Chapter 7: Cannon Fodder

The Jinping Shanzhuang suffered a great disaster, but Liu Xiaolou had no heart to sympathize with them. As a rogue cultivator at the very bottom, wanting to obtain cultivation resources is extremely difficult. What qualifications do I have to sympathize with others?

Not to mention that although the Jinping Shanzhuang is far away in Southern Hunan, he had heard a bit about the situation. The Zhang family belongs to the outer sect forces of the Dongyang Sect, relying on the Dongyang Sect as a backer, dominating the cultivation world within a hundred miles of Jinping Mountain. Rare spirit herbs and strange beasts occasionally growing in the mountains and marshes, no one dares to covet them. Any good seedlings for cultivation are also taken away by them first. Merchants and traders also have to pay fees to them, and they can only endure it if they are angry.

If it weren't for this, this wide issuance of the Heroic Invitation wouldn't have made local magnates like Gao Feiyan and Wan Jianxin participate so actively.

Liu Xiaolou had self-knowledge. Although Zhang Xianbai was dead, there were still cultivators sitting in the Zhang family. He absolutely didn't dare to rush to the place where the battle was fierce. He tried his best to walk along the wall, and if he saw a hall, he would go in and search.

Along the way, he encountered many brave people among the Zhang family members and servants, often holding sharp weapons, rushing out from some corner to block him, including many who were skilled in martial arts, but they were all vulgar hands, nothing but earthen dogs and chickens in front of Liu Xiaolou, and he knocked them down one by one in a few moves.

Searching through a few houses like this, he did get more than ten taels of scattered gold and silver and a few ordinary jade pendants.

Gold and silver objects were of no great use for cultivation, but they could make life much more convenient. Liu Xiaolou was not a person who sought enjoyment in life, so he didn't care about this. After getting a little, he didn't take any more—taking too much would become a burden, and it would become a burden when escaping. Therefore, he just desperately searched for spirit stones, spirit elixirs, strange flowers and herbs, magic artifacts, and magic talismans, but after searching for a long time, there was no harvest.

This was not a way to go, so he tried to get closer to the center of the manor, while trying hard to find Dai Shenggao's figure.

He didn't find Dai Shenggao, but saw Longshan Sanren. This gentleman had a full beard and was the easiest to identify, so he hurriedly chased after him.

Longshan Sanren looked back and said: "Xiaolou, keep up!" and continued to rush to the northwest of the manor.

Liu Xiaolou was grateful in his heart, desperately following. Passing through several courtyards and ponds, a rockery appeared ahead. It suddenly became lively here. Dozens of people were crowded here, flying various magic artifacts to attack forcibly. However, there were insiders pointing out that this was the place where the treasury was hidden, and everyone was working together to break the array.

Longshan Sanren greeted, flew out a coiled dragon cane, and Liu Xiaolou followed suit, throwing his own Three Mystical Sword, joining in.

This guardian array of the treasury was far from comparable to the guardian array outside, and it only had defense without counterattack methods. After attacking for a long time, it was finally broken by everyone, revealing the door behind it.

The door was not large, only allowing one person to enter and exit. So many people couldn't squeeze in, which immediately triggered public anger. The heroes didn't talk about martial arts, and another round of sword light and sword shadows, various magic artifacts bombarded it, and the rockery immediately collapsed.

At this moment, it was impossible to distinguish what treasury secret room it was. It was messy with rubble and mud, and some residual wooden shelves, wooden boxes, gold and silver, and bottles and jars.

Liu Xiaolou followed the senior heroes and swarmed up, searching in the chaos. The field was quiet for a time, without any arguing, leaving only the sound of rummaging one after another.

Liu Xiaolou found some jars under a row of residual wooden shelves. After breaking them, he found that they contained spirit wine. Similarly, someone discovered these spirit wines, and the crowd immediately crowded over.

Liu Xiaolou hugged a jar tightly and squeezed to the outside. He didn't have a storage magic treasure, nor did he prepare bottles and jars. It was inconvenient to take such a jar away. In a hurry, he simply hugged the jar and drank it, drinking several large mouthfuls in a row, only feeling a warm current injected into his dantian. That was quite thick spiritual power.

At this moment, Liu Xiaolou was so moved he wanted to cry.

He wanted to drink a few more mouthfuls, but couldn't bear the strength of the spirit wine, worried about getting drunk here, which would be a joke. Just then, Longshan Sanren came to his side, and Liu Xiaolou simply stuffed the wine jar over: "Senior, spirit wine!"

Longshan Sanren took it, called out: "Thank you!" and immediately hugged the jar and drank it. His cultivation had reached Qi Refinement Stage 10, which was much stronger than Liu Xiaolou's. After drinking the whole jar, he had no drunkenness, just his face was red like fire.

Liu Xiaolou continued to search and finally found a crystal stone the size of a thumb.

Spirit stone!

Spirit stones contain the purest spiritual power, and the effect of converting true qi is excellent, and it is extremely dense. Just this one spirit stone is enough for Liu Xiaolou to cultivate for half a month. How could he not be excited?

This trip was worth it!

Liu Xiaolou was ecstatic, enduring the excitement and putting away this spirit stone, looking up at the surroundings. Everyone was making a fortune in silence. Only they knew what they had gained. Who would go around talking nonsense?

He continued to lower his head and fight, and found a herb under the rubble. He couldn't tell what it was at night, but the fragrance was pungent. Taking a deep breath, it was refreshing. It was mostly a spirit herb.

Just as he put the spirit herb into his bosom, someone beside him looked at him, his eyes flickering: "Little brother seems to have found a spirit herb? That herb..." the other party opened his mouth in a low voice.

Liu Xiaolou shook his head: "You saw wrong."

That person was unwilling to give up: "I'll trade with you for two spirit stones."

Liu Xiaolou changed his face and glared back fiercely: "There is no spirit herb, don't talk nonsense!"

Longshan Sanren on the side heard the movement and walked over in a few steps, glaring fiercely at that person. The two sides looked at each other for a moment, and that person finally withdrew his gaze and retreated a few steps, going elsewhere.

Liu Xiaolou thanked him in a low voice: "Thank you, Senior, for your help."

Longshan Sanren patted him on the shoulder: "Family doesn't talk about two families." After saying that, he turned around and went back to continue searching for treasure.

Liu Xiaolou breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that no one else was paying attention to him, so he buried his head and continued to rummage.

Suddenly, several sounds of a flute sobbing rose, and a clear voice scolded: "What kind of petty thieves, dare to attack Jinping Shanzhuang, do you think my Dongyang Sect has no one?"

The sound was still in the distance when it first started, and it had reached outside the manor when the words fell, truly fierce and swift.

Someone else shouted in the south: "Gu true qi of the Dongyang Sect is here, thieves come out and die!"

The manor was in an uproar.

"The Dongyang Sect is here, run!"

"It's Gu true qi, it's really Gu true qi!"

"Ye Zhenba is also here!"

"It's Su Zhenjiu!"

"The inner sect seven, eight, nine are all here!"

Longshan Sanren was not far from Liu Xiaolou, with a solemn face: "Three Foundation Establishment cultivators came."

Liu Xiaolou's face was quite bad.

Not to mention the huge gap between Foundation Establishment cultivators and Qi Refinement cultivators, even if they were cultivators of the same realm, people from famous sects like the Dongyang Sect were not something that heroes from all walks of life could resist. Their cultivation techniques were extraordinary, their sect foundation was deep, their inherited big moves and killing moves were endless, their magic artifacts were all mid-grade and high-grade, and they usually had spirit elixirs to protect their bodies. How to fight?

If Wang Laoda was willing to come forward, the hundreds of heroes here working together, that would naturally be something to fight. The key is that Wang Laoda has not seen his figure so far. Does he dare to come forward? Not to mention this plate of muddy sand, how can they work together?