"Exactly! Damn it, either do your job or hand the heavenly crystals over to me and go guard the gate yourself! Now that I've got these heavenly crystals, do you think I'm still going to guard the gate with you? What a joke!"
The guard who had spoken first wore an awkward expression and hurriedly said, "I was just giving you a reminder. Aren't I on your side? Come on, hurry up and clear the way for our senior!"
In the face of heavenly crystals, things like honor and integrity were utterly meaningless. The six guards immediately surrounded us and escorted us toward the Qianxian Sect.
Lingxian City was quite large. Before we had even reached the city center, the crowds gathered to watch had already become a sea of people. Xue Qingcheng and I were dressed rather unusually in their eyes to begin with, and on top of that, our extravagant spending was unimaginable. Once the rumors began spreading, they had already become more and more fantastical along the road.
One by one, they treated Xue Qingcheng and me as true recluses of divinity. After all, no one casually took out dozens of heavenly crystals at a time. Those guards were afraid that after escorting us away, they might someday be escorted away by some other senior instead. After all, being rumored to possess a huge fortune was tantamount to courting death.
I couldn't be bothered to worry about that much. These guards probably bullied the weak and feared the strong quite often; otherwise, they wouldn't have developed such slick, oily dispositions. If something happened to them, it would simply be their bad luck.
Along the way, I also couldn't help observing the demonic cultivators here. Although some demonic cultivators clearly lived fairly comfortable lives, most of them looked