12 Top 25?

After just a single week, the sect had grown a proper foundation. Using the remainder of the treasures Feng had at his disposal to sell, he was able to gather many strong experts from schools within the city and able to even take in some subsidiaries in neighboring townships.

Along with Wang, just the slaves that were counted within the sect reached an astonishing two thousand five hundred. What was even more surprising, is that all of them during this week would take at least the first step into the path towards immortality.

Coupled with several small families in neighboring townships and two strong guilds who were stationed within the city, Feng's Dual Cultivation Sect had over five thousand cultivators. This type of growth within just a week actually frightened quite a few other sects who were not very strong within the city but who established themselves several centuries prior.

After taking one week to himself to just relax and watch the progress of his sect building organically, Feng finally decided to make a move personally.

He had sent many scouts to the smaller sects within the city with invites to a banquet his sect would be throwing. With the help of some of the stronger cultivators who were in the city's schools, Feng did not have to worry about the location to hold the banquet because many of the top restaurants wanted to earn his business.

One month later, Feng's banquet would happen at the biggest restaurant within the city and the restaurant actually let Feng hold it there for free. This made some of those sects in the top ten of the city mad that they were not invited, but they couldn't do much to the Dual Cultivation Sect.

If all of the biggest sects within the city chose to wipe Feng's sect out, they would have to give up far too much. This was because, they would be making enemies of all the top schools within the city and would even make enemies of the influential underground market that Wang now fully controlled within the city.

This meant that as long as Feng did not openly oppose those sects, the Dual Cultivation Sect would continue to flourish. However, little did those sects understand, if this banquet started, they would never have a chance to destroy Feng's sect and would quickly lose control of the whole city!

Feng had only a single objective for this banquet. His goal was to make deals with as many smaller sects as he could in order to have them all join his in one fell swoop!

A day before the banquet officially began, Feng ordered every member within his sect to register themselves officially as part of the sect. Each of them would go through cultivation measurements by pouring all of their strength into a large crystal.

This particular crystal was used throughout the universe as a way to grasp each cultivation level of cultivators. This did not mean that their overall potential would be shown, such as techniques and weapons. However, it would give a statement for their ranks.

To Feng's surprise, the next morning, he received an update that told him that currently just with strength alone, his Dual Cultivation Sect was ranked number twenty two within the whole city. He thought that his sect would be ranked much lower since Wang told him that the two guilds would not officially join them yet.

"Hohohohoho! I am sure if you strong arm enough of those smaller sects now tonight, that you will be able to soak them all up. By then, this city will be as good as yours!" flying out of the crystal, the older man couldn't stop praising Feng.

"If I am able to officially take over this city, I can dictate what goes on in the townships around this area. This would also mean that I could make myself a holder of a throne. If this were to happen, I could immediately start competing with weaker cities and slowly start my conquest." Feng replied as he started to take out some scrolls.

"But before that, I need to finalize my research on all of these smaller sects. If I can pinpoint some of their more vital weaknesses, soaking them up will be much easier."

"That's my boy!" nodding with approval, the older man flew back into the crystal.

"Soon enough, I will be able to take revenge on those old fools!" the older man thought to himself as he continued laughing in a crazed manner.