Chapter 27: Chapter 25: The ending has to start somewhere

One of the first sects that stood proudly on the front lines of this extermination was the old but powerful {Prancing Mud-Horse Medium Sect}.

Many disciples had already arrived varying from the outer-court to even some of the most prestigious core-court. The outer-court disciples mostly were setting up simple foundations while inner disciples spent their time making powerful fortifications with their Earth-Mud Techniques in preparation for the Oni. Their sect was a powerful Medium sized sect located in the {Dong Empire} so it was easy to come up with a counter to the simple abilities that Oni had; they were just able to have powerful bodies. Compared to their campaigns against the filthy beast-kin or elves this was an easy feat.

They just set up large walls around their camps while waiting for the fools to charge at them only to be skewered by the pitfall traps below. If they tried climbing the walls their [Mud-Horse - Mud Slide] or [Mud-Horse - Mud Hoof] would easily send them back down into the spikes. While other sects may need to worry about plans to attack with their rich history in dealing with lower races they knew cornered beasts were most dangerous when you got within their range. It was safer just to patiently wait for the Oni to reach their whits and attack them!

Their {Prancing Mud-Horse Sect} wasn’t the only sect under the ‘Mud-Horse’ branch but one of many. They were descendents of the supposed first ever human sect so they could be seen as rather standard when it came to set up; they did also have a strong human supremacy dealio going for them as well. That could be said to be one of the reasons why even their largest sects didn’t tend to break into the ‘Large’ category… It would actually make them a target for the more inclusive sects.

Like many sects they were split into three courts being called the outer, inner and core courts - the stronger the disciple the closer to the core of the sect they can get. The easier way to be accepted into a new court was to accept an elder of that court as your master but this was harder said than done. Of course, if you were a disciple of the Supreme-Elder or Sect Master you were considered above even other Core-Disciples, often gaining another title. Among the people who came was the talented disciple of one of their Core-Court Elders; Lao.

His family name was Da though so many of his fellows called him senior Da which worked well since he was raised by his master and uncle. The elders thus tended to call them as little and big Da which he didn’t mind; he had grown up in the care of the sect. His parents were also talented cultivators but lost their lives while on a raid of a wandering filthy wolf-kin tribe who had moved away from their previous territory and was destroyed by an evil-sect.

Thinking back he couldn’t help but wonder if those evil-cultivators pitied the filthy beasts since they were both beings of pure evil?

Fewer people knew he actually had some memories from his previous life - it was nothing too amazing though as he was just a regular student in his previous life. He had already spent far longer in his current life than he ever had in his past. His previous life was in a far different world though. It was one where conflict was mostly digital due to countries possessing such strong weapons that an all out war could lead to the end of the world for everyone.

He didn’t particularly care for that life though; his death was simply due to being stabbed by a manic druggy on the street.

His new life was much better.