54 The Fight at the Cave of the Immortals
Dan-Chun-Gu: “Young master Zheng-Fu is so generous. I get it now why you want to be with him…”
Dan-Chun-Gu said while looking at Zheng-Fu with respect as he walked up to his room…
Fu-Tao-Qi: “I get it now too. And the money that he gave us is a lot. Even when we split for each of our shares, it’s still very much. With this money, we can do nicely for a long time. And what was that golden light that we saw at the Monsters’ Route, by the way? I don’t get it…”
It got the rest of the group to want to understand too when the golden light that they saw at the Monsters’ Route was mentioned. The light helped increase their energy level tremendously…
Wu-Xiao: “Only a few hours of absorbing that golden light helped us save about half a year of energy cultivation. No! It might be more than half a year even…”
Yan-Yu and Ji-Zhung-Gong nodded in agreement with Wu-Xiao. They thought that they received a lot from Zheng-Fu on this trip. What was more was they got touched by Zheng-Fu’s strong determination…
“Phew!”
“Today was something. And I have to go to the Cave of the Immortals tomorrow to buy the Qi energy stones too. It seems like there are a lot of small Caves of the Immortals around In-See City. But since they are so small, they don’t sell their Qi energy stones easily because of the sluggish in production. I guess there is only one Cave left to go to…”
Zheng-Fu calculated the situation regarding the availability of the Qi energy stones at each Cave. He realized that each Cave probably sent their stones to the people who already had the concession contracts with them. So, it came down to one Cave left for him…
Zheng-Fu spent the night improving the fighting techniques of the six martial artists in Tong-Kuang’s group as much as he could. He had done energy cultivation a lot enough along the trip, so he wished to work on the fighting techniques for Dan-Chun-Gu and the group instead…
On the trip, Zheng-Fu had contemplated how he could strengthen his clan’s stability. It made him think about how much the clan had to pay for the protection from the mercenaries…
He realized that resources were tremendously significant for each clan. So, it was normal that each clan had to fight to claim resources. And fighting resulted in death. It was not easy to find replacements every time death occurred, so each clan seemed to seek help by hiring mercenaries to reinforce their stability…
Zheng-Fu could see that Dan-Chun-Gu and his group were very strong and capable. He thought that it would be great for both parties if he could convince them to be loyal to the clan. That was why he gave them that much share. And he was willing to fix the fighting skills for the group too in order to secretly ask them to stay with the clan…
The night had gone so quickly and the first light of the next day appeared. Birds started to come out and sing. People began their day with the same routines as usual…
Clomp! Clomp! Clomp!
Tong-Kuang: “Good morning, young master!”
“Morning, young master!”
Everyone in the group was already downstairs. They all greeted Zheng-Fu with admiration when he came down from his room…
“Good morning, everyone! You guys didn’t have to greet me like that.” Zheng-Fu said while scratching his head because he felt very shy to be greeted by the whole group at the same time…
“Well!”
“These are for you guys. It’s for you too, sister Wu-Xiao.” Zheng-Fu took out six fighting manuals and handed them to everyone…
Dan-Chun-Gu: “What is it, young master Zheng-Fu?”
Dan-Chun-Gu questioned Zheng-Fu when he saw the manual. Everyone was curious too. They turned to look at Tong-Kuang because he might have the answer for them, but Tong-Kuang did not say anything but merely smiled…
“They might not be something big, but I spent the whole night preparing them for you guys. I hope they can be useful, more or less.” Zheng-Fu said and gave the group a warm smile. Then he walked to the table to fix himself something to eat…
“Useful for us!?”
Tong-Kuang: “Go on! Open it! You won’t be disappointed!”
Tong-Kuang smiled at everyone before joining Zheng-Fu…
Wu-Xiao: “Is it manual to declare love!?”
Yan-Yu: “Who would declare love in a book!?”
Ji-Zhung-Gong: “Just open it if you want to know what it is. Why are you being too much about it? If he said it could be useful for us, then let’s read it!”
“Yeah!”
After that, the group looked at the manuals that Zheng-Fu gave them. And when they saw what was in the manuals, their hands started to tremble. Their eyes were widened. The content made them gasp with awe…
“This is!”
Yan-Yu: “It’s unbelievable! This is the fighting…”
Grab!
Hush!
Dan-Chun-Gu rushed to cover Yan-Yu’s mouth instantly because he knew what Yan-Yu was going to say. If anyone heard what he was about to say, it would bring them a problem…
Dan-Chun-Gu: “You must not say anything here!”
“Alright!”
Yan-Yu nodded to show that he knew what to do. Then the group started to walk to Zheng-Fu’s table and sat down quietly. They acted like they wanted to say something but tried their best to withhold their words…
When Zheng-Fu saw the gesture of the group, he said, “No need to think too much! I hope they can benefit you guys.” Zheng-Fu then smiled at the group…
Tong-Kuang: “Young master helped me the same way too. He helped me reach this point. Now I believe you understand why I take him in…”
Dan-Chun-Gu: “I have to thank you on behalf of everyone, young master. I did not expect that you would have this much capacity. I have to say that I did not expect much from this trip. I only wanted to tack along with brother Tong-Kuang…”
Fu-Tao-Qi: “That’s right. We also did too. We did not understand at first why brother Tong-Kuang decided to be by your side and admired you this much. I understand now why…”
“We do too.” Yan-Yu, Wu-Xiao, Ji-Zhung-Gong, and Lang-Guang-Kuang also thought the same way…
Dan-Chun-Gu: “From now on, if you need us, please let us know. We would be there for you with all our existences…”
“Let’s discuss this another time after this trip. Right now, we have to complete our mission. I only have a few days left, so I need to get the Qi energy stones as much as possible.”
Zheng-Fu tried to play it cool, not to be too forceful or too relaxed about buying the hearts of the people in Dan-Chun-Gu’s group. He believed that everyone in the group would make a great team to help him hunt monsters…
After the meal, Zheng-Fu’s group left the tavern immediately. They all headed to the Cave of the Immortals to buy the Qi energy stones…
Gossip!
Gossip!
Along the way to the Cave of the Immortals, Zheng-Fu heard people talking about something. And since he entered the Foundation Building stage, his hearing and sighting became alleviated…
Villager 1: “Did you know that the Cave of the Immortals of the owner of In-See City is being attacked!”
Villager 2: “Really? Who would dare to break into the Cave of the Immortals of the owner of the city?”
Villager 1: “I heard that the attackers are the people with big bodies and very strong. They are actually fighting right now. The owner of the city himself is even at the scene!”
Villager 2: “Is that so? Should we go watch?”
Villager 1: “No! Don’t go if you don’t want to die! An attitude like yours could get you killed before you know it.”
Villager 2: “No! Then I don’t want to go. Tee-hee!”
When Zheng-Fu heard everything, he crinkled his eyebrows instantly. He thought it would not be good if what the villagers talked about was real…
“Guys! Let’s hurry!” When Zheng-Fu finished the sentence, he practically soared forward to the cave. It made everyone hurried along with him…
Tong-Kuang: “What happened, young master? Why are you all of a sudden in a rush?”
Tong-Kuang felt a little suspicious when he saw Zheng-Fu rushing. The rest of the group also felt the same way. Everyone did not know what had got into Zheng-Fu’s mind to make him hurry even though the Cave was only up and ahead of them…
“Let’s move guys! I’m afraid that bad thing is happening at the Cave.” When Zheng-Fu finished speaking, he increased his speed enough to rush to the Cave. He did not want to leave the group behind completely because he was afraid that he might not be able to deal with what he expected to see at the Cave…
“Argh!”
“Yah!”
Clang!
Stab! Stab!
Zheng-Fu and his group started to hear people fighting as they were about to reach the Cave. They began to see dead bodies too…
Ji-Zhung-Gong: “What’s going on?”
Ji-Zhung-Gong wondered what happened at the Cave. He had been to the Cave many times, so he remembered the security guards there. Now he saw that one of the security guards that he had seen lying dead among those corpses…
Finally, Zheng-Fu and the group stopped by the forest. What they saw in front of them was a group of about a hundred soldiers fighting with a group of martial artists who wore black outfits and had masks covering their faces…
The black-outfit group consisted of about 20 people but they could kill so many soldiers. It seemed like they were more powerful than the soldiers altogether…
Tong-Kuang and Dan-Chun-Gu felt startled by the energy levels that those black-outfit men possessed. The lowest level that they possessed was already at the seventh level of the Foundation Building stage…
Fu-Tao-Qi: “Look! That’s the owner of In-See City!”
Fu-Tao-Qi pointed to a middle-aged man who stood exhausted in front of a hundred soldiers. There were some small cuts all over his body. And all of a sudden, more soldiers came to join the force…
“We’re here for you, the owner of the city!”
At this point, the black-outfit men started to falter a little. They thought that even though they were tougher, they could not possibly fight with that tremendous amount of soldiers. They could kill many, but it also exhausted them…
“Withdraw!”
The black-outfit guy in the far front of the group ordered everyone in his group to withdraw. Then everyone in the group prepared to leave the scene and took off immediately…
The owner of the city: “Don’t let them get away!”
The owner of the city shouted with rage and rushed after the black-outfit men instantaneously…
Whoosh!
Tong-Kuang: “What are we going to do, young master!?”
Tong-Kuang turned to ask Zheng-Fu about what to do in the situation because things seemed to be too overwhelming. He thought that his group probably could not do anything much because they were only at the seventh level of the Foundation Building stage…
“Let’s follow them and see what happened! Master Lang-Guang-Kuang! Please check around this area to see if there were any black-outfit men left. If there were, just come back instantly. Don’t let them see you!”
“Ok!”
Whoosh!
Lang-Guang-Kuang registered Zheng-Fu’s order without any argument and disappeared from the group instantaneously. Zheng-Fu then turned to Ji-Jung-Gong, Yan-Yu, and Wu-Xiao and said…
“You three stay guarded here! The rest come with me!”
“Yeah!”
When the last sentence ended, everybody separated their ways. Zheng-Fu, Tong-Kuang, Dan-Chun-Gu, and Fu-Tao-Qi followed the owner of the city’s group to see what would happen next. They found out that many soldiers had been killed along the way. It seemed like they were just being killed too…
Tong-Kuang: “Even though the owner of the city has more people, running after the black-outfit men like that would mean sending those soldiers to a slaughterhouse…”
Dan-Chun-Gu: “I agree. It would be better if they could stop the black-outfit men from moving…”
“Stop them from moving!?”
The minute Zheng-Fu heard that, he could come up with a plan. He turned to look at three members of the group and smiled, then said…
“Please excuse me, guys! I have a plan.” When Zheng-Fu finished his sentence, he moved at the fastest speed he could get…
Whoosh!
Zheng-Fu disappeared from the group in a nanosecond. He was so quick that no one saw which way he headed to…
Dan-Chun-Gu: “What kind of a Qinggong skill was that? How come it was so fast? He already got me stunned since the attack of those Iron-Horned Bison Monsters. But he could get even much faster than that this time…”
Tong-Kuang could not do anything else but shrug because he also did not know what kind of Qinggong skill Zheng-Fu had…
Black-outfit man: “Hahaha! Fools…”
Stab! Stab!
Soldier after soldier got slashed by the black-outfit men’s swords every time they got close to the black-outfit men. When the owner of the city saw that, he got so enraged that it made him scream out loud…
The owner of the city: “I’ll kill all of you!”
Black-outfit man: “Go ahead, if you think you can! Hahaha!”
Boom!
A horrifying energy wave hit in the middle of where the black-outfit men stood, all of a sudden. The wave caused two of them an instant death…
“Wh…wh…what just happened!?”
The leader of the black-outfit men was a little shocked by the attack, which made them stop for a while…
The owner of the city: “They stopped moving! Surround them!”
“Darn!”
“Darn it!”
The leader of the black-outfit men: “Don’t be afraid! Kill them all!”
“Yah!”
