Chapter 342 - 165: "This is a reckless waste.

Chapter 342: Chapter 165: "This is a reckless waste.

"Let’s go!"

The middle-aged man grinned. After stretching for a moment, he prepared to get back on the carriage and head into the city to find some fun.

He might have been meek and subservient in front of the Pavilion Master,

but once he was away from Riyue Square,

he was the top dog.

Just then—

"Sirs, are you from the Guanxi Plain?"

A somewhat aged voice suddenly sounded beside him. He saw an old man with a basket of firewood on his back, standing beside them and speaking in a shaky voice.

"..."

The middle-aged man pulled his gaze away from Fuyao City, which stood not far ahead. He looked the old man up and down, frowning slightly. "What do you want?"

’Is our aristocratic bearing that obvious?’

’We already hid our faction’s Banner, yet he still recognized us as being from the Guanxi Plain at a single glance.’

’Sigh.’

’It can’t be helped. We’re just oozing nobility.’

"I wouldn’t dare."

The old man shook his head. He pointed to their surroundings and then to the red line on the plain. "Sirs, haven’t you noticed that no other carriages are parked on this line?"

"You can’t park on this line."

"Oh?"

Only then did the middle-aged man notice their carriage was parked right on top of a long, scarlet line. As far as the eye could see, the line stretched straight into Fuyao City ahead, while the other end extended far into the plain. He was so furious he had to laugh.

"Interesting. And who made this rule? Do tell."

’How tyrannical.’

’Claiming territory just by drawing a line?’

’Even our Riyue Square in the Guanxi Plain wouldn’t dare to be this overbearing. I’d love to see which faction is so tyrannical. This is arrogance without limits.’

"A rule set by the Jiangbei Mortal Realm."

The old man, who had just been gathering firewood, glanced behind them and said shakily, "You’d better leave. The High-speed Rail will be here soon, and you could get hurt."

"How interesting. Truly interesting."

The middle-aged man burst out laughing. "A power from Jiangbei is laying down the law here in your Jiangnan, and not a single one of you resists? What a bunch of pushovers."

"Well, I’m not moving an inch today."

"I’m staying right here on this line."

"Let’s see what that Jiangbei Mortal Realm can do to me!"

However,

the old man said nothing. He just quickened his pace, scurrying to the side with small, shuffling steps.

"Why so quiet now?"

The middle-aged man watched the old man’s retreating back, clicking his tongue in annoyance. He then frowned as he saw the surrounding crowd also scattering away. "What are you all..."

Just then,

he faintly heard a sound rise up from behind him.

It sounded like the air itself was being pierced.

He instinctively glanced back.

He saw a long, dragon-like shape speeding toward them from the depths of the plain. It was heading straight for him—or more precisely, straight for his carriage.

At the sight of this,

the man’s expression changed in an instant. Spiritual Qi immediately flared from under his feet as he shot sideways to dodge. At the same time, his subordinates inside the carriage used their own various skills to escape in a flash.

"CRASH!"

A tremendous crash echoed.

The dragon-like object slammed into their carriage without the slightest decrease in speed. In a flash, it obliterated the carriage, then passed through the shower of splinters practically unscathed, continuing straight toward Fuyao City until it vanished from sight.

"..."

By the time the man processed what had happened,

their carriage was nothing but a pile of splinters.

No one was injured,

but they looked utterly pathetic, and the stares from the surrounding crowd felt like they were mocking him.

The man stood frozen for a long moment, a cold sweat breaking out on his back. He finally roared in fury, "That... that... that... what the fuck was that thing?!"

He didn’t even know how to describe that thing.

It was incredibly fast.

’If that thing had hit me, I would’ve been killed for sure, even as a Cultivator!’

No one around him answered. Instead, they all looked at him with looks of admiration. In all this time, he was the first person they had ever seen who actually dared to block the Mortal Realm High-speed Rail line.

Just then!

Suddenly, two people wearing the uniform of a faction emerged from the city and walked up to him.

"Name."

"Hu Zi," the man answered instinctively.

"Faction."

"Guanxi Ri—" The man caught himself, his expression turning ugly as he faced the two. "Who the fuck are you? What goddamn business is it of yours what faction I’m from!"

’Why does it feel like nothing has gone right since I came to Jiangnan?’

’And where the fuck did these two pop out from?’

He noticed an insignia on their cuffs—the character for "Mortal."

’Wait a minute...’

’The Mortal Realm?’

"..."

One of the Mortal Realm Members frowned slightly at his words; it had been a long time since anyone had spoken to him that way. He pointed to the debris of the carriage. "Did our Mortal Realm High-speed Rail not just collide with your carriage?"

"You’re from the Mortal Realm?"

Hu Zi suddenly understood, and he felt a great sense of relief. It seemed this Mortal Realm was honorable in its dealings—destroying his carriage and immediately showing up to compensate him.

’So that thing was called a High-speed Rail.’

’How peculiar.’

’These two must be Mortal Realm Members. How odd. They’re a Jiangbei power, so what are their members doing in the southernmost city of Jiangnan? And they don’t look like they’re just passing through, either. It seems like they’re stationed here.’

’Can a Jiangbei power really have such a long reach?’

"Ahem."

Hu Zi cleared his throat. "Alright, how about this? Two of our carriages were destroyed. Give us thirty thousand Ghost Stones, and we’ll call it even. What do you say?"

’The carriages belong to the faction anyway; I can just report them as a loss when I get back.’

’Once I get my hands on these thirty thousand Ghost Stones, I can split them with my men. A little bonus for us.’

"That’s not enough."

The Mortal Realm member shook his head.