Chapter 991: Each with Their Gains

While the several Five Punishments Guards were still searching around, Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng, both Primordial Spirit True Monarchs, also began to search for valuable spoils of war.

As Primordial Spirit True Monarchs, they naturally didn't need to search inch by inch like ordinary cultivators. They released their own vast Divine Sense, covering both the surface and the underground. No matter how hidden the corners were, they couldn't escape their detection.

The Blood War Hall had stood in the Crossing Severing Mountain Range for many years and still had reserves and heritage.

Especially during the invasion by the Dali Dynasty's army back then, as the instigator behind the scenes, the Blood War Hall had also plundered extensively. It had thoroughly looted a pile of defeated opponents, gaining substantial rewards.

There were several treasure repositories within the sect, aside from the publicly known main treasury. There were also numerous hidden secret repositories.

The true treasures of the Blood War Hall were hidden within these secret repositories, and they were the primary targets for both Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng.

These repositories were concealed extremely well, with formations aiding in their secrecy.

The Five Punishments Guards would need a considerable amount of time and effort to uncover them all.

The two Primordial Spirit True Monarchs had some experience in treasure hunting.

Sun Sheng quickly found a secret repository and took the opportunity when the Five Punishments Guards weren't paying attention to plunder it discreetly.

Meng Zhang's innate Divine Ability, the Deception Breaking Eye, was particularly adept at uncovering various secrets, and his Divine Sense was extraordinarily sharp.

He didn't compete with Sun Sheng for the spoils because he had spotted an even better target.

Casually strolling through the valley, he unconsciously arrived at a secluded corner.

With a gentle reach of his hand, he pulled out two items from the seemingly empty space in front of him.

Without closely examining them, Meng Zhang directly stored them in his mustard seed space.

This was a hidden spatial layer, used by the Blood War Hall's Elder, the Blood Battle True Monarch, to conceal two treasures.

Relying on the Deception Breaking Eye, Meng Zhang saw through the hidden location and took the treasures stored inside before subsequently destroying the spatial layer.

When Meng Zhang previously attacked this valley, he employed a large-scale, destructive Divine Ability that launched an indiscriminate attack on the entire valley.

Sun Sheng later went even further, causing widespread destruction within the valley.

For spatial layers like these, affected by Primordial Spirit-level power, completely collapsing under such conditions was entirely normal.Even more importantly, from Meng Zhang's limited interaction with Han Yao, it seemed that this person was flexible and adaptable in his dealings. Even if he knew that Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng had taken some spoils of war, he probably wouldn't lay too much blame.

Of course, both of them were currently serving the Five Punishments Guards, so theoretically, all the captured spoils of war should belong to the guards.

Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng weren't greedy either. They had each taken a few treasures for themselves and hadn't completely emptied all the secret repositories.

By the time Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng had their gains, the several Five Punishments Guards had roughly cleared out the Blood War Hall's main treasury.

The treasury within the Blood War Hall was incredibly rich in various resources. Aside from the cultivation materials for the disciples, there was also a batch of items stored separately.

This batch of items included pills, talismans, and magic tools that had been tampered with by Demonic Cultivators.

This time, the evidence of Blood War Hall's collusion with Demonic Cultivation was thoroughly confirmed.

Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng both understood the principle of stopping at an appropriate point. After obtaining their gains, they didn't take further action. Instead, they helped the Five Punishments Guards tally the confiscated items and search for more evidence.

Less than a day after Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng captured the Blood War Hall's gate and stronghold, Han Yao personally led a large group of Five Punishments Guards to arrive.

Han Yao personally interrogated the captured Blood Battle True Monarch by Meng Zhang, while the numerous Five Punishments Guards meticulously searched the Blood War Hall's gate.

Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng tactfully refrained from inquiring about Han Yao's interrogation process and instead moved aside.

After nearly half a day, Han Yao finally concluded the interrogation.

While Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng led a group of Five Punishments Guards through a thousand miles of hardships to capture the mansion and the Blood War Hall's gate, Han Yao was equally busy.

Han Yao worked even harder than them, facing stronger adversaries.

From Han Yao's expression, he didn't seem entirely satisfied with the results of the interrogation.

The Five Punishments Guards found quite a bit of evidence of Blood War Hall's involvement with Demonic Cultivation within this valley, but Han Yao didn't seem to care much.

As for the various cultivation resources here, they were all collected by the Five Punishments Guards.

Han Yao supported such a powerful force as the Five Punishments Guards, not only with the cultivation resources provided by the Dali Dynasty but also with the confiscations from their cases, a bit of external help, which was indispensable.

Han Yao treated this gate of the Blood War Hall as a temporary base of operations for the Five Punishments Guards in the Crossing Severing Mountain Range.

The strongest members of the Five Punishments Guards mobilized this time were only at the Gold Core stage. Without Han Yao leading them, they wouldn't be considered very powerful.

The Five Punishments Guards did have Primordial Spirit True Monarchs, but they were all left in the Dali Dynasty to handle other matters.

Meng Zhang and Sun Sheng had no other place to go, so they remained at the gate of the Blood War Hall.Not long after, someone specifically delivered the Five Punishments Guards' waist tokens to Meng Zhang.

Aside from proving Meng Zhang's identity, the tokens had other uses as well.

Within a certain range, those who possessed the waist tokens of the Five Punishments Guards could communicate with each other and perform other functions.

Meng Zhang was a mid-level Primordial Spirit cultivator and a lord of a sect. Joining the Five Punishments Guards as an honorary member, he held a high-ranking status within that category.

Apart from receiving a generous salary within the Five Punishments Guards, he had finally become a part of the official system of the Dali Dynasty, possessing a legitimate official identity.

Strictly speaking, in the past, as the Sect Master of Taiyi Sect, Meng Zhang could only be considered a commoner under the rule of the Dali Dynasty, at most a local affluent figure.

Now, many people addressed him as Lord Meng.

In the past, obtaining such an identity would have been something Meng Zhang eagerly desired. However, upon learning of the formidable Demonic Cultivation forces within the Dali Dynasty and considering the Five Punishments Guards' role as adversaries to Demonic Cultivation due to Han Yao's connection, Meng Zhang began to feel somewhat uneasy.

But there was no way around it. Since he had already boarded the ship, he couldn't disembark immediately; he could only take things one step at a time.

Fortunately, as an honorary member of the Five Punishments Guards, he enjoyed the benefits that this status brought while not having to shoulder too many obligations.

On ordinary days, he didn't need to report to the Five Punishments Guards' office or take shifts.

He only needed to follow Han Yao's arrangements and coordinate with the actions of the Five Punishments Guards.

According to Han Yao, after completing this current task, he could return to Jiuqu Province.

They would only contact him when there was a new assignment.

In his daily role, he acted as the eyes and ears of the Five Punishments Guards, closely monitoring various activities on the surface of Jiuqu Province, especially those related to Demonic Cultivation.

If any Demonic Cultivation activities occurred in Jiuqu Province, he had to actively engage and suppress them.

Meng Zhang was more than willing to shoulder these slight obligations.

In fact, given his personal disgust for Demonic Cultivation, he was also eager to eradicate it.

Unless the background of the Demonic Cultivation force was exceptionally powerful, he would close one eye only if its strength was overwhelming.

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