Everyone shuddered in horror.
"So now that you're all back, don't go out again anytime soon. The school absolutely won't allow you to go out again."
All ten fell silent. Their earlier good spirits over their abundant haul had long since vanished without a trace.
"We were in the north, and we ran into an ambush too. But at the critical moment, someone in white appeared, scattering sword light over the northern reaches and frightening those people away..."
"Undercover agents from the Witch Alliance? Why would they steal so many Star Soul Stones? Can they even transport them?!" Liu Jiansheng's face was full of bitter anger. "If it was the Seven Kills, wouldn't killing people have been enough?"
Qin Fangyang said mildly, "With a few large-capacity spatial storage devices, transporting them wouldn't be a problem at all, would it?"
"Boss, we have to avenge Little Fatty!" the other nine said through gritted teeth.
The bearded Liu Jiansheng's face was bleak. "Revenge?... I want that too. But with our cultivation only at the Embryonic Breathing level, and at our age, revenge... there's certainly little hope of that."
He lowered his head and said softly, "From now on, whenever we take a mission, no matter what kind, one of the ten of us must stay behind to hold the fort."
"Once we hand over our haul, let's go to Dalong's family and the others' homes and help arrange their funerals... For those brothers who had no siblings and whose elderly parents have no one to care for them, we need to do what we can. And those who left children behind... don't be stingy when it comes to raising and educating them."
"From now on, we'll leave one man behind. If anything happens to the other nine, the one remaining can at