Chapter 282: No Need for Treasures

When mentioning the dry-rice person and dry-rice fairy, the youth's eyes lit up, and he chatted on and on to Ye Zhangqing.

In the youth's words, the so-called dry-rice person and dry-rice fairy are practically legendary beings.

Playing with the Heihu Yaowang in the palm of one's hand is the object of admiration for all the bandits of the bandit forest.

After hearing the youth's description, Ye Zhangqing nodded dumbly.

"This is so amazing......"

"That's natural; we gathered here because of the dry-rice person and dry-rice fairy. Who says there are no heroes in our bandit forest? The Stealing Sage and Stealing God seniors are the heroes of our bandit forest."

Just as they were speaking, a loud shout suddenly came from ahead.

"Brothers, no more talk, follow me into Huling and loot the Demon King's treasury."

The leaders shouted, and in an instant, the crowd of bandit forest people surged toward Huling like a dark mass.

The youth also said something to Ye Zhangqing, then quickly followed the main group away.

"Brother, I can tell at a glance you're one of our bandit forest folks—keep it up; someday we'll become legends like the Stealing Sage and Stealing God seniors."

Watching the youth's retreating back, Ye Zhangqing was dumbfounded.

"How the hell did you see I'm a bandit forest person? I'm a disciple of the Dao Yi Sect, the leader of the orthodox path, the number one sect of Dongzhou—what do you think?"

The corners of their mouths twitched, and Xu Jie and the others beside him burst out laughing.

"Haha, Junior Brother Zhangqing, Senior Brother also has high hopes for you."

"Indeed, Junior Brother Zhangqing might actually become the chief of the bandit forest."

"The chief of the bandit forest? That's basically a regional bandit king, right?"

"Get lost."

Facing their teasing, Ye Zhangqing retorted unhappily: "Don't look at me still being a Menial Disciple in name; in reality, my relationship with Xu Jie and the other Inner Disciples is already as good as it can be."

Their manner of speaking to each other is quite unrestrained, and nobody takes the jokes to heart.

After the joking, Zhao Zhengping asked curiously.

"Speaking of, who exactly are the dry-rice person and dry-rice fairy? Being able to steal the Demon King's treasury, they must have something."

"Who knows?"

"Right, let's go along with them."

At this moment, Xu Jie suddenly spoke up; hearing this, everyone turned their heads, looking puzzled.

"What are we going to do? Do you also want to loot the Demon King's treasury?"

"What's the point of that? Let's go catch some ingredients—perfect chance to fish in troubled waters."

The bandit forest wants to follow the footsteps of the Stealing Sage and Stealing God, looting the Demon King's treasury; for this, Xu Jie and the others are naturally not interested.

But, taking this opportunity to capture some ingredients, the crowd's interest would be great.

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up immediately, and they nodded in agreement without hesitation.

"This idea is great."

"The bandit forest folks loot the treasury; we'll just capture some ingredients—sure, sure."

"Really going?"

Seeing everyone enthusiastic, including the Myriad Phenomena of Longxiang Peak and so on, Ye Zhangqing was speechless.

"Junior Brother Zhangqing, rest assured, we'll just wander the outskirts; we won't go deep in."

Xu Jie put an arm around Ye Zhangqing's shoulder and said confidently.

Those bandit forest people say they want to loot the Demon King's treasury, but that's just talk.

With their strength, at most they can steal some ordinary demon beasts; circling the outskirts is all they can do.

If they really went to loot the Demon King's treasury, it would be a one-way trip; do they really think everyone is the dry-rice person and dry-rice fairy?

So Xu Jie's idea is simple: follow behind them, you loot the treasury, we gather ingredients, and we don't interfere with each other.

Not giving Ye Zhangqing a chance to refuse, the group eagerly followed closely behind and likewise entered Huling.

This place is already adjacent to Huling, so it was easy for everyone to enter Huling.

Huling is vast; taking the Yanfeng Kingdom as an example, it's at least equivalent to over a hundred Yanfeng Kingdoms.

In the deep mountains and dense forests, moving through them, Xu Jie truly had no intention of going deep, as he said; he was just strolling the outskirts.

Xu San wouldn't do something suicidal; just messing around the outskirts is fine—don't provoke the Demon King recklessly, after all he's not the Shīzūn and hasn't that strength yet.

Not long after walking, suddenly a loud shout came from ahead.

"Little thief, you're courting death."

This obviously means those bandit forest people have made a move, looting a treasure from some demon beast.

Just as Xu Jie guessed, these guys never intended to provoke the Demon King; it's just a slogan they shout, and in reality they only plan to operate in the outskirts.

Hearing this sound, Xu Jie hurriedly told everyone.

"Everyone, hide."

Upon hearing, everyone rushed into the grass, hid in the dark, and fixed their gazes on the direction the sound came from.

Not long after, a black wolf demon indeed chased after three bandit forest heroes at high speed.

The three fled desperately, with the black wolf demon closely pursuing without letting up.

"I told you to be careful earlier."

"Who knew this beast would suddenly wake up?"

"Didn't I tell you to use a bewitching drug?"

"I did use it."

"Then why didn't it work?"

"I don't know."

Where did you buy this confusing drug?

I bought it from Zhang Shenyi.

Zhang Shenyi? That wandering doctor?

Yeah.

You fucking idiot, that's a liar.

No way.

Fuck, you're gonna get us killed.

Little thief, don't run!

The confusing drug had no effect; seeing the black wolf demon closing in behind them, all three grew grim.

I told you to buy the confusing drug, and you went to find a wandering doctor?

What's an itinerant doctor? He's just a swindler who moves from place to place; when buying medicine, can't you just go to a shop?

Huichun Hall, Qingmu Hall, Cishan Hall—these all sell medicine; why must you go find an itinerant doctor?

The black wolf demon behind them had already caught up; its terrifying, brutal aura made all three's hearts sink.

Now we're really done for.

They were running for their lives, but there was clearly a gap in speed; just as the three thought they'd be caught and unable to escape disaster.

The black wolf demon leapt forward, just about to jump over a thicket, when suddenly a low shout came from within the thicket.

Attack.

Immediately, a muscular man with bare torso leapt up, his huge palm pressing down on the black wolf demon's head, forcibly shoving it into the thicket.

Who the hell are you, you little brat? Who the fuck just ambushed me?

Wanxiang Shī xiōng did a good job, holding it down.

Senior Brother, why are you drawing your sword?

Aren't we supposed to deal with it? Let's kill it first.

We need to capture it alive; first tie it up, then we'll talk about bringing it back—fresh.

Oh oh.

Senior Sister, where's the Demon-Binding Rope? Tie it up.

Outside, three bandit heroes saw the thicket moving back and forth, occasionally hearing sounds from within.

What's with tying it up and taking it back? The three exchanged puzzled glances.

What's going on?

I don't know; just now something seemed to swoosh out of the thicket.

I saw it too; then the black wolf demon was dragged into the thicket.

It couldn't be some other kind of demon beast, could it?