Chapter 276: Gains (II)

Five Solars acted at the same time before the Revolution King finished speaking!

Bam!

One person for each surviving Sunflare!

The five Celestial members knew that disaster was upon them and wanted to run, but there was quite a difference between Sunflare and Solar. Hao Lianchuan stabbed a Sunflare to death with his spear! The others were the same and executed their targets at nearly the same time!

Hong Yitang did so with a look of resignation on his face. He didn’t want to do so! But he knew this would be the outcome as soon as the Revolution King and others started speaking. Celestial’s Solars were no more. Who didn’t want this vast sum of mysterious power stones? It’d just be creating trouble for themselves if they let the Celestial members go after confiscating all of their gains.

In that case, none of them would leave the ruins alive!

These Solars were ruthless and decisive when it came to decisions such as these. Since Celestial no longer had Solars at the helm, they could all die! No one would say anything if they were all dead.

Hao Lianchuan picked at the corpses and found another twenty-odd stones from the dead. Part of the loot was extracted from the bodies.

“So many, eighty rocks!” he chucked. Eighty of them! So much more than they expected. He dropped the good guy act at this point since no one would be selfless when it came to divvying goods. “Violet Moon, Revolution, how do you say?”

“I don’t want any!” Hong Yitang declared. He really didn’t want the treasure, but he’d participated in the killing all the same!

Such was wisdom.

If he didn’t kill people and didn’t want the loot, then these people might kill him as well too. Celestial wasn’t a faction to provoke—there would be retribution once their powerhouses found out that their Sunflares had been murdered.

Red Moon and Yama were no exception to their vengeance; these killers didn’t hold any reservations to killing anyone. Now that he’d killed Celestial members with them, he would naturally keep their secrets.

Hao Lianchuan didn’t bother with Hong Yitang after he said he didn’t want any. Mysterious power stones were treasures of strategic importance. “The four of us will split twenty each!”

“Are you certain you can hold on to so much?” the Revolution King asked coolly. Twenty stones? He and Hu Dingfang were claiming half of the spoils!

“I can!” Hao Lianchuan grinned. “Ole Hu and I aren’t necessarily afraid of you two. Violet Moon’s injuries are heavy and she can’t fight anymore. Meanwhile, you should protect your sole survivor well, Revolution!”

A frosty expression crept over the Revolution King’s face and he countered after a while, “Violet Moon and I will take twenty-five stones each. The remaining thirty can go to you!”

Thirty stones held roughly ten thousand cubes of mysterious power based on the size of these rocks. Ten thousand was a lot, but wasn’t that critical to the various large organizations. It wasn’t worth killing five Celestial Sunflares, in any case.

However, mysterious power stones were different. Their worth wasn’t measured in terms of cubes of mysterious power contained, but in terms of fuel for origin weapons. That made them treasures of strategic importance. While Li Hao and his companions wanted to empty the stones of mysterious power, that was a fool’s move in the eyes of the major organizations!

If these items held three hundred cubes of mysterious power, the major organizations would be willing to buy them for one thousand!

......

Li Hao and the rest were watching with dropped jaws. Wang Ming’s eyes were wide open! He thought the three of them were bad enough... but it turns out that everyone was horrible in this field!

These guys didn’t even finish talking and Celestial had already handed over their treasure! The Solars hadn’t conversed with each other beforehand and killed at a moment’s notice! It was one thing for the others because they wanted the treasure, but Hong Yitang didn’t want any part of it. He killed the Celestial members all the same! Plainly, he looked three steps into the future when he took one step and immediately knew the dangers ahead.

Wang Ming swallowed hard. This world was too dangerous! He was too pure! Li Hao and Liu Long killed Zhang Ting at the drop of a hat, the Solars exterminated Celestial at the drop of a hat. What had been nineteen expedition members before was only fourteen now!

“Go collect the mysterious power.” Li Hao’s voice rang lowly in Wang Ming’s ear.

“Are you crazy?!” yelped the handsome supernatural.

You want me to collect mysterious power at a time like this?!

“There’s metal attribute power among them. We Night Watchers have the advantage in numbers and just got a smaller portion of the goods. It’s right that we take the mysterious power!”

Then you go!

Wang Ming cursed inwardly.

But... fine, I’ll take a gamble!

He cautiously crept over; the venerated personages didn’t seem to pay him attention until he started collecting mysterious power. Wang Ming’s scalp crawled when they looked at him and he said nervously, “I... I didn’t want milords and lady to dirty your hands. The ground will absorb this energy soon, so I’ll collect it for you...”

“Take it,” Hao Lianchuan chuckled. “If all of this is ours, the mysterious power stones can be divided according to your split. I trust no one has a different opinion?”

Violet Moon and Revolution didn’t say anything. Five Sunflares would result in one thousand cubes at most, and that was sullied energy. Killing people for their mysterious power was one of the dumbest actions one could take. One additional stone was better than killing five Sunflares.

Mysterious power contained in the body was filled with impurities and mixed with different attributes. It wasn’t a necessity for powerhouses when they cultivated.

Wang Ming sighed with relief behind Hao Lianchuan. Li Hao finally didn’t trick him for once! So these people really didn’t care about this. But to the trio, a thousand cubes was a sizable amount even though they’d reaped some mysterious power stones. They’d had to kill Zhang Ting to obtain that much before.

Celestial had no place at the table after their two Solars died. Their delegation was instantly exterminated. Other than the six that left earlier, the rest of the faction had died in the ruins.

Of the remaining fourteen, the Night Watchers counted for half. Hu Dingfang ignored everyone else and simply confirmed that Li Hao was alright.

“That Gold Armor guards the origin weapon, we probably won’t be able to take it!” he said. “We lack the strength to, at the very least. These ruins will open again on a later date, so I don’t recommend continuing to risk our lives at this stage!”

Their gains were plenty on this expedition; the mysterious power stones and Black Armors were all treasures, not to mention what the Solars had collected when they entered the ancient city that the Gold Armor occupied. It was a lot!

Entering the inner city now was truly to court death. The remaining Solars were of a mind to retreat.

Violet Moon flicked a glance at Li Hao. The young man was alive... that was good. It would be trouble if he died.

This ancient city of Battle Heaven was dangerous beyond compare. There was certain to be large sums of mysterious power stones in the city—that was a guarantee. The Black Tortoise Seal was also a premier origin weapon. Apart from that, there must be ultimate treasures located on top of the pagoda they couldn’t climb! They’d simply excavated a portion of items available on the surface. They weren’t likely to uncover the rest, not with their strength.

Violet Moon thought for a moment and said, “If there are no other gains to be had this time, we probably won’t be the ones in control of the next expedition!”

She was still unwilling to accept this outcome. There were already people who’d exited to the outside world. Information of what was inside the ruins was surely becoming common knowledge. Whether it was the three great organizations or Night Watchers, any of them might direct large amounts of powerhouses to Silver Moon next.

Those on this expedition were the rulers of only Silver Moon; the powerhouses of the central region hadn’t paid attention to a small ruin before. But soon... they would. They might seek to enter themselves when the ruins opened next month.

“There’s no helping it, it’s not something we can control!” Hao Lianchuan sighed. “I think it’ll take more than one or two Novas to handle the Gold Armor, to say nothing of anything else. More Novas will be needed to take him out!”

That soldier wasn’t something that Solars could stand up to! An origin weapon had been decimated with one punch. Hao Lianchuan was even suspecting that this soldier was greater than Nova. Were there such experts in the central region?

......

Li Hao listened quietly to the Solars’ conversation. It looked like they’d decided to give up.

The city gates will open if I walk over...

There was no need for a second passageway, he could fly without a problem. Was it because of his bloodline, or some other reason?

It hadn’t seemed difficult to open the city gates at first, but reality proved otherwise. The expedition team needed to take the second passageway to fly over, then push the gates open. But now... Li Hao suspected that there was something different about this city. Could Violet Moon and the others still fly over to open the gates?

He wondered this way because he had a hunch that this city seemed more... alive than before! The Gold Armor and pagoda both seemed a bit brighter, and the city itself was less dim.

Perhaps the Solars hadn’t discovered it, but Li Hao guaranteed that they wouldn’t dare fly over to open the gates anymore. He also felt that one matter less was desirable to one matter more. It was best to exit the ruins!

His harvest this time was much more than anticipated. There were eight hundred cubes of water energy in the ring, the thirty-some mysterious power stones they’d found, and one thousand cubes of mysterious power that Wang Ming had just collected. None of this was going to Hao Lianchuan!

Additionally, there were another three hundred cubes of earth energy from the Yama Sunflare and the enlightenment he’d gained from the two characters. He’d also risen to Dominator...

One could say that Li Hao was the greatest winner of this excavation. He kept his usual low profile, so low profile that apart from Wang Ming and Liu Long, not even Hao Lianchuan knew that they’d gained so much.

Everyone thought that they’d waited at the gates and didn’t enter the city. And the fact of the matter was, they had indeed stayed outside! Thus, Li Hao was still a half step Dominator in the group’s eyes—one who’d just advanced to that level.

After some discussion, Hong Yitang declared that nothing would make him willing to go inside again. The others were of the same mind and decided not to continue their explorations. It was too dangerous!