136: Scouts Da Niu arrive to attack

...Military Cultivators, as the name suggests, are Cultivators who accompany the army on expeditions.

Among these Cultivators, some are legitimate Sect Cultivators with ferocious combat power and numerous methods.

At the same time, there are also commoner Loose Cultivators with varying levels of strength.

These are Cultivators recruited randomly from the streets; to put it bluntly, they are cannon fodder Cultivators.

These Loose Cultivators are very shrewd and cherish their lives; neither side dares to send them into major battles.

It's not just that they might flee before the battle starts, but the fear that they might defect in the middle of it.

Therefore, they usually serve as Scouts or handymen, providing support for the main force of the army.

After Qin Dong arrived at the front lines, he was assigned to an inconspicuous small area, with duties similar to those of a Scout.

The location he was responsible for was very remote, and basically no Cultivators from the Southern Unification Dynasty were willing to come and bother him.

Consequently, Qin Dong's presence was almost negligible.

Qin Dong was very satisfied with his current identity; being able to blend into the army and get resources for free every day was quite good.

More importantly, no one was there to manage him.

He only needed to be responsible for the surveillance of a certain area and didn't need to run deep behind enemy lines every day like others.

At least from the current situation, his circumstances were quite good.

Unfortunately, such days lasted for less than three days.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, a loud noise came from the distance.

Qin Dong looked in the direction of the sound.

"Could it be a large-scale enemy attack?" Qin Dong's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately prepared to flee.

He wasn't afraid of a dozen or twenty Cultivators attacking, but he feared the arrival of thousands.

But on second thought, he felt it was unlikely; after all, the distance was so great, and they were separated by the two sides' hundreds of thousands of troops.

The sound should have come from over there, I'll go take a look... Qin Dong walked forward and looked up, only to see thick fog ahead, making it impossible to see the situation clearly.

Just then, a figure shuttled quickly through the clouds, moving at an extremely fast speed.

In the blink of an eye, that figure had reached him and quickly landed on the ground.

Qin Dong looked closely; the other person's aura was erratic, and his face was covered in blood and filth.

Especially what he was wearing was different from his own attire; clearly, the opponent was a Cultivator from the Western Yan Dynasty.

"A Scout from the Southern Unification Dynasty? Die for this seat!"

The moment the Cultivator saw Qin Dong, he attacked boldly.

He shouted "this seat," but in reality, he was only a Qi Refining level nine Cultivator.

Moreover, he had clearly picked the wrong opponent... Fifteen minutes later, Qin Dong was swaggering through the Southern Unification Dynasty military camp, carrying a person on his shoulder.

"Wow, Fellow Daoist Da Niuzhi, what is the meaning of this?"

"In the military camp, no debauchery is allowed!"

"Not even between men."

"You've all misunderstood; I just happened to catch a Scout from the Western Yan Dynasty."

Qin Dong carried the Scout to the Prisoner Camp to claim his reward.

With a thud, he dropped the person on the ground.

"I've come to collect my reward money."

This scene left the prisoner Guard Officer across from him stunned... "Fellow Daoist Da Niuzhi, do you mean to say that when you first caught him, he wasn't wearing anything?"

The Southern Unification Dynasty Guard Officer looked at the naked Cultivator, who was only wrapped in a few large tree leaves, and his expression became somewhat subtle.

Soon, the reward was issued: twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones in hand.

Including the items on the opponent, he had harvested a total of thirty Spirit Stones.

Thirty Spirit Stones for catching one, three thousand for a hundred, and three hundred thousand for ten thousand!

Qin Dong calculated the accounts and suddenly exclaimed, "My god! This place is truly where I shall make my fortune!"

Desire is like Pandora's box; once a corner is opened, the entire box is destined to be shattered.

In the following days, the Southern Unification Dynasty discovered a very miraculous thing.

For some reason, the number of their prisoners of war began to increase day by day.

Even when the battle situation tended to be calm, the numbers grew frantically.

From a few a day at the beginning, it became a dozen or twenty a day.

At the same time, a peculiar masked Cultivator also attracted many people's attention.

Not only was his strength extraordinary, but his Cultivation Techniques were also unusual.

He constantly roamed the edges of the battlefield, capturing a large number of Military Cultivators serving the Western Yan Dynasty.

Whether they were Loose Cultivators or Sect Disciples, he caught them all without exception.

Capturing them was one thing, but he also stripped every single one of them of their clothes; even the female Cultivators couldn't escape his clutches.

In less than half a month, he had captured more than two hundred Military Cultivators.

However, there was one point that everyone talked about with great interest.

It was that although this peculiar Cultivator stripped people's clothes, he never laid a hand on these naked male and female Cultivators.

Regardless of beauty or ugliness, male or female, he didn't touch them at all.

"Could it be that his... hardware isn't very capable?"

In an instant, people were discussing and pointing fingers.

Some unscrupulous merchants even sensed a business opportunity and began spreading news that they would sell private, specially-made potent medicine at high prices... The Western Yan Dynasty began to take the matter seriously as their Scouts went missing one after another for no reason.

To this end, they sent a group of Sect Disciples to investigate these disappearances.

The Western Yan Dynasty believed that with their formidable strength, wit, and bravery, they would surely be able to investigate something.

"Don't worry, although we aren't Disciples of the Nine Sects, we are professionals!"

"Exactly, we are a professional team!"

As a result, in less than a few days, they also disappeared collectively.

Half a month passed, and the Southern Unification Dynasty's Prisoner of War Camp was overcrowded, necessitating an emergency expansion.

Such a sight made the Southern Unification Dynasty's Guard Officer click his tongue in amazement.

"Fellow Daoist Da Niuzhi, you are truly impressive."

"It's been less than half a month, and you've actually captured so many Cultivators."

I have already applied to the higher-ups to issue you a reward.

"I just wonder, does Fellow Daoist Da have any secret for catching so many prisoners?"

To this, Qin Dong chuckled and said, "It's just good luck."

Good luck?

If these words were heard by some people in the Prisoner of War Camp, their noses would be crooked with anger.

What kind of good luck is that?!

It was clearly you who sneaked into our temporary camp in the middle of the night and forcibly abducted us while we were dreaming!

...On the other side, inside the tent of the Western Yan Dynasty's Second Route Army, the Great General of the Second Route Army was dumbfounded.

"You mean to say that no Military Cultivators dare to serve as Scouts anymore?"

"What's going on?"

The Scout Commander across from him said with a long face, "We've encountered an expert."

"An expert?"

"Yes, an expert has appeared on the Southern Unification Dynasty's side who specifically targets our Scout units."

"We've suffered heavy losses; in less than half a month, nearly three hundred and fifty Cultivators have been captured."

"The opponent seems to call himself Da Niuzhi or something; he's very wicked."

Upon hearing this, the Great General was immediately filled with killing intent.

"No matter who he is, this person must not be allowed to remain!"

"I will allocate elite Cultivators to you; set a trap to kill this man!"

The Scout Commander's face immediately lit up with joy: "Thank you, Great General!"

"Take these elite Cultivators and go ambush him first!"

"Remember, at all costs, you must pull him out by the roots!"

"As you command!"

The Great General snorted coldly: "It seems that for the sake of the throne, I must deploy my Core Cultivators!"

That night, a group of elite Cultivators left the military camp and rushed to the front lines to lie in ambush.

Not long after, a masked man appeared within their ambush circle...