123: Chapter 123 A wise man doesn't suffer a loss he can avoid.

He hadn't expected that the world was so unpredictable; to think that someone would actually dare to rob him.

Fang Yuan immediately understood. He took the image-recording stone and thrust it in front of Li Cheng, speaking in a sarcastic tone: "There's no need for communication talismans."

"Come on, speak into this. Tell me who you need to send you money, and I'll take care of delivering this to them."

"Ah?" Li Cheng stared at the shimmering image-recording stone, completely dumbfounded.

He didn't even have a pair of underpants on right now. If this were recorded... how could he ever show his face again?

But he knew that if he didn't agree, he would likely be turned into a thousand points the very next second.

There was no other choice; a wise man knows when to retreat.

He gritted his teeth, a ruthless resolve forming in his heart.

"Just you wait!"

"Once I escape, I will hunt down every single one of you bandits within a hundred thousand li!"

"I'll make sure to skin you alive and burn your souls in lamps!"

There was no help for it; when under someone else's roof, one must bow one's head.

Afterwards, at Xiao Zhang's "strong insistence," Li Cheng knelt on the ground, bare-bottomed, with his hands over his head. Looking at the note Fang Yuan had written, he began to read with a mournful expression:

"My fellow Junior Brothers! I... I have been captured by the Righteous Alliance!"

"They are too strong! We are no match for them! Quickly pool together some Spirit Stones to ransom me back!"

"Let's... let's just surrender! Tiansha Valley is nothing! Compared to the Righteous Alliance, we're just a bunch of pathetic rabble!"

"I've finally seen the truth; our Demonic Sect is just something that can't be brought into polite society..."

He recited every word that belittled Tiansha Valley and exalted the Righteous Alliance, even going so far as to insult his own Sect's ancestors back eighteen generations.

After finishing, Li Cheng collapsed onto the ground.

He knew that even if he were ransomed back, his father would beat him to death.

But there was no other way; this was still slightly better than becoming a thousand points right now.

Suddenly, a cold gust of wind blew through the cave, making him feel chilled to the bone. Just as he was about to ask for some clothes, Chun Xiaobai's figure flashed by like a ghost.

Li Cheng felt his vision blur, his body instantly stiffened, and he became a "sculpture" once again.

Fang Yuan chuckled as he dragged him to the side and set him up.

Next, they repeated the same trick on the Core Disciple from the Righteous Alliance, going through the entire process exactly as before, and successfully obtained two fresh image-recording stones.

Chun Xiaobai tossed the two image-recording stones to Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang respectively and ordered, "You two, take these and deliver them to your respective Senior Brothers and Junior Brothers."

"What?!" Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang were dumbfounded on the spot. Deliver them? Was he joking!

They had to realize that these image-recording stones contained words that utterly vilified their own side while praising the other side to the heavens.

If those arrogant Core Disciples saw this, wouldn't they skin them alive on the spot?

"Dammit!" Seeing the two cowards trembling, Chun Xiaobai was so angry he wanted to kick them both.

Just then, Bai Jiner couldn't stand it any longer. She stepped forward and scolded them, "You two fellows, can't you show some backbone!"

"It's one thing that the King has to handle all the dangerous tasks alone, but does he have to do all the dirty, tiresome work too? He's the one scouting, he's the one tying people up, and now even delivering a message requires him to go personally?"

She became angrier as she spoke, puffing out her chest and glaring at Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang with her beautiful eyes. "When it came to splitting the treasures, why didn't you say you'd take less? When were you ever polite then? Don't you feel ashamed? Don't you lose sleep at night?!"

Hiss! Chun Xiaobai looked at Bai Jiner in surprise. This woman... when did she become so fierce? This posture, this aura... why does she feel a bit like a Queen?

Seeing Chun Xiaobai staring at her blankly, Bai Jiner immediately puffed out her chest even further.

As for Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang, who had been scolded, their faces turned beet red, and they lowered their heads in shame.

Bai Jiner was right. For all these days, it had always been the King charging into battle while they, at best, just did odd jobs.

Now that they had been scolded by Bai Jiner in public, how could they possibly hesitate any longer?

They exchanged a glance, quickly took the image-recording stones, bowed to Bai Jiner and Chun Xiaobai, and then shot out of the cave like a streak of light.

Their speed was as if they had dogs chasing at their heels.

Of course, Chun Xiaobai wouldn't just sit idle; he followed his own plan and quietly slipped out after them.

...Very soon, the two arrived outside the camps of their respective targets.

When those two image-recording stones, which captured such shameful humiliation, were handed over to the Core Disciples of both sides who were waiting in battle formation, the air in the valley seemed to freeze.

When those Core Disciple representatives saw the humiliating sight of their own Senior Brothers, bare-bottomed and begging for mercy with their hands over their heads, in the image-recording stones.

Everyone was stunned at first. Then, the pretty faces of the female Core Disciples turned beet red, followed immediately by a monstrous rage!

"Outrageous! These Demonic Path scoundrels are too rampant!"

On the Righteous Alliance side, a leading Disciple was shaking with rage, shattering a nearby boulder with a single palm strike.

"Outrageous! These Righteous Path hypocrites are so despicable and shameless!"

On the Tiansha Valley side, the Killing Intent was equally soaring.

"No! We cannot swallow this insult!"

The leading Core Disciples on both sides made the decision almost simultaneously.

"Why wait two days for the decisive battle? We must kill them right now!"

Afterwards, they immediately sent people out to intercept Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang, who hadn't run far. They dragged them back, pinned them to the ground, and gave them a sound beating, venting their fury.

They beat them until they were unrecognizable, their faces bruised and swollen, only then did the pent-up rage in their hearts subside just a little bit.

But this great humiliation was not something that could be resolved by simply enduring it.

If they could endure their own Core Disciple being tortured and threatened like this, then what kind of Immortal cultivation were they practicing? What Dao were they seeking?

"Fight! We must fight those bastards!"

...A moment later, the Core Disciples of both sides directly organized their troops and decided to start the war immediately.

They couldn't swallow this insult without killing the other side!

After an hour of emergency coordination, the Righteous Alliance had assembled an army of fifty thousand, including three thousand Core Disciples.

Even Qin Ruoxue, who was renowned for her beauty on the Beauty Ranking, was among them.

At this moment, she stood in the center of a group of female Disciples, surrounded like the moon amidst the stars, yet her expression remained as cold and aloof as always.

It was as if the massive melee about to erupt before her was, to her, nothing more than a boring game.

Besides her, there were many other Core female Disciples from different Sects, the most famous of whom was Gu Shuangshuang, standing right next to Qin Ruoxue.

Her appearance was in no way inferior to Qin Ruoxue's. However, the way they looked at each other was a bit off; they never once glanced at one another, clearly showing that the two did not get along.

Besides them, there was one dressed in a fiery red dress, holding a long whip, with an imposing and heroic aura between her brows; another held an ancient zither, dressed in white as snow, with an ethereal temperament unstained by the dust of the world.

Behind them stood thousands of Inner Sect female Disciples, all following these Core Disciples to form a temporary "Hundred Flowers Battle Team."

To cope with this prematurely arriving decisive battle, the Righteous Alliance had also selected a temporary Alliance Leader.

This person was Lu Yunfei of the Shenxiao Sect. Not only was he an outstanding figure among the Core Disciples, but he was also the illegitimate son of the Shenxiao Sect's Sect Master.