What Do You Do When They Have No Morals?

Thanks to the ever-tight-lipped senior brother Ma Biao's casual remarks, the news of the two Mas going out to collect debts spread throughout the entire sect.

Chu Xinghe didn't say a word about this trip to collect debts; listening to his fellow disciples was enough.

"I don't think things will go very smoothly for Ma Biao and his Senior Brother Ma Liang this time."

"Those sects have been owing money for so many years... I heard the Grand Elder has gone to their door two or three times but still couldn't get it back."

"These sects are going too far, why don't we just wipe them out!"

The one who said such harsh words was Junior Brother Mu Bai, who had heard the news.

Upon hearing Junior Brother Mu Bai's words, Senior Brother Feng Fei immediately said, "Junior Brother Mu Bai, you are still too young. Try to say such things less often in the future."

Then, Senior Brother Feng Fei also used facts to show Mu Bai why the Vast Heaven Sect hadn't destroyed those families.

It's not that we lack the strength, it's just that... our Vast Heaven Sect is a damn righteous sect!

Junior Brother Mu Bai, do you know that the method you just described has a very Demonic Sect style?

We, the righteous path, have a sense of honor... Although those few deadbeats are outrageous, they are also from the righteous path, and they don't usually engage in any other despicable or shameless acts. They even claim to be allies of the Vast Heaven Sect, and they don't just say they have money and refuse to pay.

Their public claim is that they genuinely cannot repay the debt. If the Vast Heaven Sect were to actually destroy them under these circumstances, would they still retain their reputation as the number one sect in the world?

What does it mean to be afraid of what others say? Even if the Vast Heaven Sect is the best in the world, sometimes it's still necessary to maintain appearances.

While it's true that you can't hold a position without being ruthless, that ruthlessness has to be used at the right time.

If we really wipe out those guys, then whether they know it or not, they'll say that your Vast Heaven Sect destroyed your allies for a few dollars. Does the Vast Heaven Sect have no shame then?

When the time comes, those with ulterior motives won't say that your Vast Heaven Sect acted out of a desire to collect a debt. Instead, they'll accuse you of massacring your allies. What? Can the Vast Heaven Sect really wipe everyone out?

So, is the Vast Heaven Sect the number one righteous sect or the number one Demonic Sect?

Although Mu Bai was very angry, he agreed with what his Senior Brother Feng Fei said.

This is the difference between the righteous path and the Demonic Sect. The Demonic Sect can be completely shameless, but the righteous path cannot...

Therefore, even Senior Brother Feng Fei was not optimistic about the two Mas' trip to collect debts.

Early the next morning, the two horses embarked on their journey. The Grand Elder personally saw them off. He had even planned to use a teleportation array to send them off himself, but Chu Xinghe stopped him.

Chu Xinghe said to the Elder, "I am currently at a crucial stage in my study of teleportation arrays, so please give me a chance to demonstrate my abilities."

Finally, after the Grand Elder nodded, Chu Xinghe breathed a sigh of relief and personally set up the teleportation array for Ma Biao and Ma Liang.

Only after the teleportation array's light faded did Chu Xinghe finally breathe a sigh of relief...

If the Grand Elder were to intervene, regardless of whether the debt collection would be successful, Ma Biao and Ma Liang would definitely not be returning...

After seeing Ma Liang off, Chu Xinghe was overjoyed, no longer worried about Ma Liang jumping out from behind and stabbing him at any moment.

Life became more pleasant after that.

However, this pleasant period only lasted about ten days before Er Ma returned...

Upon receiving the news, Chu Xinghe rushed to the mountain gate. When Ma Liang saw his Senior Brother Xinghe, Ma Liang welled up in his eyes.

"Senior Brother Xinghe... they are truly shameless... I... I have let you down..."

Upon hearing Ma Liang's words, Chu Xinghe almost couldn't help but offer Ma Liang a "Congratulations on getting rich" greeting along with a little dance!

Ma Liang, you've finally met your match... Now you finally know what the wickedness of the human heart truly means, don't you?

So you finally know what shamelessness means, huh?

There are plenty of people in this world more shameless than you Ma Liang.

You went out to collect your debts with great joy, but returned home filled with sorrow and resentment!

Soon, Chu Xinghe learned from Ma Liang and Ma Biao what had happened in the past ten days.

The first stop for the two horses was the Setting Sun Sect. Just listen to that lousy name, and you can't be a good sect...

The Grand Elder of the Setting Sun Sect personally received Ma Liang and Ma Biao upon their arrival. Ma Liang didn't even need to speak; the Setting Sun Sect Elder had already spoken.

We owe the Vast Heaven Sect so much money, and it's been so many years. We're incredibly anxious about it. We think about repaying the money every single moment, but we're willing, yet they're powerless...

The conditions simply didn't allow it... Then came all sorts of lamentations about being poor... Ma Liang didn't even get to utter any of the harsh words he had prepared before being sent out of the Setting Sun Sect.

Setting Sun Sect was relatively mild; the others were even more outrageous. Not only did they all complain about being poor, they also showed Ma Liang the miserable state of their disciples. These were hardly the disciples of a sect! Ma Liang was completely dumbfounded when he saw that these disciples were even more wretched than the miners from the Vast Heaven Sect.

When Ma Liang heard Qin Xiangqian mention that countless people wanted to become mining disciples at Tianyi Spirit Mine, Ma Liang wondered if there was any exaggeration involved.

But after seeing the treatment of the disciples from these other families, Ma Liang suddenly realized that the treatment of the miners' disciples was damn high...

In ten days, the two Mas visited eight different sects, but as everyone saw, they returned empty-handed. Two of the sects even shamelessly asked Ma Liang if they could borrow some more.

Even Ma Liang almost got persuaded by these two families to agree... Luckily, at the last moment, Ma Liang realized, "I'm here to collect a debt..."

After ten days, Er Ma, having returned empty-handed, went to pay his respects to the Grand Elder and told him about the entire process of collecting the debt.

The Grand Elder seemed to have foreseen the failure of the two Ma brothers, showing no sign of frustration and even comforting Ma Liang and Ma Biao.

Ma Biao was alright, after all, he had gone out a few times since taking on this job, and the results were basically the same as this time.

The other members of the sect were not too surprised to hear that the two had returned empty-handed, since most of them had already guessed this outcome.

Chu Xinghe was overjoyed and comforted Ma Liang, saying, "Ma Liang, please keep up the good work! Senior Brother Xinghe still has faith in you!"

But Ma Liang couldn't accept this outcome...

I, Ma Liang, am Senior Brother Xinghe's most trusted confidant!

When have I ever let Senior Brother Xinghe down?

Look at how pathetic I am now! Although Senior Brother Xinghe kept comforting me that victory and defeat are common in war, I have greatly disappointed Senior Brother Xinghe this time!

Senior Brother Xinghe had such high hopes for me, and even though I failed this time, he didn't blame me. But I, Senior Brother Xinghe Ma Liang, just can't get over this.

This time, Chu Xinghe remained completely unfazed by Ma Liang's stubbornness. "Ma Liang, you can ask for your debt however you want. I, your Senior Brother Xinghe, won't stop you this time."

Are those deadbeats easy targets for ordinary people?

Then they might not even be able to handle bad luck and good fortune!

So, with your Senior Brother Xinghe and my support of the world's most shameless scoundrels, how could you possibly lose?

So Chu Xinghe directly instructed Ma Liang not to give up because of one, two, three, four... or even countless failures. "Ma Liang, from today onwards, you will be in charge of the debt collection work of our Vast Heaven Sect. You and Senior Brother Ma Biao will be the leaders of our Vast Heaven Sect's debt collection team from now on."

If you, Junior Brother Ma Liang, keep going, you'll find that you can't fail forever. After all, there have to be a couple of deadbeats in the world who have a change of heart, right?

Ma Liang was deeply grateful for Senior Brother Xinghe's high expectations, and at the same time, he reflected on his failure.

The main reason for this failure was that these deadbeats were too shameless; I never imagined they would do so many shameless things.

The most crucial issue is that I lack experience.

Ma Liang thought that collecting debts simply meant going to someone's door, telling them it was time to pay, saying a few harsh words, and then the other party would get scared and pay up.

But this turned out to be not the case; these indebted sects would cry poverty at the slightest disagreement.

Ma Liang wasn't incapable of making harsh words, nor was he without the ability to threaten, but the moment he uttered his threat, the other side replied... "We are allies of the Vast Heaven Sect, we have shed blood for the Vast Heaven Sect..."

Ma Liang didn't want to stand on the moral high ground to punish them, but damn it, they have no morals at all, so how can you impose moral punishment on them?

So after much thought, Ma Liang felt that the best way was to find some senior brothers and sisters with experience in debt collection to learn from, so as to improve himself and live up to Senior Brother Xinghe's high expectations.

Ma Liang walked through the entire Vast Heaven Sect, and the result shocked Ma Liang greatly.

When the senior brothers and sisters from all the palaces heard that Ma Liang had come to ask for advice on debt collection, they all looked completely bewildered.

Debt collection? What debt collection? We have no experience with that.

Ma Liang almost cried when he saw the bewildered looks in his senior brothers and sisters' eyes.

At this moment, Ma Liang realized that his senior brothers and sisters were right... Most of the disciples of the Vast Heaven Sect were noble people from high-ranking families...

Look at someone like Gu Feng, he always brings up his humble background at the slightest disagreement...

But this wasn't because Gu Feng was being modest; there were many fellow disciples who were far more powerful than Gu Feng's family, and Gu Feng genuinely felt that his family background was ordinary.

So these fellow disciples from such noble backgrounds had no experience in collecting debts from others.

Even some of the ordinary fellow disciples in the sect didn't have such experience, so Ma Liang's journey to the West was thwarted before it even began.

Ma Liang was truly worried... As Senior Brother Xinghe, the first disciple in the sect's history to be banished to the outer sect and never allowed to advance to the inner sect, Future Old Ma of the Vast Heaven Sect... how could I possibly let these few old bastards deal with me?

So Ma Liang was extremely dissatisfied, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't find anyone with experience in debt collection to teach him... Even his Senior Brother Feng Fei, who had previously been in charge of this area, said that he had no experience with success, but he could talk to Ma Liang about failures...

But what good is my experience of failure if I, Ma Liang, have no chance?

Just when Ma Liang was feeling utterly hopeless, Ma Liang arrived at the Artifact Refining Palace.

"What? Debt collection experience? Our Ouyang Lineage has none... It's always been the Ouyang Lineage that owes money and doesn't pay... How could we possibly have a chance to collect debts... You want debt collection experience but we don't have it. If you want to hear about our years as deadbeats, we can chat with you, Senior Brother Ma Liang..."

After Ouyang Ming finished speaking, he casually picked up the Light of Xinghe and sliced off a Spirit Cloud Fruit that looked like a cantaloupe...