Frenzied Retaliation

Wen Bai and his two companions were speechless. These two guys were simply being shameless.

Mi Rushan stared at Zhang Peng with a livid face and said in a deep voice, "You dare to argue with me? I think you're tired of living."

"Great Venerable Mi, you're wrong about that," Yue Qianchou sneered. "It's understandable that he would deny doing bad things, but I really don't believe he would deny doing good things."

"Birds of a feather flock together. You two shameless scoundrels, you have no choice but to leave today." Mi Rushan narrowed his eyes, stopped arguing with them, and suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight.

Teleportation! The group was startled. A fierce glint flashed in Yue Qianchou's eyes as he quickly turned around, locking his aura around Zhang Peng.

Zhang Peng knew something was wrong, so he shrugged and unleashed his protective Gang Qi. Sure enough, Mi Rushan appeared in front of him in an instant, striking out with his palm to forcefully dissipate the opponent's protective Gang Qi.

"How dare you!" Yue Qianchou, striking out with his palm almost simultaneously, "Star Absorbing Great Method!"

Zhang Peng's cultivation level was far inferior to Mi Rushan's. He tried to dodge, but still couldn't avoid it. With a "bang," his protective Gang Qi was instantly shattered, and he was sent flying to the corner of the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Although Wen Youyuan was a prince, he was still a mortal. He was somewhat shocked to see these cultivators attack right in front of him.

As Mi Rushan attacked Zhang Peng, he turned to stare at Yue Qianchou, who was attacking him. Seeing that Yue Qianchou actually wanted to fight him head-on in terms of cultivation, he sneered. With one palm strike knocking one down, he swiftly countered with another palm strike against Yue Qianchou's.

However, at the very moment he struck again, Mi Rushan suddenly shuddered, feeling something rapidly draining from his body, his form stiffening quickly. In particular, his meridians were contracting violently, making it impossible for his True Essence to flow smoothly...

A thick plume of white smoke billowed out from Mi Rushan's body, Yue Qianchou's palm, like a wind-blown tube, readily and frantically sucked the dense white smoke into his hand.

Mi Rushan rapidly shrank, revealing an outline even more mutilated than a dried corpse, his appearance utterly terrifying... Xin Lao San, Wen Bai, Wen Youyuan were stunned into silence...

"Crack!" Before Mi Rushan's palm strike had finished its momentum, everyone saw a dry, twig-like arm fly out of the sleeve.

Yue Qianchou slightly to the side and watched as the arm brushed past him, falling outside the hall and shattering into pieces. He turned back to look at the skin and bones of the skeleton in front of him and sneered, "You really went all out, throwing your own arm out to hit someone."

That joke was really lame. Seeing Mi Rushan's ghastly appearance, Xin Lao San and the others couldn't help but shiver. It felt like a dream, and they all stood there, savoring everything that had just happened.

Mi Rushan was unrecognizable; his skin was dry and taut, his bones taut. His appearance was horrifying, yet he remained upright. From the contours of his face, one could vaguely discern the terror he felt before his death.

Yue Qianchou glanced at Zhang Peng, who was slowly getting up from the corner of the wall, wiping the blood from his mouth. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes. He walked up to the mummified corpse Mi Rushan and said face to face, "Great Venerable Mi, of all people to mess with, you had to mess with my man. I won't give Huo Zongming any face. This is just a minor punishment, please don't take offense!" He directly took the Storage Bag from Huo Zongming's waist, and with a wave of his hand, a burst of green flames burned the mummified corpse in front of him to ashes.

Mi Rushan just disappeared like that? Xin Lao San Wen Bai looked at each other in disbelief. Now they finally understood how Chu Dingfang died that day. The four words "Star Absorbing Great Method" were deeply imprinted in their minds. What a terrifying Method Formula!

On the surface, Yue Qianchou appeared nonchalant, but in reality, he was secretly delighted to have once again proven the power of the Water Technique. However, he also understood that Mi Rushan had died unexpectedly, and because he was standing close enough to maximize the absorption power of the Water Technique, otherwise, he probably wouldn't have succeeded so easily.

Seeing that Zhang Peng was alright, Yue Qianchou cupped his hands in farewell to the others and said, "Farewell."

"Yue Qianchou, where are you going? I'm going too." Xin Lao San suddenly appeared.

Yue Qianchou pointed to Zhang Peng beside him and said, "He is seriously injured. I need to take him to get treatment. You don't need to come and join in the fun."

"Are you seriously injured?" Xin Lao San looked Zhang Peng up and down with suspicion. He didn't seem to be injured at all. Then he asked, "What about your promise to go to Lingfang Valley with me?"

"Don't worry, I'm a man of my word, I'll always keep my promises." Yue Qianchou patted his chest confidently, thinking to himself, if not for anything else, but just to see what the most beautiful woman in the world looks like, he has to go.

He casually pulled out a jade tablet, wrote something into it, and tossed it to him. After looking at it, Xin Lao San put it away, nodded, and said, "I understand."

Yue Qianchou was about to turn and leave, he saw Wen Bai Wen Youyuan looking at the pile of ashes on the ground with worried expressions. Knowing what they were worried about, he smiled faintly and said, "One person does the deed, one person takes the blame. Since I've already taken action, you can push all the blame onto me. If they come to demand people, just tell them that I took Zhang Peng away and that I killed Mi Rushan. Let them come after me. Farewell!"

After saying that, he led Zhang Peng away and left, leaving the others speechless...

Shortly after, Xin Lao San also took his leave, while Wen Bai hurried to a secluded room inside the embassy. When Wen Rui arrived, he had painstakingly set up a communication array in the room using Spirit Stones to facilitate contact with his family. Wen Bai could use this array to relay what had happened there back to his family.

On a mountaintop in Utopia, Yue Qianchou suddenly appeared with Zhang Peng. Zhang Peng looked around, wondering why his master had brought him here instead of returning to the military camp or the Misty Palace.

"Kneel down!" Yue Qianchou suddenly shouted. Zhang Peng was startled and saw his master staring at him with a furious expression under the moonlight. He quickly knelt down as ordered.

Yue Qianchou stared at him and said in a deep voice, "Zhang Peng, I'm warning you again. Today's events happened within the royal family, so let it go. But remember one thing: don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're a cultivator. Your master dares to do anything, but I won't harm ordinary people. If I ever find out that your thing has harmed ordinary people, I have a thousand ways to make you wish you were dead. Do you understand?"

Zhang Peng, his heart pounding, said, "Disciple understands."

"Chief Instructor Guan is currently working on the battle plan. If your injuries aren't serious, return to your unit and prepare to be deployed," Yue Qianchou said calmly. A casual warning was enough; whether he listened or not was his business. If he listened, fine; if not, he wouldn't hold back.

"Yes!" Zhang Peng's eyes lit up. He liked this and immediately sprang into action, flying towards the military camp.

Under the moonlight, Yue Qianchou took out a jade tablet and examined it carefully again with his Divine Sense. Inside was a complete map of the Great Yang Kingdom. Within Huo Zongming's territory, there were seventeen Spirit Stone mines, all of which were high-yield Spirit Stone mines.

According to the records in the jade register, these Spirit Stone mines are required to hand over Spirit Stones at a fixed time each month. Yue Qianchou's scout team successfully planted teleportation markers near the seventeen Spirit Stone mines within the allotted time. If nothing changes, the day to hand over the Spirit Stones to Guangzhao Peak is in a few days; a raid at that time would likely yield some profit.

In reality, these Spirit Stone mines only produce a few hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones per month at most, and even the seventeen Spirit Stone mines combined only yield a few million. This amount of Spirit Stones no longer held any interest for him to go to great lengths. If he really wanted to get Spirit Stones, it would be more profitable and lucrative to directly target those that had accumulated for hundreds or thousands of years. But this time, his purpose wasn't just robbery; his main objective was destruction...

His purpose was to get revenge on Huo Zongming, because this guy had revealed the contents of the jade tablet, disrupting all his plans. Plus, Huo Zongming had opposed him; he couldn't quell his anger without some retribution. The reason he had stayed in Dayang City for the past few days was to wait for news from the scouting team.

Moreover, there's another advantage to doing this: what happened today will surely enrage Huo Zongming, so doing something else to distract him is a good idea. Also, he wants his men to see more bloodshed.

Shortly after, Yue Qianchou disappeared from Utopia and began to personally investigate each Spirit Stone mine...

In the desolate wilderness where a Spirit Stone mine was located, a thick fog suddenly appeared. The mine keeper didn't think much of it, as natural phenomena were beyond their control. After figuring out the personnel deployment, Yue Qianchou quietly dispelled the fog, relayed the message back to Guan Yu, who was devising the battle plan, and then appeared at the next Spirit Stone mine to continue the same process...

After thoroughly investigating the situation of all seventeen mines, the seventeen teams within Utopia were ready to set off. Upon his return, Yue Qianchou ruthlessly issued the order to kill, plunder, and destroy everything, and then dispatched all seventeen teams to their respective mining sites.

Seventeen bloody massacres began. These team members indeed spared no one, searching every nook and cranny, killing and looting everything. The monks in the mine had nowhere to escape, crying out in despair as blood flowed like a river...

In their final retreat, the team members, carrying a large number of "Armor Piercing Talisman," rushed into the mine. Starting from the innermost tunnels, they relentlessly blasted them section by section until all the passages in the entire Spirit Stone mine collapsed. Every living quarters in the mine were also blasted to smithereens...

After sending the last team back to Utopia, Yue Qianchou stood on a hillside at dawn, gazing down at the crippled Spirit Stone mine below. He sneered to himself, "Huo Zongming, you like to play around, don't you? I'll play you until you're crippled. These collapsed Spirit Stone mines will give you plenty of fun. Let's see how many years it will take you to gather the thousands of cultivators needed for mining..."

After he left, a mournful wind howled through the mountains, as if the lingering spirits of the cultivators lying silently in pools of blood were lamenting something. Amidst the carnage, a small black triangular Squad Commander fluttered in the wind, the two golden characters 'Hero' blooming in the blood...

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