226: Chapter 214 226: Chapter 214 Jiang Family Head and their Elders always felt that the few people who ambushed them seemed very familiar, yet since the assailants did not make a sound, they only recognized the familiar Qi, unable to recall who they were.
When night passed, and it was dawn.
They came to the city gate outside the dense forest together, waiting for the gate to open.
While they waited, they sensed familiar Qi from around them, and Jiang Family Head and the Elders looked back tacitly.
Upon seeing Family Head Huang and another three Elders, the doubts that had been in their minds yesterday were resolved; the familiar feeling and the people before them now were the same, confirming that these were the ones who robbed them the previous day.
Jiang Family Head and the Elders really wanted to question Family Head Huang and his group.
If they were in Immortal Lord City, or at another time, they would undoubtedly have done so.
They were concerned, however, that this was not Immortal Lord City, nor was it their own turf.
They had come here with a more important task.
Robbery and ambush were enmities that could be avenged later, but they could not let them interfere with the bigger picture.
Jiang Family Head and the Elders exchanged glances, their intentions unified; they glared at Family Head Huang’s group, choosing neither to greet them nor to pay them any mind.
Family Head Huang and the Elders arrived under the city gate and, upon seeing Jiang Family Head and his entourage, they stiffened with the guilt of thieves.
Seeing their hateful glances, they guessed their flaws must have been discovered.
Family Head Huang messaged his Elders to be wary and on guard against their revenge.
Not until the city gate opened did Jiang Family Head and his group enter.
Family Head Huang’s group, who had been on alert, saw no sign of retaliation and began to think they were being overly cautious.
Since they had worn masks and used smoke bombs, they were sure there was no evidence to implicate them, chalking it up to their own overthinking.
Once the city gate was open, Family Head Huang’s group also entered Immortal Venerable City, not heading to the auction immediately, but rather to their own shop to gather information first.
Jiang Family Head’s group had become like startled birds, wary of the Huang Family’s people following them closely.
After entering the city, they neither hurried to their own shop nor to the Holy Pavilion right away.
Instead, they first entered the largest tavern in Immortal Venerable City, taking the opportunity to taste the local food and drinks.
Jiang Family Head and the Elders entered the tavern and sat by the window, where all walks of life converged, hoping to hear more news.
The three of them ordered the tavern’s famous breakfast dishes and, while savoring the food, listened to the chatter of the people around them.
“Hey, did you hear any unusual noises from the woods outside the city yesterday?”
“Yes, this morning I even had someone investigate.
The soldiers said that last night, some people tried to enter the city but couldn’t, and they might have gone into the woods.
The soldiers also mentioned seeing flames and the sound of weapons clashing in the woods at midnight.”
“When the city gate opened this morning, we mustered the courage to take a look in the woods too and found a tent destroyed by weapons, with remnants of weapons scattered on the ground.
These weapons are strange, not like anything we in the Cultivation World would use.”
“I think they resemble what terrorists used last time.”
“Damn, those terrorists escaped again.
We suffered a lot from the poisoning that time.”
“Just don’t know whether those people were killed by the terrorists or not?”
Jiang Family Head and the Elders listened to the discussions in the tavern, glancing at each other, realizing that the news they heard was irrelevant to them.
They secretly discussed splitting up for their tasks: Jiang Family Head decided to go to the Holy Pavilion, instructed the Great Elder to visit their own shop to gather intelligence.
He sent Elder Er to observe the auction site and dispatched Elder Sann to secretly monitor Family Head Huang and his group’s actions.
After Jiang Family Head had made arrangements, they had almost finished their meal, so he left the tavern first to head to the Holy Pavilion.
The other three Elders paid the server and also left the tavern to go about their separate tasks.
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While Jiang Tang was refining top-tier pills in the space, he discovered that Lai Jianlin and Luo Yaxuan were being pursued and sent out an avatar to save them both.
He had been in seclusion in his room, continuously cultivating Life Vitality Pills and Nourishing Soul Pills, both of which are currently the most practical pills for those in the Cultivation World.
With a demand far exceeding supply, wealth rolled into his pocket unhindered.
Jiang Tang now found making money so easy that his ambitions could no longer be confined to mere wealth accumulation; a person with money must also have power.
His current foundation allowed him to earn money, but this wasn’t his greatest strength; as a top-tier pill master, he couldn’t be used as a tool by others for pill cultivation.
Jiang Tang not only aspired to power but to expand and establish his own influence, the Saint Sect.
With money paving the way, he had the means to start his own force.
These ambitions would require formidable support, and while having this backing, he himself needed the strength not to be devoured by others.
While cultivating pills, when tired, he would retreat to the sun within the Primordial Treasure Spirit Field Space to cultivate.
He had long recognized the benefits of Golden Crystal; compared to the finest Spirit Stones in the Cultivation World, nothing matched the Golden Crystal — an experience he’d had firsthand.
Apart from him, surely no one else knew, and he would never sell Golden Crystals from his space; selling top-tier pills was to accumulate wealth and forge connections with other powerful figures.
Such treasures as Golden Crystals must be kept secret, for if others became aware, at any cost, they might kill him in pursuit of the loot.
The great war ten thousand years ago was exactly for the sake of seizing treasures, causing even the Heavenly Realm to collapse.