Greed Cost Them Their Lives

Shen Jingchuan shook his head and smiled helplessly at her; he really had no way to deal with this older sister.

With a flick of his wrist, he pulled out a hundred boxes, totaling five thousand armor-piercing rounds, from his Storage Ring and slammed them onto the ground on the roof of the car.

"You little rascal, you actually told me it wasn't enough!"

Xiao Mingshu was both angry and amused. She reached into her Storage Ring and started filling it, but stopped halfway through.

"My Ring has limited capacity; if it's filled with everything, there's no room for anything else."

She simply took half of it, and gestured with her chin towards Shen Jingchuan:

"Keep the rest with me for now, I'll get a bigger Ring later."

Huan'er, who was nearby, heard this and quickly said:

"Miss, you should change it quickly!" he said, glancing at the Ring on her hand.

"Okay," Xiao Mingshu replied in a drawn-out voice, "This is good for you to use."

Huan'er's eyes lit up, and she chuckled.

Xiao Mingshu put away the cannonballs and walked towards the corpses:

"Let's go see what good stuff they have."

She gestured with her chin towards Shen Jingchuan, "You can search those three stinky men, I'm going to check on that woman over there."

(Xiao Mingshu heard a woman's shrill scream just now.)

Shen Jingchuan nodded and agreed. He first squatted down next to the gray-clothed man's corpse and felt around it. He only found a Storage Ring, and there were no other valuables.

He turned back to the carriage and searched the two masked robbers, finding only one Ring on each of them, which he casually stuffed into his pocket.

Then they picked up the two corpses and dragged them to the gray-clad man. All three corpses were badly mangled and piled up in a mess.

At this moment, Xiao Mingshu also walked over carrying the female robber's corpse, casually put it on the ground, and half of the face mask on the other woman's face came loose from the fall.

Xiao Mingshu felt a sense of familiarity, bent down and ripped off her face mask, raising an eyebrow slightly:

"So it was her."

"Sister, do you know her?" Shen Jingchuan leaned closer and asked.

"Of course I recognize you."

Xiao Mingshu sneered:

"You forgot what I told you? She was the one who bought two hundred makeup bags from me for six Spirit Stones last time. Looks like she's been keeping an eye on us for a while now."

"No, last time I came to the market, I sold her a makeup mirror. When we left the market, I felt someone was following us. It might just be one of them."

Shen Jingchuan sighed:

"Hey, it's all because of greed. Couldn't you just do business properly? Now you're dead."

After saying that, he didn't look at it anymore and turned to look at the horses in front of the carriage.

Xiao Mingshu raised her hand and unleashed a Fireball Technique. The orange-red flames instantly engulfed the four corpses, burning them to a pile of white ash in the blink of an eye.

She flicked her sleeve, creating a gentle breeze that scattered the dust and debris through the forest, leaving no trace.

Shen Jingchuan walked to the front of the vehicle and immediately noticed a bloody mark on Big Black's shoulder—the recoil from firing the cannon was so strong that this guy must have used his shoulder to brace against the shaft.

Big Black held its head high, not even approaching when he came over, looking quite defiant.

Shen Jingchuan felt a pang of pain in his heart as he looked at the bloodstain. He quickly took out a first-aid kit from his Storage Ring, found iodine and hemostatic ointment, and knelt down to apply the medicine. Big Black was extremely intelligent; although its shoulder muscles were slightly tense from the pain, it stood firmly without flinching.

After applying the medicine, Shen Jingchuan saw that the wound had only broken the surface of the skin and was not deep, and it was not convenient to bandage it, so he gave up.

He then took a box of apples from his Ring and placed it on the driver's seat. He opened the box, took out four apples, and pushed the rest towards Big Black.

"Eat."

Big Black didn't stand on ceremony, burying its big mouth into the box and crunching away loudly.

Shen Jingchuan walked to the front, clutching four apples, and gave them to Little Black and Treading Snow.

Treading Snow gently licked the back of his hand before lowering her head to eat the apple.

He reached out and stroked the manes of the two horses twice, and seeing that they had no other injuries, he comforted them.

When he returned, Big Black had already eaten all the apples in the box. Shen Jingchuan chuckled.

"You eat so fast. Alright, you're injured, just follow the car."

After saying that, he got into the car.

Huan'er had already returned to the driver's seat, and Xiao Mingshu also lifted the curtain and entered the carriage. With Huan'er lightly flicking the whip, the carriage slowly started moving forward along the dirt road.

In the back seat of the carriage, Xiao Mingshu sat leaning against the cushions. Shen Jingchuan turned and went to the tea cabinet in the compartment, took out tea leaves and a teapot, and placed them on the coffee table. Xiao Mingshu picked up the teapot, filled it with water, and condensed a wisp of Fire Element Spiritual Power at her fingertips, warming the bottom of the pot with a gentle flame. In just a moment, the water boiled. She lifted the lid, added the tea leaves, brewed the tea, poured two cups, and pushed one in front of Shen Jingchuan.

She picked up her glass, took a sip, and looked up at Shen Jingchuan: "Little brat, when we get back, this car is mine, and I'll return the one you gave me before."

Shen Jingchuan asked, puzzled, "Why is that?"

"Nonsense."

Xiao Mingshu pointed to the roof of the car, her tone matter-of-fact:

"This one you modified is so sturdy, and it even has the gun mount on top, making it so convenient to use. Take the old one back and modify it some more. I think this one is modified quite well; it suits my taste."

After she finished speaking, she smiled with her eyes crinkling, looking at Shen Jingchuan's domineering and spoiled demeanor, acting like a princess, and showing him no politeness whatsoever.

That's right, she was a princess after all.

Shen Jingchuan took out the three Storage Rings he had searched from his pocket and placed them on the coffee table:

"Sis, let's see what's inside."

Xiao Mingshu glanced at it, then leaned back in disgust:

"I don't look at those stinky men's things; who knows what filthy things are inside."

Shen Jingchuan picked up a coin and tried to probe it with his Divine Sense, but he only felt a thin layer of obstruction blocking his way, unable to feel anything inside. He looked up and said:

"Sis, why can't I open it? How do I use other people's Storage Rings?"

"So stupid."

Xiao Mingshu rolled her eyes at him:

"These Bandit Cultivators aren't very powerful. Once they die, their Divine Sense Mark almost completely dissipate. You can use your Spiritual Power to wrap your Divine Sense and rush in, breaking through that remaining layer of imprints to make it usable."

Shen Jingchuan did as instructed, using his Spiritual Power to probe the remaining mark with his Divine Sense. Sure enough, he easily broke through the remaining seal.

He first scanned the contents of each ring, finding only Spirit Stones, pills, and miscellaneous magical Law Artifacts —nothing offensive. Then, with a flick of his wrist, he dumped everything from the three Rings onto the coffee table. Xiao Mingshu waved her hand. "Alright, put them all away."

"No, everyone who sees it gets a share," Shen Jingchuan said.

"What do you mean by having a share or not?"

Xiao Mingshu didn't take it seriously. "Put them all away for now, you can count them yourself later, and give me back what I can use. We can split the Spirit Stones in half."

Shen Jingchuan nodded in agreement. "Okay, I'll do as my sister says."

He reached out and gathered everything on the coffee table into one of the Storage Rings.

Of the three Rings, two are low-level Storage Rings with limited space;

Only Zhou Kui's ring had a significantly larger space. He picked up the Ring that had already been emptied and asked:

"Sister, this one is empty, there's still some space. Why don't we give it to Xiaohuan?"

Xiao Mingshu blew on the tea foam from her teacup without looking up:

"I don't care, it's yours, give it to her yourself."

The rest of the journey was uneventful. Xiao Mingshu was cautious and deliberately changed the route halfway through. She had Huan'er drive the carriage ahead while she secretly patrolled behind on her sword. After confirming several times that no one was following her, she felt relieved and caught up with the group, returning straight to Yuxi Prefecture.