Capítulo 1020: Chapter 57: Luring the Snake from Its Hole (Part 2)
Then, he couldn’t help but say, “According to my understanding these days in Shishan County, initially the God Worship Sect in Shishan County had those five as the core mbers; the rest were developed by them later, partly due to the功劳of the at ginseng, and also because of people’s restlessness.”
“Now that these five core mbers of the God Worship Sect have been killed by Brother Jiang, the remaining mbers are just a minor nuisance!”
“As for the Yellow Heaven Sect, they are headless now and still quite reasonable.”
“In at most three to five days, I can return Shishan County to a bright and clear state.”
Hearing these words.
Jiang Ning imdiately nodded.
“Then I’ll leave the rest to Brother Bai!”
“No problem!” Bai Luoyu nodded heavily: “The big troubles have been solved by Brother Jiang, I will handle the smaller issues!”
Jiang Ning nodded.
…
That night.
The bright moon hung high.
Occasionally, there was the long cry of cold crows.
In a brightly lit manor.
A man wearing a hood fell from a high place, instantly startling the patrolling personnel around.
“Who is it??” Soone imdiately drew their sword and shouted.
Then soone saw the face under the hood clearly.
The face was resolute, with chin covered in beard like steel needles.
“Lower your weapons, it’s Mr. Mu!” The patrol team captain saw the visitor’s face and imdiately ordered his n to put away their drawn weapons.
As the captain of the patrol team, he naturally recognized the middle-aged man in front of him.
He was the Mu Family Master, Mu Changsheng.
And the Mu Family was one of the two great families in Shishan County, a local giant.
“Mr. Mu, I don’t know your purpose for visiting so late at night?” The patrol captain respectfully asked the middle-aged man with the hood.
“Take to see your master!”
“Yes, Mr. Mu!!”
…
A mont later.
In a brightly lit study.
An equally middle-aged man appeared.
Compared to the previously resolute-faced Mu Family Master Mu Changsheng, this Xu Family Master seed much shorter.
But no one dared to underestimate this Xu Family Master.
Because the Xu Family Master’s own brother currently holds the position of elder at the Five Sword Sect, being a Fifth Grade Internal Strength Realm strong person.
“Mu Family Master!”
“Xu Family Master!”
The two of them cupped their hands in salute and then got straight to the point.
“I wonder why the Mu Family Master has co so late?” The short-figured Xu Family Master asked.
“Xu Family Master, didn’t you notice that from this afternoon to evening, that Master Bai was making quite a fuss? His n are arresting people everywhere, and so from my family have been taken away under the charge of being mbers of the God Worship Sect.” The resolute-faced Mu Family Master with a chin like steel needles said.
“Do you an that Master Bai intends to act against us?” Xu Family Master said.
“Highly likely! After all, we have hoarded so much grain, and he has visited us many tis without any concessions from us. Now that the situation is worsening, as the Dongling County Patrol Envoy, he cannot sit by and watch Shishan County beco more chaotic! Today’s actions seem to be a pretext to capture the God Worship Sect, but in fact, are aid at the two of us!” The resolute-faced Mu Family Master said solemnly, his beard like steel needles brimming with determination.
“Does he have the guts? Our two families share the sa spirit, and both have people serving as elders in the Five Sword Sect, all Fifth Grade strong people! The Five Sword Sect even has a grandmaster in charge, does he dare to provoke the Five Sword Sect with his re Fifth Grade strength?” The short-figured Xu Family Master scoffed.
“We cannot be too cautious!” The resolute-faced Mu Family Master shook his head: “I suggest that we send two more strongn from our clan to guard the grain warehouse hidden outside the city. If found by Master Bai’s subordinates, we can eliminate them to prevent exposure.”
“Alright, let’s go with your plan!” The short-figured Xu Family Master nodded.
…
anwhile.
In an uninhabited farmhouse courtyard, Jiang Ning slowly opened his eyes, bright and shining even in the night.
“They’ve shown a flaw!” he chuckled.
A ghostly blue apparition rose from above his head, leaped into the air, and the ethereal figure penetrated through the rooftop, hovering above it.
The Yin God out-of-body can travel thousands of miles at night, invisible to mortals, making it the best tracking thod.
Soon after.
Black-clad figures leaped over the courtyard walls of both the Mu and Xu Families, blending into the shadows of the streets and alleys as they moved to their agreed rendezvous point.
In the bright moonlight, shadows under the eaves seed even deeper and denser, like pools of ink that couldn’t dissolve.
Two martial artists dressed in black, their heads covered with black cloths, lded into the shadows like fish into water, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
But under the gaze of Jiang Ning’s Yin God.
The internal fires within the powerful martial artists burned like blazing flas.
No matter how they hid, those flas were extrely obvious.
He floated high in the sky.
In the cool moonlight, the Yin God felt like it was bathing in a hot spring, unusually comfortable.
“I need to bask in the moonlight more often!” Jiang Ning thought.
The Yin God drifted, like the unseen evening breeze, advancing forward.
In a blink.
Outside the North City Gate.
Two black shadows walked out from the shadow behind the city wall.
The two glanced at each other, seemingly recognizing each other’s identity, then pulled down their face masks and nodded slightly to each other.
The Xu and Mu Families, sharing the sa spirit.
As top strongn of their respective clans.
Naturally acquainted and familiar with each other.
Then, they nodded, understanding each other without words, and together headed towards the majestic Stone Mountain ahead.
Stone Mountain, towering in the north of Shishan County, was a massive mountain body.
Standing anywhere in the city, you could see the towering Stone Mountain through the rooftops, its height reaching into the sky like a collapsing giant mountain.
From this alone, one could see how enormous Stone Mountain was.
The mountain was barren, without trees or greenery, nor was it traversed by winding rivers.
Only limitless and inexhaustible massive rocks.
“They must be hidden in Stone Mountain!” Jiang Ning’s Yin God floated above the city wall, speaking silently to himself.
During the day, he and Bai Luoyu discussed the possibility that the Xu and Mu Families had hidden the previously hoarded grain in Stone Mountain.
These days, the Xu and Mu Families have been bargaining with Bai Luoyu using this as leverage.
Negotiating a satisfying condition that would persuade the Xu and Mu Families to transport the grain to Shishan County for sale to alleviate the current crisis in Shishan County.
Bai Luoyu had also secretly dispatched people to search in Stone Mountain for several days.
However, Stone Mountain was so vast and towering that in several days, the personnel he secretly sent out had not found anything.
…
As ti passed.
Jiang Ning quietly followed above the two n.
As the two continued to delve deeper into Stone Mountain, winding upwards.
Until more than a period later.
The two arrived at a stone crevice, exchanging a glance.
One of them moved forward voluntarily, squeezing into the single-person-wide crevice.
The other followed closely behind.
Seeing this.
Jiang Ning expanded his divine sense, quickly delving into the crevice.
“Found it!!” His heart leapt with joy.
As the rocky crevice twisted deeper within.
His expanded divine sense quickly discovered a hidden grotto heaven.
Inside the grotto, several people sat in four corners, shaking dice and placing bets.
Behind them were piles of grain bags towering like mountains.
“So much?” Jiang Ning rely scanned casually, discovering hundreds of thousands of stone worth of grain.
Hundreds of thousands of stone of grain could feed hundreds of thousands of people for months.
If rationed carefully, it could last even longer.
Seeing this, he understood the madness of the Xu and Mu Families.
Hundreds of thousands of stone of grain and given their greed and Shishan County’s current condition.
Could be sold for millions of silver taels.
At the thought of this amount, Jiang Ning couldn’t help but pause, then shook his head.
In the face of his current resource consumption, millions of silver taels seed aningless.
In recent tis, the resources he’d consud, composed of various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, had long exceeded tens of millions of silver taels.
A severe divide had arisen between the two.
As if carving a chasm between high-grade martial arts experts and the mundane world.
“Xu and Mu Families, must kill them!!” He pondered for a mont, thinking to himself.
He realized that the tens of millions of silver taels he consud couldn’t compare to the hundreds of thousands of stone of grain before him.
Grain, in certain circumstances, equaled lives.
Life is priceless, and so is grain.
Just as in Shishan County’s current situation, even if he could produce tens of millions of silver taels, he couldn’t buy a hundred thousand stone of grain.
When gold and silver reach certain amounts, they beco rely numbers.
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