King Baiqiu had suffered severe injuries. Jun Changxiao taking out the Master Ball was just to try—he held absolutely no hope, after all, attempting to subdue the Purple Scale Demon King years ago hadn’t succeeded.
But.
The less hopeful he was, the more it gave him a surprise!
“Damn!”
Jun Changxiao said helplessly: “If I’d known it was this easy, I would have come alone. Why bring so many people and waste that effort!”
The system said: “Host could subdue this beast because the opponent was severely injured. Otherwise it absolutely wouldn’t succeed.”
“If so, the Purple Scale Demon King was covered in wounds back then—why didn’t the subduing succeed?” Jun Changxiao asked.
“This…”
The system was silent briefly, then said: “Possibly because he comes from the Upper Realm, his latent strength is relatively high, so the Master Ball couldn’t capture him.”
Though the explanation was somewhat forced, it actually made sense. After all, regarding bloodline and hardcore strength, King Baiqiu definitely couldn’t compare.
Being able to drive off the Purple Scale Demon King back then—firstly because the opponent had just smuggled down from the Upper Realm and his strength hadn’t fully recovered, and secondly because he used some despicable methods.
“Swoosh!”
Jun Changxiao retrieved the Master Ball, smiling: “Beautiful.”
King Baiqiu was comparable to Saint-level. Uniting so many people and using a formation to seal him before managing to handle him, now he’d become his own contract beast—undoubtedly strengthening his power!
“Sect Master.”
Li Qingyang said: “How should we handle these spirit beasts?”
“Tie them all up!”
Baiqiu Mountain Range’s boss was controlled by him—these subordinates were naturally also his.
“Go.”
Jun Changxiao ordered: “Gather all the crystal cores scattered on the ground, and any skin, bones, and meat that can be taken—take it all!”
“Yes!”
War Cavalry Hall members began clearing the battlefield.
Areas not affected by shells and flames had many scattered crystal cores and fierce beast bodies. Taking them all would be quite a harvest.
“Family Head Qian.”
Jun Changxiao said gratefully: “You’re really my big brother!”
If he hadn’t said he wanted to come excavate the spirit stone mine vein, he wouldn’t have come to Baiqiu Mountain Range, much less subdued a Saint-level spirit beast!
Wait!
There’s still the spirit stone mine vein!
Jun Changxiao said: “It should exist, right?”
“Swoosh!”
Waving the advanced Master Ball, King Baiqiu who’d just been taken in for treatment immediately flew out, then half-reclined on the ground, weakly saying: “Greetings… greetings to Master…”
Beasts subdued by the Master Ball were equivalent to forming a contract—they would only mindlessly obey their master without producing any resistance.
“Does this mountain range really have a spirit stone mine vein?” Jun Changxiao said.
“Yes!”
King Baiqiu said: “However, I already excavated it earlier. Only an empty mine vein remains to lure humans.”
“Already excavated?”
Jun Changxiao said: “Where is it?”
King Baiqiu said weakly: “In… in my nest…”
“BOOM!”
Before he finished speaking, the Purple Scale Demon King wearing red underwear strode over and knocked him flat with one punch, then raised his foot to viciously stomp repeatedly, roaring: “You were so arrogant before! You were so smug! Get up and fight this king!”
“…” Jun Changxiao was speechless.
When the opponent was at full strength, he didn’t see him this aggressive.
Though King Baiqiu was now his contract beast, after all he had personal grudges with Hall Master Zi. Letting him vent was reasonable.
“BOOM!”
“BOOM!”
The Purple Scale Demon King kicked a few more times before being pulled away by Li Qingyang and Xiao Zuiji.
Jun Changxiao said: “You’ve cursed him and beaten him. From today on, your grudges are wiped clean. In the sect you must help and care for each other.”
The Purple Scale Demon King said incredulously: “Taking in this despicable, shameless fellow?”
“If not taking him in, should we kill him?”
“He must be killed!”
Jun Changxiao shook his head: “Hall Master Zi, don’t act impetuously. After all, we’re going to join hands in a great enterprise. Having powerful helpers, we naturally must cherish them.”
Speaking of enterprise, the Purple Scale Demon King’s mind turned around, saying coldly: “For Sect Master’s sake, this king won’t hold it against you.”
“Swoosh!”
Jun Changxiao took the bruised and swollen King Baiqiu into the Master Ball, saying: “Rest in place.”
“Yes!”
The disciples all relaxed.
“So comfortable!”
“Haven’t fought this satisfyingly in ages!”
War Cavalry Hall members gathered in twos and threes, still discussing the recent battle, the battle intent in their eyes not yet fully subsided.
They’d always trained strictly in military fashion, naturally cultivating that soldier’s bloodthirsty nature of going to battle to kill enemies.
Li Qingyang, Xiao Zuiji and others also fought very satisfyingly. After all, this kind of slaughter with real fierce beasts felt better than fighting fierce beasts illusions in the Life-Death Secret Realm!
…
One hour later.
Jun Changxiao summoned King Baiqiu and ordered him to lead the way to his dwelling nest.
It was a natural cave mansion with an intricate internal environment.
When Jun Changxiao led the core disciples inside and entered the largest stone cavern, their eyes all widened, because in their field of vision—it was entirely natural spirit stones!
That scene was like a group of explorers pushing open ancient stone doors to reveal glittering treasures!
Extremely shocking, extremely thrilling!
Jun Changxiao blinked, breathing rapidly: “At minimum there must be a million pieces!”
“Master.”
King Baiqiu said: “What’s stored here is only one-tenth. There are nine other stone caverns with more.”
Here was only one-tenth, with nine more!
“One has a million, ten similar stone caverns is 10 times a million, equals… 100 million…”
“Thump!”
Jun Changxiao couldn’t catch his breath and directly rolled his eyes back and collapsed.
The system crashed: “10 times a million—how did he calculate 100 million!”
“Not good! Sect Master fainted!”
“Quick quick quick! Pinch his philtrum!”
…
The tenth stone cavern, having collected over a million natural spirit stones into spatial rings, Jun Changxiao squatted on a rock, one hand propping, one hand covering his face, laughing until his mouth went crooked.
Qian Buduo had really predicted correctly.
The spirit stone mine vein existing in the mountain range depths had considerable scale. Just the number of spirit stones reached tens of millions!
“Got rich, got rich!”
Jun Changxiao was still squatting on the rock, laughing foolishly.
So many spirit stones—for the sect this was absolutely an extremely huge fortune. No problem at all for overall strength to increase a large notch!
“Big Brother.”
Jun Changxiao said: “I love you!”
The system said: “Not planning to share a bit with him?”
“I came to accompany Big Brother to excavate the spirit stone mine vein, but in the end he ran away, and the mine vein had no ore. What do I have to share?” Jun Changxiao looked completely innocent.
“…”
The system said: “Host is really righteous.”
Jun Changxiao shook his head: “These natural spirit stones can increase the sect’s overall strength, can let Li Qingyang and them break through to peak Wuwang quickly. I can only temporarily wrong Big Brother.”
“The enormously wealthy Family Head Qian will probably still be grateful to you for allowing him to narrowly escape disaster.” The system said.
This was actually true.
“Return home!” Jun Changxiao said.
Subduing a spirit beast comparable to Saint-level, plus earning tens of millions of natural spirit stones.
This Baiqiu Mountain Range journey’s harvest could be called enormous. So much so that on the return journey, Jun Changxiao couldn’t help singing with flourish: “Come on, have fun, anyway there’s plenty of time…”