1129: Wolves Travel a Thousand Miles for Meat, Eight Desolations Disciples Travel a Thousand Miles for Treasure (Please Vote)

At the foot of the mountain where Zhongxin Hall's gates stood, the blare of suonas shook the heavens.

Some players whose life-class profession was actually coffin-making had even brazenly set out several coffins hauled over by carriage outside the woods, seemingly waiting to collect the bodies of the soon-to-be dead.

But anyone familiar with the ways of the Eight Desolations disciples knew those coffins were not for collecting corpses, but for collecting wealth.

The large "Black Emperor" markings and wolf-head emblems carved onto those coffins made it clear that they bore the insignia of the Black Emperor Guild, one of the top player guilds among the Eight Desolations disciples.

Black represented the Black Wind Stronghold Master, Emperor meant honoring the Black Wind Stronghold Master as an emperor, and the wolf-head badge represented the creed followed by the Eight Desolations disciples: "Wolves travel a thousand miles for meat; Eight Desolations disciples travel a thousand miles for treasure." Together, they formed the Black Emperor Guild's overall emblem.

Placing these coffins along the road was staking their claim. It meant that in this operation to "eat a big meal," the Black Emperor Guild did not want much—they only wanted to fill these coffins. The rest could be divided fairly among the brothers on the same path.

On the other roads, some weaker guilds had also set out one or two coffins.

Quite a few suona players performed beside the coffins to bolster morale, symbolizing a bountiful harvest. It looked exactly like a coffin-dancing procession.

Along the official roads and throughout the forests, figures of Eight Desolations disciples wearing black hoods could be seen everywhere. The air was filled with a murderous atmosphere mixed with a strange sense of festivity.

Ever since players had spotted the Black Wind Stronghold Master's mount, the Demonic Eagle,