Bountiful Harvest

The war blade bared its edge, radiating a biting chill. Lu Chuan raised his hand slightly, and the blade tip was already pointed at the young man.

"What are you trying to do... Do you know who I am..."

At that moment, the young man was utterly terrified. The arrogance and lofty superiority had long vanished from his face, leaving behind nothing but fear.

He stared at Lu Chuan, gritting his teeth as he growled, "Let me go, and I can pretend none of this ever happened. Otherwise... my Chen Family will not let you off. I am a direct descendant of the Chen Family, Chen—"

Clang!

Before he could finish, the war blade had already sliced across his throat.

The next instant, a fine head shot into the sky.

One slash beheaded him, blood spraying everywhere.

After soaring several meters into the air, the head crashed heavily more than ten meters away. Its eyes were wide open, its face filled with disbelief.

Even in death, he likely had never imagined that Lu Chuan would show no regard whatsoever for the Chen Family behind him.

That he would truly dare to kill him.

"Chen Family, Li Family—it doesn't matter. Anyone who blocks my path is my enemy..."

Lu Chuan snorted coldly. After sheathing his war blade, he immediately began searching the bodies.

As a dedicated hunter, his body-searching methods were naturally clean and efficient. In no time at all, Lu Chuan had stripped all the valuable items from the young man and Chen Zhong.

There was quite a lot of good stuff.

The weapons alone were worth a fortune. In particular, the young man's bow and arrow and war blade were both Second-Order weaponry.

"What a damn tycoon. A single Second-Order weapon is worth over a million, yet this guy came with a whole set. Too bad that Combat Suit is too conspicuous to keep, but everything else can stay."

Lu Chuan inspected everything one by one, destroying or discarding items that were of little value or could not be kept for special reasons.

In the end, his gaze settled on one of the watches.

It had been removed from the young man's wrist. It was a Communication Watch that could be used to access the Virtual Network.

Ever since the great upheaval of heaven and earth, many technological weapons in this world had lost their effectiveness.

Civilization had evolved into a Martial Dao civilization.

But that did not mean the world's technology had disappeared or stagnated.

Quite the opposite. As far as Lu Chuan knew, technology had actually developed even better after the upheaval, though its direction had changed, with everything serving Martial Dao.

All kinds of high-tech cold weapons and high-strength Combat Suits.

Numerous means of transportation, even supersonic Flying Vehicles.

As well as the Virtual Network.

"I've heard that people from the Inner City can buy Virtual Network Pods. Martial Artists can enter designated virtual spaces through the Virtual Network Pods, spar with different Martial Artists, and hone their combat skills..."

Lu Chuan stared blankly at the Communication Watch in his hand, countless thoughts surfacing in his mind.

Then, he suddenly clenched his hand, intending to crush the Communication Watch.

These things were all bound to real identities. Even if he kept it, he could not use it. Better to destroy it.

Yet to his surprise, the Communication Watch did not move in the slightest beneath his grip. There was not the least bit of change.

This left Lu Chuan shocked.

Although the force of that squeeze was not as great as his war blade or bow and arrow, it was likewise enhanced by Fierce Tiger Intent and exceeded ten thousand jin.

Yet he could not crush this Communication Watch.

"What the hell kind of material is this, that it's so hard?" Lu Chuan thought to himself. His eyes narrowed as he tossed the watch onto the ground and abruptly drew his blade, slashing down hard.

Clang... Bang...

Blade Light flashed, striking the Communication Watch viciously. Sparks flew everywhere, yet the slash only left behind a shallow mark.

One had to know that this slash carried more than thirty thousand jin of terrifying force!

"I refuse to believe this."

Seeing this, Lu Chuan completely lost his temper and hacked down fiercely with the war blade in his hand.

After several dozen consecutive slashes.

A thunderous bang suddenly rang out, and the entire Communication Watch finally exploded, shattering into pieces.

"Little bastard, I thought you were tougher than that."

Lu Chuan snorted coldly, but as he looked at the chipped war blade, he clicked his tongue inwardly.

This thing was damn hard. He truly had no idea what material it was made from.

"Wait, doesn't this thing have some kind of automatic recording function when damaged?" Lu Chuan's face suddenly turned pale as he abruptly realized something was wrong.

For a moment, regret flooded him.

Had he known, he should not have stubbornly insisted on destroying the watch.

"Forget it. What's done is done. There's no use thinking about it..."

Lu Chuan shook his head and stopped dwelling on it.

He immediately gathered all the spoils. After cleaning up the battlefield, he dragged the two corpses back into the Valley.

Naturally, Lu Chuan was not being kind enough to help dispose of their bodies. He wanted to destroy the evidence.

If he threw the corpses into the Valley, it would not even take a day for a large number of Fierce Beasts to be drawn over and gnaw them clean.

After all, the stench of blood was strongest in the Valley.

More than a hundred Fierce Beasts had died there. That would certainly attract other Fierce Beasts from Python Mountain.

At the same time, he could make it look as though the Chen Family's people had all died after battling Fierce Beasts, misleading the Chen Family.

With one of their direct descendants dead, the Chen Family of the Inner City would certainly send people out of the city to investigate.

"Make haste. Clean up the battlefield and dissect the Fierce Beast corpses." After returning to the Valley, Lu Chuan immediately got busy.

More than a hundred Fierce Beast corpses—what an enormous fortune that was. Naturally, he would not let it go to waste.

Taking everything away was certainly unrealistic, but bringing the Fierce Beast Crystal Cores with him would be no problem at all.

Besides that, Lu Chuan would not overlook the valuable parts from those several First-Order Peak Fierce Beasts either. He removed them one by one.

Yet even after Lu Chuan trimmed things down again and again, the various materials still filled four large bags.

Fortunately, Chen Chan and the others had left behind backpacks after Lu Chuan killed them.

Otherwise, he simply would not have been able to fit everything.

Nearly three hours later, Lu Chuan finally walked out of the Valley, carrying four large backpacks tied together on his back.

Like he was carrying a small mountain, he darted swiftly through the forest.

With his current physique, carrying tens of thousands of jin was no difficult task. Though these four backpacks looked terrifying, they only weighed a few thousand jin in total. Naturally, they were nothing to Lu Chuan.

Without lingering any longer, Lu Chuan traveled in stealth all the way.

Yet his speed did not slow in the slightest.

Before long, he rushed out of Python Mountain. Once outside Python Mountain, Lu Chuan had only one backpack left on him. He had hidden the other three in a concealed location.

After all, bringing back four huge bags of materials at once would be far too conspicuous.

Anyone with half a brain would know something was wrong.

He would easily draw suspicion and invite great trouble.

"I'll deal with a portion first, then process the rest in batches over the next few days. These Fierce Beast materials contain Fierce Fiend Power anyway, so they won't spoil in the short term."

Lu Chuan had already made a plan. His heart was flying home, and he accelerated as he raced through the Wilderness.

At the thought of the three Hundred-Year Great Medicines in his backpack, his heart burned with excitement.

The White Jade Dragon Rock Fruit would surely not disappoint him.