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The feeling of humiliation made Li Que almost grind his teeth to dust. He was itching to rush up and fight Chen Anlin, but reason told him that such an action would lead to certain death.
Endure! Once I earn enough prestige points, I’ll be able to afford something like that.
Li Que took a deep breath. “Alright, I’ll give it to you.”
Whoosh!
The storage bag was directly absorbed by Chen Anlin.
“Alright, you can leave now.”
Chen Anlin slapped him again, sending Li Que flying.
In the next moment, Chen Anlin checked the storage bag and his eyes lit up.
As expected of a quality treasure-hunting rat, there are quite a few good things in here.
With a smile, Chen Anlin left the area.
Noticing that Chen Anlin had departed, Li Xuexin returned with her group to Li Que’s side. However, as soon as they arrived, their expressions changed slightly.
The storage bag was gone.
“Li Que, where’s the storage bag?” Li Xuexin questioned sharply.
“I-I’m sorry, Miss Li. It was that Chen Anlin; he’s so shameless that he actually robbed me of my storage bag!” Li Que said, filled with shame and anger.
“What?!” Upon hearing this, Li Xuexin was completely stunned.
After working hard for two days, she thought they could make a small profit. They didn’t even have many spirit herbs at their Wan Jian Mountain Villa and were planning to transplant them to their own land; unexpectedly, everything had been taken away.
“Li Que, you should have informed us right away! We would have confronted him!” an angry middle-aged man behind her exclaimed.
“I-I was afraid it would be too late; after all, I’m not his match.”
“You really are…”
The three of them shook their heads in frustration, feeling exasperated at his lack of action.
"Don't worry, I will definitely become stronger in these days and won't let you down," Li Que quickly explained.
"Anyone can talk big. Let's see if you can really get stronger first," Li Xuexin shook her head.
As Chen Anlin walked along the path, he murmured to himself, "This place has so many rare spiritual herbs that even the royal palace doesn't possess. Some of them are even extinct. How could such good things appear here?"
He felt that there must be something unusual about this place. However, he could transplant these herbs later and obtain a batch of high-quality spiritual medicine in the short term. A faint smile appeared on Chen Anlin's face as he held a mysterious small blue vial in his hand. Every day, it produced a drop of essence, and over time, there was already quite a bit of mysterious liquid inside.
Although he hadn't cultivated spiritual herbs much, most of what he had was used for his own training. The sky was getting dark. He took another drop of the spiritual liquid. With a thought, a feeling of advancement washed over him.
"Alright, let's advance," he decided and consumed another drop of the liquid.
An hour later, just as he had reached the mid-stage of the fifth rank, he suddenly heard sounds of fighting ahead.
"This spiritual stone was discovered by me, so get lost!"
"Haha, it's true you found it first, but you didn't take it, so of course, it's up for grabs."
"Don't even think about it!"
In a pile of rubble, dozens of people were confronting each other; some were those who had arrived earlier, whom Chen Anlin did not recognize. Hearing their voices, he realized they had discovered spiritual stones.
"This place actually has spiritual stones! It's said that these are used by immortals." He recalled that martial artists could also cultivate using spiritual stones. It was said that once one's internal spiritual power increased significantly, it would lead to a qualitative transformation, allowing one to live for over a thousand years without aging.
However, spiritual stones were exceedingly rare; in fact, no one had ever heard of anyone achieving immortality in the past thousand years.
The pile of rubble before him appeared to be just a heap of broken stones on the surface, but underneath lay more than a hundred shiny black stones—these were the spiritual stones!
"Alright, alright! Stop fighting! There are plenty of spiritual stones here for all of us. Let's give Sun Chen some face and split them evenly among us. How does that sound?" A young man around thirty years old with a somewhat waxy complexion clasped his hands together and proposed.
"Young Master Sun makes a valid point. If we calculate it, each person can at least receive ten spirit stones!" A hoarse voice came from a man in black, his face obscured.
"Who agrees? Who disagrees?" A young girl stood behind Sun Chen, scanning the crowd.
Currently, the Sun family had the largest number of people, giving them an advantage.
"No, you have more people, so naturally, you will receive the most."
Suddenly, someone spoke up, "In my opinion, according to each faction's strength, it should be divided by family, not by individual!"
Sun Chen snorted coldly. "Old Ghost Chen, that’s not fair. The people from the Peaceful Sect are here too."
Upon hearing this, the crowd raised their eyebrows in surprise; they hadn't expected someone from the Peaceful Sect to be present.
Old Ghost Chen remained unperturbed. "It doesn't matter who I am; I’m only thinking of everyone’s interests. If we divide it among individuals, your Sun family has five members here. Wouldn't that mean you could get at least fifty stones?"
"Exactly, that's unfair."
To everyone's surprise, someone from the Peaceful Sect also voiced a reasonable argument. "Sun Chen, your distribution method is incorrect."
A man with a painted face scoffed.
Sun Chen's sister, Sun Yang, grew anxious. "I think you’re looking for trouble! Since you know we have more people, why not behave yourselves? Otherwise, you'll regret it."
"Heh, little girl, don’t say such things. Having more people doesn’t mean anything," Old Ghost Chen replied with a sinister smile.
What no one noticed was that in a corner, Li Que was squinting his eyes at the group.
"Go ahead and argue; when you two sides are left to fight each other to exhaustion, I, Li Que, will reap the benefits!"
Just then, a calm voice interrupted.
"According to the laws of the Great Zhou, any treasures unearthed must be submitted to the state."
The speaker was none other than Chen Anlin.
Chen Anlin scanned the crowd with a tranquil gaze and continued, "Rest assured everyone; later I will create a banner for good citizens of Great Zhou for you all. Additionally, each person will receive five taels of silver."
Sun Chen and the others twitched at the corners of their mouths.
Five taels of silver to placate them? What a ridiculous joke!
Old Ghost Chen glared coldly at Chen Anlin. "You are Chen Anlin—the one who killed Sun Dapiao?"
"Indeed, that’s me!" Chen Anlin replied. "Old Ghost Chen, as a member of the Peaceful Sect, you should surrender now. Perhaps I will show mercy."
"Hahaha!" Old Ghost Chen laughed mockingly.
Sun Chen and his companions also sneered.
Perhaps outside they would give Chen Anlin some face since it didn’t affect their interests; they could turn a blind eye. But now that their interests were threatened—sorry, but he must die!
Sun Chen shouted, "Young Master Chen! We are from the Sun family; give me some face and I can help you."
Sun Chen still didn’t want to clash with Chen Anlin and said this in hopes of avoiding conflict.
"What are you?" Chen Anlin said, raising his eyes.
Sun Chen exclaimed, "You’re looking for death! How dare you insult my brother!"
Sun Yang, furious, pointed at Chen Anlin and cursed loudly.
"Get him!"
Old Ghost Chen's expression turned cold. His black robe billowed without wind, and dark, sharp weapons shot out from within, aimed directly at Chen Anlin.
This person was not weak; he was at the fifth rank. One of Sun Chen's subordinates was also at the fifth rank, while the others were at least at the sixth or even seventh rank.
Chen Anlin immediately unleashed his killing move, a flash of yellow light darting toward Sun Chen.
"Elder, save me!" Sun Chen's face changed dramatically. He never expected that facing so many of them, Chen Anlin would dare to strike back. Was he not afraid of being overwhelmed?
Although the elder behind Sun Chen was quick, Chen Anlin's yellow flash was even faster.
Pfft!
Sun Chen's chest was pierced, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Sun Yang was stunned. "Brother, my brother..."
Realizing that his elder brother was dead, Sun Yang furiously shouted at Chen Anlin, "Chen Anlin, I will kill you!!!"
With that, Sun Yang turned and ran.
Everyone else was speechless. It was ironic that he shouted the fiercest threats but did the most cowardly thing.
The elder from the Sun family naturally did not flee. He led three other subordinates to surround Chen Anlin while shouting, "Old Ghost Chen and everyone else, let’s attack together! After we deal with Chen Anlin, my Sun family only needs ten spirit stones. What do you say?"
"Hahaha, that sounds good!" Old Ghost Chen readily agreed.
If they could eliminate Chen Anlin and bring back his head, he would receive rewards from the Peaceful Teaching as well. The others had similar motives; they all wanted to gain something from this.
There was no choice; Chen Anlin was too domineering and showed no respect to anyone!
However, some who were hiding in the shadows decided not to intervene.
Whoosh!
Chen Anlin's yellow flash spun in the air as six sword energies surged forth.
Old Ghost Chen thought that they could definitely exchange a few blows with Chen Anlin. If they truly couldn't win, they would retreat early.
But unexpectedly, with just one move, the sword intent enveloped him.
"How is this possible? This sword technique is even more ferocious than that girl from the Ten Thousand Swords Manor!"
Chen Laogui was in a panic.
It turned out that he had encountered Li Xuexin before, and they had crossed swords. Li Xuexin was strong, but in the end, he had managed to leave calmly without suffering any losses. However, facing off against Chen Anlin, he was completely overwhelmed and was no match at all.
Suddenly, a yellow flash tore through his robe, and the sword energy ruthlessly pierced into it.
With a shudder, Chen Laogui's body trembled before he finally knelt on the ground, blood spilling everywhere.
The elder of the Sun family raised an eyebrow at Chen Laogui. He hadn’t expected him to be so weak, losing so quickly.
Seeing Chen Anlin charging at him with his sword raised, the overwhelming sword energy left him feeling helpless. Though he considered himself experienced in battle, this was the first time he had encountered such danger, and there was no way to evade it.
"Wait, Chen Shao, it's a misunderstanding—"
What responded to him was a sharp sword intent!
In the blink of an eye, the remaining members of the Sun family fell one after another. The others turned to flee, and soon only three who had yet to engage remained.
"Congratulations, Young Master Chen, on obtaining the treasure."
"Yes, yes! Congratulations, Young Master Chen! We were just about to offer our assistance."
Chen Anlin looked at the three with indifference and said, "I am also working for His Majesty; these items will be presented to him later."
"Young Master Chen is indeed noble and selfless; we must learn from you!"
"Well then, what have you found? Let me take a look. Don't worry; everyone knows I'm trustworthy. I just want to see; I promise not to take anything."
Chen Anlin said with a smile.
The crowd stood there in silence.
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