Spoils of War

Next came the time to loot the spoils.

Although the Magic Sheep Sect had not risen long ago, it had still accumulated wealth ordinary people could never imagine in a lifetime. The Soul Masters of the Soul Fighting Legion mobilized today were bound to return with their arms full.

The Magic Sheep Sect's Treasure Vault should have been the most heavily guarded place in the sect. But with the Magic Sheep Sect destroyed, it was like a shy young girl standing naked before a pack of starving wolves.

One Soul Fighting Legion Soul Master after another looked at the doors of the Treasure Vault with longing in their eyes. They all knew just how tempting the hoard of a standout middle-tier sect like the Magic Sheep Sect would be.

However, when they looked at the group at the very front, they knew most of this had nothing to do with them.

Led by Fang Yuan, there were Gui Changhao, Chen Hong, Yang Jingxue, Ximen Rongcheng, Ma Zhibin, Long Wenkai, Zhong Kui, Xue Tianming, Cheng Nanxing, and Qu Yixiang—eleven Titled Douluo and Soul Douluo in total. This operation had been proposed by the Chen Clan, who had also contributed heavily, so Chen Xun, the Chen Clan's Young Clan Leader, was included as well. No one else was qualified, not even Chen Jingyao, the Battalion Commander of the First Brigade.

Fang Yuan walked up to the Treasure Vault's doors and threw a powerful punch. With a boom, the doors shattered inch by inch, and faint golden light spilled out from within.

The Magic Sheep Sect's Treasure Vault had been built into the belly of the mountain. The vast hollow interior covered over a thousand square meters, piled with more than a dozen small hills of gold, silver, jewels, ancient books, and antiques.

Yet not a single one of the dozen or so people let their gazes linger on those things.

True, for a Soul Douluo, the gold, silver, and jewels here might be wealth they could never accumulate in an entire lifetime, but for a sect, it was somewhat little.

Moreover, they all knew the Magic Sheep Sect's true treasures were not these piles of gold, silver, and jewels.

When they reached a stone wall deep inside, Fang Yuan threw another punch. But countless ripples spread outward, and a blazing dark demonic light shot toward him.

Caught off guard, this demonic light would have been enough to severely injure a Soul Douluo-level expert! Unfortunately, it was useless. Fang Yuan summoned the Heaven Suppressing Mysterious Tablet in front of him, and it could not harm him in the slightest.

Then Fang Yuan pressed his palm against the stone wall. Countless dark lights flickered, and a moment later, with a crack, the stone wall split open from the middle, revealing the Magic Sheep Sect's core treasure chamber.

The stone chamber was not very large. It contained only four or five small shelves, and on each shelf sat seven or eight boxes.

However, nearly half of the boxes were empty.

Fang Yuan opened a box near him. A bone giving off a faint halo lay quietly in the center of the box.

A Soul Bone! Even if it was only a left arm Soul Bone of a little over ten thousand years, it was still a priceless treasure.

From the bodies of the dead Magic Sheep Sect Soul Masters, they had stripped out a total of five Soul Bones. Among those five, there was no doubt that the Head Soul Bone on Wilbur Weiss had the highest value.

After opening all the boxes, they found seven Soul Bones inside. Compared with the dark and spiritual Soul Bones stripped from the Magic Sheep Sect Soul Masters, these seven Soul Bones had more varied attributes, but most were also inferior in quality.

Even so, a total of seven Soul Bones far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Everyone's breathing grew extremely heavy. Including the five they had stripped out, these twelve Soul Bones alone—even if their quality varied—meant this operation to exterminate the Magic Sheep Sect had already more than paid for itself.

What was more, their gains from the Magic Sheep Sect went far beyond this. Apart from several strange minerals and medicinal herbs in the remaining boxes, a few items in particular caught their interest.

A mineral called Secret Demon Silver, a bottle of Dark Gold liquid, a dragon scale, a broken Jade Crown, and a suit of silver-white armor.

"Each of us takes one item from here. How about it?" Fang Yuan's calm voice came over.

The Magic Sheep Sect's treasures were enough to tempt even a Titled Douluo.

According to the rules, all spoils from wiping out the Magic Sheep Sect would be sent back to Soul Fighting City, then uniformly distributed by Soul Fighting City. No one was allowed to keep anything privately.

But nothing was without exceptions. Every time, the frontline combatants would skim off a certain portion of the gains, more or less, and the higher-ups of Soul Fighting City had always tacitly accepted it. This could also be considered a reward for those who fought on the front lines.

If the water was too clear, there would be no fish! Besides, everyone present was either part of Soul Fighting City's upper echelon or a representative of an Elder clan.

Fang Yuan's suggestion undoubtedly tempted everyone greatly.

"All right. Elder Fang, you choose first!" Ximen Rongcheng nodded and said.

Fang Yuan did not stand on ceremony. He directly selected a box containing a Soul Bone from among all the wooden boxes and put it away.

The Soul Bone in that box was the most valuable among the seven Soul Bones in the Magic Sheep Sect's collection: a fire-type left arm Soul Bone nearly fifty thousand years old.

Ma Zhibin and the others reluctantly shifted their gazes away. The one they had set their eyes on was also that left arm Soul Bone.

Fang Yuan said, "Next, the two of you choose."

Chen Hong was a Titled Douluo, after all, and Yang Jingxue was a Quasi-Titled Douluo. Moreover, the distribution method of one item per person was already unfair to the two of them, so Fang Yuan gave the second and third choices to Chen Hong and Yang Jingxue.

"Chen Xun, you choose first. I'll use your place in the order." By order, Chen Xun should have been last.

"Hong-bo!"

"Why are you wasting words with me? Choose."

Chen Xun nodded and came before the bottle containing Dark Gold blood. Even through the Glazed Tile bottle, Chen Xun could feel his own blood boiling.

Chen Xun had a kind of intuition that this strange blood would be of tremendous benefit to his body, so he directly put away the bottle of Dark Gold blood.

Seeing Chen Xun choose not a Soul Bone but a bottle of blood from some unknown Soul Beast, both Chen Hong and Cheng Nanxing were rather surprised.

Even though they knew blood worthy of the Magic Sheep Sect's collection could not be simple, in their view, the most precious thing on the continent was undoubtedly a Soul Bone.

Chen Xun had given up six Soul Bones and instead chosen a bottle of silver blood from some unknown Soul Beast. That was something they more or less could not understand.

Yang Jingxue, meanwhile, chose a large piece of Secret Demon Silver. Secret Demon Silver was an extremely rare metal that could perfectly combine with Soul Power. Even on Douluo Continent, because of the existence of Martial Souls, certain divine weapons were not inferior to a Soul Bone, and a rare metal like Secret Demon Silver was an extremely valuable existence.

The Yang Family had used special metals to create a batch of arrows, carried by their members to fill the gaps between soul skill arrows, such as Yang Jingxue's Burial Flower Arrow.

Whether using soul skills or simply condensing Soul Power into arrows, the power was certainly extraordinary, but for the Yang Family, the consumption was also enormous.

For example, in the earlier battle against Yona Weiss of the Magic Sheep Sect, if Yang Jingxue had kept using soul skills or Soul Power arrows, her Soul Power would have been completely exhausted before the fight was even halfway over.

Therefore, Secret Demon Silver was very important to Yang Family members like Yang Jingxue. Arrows forged from Secret Demon Silver were not only hard, but also had an extremely high compatibility with Soul Power. With only a small amount of Soul Power input, they could unleash power no weaker than soul skill arrows, and they could also be retrieved and reused.

Next was Gui Changhao. In truth, that blood from earlier had been quite suitable for him, but since a junior had chosen it, then so be it. He chose a right leg Soul Bone. This Soul Bone was an Earth Attribute defensive Soul Bone, and it suited him very well too.

Ximen Rongcheng did not choose a soul bone. Instead, he took the silvery-white armor. The moment his fingers touched the cold armor, a silvery-white radiance condensed into a steel needle and pierced the pad of his finger. A drop of blood flew out and fused with the silvery-white armor, and dazzling silver light blazed brilliantly.

This was ice-type armor. It could suppress his increasingly violent Demonic Blade Qi, and the armor's protection covered the entire body. The silver armor was thin and light; one glance showed it was nimble and convenient, and would not hinder his movements in the slightest.

Ma Zhibin chose a fire-type Right Arm Bone of more than twenty thousand years. At a glance, it had the effects of Explosion and burning. In truth, the soul bone most suited to him was the one Fang Yuan had chosen, but Fang Yuan had already taken that soul bone, so he could only settle for second best and choose this one. In fact, he already had a Right Arm Bone, but he could take it back to his family and exchange it for another soul bone.

What Long Wenkai chose was the dragon scale. The Dragon Mark Family naturally had secret methods for absorbing dragon-type treasures.

Next, Zhong Kui looked over the four remaining soul bones and found it somewhat hard to decide. Suddenly, he seemed to hear something, and took a water-type soul bone that was also more than twenty thousand years old.

After that, the next four people chose the remaining soul bones in a proper and conventional manner. Cheng Nanxing chose a dark-type soul bone that looked eerie and ghostly. Without a doubt, it was an Agility Attack Type Right Leg Bone, with an age of over thirty thousand years.

Finally, Chen Hong put away that damaged Jade Crown.

Once the distribution was complete, Fang Yuan also put away the remaining items. Some of these things were not inferior in value to what they had chosen, but without a doubt, the things most compatible with them had already been picked.

As for the soul bones stripped earlier from the corpses of the Magic Sheep Sect, none of them mentioned it, tacitly understanding the matter. Those were naturally their own spoils.

Chen Hong and Chen Xun each had a Head Soul Bone. That was right—Chen Xun's was the sixty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Magic Sheep inherited Head Soul Bone stripped from Wilbur Weiss, while Hesus Weiss also had a forty-thousand-year Dark Blood Demon Wolf Head Soul Bone on him.

In addition, as the sect master, Guido Weiss naturally had soul bones, and Yona Weiss, as the Magic Sheep Sect's number one expert, would not have lacked one either. So Ximen Rongcheng and Yang Jingxue's side each had one as well, and the quality was quite good. This was also why they had not chosen soul bones immediately.

"Men!"

The group walked out of the Magic Sheep Sect's treasury, and Fang Yuan said, "Take inventory of the Magic Sheep Sect's treasury. Before dawn, you must take away everything and all the captives. Evacuate Red Forest Mountain!"

Even if the top forces on the continent all understood that Soul Fighting City had done it, Soul Fighting City itself could not admit it. Soul Fighting City's strength was not weak, but making a fortune quietly was their main principle.

Before dawn, the party returned fully loaded and left the Magic Sheep Sect.

By the time the official personnel of the Star Luo Empire arrived at the Magic Sheep Sect, the Magic Sheep Sect had already been looted clean. Countless soul master disciples of the Magic Sheep Sect lay exposed in the wilderness, their valuables all taken away, and quite a few had already become food for the small and medium-sized soul beasts around the edge of Red Forest Mountain.

From then on, the Magic Sheep Sect, which had ranked among the top ten beneath the Seven Great Sects, had completely disappeared from the history of the Douluo Continent. The Top Martial Soul, the Three-Eyed Magic Sheep, had nearly become extinct among mankind. The few Magic Sheep Sect members who were outside could no longer support the name of a Top Martial Soul at all, and they still could not expose themselves, for fear of being hunted down.

Its rise was sudden, and its fall was swift. Truly, "amid clamor and turmoil, it flourished for a time; when splendor faded away, only eternal desolation remained."

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