54: Chapter 54 Flying and wiping all the way!

*Hiss~*

This shouldn't be right!

A team of over sixty people...

It was clearly a full formation from a major Sect.

Actually, that wasn't particularly strange, but—

But!

The blood-red number above everyone's head was [Zero]!

How is that possible?

The [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm] has been open for three days now,

And the anomaly has been happening for two days.

It's either kill or be killed;

No matter which it is,

One should have at least some kills to their name.

For this team of over sixty people,

Whether they had a few kills,

Or dozens of them,

It would be normal!

But the kill count for the entire team was [Zero]!

And even more bizarrely,

They were heading straight for him!

Jiang Lan currently had the blood-red number [226] floating above his head.

He was now firmly established as the murderous demon of the [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm].

Normal teams would be running away as fast as they could upon seeing him,

Yet this group of over sixty people was charging straight toward him!

Jiang Lan had a very bad premonition!

Seeing Jiang Lan stand up, the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox]

Obediently hopped onto his shoulder,

Nuzzling Jiang Lan's cheek with its snowy-white little head.

Jiang Lan felt the little fellow was fuzzy

And soft—truly adorable!

The little fellow's cultivation was still at [Foundation Establishment Level Six].

As expected, just like in Jiang Lan's memories of his past life,

A Spirit Beast's cultivation cannot exceed its master's.

Even if a little fox swallows a Divine Pill

To force a Breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage,

Its experience will not increase further.

Only after Jiang Lan enters the Foundation Establishment Realm

Can the little fellow continue to Cultivate further.

Cherry Fall's cultivation of [Summon Fire Dragon] had reached a critical juncture,

So Jiang Lan left her with the [Supreme Grade Qi Gathering Array].

Man and fox rushed out of the secret chamber,

Heading straight for the Gao Family Three Siblings.

Jiang Lan had a feeling

That those coming this time were definitely tough customers!

In all likelihood, they were the strongest team in this [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm]!

Above the western region of the [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm],

A yellow figure streaked across the sky,

Followed closely by over sixty white figures.

The eyes of the sixty-plus Cultivators in white Daoist robes were all bloodshot,

Tears streaming constantly from the corners of their eyes.

They kept raising their sleeves to wipe them;

Some Cultivators' sleeves were actually completely soaked!

That's right!

This was the Wanfu Sect's Secret Realm team,

And they were flying at full speed toward Jiang Lan's location.

The reason their eyes were bloodshot

And tears were constantly flowing

Wasn't sadness, pain, or being moved—

It was because the person in front was simply too stinky!

Up ahead, the Wan Family Boss was covered in a yellow, viscous, unknown substance,

Reeking to high heaven.

Since he was flying so fast,

The sixty-plus people behind him were out of luck!

Because the stench drifted backward,

Wan Family Boss himself actually didn't smell much of anything.

In fact, after flying for a while,

These sixty-plus people had already started to adapt to the smell,

At least to the point where they weren't dry-heaving anymore.

However, the stench was truly irritating to the eyes;

Tears wouldn't stop flowing from their eyes,

So they flew all the way, wiping all the way.

Those in the know understood that these sixty Cultivators' eyes were being irritated by the stench of the man in front;

Those who didn't would have thought the Ancestor of the Myriad Talisman Sect had died,

And that this group was a funeral procession returning to the Sect!

Boss Gao truly lived up to his background in the Jianghu;

In just a short while, he had become one with the Shushan Disciples,

Calling them brothers.

Right now, Boss Gao was playing a game of dice with the Shushan Disciples, betting on high or low.

They weren't betting money;

Whoever lost would have a small slip of paper stuck to their face.

To put it simply,

It was just for fun.

When Jiang Lan reached the Shushan team,

He was genuinely startled!

What happened to these Shushan Disciples?

Looking around,

Without exception, the dozen or so Shushan Disciples

Had their faces covered in small white patches of ointment!

Some had half their faces covered,

While others were covered so much that only one eye remained.

Why are their faces full of white ointment patches?

I remember they weren't this badly injured when I left?

Could it be that the supreme grade healing medicine was ineffective?

Jiang Lan looked at the dice Boss Gao was shaking in his hand,

Then looked closely at the things stuck on the Shushan Disciples' faces,

And finally figured it out.

It turned out that the things stuck all over the Shushan Disciples' faces were small white slips of paper.

Though the slips were small,

There were just so many of them!

How many times must these Shushan Disciples have lost?

Boss Gao truly is an old hand in the Jianghu;

Impressive, he can really win!

"Boss, you're here?"

Boss Gao slowly turned around,

Giving Jiang Lan a real fright.

Boss Gao's face was completely covered with at least ten layers of paper slips;

He didn't look human anymore.

At first glance, Jiang Lan

Really thought he was seeing a ghost in broad daylight!

Boss Gao must have lost over a thousand times, right?

Jiang Lan felt a bit puzzled;

This guy Boss Gao had his eyes completely covered by paper slips,

Without even a slit left.

How was this guy continuing to play?

He couldn't even see!

Boss Gao was clearly the type who was terrible at games but loved to play anyway.

"Put those away, we have serious business!"

Boss Gao peeled the clumps of paper

Off his face piece by piece,

And his grinning old face leaned in toward Jiang Lan again.

"Boss, are you talking about those sixty-plus weaklings heading our way?

Boss, you're amazing, luring in another sixty-plus weaklings at once.

The brothers can pull off another big job with you this time!"

Actually, Boss Gao had noticed them long ago,

But he thought Jiang Lan was again putting himself in the game,

Using himself as bait

To lure those sixty weaklings over.

In his heart, he had cheered many times,

As expected of my boss! Truly impressive!

The three of us siblings really followed the right person!

Jiang Lan's expression was grim.

"I didn't lure them here.

Furthermore, the opposing team is very strong;

They're likely the strongest team in this [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm]!"

"*Hiss~* That's not right!

The kill counts for the opposing team are all [Zero].

They haven't killed a single person;

They're clearly just weaklings!"

"That is precisely the biggest problem.

The [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm] has been open for three days,

And the anomaly has been happening for two days.

If they were truly weaklings,

They would have been killed long ago!

The fact that they are still alive now

Has only one explanation!

They are the strongest team in this Secret Realm,

And they only came to this [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm] looking for Immortal Artifacts.

They simply look down on the belongings of other teams

And haven't bothered to rob them.

Meanwhile, other teams don't dare to provoke them at all

Because they simply can't win!

That's why their kill count is still [Zero] even now."

It had to be said,

Jiang Lan's IQ was still sharp,

And his intuition was very keen.

Based solely on the two pieces of information—sixty-plus people and [Zero] kills—

He had deduced the situation of the opposing team quite accurately.

"Take out all of your reserves,

Including Spirit Stones, Medicinal Pills, and Talismanic Incantations.

Distribute them among the dozen Shushan Disciples,

And then start setting traps!

This battle will likely be very difficult!"

Hearing this,

The expressions of the Gao Family Three Siblings all changed at once,

Their movements surprisingly synchronized!

They all clutched their Spirit Storage Bags

And backed away!

"Boss, although it's true we three Gao siblings are following you,

One must follow the code of the Jianghu when out in the world!

Our stuff was earned by putting our lives on the line!

Even if I die here today,

Even if I jump off this mountain pass and fall to my death,

I won't take out a single Spirit Stone!"

The Gao Family Three Siblings had climbed up from the lowest levels of the Cultivation World.

It hadn't been easy following Jiang Lan through piles of corpses

To save up this inheritance.

Asking them to take it out—

To be honest, it was more painful than killing them!

"The three of you, come over here for a moment!"