148: The cost of greed

The Dark Night Baron Bandit Group claimed to be chivalrous thieves, but how many of them were actually righteous at their core?

It was merely to satisfy their own greed.

Just like bandits in chaotic times or those stealing grain during a famine, they would all claim they were forced into it and were only doing it to survive.

Does one have to harm others just to stay alive?

Gu Xiaoyue despised everyone in the Dark Night Baron Bandit Group from the bottom of her heart, especially since they kept radiating killing intent toward her.

Taking out the qibao berry to feign surrender was merely to buy time for Xiao Qi to absorb the hun yuan pearl.

Hand glanced at Gu Xiaoyue out of the corner of his eye, seeing that she seemed to have no guard up at all.

He secretly commanded the Wind Elemental, and three Wind Blades flew toward her with a whoosh!

Gu Xiaoyue curled the corners of her lips; after all, with a body strengthened twelve times over, the speed of the Wind Elemental's Wind Blades was not so fast in her eyes that she couldn't defend against them.

Three layers of Earth Shield rose out of thin air in front of her, and two were shattered by the Wind Elemental's Wind Blades.

The layer closest to her was also cracked, but it did not shatter completely.

After all, it was at the mature eleventh tier; this attack power was not low!

Gu Xiaoyue put away the qibao berry and said to Hand with a sarcastic tone.

"What? Do you not want to upgrade it to Lord-level anymore?"

Hand stopped pretending, "I can get it just the same by killing you!"

His greedy expression made Gu Xiaoyue feel a bit nauseous.

Since that was the case, she would stop pretending too!

This hunched old man would pay the price for his greed!

There was a difference in tier between Gu Xiaoyue and him, and Xiao Qi and Qingqing were still absorbing the hun yuan pearl.

As such, she could only summon Xiao Jiu, Ying Long, Hou, and Xiao Lan.

Seeing Gu Xiaoyue summon three more humanoid pets and a mermaid, Hand's face turned pale for a moment, then flushed red with even greater anger!

"Just how many pets do you have? To be able to summon six at once?!"

Looking at Gu Xiaoyue's playful expression, Hand couldn't help but wonder, how many good things did this girl from the Dragon Kingdom actually have?

Gu Xiaoyue unleashed several vines at once, binding Hand.

"This move has no effect on me!"

Hand's hoarse voice carried a hint of triumph.

Gu Xiaoyue ignored him, "Ying Long, original form!"

She called for Ying Long to transform into its original form, and a giant dragon over a hundred meters long flew into the air.

The pressure released by a single dragon roar caused even the Wind Elemental to show a look of terror.

"Rainfall!"

Gu Xiaoyue immediately had Ying Long use the rainfall skill, and a light drizzle began to fall in the space.

"So what? I have the Deep Sea Giant Demon; water skills are simply not worth looking at here!"

Hand used teleportation once again and broke free from the vines.

He commanded the Wind Elemental to attack Gu Xiaoyue again, but the dragon's roar made the Wind Elemental wary, and it couldn't unleash its normal power at all.

Gu Xiaoyue gave Xiao Lan a look, and Xiao Lan immediately formed a bubble, enclosing itself, Gu Xiaoyue, and Hou.

Hou carried Xiao Jiu, Xiao Lan, and Gu Xiaoyue as they flew up, leaving the ground.

"Go ahead and use your teleportation; I want to see if there is a cooldown time!"

Gu Xiaoyue smiled gently and brightly, "Or perhaps, you can watch helplessly as your pets are all struck to death!"

Afterward, several more Earth Shields trapped Hand inside.

None of his pets could fly, and he had initially thought Ying Long's rain was just a light drizzle.

He didn't expect that from the moment Gu Xiaoyue started summoning pets, she had already had Xiao Lan seal the surrounding hundred meters with a water wall.

It wasn't just Ying Long making it rain; Xiao Jiu's water-type skill was also spraying water jets.

The water level gradually rose, but Hand was not panicked in the slightest.

"The more water, the better! Girl from the Dragon Kingdom, do you want to see the power of my Deep Sea Giant Demon? Hahahaha!"

Hand used teleportation again and got out of the range controlled by the Earth Shields.

Gu Xiaoyue watched his performance with interest. She raised an eyebrow, and Xiao Qi appeared beside her.

"Ying Long's skill damage isn't enough; Xiao Qi, it's up to you!"

Holding the Po Di Zi Jin Spear and wearing purple-gold armor, Xiao Qi floated in the air like a god descending.

He pointed his spear toward the sky, and four bolts of lightning instantly struck down toward the Deep Sea Giant Demon!

Xiao Qi's Thunderbolt Spell was already at the perfect level and could instantly fire three lightning bolts.

The other one was fired by Ying Long, who was unconvinced after hearing Gu Xiaoyue say that the damage wasn't enough.

The water on the ground was a conductor; the Wind Elemental, the giant wolf, and the Deep Sea Giant Demon were all struck with a crackling sound, wailing in pain.

Along with Hand in the water, he only saw the lightning flashing in the sky, falling down—followed by his whole body being paralyzed by the electricity!

"Continue!"

Gu Xiaoyue commanded from the air; if one move wasn't enough to kill him, then keep going!

The perfect-level skill of an Immortal Tier pet and the high-level skill of a God-Rank Pet descended at the same time.

Hand, whose body had been strengthened several times, didn't last long before being electrocuted into charcoal!

Gu Xiaoyue felt the spatial flow around her change. With a thought, she recalled all her pets back to the Yu Beast Space.

Once Hand died, the space he had created using his skill also collapsed.

Gu Xiaoyue fell to the ground, losing her sense of gravity.

Next to Hand's corpse were scattered a few pet eggs, as well as beast feed and identification documents.

Gu Xiaoyue clicked her tongue; so poor!

I'm afraid he bought pet eggs whenever he had a little money!

Except for these three, which were decent in level and quality, he had a few others that weren't very good in quality.

She collected Hand's supplies and corpse, then turned to Xiao Lu and Xiao Mo.

The two of them were a bit at a loss, and then they threw themselves into Gu Xiaoyue's arms.

A little boy and a little girl were crying loudly.

Because Gu Xiaoyue had been dragged into another space just now, they couldn't sense her.

While they were wondering what to do, they let those two masked men run away!

They were aggrieved, worried, and self-reproachful!

With these mixed emotions, they waited until Gu Xiaoyue safely emerged from the other space.

Only then did they break down and cry loudly.

"Alright, stop crying, stop crying! I didn't mean to blame you!"

Gu Xiaoyue hugged these two little ones and comforted them softly.

Gu Xiaoyue had originally transformed the two of them into a young boy and a young girl because she felt their personalities were soft and cute.

At this moment, she actually didn't know how to coax them!

After thinking for a moment, she took out a few bags of snacks.

"I'll let it slide this time, but if you let the enemy run away next time, there will be no snacks to eat!"

The two little ones were sniffling while chewing on the jerky snacks.

Seeing that their emotions had stabilized, Gu Xiaoyue recalled them back to the Yu Beast Space.

As for those two masked men—Gu Xiaoyue guessed that they probably hadn't run far.

They had just concealed their presence to observe who would survive, her or the old man.

Gu Xiaoyue mocked Hand in her heart; he could have teleported anywhere, yet he insisted on sealing himself in that space.

If she had a teleportation skill, she would be playing all over Mercury!

If she also had—Gu Xiaoyue's consciousness shifted to the tianling tree—she had always felt that her pets' skills were already very impressive.

Now it seemed that she was still a frog in a well!