145: Chapter 145 To be a good person, one must have self-awareness.

"Ambition?"

Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang were momentarily stunned. "Mountain King, do you mean... we're asking for too little?"

Chun Xiaobai did not explain.

He had, after all, been a Mountain King for ten years. He knew deeply that those old foxes who had lived for hundreds of years had eaten more salt than he had eaten rice.

To be a person, one must have self-awareness.

If he let them figure out his methods now, he might not even be able to walk out of Wanling Mountain.

What needed to be done now was to completely crush their psychological defenses, make them suspicious of each other, and leave them blindly unable to find his origins. That was what was most important!

Otherwise, even if these treasures were obtained, it would be difficult to take them away safely.

After all, few bandits lived past a hundred years, mostly because they lacked self-awareness.

Subsequently, Chun Xiaobai took out another pile of image-recording stones. These images had all been specially "edited" and organized by him.

Fang Yuan took an image-recording stone and instinctively wanted to open it to take a look, but Chun Xiaobai directly kicked him in the butt.

"Dammit! You're not allowed to watch!"

"Ugh!" Fang Yuan rubbed his butt and quickly realized.

In these images, those "hostages" had all been stripped bare, and those few beauties were naturally no exception.

"As mountain bandits, we have our own code of conduct; we seek wealth, not lust," Chun Xiaobai warned.

"Remember, go tell them that these image-recording stones can only be opened by women! If a man dares to watch, he does so at his own peril!"

Standing to the side, Bai Jiner watched this scene and couldn't help but secretly pout.

Although those women hadn't said anything about their reputations being damaged at the time...

She knew that these female Disciples from extraordinary backgrounds valued their reputations more than their lives.

After this matter passed and they came to their senses, nine times out of ten, they would return to seek revenge on this guy.

She had read many storybooks where some women, especially Young Misses with status like this, would seek revenge until they eventually ended up in each other's arms.

Especially with her Mountain King's charm, even she could hardly resist.

Thinking of this, a nameless pressure rose in Bai Jiner's heart, and she unconsciously looked back at the small Immortal Cave where Qin Ruoxue was located.

Fang Yuan and the other man took their orders and immediately walked out of the cave, sending out the image-recording stones through the channels they had planned beforehand.

Outside Wanling Mountain.

Those Elders who were pacing back and forth in agitation suddenly felt their anxious expressions relax when they saw a Disciple running over, only to tighten again instantly.

"It's here! It's here! We've finally waited for their next move!"

On the Tiansha Valley side, Grand Elder Zheng Tianyuan grabbed an image-recording stone. Just as he was about to inject his Divine Sense, the messenger Disciple quickly warned him.

"Elder! The person who delivered the message said that Senior Sister Ye's image-recording stone... needs to be viewed by a female Elder!"

"Eh?" Zheng Tianyuan was stunned. "What does that mean?"

Just then, a charming middle-aged woman behind him stepped forward and whispered a few words into his ear.

After listening, Zheng Tianyuan's brows instantly twisted into a knot, and he cursed under his breath.

"Outrageous!"

But he also completely lost his composure inwardly and quickly handed the image-recording stone belonging to Ye Liuli to that female Elder.

The female Elder took it, injected her Divine Sense, and her face instantly turned deathly pale!

There was nothing else in the image-recording stone except for Ye Liuli's clothes being stripped off layer by layer, until only her inner bodice remained!

Although it wasn't clear who did it, what would happen next was self-explanatory!

She quickly informed Grand Elder Zheng Tianyuan of the matter.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Tianyuan was furious!

"Outrageous! Simply outrageous!"

Boom!

He slammed a fist hard onto the gunwale of the Flying Vessel, and the hard joint was actually smashed into a large hole by him!

The Formation of the entire Flying Vessel instantly shattered, and it began to plummet vertically!

"Grand Elder, please calm your anger!"

"Watch out!"

The other Elders were pale with fright and quickly flew into the air, pulling Zheng Tianyuan onto another Flying Vessel, and they all urged him.

"Calm down! Calm down!"

"Yes, yes, yes, anger is bad for your health! Quickly tell us, what conditions did those guys actually set?!"

The Grand Elder recounted the contents of the image to everyone, where the two Disciples were pinned to the ground and subjected to a flurry of punches and kicks, beaten until they cried for their parents in a wretched state.

"Clearly, he is currently undergoing inhumane torture..."

One could imagine... what Ye Liuli was encountering at this moment.

"The message! The message!" Zheng Tianyuan's face was flushed red with anger, almost roaring at the female Elder, "Did the kidnappers leave a message?!"

The female Elder checked the image-recording stone once more, then shook her head in despair.

"No... nothing at all."

Nothing?

The surrounding Elders were all bewildered.

"Then why did they send this image-recording stone over?"

Everyone looked at each other, seeing the same confusion in each other's eyes.

Grand Elder Zheng Tianyuan pondered for a moment. Suddenly, as if he had figured something out, his eyes widened, and he ground his old teeth, squeezing out a few words from between them.

"Outrageous... they are warning us!"

"Warning?"

"Yes!" The Grand Elder's fists were clenched tight, his knuckles white. "This group of filthy and lowly hypocrites! They are using Liuli's purity to blackmail us into silence!"

"What do you mean?" Those Elders were still completely confused.

"They are worried that we will leak the scandalous news of their kidnapping and extortion, so they sent this kind of image-recording stone to warn us!"

This...

When the Elders thought about it, indeed, it made sense!

Otherwise, why send such an infuriating image-recording stone without setting any conditions? It couldn't be that they were just playing with them because they were bored, right?

This was clearly a blatant warning!

Warning their Tiansha Valley not to leak this matter, and that all grievances must rot within this Wanling Mountain!

If they dared to leak it, this kind of torture would continue.

"I'll curse their ancestors for eighteen generations! These sanctimonious bastards!"

"Hypocrites! Despicable and shameless! To use a woman's purity as a threat, how do they deserve to be called the Righteous Path?!"

"I have truly had my eyes opened today! Hundred Sect Alliance, what a fine leader of the Righteous Path! Bah!"

For a time, on the Tiansha Valley's Flying Vessel, all sorts of angry curses rose one after another, making the Flying Vessel hum and vibrate.

...

And on the other side.

After the Hundred Sect Alliance finished viewing their image-recording stones, under Envoy Zhang's analysis, they also arrived at almost the exact same conclusion.

For a time, the curses on the Flying Vessel rose one after another, each louder than the last, audible from several miles away.

Those Disciples who had retreated from Wanling Mountain with heavy injuries and were recuperating on the Flying Vessel were all bewildered when they heard these thunderous curses.

"What's going on? Why has it been so lively these past two days?"

"Yeah, yeah, what's wrong with these Elders? Did they take the wrong medicine?"