be able to arrive at their initial destination.
They are glad that they are able to escape this. But when they saw Sam's state, they are extremely amazed to the point they don't know how to react to the situation.
This is the weakest Sam has ever been.
Nothing has forced him to this state in this life.
Watt carried Sam, as the three of them surveyed the forests, they need to find a place to stay, they could easily survive in this level of the forest, but Sam couldn't stay here in this condition, they need to find a clean place for him to recuperate.
Their first goal is to find the traces of any human settlements, and if it is not possible, they would create a small clean, and closed space within the woods.
Meanwhile, the Beast faction is a Complete Mess.
The whole faction is completely crashed and demolished, there is not a single intact space in the whole faction and no one would believe that this place is one of the six major powers.
Near the hunting grounds of the Faction, the Dark soul Raven is completely demolishing everything and everyone within its reach as if it has gone crazy.
It is extremely angry and furious because Sam got away.
The Dark Soul Raven is one of the trump cards of the beast faction, it is an extremely high- level beast, which was sealed in those hunting grounds with painstaking efforts, a person who is not at the level of the head, wouldn't be able to control it.
The beast was to be let go only when the whole faction is under grave threat, where mutual destruction of the enemy and themselves would be a best-case scenario.
But now, the Faction-head destroyed the seal let the beast go just so he could kill Sam.
The Faction-head, Ancestor, and Sanjay's uncle. All three of them who are in the middle of a confrontation heard the intense roars of fury from the Raven and stopped their dispute.
They made their way towards the Raven only to see all the destruction happened in the way, there are many dead bodies on their way and some of them are in an extremely mangled state that they felt like puking just by watching them.
They are the bodies of the people who are stuck in the spiritual energy storm caused by the overlapping and destruction of two formations.
They felt their throats run dry as they saw the scene, the destruction of the whole faction which was painstakingly built for centuries, there is nothing left.
Even twenty years ago, when that person destroyed the place, there is not this much destruction within the faction, because the fight didn't involve the infrastructure and the weaklings of the faction.
Only the powerful people are either killed or severely injured making the faction extremely vulnerable, but now, the top experts are not dead completely, only the cultivators who are Pre-transcendent stage or lower are dead, some transcendent stage cultivators are dead too, but they are extremely low in number as many of them tried to get rid of the devourer vines.
But most of the transcendent stage cultivators and the Consummate cultivators are completely okay.
But all the things which represent their heritage and status were completely destroyed and there is no way for them to recover this.
Almost all the Nascent stage cultivators are completely dead, it is a huge loss and it would take years for them to recover this loss, only the grand realm cultivators who are still inside the colosseum are spared.
Apart from them, all the candidates from other places are killed.
The most bitter one is the Ancestor, he has never thought that this would happen, he never thought that there would be a day when he would have to see this type of situation in the Beast faction again.
Twenty years ago, he swore to his brother who died in the hands of that person that he would never let Beast faction reach the same state as it did that day when he was still alive, and within twenty years, he could only say that he didn't keep his word.
The whole faction turned upside down.
When they reached the raven they felt even more shocked because the left eye of the raven was gone, the socket is bleeding non-stop as the beast ravaged everything in its sight.
They looked around for the remains of Sam and his friend Watt, but they could find them, which made their hearts skip a beat.
They never thought Sam would be able to escape this situation, the raven has a habit of binge-killing, so when they saw the faction-head undoing the seal, they thought that Sam who is nearest to the spot will definitely die.
But from the looks of it, Sam not only escaped, but he also took out an eye of this Raven.
Now they understood why this raven is in so much rage. All three of them joined hands and controlled the raven before sealing it again, but this time, the seal was not placed with the Faction-head, because he is not the Faction-head anymore.
Sanjay's uncle became the new Faction-head, while the former faction head was relieved of his duties.
They focussed on dealing with the aftermath of this incident.
The news couldn't be kept under wraps. All the other five major powers got the news about the whole situation, a young man who came out of nowhere brought the Beast faction to its knees.
The other factions couldn't help but feel happy, they have an intense rivalry and that applied to all areas such as the number of disciples, elders, members, territories, and so much more.
They decided on the resource distribution by competing in all these aspects.
But now, a major power lost more than half of its power and all of that happened because they offended a young man.
This made them lose their reputation so badly. There is no way, the people under the beast faction would feel secure and join the faction as disciples.
Many people join the faction as disciples for their reputation, status, and the extra layer of safety that title provides, but now a young man took lives of elders and disciples all the same without any difference right under the noses of the four Consummate entities, there is no way they would feel secure joining this faction.