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Liu Zhifei quickly brought back the new orders from the Heaven Shaking Sect. Recently, there had been a lot of incidents of killing and robbing around the area, and it was said that twenty to thirty people had died in the process. There were many cases where an entire caravan had been ambushed and robbed, causing many solo merchants and even large and small caravans to panic.
After the news arrived, Meng Yu County's Chen County Order, Hu Yao County's Dao Master Cheng, and Ling Zhang County's Dao Master Lang Gu ordered their border squad to be under martial law. With the interrogation area as the center, they began to patrol the surrounding area to ensure the safety of the merchants and caravans participating in the exchange.
"There really is someone with a tiger's whisker. This place is under the protection of three Spiritual Masters, and they're going to intercept and kill people from the other cities. Isn't this obviously slapping them in the face?"
"Sage realm cultivators aren't deities. They don't have three heads and six arms, so how can they be so considerate? It's hard to avoid them being taken advantage of by some small fries. Moreover, we're still here right now!"
"That's true. Almost every village in Mengyu County has caravans participating in the Exchange City. We're defending the village now!"
Squad Twenty on the border guard moved quickly. However, the squads didn't move in a grand manner. Instead, they all chose to move in secret.
Zhuang Guangyu once asked Liu Zhifei why he kept such a low profile, but Liu Zhifei laughed and scolded him as a fool, saying, "If it's a large scale operation, shouldn't you tell those bandits to hide quickly? If that's the case, then where are we going to exterminate the bandits? "
Zhuang Guangyu was used to playing with treasures in the small team, so he was a lot more straightforward and jokingly said, "Fei-ge, I think it's better if you scare these people off with your big mouth, killing these bandits doesn't have any military merits, but if you can be a bandit then you have nowhere to run to, you don't have much family, and you can't even get any spoils of war, and most of these people are desperate, when the time comes it's not worth it to hurt one or two of our own family members!"
Zhuang Guangyu's words actually somewhat hurt the morale. If they had a life and death battle, then these few words would have cut down the flag of sacrifice. However, they didn't take some bandits seriously, so they started to joke around without any qualms.
Liu Zhifei directly threw a peach that he just picked up towards Zhuang Guangyu's skull, and when he saw Zhuang Guangyu smile as he dodged, Liu Zhifei scolded, "Kid, your skin is itchy, you're the one who blabber!"
Immediately, Liu Zhifei's face stiffened and everyone who saw him stopped laughing. They only heard him say in a solemn voice, "Do you know why it was so secretive before this? "Heh heh, I just want those bandits to rob him. What about after they rob him? Heh heh, do you understand?"
After the bandit cultivators stole them, it was us who stole them away from the bandit cultivators, as well as the bandit cultivators. After the bandit cultivator stole them, it was us who stole them away from the bandit cultivators, as well as the bandit cultivators.
Those who were able to participate in the exchange market, whether they were travelling alone or in large or small caravans, all returned empty-handed. Since the bandits would not leave empty-handed, the bandit's border guards would naturally earn a great deal of money as well, and they would not have to worry about having a bad reputation.
However, Yang Junshan felt that there was something wrong with his actions, so he tried asking, "Is this an order from the Chen County?"
Liu Zhifei glanced at Yang Junshan and said, "This is an order from the sect!"
Pausing for a moment, he then added, "Martial Uncle Chen is also an elder of a sect!"
However, his words caused Yang Junshan to mutter in his heart: What exactly does this supplementary sentence mean? Does it mean that as an elder of the Heaven Shaking Sect, Chen Ji must obey the orders of the Heaven Shaking Sect? Or does it mean that as an elder, Chen Ji is also one of the decision makers that issued this order?
However, Yang Junshan chose to not ask anymore, but the rest of the team still had some concerns.
Liu Zhifei could see the worry on their faces, but he still said, "Before the operation starts, no one is allowed to leak the news of this operation. Otherwise, don't blame me for not showing our friendship!"
Everyone looked even more worried, but he continued: "Of course, I am not a heartless person, if we really meet bandits and cultivators who want to rob and kill the caravan of your respective villages, we can't just stand by and watch them die, but after we act, we have to show our support, we can't let our brothers act in vain!"
When everyone heard this, the worried look faded from their faces as they said one after another, "Yes, captain!"
However, everyone was still mumbling in their hearts. If their families were to run into this village's caravan, then it would be fine. But what if the other village's caravan did? If that small team didn't have cultivators from the village, wouldn't they be robbed and killed by bandits in vain before being seized by border guards in the name of exterminating bandits?
Especially for people like Yang Junshan or Zhuang Guangyu, some of their family members were also participating in the exchange market on a very impressive scale, and they were even more worried, afraid that they would run into bandits on their way back. Xiong Xiyi and Ning Feyu, the two of them were able to keep their cool, but it was unknown whether it was because their family was prepared for the upcoming order, or because they believed that their family's forces were not afraid of the so-called robbers.
However, Liu Zhifei had been prepared earlier. After the warning, he had to restrict everyone from leaving the foothold. Not only was the third squad forbidden to leave, the twenty squads on the border were all the same.
At this time, Yang Junshan was thinking more and more about amassing wealth. What Yang Junshan saw was the Heaven Shaking Sect amassing wealth unceasingly, and they were gradually approaching the end of their unscrupulous tactics.
The Yang Junshan of today was no longer the same young man who had been guarding Mengyu County in his previous life. In these years, the Xishan Merchant Group had been under the management of Yang Tian and An Xia. Yang Junshan had often heard about things outside of Mengyu County.
Therefore, other than the Rust Stone that he had personally experienced, the extermination of the Sun family by Spiritual Master Wang in Chenyu County, and the discussion of the market exchange by Spiritual Master Chen in Mengyu County, Yang Junshan also knew that many other events of various sizes had occurred in the other three counties of Yuxian County.
However, by doing so, the Heaven Shaking Sect had put on a front like a fish out of water. Just why was that so?
Yang Junshan, who had experienced the destruction of his sect in his previous life, couldn't help but wonder if the Heaven Shaking Sect had already sensed that danger was approaching and was preparing for it.
In fact, the more Yang Junshan understood about the situation in Yuzhou, the more he suspected the annihilation of the Heaven Shaking Sect in his previous life.
Because even though the Heaven Shaking Sect had declined greatly compared to a thousand years ago, it was still the number one sect in the entire Jade Province. In the entire Jade Province, it had almost no rival!2
The disaster of the Monster race? Alien invasion? The various sects and powers in the Jade Province attacked in groups? These were all jokes!
In his previous life, on the eve of the destruction of the Heaven Shaking Sect, the demon clan had only just shown their abilities, while the outsiders had only just received attention from the cultivation world. Although the Heaven Shaking Sect was destroyed, these races would not be able to participate in such a great change in the future; as for the other sects in the Jade Region, unless they were prepared to sacrifice eight hundred points of courage, they would not be able to shake the position of the Heaven Shaking Sect.
In fact, the destruction of the Heaven Shaking Sect that he had experienced in his previous life had caused the destruction of all high-level cultivators in the Heaven Shaking Sect in a very short period of time.
After the Heaven Shaking Sect was quickly destroyed, the other sects in the Jade Province had a period of rapid development. This was undoubtedly built on the looting of the Heaven Shaking Sect.
From Yang Junshan's point of view, he still had two doubts: Firstly, it was impossible for the high-level cultivators of the other sects in Yuzhou to kill all the high-level cultivators of Heaven Shaking Sect in such a short period of time; secondly, even if they were all killed, it was impossible for the high-level cultivators of the other sects to be completely unharmed. However, after the Heaven Shaking Sect was destroyed, the various sects did not use the Heaven Shaking Sect's resources to recover, but had welcomed a short period of prosperity and expansion.
Of course, Yang Junshan had noticed this earlier. That was, the remaining forces of the Heaven Shaking Sect had not been wiped out by the other sects. Although the two sides were hostile to each other, they had never tried to kill each other.
As he thought about it, Yang Junshan became more certain of the idea that came to mind earlier. Could it be that behind the destruction of the Heaven Shaking Sect, there was an even more tyrannical force from the Jade Province that interfered, exterminating all of the high-level cultivators of the Heaven Shaking Sect?
For example, Yang Junshan had once heard of a Daoist cultivator in his previous life, but never seen one!
Ever since the foothold was closed, squads three, five, and seven were not allowed to go out. Three squads of inner disciples of the Heaven Shaking Sect were in charge of the stronghold.
Yang Junshan patted his forehead as if he was sleepy. When no one was paying attention, a faint golden light appeared on his forehead, and Yang Junshan yawned as he leaned against the wall. Then, he returned to his room to cultivate as if nothing had happened, in fact, he was just sleeping.
In the forest several miles away from the stronghold, behind a luxuriant bush, a colossus suddenly stood up. At first glance, the decorative patterns on his body seemed to be one with the surrounding scenery, but if one looked carefully, they would be able to make everyone suck in a breath of cold air.
Two white auras were ejected from the mouth of the tiger. A faint figure appeared about ten meters away from the tiger. It was a girl who seemed to be about fourteen or fifteen years old.
"Aiya, don't rush me. I've already gotten the news!" The little girl waved a small slip of paper in her hand and said with a smile.
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