Chapter 35 - Chapter 35: Chapter 26 Bone-Tapping, Marrow- Suckingi (2/2)
The others followed suit, raising their glasses to Jia An.
“You’re all too kind! As I’ve always said, as long as there’s a bite left to me, I won’t let any of you go hungry!”
Jia An declared with great gusto.
When the round of drinks was over, he was beginning to feel a little tipsy.
“Alright, alright, don’t drink too much! We have to go out for our shift change soon!” Jia An reminded them.
“What’s the problem? Given your relationship with Captain Luo, even if we don’t go, no one dares say anything. Besides, those down-and-outs have already given their Spirit Stones, isn’t it? We don’t need to put up a front anymore!”
“Yeah! We used to have to put on a show, but now they’ve all settled down. Admissible to miss a few patrols!”
“You lot have oversimplified the issue!” Jia An took another sip of his drink and said with a feigned profundity.
“Big Bro Jia, is there something we don’t know?”
A few of them put their glasses down, pricked up their ears, and asked curiously.
“Nonsense! There are some things, especially those you lot wouldn’t know!” Jia An said arrogantly.
“Please enlighten us, Big Bro Jia! We promise not to tell!”
Ma Rui, licking his long face, poured a glass of Spiritual Wine for Jia An with a beaming smile.
“Yeah, yeah, we promise not to tell!”
Faced with the compliments of the others, Jia An was very pleased, and he lowered his voice, “Do you think Captain Luo has gone to such lengths just to collect a few Lower-grade Spirit Stones?”
“What else could it be? Over a thousand pieces a month is no small number!”
A few of them asked without understanding.
“Over a thousand is a lot to us but it’s nothing more than a hair for Captain Luo! What he really wants is to control the entire slum and turn it into free labor!”
“Free labor?”
A few of them still didn’t quite understand.
“I knew you wouldn’t understand. Let me give you an example! You know Xu Mu from our alley, don’t you?”
The others nodded continuously. They lived in the same alley, of course, they knew and had just collected Spirit Stones from him that day.
“The Sword Sect is currently gathering all forces for a counterattack against the Soul Forging Sect. We have received orders here too. I’ve already told Lord Commander, I’ll pay a visit to that old Xu Mu in a few days. Under the name of the Sword Sect, he must make pills for us for free!” Jia An said triumphantly.
Through Ma Rui’s tracking, he had learned long ago that Xu Mu could refine high-tier pills.
“What if he refuses?” A few of them asked worriedly.
A man’s fury, blood spraying five steps!
They could tell that Xu Mu was not any defenseless person.
“Refuse? Ha, ha! This order comes from the Clear River Sword Sect. If he dares to refuse, we’ll just arrest him, lock him up in the prison, kill the chicken to scare the monkey and let everyone knows how powerful our Patrol Team is!” Jia An disdainfully replied.
He had held a grudge against Xu Mu for a long time.
Why should he be able to make so many Spirit Stones easily by practicing a few stoves of pills, while I have to work day and night without even having enough to eat?
Previously, there hadn’t been any opportunity. Now that there was, he naturally wanted more.
“What if he runs away?”
“Run? Where can he run? Now the Flying Boats have all been requisitioned by the major clans, there’s no way out, unless he’s willing to carry his wife and children and cross the dangerous wilderness alone!”
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Not even Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators may dare to do this. 1 recon he doesn’t have the guts!”
“I hope he resists so I can just kill him directly and save us a lot of trouble! Once he’s dead, we may have a shot at his young wife. She’s quite tender! It’s just a pity that Mother and Daughter Lan have run away, otherwise…!”
Upon hearing Jia An’s words, a few of them unconsciously revealed smirks.
Compared to young ones, they preferred the more mature ones.
“Not just the old man, Old Man Zhang in the alley too, they all have to work for us for free in future!”
Just as they were having grand talks and fantasizing about a glorious future, they were completely unaware that a figure was hiding outside the door in the shadows, eyes filled with murderous intent.
This figure was none other than Xu Mu, who had silently infiltrated the place.
He had wanted to scout out information first, but as luck would have it, he had run into their conversation.
“Indeed, those who are doomed by Heaven can still survive, but those who have brought disaster upon themselves cannot live!”
Xu Mu’s eyes were frigid.
He hadn’t expected that, in just half a year, this former good neighbor had become so ruthless.
Power and ambition, they truly did corrupt!
“If that’s the case, 1 have no choice but to send you all on your way!”
Puff!
A clump of orange-red flame appeared in Xu Mu’s palm. Under his control, the center of the flame formed a vortex which began to rotate unceasingly.
As spiritual power was continuously poured in, the vortex spun faster and faster. The entire clump of flame, like a snowball, continuously attracted the fire elements in the air, desperately squeezing them into the center.
The flame turned from orange-red to dark red, and at the end, a strange blue light emerged from the core.
The tremendous power contained within this tiny fireball was so intimidating that even Xu Mu, its creator, was apprehensive.
It was like touching a line of dominoes. Once the fire was compressed to a certain extent, Xu Mu lost control of it.
Either empty his spiritual power to maximize the power, or throw it out now and ignite it.
To ensure the deaths of the men, Xu Mu had almost depleted half of his spiritual power.
The hot spiritual power was constantly steaming, and even Xu Mu himself could barely stand it. His Invisibility Technique also disappeared prematurely due to the violent fluctuation of spiritual power.
“Who are you? What are you doing there?”
A passing patrolman immediately noticed Xu Mu, who was hiding in the shadows and wearing a black facecloth.
He couldn’t wait any longer!
After casting an Amulet on himself for protection, Xu Mu immediately threw the compressed fireball into the room!
And he, after enhancing his Light Body Skill, ran desperately in the opposite direction..