Chapter 103 Purple Cloud Jade

Yicui Tower, one of the top three pleasure quarters in the imperial capital, catered to the high-end market. It didn't have a large number of customers, but most of them were extremely wealthy.

Over a hundred guests were being personally searched by Tu Ling and the other fifty.

"Everyone, take out all your gold, silver, jewelry, and silver notes." Xu Jingming stood there, controlling the situation. His face under the human skin mask looked stiff and cold. "If anyone is found hiding treasure, they will be killed without mercy!"

Immediately, a flurry of activity erupted!

The guests, terrified, immediately took out the pouches from their bosoms and the valuable treasures they carried with them, holding them up in their hands.

"Yicui Tower's beauties, you must also remove the jewelry you're wearing! Anyone who dares to hide treasures will be killed as well." Xu Jingming's gaze swept across the famous courtesans and beautiful women. The women of Yicui Tower were also divided into ranks, numbering over three hundred.

Some of the top courtesans had very valuable jewelry.

Under Xu Jingming's threat, the famous courtesans of Yicui Tower all removed their jewelry, not daring to resist.

"This bandit leader speaks of killing without mercy! He shows no pity for the beauties of Yicui Tower." The Second Master of the Shen Gong family was quite displeased. What kind of person was he? He held a top-three position within the Shen Gong family, yet now he could only obediently hand over everything of value on his person.

"The Shen Gong family is indeed wealthy and generous." Xu Jingming praised, seeing the money and other items taken out by the Second Master of the Shen Gong family. "Master Shen Gong, rest assured, obediently hand over your money, and you won't be harmed in the slightest."

The Second Master of the Shen Gong family remained silent.

The Sect Master Yu next to him took out a stack of gold leaves and several blank silver notes, worth about three thousand taels of silver.

In places like brothels, silver notes had to be 'blank'! Those with written ciphers were difficult for the brothels to verify. Therefore, they only accepted cash and blank silver notes.

"Sect Master Yu, please bear with me for a moment," Xu Jingming said politely.

"You're welcome," Sect Master Yu nodded, his attitude quite friendly.

Xu Jingming naturally knew about the top figures in the imperial capital and knew about this Sect Master Yu.

The wealthy figures in the imperial capital naturally had extraordinary fortunes, but there was no need to carry too much gold and silver when visiting brothels! Carrying two or three thousand taels was already considered a lot.

Most of the customers at Yicui Tower carried only a few hundred taels of silver!

A very few who were short on cash only had twenty or thirty taels of silver.

"Here, here, and here!" Two eighth-order experts were leading a group of second-rate experts, searching Yicui Tower for gold, silver, and other treasures. Under the coverage of their mind power, they quickly searched out the locations of the treasures.

The gold and silver that Yicui Tower earned each day were also carefully stored! Not many people within Yicui Tower knew the locations.

But Xu Jingming and his group were searching with great efficiency.

…

Outside Yicui Tower, there was an atmosphere of panic and tension!

The guards and the servants of many guests were nervously watching Yicui Tower. Further away, many passersby were also watching.

"Something big has happened!"

"A group of ferocious people have stormed into Yicui Tower. Many of Yicui Tower's guards are dead, and the remaining guards don't dare to go in at all." The passersby watched from afar, chatting excitedly. Occupying and looting Yicui Tower was a rare event in the imperial capital.

"The guests inside Yicui Tower are all important figures! This matter has blown up. Look, the Blood Rain Guards are also rushing over."

The passersby discussed.

One after another, Blood Rain Guard experts rushed over from all directions and arrived outside Yicui Tower.

"What's going on inside?" the leading Blood Rain Guard captain shouted.

"Captain Wan," a guard leader from Yicui Tower came out and said anxiously, "There's a group of ferocious people inside. They've occupied the entire Yicui Tower. Nearly two hundred of our guards are dead, but none of those ferocious people have died. There are about a hundred of them, and judging from the fighting, they're all first-rate experts."

The Blood Rain Guards who had arrived found it hard to believe.

Captain Wan even pressed, "Are you sure? Every single one of them is a first-rate expert?"

"Yes," the Yicui Tower guard leader nodded to confirm. "I can confirm that they are all first-rate experts. So many of our people have died, but not a single one of them has died."

The first batch of Blood Rain Guards who arrived were shocked.

"Heavens, more than a hundred first-rate experts?"

"Even if our entire team came, or even the thousand Blood Rain Guards from our garrison, we wouldn't be confident. If we added a few thousand auxiliary guards, we might be able to win! But even if we win, the casualties would be terrible."

"Experts from the Eastern Prefecture headquarters need to come. Our garrison isn't suited for leading the attack."

These Blood Rain Guards didn't dare to go in at all.

The enemies were too terrifying. Going in was suicide!

Yicui Tower wasn't worth dying for.

"Release twelve signal arrows," Captain Wan immediately ordered. Immediately, Blood Rain Guards took out signal arrows.

"Whoosh—"

"Whoosh—"

"Whoosh—"

One after another, signal arrows rose into the air! Twelve signal arrows rose in succession! For a moment, patterns of blood rain appeared in the night sky. The twelve blood rain patterns were extremely conspicuous and represented the seriousness of the situation.

Many Blood Rain Guards who saw this from afar changed their expressions.

"The enemy is terrifying. We need experts from the Eastern Prefecture headquarters for support."

"We need experts from headquarters."

The Blood Rain Guards were rushing over from all directions, and the Eastern Prefecture headquarters, seeing the signal arrows, were also mobilizing experts to come.

The Blood Rain Guard's signal arrows also had strict rules. Twelve signal arrows! This represented that the level of danger exceeded the scope that a 'garrison' could handle and required support from experts from the headquarters of a prefecture.

"Let's just wait patiently. Going in is suicide." The Blood Rain Guards who arrived one after another were very confident, watching from the outside. Knowing that there were more than a hundred 'first-rate experts' inside, no one was willing to go in.

…

The Blood Rain Guard's signal arrows also attracted the attention of many forces in the imperial capital! Everyone knew that something big had happened in the direction of Yicui Tower.

"The heavens are guiding me, I should go there!"

An emaciated old monk wearing ragged clothes walked barefoot in a dilapidated alley. His feet were filthy.

The emaciated old monk raised his head and could vaguely see the dazzling and majestic Yicui Tower. At this moment, he walked step by step, his figure as if illusory, getting closer and closer to Yicui Tower. At the same time, an invisible mind power had spread over.

His mind power, like a dark tide, spread over two or three miles, completely enveloping Yicui Tower.

Within Yicui Tower, there were also three terrifying mind powers, the three eighth-order cosmic lifeforms that Xu Jingming had invited.

Mind powers clashed against each other!

The three mind powers resisted together, but only lasted for a moment before being completely defeated by the power of the dark tide.

"These three fellows have extraordinary minds. They should be brought into my Red Lotus lineage to strengthen my Red Lotus lineage." The emaciated old monk smiled as he walked step by step, less than a mile away from Yicui Tower.

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Inside Yicui Tower.

The two eighth-order lifeforms responsible for leading the search of Yicui Tower returned to Xu Jingming's side.

"A master is coming," the three eighth-order lifeforms said solemnly.

"This mind power…"

Xu Jingming could also feel the terrifying mind power that surged over like a black tide, easily engulfing him! He couldn't resist it at all, and everything he was was under the coverage of this mind power.

"His mind power is stronger than all three of us," one of them said.

"But don't worry, a strong mind power doesn't mean that he's stronger in actual combat. The three of us working together! Even if he's at the limit of our level, we can still fight him."

"After all, he's still at the same level as us, he hasn't truly broken through."

The three eighth-order cosmic lifeforms all spoke.

Xu Jingming felt the confidence of the three eighth-order lifeforms beside him. A clash of mind powers could quickly determine that the opponent was not a 'ninth-order source lifeform'! Therefore, the three eighth-order cosmic lifeforms dared to fight him.

"Proceed according to the plan, don't pay attention to him," Xu Jingming said.

This was also within Pang Ze's expectations.

Pang Ze had once told Xu Jingming: "The core of the Blood Rain World is gold and silver! Whether you become a high official or a rich merchant, the more gold and silver you have, the stronger the world will target you. The Blood Rain World will definitely not let us plunder too much gold and silver easily."

Pang Ze knew this and had set a plan to deal with it.

Xu Jingming sensed the terrifying mind power like a dark tide. "It seems that we've looted too much gold and silver in Yicui Tower, and the Blood Rain World has attracted a terrifying existence."

"If I wanted to seize some large treasures in the imperial capital, I might even attract Dean Ming to intervene."

"There are still quite a few monsters among the native experts of the Blood Rain World."

The 'Dean Ming', who was suspected to be a source lifeform, only dared to call himself the number one person in the imperial capital, not the number one person in the world!

The Black Lotus Sect, which had a long history, and the 'Red Lotus Sect' that had split off from the Black Lotus Sect, both had some terrifying figures.

"Yicui Tower has been searched pretty thoroughly," Liu Hai said to Xu Jingming. "We need to finish quickly and retreat immediately. The Blood Rain Guards have released twelve signal arrows!"

"Don't worry, it will take time for the Blood Rain Guards to arrive. Everything will proceed according to the original plan." Xu Jingming was very calm.

He knew the distribution of the Blood Rain Guards very well.

How long it would take, how many Blood Rain Guards and auxiliary guards could arrive, had all been prepared for.

"Are you still hiding a treasure?" Tu Ling pointed at a tall, thin young man. The second-rate experts beside him all drew their weapons. As long as Xu Jingming gave the order, they would attack.

The tall, thin young man blocked a jade pendant on his chest and shouted angrily, "I've given you all my gold, silver, and other valuables. This jade treasure cannot be given to you."

Xu Jingming looked over.

"Jade treasure?"

Xu Jingming glanced at it and saw that the jade treasure on the tall, thin young man's chest was glowing with a shocking purple light.

"Third Master," Xu Jingming stepped forward, staring at the jade treasure. "The jade treasure on your chest, could it be the Purple Cloud Jade of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion?"

The Purple Cloud Jade was a famous treasure in the imperial capital.

The tall, thin young man stared at Xu Jingming and said proudly, "Leader, since you know about the Purple Cloud Jade! You should know… that this is my Duke of Dingguo's family heirloom, given to me by my grandfather. I gave you the thousands of taels of silver that I had on me, take it. But if you dare to rob this Purple Cloud Jade, my Duke of Dingguo's mansion will never let you off!"

"The Purple Cloud Jade, a rare treasure, is said to have been bought by the first old duke for thirty thousand taels of silver and passed down through generations," Xu Jingming said with a smile. "Third Master, obediently hand it over. Otherwise, my blade will show no mercy."

Xu Jingming picked up a knife and placed it on the tall, thin young man's neck.

At this time, Tu Ling and the others continued to check every guest for hidden treasures. As for the collected gold, silver, and other treasures, they were immediately wrapped in cloth.

"Are you threatening me?" The tall, thin young man looked at the knife on his neck and sneered at Xu Jingming. "I am the Third Master of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion, with a title! This is also a family heirloom of the Duke's mansion! Leader, I'll give you a word of advice: too much greed will be the death of you."

"Pfft!"

The knife that Xu Jingming placed on the tall, thin young man's neck slashed across, and blood splattered!

The tall, thin young man immediately covered his neck, staring at Xu Jingming in disbelief. How dare you? How dare you attack me?

Xu Jingming grabbed the Purple Cloud Jade and pulled it down from the tall, thin young man's neck.

A jade treasure worth tens of thousands of taels!

Not to mention the Third Master of the Duke's mansion, even if it was a prince, he would act the same!

"You really did it?"

"This group of ferocious people, they killed the Third Master of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion just like that, and they even robbed his family heirloom? They really don't care about the Duke of Dingguo's revenge?" Many of the guests in Yicui Tower were dumbfounded.

"Still so naive." Sect Master Yu watched this scene, shaking his head secretly. "When others are the knife and you are the fish, when your life is in the hands of others, you should lower your head."

Xu Jingming held the Purple Cloud Jade, looking at the shocking light, and was very happy in his heart.

At least tens of thousands of taels of silver, that's hundreds of millions of cosmic dollars.

Just this jade treasure alone was a fortune!

What a great profit!

Xu Jingming glanced at the corpse of the Third Master of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion, who was covering his neck as he died, his eyes filled with disbelief! He was used to running rampant in the imperial capital, and all forces had to give face to the Duke of Dingguo's mansion.

But this time…

He was killed after saying just a few words.

"Threatening a player?" Xu Jingming muttered to himself.

"Master, everyone has been checked, no one is hiding treasures, and all the treasures have been collected." Tu Ling came to report, and Xu Jingming saw three large packages placed on the floor at a glance.

The Purple Cloud Jade and these three large packages were all the gains from this looting of Yicui Tower.