[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-lord-of-the-proles":3,"chapter-lord-of-the-proles-lord-of-the-proles-chapter-34":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Lord of the Proles",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2290332,4478,"Chapter 34: Don","lord-of-the-proles-chapter-34",34,"\u003Cp>Qin Xiaopang looked at the corpse on the ground, then at Li Banfeng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng said he had been terrified just now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaopang didn’t know how to comfort him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was afraid he’d kill me, so I killed him—he won’t kill me now,” Li Banfeng offered a reasonable explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaopang thought this explanation… had no flaws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng walked to the corpse of Lao Yanpao, untied the cloth sack from his body, and counted the haul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninety-one stalks of Snake-Spotted Chrysanthemum—worth nearly eight thousand yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For less than eight thousand yuan, was it worth killing someone?” Li Banfeng thought of the prices in Yaowang Gou; human lives shouldn’t be this cheap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaopang sighed: “You’re from outside—you don’t understand the rules here. Money’s hard to earn and goes fast. In some remote places, people kill for a hundred yuan, [10] and this is Kuwu Mountain, an extremely dangerous place. Here, lives are worth no more than grass.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, this is Kuwu Mountain, an extremely treacherous place where lives are worth no more than grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng handed the sack to Xiaopang: “Take this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaopang shook his head: “You killed those two bastards. You avenged Lao Yanpao. His things belong to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hold onto it for now. We’ll sort it out after we get down the mountain,” Li Banfeng pressed the sack into Xiaopang’s hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaopang noticed Li Banfeng’s empty hands: “Where’s your chrysanthemum?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s a long story,” Li Banfeng pulled out several black-and-white beads from his pocket. “Brother, do you know what these are?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaopang took the beads, glanced at them, and his eyes lit up: “Snake-Spotted Pills—I’ve seen these before. Where did you get them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were indeed Snake-Spotted Pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng had entertained a similar suspicion himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he’d shown them to Xiaopang, he’d already prepared an explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“On the way down the mountain, I met an old woman. She said she was from the Medicine Guild. She offered to trade pills for my Snake-Spotted Chrysanthemum—ten stalks for one pill.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng had originally planned to say five stalks per pill, but after thinking it over, five stalks barely covered cost—no one would trade like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trading at double the cost was clearly more reasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaopang stared at the Snake-Spotted Pills in his hand, then turned to Li Banfeng: “You traded them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I did!” Li Banfeng nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All of them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All of them!” Li Banfeng grinned. “Brother, tell me—wasn’t that a good deal?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’d say you got scammed,” Xiaopang handed the pills back. “Brother, I’m no expert—I can’t tell real pills from fake—but I can tell truth from lies. [28] One Snake-Spotted Pill sells for at least ten thousand. Ten Snake-Spotted Chrysanthemum? Eight hundred and fifty yuan. Who’d trade like that? You were ninety-nine percent scammed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One Sheban Pill sells for at least ten thousand; ten stalks of Sheban Chrysanthemum sell for only eight hundred and fifty—who would trade with you like this? You were almost certainly cheated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Really?” Li Banfeng licked his lips, tucked the pills away, and offered no further explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t explain—he couldn’t tell Xiaopang these pills hadn’t come from the old woman. They’d come from the Copper Lotus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaopang sighed: “Coming to Kuwu Mountain, I finally learned one thing—we’re too green. Some money, we just aren’t qualified to earn. I got fooled by the guy with glasses. You got fooled by the old woman. [32] You just mentioned a place with lots of flowers. Is that real?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You just said there’s a place with lots of flowers—is that true?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng snorted: “Of course not. I made it up because I saw them about to attack you. I invented that place to lure them away. [34] I hoped they’d follow me, and I’d strike on the road. But those two tried to kill you first—I had to kill them right there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I originally hoped they’d come with me so I could strike on the road, but I didn’t expect these two wanted to kill you first, so I could only send them on their way here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaopang nodded: “You’re still sharper than me. Actually, you’re way sharper. Don’t be upset—you got scammed on your chrysanthemum, but Lao Yanpao’s are all yours. Let’s get down the mountain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the two were about to leave the woods, they spotted distant flickering lights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaopang froze: “Torches.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng’s eyes darted—he realized the situation was bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The approaching men were likely the glasses-wearer’s accomplices—probably the bald one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man wasn’t strong himself, but he had numbers. To defeat them, they’d need a surprise attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng told Xiaopang: “Find cover. Fast. Wait for me to strike—then you strike. I’ll hide the bodies first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaopang said: “I’ll hide with you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No time. Forget the bodies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng dragged the corpses of Jin Si Yanjing and Hu Laizi deeper into the woods. Xiaopang watched, frantic—this forest was too thin! Where could you hide corpses?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng couldn’t find a hiding spot either—but the torches were drawing closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Xiaopang climb a tree, Li Banfeng slipped out of his sight, pulled out his key, opened the door of his Personal Dwelling, and tossed the two bodies inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keeping corpses in his dwelling felt unlucky—but it was his only option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He left the Personal Dwelling, tucked the key away, and hid in the grass, watching silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man, carrying a bundle of grass, entered the woods first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grass was tightly bound, still crying out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two men behind him carried You Tao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Tao was covered in bruises. If not for the faint rise and fall of her chest, Li Banfeng would’ve thought she was already dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man’s lackey stepped forward, pinched You Tao’s cheek: “Stop crying. Why cry? I know my limits—I won’t hurt you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he moved to touch her, the bald man barked: “Don’t mess around! Didn’t I tell you? Wait for Brother to come back!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Always wait for Brother…” the lackey grumbled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man kicked him: “In my crew, even a grain of rice goes to Brother first!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lackey fell silent. Another lackey spotted Lao Yanpao’s corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Third Brother, did Brother kill this old man?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man ordered the other two to guard You Tao and Cao Ye, then approached Lao Yanpao’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look at the wound—this is Second Brother’s work. But the old man was poisoned. That’s definitely Brother’s style,” the bald man explained proudly, distinguishing Jin Si Yanjing and Hu Laizi’s methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng had no interest in his analysis—Jin Si Yanjing and Hu Laizi were already dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cared about only one thing: they were split up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man and his three lackeys were now in pairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng gripped his sickle and crept toward the two lackeys guarding You Tao and Cao Ye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One lackey was groping You Tao, eager to take every advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other shoved his hand inside Cao Ye’s clothes. Seeing her cry too loudly, he clamped a hand over her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Closer. Closer still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng had no ranged attacks. To strike successfully, he needed to be close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty meters away—too far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few more steps—fifteen meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng’s step was a bit heavy—he crushed dry leaves, making a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held his breath, pressed against a tree, motionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two lackeys must’ve noticed. The ambush seemed ruined. If all four came at once, he’d need a plan to survive the first wave—then let Xiaopang drop down to help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If all else failed, flee. He didn’t know these two women well anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment’s thought, Li Banfeng heard no other noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He peeked from behind the tree—and was stunned: the two lackeys were still molesting You Tao and Cao Ye, completely unaware of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Zhaixiu’s talent—Invisibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not ignoring others. Being ignored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They ignored Li Banfeng’s presence. Didn’t even register his footsteps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the wild mountains, a crackling leaf was normal. Their focus was on the two girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since they hadn’t noticed, Li Banfeng kept advancing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten meters left—he stopped hiding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He burst from behind the tree, using his Traveler’s speed. In less than a second, he stood behind one lackey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the lackey could see his face, Li Banfeng slit his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other lackey hid behind Cao Ye. Li Banfeng shoved her aside, swung the sickle again—it struck the man’s body, sparking, but didn’t break skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Tao shouted: “He’s a Body Cultivator!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bastard had natural armor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng swung again—still no penetration. At that moment, the bald man and another lackey arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng was in trouble—he’d face three attackers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear shook him. His eyes reddened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man looked at the dead lackey, then at Li Banfeng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You little dog, you’re a real piece of shit,” the bald man sneered, eyes glinting coldly. “You dare touch my men? Today I’ll chop off both your hands, then dig out your brain and make you eat it yourself!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng turned and ran—but not fast enough. When he reached a tree, the armored body cultivator blocked his path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man and his lackey approached slowly from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng’s face twisted in terror. His knees bent as if he’d collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man stepped forward, slowly, until he stood beneath the tree. His smiling face looked monstrous:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kneel. Kneel prettily. I’ll make your death quick. Kneel now. I said kneel. Are you deaf? Can’t you hear…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man heard a muffled thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fatty jumped down from the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know why Fatty had jumped down from the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He certainly didn’t know why Li Banfeng had run toward this tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fatty’s axe landed squarely on the henchman’s skull; shattered bone and splattered brain matter sprayed across the bald man’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man’s sinister grin vanished, for he saw Li Banfeng raise his sickle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Wu Xiu, the bald man reacted swiftly—he immediately raised his dagger, assumed a horse stance, braced himself fully, then knelt to the ground in searing pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Banfeng’s sickle remained raised, but raising a blade and striking a man were two different things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised the sickle with his right hand and kicked the bald man’s groin with his left foot, the motion seamless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Added to that, the bald man cooperated perfectly by dropping into a horse stance—the impact was devastating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man knelt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cursed Li Banfeng in his heart: Why is this bastard so cruel?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One henchman remained, clad in armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like everyone else, this henchman had endured the day on Kuwu Mountain; his physical condition was poor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Fatty’s condition was better—Food Cultivators had greater resilience than Body Cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fatty swung his axe again and again, striking fiercely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The henchman held firm with his armor until he could no longer withstand it; Fatty cleaved him from left shoulder to right rib, splitting him in half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Li Banfeng hooked the bald man’s chin with his sickle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald man’s jaw trembled as he mumbled: “I just wanted to scare you—I never meant to kill anyone, I won’t kill anyone, I swear I won’t…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You wanted to scare me?” Li Banfeng blinked, asking seriously, “Is that true?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s true!” The bald man’s chin was hooked, so he couldn’t nod—but his eyes were earnest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t do this again,” Li Banfeng advised seriously. “I’m truly afraid.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the bald man saw hope:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll never scare you again, never again…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the bald man could finish, Li Banfeng pulled out a shovel, drove it into the bald man’s skull, and pried open his skullcap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PS: Today I wrote ten thousand characters—vote for Salad, leave a comment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1940,"2026-06-20T03:43:13.043Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f5eebab370dbf84ad5e08672ffd88f982721d73b4f806c25f0cf56ff84e73675","lord-of-the-proles-chapter-35","lord-of-the-proles-chapter-33",863,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flord-of-the-proles-cover.jpg"]