Martial Peak

Just after Zhong Liang and the others left Feng Ying’s courtyard, someone else came for a visit.

Yang Kai didn’t know them, but after Feng Ying’s introduction, he learned that the visitor was from Blue Sky Pass’ Merit Hall. The Merit Hall was a very important organisation in Blue Sky Pass, as its main responsibility was to document everyone’s Military Merits in each battle.

The Military Merits could be exchanged for cultivation resources at the War Materials Hall.

Now that Yang Kai knew who this person was, he naturally wouldn’t show him any disrespect. It was fine when he didn’t know who he was before, but now that he knew the identity of the person before him, he was curious to know what Military Merits he had obtained in this battle.

However, to his shock, the visitor hadn’t come to announce his Military Merits. Instead, that person came here under the order of the Army Commanders of the Four Armies to announce his punishment.

He had defied orders from the Western Army Commander, disregarded the overall situation, and put himself and others in danger. After a discussion, the four Army Commanders decided to punish Yang Kai by making him clean up the battlefield.

The punishment left Yang Kai dumbfounded.

The man from the Merit Hall laughed sheepishly, handed Yang Kai the jade slip, and cupped his fist while saying, “Brother Yang, I’m only following orders, so please don’t be upset with me. Cleaning the battlefield is not difficult, but it’s time-consuming. This isn’t really much of a punishment. Oh, right, the area you will be responsible for cleaning is demarcated inside this jade slip. Just take a look and you’ll know what I mean.”

There was nothing Yang Kai could say, so he accepted the jade slip.

The man from the Merit Hall left without saying anything else.

Then, as Yang Kai stood in the same spot, he looked at the jade slip and noticed that a basic map of Blue Sky Pass and its surroundings was engraved into it. Also, the area he was assigned to clean up was also highlighted on the map.

He turned to look at Feng Ying and asked, “What should I do?”

Feng Ying answered, “There’s not much to do, actually. The main thing is to clean up any leftover Black Ink Clouds and Black Ink Strength. If those are left near Blue Sky Pass, they will become something the Black Ink Army can use when they attack us again. Come with me.”

Saying so, she walked forward to lead the way.

A few moments later, the two arrived at the War Materials Hall. Inside the hall, everyone was bustling like busy bees, and there was a continuous stream of people heading in and out. There were many who recognised Yang Kai and nodded or smiled at him. Some even came forward and greeted him so that they could have a chance to get to know him.

Yang Kai politely responded to all of them.

When Feng Ying finally found someone from the War Materials Hall, she asked for a set of tools used for cleaning the battlefield before leading Yang Kai away.

Leaving Blue Sky Pass, moved towards the region indicated in the jade slip and soon arrived at a certain area of the battlefield. As they looked ahead, they saw the whole area was filled with Black Ink Clouds of various shapes and sizes, as well as some dead Black Ink Clansmen.

Though Blue Sky Pass also suffered casualties during this battle, the dead and injured had all been carried away by their companions; therefore, only the corpses of the Black Ink Clan were left.

responsible for was about 100,000 kilometres in length, breadth, and width. It wasn’t particularly big, but it wasn’t small

battlefield. Looking from where they stood, they saw most of the cleaning crews working in groups of two, each person holding one end of a net that they dragged across the void. As these nets passed through the void, the Black Ink Clouds would be gathered into them

nets would return to another part of their area and repeat the

nets were special artifacts the Human Masters had come up with because Black Ink Strength was very difficult to deal with. Up till

clean up the battlefield, they had to find another method. These nets were something they came up with

net that was about as long as a forearm. However, when she channelled World Force into the net, it rapidly enlarged, “This is the only thing we can use to clean up the battlefield, so we generally refer to cleaning

Kai laugh. The scene before him did resemble fishermen working with their

Trawling Net had no other use

the Black Ink Clouds being sent to?” Yang

Ying replied, “We move them about 1 million kilometres away from

cleanup duty was not difficult but time-consuming. The Black

Yang Kai concluded that cleaning up this 100,000-kilometre

what he needed now was to consolidate his cultivation. He didn’t have time to waste on

decision in mind, he immediately waved

Ink Clouds, opened the portal to his Small Universe,

massive Black Ink Cloud was sucked

the side while Yang Kai’s figure dashed to and fro, gathering Black Ink Clouds

had a World Spring with him, it was uncertain if he would experience any complications from taking in so much

seeing that

area; yet, he didn’t return to the Inner Sanctum after he finished. Instead, he

and

hand. Space Principles surged and his

confused

continued to undulate for a while before

where it had disappeared was now replaced by a vortex-like phenomenon.

was

as he

merge with the Void. If one didn’t know the exact location, it would be very difficult to find these Sealed Worlds, and

after the death of a High-Rank

an Eighth or Ninth-Order

which Yang Kai had explored once before was the Universe Cave Heaven

they found and opened a total of five Universe Cave Heavens and

by powerful Masters, and if one were lucky, one might be able to inherit the previous owner’s

3,000 Worlds, Universe Cave Heavens and Paradises represented fortune and opportunity. Once one was found, people would swarm over to seize