The Invincible Corruption Manual

Hearing those two women's discussion, Elder Bai Li finally calmed his turbulent mind. But he looked at the enchanting moon-like beautiful face of Bai Rong, the 5th elder, and pondered in his head, 'What in the hell name is she talking about? Forget about sleeping together, she's the one who has been postponing our nuptials stating that she is not ready for any relationship. But, whatever, she just has saved my face,'

Bai Rong stood up and looked around, making all the other elders present here zip their mouths immediately. "Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we are all present here." She continued. "Today, our Great Gōng Clan has faced this crisis for the first time. So, I hereby announced the commencement of our 10,678th Elders' Council Meeting."

Then she looked at her fiancée, and said waving her hand, "Seventh Elder, you can take it from here." After that, she sat down on the stone slab.

The 2nd elder, a robust middle-aged-looking man complained, "Why is our youngest the one calling this meeting? No offense, lady Bai Rong. Still, if this meeting has to go smoothly then, don't you think perhaps someone from us old folks needs to commence it, right?"

Other elders also gave their voices of agreement with him.

"Silence! Is this some marketplace or what?" Bai Rong, the 5th Elder started berating all of them, "In the Eastern Continent, our twelve battalions of Hawk Hunter Squadron had been massacred by Tangs and the remaining three battalions of Cannon Blaster has already deserted and you old fools still have the gall to argue about such little things."

The hall quieted down once again.

She continued, "Listen, it's a direct order coming from Patriarch himself. In light of the fact that all of your military strategies were easily destroyed by our enemies, Patriarch has left everything about this war engineering in Elder Bai Li's good hands."

After knowing the crux of the matter transpiring inside the room, all the other elders who had opposed earlier looked at one another with solemn faces.

"Hmm, now do you have any more problems, Second Elder?" Bai Rong asked in a solemn tone.

"Not at all." The 2nd Elder responded.

"Others?" She asked, eyeing from one elder to another all across the hall. After none of them responded, she continued waving her hand elegantly, "Then, please, elder Bai Li."

Bai Li glanced around and spoke in a confident tone as usual, "Well, then let's start with briefing the casualties of the war in the Eastern Continent. Tenth elder, can you please recount the number of casualties in the East?"

Tenth Elder, the middle-aged-looking man who ridiculed him, frowned and responded, "According to our military tradition, each battalion consists of 35 strong archers. Twelve battalions down and some from the other three, which means 420 plus 105 of our bravest men have become martyrs for the Great Gōng Clan." Then he sneered and continued, "15 of those scoundrels deserted leaving their brothers and sisters in the blades of our enemies. Don't worry everyone. I have already sent a team to kill all those who deserted in a battle."

"Alright, you can stop their Tenth elder." Bai Li stopped for a few minutes and he continued, "Dear elders, this failure happens because we have miscalculated the strength of Tangs. Yesterday, I heard from my spies that their so-called Patriarch of the Tang Nation has announced an imperial decree throughout the entire Eastern Continent stating that no outsiders can step inside the territory of the east. Plus, he made another serious commitment; they are going to come here to invade our Mango Grove Pocket Realm!"

"Ridiculous! Hahaha," The Tenth Elder burst into a peal of maniacal laughter.

Except for the First, the Second, the Fifth, and Seventh Elders, all the other elders started laughing like some hooligan.

"Bahahaha, that's funny. Without our Gōng Clan's iron medallion, who in this world could find and infiltrate our home." The Third Elder joined in the fun.

But suddenly they heard a loud banging sound coming from outside.

Bang!

An earthquake followed after that while making the pagoda shake for a couple of seconds.

"Hmm, what the hell!" The Third Elder exclaimed. "An Earthquake?"

But the next thing, another three banging sounds chimed from the outside, and another tremor swept through the land of the realm.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Nope, I doubt so. Everyone outside!" Bai Rong, the Fifth elder said and she disappeared from her spot out of the thin air.

Without further ado, all the other elders also disappeared from inside the hall. Only the First Elder, a hunched-back old looking man with silver gray long hair, mustaches, and long beards remained sitting on his stone slap seat. He finally opened his eyes which were scintillated with cyan light and there was a diagram of three triangular shapes around each of his corneas. After gazing up at the high roof for a couple of seconds and then he shut his eyes again.

"Who would have thought that that patriarch Tang Gaozu would keep his words this quickly? Then let's see who you have sent to invade my clan." He muttered to himself and remained silent once again.

Meanwhile, from an island that was floating within the eastern sea of the small pocket realm, and from within a golden pagoda, a handsome youth wearing a golden dragon design Daoist robe ended his cultivation as he heard the loud banging sound coming from the sky above.

He took a step forward and disappeared from inside the pagoda and reappeared standing in the air just above the tip of the golden pagoda. He was none other than Bai Zhilong, the patriarch of the Great Gōng Clan.

He glanced above and muttered on seeing the sky was severed and two gigantic hairy palms with long nails appeared out from that pitch-black spatial tear and started tearing the space further. "Invader!"

"Yes, I believe this was sent by the Tang patriarch. Able to locate our pocket space realm and also trying to forcefully enter through that seal, impressive, right?" A familiar voice came from his behind… (please, stay tuned!)