890 Raiders Of All But God! (1/2)
”The four great neighboring sects are starting to mobilize. The first batch of men has already taken their positions. They've already scouted Swallow's Hill for a good ten days, but no luck.”
”Heishui Sect and Qingyang Sect are already on the way. We're talking about sects who possess Celestial Luck Banners; those two bandits will surely meet their end soon.”
”That's right. These two bastards need to be eliminated as soon as possible; they need to die!”
”Damned right you are!”
”Too greedy, too extreme, absolutely too bold!”
”I brought nothing with me but a truckload of iceworm silk the other time I took that route, and those two bastards had the nerve to take ninety percent of it as toll fare — what cutthroats they are!”
”Well, that's iceworm silk! I only had twenty pieces of low-grade spiritual jade in my pouch when I passed that area, but I was still stopped. They left me with two pieces — and took the rest as toll fare! That's twenty pieces of low-grade spiritual jade they seized; it wasn't even top-grade or medium-grade spiritual jade pieces... Did they even have to do that?”
”They're completely void of morals!”
”That's totally inhumane!”
”Dear God, witness this with your eyes of justice — may your judgment fall heavily upon trash like them!”
”Sigh, I'm out of ideas. I need to start doing business again within these few days, or else I won't be having food on the table. If I don't have any silver on me and riled up a fight with those men at the restaurant, I'll be turned into a pile of ash with just a single strike of lightning…”
”Me too. Sigh, let's think of a way, shall we?”
”When these two bastards are captured, I'll definitely spit on their corpses! They are such intolerable bullies!”
”That day wouldn't be too far away.”
…
The martial folks of Dongye City had collectively lapsed into a state of panic.
Every day, men would travel to Swallow Hill to look for the two bandits, but every day, someone would surely be robbed!
Even those who purposely went out with the intent to seek revenge on those thieves were still plundered!
Those involved continued to lose face from these unfortunate events.
Everybody's highly-anticipated, successful plan of revenge — the day where their corpses would be satisfyingly desecrated — still did not happen.
At most, what ensued was wave after wave of the martial world's top experts marching into Swallow's Hill, either intending to seek revenge or exhibit their righteousness, helping the heavens do the job.
In the beginning, some experts remained quite reserved about it as their reputation was at stake, unwilling to go out there in fear of being the laughing stock. Even if they emerged victoriously, it would be one void of glory.
The men that were first deployed were men with levels of Honor Level One or Two… however, they kept being slain in return. This did not seem like an operation to apprehend the bandits, but more like an offering of tribute; they were plundered all the same every single time. If this wasn't an offering, what else could it be?
Among them, some were plagued with even more misfortune. They had their own spatial rings stolen from by those bandits, and could only return in an awful, pitiful state.
Hence, those of Honor Level Three or Four could no longer sit tight — they buckled up and took off.
However, they ended up being nothing more than another round of tribute.
Furthermore, those who returned this time were in worse condition. Besides being beaten black and blue from head to toe, they even suffered both internal and external injuries — wounds that refused to heal without recuperating for a good amount of time.
The few small clans who were looted simply took it upon their entire clan to seek revenge, but what they had done was simply turning in their entire reserve of property, placing them in a state of despair where there were no more tears to shed.
Saint-Level experts only arrived after half a month; only then did the situation improve slightly.
However, by the time the Saint-Level practitioners and the two great sects who owned Celestial Luck Banners arrived, a few hundred people had already fallen victim to the murderous bandits.
The number of items robbed was enormous — it was sufficient to tempt the hearts of many!
Hence, numerous experts silently entered the vicinity of Swallow's Hill. They had even agreed on a secret signal with each other.
The vicinity of Dongye City had not seen the likes of such brazen thieves for a good few thousand years! Those two vile creatures must be eliminated this time!
The judgment of heaven shall be executed — justice shall prevail!
After upholding the peace, wouldn't it be natural to receive a little service fee?
This was perfectly logical — everybody had the same thought!
…
”Boss, don't you think your actions are a little overdone?”
Shi Wuchen was starting to feel a little more hesitant and jumpy this time.
Throughout the entire course, he had tailed after Yun Yang; he truly felt that this new boss of his was devilishly and unspeakably daring!
He was simply being completely unscrupulous and arrogant to the core!
They had been robbing resources and materials without a care in the world as if his eyes and judgment were completely clouded. In just a month, their own rings aside, the twenty spatial rings they had with them was completely filled to the brim. Left with no other choice, they began to start stealing even the spatial rings themselves.
It was precisely due to the filching of the rings that they had managed to seize seven million low-grade spiritual jade pieces, one-hundred-and-fifty-thousand medium-grade spiritual jade pieces, a hundred pieces of top-grade spiritual jade, and a variety of precious metals and minerals that filled up three whole spatial rings.
Iceworm silk, Skyworm silk, Stellar Jade, a myriad of medicinal herbs, a variety of robes, all sorts of precious ingredients fell into their hands… they even got hold of an entire box of Crimson Jade Root.
However, the most valuable of them all was most probably the Thousand-Year Winter Root they got from Qingyang Sect!
The cluster of Thousand-Year Winter Root of that particular haul caused the two men to be ecstatic for a pretty long time.
However, Shi Wuchen began to seem increasingly fearful, for he could feel that his new boss was blatantly a psychopath that had no regard for anything or anyone.
He already had himself completely immersed in the ecstasy of mindless plundering.