Over the many years, there had been no shortage of people who dared to challenge the Jinwu Li Clan.
There had also been those who dared to injure members of the Jinwu Li Clan.
And after injuring them, there had even been those who dared to seize the Jinwu Li Clan's Magical Treasures, though most did so by ambushing from the shadows or striking with underhanded tactics. Because everyone knew the terrifying consequences of robbing the Jinwu Li Clan.
But something like today—openly and brazenly plundering the Jinwu Li Clan's Magical Treasures in the Fengyue Small World, the liveliest place in the Twin-Pole Heavenly Domain, and right before a crowd of onlookers—such a thing had never happened in the Twin-Pole Heavenly Domain before, not even once.
Watching Horse King strip the Immortal Weapons, Magical Treasures, and Storage Rings one by one from the bodies of those noble young masters of the Jinwu Li Clan, the crowd gathered on the floating island to watch the spectacle was utterly dumbfounded. It was even more unbelievable than witnessing a celestial phenomenon.
"He's mad... Little Wine Ghost has gone mad...
This is sheer madness!"
Watching this scene, Qiānniǎo, standing on the Firecloud Grand Chariot, spoke in a voice that had changed completely.
It wasn't just her.
Even Qiānlíng, looking at this, couldn't help but feel her heart pounding with trepidation.
She didn't know who Gu Qingfeng really was.
Nor did she know what backing Gu Qingfeng relied on to be so fearless.
But she knew Gu Qingfeng's existence was absolutely not simple.
Therefore,
when Gu Qingfeng told her to stay, she chose to believe him.
She had originally wanted to see what Gu Qingfeng intended to do, but she never could have imagined that Gu Qingfeng would actually order someone to strip the Magical Treasures from those noble young masters of the Jinwu Li Clan.
This was just too...
"Heavens!
This Little Wine Ghost's courage is far too great! How could he...
how could he dare to plunder the Jinwu Li Clan's Magical Treasures?
Does he not want to live anymore?"
Not far away, Liu Li, watching this scene, also found it somewhat unacceptable.
"Courage?
Hah, this isn't courage. This is sheer ignorance of life and death!"
Xuan Yun, who looked down on Gu Qingfeng for winning 1.8 billion in one go—a contempt that came from the bottom of his heart—shook his head and sneered disdainfully, "Truly, the ignorant are fearless. I'll just wait and see how he dies later."
Over there,
Horse King was looting the Magical Treasures from the noble young masters of the Jinwu Li Clan one after another. Whoever dared to resist, he would smash a Zijin Heavenly Thunder Talisman at them. It was truly exhilarating. At first, he had been a little afraid, but the more he plundered, the bolder he became.
"Stop!
Stop right now!
!!"
Jin Lie was so furious his face had turned green. Perhaps due to excessive rage, he had lost his senses. He originally wanted to circulate his Immortal Spirit and take action to stop it. Unfortunately, the moment he moved, Gu Qingfeng smashed a Zijin Heavenly Thunder Talisman at him.
He moved again.
Gu Qingfeng sent another Zijin Heavenly Thunder Talisman.
After six consecutive Zijin Heavenly Thunder Talismans were smashed at him, Jin Lie finally quieted down, slumped on the ground, panting heavily. Not only was he covered in dust and grime from the six talismans' lightning strikes, but smoke was also rising from his entire body.
Beside him,
Gu Qingfeng sat on the large chariot pulled by two flying horses that belonged to Jin Lie, legs crossed, sipping his little wine, and looked at Jin Lie with a smile, saying, "Go ahead, keep moving. This lord has plenty of Zijin Heavenly Thunder Talismans here. Move once, and this lord will gift you one."
Jin Lie didn't dare to circulate his Immortal Spirit anymore. If he did, his old injury, which he had been pretending to have, would truly flare up. He raised his head, glaring viciously at Gu Qingfeng, gnashing his teeth as he said, "You little bastard!
Just you wait!
Wait for this old man!
Our Jinwu Li Clan's people will be here soon. When they arrive, this old man will slaughter you first!"
"Is that so."
Gu Qingfeng tilted his head back and drank a cup of wine. Without even looking, he smashed another Zijin Heavenly Thunder Talisman over. The lightning struck Jin Lie, making his hair stand on end and causing his Immortal Armor robes to burst apart, skin splitting and flesh tearing. The pain made him howl and scream.
"You, an elder who's cultivated for over ten thousand years, messed up your cultivation, got your Immortal Spirit injured, and instead of staying home quietly to recuperate, you run out here wandering around aimlessly."
Gu Qingfeng ate a bitter bodhi seed and said, "Even if you wander, fine, but how did you end up pulling this scam of faking injuries to extort money? What have you been cultivating all these ten thousand years?
Did you cultivate it all into a dog?
Cultivated so much you don't even want face anymore?"
"I heard you come from an Immortal family?
Your ancestors ascended to the Nine Heavens, received official titles?
Drank some kind of Bright Water?
This lord is just puzzled. Logically speaking, your family's ancestors were somewhat decent, right? At least their character was passable?
Otherwise, they wouldn't have received titles from the Nine Heavens, right?
As their descendant, how did you end up pulling this extortion racket?
You don't want face yourself, and you don't even give a damn about your ancestors' face?"
"Speaking of which, you and I are somewhat in the same line of work. You're in the extortion business. This lord used to be in the business of killing, arson, robbery, and plunder. But in this lord's line of work, at least we rely on our skills to eat. It might not be glorious, but it's much more open and aboveboard than your kind of scam extortion, right?
This lord looks down on your type of scam artists. No real skills to speak of, just bullying the weak and fearing the strong."
"Damn it, trying to extort this Grand Lord, daring to provoke the Tai Sui, you've rebelled, you little bastard. Today, this lord must teach you a lesson you won't forget!"
At that moment, Horse King walked over and handed the looted treasures to Gu Qingfeng, saying, "Grand Lord, I've stripped all the Immortal Weapons and Magical Treasures clean off those Jinwu Li Clan young masters. As for the others, I didn't touch them. They're poor brothers like us. Aside from a flying sword, they don't have anything valuable on them."
The treasures Horse King had looted were a messy pile. Gu Qingfeng didn't even glance at them, waving his hand to store them all away. Pointing at Jin Lie, whose consciousness was somewhat blurred, he said, "And this old fellow. Strip everything off him for this lord."
"Right away."
As Horse King looted the Immortal Weapons and Magical Treasures from Jin Lie's body, he asked, "Grand Lord, were you really a bandit Immortal who did killing, arson, robbery, and plunder in the past?"
"What?
Doesn't look like it?"
"Not that it doesn't look like it, but it looks exactly like it! Spot on!
To be honest with you, Grand Lord, the first time I laid eyes on you, I felt there was a certain air about you. I just couldn't put my finger on what that air was at the time. It wasn't until you put on this luxurious outfit that I remembered—the air about you is that bandit aura bandit Immortals have. Especially the way you are now, smoking spirit tobacco, sipping little wine, popping Immortal Pills, eating spirit fruits... really, exactly like the bandit Immortals I've seen before!"
"Oh ho?
You actually saw through that?"
Gu Qingfeng laughed, "Let me tell you, kid, this Grand Lord was a famously notorious bandit Immortal back in the day. Robbed the Great Bright Immortal Sun up in the Nine Heavens, hijacked the Great Dark Demon Moon down in the Nine Nethers. Throughout heaven and earth, when my name was mentioned, people trembled in fear, ghosts fled in terror. Even the Buddha of the Western Paradise would turn tail and run at the mere mention of this lord's name."