"Outrageous! Outrageous!"
Lin Wanshan, Sect Master of the Red Glow Sect, spat out another mouthful of blood in fury.
What he found hardest to stomach was not that the sect had relocated and lost its accumulated resources.
It was that relocating had been his idea, and digging up the earth vein had been his order. In the end, he had dismantled his own home down to the last scrap, all because of a scam.
Worse, worse, worse still, he had burned through every treasure on his person while pursuing these Golden Armor Army soldiers.
The elders beside him remained silent.
Thinking it over, it really was embarrassing.
But thinking a little further set their teeth grinding with rage.
"If you were scammed, couldn't you have told us first?"
"We could have written off that money!"
"At least you could have saved the sect's accumulated resources! Now that we've even dug up the earth vein, we couldn't go back if we wanted to!"
Just then, a Grand Supreme Elder suddenly thought of something. He hurriedly rose and grabbed Sect Master Lin Wanshan.
"Sect Master, I don't think these people belong to the same group as those Purple-Gold Battle Armor soldiers from before."
"No shit!"
Lin Wanshan sent him flying with a backhanded slap.
"I'm not blind! You think I couldn't tell they weren't the same group?"
The Grand Supreme Elder wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and hastily crawled back.
"Sect Master, that's not what I meant. I mean these Golden Armor Army soldiers seem to be copying those earlier people, running the same extortion racket."
"You think I don't know they're running an extortion racket too?"
Lin Wanshan raised his hand again.
Halfway up, his hand suddenly stopped.
Copying the earlier group's methods to run the same