NOVEL NEXT Chapter 70 - 70: A Little Bit of Small Gains!
Chapter 70: Chapter 70: A Little Bit of Small Gains!
Su Ping hadn’t killed Niu Wu on the spot.
Instead, he had broken the legs of him and a few of the highest cultivation Loose Cultivators, and interrogated them separately.
If their stories differed, he would bring the two out for confrontation, and then a punch would send the liar to an early grave.
The cellar of this manor was crammed with the corpses of men and women slain by these bandits.
In the hall, those who were still alive were mostly attractive mortals; yet, these bandits showed no mercy, leaving these mortals barely clinging to life, in unbearable pain.
Su Ping felt no psychological burden in sending these bandits to their deaths.
Under his iron fist, the little secrets of Niu Wu’s team were basically emptied.
Perhaps, as the leader, Niu Wu who led his team so successfully, had more hidden secrets.
Likely, there were dealings with the local tyrants, or perhaps tacit approval from Outer Sect Disciples or even Managers.
However, Su Ping had no interest in this; he only needed to know where the bandits kept the stolen goods.
So when Niu Wu, thinking himself clever, noticed Su Ping’s grim expression and immediately started shouting about a secret he had discovered in an ancient relic in the Mortal World,
Su Ping didn’t allow him to finish speaking, instead kicking him in the throat, ending his wicked life.
And with a hum, he left a message:
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“A mere Loose Cultivator knows secrets of the Ancient Relics?”
“Trying to save your life, couldn’t you come up with a more reliable story?”
Su Ping withdrew his foot, glancing over the bandits on the ground who had lost the ability to move, waiting for death.
He didn’t plan to waste time there, but took out a storage bag, placing in it a portion of their plundered wealth, and most of the Sealing Magic Artifacts, before leaving the manor.
He headed directly to several bandit strongholds he had learned about during the interrogation.
These bandit strongholds were mostly deep in the mountains and forests.
There were strong bows and crossbows, and rolling logs and falling rocks.
Yet they couldn’t stop Su Ping, who had reached the Fifth Layer of Body Refining.
In a stormy night, Su Ping alone swept through six hideouts left by Niu Wu.
Inside, he likewise found many Sealing Magic Artifacts.
Clearly, the affluent families they had previously plundered were also buying Sealing Magic Artifacts, trying to contribute to the great cause of exterminating evil.
“These bandits indeed deserve to die; don’t they know that they are hindering the war between the Immortal Cultivation World and the Evil Demon Realm?”
“This is outright treacherous behavior!”
“Alas, to make up for the progress they affected, let me take these Sealing Magic Artifacts, purify them, and then return them to the Merit Stele.”
With tears, Su Ping separated a storage bag specifically to keep the Sealing Magic Artifacts.
He then returned directly on the same route to Golden Sparrow City.
Because of the judgment at Mysterious Turtle Island’s Fishing Point,
On the way back, Su Ping no longer intermittently ran into the gorges to fish and get lucky, and with his increased cultivation, he was much faster than when he had come.
The day after Su Ping left,
The sun shone after the rain, and only then did the martial artists from nearby towns who heard from survivors rushing out come to inspect the scene.
Entering the manor through the gaping doorway,
Seeing the devastation caused by the fight, all the martial artists gasped in shock.
In this territory, these new-generation martial artists had never seen such violent scenes.
Not to mention that they then found those lying down, each of which was an adept martial artist, not inferior to them.
Some even found the corpses of significant figures like Loose Cultivators, which made them feel chills run through their bodies even in the heat of summer.
It was only a week later when Ji Hu’s men hurried to handle the aftermath,
That the nobility from Golden Sword City finally realized that it was the Inspector of Golden Sparrow City, who had passed by and helped eradicate a bandit group on a whim.
Those who had never seen Niu Wu paid little attention to this, merely offering polite thanks a few times.
Of course, they didn’t bother to ask where the robbers had taken the stolen goods.
No one who could pass the message was willing to risk displeasing a Cultivator from the Immortal Sect for the sake of those goods.
As for those households that suffered significant losses and cared deeply about them… they had no means of communicating their plight, nor did anyone care to listen.
As for the Sealing Magic Artifacts, these people were not concerned either; without them, they would simply continue to seek other channels to apply.
As long as they still legally controlled a large population, they wouldn’t worry about a lack of second-rate traffickers bringing them opportunities for Merit.
As for the Little Golden Light Temple, their focus was on other large cities with abundant Spiritual Energy and Spirit Veins.
Recently, they had been severely understaffed and too busy to cope, otherwise, they wouldn’t have given up hosting the Magic Meeting in the coastal areas.
The Sealing Magic Artifacts were provided by them; as long as the recovery of a certain area wasn’t too outrageous, they wouldn’t bother about it.
In Golden Sparrow City, after Su Ping returned to Frost Moon Villa, he went into the Pot Cave Heaven to start tallying his gains from the trip.
Discovering a Second Tier Low Grade Fishing Point was naturally his greatest find.
Then there was the large bird he had subdued on the road, a valuable demon beast due to its feathers, which might be exchanged for quite a few Spirit Stones!
Next were the minor gains he had acquired through his acts of justice.
Several hundred taels of gold, several thousand kilograms of silver, as well as various jewels and ornaments.
As for these worldly treasures, except for the gold, he could leave the rest for the manager to handle.
His consumption of Body Tempering Medicine Bags was a bit fast; it would not be good to always ask others for more if the treasury ran out.
Lastly, were the Sealing Magic Artifacts.
Su Ping had checked all the collected Sealing Magic Artifacts again.
There were a total of three hundred and fifteen of them!
Su Ping had inquired about this amount, which was not too many; he could completely consume them all.
And based on feedback from various places up to now,
erasing the Evil Spirit in the Sealing Magic Artifacts, even with the help of followers’ beliefs, was a long-term and painstaking effort.
Since each follower was different and the powers controlled by each family varied, it would not be possible to have many purified Sealing Magic Artifacts enter the market without one or two years of effort.
This meant that even if Su Ping consumed a large quantity of Sealing Magic Artifacts, it would take at least a year before traffickers like the second-rate ones at the Little Golden Light Temple might notice any abnormalities.
He took out a Sealing Magic Artifact and played with it for a while.
Su Ping noticed that the Evil Exorcism Punishment Stone Lion in the Pot Cave Heaven clearly turned its head to look when it saw the Sealing Magic Artifact.
And it snorted contemptuously and lay down again.
From the reaction, it was evident that this Stone Lion could restrain the Evil Spirit.
The Evil Exorcism Blessing it provided should also be effective against the Evil Spirit in the realm of Immortal Cultivation.
This was indeed good news!
At least he had an additional safeguard for his life when facing Evil Spirits or Evil Cultivators!
Afterward, Su Ping rested for two days at Frost Moon Villa, replenished his supply of Body Tempering Medicine Bags, and also made a trip to the Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop.
As most of the Yun Family had moved away,
Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop had also changed hands.
The current Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop, it was heard, was taken over by an Inner Sect Disciple of the Immortal Sect, and the manager had also been replaced by a confidant of that Inner Sect Disciple.
Perhaps that Inner Sect Disciple was also someone who understood the benefits of slow and steady growth.
The Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop didn’t have an entry fee set up, and had even invited Loose Cultivators to spread the word wide – the areas where the Yun Family used to reside were up for rent to Loose Cultivators.
Moreover, those working or setting up stalls in the workshop could rent free for the first three months!
This immediately attracted many Loose Cultivators who came from afar to Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop.
After all, even if the workshop was modest, it was still a blessed site with a Spirit Vein; in the past, countless Loose Cultivators would have begged for a residence spot to no avail.
Instantly, the Loose Cultivators were all thankful for the new owner of Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop.
And it also incidentally caused the scope of the workshop to expand substantially, with at least double the foot traffic compared to the last time Su Ping was there!