You are absolutely right

After three years of Journey Survival, Zhu Jiusi had learned one thing.

Do not hold a grudge!

Either take revenge on the spot and never let it last overnight. Otherwise, the enemy might die at any moment or have a stroke of luck and soar to the heavens.

Or, truly do not hold a grudge. For existences you cannot afford to provoke, swallow your pride, admit defeat, and offer tribute...

As long as you can survive, there is no shame in it.

If you cannot get past that mental hurdle, then fight to the death and perish together.

To be too afraid to fight back, yet unable to win, while refusing to swallow your pride—that is the most foolish path of all.

Zhu Jiusi stepped out of the Mountain God Temple. The nest he had placed inside had long since fused with the temple and could no longer be retrieved.

This time, he had to earn enough resources no matter what, at least enough to complete one upgrade, otherwise, it would be a massive loss.

Heart Without Darkness... damn him!

Night fell, and Zhu Jiusi moved forward silently. Ahead, a dromedary camel lay on the path.

The camel's body was covered in gruesome whip marks.

A bald man in prison garb leaned against the camel, intently reading a Scroll.

He was arguing heatedly with someone: "The Master of Cloud Stack Cave already knows he was wrong, yet you lot are still pestering him. Are you just begging to be scammed?"

White Beard's Fist: "Go to hell! Whether I sell materials or not, why are you yapping about it? It's been four days and I haven't opened a single piece of food. If I don't sell materials, am I supposed to starve? You're the only one making a fuss!"

Heart Without Darkness was hopping mad, but his persona as a civilized man prevented him from cursing aloud, so he just whipped his camel again and again.

He was completely unaware that the surrounding environment had changed entirely.

At this moment, the left side of the road was mountain forest, while the right side was an endless desert.

When Dao Discussion occurs and paths merge, the road takes on the characteristics of both sides. Heart Without Darkness's path was a desert trail, and Zhu Jiusi's was a mountain path; now, they were clashing and merging.

Zhu Jiusi crept forward, and only when he was within ten meters did Heart Without Darkness suddenly react.

He stared in astonishment at the suddenly appearing mountain forest and the wild boar. Before he could understand what was happening, the boar had already begun to charge.

BOOM!

Like a tank ramming forward, it slammed into his chest, sending him flying.

Heart Without Darkness hit the ground and bounced. A mouthful of blood sprayed out, and his face twisted into a knot.

A monster?

He hadn't opened his Gourd!

He had been confronting the Master of Cloud Stack Cave in the chat area, even trying several times to goad the Master of Cloud Stack Cave into opening his inventory publicly.

For the past two days, the Gourd had been hanging on the camel; he hadn't opened it at all!

No!

A flash of confusion crossed Heart Without Darkness's mind, and then his eyes widened. The wild boar opposite him wasn't hiding its name; the words floating above its head were clear: Master of Cloud Stack Cave!

It wasn't a monster; it was a Path Seeker!

Realizing the situation, Heart Without Darkness's expression changed instantly.

"How can you get to me!" he roared through gritted teeth, unable to believe the reality.

He had dared to target the person behind the two announcements repeatedly in the chat area precisely because he was convinced the other party couldn't reach through the internet to hit him.

How could he have run all the way here?!!

A Dao Discussion Card!

Heart Without Darkness instantly grasped the key to the situation.

He had been curious about what kind of Dao Discussion Card the Master of Cloud Stack Cave wanted to collect, and he had even been guiding everyone not to sell!

The next moment, he knew exactly what it was.

Zhu Jiusi rammed him, sending him flying, and immediately switched to his Blockhead title without a moment's hesitation, charging again.

"Don't! I admit defeat!" Heart Without Darkness shouted, shaking his head frantically with a look of terror, acting as if he had been scared out of his wits.

But the pig seemed not to hear him at all. Once the first strike landed, it retreated a few steps and charged again.

Heart Without Darkness had only just managed to get up when he was rammed and sent flying once more.

A heavy object fell from behind him. It was a Golden Melon Hammer.

Admitting defeat was a lie; he had intended to launch a sneak attack.

Taking advantage of him falling to the ground, Zhu Jiusi lunged forward, lowered his head, and thrust his tusks like daggers, stabbing into his shoulder blade and hooking it to slam him from the left side of the road to the right.

CRACK!

Heart Without Darkness's left arm was completely ruined, and even his right leg was broken from the impact.

"Spare me! I won't dare again!" Heart Without Darkness screamed.

The wild boar had already planted a hoof on his chest, looking down at him from above.

"The parcel, open it!"

A parcel was a personal item; even if you killed a Path Seeker, you could only rely on luck to drop a certain amount of loot. Unless the owner actively displayed it, outsiders could not see it.

"I don't have anything, my gourd hasn't opened yet..."

"Crack!" Zhu Jiusi applied pressure with his hoof, snapping two of his ribs.

"Open, I'll open it!" Heart Without Darkness shrieked, answering in a panic.

He immediately opened his parcel and dumped everything inside, leaving the parcel display empty.

Zhu Jiusi stepped off his chest.

Heart Without Darkness breathed a sigh of relief: "Everything is yours, I..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the wild boar suddenly lowered its head and tossed him into the air with a shove, then followed up with a charge, slamming him directly into the mist outside the forest.

Kill +1

The scroll glowed one last time.

[Name: Liu Huaicai]

[Daoist Number: Heart Without Darkness]

[Identity: Pyramid scheme member, fraudster]

The scroll flickered, then shattered and dissipated.

Zhu Jiusi's own scroll began to flicker: "Looted vehicle: Camel. Dismantle?"

Heart Without Darkness's vehicle wasn't a cart, but a camel.

Zhu Jiusi bit the vine of the gourd, plucked the gourd tied to the camel, and then spoke: "Dismantle!"

Leather ×6

And... that was it!

Such a large camel, its flesh, blood, and bones all gone, leaving only six pieces of leather.

What a skinflint!

Zhu Jiusi glanced at the floating scroll.

Then he looked at the materials on the ground.

Metal ×35

Wood ×20

Stone ×25

Steamed Buns ×3

Drinking Water ×3

Golden Melon Hammer ×1

Horse Whip ×1

He wasn't exactly wealthy. But there were still eighteen gourds.

That was a decent haul.

He swept up everything in one go and looked around.

The roads on both sides had returned to a complete forest.

He walked toward the Mountain God Temple while opening the chat section.

The chat board had already devolved into a chaotic mess.

One side was Daoist Number 323 and his group of about a dozen or twenty people, and the other side was Orchid Pavilion Scholar and his crew.

When Zhu Jiusi opened it, he was being tagged.

Daoist Number 323: "@Master of Cloud Stack Cave, he has already admitted his mistake and is no longer taking advantage of ordinary people to trade for supplies. You are still cursing him, are you that cheap? Is he not even allowed to speak when he's done nothing wrong?"

Just then, several images were posted in the chat section in quick succession.

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Image—Shaved head, prison uniform."

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Image—Scroll, identity."

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Image—Heart Without Darkness's grayed-out avatar frame."

A grayed-out avatar frame meant someone was dead.

The chat room fell silent in an instant. Prison uniform, pyramid scheme member, fraudster...

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Many thanks to the good man Darkness for sponsoring eighteen gourds and various basic resources."

"He was quite right; everyone needs resources right now, and I shouldn't take advantage of the situation to plunder."

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "@Daoist Number 323, you were also quite right!"

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "@Everyone, buying Dao Discussion Cards."

The chat section, which had been arguing in a frenzy, fell so silent that a pin drop could be heard.