Chapter 44 - 43: Arrival at Mount Hua (18)

It took a few hours to prepare a separate contract for every single bandit. Seeing the contract, the bandits felt very uncomfortable. Wolryung was a devil after all. Hadn’t they witnessed it with their own eyes already? And after knowing his personality, working for him with a contract of free labor... There was no way they could like it or feel comfortable about it. However they had no say in it. If they didn’t sign the contract, this bastard would definitely beat them to death. And they didn’t want that.

When the contract was brought in front of them... Most of the bandits couldn’t even tell what was written into it which made them even more uncomfortable. It’s not like they learned how to read, they were bandits after all. But, to make their hearts a bit easier, they looked toward the bandits who could read. However, when they saw the faces of those educated bandits going pale while reading the contract made their hearts skip a beat.

‘Is this really ok?’

Should they really sign it cause they want to live? Should they just die? It looked like it might be a good idea to die rather than going under contract with this devil in front of them.

Nevertheless, they didn’t have the courage to do that. No matter what hardship one went through in their life, it was best to crawl through the living world rather than rotting in the underworld (afterlife), right?

Making up their mind, the bandits who were quite educated signed the contract. While the uneducated one gave thumbprints. Thus, that’s how the negotiation with the fake green mountain bandits ended and Wolryung’s party was preparing to move forward again with more new members along with their previous ones. The bandits and that bastard from the Mount Hua Sect, Baek Musan. Wolryung really didn’t like Baek Musan in the slightest. But since they were going to the Mount Hua Sect, he couldn’t just refuse to take him. After all, the exchange tournament with the Southern Edge Sword Sect wasn’t that far off. And this bastard’s absence there meant a huge one sided defeat.

‘Now I understand why the Mount Hua Sect faced a huge one-sided defeat like that?’

It was because this bastard wasn’t present there at the time of the exchange tournament.

“...”

It was taking some time to prepare for their departure. So, Wolryung with a small pouch on his hand moved to a quiet place alone. He didn’t even bring Ma Jin Ho with him, who he usually goes with everywhere.

The place looked like your average quiet place you see in a mountain. A muddy place with several trees lined up around, small and colossal in size. Since it was already noon, the sun was on top of Wolryung’s head. However, the colossal trees barely allowed a few rays of light to filter through.

“Hmm...”

Wolryung took out the small pouch and inspected it carefully for a moment. No matter how he looked at it, it looked totally normal to him except for the plum blossom scent coming from it. It made Wolryung even more curious to open the pouch. However, this was the pouch that Western Sichuan Alliance Branch leader gave him saying it was the treasure of the Mount Hua Sect. So, he couldn’t just open it casually. But, on the other hand he also couldn’t resist his curiosity.

“Argh... Whatever. Let’s just open it.”

With that, Wolryung began to open the pouch slowly. As he opened it, the object inside the pouch began to reveal itself slowly and the scent of the plum blossom coming from it grew even stronger which made Wolryung’s curiosity grow higher. And for some reason, he was having a good feeling about this.

“Hehehehe...”

The corners of his lips stretched from ear to ear.

“Kekekeke... I like treasures.”

Please behave yourself a bit, Wolryung.

“Hehe... Giving treasures to Mount Hua? That sect is already doomed. What will they do with some treasures? They have no use for it. I’ll make sure to put it into good use. Thank you for the gift, branch leader.”

With that vicious grin of his, he was now spouting nonsense as he wanted. Didn’t he already promise to deliver it well to the Mount Hua Sect? A man should keep their words at least.

‘What man? If that’s how men are supposed to be then I’m not a man.’

...

This greedy bastard is truly hopeless. Well, do whatever you want.

“Hehehe...”

Wolryung just couldn’t resist his happiness. It was like he...

“...Huh?”

However, when he saw the treasure inside, Wolryung’s face contorted.

“What the f*ck is this? You call it a treasure?”

Inside the pouch there was a crystal stone with a plum blossom flower inside it.

“Why the hell is my luck so bad?!”

Wolryung’s thunderous scream echoed through the quiet mountain, making some birds fly away.

Chirp... chirp... chirp...