Chapter 454: Pressure
Old Thunder's warning rang some bells in the minds of the three association heads. Particularly after he mentioned the incident of him beating up Old Three.
In fact, that was not after they reached Consummate realm cultivation, rather when they are still transcendent stage cultivators.
The current family heads are all younger than the three association heads. But there is not a difference of a generation. If one has to put it in words, it's almost like half a generation.
But just like everyone else, these old men were caught by the family heads after they stagnated in their cultivation. But they still remembered the days when Old Thunder was still reigning supreme. Only inferior to the monstrous genius in the Beast faction.
After so many years, they really did forget the bitter days of the past and got drunk with their authority.
Now with the warning, they were forced to come back to their senses.
They also looked at the Usaine sect head, who is the only one left besides the three of them.
"Don't tell me you are behind all this." Old three asked furiously. He didn't want to do this, but he was forced to. After all, one time is a coincidence, but two times, it definitely is not. Even he has some suspicions on this.
"Old Three, don't you dare accuse me. Do you think I would stoop so low for some profits?"
Old three snorted at this reply, they themselves knew how low they would stoop to get what they want. There is no point in acting all and mighty in front of them.
He thought for a moment and said.
"I gave you face and let your people enter the association without any bias, but if you really don't appreciate this and make things difficult for us, there is no way we would tolerate this. You better spill the beans about the activation method of the park."
The Usaine Sect head felt like slapping the old guy.
"What do you mean by that? Do you think that I would hide something like the activation method.? If I knew anything of it, I would have already given it out."
The three association heads snickered at this. No one believed him at all.
"Then why did the formation activate? Just tell us what you want. IF it is reasonable, we could consider this as a reward for the achievement of the activation method."
One of them said coldly. Usaine sect head was dumbfounded.
"I really don't know any method. We don't even know how the park is activated. It might be an accident."
The inscription association head had enough of it and said.
"Do you think everyone is an idiot? Don't be too greedy and spill out. We already said we could give you if the cost is reasonable. Can you just jump into negotiations?"
Clearly, he thought that this guy is trying to play hard to get and obtain more resources, simply put he was being greedy. At least, in their opinions.
"I really don't know."
"Then how can you explain how that formation was activated."
"Maybe it is an accident?"
But he felt stupid after saying that. After all, such a complex network of formations and if all he thought was that it is only took an accident to activate, then the associations might as well disband.
All of a sudden, there is a silence in the air and the sect head finally said.
"Why are you guys only suspecting me? The Herb garden didn't have any damages. Why can't you suspect them?"
"Suspect them for what? For not even trying to activate the formations. The rest of the major powers including you couldn't wait to activate the formations because you guys have some plans behind that.
You guys want to get some credit from this and gain some benefits for your own. But the Herb garden is different. They don't have any form of benefits for themselves in getting this and they don't even want to suffer any losses. In fact, they are trying to re-establish the pharmaceutical association.
Do you think they will be stupid enough to mess with you?"
"I think, maybe they are trying to put me and you in this situation, so they can weaken the parties and try to establish later. So that they wouldn't have too much pressure from others." Usaine sect head speculated.
But the three heads didn't want to hear it.
"Don't go spraying mud at others. Do you think Garden head is as scheming as you?"
"Then it could even be Sam. It must be him. He might be trying to destroy our alliance by playing these tricks."
The sect head is trying his best to get himself out of this situation and he didn't hesitate to speculate no matter how far-fetched things sounded.
This time, though he was spot on, there is no way the heads would believe this.
They even came to the conclusion that this guy is just trying to avoid the blame and pointing fingers at others.
"You even have the gall to say that Sam did it? That guy might have some tricks, but at most he can defend himself. He couldn't come out of that city at this moment. Own up to your own actions. We are giving you a week's time and you are going to give out that information."
With that, the three heads left the place and that guy doesn't know what to do and how to react. He went back gloomily and by that time all the supervisors are in the imperial capital and all of them are surprisingly gathered in a tavern whose wine recently got popular.
They wanted to taste some of this famous wine before getting ready for the serious stuff.
Sirona and Philip are serving the wine as they are thinking about what Sam did to cause this much commotion.
For all, they knew they only activated a single park which is already quite absurd. After all, why would he give such a gift to these people? So, they activated the formation and arrived at the imperial capital.
To their surprise, in a few days, the supervisors from all over the empire started moving and came to this city.
And of course, the wine is the talk of the town as soon as they came and these people definitely wouldn't miss this and this made the job easy for them.
They got some bits and pieces of news from their discussions.
They were surprised, they didn't expect that their small action has done this much.
After the sect head came back to his sect, he didn't stay there and immediately came to Arsin.
He wants to talk to the supervisors and that is why they are gathered here. He even sent the Transcendent level beasts to fetch them from the outermost regions.
He is extremely adamant about getting to the bottom of this.
Particularly, the supervisor of the park that was activated.
The meeting was arranged and the Sect head is in a gloomy mood.
"How many of you are from Usaine sect previously?"
He asked coldly and more than half of them raised their hands.
"You guys get out and wait in the next room." As he spoke he saw that the guy who is the supervisor of the activated park is also in the group.
After they left, he said.
"I don't want any information from you guys, although the suspicion is low, I am still going to keep an eye on you. If any of you fuckers turned out to be behind the activation and trying to bring trouble to us, you better pray that the associations would come and save you from me."
With that single warning, he left the place and went to the next room. The supervisor of the activated park sat in the first row and looked at the sect head respectively.
"Are you really not involved in this? Do you really not know how the formation is activated?"
Sect head asked in a low voice.
"I really don't know sir."
"Then how do you think that formation is activated."
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The meeting went on and by the time it ended, he didn't get any information or any clues. From the looks of it, all of it is really an accident.
All the supervisors in the room are kneeling on the ground, panting hard for breath, their expressions are like they just let go of some mountains on their shoulders.
At this moment, while the Sect head is thinking about how to deal with the situation, someone came running towards him and reported. He is the emperor of Arsin.
"Sir, we have trouble. I received a message that the Associations are calling the employees back, particularly the people who belonged to Usaine sect. They are saying that they are reassigning their jobs and changing up the position."
The sect head was gloomy. If this happened any other time, he would be happy because his sect members would have covered a larger area. But now, he is not feeling good at all. Because he will lose control over them if they were gone at this moment.
The association is trying to regulate these people, they seemed to have had enough already, they decided to increase the pressure on Usaine sect.