Chapter 738: Chapter 378: Liberation of Canglan Star (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)

Mist Mountain Region, Red Moon City.

As the number of native disciples at the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall exceeded twenty million, the city’s size has continued to expand, its area now several times larger than surrounding cities, making it the largest city in the Mist Mountain Region, second only to Mist Mountain Domain City.

The permanent population alone has surpassed sixty million, and within the city, the weakest are intermediate apprentices, with most being martial artists. Bone Forger Realm martial artists are everywhere, and city lords of the Blood Coagulation Realm are a common sight.

In the hearts of everyone in the Mist Mountain Region, Red Moon City is deservedly the city of martial artists. Anyone with any pursuit of martial arts would come here to develop, unlike the previous domain cities, where only those who passed an assessment could enter. Red Moon City has no such restrictions; as long as you can live in Red Moon City, you can stay forever.

And the personnel from the three major domain cities, who have been staying on the street opposite the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, are stunned day by day as they watch the long assessment lines at the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and the disciples coming and going every day.

"The development speed of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is truly astonishing. Our three major domain cities have always only recruited geniuses, but the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall has no such limits. Regardless of age, as long as you meet the age criteria, you are admitted to the Martial Arts Hall. Not to mention you are taught advanced martial arts and training techniques that are hard to find elsewhere, and various cultivation facilities can be used freely as long as you have points," the Third Elder in the Sky-reaching Hotel sighed, looking at the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. "At this rate, never mind the gray-clothed disciples of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, even the other disciples might surpass our three major domain cities within a year."

These people, who have been living in Red Moon City and investigating various aspects of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, are increasingly amazed as their investigations progress.

Although the most formidable disciples of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are the gray-clothed ones, the other disciples they massively recruit are not to be underestimated. These other disciples from the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are growing at a phenomenal rate, changing day by day.

Not to mention those elite disciples, even the inner sect disciples of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are advancing rapidly. Numerous martial artist-level inner sect disciples whom they have investigated and assessed have advanced from initial stage martial artists to middle tier martial artists in just twenty days, and the brilliant ones have even advanced from middle tier to high tier martial artists. Each of them masters remarkable martial arts, with combat power in their respective levels far surpassing those martial artists of other cities.

As for the inner sect disciples at the Bone Forging Realm, they are also equally outstanding in their respective levels, not losing to the super geniuses of the three major domain cities. Only those peerless geniuses can easily suppress them, but only suppress those inner sect disciples. When facing elite disciples of the same level from the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, they are still inferior.

With nearly one million inner sect disciples and nearly one hundred thousand elite disciples, there are reportedly as many as five thousand core disciples above these talented disciples. The three major domain cities, even if combined, cannot compare to such a number of geniuses.

Now, he only hopes the three major domain cities can learn from the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s model and further expand their recruitment to give more opportunities to people from the three domains; otherwise, the three major domain cities will only be left further and further behind by the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in the future.

However, just as the Third Elder quietly observed the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, there was a knock on the door of his suite, and Shadow Tiger and Ling Ye entered in a rush.

"What’s the matter? Why are you two so flustered?" The Third Elder looked at the two, puzzled by their nervous expressions.

Shadow Tiger, Ling Ye, and Yi Feng, these three disciples, had long since nominally joined the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, making Shadow Tiger the main force of the Celestial River Domain City’s investigation into the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. The three of them usually stayed in the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, cultivating while gathering intelligence.

It’s still not dark, far from the time to report their investigation findings for the day, so it was strange for Shadow Tiger and Ling Ye to rush over in a panic.

Shadow Tiger took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Teacher, I just heard some intelligence within the Martial Arts Hall. Not long ago, the disciples of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall annihilated a grandmaster army from the three major domain cities in the Wraith Mountain Range and captured our three domain city lords."

"Annihilated a grandmaster army? Captured three city lords? How is that possible!" The Third Elder was taken aback upon hearing this, then immediately rebutted, "The three city lords are all great grandmasters, and the Hall Master of Red Moon City and those four great grandmasters are still in the city. How could the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall have the capacity to deal with the three city lords? This must be the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall trying to shake your resolve, don’t fall for it."

"But this matter seems to have already spread within the Martial Arts Hall," Ling Ye explained. "Now, many disciples within the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are discussing it, and some high-level members of the Hall are even gathering people, preparing to annex the three domain cities."

"Already gathering people, preparing to annex the three domain cities? How is this possible?" The Third Elder was momentarily dumbfounded.

Just a moment ago, he was thinking about suggesting the three major domain cities learn from the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall after returning so that they could contend with the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in the future. After all, the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall currently only controls one domain, while their three major domain cities control three, which allows them to recruit far more talents. Even if they can’t match in cultivation facilities, they could still contend through numerical advantage.

But now, being told that the city lords of the three major domain cities have been captured is no different than saying that the three major domain cities have perished.

The reason a domain city is a domain city is because it has a great grandmaster city lord holding the fort. If the city lord is captured, how can the domain city still intimidate a domain?