Chapter 1 Night

Night.

Outside the Yang manor, Xu Jingming took advantage of the darkness to quietly walk through the surrounding alleys, familiarizing himself with each one.

"There are few guards on the periphery of the Yang family, so reconnaissance is easy. But the inside of the manor is heavily guarded, so I can't get in. I can only purchase recorded videos of the inside of the Yang manor from the virtual world network," Xu Jingming thought.

That means more money to spend!

"Wailing, wailing—" Cries came from some of the surrounding residences in the alley.

Xu Jingming shook his head slightly.

In the past few days, he had heard many residents around him crying at night, most of whom were the 'pillars of their families' being forced to leave the imperial capital.

"In the eyes of the great families, these subordinates are just pawns to be sacrificed," Xu Jingming thought. He had seen many such things in the imperial capital these past few months, and he sighed inwardly before leaving.

In a residence next to Xu Jingming's.

"Don't cry," a man with a scar on his face comforted.

"Once you leave, it will be tens of thousands of miles away," the woman said, heartbroken. "The road is full of dangers, and life and death are unpredictable."

"I will definitely come back," the scarred man promised in a low voice. "I swear, even if I have to give up my life, I will definitely come back to see you and the children."

The woman looked up at the man, "I know that once you leave, I'm afraid our family will never see each other again in this life."

The scarred man was silent.

Although he had sworn, he knew how difficult it would be to escape.

"If I can't escape back within three months," the scarred man said in a low voice, "then just consider me dead! I've already asked Brother Wang Chong for help! If you encounter any trouble, you can ask him for help. He will definitely not refuse."

"Okay," the woman nodded.

The scarred man was silent again.

He felt very uncomfortable. He knew how difficult it would be for a woman to survive in the imperial capital with two children without the pillar of the family.

"Creak." The door suddenly opened, and a thin boy looked at his parents in the room and said, "Dad."

The scarred man was stunned, and immediately got up and walked to his son's side, touching his son's head with affection and reluctance.

"Dad, are you leaving tomorrow morning?" the boy looked at his father.

"I have to enter the Yang manor tomorrow morning, and I won't be able to come out again," the scarred man nodded. "Once I leave tomorrow morning, it may be a long time before Dad can come back. Da Wa, Dad is not here, you are the only man in the family, you must take care of your mother, take care of your sister."

"Okay," the boy nodded repeatedly.

"Go to bed early," the scarred man said. "Dad."

The boy looked at the scarred man, "I haven't learned the saber technique you taught me yet!"

The scarred man's body trembled, and his eyes turned slightly red.

"I want to protect Mom, protect my sister," the boy said, "I want to be as powerful as Dad."

"Okay, okay."

The scarred man walked directly out of the house.

Father and son were in the small courtyard outside the house.

"We only have this one night, you must remember it forcefully," the scarred man said, holding a shield in his left hand and a saber in his right hand. The boy also held a small shield and a short saber. "You must eradicate the burden in your heart about the Order Church and the God of Order, and don't think that resisting this matter is a sin."

"I…"

"This is not asking you to change your faith, but I think that God should also like believers with their own personality, otherwise, what is the difference between them and those puppets?"

"I understand."

"Okay, if it still itches, isn't there sand here? You can take off your pants and bury yourself in the sand when you sleep, which can relieve the itching."

"No, I can still bear it."

"It seems you still have an image burden."

At this time, Maas came over and reported: "Captain, the formation has been set up."

"Okay."

Kallen nodded and walked back to Aisly, who was eating paste. Aisly looked up at Kallen.

"Aisly, the formation over there is ready, now, choose your most sincere friend and fly to the pool to deliver the message."

"Okay, Captain!"

A large python was traveling through the desert, with most of its body under the sand, only the movement of the sand above could be seen.

Suddenly, a lion pounced out, raised its paw, and slammed it down on the sand dune below.

"Boom!"

Sand and soil splashed, and the python immediately raised its body, with its three snake heads standing up, spraying terrifying corrosive mucus at the lion.

The lion let out a low roar, and a black shield appeared in front of it, blocking all the mucus. Then, with a flash, it appeared behind the python and launched another sneak attack.

"Crack!"

The python twisted its body and disappeared from the spot, dodging the lion's attack.

Immediately afterwards, a cloud of dark clouds appeared above, with what looked like a python's figure darting around inside. Several black thunderbolts instantly fell, and the lion, locked onto by its aura, could not escape and endured three thunderbolts with its body.

This injury was nothing to it, but the touch of the thunderbolts on its body aroused the most trembling memories in the depths of its soul, and it immediately lost its previous arrogance, prostrating on the ground, shivering.

Seeing this, the python directly darted downwards, opened its snake mouth, and prepared to bite off the lion's neck in one fell swoop.

But at this moment, a halo appeared in front of the lion, and a hand reached out and gripped the air.

"Squeak!"

The python's huge body seemed to be directly grasped, and its body was imprisoned in mid-air.

The figure of an old woman appeared, looked up at the python, and smiled.

Seeing the python still struggling, the old woman waved her arm down, and the python was smashed down, splashing a cloud of sand.

The python opened its two snake heads, revealing two faces.

"Lord Sumir? Ah, it's actually Lord Sumir, praise the great God of Reincarnation!"

"Praise the God of Reincarnation!"

Sumir looked at them and said, "You are really hard to find."

"Is that so? Lord Sumir is actually looking for us, you should have said so earlier."

"Yes, if we knew Lord Sumir was summoning us, we would have come to respond to your call long ago." "Okay, let's all go have breakfast, I won't mistreat my own people," Yang Liao said. "Yes."

Everyone retreated.

Only a few close guards followed Yang Liao, and Yang Liao quickly returned to his residence. "Hmph."

Inside the house, Yang Liao sneered, "My third uncle even advised me to let my subordinates choose for themselves! Those who are willing to go with me should bring them, and those who are unwilling to go can be heavily rewarded to tempt them to go together. There is no need to force those who are really unwilling to go."

Hahaha… how stupid! Heavy rewards? Is he going to pay out of his own pocket?

"Killing one as a warning to a hundred, won't everyone obediently follow? According to the method my third uncle said, I estimate that I can only gather up to one hundred and fifty people. Now there are more than two hundred people, and only basic wages are required," Yang Liao thought of money and immediately walked to the bed, took out a belt from under the mattress.

The belt contained gold blocks.

"50 gold blocks! Each block is 10 taels inserted into the belt." Yang Liao looked at the gold, his eyes lit up, "I, the dignified Second Young Master Yang, have only accumulated this much money. A total of only fifty thousand taels of silver, I am really poor."

Yang Liao was lost in thought.

He thought of the scene when he went to the vault with his father.

"How much is that pile of gold? I'm afraid it's tens of thousands of taels of gold! That's millions of taels of silver!" Yang Liao's heart itched, "I wonder how much my team can get?"

The Yang family was preparing to send out teams to act separately and leave the imperial capital quietly. Each team would carry a portion of gold and silver.

"And my beauty, the journey will be lonely and unbearable, I have to bring her with me." Yang Liao thought, then tied the gold belt around his waist, and put on a jacket over it.

Since his money was exchanged for gold, Yang Liao had been very careful.

Inside the manor, he would not stay away from his courtyard for too long.

Once he went out! He would definitely carry it with him.

He was worried that someone would sneak into his residence and steal his money.

"Now I feel at ease." Yang Liao patted the gold belt, feeling satisfied, "No one can steal my gold."

After eating breakfast, Yang Liao left the Yang manor with his men and went to the residence of a beauty he kept outside the manor.

"Beauty."

Yang Liao came to the beauty's residence, and after meeting her, he first had some fun together before starting to talk about serious matters.

"I will be leaving the imperial capital with my men in a few days," Yang Liao said, "You will come with me too."

"Me?" The beauty lying in his arms was stunned, "Will the manor agree?"

"Don't worry, I have the final say in my team," Yang Liao said confidently.

"But all the way to Xue City in the Eastern Region…" the beauty hesitated, "It's too far."

Yang Liao touched the beauty and smiled, "Those are all public statements! In reality, the world is in chaos, how could our Yang family all go to Xue City in the Eastern Region? Xue City in the Eastern Region is tens of thousands of miles away from the imperial capital, it's too far away, how many people would die on the way?"

The beauty suddenly understood.

"And even if we go to Xue City, do you think the Yang family there will obediently listen to us?" Yang Liao sneered,

"Whether it is for the continuation of the Yang family, or to avoid internal strife, the goals of each team leaving from the imperial capital are not Xue City."

"Then where is it?" the beauty asked.

Yang Liao smiled slightly, "Even I don't know the exact location now. But I can tell you for sure,

It's in the Eastern Region! Because in today's world situation, only the order in the Eastern Region is still considered stable. It can still give each branch of our Yang family a chance to take root!"

"I'm bringing more than two hundred first-rate experts, including second-rate and third-rate experts. So many experts… are enough to completely establish a foundation in a city," Yang Liao said, "When the time comes, I, Yang Liao, will be the head of this branch! Everything I say goes! And you… I can promise you, be my third wife."

The beauty hesitated.

"The Yang family has strict rules, you have never been able to enter the manor before, but after arriving in the Eastern Region, I have the final say. You will naturally get your wish," Yang Liao raised the beauty's chin, "Don't be silly, hurry up and pack up and sneak into the manor with me, first stay in the manor as a maid, and then leave the imperial capital with me."

"Second Young Master," tears welled up in the beauty's eyes, "I was born and raised in the imperial capital, my brothers are all in the imperial capital, and… I'm also afraid to go to the Eastern Region!"

The imperial capital is in the Northern Region.

Therefore, to go to the Eastern Region, you must first pass through a large area of the Northern Region, and the danger level of this area is extremely high.

"You don't want to go?" Yang Liao looked at her.

"I hope the Second Young Master will look at the many years I have followed you," the beauty said with tears in her eyes.

"I can force those subordinates to follow me, but I can't force my bed partner," Yang Liao sighed,

His fingers moved like lightning, passing over the beauty's throat. The beauty covered her throat in disbelief, her face full of pain, and blood gurgled out from between her fingers.

She never expected that the Second Young Master Yang, who had always doted on her, would be so ruthless, and would kill her with just a few words.

Yang Liao got up, and glanced at the beauty on the bed who was dying in pain.

"If I can't get it," Yang Liao said softly, "Then I'll destroy it."

Yang Liao put on his clothes and walked out.

Outside this secluded courtyard.

"Young Master." There were servants and guards outside.

"Return to the manor."

Yang Liao frowned slightly, feeling disappointed. He got into the carriage.

The coachman drove the carriage, and the guards escorted it forward.

In the distance, Xu Jingming was sitting on a branch of a large tree. Under the dense leaves, it was really difficult for outsiders to notice a person hidden high in the tree. "Here it comes."

Xu Jingming remotely noticed a team of guards escorting a carriage, heading in this direction.

The carriage team turned left and right, gradually entering a quiet alley.

"It's troublesome to act during the day, you have to avoid people a little." Xu Jingming jumped down lightly, his figure as light as a cat, and walked to the three eighth-order experts drinking tea at a teahouse on the side, "We can start."

The three eighth-order experts nodded and got up.

The smaller the commotion, the better, when acting during the day!

Xu Jingming only took three eighth-order experts to act together.

"Second Young Master Yang is the second son of the Yang family head, he is very favored, and he is also the leader of one of the many teams in this operation. With his identity… he must know many secrets of the Yang family, and may even know where the gold and silver are hidden."

Xu Jingming thought.

The Yang manor has too much investigating power, and there are hidden traps inside the manor. If his team rushed in, it would be sending them to their deaths.

Second Young Master Yang was a breakthrough that Xu Jingming was looking for.

Xu Jingming took the three eighth-order experts and walked into the quiet alley.

In the quiet alley.

A group of guards protected the carriage forward!

Suddenly, four people appeared in front, Xu Jingming and the three eighth-order experts came together, the four people were scattered, enough to block the alley.

"Get out of the way!"

Someone from the Yang family guards shouted remotely.

Xu Jingming and the other four did not give way, but continued to walk forward step by step.

"Hmm?" These guards felt something was wrong.

"Young Master." Someone reminded in a low voice.

Yang Liao in the carriage was still regretting the death of the beauty, he looked down at his fingers, "I can't help it, I can't sleep peacefully with a resentful bed partner. Don't blame me."

Yang Liao heard the sound outside, lifted the car curtain, and saw the four people walking in the distance.

Boom—Xu Jingming and the other four walked over, and suddenly the surrounding world seemed to be distorted, and the terrifying mental consciousness impacted the brains of every guard, and also impacted Yang Liao's brain, causing Yang Liao's face to be painfully twisted.

The nine guards around Yang Liao, one first-rate expert and eight second-rate experts, were already very elite.

But under the terrifying mental impact…

Only the first-rate expert could still control his body, but he didn't dare to move at all, "How terrifying!"

"This?" Under the impact, Yang Liao felt that the world was distorted, and the four people in front of him were like four demon gods,

The four walked to the front of the carriage.

Xu Jingming reached out and grabbed Yang Liao's neck, slightly exerted force, Yang Liao's spine shook, and the whole person fell into paralysis.

"Go."

Xu Jingming grabbed Yang Liao like a chicken, and the three eighth-order experts behind him followed.

"You stay here for the time it takes to burn an incense stick." Xu Jingming's voice echoed around every guard and servant,

"Anyone who dares to move without authorization will die!"

After saying that.

Xu Jingming and the others left with Yang Liao.

These guards and servants were all in place, not daring to move a step, they felt the terrifying mental power was still shrouded in them, not far away.