Free Web NovelChapter 78: Chapter 77: Beggar and Great Thief! Power Breeds Corruption
As for the so-called World-Suppressing Demon Soldiers, the Vast Sea Halberd, Su Bai had absolutely no interest in it.
Anyone with eyes could see that thing was a hot potato.
Besides, once something was associated with words like "Supreme Treasure," "peerless," or "unrivaled," it was guaranteed to attract the attention of a massive crowd.
It meant endless trouble.
He, Su Bai, just wanted to peacefully suppress criminals, lie back and collect Experience Points, and grow stronger.
Sooner or later, when he became powerful enough, he wouldn’t need to rely on any World-Suppressing Demon Soldiers to easily suppress everything.
After a moment of thought, Su Bai devoured the fruit Zhang Wei had brought him in a few bites and went to bed.
The next morning, Su Bai first conducted his routine patrol of the prison.
Nearing noon, that kid Zhang Wei somehow got his hands on a canister of top-grade tea and brought it over to Su Bai with a grin.
The tea leaves were golden, the aroma was rich, the tips were sharp, and the leaves were thick.
Su Bai glanced at it and gladly accepted.
Only after asking did he learn that the little rascal had actually gone home and swiped this rare item from his old man’s collection!
Mind you, his father was normally reluctant to bring this tea out even when entertaining esteemed guests!
"Serves that old coot right for sending me to prison in the first place!"
Zhang Wei just crossed his arms, pouted, and said nonchalantly.
’What a guy!’
’Truly a model of filial piety!’
「Nearing dusk.」
After returning to his quarters, Su Bai took out his tools.
He brewed the tea and drank.
In an instant, a rich aroma filled the air!
"Good tea!"
After taking a sip, Su Bai felt his Heart Spirit refresh and couldn’t help but exclaim. freewebnoveℓ.com
"Time to get to work!"
Su Bai drained the tea in his cup, then unhurriedly rose from his recliner and spoke slowly.
"The world is unpredictable, and demons are causing chaos!"
"It seems I’m the one who has to step up!"
"Catching demons, keeping the peace, getting Experience Point rewards, and raking in some payment and silver taels on the side!"
"Killing many birds with one stone! Isn’t it wonderful?"
With that, Su Bai’s figure vanished from the prison.
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The prosperous Great Xia Imperial City was filled with numerous exquisite buildings, appearing dazzling and enchanting.
It was dusk, and the sounds of vendors hawking their wares rose and fell in a lively, bustling chorus.
However, this bustling Great Xia Imperial City was like an ornate red carpet spread upon the ground.
It looked clean and tidy.
But beneath the carpet, filth and grime had long since accumulated, crawling with all sorts of pests and utterly disgusting maggots.
Back when Su Bai was still a Prison Guard, he had seen on a list from Li Da that a highly learned scholar had been imprisoned for constantly disparaging his colleagues and the powerful elite.
That man had once evaluated the current Great Xia Dynasty thusly:
"Prosperity is Great Xia’s embroidered robe; decay is its undergarment!"
’It was probably because of that sentence that he ended up being targeted by those powerful figures in the shadows.’
At this moment, Su Bai’s powerful Divine Sense was gradually enveloping the entire Imperial City.
Like a heavenly eye, it monitored every single movement within the Imperial City.
What Su Bai had to do was capture those maggots and pests from beneath this seemingly prosperous red carpet.
As for the size of the bugs and the level of their strength, that would all depend on luck.
Su Bai’s luck today was rather poor.
He only caught two criminals.
One was a mysterious master thief who cultivated a Concealing Breath Technique.
This guy’s cultivation was only at the Qi Sea Realm First Level. During the day, he dressed presentably, frequenting brothels and pleasure houses, looking utterly pleased with himself.
At night, he transformed into a master thief, using a decent Body Technique to continuously steal wealth.
Furthermore, the guy was quite cunning. Knowing his strength was average, he only dared to steal money from ordinary commoners.
He didn’t dare steal from rich merchants or the powerful elite.
His whole deal was preying on the weak while fearing the strong.
Originally, after seeing the man’s cultivation, Su Bai hadn’t planned to act. After all, for an expert whose strength was comparable to the Divine Platform Realm to personally capture a mere Qi Sea Realm Little Martial Artist...
...it would seem a bit beneath him.
Besides, the Experience Points gained from a Qi Sea Realm Martial Artist were truly far too few.
However, Su Bai discovered that after the theft, the kid saw that the mistress of the house was beautiful!
He actually got lustful ideas and was about to force himself on her!
’The nerve!’
Su Bai immediately struck, knocking him unconscious and then crushing his manhood.
He then casually tossed him at the prison gate.
As for the other criminal, it was an old beggar.
The sins committed by this old bastard were far more heinous than those of the master thief.
This old coot, relying on his decent cultivation, gathered a large gang of old beggars and manipulated them, specializing in kidnapping young children.
He then used the heart’s blood, facial features, and flesh of these children to cultivate a bizarre Demon Skill.
Many children were tortured to death by the old beggar. Even the lucky ones who managed to escape his clutches were left with lifelong disabilities.
Their quality of life plummeted.
At the same time, to support his large group of underlings, the old beggar would use torture instruments to chop off children’s hands and feet, cut out their tongues, and remove their ears!
He forced them to go out and beg, exploiting the pity of the world to earn money.
And this old beggar’s Demon Skill, who knows where he got it, actually allowed him to gain cultivation by torturing children, causing his realm to soar.
He was originally a bottom-tier, insignificant character, but now he had leaped to become a Divine Power Realm Seventh Layer Martial Artist.
After Su Bai found this person, he naturally didn’t waste any words, directly obliterating his lair with a single punch.
And after capturing the barely breathing old beggar, Su Bai also cut off his four limbs and sliced off his ears.
Finally, he turned him into a human torso.
He made him have a good taste of the painful torture that those children had once suffered.
In the end, Su Bai tossed the beggar chief and some of the other leaders outside the prison.
As for the other beggars, he would just let the Great Xia officials handle them.
After finishing this, Su Bai felt refreshed and invigorated.
He felt as if above his head, something was constantly flashing...
"Merit +1"! "Merit +1"!
And although the strength of these two wasn’t very high, with a ninety percent Suppression Involvement, the amount of Experience Points Su Bai could get every hour added up to several hundred.
As the saying goes, many a little makes a mickle.
Accumulating day by day, month by month...
...the final Experience Point gain would be quite substantial.
’I just wonder if in another month or so, C-Class Prison will even have any room left.’
「In the dead of night.」
Shedding his identity as one of the Heroes of Great Xia, Su Bai once again became an ordinary, unknown Martial Artist of the Prison Suppression Bureau.
「Another morning came.」
After getting up, Su Bai was taking large bites of a meat bun when he heard Zhang Wei and the others nearby, their faces alight with excitement as they engaged in a heated discussion.
After just one day, the matter of someone throwing criminals outside the prison had happened again!
If it happened once, it could be called a coincidence.
But for it to happen again less than a day later...
...that got people worked up!
It instantly ignited the gossip-loving hearts of many!
And so, this morning, more than half of the Martial Artists in the prison were discussing this very matter.
Some guessed it was a reclusive master with unfathomable strength who loathed evil. He sought neither fame nor fortune, which was why he chose to deliver justice as a vigilante at night.
Others said this person was a certain senior expert from within the Imperial City who, having seen too much of the city’s filth, finally decided to draw his sword and cleanse the world.
For a time, opinions were varied and widespread.
