Chapter 200: I Won’t Be Polite, I Received Them All

Chapter 200: Chapter 200: I Won’t Be Polite, I Received Them All

"Are... are you already done on your end?" Mu Lingche stared blankly at Lu Yuan.

"All done, and it was fast! We didn’t even get a chance to exert much effort," Liu Zhi said quickly.

"Why haven’t you broken the formation yet?" Su Wan asked with a smile, her gaze mostly fixed on Chang Xiu.

Chang Xiu’s brows shot up. "We’re not in a hurry. We’re just playing around with the people inside. Do you think breaking the formation is difficult?"

"Heh," Su Wan sneered. If her cousin Mu Lingche hadn’t been leading the team, she would have had more to say.

"Is this the elite of the Demon Suppression Bureau? It’s been nearly half an hour, and you haven’t even breached the gates of the Cheng Family Castle. From what I can see, you’re nothing special," the Second Fortress Master of the Cheng Family Castle shouted from within.

"Haha! The Demon Suppression Bureau isn’t entirely made up of elites. They have their fair share of useless sacks of wine and rice who are just making up the numbers.

"It’s completely normal, Second Brother. Don’t be too surprised," the Great Fortress Master laughed loudly.

"There were six pieces of trash originally, and now five more have arrived.

"Do they really think a mere ten people can break our Cheng Family Castle’s grand formation? They’re living in a fantasy!

"First Brother, Second Brother, since they’re so useless, why don’t we just charge out and kill them all?" the Third Fortress Master suggested, his tone even more arrogant.

"No, Third Brother!" the Great Fortress Master quickly stopped him. "We rely on the power of the formation. If we go out, casualties will be inevitable.

"We’ll use the formation to wear them down and see who outlasts who.

"Once they are completely exhausted, we will..."

"Brilliant, First Brother!"

"Makes perfect sense!"

The Second Fortress Master and Third Fortress Master praised him, thoroughly convinced.

"Did you hear that?" Lu Yuan leaped down from his horse. "Let’s break the formation together."

"Alright!" Mu Lingche gritted his teeth. This was simply the greatest insult to him. He needed to end this battle quickly!

With the two of them working together, breaking the formation would be much simpler.

Lu Yuan’s gaze swept over the barrier, and he quickly pinpointed its weakness. "I’ll attack there, and you strike over there."

"Understood," Mu Lingche nodded. He could see it clearly as well and immediately unleashed the power of his Flame Dragon Spear.

CRACK!

Lu Yuan activated his Wind Thunder Saber, causing a brilliant flash of lightning.

"It’s impossible for you to break the formation!" Inside, the Great Fortress Master began to grow nervous.

Fire and lightning were both devastatingly powerful offensive attributes. In truth, they knew how formidable Mu Lingche was and had only said those things earlier to provoke him. But now, they hurriedly scrambled to adjust the formation.

"Strike!" Lu Yuan shouted softly.

"Break!" Mu Lingche thrust his spear into the barrier.

The functioning formation suddenly stagnated. Right at that moment, Lu Yuan slashed down with his saber.

SWISH!

The formation was instantly cleaved apart.

"Kill!" Faced with the slightly dazed fortress masters and the numerous personnel inside, Lu Yuan waved his hand and charged straight at the Great Fortress Master.

"Thunder Flash!"

"You—"

SLASH!

The Great Fortress Master was split into two halves.

"Thunder Flash!" Lu Yuan eliminated the Third Fortress Master with another slash of his blade.

"You..." Mu Lingche, who had just engaged the Second Fortress Master and sent him flying with a thrust of his spear, gritted his teeth.

Damn it, he’s too fast! How could he kill like that? Left with no other choice, Mu Lingche unleashed his ultimate move. "Ten Thousand Flames Dragon Burial!"

"First Brother! Third Brother!" the Second Fortress Master’s mental defenses crumbled.

BOOM!

He was pierced through by Mu Lingche’s spear, and then his body exploded.

WHOOSH!

Lu Yuan dashed deeper into the castle. The Cheng Family had been rooted here for hundreds of years; the wealth and treasures they had plundered over time would definitely not be a small amount. Since he was here and had already intervened, he couldn’t return empty-handed.

The places where treasures would be hidden were nothing more than the bedrooms of the three fortress masters or the underground vault. Lu Yuan headed to the residences of the Great Fortress Master and the Second Fortress Master first. His path was completely unobstructed—anyone who stood in his way was casually dispatched. He also made sure to gather some information along the way.

With the enhancement of his Eagle Eye and Sound Dao prodigious talents, searching was effortless for Lu Yuan.

KNOCK KNOCK.

He tapped his knuckles against the walls. By listening to the echoes, he could determine the internal structures and even sense everything within a radius of several dozen meters.

CLICK.

He found a hidden compartment containing two boxes, one large and one small. Lu Yuan directly stored them into his Storage Ring before moving on to the next location.

After clearing out the belongings of the two fortress masters, Lu Yuan headed to the underground vaults. Surprisingly, the small Cheng Family Castle possessed two separate vaults. One was designated for gold, silver, and currency, while the other held various treasures.

Naturally, Lu Yuan went to the treasure vault first. Upon opening it, he wasn’t disappointed. He found a considerable amount of Treasure Materials used for forging Profound Weapons, as well as over a dozen stalks of Spirit Medicine that were two to three hundred years old. The most precious item of all was a five-hundred-year-old Red Essence Mushroom.

He then arrived at the Silver Vault and opened it. Even with Lu Yuan’s Seventh Grade Cultivation, his eyes couldn’t help but gleam at the sight. He took half of the wealth before walking out.

By the time he emerged, the battle outside had just concluded.

"Let’s go. We’re heading to the gathering point. It’s getting late," Lu Yuan called out to his team members, and they quickly departed.

There were horses available within the Cheng Family Castle, so transportation was not an issue for Mu Lingche and his team. Lu Yuan and his group left first. Then, Mu Lingche’s group of six began to wrap things up.

"All the treasures have been taken by Lu Yuan!" Jiang Hongjie returned after taking a lap around the castle’s interior, looking extremely angry. Although he came from a Fourth-Grade Noble Family, the resources he received were still limited. Mu Lingche and Chang Xiu might look down on the centuries of accumulation in the Cheng Family Castle, but he certainly didn’t.

"There’s nothing we can do about it. Who told him to be so strong and clear the enemies so quickly?" Golden Deer spread his hands helplessly. Lu Yuan’s strength was overwhelming, his speed was unmatched, and he even had a Storage Ring, making everything far too convenient. Even if they wanted to compete for the loot, they lacked the ability to do so.

"It was centuries of accumulation from the Cheng Family Castle!" Cao Zongfan clenched his fists tightly, his eyes flickering. He wasn’t particularly wealthy either; in fact, he might have been even poorer.

Seeing how the three of them reacted, Mu Lingche knew he had to collect something for his subordinates. So, he entered the vault and stored the remaining half of the gold and silver that Lu Yuan had left behind into his Storage Ring.

In reality, the monetary value might not have been much more than the Pills and silver notes they had looted from the martial artists’ bodies, but the physical precious metals looked far more spectacular and took up much more space. His Storage Magical Artifact, which was only about ten feet cubic in size, was nearly filled to the brim.

"Alright, let’s hurry up and head to the gathering point!" Mu Lingche waved his hand. The six of them quickly found horses, mounted up, and rode away.

When Lu Yuan and his team arrived at the gathering point, Han Li and the others were already there. Only his and Mu Lingche’s squads had been missing.

"Did you run into any trouble?" Qin Gang asked.

"There was a Sixth Grade Martial Artist from the Blood Evil Demon Sect in the Blood Bone Tomb," Lu Yuan replied.

"What?"

"The Blood Evil Demon Sect!"

"A Sixth Grade!"

Qin Gang, Han Li, and even Su Wan couldn’t help but be shocked.

The Blood Evil Demon Sect was one of the top ten sects of the Demon Dao. And a Sixth Grade...

Su Wan, Liu Zhi, and the others were especially bewildered. Lu Yuan had hardly spent any time inside before coming back out, and his clothes were perfectly intact. He didn’t look disheveled in the slightest.

It didn’t seem like he had been in a fierce battle with a Sixth Grade at all. Wait, did Lu Yuan actually kill that Sixth Grade Martial Artist?

"Where is that Demon Cultivator? Which direction did he go?" Qin Gang asked hurriedly.

"He’s dead," Lu Yuan answered.

"Dead?" Qin Gang’s voice suddenly pitched up an octave.

Han Li and the rest were at a complete loss for words. The way they looked at Lu Yuan was as if they were staring at a monster.

"Was he already injured and trying to heal?" Qin Gang guessed.

"It doesn’t matter. He’s dead anyway," Lu Yuan waved his hand dismissively. As long as the incident occurred and it was confirmed to be a Sixth Grade, someone would go and verify it later. All that mattered was that he would receive the military merits for it.

"You..." Qin Gang’s gaze grew complex. He wondered, "Was it just sheer luck, or did he use that Secret Technique again?"

Judging by his aura...