Free Web NovelChapter 1244: Chapter 954: Wipe Them Out (Part 2)
"I’ve already finished an entire jar of wine, when will this betting game start?"
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As soon as he arrived at the shop entrance, the smell of wine and the noise hit him.
Jiang Yuan stopped and looked inside the shop. Oh wow! Evil cultivators’ meeting! Around thirty guests were drinking and playing finger-guessing games, all were members of the Leisure Sect, introduced by Lady Yu.
"I must say, you all are too eager. You’ve had so much to drink already without having done anything!" Lady Yu gracefully descended from upstairs, standing on the third wooden stair, leaning flirtatiously against the handrail. Her semi-transparent gauze garment revealed and concealed in all the right places, showcasing her alluring figure.
She was just like her name suggested, with skin as white and smooth as jade.
Although her appearance wasn’t stunningly beautiful, her eyes flowed with charm, complemented by a drop of vermilion at the corner, making her seem delicate and attractively beautiful just right.
"I called you here today not just to drink and have fun," said Lady Yu with a plaintive expression on her face. "You’re all well-known heroes of Qihan Mountain; show some real skills, let’s think about how we can earn more merit."
The burly man sitting in the corner snorted, "You little flirt, pretending to be close to me, but kicked me away after deceiving me. Which man here wasn’t attracted by you? With such ability, what more do you worry about?"
Lady Yu heard this, her face turned angry, and she retorted coquettishly, "When I was close to you, when did I ever harm you? Without my full support, could your cultivation, which was stagnant for so many years, have advanced another one or two levels?"
The man laughed heartily, "That is true indeed. However, I’ve advanced more than one or two levels, and in a few days, I should reach the peak state and consider crossing the Thunder Tribulation, hahaha!"
Everyone present joined the Leisure Sect through her introduction, and benefited greatly in a short period after becoming Fallen Evil Cultivators. Therefore, they didn’t care about her actions and all laughed heartily upon hearing her.
"Peng Dahai is the most detestable!" Lady Yu angrily said, "He came to bother me on his own, and after I introduced him to benefits, he’s afraid I’ll snatch the merit away and left with those ambiguous folks to work alone!
He’s also ruthless in his methods, accumulating more merit. I say, which of you present is inferior to him? Can’t we also find a way to do big business together?"
The big businesses at Qihan Mountain are none other than serving people with charms, gambling, illicit Elixir, and human trafficking.
Whether it’s earning Spirit Stones to exchange for merit or handing over trafficked Demon Cultivators, as long as you can get involved with big business, it means gaining more merit, acquiring more cultivation techniques transmission, and becoming stronger.
However, within Qihan Mountain, the relationships are deeply interwoven and complex. Big businesses are controlled by the various dominant figures, and the Leisure Sect members as newly introduced evil cultivator forces have yet to spread to middle or high levels.
Characters like Lady Yu and Peng Dahai are at the bottom of the hierarchy in Qihan Mountain and naturally restricted in every way.
"Our power is limited, currently we don’t have many connections. But Lady Yu, you should easily find connections. If you can charm the shopkeeper or owner of any casino, accumulating merit wouldn’t be difficult?"
"Exactly, look at everyone here who hasn’t once bowed to your charm, Lady Yu? We should beg you to go charm someone powerful and help us all find a way out..."
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Hearing the crowd jeer, Lady Yu spat, "Pah! Instead, you’re amusing yourselves at my expense now. The head shopkeeper of the casino has all the beauties he wants; how could I charm him?
You are all my people. If no good plan is thought of today, watch me discard each of you. At that time, you won’t find any contact person again, haha..."
If abandoned by the upper line, without a special contribution, you can never contact the Leisure Sect again. The present demon cultivators immediately put away their light-hearted jokes, showing thoughtful expressions.
Watching this scene unfold, Jiang Yuan smiled and quietly whispered to the shadow, "Since they’ve all gathered together, taking them out in one swoop would be appropriate. I’ll leave it to you, Mountain Master."
"Go ahead, go ahead, it’s the last hunt today." Mist Dragon’s shadow spread from the flower tree towards the shop lazily and answered, "Eliminating fifty to sixty evil cultivators in one day is almost enough. If the noise gets too big, I’m afraid I’ll attract attention, and as Mountain Master, I’ll be watched closely, it’s troublesome!"
As soon as the words fell, the shadow completely enveloped the shop.
Including Lady Yu, over thirty Leisure Sect members were instantly immobilized.
Jiang Yuan stepped into the One Flower Shop, the flower tree outside swayed gently under the light, dropping petal by petal.
Moments later, the shadow dispersed and the shop returned to normal. But it was empty inside, and from then on, no one at Qihan Mountain would see the famed Lady Yu of the One Flower House again.
Absorbing lifespan, interrogation, verifying names on the merit rankings, throwing into Flame Sea copies—a series of smooth moves extended the strange pioneering team to sixty-four people.
The original rankings showed one hundred forty-six members, now suddenly reduced to one hundred ten members.
Mist Dragon wanted him to exploit chaos and consume evil cultivators, Jiang Yuan, though unsatisfied, didn’t insist, today’s harvest was indeed sufficient, it was time to stop while ahead.
Besides the merit token tied to Peng Dahai’s impersonation, the chips and Spirit Stones totaled two million six hundred three thousand eight hundred two; sixty-two Storage Bags; over a hundred various types of Magical Artifacts and Treasures, all could be thrown into the accelerator as fuel.
"Thanks to Mountain Master’s strong support today, I’ll come again to bother another day. If there’s anything, feel free to contact via name card, I shall take my leave." Jiang Yuan quickly checked the spoils and bowed to leave.
Though still uneasy, the other side quietly advised him to be extremely cautious of safety, not letting others discover the matter of eliminating the evil cultivators. Conveniently, the agreement was made for both parties to search for intel, striving for early exchange.
After working a busy day, upon returning to the small yard, the sun leaned west, it was already dusk.
In three days, autumn will end and officially enter winter. Then in the field, all autumn crops will no longer grow, the fields that haven’t timed well must be shoveled out clumps of trailing crops with a spade, to plant seeds for winter supply.
Hands behind his back, he strolled through a thousand acres of fertile land, checking the maturation dates of each crop, setting automatic seeders individually according to different situations.
Tomorrow morning, a large batch of fields will be harvested, needing new seeds to be sowed. Jiang Yuan set those plots to two-day-maturing seeds, leaving the last day without harvesting, letting matured crops grow in the fields.
Once winter’s first day arrives, harvest followed by sowing new seeds together.
This way can avoid harvesting the day before and not sowing, where empty ordinary fields randomly turn into wasteland, needing to be reclaimed; while empty graded fields randomly downgrade. Upgrading farmland can be quite troublesome, it’s necessary to eliminate degradation possibilities from the root!
The sunset falls, the farmland brimming with vitality, Jiang Yuan wandering among them, not far the dragon bone waterwheel creaked, a rainbow suspended on the horizon, everything’s so beautiful and warm.
Meanwhile, on an Immortal Ship flying slowly amid towering mountains, the atmosphere was intense.
"The Banner Master is aware of our situation here, what exactly happened? How come forty-seven members under my command died in one day?" Wearing a silver-gray robe, retaining the snow-white sheep head, the Incense Master paced anxiously with hands behind his back, coldly said: "Deputy Director, do you have any idea?"
Unlike Incense Master’s sheep head human body style, the Deputy Director is a well-dressed handsome man, but his eyes are deeply sunken, adding a few sinister qualities. He stared at his own ranking right behind Peng Dahai’s on the merit board, thinking angrily, how come he didn’t die among so many members? Truly unlucky!
The Deputy Director kept his dissatisfaction hidden and said calmly: "Incense Master, calm down. The area we manage includes Qihan Mountain, and many newly joined members also hail from there.
We all know what kind of place that is. We are well aware of the kind of associates joining from there. Only thinking of earning merits for promotion, disregarding consequences, they affected certain Demon Cultivators’ interests and got wiped out.
The Banner Master noticing such losses in one day and inquiring was reasonable.
In my opinion, it’s nothing serious. There’s the invincible banner of our Sect Leader, and plenty of cultivators with dwindling lifespan, stagnant cultivation, and desires can’t be restrained voluntarily joining Falling. It won’t be long until newly joined members multiply again."
"Fortunately, none of those who died, no matter how much merit they’ve accumulated, occupied any resources from our sect." Incense Master scratched his long winding sheep horn and commanded: "Go contact Peng Dahai, see if he knows what exactly happened.
I notice all his downstream and upstream members and those developed offline have died. He is not in a high realm yet escaped unscathed, and moreover has the highest merit; is there something fishy in it?"
