The Rich Kid's Inheritance~

That night!

Under the moonlight, Jiang Hao borrowed Shadow Bro's power and slipped into the shadows.

Shrek City's defenses were poor. He slipped in along a corner of the city wall and, following the route he remembered from that morning, found his little courtyard.

"Boss, hurry up!"

"Time to split the loot! Xu Sanshi's Soul Tool has got to have treasure in it!"

The Clones bickered in his mind.

Jiang Hao smiled helplessly. His good brothers were great in every way. Their only faults were that they talked too much, ate a little too much, and liked looking at beautiful women just as much as he did.

"All right, all right, stop arguing! We'll talk once we're inside."

Jiang Hao had just laid a hand on the door when he sensed a chilling intent to kill from behind it!

Who was it? Zhou Yi? Or one of those Real Estate Agents who'd sold me the house today?

Jiang Hao could tell that the figure behind the door was none of the people he knew. Its aura carried a cold, sinister edge, as though the person had crawled out of a well.

Meanwhile, Jiang Hao's Clones quietly began layering Boosts and defensive Soul Skills onto him.

Far away in the Star Dou Great Forest, the light around Flame Bro dimmed, and his Martial Soul vanished. The next instant, roaring flames erupted around Jiang Hao.

He pushed the door open and grabbed for the figure behind it. Fire Shield! Flames rolled out in a savage heat wave, scattering the icy air rushing toward him.

"Talk! Who sent you?"

With the Cat Owl's extraordinary night vision, Jiang Hao caught the person's arm. He squeezed harder. A sharp crack came from the bones, and a Bronze-Green Dagger clattered to the ground. Where it landed, the surrounding flowers and grass withered as if touched by deadly poison.

Well, damn. That was vicious! The dagger was poisoned too!

Jiang Hao was certain he had never met this man. Thin and gaunt, he looked as though he had recently died and been dug back up. His skin was ghastly pale, and tangled hair hung behind his head. His face twisted as he screamed. One look told Jiang Hao he was no good.

"I'm sorry, sir!"

"I'm sorry, Lord Soul Master!"

"I was blind, sir! I wandered into your home by mistake!"

"Please let me go! I'll leave right now!"

The middle-aged man, who looked to be in his thirties or forties, dropped to his knees with a thud!

(My god, he begged for mercy faster than a baguette!) —Master's Bro

(Right? I thought he'd be tough. I was all ready to show what I could do~) —Serpent Cane Bro

"Still won't tell the truth?"

Jiang Hao smiled. A dark-brown Scorpion Tail grew from behind him, its segments writhing as it reached the man and hooked beneath his chin.

"If you keep lying, I'll poison you to death!"

Jiang Hao smiled. "You expect me to believe you wandered into the wrong courtyard? An ordinary person came all the way to a place that's been sealed for who knows how many years, with everything inside cleared out—and it just happened to be on the day I moved in?"

"Please, I really did come in by mistake!"

The scar-faced man knelt and knocked his head against the ground, his wails echoing through the alley. He was making too much noise. It would be bad if the neighbors noticed.

To avoid alerting anyone else, Jiang Hao quickly fitted a gag over his mouth. Blue Silver Grass burst from the ground and hoisted the man into the air.

Seeing himself strung up, the scar-faced man panicked. "I'll talk! I'll talk! It was the Xuanming Sect! The Third Elder wanted this place. He planned to buy it on the cheap, and I killed everyone here! I was wrong! Please forgive me and let me go! I'll give you all my money! I'll give you the six thousand Gold Soul Coins he promised me too!"

The scar-faced man thrashed, trying to break free of the Blue Silver Grass, but the Scorpion Tail soon plunged into his calf. As he struggled, his whole body turned purple. Three breaths later, he went limp.

There was no trace of Soul Power on him, and no Storage Soul Tool either. Instead, Jiang Hao found a token in his clothes: a Dark-Gold Metal Token engraved with a turtle, with a slender snake hidden in the design.

What a coincidence. Looked like fate kept tying me to the Xuanming Sect. I snatched the land they wanted this morning, castrated their young Sect Master at noon, and killed one of their disciples tonight.

Jiang Hao waved a hand. Countless strands of Blue Silver Grass dragged the corpse to the center of the courtyard. As their roots writhed, they pulled it into the soil and down to the deepest reaches underground.

Jiang Hao swept the area with his Spiritual Power. Finding nothing else amiss, he released several Clones.

"Everyone, sorry for the trouble~ Let's clean the place together!"

The once-empty courtyard filled with Clones emerging from the Sea of Consciousness. Some mopped, others swept. They reconnected the Soul Tools, and light filled the entire courtyard.

Several Food Type Clones busied themselves in the kitchen, stewing fish and meat. Before long, delicious aromas drifted out.

Jiang Hao sat in a Rocking Chair in the hall, watching dish after dish arrive at the long table. He turned his hand, and a Soul Tool appeared in it!

It was pale gold, with clean lines and flawlessly carved runes. Not a single blemish marred it.

The Xuanming Sect really was wealthy. This Soul Tool was well made and good-looking too. It almost measured up to the one Qian Duoduo had given him.

Jiang Hao counted everything carefully. The gold Ring had come from Xu Sanshi. Inside were Gold Soul Coins—roughly fifty or sixty thousand of them.

You're a young Sect Master, so why do you have so little? The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect spends hundreds of thousands without blinking. You're a young Sect Master too, and you've only got sixty thousand in here? How poor~

Apart from the Soul Tool and three Jade Bottles, there were only assorted clothes and odds and ends—even two or three pieces of Women's Clothing. The three Jade Bottles were the most valuable things inside. They held three Mystic Water Pills, each worth a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. That made three hundred thousand in all. A young Sect Master with a total fortune of just three hundred and sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins? How poor!

Jiang Hao tossed the Ring to Shadow Bro, who was wolfing down food at the side of the long table. Shadow Bro often went about Shrek City, so Jiang Hao had put him in charge of buying supplies.

"Keep this Ring. You're the one who goes around Shrek City, so you can buy whatever necessities we need."

Shadow Bro caught the Soul Tool and slipped it onto his finger without hesitation, admiring it from every angle. "Looks great. Main Body, I get it. Hauling a huge bag around Shrek City every day was a pain. I won't stand on ceremony, then. Thanks!"

"No need to thank me. We're all one!"

Jiang Hao checked the other Soul Tools as well. They held scattered Gold Soul Coins, clothes, sundries, and Wound Medicine. Nothing else mattered much. He had taken them from the Soul Masters in the group and the Five-Ring Soul King.

They were all poor too~ Their Gold Soul Coins barely came to over ten thousand in total. It seemed the Xuanming Sect didn't treat its guards very well. Five or six guards together had only around ten thousand Gold Soul Coins in ready cash.

As for the Soul Tools, the largest had thirty cubic meters of storage space. The rest had ten or five cubic meters—tiny spaces with little practical use.

After some thought, Jiang Hao put away the thirty-cubic-meter Soul Tool. He set aside the smaller ones and handed them to Shadow Bro.

"Go to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion tomorrow and unload all this on Shrek. Whatever you get for it is fine."

Once he had dealt with those Soul Tools, Jiang Hao turned his attention to the one Qian Duoduo had placed on his finger today. It was the inheritance his parents had left him. What could be inside? Had Qian Duoduo left Shrek City a while back just to retrieve it?

Jiang Hao studied the Gray-Brown Ring in his hand. It had an air of mystery about it. As for what lay inside, he could open it and find out.

He slowly channeled Soul Power into it. Cracks appeared in the ring's gray-brown outer layer, which then fell away to reveal a silver-white Ring beneath. A tiny Ruby sat at its center, held tight by engravings on either side shaped like hands.

The Ring was extremely slender, unlike the broad Rings men usually wore. It looked more like one worn by a woman.

It was probably Mother's~ Jiang Hao examined it, then sent his awareness inside.

The Ring's seal opened. A dazzling flash burst out, and three flat objects flew free and struck the table. Metal hit wood with a dull thud.

Soul Bones! Three of them!