664 What A Marvel! (1/2)
The person who had toppled inside was an elder who was wounded and bleeding all over. The moment he fell in, he picked himself up again to cling onto Dong Tianleng's leg, crying out, ”Young master, save me!”
Dong Tianleng growled, ”Don't touch me… I've just changed my clothes…”
”Where are you going!” A handful of silhouettes shot over from a distance. The elder cried out before he picked himself up again promptly to escape through the window. He vanished in the blink of an eye, evidence of his excellent skills. The shadows pursued him relentlessly, hopping out through the window, hot on the heels of the elder.
Dong Tianleng stood up, cursing aloud, ”F*cking sh*t! I am an otherworldly young master, but the world has to come and lay a stain on me. I just came out for a drink, but I got splattered with blood instead… This is really…”
As he spoke, he tried to clean himself up, while muttering in frustration, ”That old bastard! Dirtying me with blood; how am I supposed to drink now? I'm terribly particular about… Hold on, what is this?”
He retrieved a tattered scrap of some unknown material from his robe. It seemed like a piece of leather…
”The f*ck... what is this?”
Dong Tianleng lifted the piece of skin to observe it carefully. ”What's this revolting smell on it? It looks like it's been chopped… It's in two pieces? Let me see; f*ck, are these two pieces connected? There seems to be… What's this? Strange…”
Chun Wanfeng and the others grew increasingly intrigued as they listened to his monologue. They went forward to crowd around him. ”What is it? What is it? Tell us!”
The guards of the four young masters knew that the situation was odd, but before they could do anything, Dong Tianleng had already been seen by one too many people inspecting the torn cloth in the air. The guards immediately turned pale.
'Oh, my young master… Can you have a little martial world common sense?'
'That old thing being pursued stuffed it in your robes, knowing that he can't escape… Why did you take it out? You could have just left it hidden!'
'Seeing as to how he was being chased after by so many experts, it can't be simply any ordinary item he left with you!'
'This will get us into big trouble!'
”Young master, keep it quickly!” hollered one of the guards, ”This thing…”
”What could this possibly be? Stop being such a coward!”
Dong Tianleng laughed and said, ”By the looks of it, they're, at most, one or two pieces of a treasure map – incomplete ones, at that. It's only a partial view. Based on my current identity, status, and cultivation base, in what way could I regard such a treasure map? I may lack many things, but wealth and capability are things I'm equipped with!”
”That's right! We're wealthy and capable. We are experts!” the other three young masters said, guffawing flamboyantly.
To be fair, it was not too much of an exaggeration based on the quad's current abilities. It was simply the truth!
The guards were stomping about in panic. Anxiously, they said, ”Young master, your cultivation base has shot up, but your knowledge didn't… This is obviously a massive source of trouble!”
The guards then went closer to the young masters and said, ”If it was just a normal treasure map, why was there such a pursuit earlier? The few pursuers were all Dao realm cultivators… Any one of them would be a rare find in the martial world – an awe-inspiring presence…”
Dong Tianleng was stunned. ”What did you say? You mean… this thing is a rare gem? One that will cause a lot of trouble?”
The nearby tables of martial world people were already wearing shiny eyes as their ears perked up to listen with avaricious attention.
”Yes, young master. This cannot be treated lightly…” The guards were already quivering with anxiety.
Dong Tianleng's eyes flitted around before he said, ”This is easy. That old bastard wants to frame me? Fine, I'll let him go for wool and come home shorn – left with nothing!”
”Bring me some fire!” Dong Tianleng was triumphant. ”Let us burn it up. Let's see who's the one who gets hurt in the end. Manipulate me? What a wild wish!”