novelaction Chapter 522 It's Shen Rugo again.
Chapter 522 It's Shen Rugo again.
The news quickly spread, and the guild leader, Elder Lingtian, was furious. He personally led a group to the Northern Region.
Master Han Shuang breathed a sigh of relief: "Great! With the Guild Master personally taking action, those thieves are doomed!"
What he didn't know was that Ling Tian was feeling even worse than him at that moment.
Inside the Void-Breaking Flying Boat, Ling Tian's face was ashen.
"We've seized another twenty-nine branches. Good, very good."
With each word he spoke, the temperature inside the flying boat dropped a fraction, and the accompanying Nascent Soul elders shivered from the cold.
"President, please calm down," an elder said cautiously. "Those thieves won't be able to run rampant for long. Once you arrive in the Northern Region, they will surely die."
Ling Tian sneered: "I'm afraid they'll take what they can get and have already run away."
"run?
Where could they possibly run to?
As long as they remain in the Northern Region, they will not escape your discerning eyes, Guild Master.
Another elder said confidently.
Ling Tian stopped speaking and simply closed his eyes to rest.
But his divine sense, like a vast net, quietly spread out, covering an area of tens of thousands of miles.
The divine sense of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator is terrifying!
Northern Regions, Qinglan City.
This is the thirty-second branch that Shen Rugo and her group robbed.
Inside the treasure vault, Chen Tianba looked at the sparse resources and cursed angrily, "Damn it, where did those bastards from Wanbao Pavilion hide all the good stuff?!"
Xiao Qiushui's expression also turned grim: "All the high-level resources combined don't even amount to five million spirit stones."
Qinghe Daoist frowned: "We've already seized thirty-two branches. Although that's a lot, it's still far less than expected."
Shen Rugo did some mental calculations and shook her head: "It's really not enough. At the current rate of consumption, these resources are only enough for me to cultivate to the peak of the Golden Core stage. To break through the core and form a Nascent Soul, I'll need at least three to five times more."
Everyone gasped.
Xiao Changkong said with a wry smile, "Junior Sister, your bottomless pit is too frightening."
Shen Rugo was also helpless.
While cultivating all five elements simultaneously is powerful, it also consumes far more energy than ordinary people.
Most importantly, she is not trying to condense one golden core, but eighteen, each of which is a hundred times more powerful than an ordinary person.
Zhao Cai suddenly said, "Your Highness, I have an idea."
"explain."
"Wanbaoge is transferring resources, definitely to headquarters. Why don't we just raid their transport teams?"
Zhao Cai's eyes lit up. "Those transport teams are carrying the best of each branch!"
Shen Rugo's eyes lit up: "Great idea!"
Qinghe Daoren, however, worried: "It's too risky. The transport team is definitely heavily guarded, and the route is unpredictable, making it very difficult for us to intercept them."
"I have a solution."
Shen Rugo took out a jade slip, which contained intelligence retrieved from Wang Mingyuan's memories. "This is the regular route and schedule for transporting resources from the various branches in the Northern Region to headquarters. Although the situation has changed, the general direction is correct."
She drew several routes on the map: "We'll ambush them along these routes. With the speed of the Myriad Realms Dragon Warship, we can arrive within half an hour once we spot the transport convoy."
Ye Xinghe pondered, "But what if Ling Tian brings his men..."
"So we need to be fast."
Shen Rugo's gaze was firm. "Take it and leave. Don't linger."
The group exchanged glances, all seeing the determination in each other's eyes.
"Dry!"
For the next five days, the seven wandered the Northern Region like ghosts.
With the speed of the Myriad Realms Dragon Warship and Shen Rugo's array camouflage, they successfully intercepted three transport convoys and reaped amazing rewards!
Each transport team carried high-level resources worth tens or even hundreds of billions of top-grade spirit stones. The total value of the three teams combined was incalculable!
Chen Tianba was overjoyed: "I've really struck it rich this time!"
Xiao Qiushui rarely smiled: "Junior Sister, shouldn't we leave? I have a bad feeling about this."
Daoist Qinghe nodded: "I have the same feeling. Nascent Soul cultivators are keenly aware of heavenly secrets. Ling Tian must have already noticed that we've robbed so much."
Shen Rugo was about to speak when her expression suddenly changed drastically: "Not good! A terrifying aura is approaching! Run!"
She instantly activated all the acceleration arrays of the Myriad Realms Dragon Warship, and at the same time, she flicked her hands, sending out hundreds of runes that laid out layers of illusion arrays and concealment arrays on the surface of the warship.
The warship transformed into an almost invisible phantom, silently flying towards the northern border.
Less than an incense stick's time after they left, a world-destroying pressure descended!
"Boom!"
The sky seemed to be torn open, and a bronze flying boat, hundreds of feet long, burst out of the air.
The surface of the flying boat was covered with ancient runes, and space itself was distorted wherever it passed.
On the deck of the flying boat, Ling Tian stood with his hands behind his back, his face so gloomy it could drip water.
His divine sense swept across the city below like a tidal wave, leaving no corner untouched.
However, apart from the chaotic Wanbaoge branch and the terrified cultivators, he found nothing.
"They ran away again..."
Ling Tian's voice was icy cold.
Behind him, Master Han Shuang and the others knelt on the ground, trembling.
"President, please forgive me! It was my incompetence that allowed those thieves to..."
Before Frost Immortal could finish speaking, Ling Tian slapped him away from a distance.
"puff!"
Frost Immortal spat out a mouthful of blood, his aura instantly weakening.
"waste."
Ling Tian didn't even look at him. "Pass down the order: all branches in the Northern Region must transport all resources, including low-grade materials, to headquarters. From today onwards, the Northern Region Treasure Pavilion will be temporarily closed."
"what?!"
Everyone was stunned.
Closing all branches in the Northern Region? How huge would the losses be?
Wanbaoge has been operating in the Northern Region for over ten thousand years, with a market share exceeding 90%. If it were to close down, the losses would be incalculable!
"President, please think it over!"
An elder said urgently, "If we close the branch, our market in the Northern Region will be divided up by other forces, and it will be difficult to take it back!"
Ling Tian gave him a cold look: "Then tell me, how do we defend against that gang of thieves?"
The elder was speechless.
Yes, it's impossible to defend against.
Those people came and went without a trace, targeting only branch offices, robbing and then running away.
Unless each branch sends a Nascent Soul cultivator to oversee it, it's impossible to stop them.
But how many Nascent Soul cultivators does Wanbaoge have in total? How could they possibly be assigned to each branch?
Ling Tian ignored the crowd and turned to enter the flying boat. He took out the recording stones he had collected from various branches and examined them one by one.
Most of these photographic stones were destroyed in the battle, leaving only some fragmented images.
But with his keen eyesight, Ling Tian quickly pieced together the key information from these afterimages.
Seven people, a girl in the lead, and an ugly little bird...
"Shen Rugo, it must be Shen Rugo!"
Ling Tian gritted his teeth.
Who else could be so familiar with the Wanbaoge formation and slip away right under his nose but that prodigy from the Star Palace?
"Star Palace, what a magnificent Star Palace..."
A murderous intent surged in Ling Tian's eyes.
He desperately wanted to storm the Star Palace right now and tear those thieves to pieces. But reason told him he couldn't go.
The Star Palace's protective array could even kill a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. Although he was already a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, he wasn't confident he could break through that array.
If he were to suffer an unexpected setback, his 1,500 years of cultivation would be destroyed in an instant.
"Sect Grand Competition..."
Ling Tian clenched his fist. "Four months left. Shen Rugo, I'll grant you four more months of life!"
He took out a communication jade talisman and infused it with his divine sense: "Send the order that all important resources in the Western and Northern Regions be transported to headquarters. Also, contact Lingxiao Pavilion, Piaomiao Peak, Tianji Mansion, and Xuantian Sect, and tell them that I have important matters to discuss with them."
After doing all this, he looked in the direction of the Star Palace, a cruel smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
"Shen Rugo, I will grind you to dust during the sect competition, in front of the entire world!"