Chapter 6: with translation of chapter title

So the look of startled fear on his face vanished, replaced by a hearty smile.

"Oops! Sorry, really sorry!" he said, grabbing the back of his head and laughing, "I thought, brother, you were a monster—my mistake, my mistake!" He said this while stepping back.

At the same time, a hand reached behind his younger brother and gave a forceful tap using their private signal.

The younger brother understood instantly, his face also showing apologetic color, and he stepped back.

"Sorry, brother!" the man with a mole bowed toward Wang Wu, "As compensation, we'll give you this Demon‑Eradicating Stone, and also the silver in this box."

As he spoke, he pointed to the box before them, "Take as much silver as you can carry! But you must be quick, brother, since it's already late autumn and the days are getting shorter."

"Finish taking it early, and head back early. Otherwise, deep in this Wang Gu Lin, who knows how many Yao Mo Gui Gui still hide there."

"Oh?" Hearing that, Wang Wu also looked toward the indicated box, and his face broke into ecstatic joy.

Although he had already seen the box while they were digging, his ecstatic expression was genuine, after all it was his first time in this life seeing so much silver.

It wasn't the fake silver seen on TV; these were genuine, guaranteed, fifty‑tael each, massive silver ingots!

They weren't silver sycees but long silver ingots; he didn't know if they truly weighed fifty taels, but they were certainly big and long enough to be so.

Of course, that's just an estimate; the actual weight could be a bit less or more.

"Whoa! Good brother! Then I won't be polite!"

Wang Wu stared at the gleaming silver ingots, his face beaming with joy. After speaking, he jumped down from the pit edge and immediately tore his clothes onto a nearby white skeleton, intending to use it as a makeshift sack.

At that moment, seeing the man fully immersed in greed over the massive wealth before him, and after waiting a moment, no one else appeared nearby.

In an instant, the two men behind Wang Wu lost their friendly, apologetic looks, replaced by coldness and cruelty.

The two exchanged a glance, then drew daggers hidden behind them, and silently crept toward the man, arguably the most handsome they had ever seen, step by step.

No one knew where this man came from, but something about him felt off everywhere.

Daring to come alone into this Wang Gu Lin, he must have some skill.

But now, with his back to the Li brothers, unless he is a super‑skilled thief or a cultivator, he cannot escape their joint ambush.

The Li brothers, bandits roaming the areas around He Dong and He Xi Xian, are notorious on both counties' wanted lists, each with a bounty of fifty taels.

That equals the value of one ingot in this box.

Of course, the ingots in this box might not truly be fifty taels each; it's just Wang Wu's speculation.

Wang Wu naturally understood the two's petty calculations, but he didn't care, because their daggers couldn't pierce his protective external technique.

He was confident about that; two warriors with a bit of yang energy were no match for the three women he trained with.

The cultivation method he practiced, according to that person online, is the best entry‑level technique among the five metal elements.

This method belongs to the Supreme Heaven Vajra Sect, a top sect in that world.

Its beginner techniques include the internal skill 'Vajra Unbreakable Wheel Method', the protective external skill 'Ten Thousand Ages Golden Body', the sword style 'Sun Wheel Golden Blade', the fist style 'Moro Heavenly Demon Fist', and the palm style 'Moro Heavenly Demon Palm'.

The names sound impressive, but they are merely ninth‑rank, entry‑level techniques.

Of course, these methods can be cultivated to higher ranks, but unlocking them requires payment.

The techniques he currently enjoys are the free trial versions; without spending money, he can only reach full ninth‑rank, extraordinary entry. To continue further, he must pay.

This is Wang Wu's golden finger, the source of his confidence to venture into human towns.

At that moment, he sensed the two behind him drawing nearer, yet he gave no reaction, focusing solely on stuffing his silver.

Seeing the strange man before him, the two were now within arm's reach, still unmoved, which made the Li brothers' faces break into cruel smiles.

"Hehe, so greedy, today your life... will be left here."

The elder Li brother, his face marked with a mole, stared at Wang Wu, raising his dagger high; his internal qi surged, his arm muscles bulged, and the dagger became wrapped in an unknown aura.

Then he thrust down with full force.

"Puff"

"Thump"

Wang Wu heard the sound of flesh being pierced, yet felt nothing. This made him smugly proud of his protective technique's strength:

"Damn, that's so brutal? I can't even feel it?"

Only when a whiff of blood entered his nostrils did Wang Wu sense something was wrong.

In other words, he realized belatedly that after the flesh‑piercing sound came two heavy thuds.

He turned around and saw the two, each impaled by a massive clawed limb, already split apart and beginning to howl mournfully.

At that moment, Wang Wu looked up, then spotted Zhu San Niang leaning over him.

"San Niang?" Wang Wu called, looking at the familiar face.

"Wu Lang!" Zhu San Niang's two jade arms dropped, her face showing anxiety then relief, as she tried to grab Wang Wu.

But the next moment, as her two fingers touched Wang Wu, they recoiled like electricity, emitting a scream dozens of times more harrowing than the two men's.

"Ah———!!!!"

"San Niang!!" Wang Wu panicked, and at that moment he realized the stone was still under his foot.

Although at first the stone caused him great pain, now the discomfort had lessened considerably.

It was at least less painful, though his stomach still churned and twitched occasionally.

It was similar to the stomach ailment he had in his previous life, but milder—not the excruciating kind that feels life‑or‑death.

Wang Wu hurriedly picked up the Demon‑Eradicating Stone from under his foot, tossed it behind him, then in a few strides scrambled onto the bank, ran to Zhu San Niang who was ten meters back, and anxiously asked, "Are you okay, San Niang!!?"

"San Niang!!"

(End of chapter)