The refined man was the sect master of Fuqian Sect, named Pei Sili.

This guy had a hobby—he liked watching the excitement, and didn’t mind making things worse.

After learning Jun Changxiao’s identity and remembering that the other party had grudges with Imperial Sword Profound Sect and Lingering Blade Profound Sect, he’d started playing tricks.

Indeed.

Under Pei Sili’s instigation, they’d watched a good show, but the consequence was being remembered by Jun Changxiao.

Gou Sheng, who always loved playing tricks on others, definitely couldn’t tolerate being tricked by others. First, he cornered the other party and viciously beat him, then opened his mouth to state a small goal.

“You heard right.”

Jun Changxiao rubbed his shoe sole on Pei Sili’s face a few times and said: “If you want him to live, pay one hundred million Profound Stones!”

This was truly opening his lion’s mouth wide!

“Jun… Jun Sect Master…” An elder said tearfully: “Even if our Fuqian Sect sells everything down to our pots and pans, we can’t produce that many Profound Stones!”

Never mind unranked sects—even Profound-grade sects would be severely damaged and suffer heavy losses from producing one hundred million.

“That’s your problem, not this seat’s problem. If you can’t hand over one hundred million, he must die today!” Jun Changxiao said coldly.

“…”

If it weren’t for seeing their sect master lying on the ground casting painful glances, the sect’s high-ranking members would probably say, then we choose to let him die.

“Jun… Jun Sect Master…” Pei Sili struggled to produce a map, saying weakly: “I have… have treasure…”

“Oh?”

Jun Changxiao waved his hand to take it, discovering it was just a very ordinary Upper Realm map, so he said coldly: “Do you take this seat for a fool?”

“Jun Sect Master!”

A sect elder hastily said: “Although this map is ordinary, the location marked with a red circle contains a natural Profound Stone mineral vein!”

Only he and Pei Sili knew about this matter, which belonged to strictly confidential information. Now that the sect master had taken it out to save his life, they could only be honest about it.

“Really?”

“Absolutely true!”

Jun Changxiao considered briefly, removed his foot from Pei Sili’s face, and said indifferently: “Take out everything of value you have on you. Considering we’re all in the sect circle, I’ll spare your sect master’s life.”

Demanding one hundred million was indeed unrealistic—he could only take as much as possible.

Moreover, the location marked on this map belonged to the kind of pitch-black deep mountain forest—perhaps there really was an undiscovered mineral vein there?

“Good! Good!”

The sect elders all tossed over their spatial rings.

Jun Changxiao removed Pei Sili’s spatial ring. After tallying, he’d obtained over a million Profound Stones total, plus various ordinary medicinal materials, so he said speechlessly: “You guys are really poor enough.”

“Bang!”

He kicked Pei Sili over and said: “Next time you dare provoke this seat, I’ll make you wish you were dead!”

“Re… remember…”

“Get lost.”

Pei Sili was helped up by several elders, then disappeared from the spot at maximum speed.

Jun Changxiao didn’t linger. He embarked on the road back to Eternal Ages Immortal Mountain. After traveling about ten-plus minutes, the Golden Vajra Talisman’s duration ended and he returned to normal.

“Hey!”

“There are actually no side effects!”

The system said: “Coming out this trip, you gained 700,000 contribution points, three Experience Talismans, and one martial arts secret manual. Worth it or not?”

“Not bad.”

While speaking, Jun Changxiao took out the map and thought: “If the mark really does hide a Profound Stone mineral vein, I really need to hurry over and look, lest they get there first.”

“Feels a bit unreliable.”

The system said: “Maybe the marked location is a dragon’s pool and tiger’s den.”

Jun Changxiao, who’d originally been somewhat worried, heard the system jinxing things again, so his confidence greatly increased: “Settled!”

…

The area marked on the map was northwest of Eternal Ages Immortal Mountain, so Jun Changxiao first returned to the sect along the way, then brought Black and White Asuras to investigate together.

Hua Meigui also came along.

The reason was—having learned about the Spiritual Peak Mountain incident, she worried her husband would be bullied again.

If the Imperial Sword Profound Sect and Lingering Blade Profound Sect masters who’d already entered recuperation mode knew this, they’d definitely roar: “It’s this cheater who bullied us, not us who bullied this cheater!”

“Sect Master.”

On the road, Hei Luocha said gravely: “The area marked on the map has remained uninhabited year-round. When we enter, we must be extremely careful to avoid alarming powerful demonic beasts.”

The beast types of Meteor Star Continent were distinguished as fierce beasts, spirit beasts, and sacred beasts. The Upper Realm collectively called them demonic beasts—like Purple Scale Demon King’s “demon” character coming from “demonic beast.”

Speaking of this guy who stripped when fighting, one had to mention his and Ye Xingchen and others’ training journey.

Demon King Cavern.

One of the Upper Realm’s rather famous forbidden lands.

At this moment, Ye Xingchen, Xiao Zuiji, and He Wudi—these three—were positioned inside a complex cave, sticking out their tongues as they frantically ran, with several hundred extremely ugly-looking demonic beasts on their tails.

These were Ferocious Beasts.

What species they were was unknown, but their appearance made people nauseous.

Whenever people mentioned Demon King Cavern, they’d instinctively think of Ferocious Beasts, because these creatures lived here year-round and liked communal living. According to relevant department estimates, at least tens of thousands existed deep in the cavern. Once they locked onto prey, they’d all come out together.

The so-called cavern depths was Demon King Cavern’s most dangerous area.

In other words, had the frantically fleeing Ye Xingchen trio not followed the original plan to train in the outer areas but directly rushed into the truly forbidden land’s interior?

No!

They were still in the outer areas—even the outermost areas.

When they’d first arrived, the three brothers had fought back and forth with demonic beasts whose strength wasn’t too disparate from theirs, gaining substantial improvement in combat experience.

That being the case, how could they have drawn out the Ferocious Beast swarm residing communally in the cavern depths?

This matter went back several days.

Purple Scale Demon King, responsible for protecting them, felt bored, so he’d single-handedly gone toward the depths. He’d barely entered before running back out with densely packed Ferocious Beasts chasing and biting his rear.

At first, Ye Xingchen and He Wudi hadn’t taken it seriously, even doing stretching and chest-expansion exercises. Only when they saw more and more demonic beasts did they realize the problem’s severity, thus leading to the current scene of them running frantically with tongues hanging out.

If it were just one Ferocious Beast with strength comparable to Martial Saint Great Perfection level, the three brothers cooperating could defeat it without problem. But with hundreds or thousands in number—who the hell could handle that!

Sect Master!

The Purple Hall Master you found isn’t protecting us—he’s increasing our training difficulty. Right now it’s at least super hell mode!

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

At the edge of the cavern depths, Purple Scale Demon King wore pink boxing gloves and only red underwear, seeming to transform into a professional boxer—one left hook, one right hook—sending attacking Ferocious Beasts flying, saying: “With this seat here, no one can harm my Eternal Ages Sect people!”

If Li Qingyang and other disciples who didn’t know the truth saw this, they’d definitely cheer wildly for Purple Hall Master’s actions. But Ye Xingchen’s trio fleeing through distant tunnels nearly spat blood!

Your damn uncle!

The trouble was clearly caused by him, yet he still had the face to show off here!

“Roar! Roar!”

Suddenly, dozens of Ferocious Beasts like mad dogs rushed out from another tunnel entrance.

“Watch out!”

Xiao Zuiji at the very back erupted with cultivation, pushing Ye Xingchen and He Wudi out, and roared: “Shield Mountain!”

“Buzz buzz buzz!”

His exclusive divine weapon Yunzhou Xianyin appeared to the Digimon evolution BGM, then rapidly gathered shield-shaped defensive barriers in front of its master.

“Bang bang bang!”

“Boom——”

Xiao Zuiji instantly bore the violent impact of dozens of Ferocious Beasts. His entire person directly crashed into a nearby stone wall, then coughed up blood with a ‘wah,’ his complexion also becoming extremely pale.

“Xiao Senior Brother!”

He Wudi steadied himself and shouted.

But in the next second he completely froze, because Ye Xingchen standing beside him bent at the waist, head hanging down, gradually gathering Li Shang Sacrifices Heaven under his right palm. Like a killing god descending, his voice ominously cold: “You all must die!”

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