Chapter 342: Luck

Luck

Golden smoke curled upward, gradually enveloping the figures of Ji Sun and his two companions. As the void twisted, the three of them vanished on the spot.

The void shattered, and ten gold coins inscribed with golden dragons tumbled down.

Li Luo bent down and picked up the dao gold coins, sighing with a touch of melancholy.

"What do we do next?" Qin Qin Zhulu asked, wiping down his heavy spear.

"What else can we do... let's take out the other squad from the Snow Wolf Kingdom first. Otherwise it'll always be a hidden threat. But after this experience, we shouldn't expose the 'Golden Dragon Qi' so carelessly from now on," Li Luo said.

From what Ji Sun had said earlier, they already knew the other Snow Wolf Kingdom squad was about as strong as Ji Sun's trio, so with proper preparation, they should be able to take them down.

That squad should rush over immediately after receiving the message, so they could lie in wait here.

Lu Qing'er nodded lightly and said apologetically, "I thought this trip would be easy, but I've caused you trouble again."

Li Luo waved his hand and said, "I came with you in the first place to tag along for opportunities. Besides, this isn't really trouble yet. The Snow Wolf Kingdom squad is just within our ability to handle. Once we take them out, we just keep a low profile afterward and won't draw attention."

He gave Lu Qing'er a reassuring, handsome smile.

"Trust me—good-looking people never have bad luck."

Boom!

Deep in the forest, violent phase force suddenly erupted. Crimson phase force swept outward like flames, setting the nearby trees ablaze and turning them to charcoal.

In the pitch-black woodland, two figures collapsed in a sorry heap, drenched in blood. At this moment, they stared in terror at a single figure striding out of the smoke ahead of them.

It was a bare-armed youth. At this moment, deep red phase force flowed over his fists, looking like scorching lava, radiating an intensely hot and domineering aura.

The two who had collapsed in sorry state glared at him with a mix of fear and fury, demanding, "Zhao Zhao Ziyang, don't push it too far. We clearly didn't provoke you—why did you suddenly attack us?"

The youth called Zhao Zhao Ziyang grinned and said, "Maybe I just took a dislike to your faces?"

The two grew even angrier. The person before them was from the Red Sand Empire, named Zhao Zhao Ziyang, bearing an eighth-grade Lava Phase, and his strength had reached the level of the second transformation of the Transformation Phase stage. In terms of power, he was absolutely among the very top tier in this region.

From the intelligence they'd gathered before coming, this Zhao Zhao Ziyang was exactly the kind of person you didn't want to provoke.

So even though they were furious, the two held back and said, "If there's any offense, we're willing to offer compensation and an apology."

Zhao Zhao Ziyang smiled and said, "Earlier I heard you two on the road, talking about some good luck, some good treasure or something?"

The two men's expressions shifted almost imperceptibly, then they forced a smile and said, "You must have misheard."

Zhao Zhao Ziyang chuckled, walked up, and kicked each of them unconscious with a single stomp. Then he reached out and frisked their bodies. After a moment, he pulled out a small bamboo tube, crushed it, and a scroll of paper was revealed inside.

He took out the paper and gave it a shake, then looked at it—and his eyes slowly narrowed.

"Someone actually possesses 'Golden Dragon Qi'..."

A look of interest flickered in Zhao Zhao Ziyang's eyes. He stared at the information written on the paper—there were directions, an address, and even portraits of that squad.

Just then, the sound of breaking wind came from the right side. Two figures flashed over and landed beside him.

"Lost them. Their captain was too good at running," one of the newcomers said helplessly.

Zhao Zhao Ziyang said casually, "Just a little mouse, no need to mind. The important intel is already in hand."

He handed the paper slip to his two companions. They took it, glanced at it, and their faces immediately showed shock: "Golden Dragon Qi? Wow, that's a walking treasure trove. If we can capture her, we'll never have to worry about lacking dao gold coins!"

Zhao Zhao Ziyang nodded with a smile.

"Let's go. This news came just in time—perfect to get there first and beat them to it."

"What about these two?" a companion asked, pointing at the two unconscious men.

"Sacrifice them."

Zhao Zhao Ziyang waved his hand and was already walking out of the forest.

The two behind him acknowledged the order. After bustling about for a while, they pocketed the few dao gold coins that had dropped, then hurried after him.

Not long after the three of them left, phase force rippled at this spot. A figure descended from the sky and landed at the place of the sacrifice. This person's face was dark with rage, his eyes furious as he stared in the direction Zhao Zhao Ziyang and the others had gone.

He was precisely the squad captain of the two who had just been sacrificed.

He was also the Snow Wolf Kingdom squad that Ji Sun had sent the message to.

But Ji Sun probably never imagined this squad would be so unlucky. Originally, after receiving the message, they had immediately set off at full speed toward Ji Sun's location. Yet no one expected that halfway there they'd run into a squad of death stars. Somehow Zhao Zhao Ziyang had vaguely overheard a snippet of their conversation, and then just attacked outright...

What utterly shit luck.

Now his teammates had been eliminated by the sacrifice, leaving him alone and unable to support things by himself. Achieving any result was already unlikely, and as for that Golden Dragon Qi, he could forget about coveting it.

This intel had already been intercepted by Zhao Zhao Ziyang. If he went there alone, he'd just be delivering himself as a meal.

But letting that bastard walk off with such a huge bargain was really too hard to swallow.

This Snow Wolf Kingdom captain's eyes flickered for a moment, then a ruthless glint surfaced in them. You bastard, you want to eat what was ours? Even if I can't beat you, I won't let you have it easy!

He had already decided: next, he would spread the intel about the Golden Dragon Qi far and wide, to draw every squad in the area over. He might not be able to handle Zhao Zhao Ziyang, but some of the other top squads in this region might be able to.

"Zhao Zhao Ziyang, you bastard, just you wait!"

He spat the words out in fury, then turned and left.

Snow Mountain Range.

Li Luo and his two companions were perched on a hilltop, using the white snow to conceal their figures. Their gazes, aided by the terrain's advantage, were fixed on the distance.

They had been lying in wait here for quite a while.

Just waiting for the second Snow Wolf Kingdom squad to arrive so they could wipe them out and leave quickly.

"This Snow Wolf Kingdom squad is way too slow. At this pace, by the time they get here there won't even be soup left to drink." The freezing temperature around him kept Li Luo huffing breath as he complained.

Lu Qing'er, on the other hand, was all smiles. This environment was actually quite suited to her—bearing an Ice Phase, she had extremely high resistance to the cold.

"No rush, we can just wait slowly. If they really don't come, we'll just withdraw directly."

Lu Qing'er soothed him, then pulled a red fruit wafting with an unusual fragrance from her sleeve and handed it to Li Luo: "Just picked this up. We're not short on dao gold coins anyway, so why don't you eat it? It should boost your phase force a bit."

Li Luo took it and sighed in admiration, "This Golden Dragon Qi really is useful."

He didn't stand on ceremony and started crunching on it right away. The strange fruit melted the moment it entered his mouth, transforming into a warm current that surged into his body. Li Luo circulated the "Twelve Segment Brocade," gradually refining this medicinal power. Feeling his phase force grow slightly, he couldn't help but break into a grin.

This Golden Dragon Dao Field really is a good place.

As he ate, he noticed a resentful gaze being cast from the snow beside him. When he shifted his eyes, he saw Qin Qin Zhulu hiding in the snow, staring at the exotic fruit in his hand and swallowing hard.

"Ah, Little Deer, I only have one here. If I pick up another later, I'll give it to you to eat." Lü Qing'er hurriedly said.

Qin Qin Zhulu silently turned his head. I shouldn't have come to this Golden Dragon Dao Arena, damn it.

At this moment, Li Luo's expression suddenly shifted. He looked toward the northwest and said, "Someone's coming."

Lü Qing'er and Qin Qin Zhulu also hurriedly looked over, and indeed saw three figures streaking toward them from that direction.

"Wait, something's not right!" Phase Force flowed in Li Luo's eyes, hawk-like. His expression flickered slightly, because at that very same moment, he saw, in the extremely distant places, squads after squads of people continuously appearing, and the direction they came from was all this way.

Lü Qing'er and Qin Qin Zhulu also sensed this situation, and their expressions immediately changed.

Qin Qin Zhulu said in a hollow voice, "Didn't you say that good-looking people never have bad luck?"

Li Luo's face alternated between green and pale, then he burst out cursing.

"Damn it, that dog Ji Sun, totally has no sense of martial world honor—wasn't it said that the intel was only given to one squad?"