Mo the Butcher

When the Mo Clan's main hall was left with only Mo Lan and Mo Cheng...

As the clan head, Mo Lan spoke first. "Great Elder, do you think... what this person said was true?"

Mo Cheng gave him a faint glance before replying calmly, "Whether it was true or not, he successfully brought back the Qi Gathering Pill. That alone is a contribution to the Mo Clan..."

"Besides, even if he did conceal something, he knew nothing about the recent attacks against the Mo Clan... Otherwise, I believe he would not have come up with such a flawed excuse..."

Though the Qi Gathering Pill was precious, it was not truly that important to the Mo Clan. Nor could it possibly cause a force with at least three Da Dou Shi-level strong individuals to make such a huge move against the Mo Clan.

With that in mind, Mo Tang's previous explanation clearly seemed wrong...

"You should investigate what happens next properly, Clan Head. However, Mo Tang must still be rewarded for his contribution, or it will be difficult to convince the others..."

With that, Mo Cheng flicked his sleeve and left directly.

Mo Lan sat there, frowning in thought for a long while. Then, he summoned the Butler who had been waiting outside...

After Mo Tang returned, the two maidservants at home were the happiest of all.

There was no helping it. Without their master at home, they always felt as though they had lost their pillar of support. Even their daily lives had become cautious.

Seeing Mo Tang's somewhat bedraggled state, Xiao Hong, his personal maidservant, hurriedly arranged for bathwater. Liu Sao, who was in charge of cooking, also rushed to tidy up the kitchen, preparing to show off her skills and make the young master a lavish meal.

As he enjoyed the attentive service of his little maidservant, all of Mo Tang's exhaustion from the past several days vanished in an instant.

Although the entire Mo Clan was now on high alert, it no longer had much to do with him.

Mo Tang did not believe that anyone could escape once the massive Mo Clan threw its full strength into action.

Although a small accident had occurred this time, it would not have much of an impact on him overall.

After all, everyone who knew the truth was dead!

After spending three comfortable days at home, the clan's reward for him finally arrived...

A Yellow Spirit Pill, a 2nd-grade Pill specially meant for Dou Zhes. It was said that a single pill was equivalent to a month of hard cultivation for a Dou Zhe, making it an exceptionally rare low-grade pill.

In addition, he received three stalks of Yilan Fragrance and 5,000 Gold Coins...

Honestly, compared to the value of the Qi Gathering Pill, these rewards were worth less than a tenth of it.

But Mo Tang had tested it on the way back...

Although the Qi Gathering Pill was a Fourth Grade Pill, the system still classified the energy it provided as Low-grade Energy... In other words, its energy level was still only at the third-grade level.

It was simply that its Energy Points far exceeded those of ordinary third-grade items, providing 100 Energy Points.

Even so, it was still not enough for Mo Tang to abandon the Mo Clan as his backing and wander the world for such a small number of Energy Points.

So, Mo Tang made his choice in an instant.

Low-grade Energy detected: 30 points. Absorb?

Yes/No.

"Yes!"

The Yellow Spirit Pill provided a fairly considerable number of Energy Points.

Each of the three stalks of Yilan Fragrance provided 16 points, for a total of 48 points.

As for the 5,000 Gold Coins, he spent 4,800 Gold Coins to purchase twelve stalks of Dark Wind Grass. He ran all over Salt City for them, leaving the remaining few hundred for daily expenses.

With that, his Energy Points became:

Name: Mo Tang
Level: Five-Star Dou Practitioner ↑

Cultivation Method: Thunderous Qi (Grand Completion) ↑

Dou Technique: Triple Blade Qi (Perfection) ↑

Available Energy Points: 134 (Low-grade)

Advancing from a Five-Star Dou Practitioner to a Six-Star Dou Practitioner required 56 Energy Points, while advancing from Six-Star to Seven-Star required 60 points.

After raising his level by two stars in succession:

Name: Mo Tang
Level: Seven-Star Fighter ↑

Cultivation Method: Thunderous Qi (Grand Completion) ↑

Dou Technique: Triple Blade Qi (Perfection) ↑

Available Energy Points: 18 (Low-grade)

To be honest, Mo Tang was somewhat dissatisfied with this rate of improvement.

After all, he was a Transmigrator with a cheat. Yet more than a year had passed, and he was still stuck in the Dou Zhe realm...

How was he supposed to hold his head up before those predecessors who became Dou Shi in a day, Da Dou Shi in three days, Dou Wang in a month, and ascended as Dou Emperors within a year?!

But there was no helping it. The cheat the author had given him relied far too heavily on background and strength. Otherwise, it simply could not develop during the early stages.

With his current status, he needed at least the strength of a Dou Shi before he could gain enough ability to seize resources for himself.

Once that time came, Mo Tang would enter his first stage of rapid advancement. Becoming a Da Dou Shi in three days would no longer be a dream!

While Mo Tang hid at home and lived his quiet little life, the true culprit behind the attack on the Mo Clan was finally found.

The Black Whirlwind Bandit Group, a band of marauders renowned even throughout the Jia Ma Empire.

Their strength could not be underestimated. They had three Da Dou Shi alone, along with more than a dozen Dou Shis!

Furthermore, these people were vicious by nature. The empire had dispatched troops to encircle and suppress them several times, yet had achieved little, instead suffering considerable losses...

For some reason, these vultures of the great desert had set their sights on the Mo Clan, the overlord of the Eastern Province. This left many members of the Mo Clan deeply worried.

There was no helping it. Their reputation was there for all to see. Even the imperial army had few ways of dealing with them, so what could a clan like theirs do?

In terms of raw strength, the Black Whirlwind Bandit Group's strongest member was merely a Seven-Star Dou Grandmaster. The other two were only one- or two-star Da Dou Shis, so they were no match for the Mo Clan at all.

However, they had always appeared and vanished without a trace, with no fixed stronghold...

As they struck here and there, plundering the Mo Clan's Trade Caravans, the Mo Clan truly had no good solution for the time being...

But their actions directly enraged the Mo Clan's Great Elder, Mo Cheng!

As a Three-Star Dou Ling-level strong individual, he had never considered the Black Whirlwind Bandit Group worthy of his attention.

Who would have thought that they would dare use such disgusting methods against the Mo Clan, and even succeed in causing the Mo Clan severe losses?

Mo Cheng could no longer endure it!

After a series of plans, the Mo Clan used a considerable amount of resources as bait. At last, they lulled the Black Whirlwind Bandit Group into complacency and lured them out in full force.

It was during this operation that Mo Cheng, alone and unassisted, slaughtered the Black Whirlwind Bandit Group—the most rampant and vicious bandit group in the Eastern Province—to the last man!

According to the Mo Clan Guards fortunate enough to participate, the slaughter had truly turned the ground into a river of blood!

The major powers across the Eastern Province were stunned by Mo Cheng's frenzied brutality. As a result, he earned the nickname "Mo the Butcher."

For a time, the Mo Clan's prestige surged once more. Whether they were clan forces, bandits, or mountain brigands, all would automatically retreat whenever they encountered a Mo Clan Trade Caravan, terrified that they might draw out that old madman of the Mo Clan and be wiped out!