108: Chapter 108 When has this Great King ever betrayed his own brothers?

Chun Xiaobai saw his expression, which looked like his parents had just died. Without a word, he rummaged through the five new captives, took out five storage pouches, and stuffed them into his arms.

"Take them! This is the compensation for your losses from those five guys!"

Xiao Zhang was stunned. He looked down at the five storage pouches in his hands, then looked up at Chun Xiaobai.

Skeptically, he extended his Divine Sense to investigate the storage pouches. In the next second, the 'dead father' expression on his face instantly vanished, and he asked cautiously.

"Great King... these... are they really for me?"

"Would I lie to you?" Chun Xiaobai waved his hand, speaking with grand magnanimity.

"When has This Great King ever scammed his own brothers?"

"If you don't believe me, just wait. When the Second-in-Command and Third Leader return, you can ask them! Just on this trip to Wanling Mountain, each of them has already been allocated fifty storage pouches!"

"What? Fifty?!"

Xiao Zhang felt his heart rate suddenly accelerate, and even his breathing became heavy.

Fifty storage pouches!

One must know that the Disciples of Tiansha Valley had been under joint sanctions by the Righteous Alliance for hundreds of years. They usually didn't even have a place to do missions to earn extra money.

Besides refining some Puppets to sell for a bit of pocket change on the black market, they had to risk their lives in these confrontation missions.

Most importantly, the Puppet business in their region was suppressed by underground dealers, and Profound Rank Puppets were sold for dirt-cheap prices.

Furthermore, they had to hand over ninety-nine percent of the treasures and storage pouches collected during these confrontation missions.

Although these five storage pouches weren't particularly wealthy individually, combined, they represented the savings of five Disciples over more than a decade!

Just by going for a stroll with him, his net worth had directly quintupled?

It seemed... it seemed that following him wasn't such a bad idea after all?

Anyway, these fellow Disciples would eventually turn into Points for Chun Xiaobai. Better a dead Fellow Daoist than a dead me!

Thinking of this, Xiao Zhang suddenly looked up, revealing an expression of one ready to die for a cause, and solemnly cupped his fists.

"Thank you for the reward, Great King!"

"Uh!!!" This time, it was Chun Xiaobai's turn to be stunned.

He was caught off guard by the 180-degree change in Xiao Zhang's attitude.

How could he be even greedier than that little money-grubber, Bai Jiner?

However, he quickly realized.

This guy wasn't just greedy for money; he was someone who saw things clearly and thought them through.

He knew that doing a job with him was definitely a hundred times better than miserably wasting his years away in the Sect.

Tiansha Valley had been sanctioned for hundreds of years and was dirt poor.

Even if these Disciples could snatch many treasures from the Disciples of the Righteous Alliance, after handing them over to the Sect, they'd be lucky to keep ten percent.

By following him, whatever they snatched would be their own!

"Good, good!" Chun Xiaobai patted his shoulder with satisfaction, finding the boy more and more pleasing to the eye.

"Next," Chun Xiaobai put his arm around Xiao Zhang's shoulder and smiled mysteriously, "This Great King will take you to pull off a big one!"

"Alright!" Xiao Zhang's spirits lifted upon hearing this. He nodded vigorously and asked in a low voice.

"Great King, what... do we plan to do next?"

Chun Xiaobai pulled him aside and whispered for a long time.

As they spoke, Xiao Zhang's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and finally, he slapped his thigh in excitement: "Great King, what a brilliant plan! Truly brilliant! This move of yours is simply marvelous!"

"Uh!" Chun Xiaobai's eye twitched at his excited expression.

Actually, his plan was very simple: have Xiao Zhang use his identity as a fellow Disciple to gather the scattered Tiansha Valley Disciples and lead them to a specific location.

Then he would step in and catch them all in one go, saving him the time of searching for them one by one.

As it turned out, after hearing this, this guy was even more excited than if he had found money!

"Great King, are you sure... you won't harm their lives, only seek their wealth?" Xiao Zhang asked to confirm, still a bit uneasy.

"This Great King keeps his word."

Having received a definite answer, Xiao Zhang was completely at ease.

This small bit of persistence made Chun Xiaobai nod with satisfaction.

He needed brothers who were brave and willing to fight, but definitely not cold-blooded types who would do anything for profit.

"Only, you fellow," Chun Xiaobai muttered to himself, "be careful you don't end up with no friends in the future."

But, I like it!

He patted Xiao Zhang's shoulder.

"When this guy does things, he really is 'arrogant' indeed!"

Subsequently, the two of them ran out of the cave with their arms around each other's shoulders.

Of course, now that he had leverage over Xiao Zhang, he wasn't worried about the guy betraying him.

Actually, he was very reluctant to use this method to blackmail others. It was just that the incident with Zhao Gang had broken his heart, forcing him to adopt this simple and crude... quite effective method.

As long as the other party was loyal and had decent character, Chun Xiaobai naturally wouldn't treat them poorly.

So, with one on the outside and one on the inside, they began their grand plan in coordination.

Xiao Zhang soon found a group of fellow Disciples and told them mysteriously that he had discovered traces of a large unit from the Righteous Alliance.

They seemed to have found a Secret Realm entrance at the bottom of a cliff, and more than fifty people had already gone down.

As soon as these words were spoken, how could those Tiansha Valley Disciples, who were already worried about not finding 'Points,' sit still?

No wonder they hadn't seen a single ghost from the Righteous Alliance in this area after searching for so long; they had all sneakily gone down to the Secret Realm to find treasure!

Immediately, a leading Disciple called out, and soon a massive team was gathered, heading toward the abyss Xiao Zhang pointed out—the one Chun Xiaobai had discovered earlier.

Meanwhile, Chun Xiaobai, hiding by the cliff, saw the dense crowd of people below and couldn't help but look grim.

Dammit, I asked you to go fishing, and you brought the whole pond over?

He quietly counted the heads. Good heavens, exactly fifty-eight people!

This... this...

Chun Xiaobai was suddenly in a bind.

Although his Shrinking Ground to an Inch footwork was profound, it had its limitations!

With so many people, how was he supposed to fight?

Damn it, in all my years of running a mountain gang, this is the first time I've been worried about having too many hostages.

However, there are always more solutions than problems.

Chun Xiaobai's eyes rolled, and he actually thought of a way—Berserk Mode!

Once that mode was activated, his power and speed would explode geometrically, but the consumption was also enormous, like burning money.

But the good thing was, he had plenty of everything right now, especially Spirit Medicines scavenged from other Disciples' storage pouches!

Chun Xiaobai calculated and took ten stalks of Grade Two Spirit Medicine from his Storage Ring, stuffing them into his mouth, ready to swallow them once his internal spiritual energy was depleted.

On the other side, the fifty-eight Tiansha Valley Disciples, 'accompanied' by Xiao Zhang, were standing at the edge of the cliff, peeking down.

The leading Disciple looked into the bottomless, dark abyss, his eyes shining brightly.

"Hiss... I'll say, this aura and this depth, it's possible no one has been down there for ten thousand years!"

"Right! It seems Junior Brother Xiao didn't lie to us!"