Li Hao smiled at Violet Moon on the ground. âI have a question for you, Leader Violet Moon. Will your mom take revenge on us if you die?â
Violet Moon didnât know how to respond and didnât dare give the wrong answer.
âAre you still in contact with your mom? Will she save you if you send word?â
Incredibly nervous, Violet Moon still didnât know how to respond. Li Hao looked at her for a while before saying, âLetâs just kill her!â
â......â Violet Moon blurted, âMy mom will come save me if she knows Iâm captured. Sheâll pay any price!â
She understood now!
âVery well.â Li Hao grinned. âYou can have her, Director Hou. Lock her up at the Night Watcher headquarters. What use would I have for her? Put her in the city and let all the soldiers take a turn slicing at her?â
He looked at Yuan Xingwu not far in the distance. âIâm not too familiar with the Skystar Troops, so I donât know the name of Yuan Xingwu either. My teacher has never mentioned him. But since you guys are acquainted with each other, you decide! As itâs official authority business, I donât have the right to say much since Iâm only a chief commissioner.â
He wasnât going to get dragged into this! What am I supposed to say? That he can live? Iâm not saying that!
Hou Xiaochen was skilled at selling favors to others and wanted to create a situation that put Li Hao in his debt. Li Hao refused to take the bait as he wasnât familiar with Yuan Xingwu. Not to mention, there was Hu Dingfang from the military present as well.
As expected, Hu Dingfang hastily interjected, âDirector Hou, Yuan Xingwu is... Yuan Shuoâs first disciple and Yuhuaâs senior brother. Heâs always supported the Silver Moon military...â
He was familiar with Yuan Xingwu. Not only that, but they exchanged communication with each other on a regular basis. One was in Silver Moon, the other in Skystar City. One was in the borderlands and the other in the central hub. They found support in each other.
It was a complex network of connections that supported Hu Dingfang. The Bai family had helped him to his position, as had Huang Yu and the Skystar Troops. However, Hu Dingfang knew that the most reliable was Yuan Xingwu. The latter was on very good terms with Chen Yuhua. The Bais helped him for their own benefit and Huang Yu was purely showing him face. The man also wanted to suppress the Bais somewhat. Thus, Hu Dingfang had no choice but to beg for mercy on Yuan Xingwuâs behalf!
âMy apologies, Director Hou,â Yuan Xingwu finally said. âIt wasnât that I was unwilling to take a stand, but that I knew it was useless to do so. It would only interfere with your plans. I come for several reasons this timeâobtaining treasure is just one of them. The most important is that I represent the Ministry of Armed Forces to discuss partnership with Silver Moon, and to determine everyoneâs strength. Since Silver Moon is so strong, our partnership can be moved forward...â
âYou? You are too weak and lack the qualifications to talk to me,â Hou Xiaochen laughed.
âYes, I know.â Yuan Xingwu wasnât surprised by the reaction. âThe ministry sent me for many other reasons as well. First, I am from Silver Moon. Second, my master is the Five Styles King. That title still holds weight in the martial world. Third, I am familiar with Dingfang and thus can speak to Commander Yu. Fourth, the ministry knows that Li Hao serves the Night Watchers and is my junior brother.
âI simply didnât anticipate that Silver Moonâs martial world would still be so formidable! The brothers Iâve brought with me have fought by my side for many years. They will not divulge a secret. If you are interested, Director Hou, I can relay some messages even if I can do nothing else.â
Li Hao listened quietly in the distance. He didnât care if Yuan Xingwu was really here on behalf of the Ministry of Armed Forces to discuss a partnership or to search for treasure. Perhaps he was even here to act against Hou Xiaochen. Whatever it was, it had nothing to do with the young man.
All he did was watch as Mu Lin threw bodies over; he occasionally extracted some special energy, such as Celestialâs dark attribute. He didnât lack for energy of the five elements anymore, but didnât have much of the unique attributes.
Li Hao then inspected the storage rings that Panther delivered and conducted a simple cleanup. The dog had grabbed the Celestial delegationâs origin weapon, which meant Li Hao now owned five.
Kong Jie claimed the Parity Kingâs little house and Avici Iron Net. Hou Xiaochen took Blue Moon and Green Moonâs origin weapons. Qi Gang collected the Lu youngsterâs origin weapon, and Li Hao didnât care enough to ask if he would be giving it to Hou Xiaochen.
The young man thoroughly looked over the storage rings in his hands. He now had forty of these items that only Solars and Novas were equipped with. Heâd gained quite a lot on this trip! He focused his attention on the energy rings and mysterious power stones. At the moment, he possessed eight hundred stones! That was a horrifying sum!
One had to know that he hadnât claimed many of the storage rings from the premier powerhouses. Just the wealth from the various Solars heâd killed and this last battle had resulted in eight hundred stones! Combined with more than one hundred stones from before, this meant he possessed one thousand stones total.
This was just in terms of ordinary mysterious power stones. Heâd obtained forty-six from Military Supplies and still held his original ration of ten. Those were high level stones that were the equivalent of five hundred sixty regular mysterious power stones.
Therefore, Li Hao currently had 1560 mysterious power stones, five origin weapons, and more cubes of mysterious power than he could count. He had energy rings by the handful and almost all of their capacity was one thousand cubes. There was no need for the rings to hold more as Novas cultivated with stones, very rarely mysterious power. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Li Hao currently possessed roughly two hundred energy rings that made for a total capacity of two hundred thousand cubes. Heâd used some, leaving more than one hundred and fifty thousand cubes left.
This was insane riches!
Li Hao transferred all of the items to his storage ring. He didnât care about those outside and moved all of the stones and energy rings to the largest storage ringâitâd belonged to Xu Feng. Being a young master of the Xus, his storage ring was impressive, despite his mediocre strength. Regular storage rings were the size of coffins, but the space inside Xu Fengâs was the size of a house.
Apart from mysterious power stones and mysterious power, Li Hao found a few more secret tomes. He didnât have time to take a look at them and shoved them all into the storage ring. He also found multiple blood pearls in different storage rings. Plainly, people were secretly killing Red Moon powerhouses.
The Seven Moons that Red Moon had sent to the ruins werenât equipped with scarlet shadows. Thereâd been some on the Nova level elder, but unfortunately, the Gold Armor had smashed the shadow to pieces along with the elder. Hou Xiaochen might have collected the ones with the Solars. Li Hao didnât see any sight of them.
After taking inventory of his war spoils, Li Hao found some other treasures held in various bottles and flasks. He didnât know what they were and was in no hurry to open them. Such were the items in Xu Fengâs storage ring.
The young man also possessed a petal of the Goldensky Lotus and a lotus seed. Those were treasures that heâd obtained at Ash Mountain. Li Hao then took stock of his merits. The Nova that heâd just killed gave him another ten points.
âTroop Leader Li Hao of the Twelfth Troop in the Ninth Division courageously met the enemy in battle and destroyed them outside the city,â the mechanical voice sounded by Li Haoâs ear. âHis achievements are exemplary in his leadership of the Twelfth Troop to withstand invaders. He is awarded one hundred points!â
â......â Li Hao blinked. This was likely his highest singular instance of earning merits. Plainly, the city felt that he was responsible for destroying the enemy outside the city. Although he wasnât the main contributor, it had been under the agreement that heâd reached with the other side.
Heâd been awarded one hundred points, and that wasnât all!
âTroop Leader Li Hao of the Twelfth Troop has supplied life energy with which to reawaken the city. His deeds are commendable and hereby awarded with one hundred points!â
Li Haoâs merits abruptly reached two hundred and ten points in the blink of an eye, this time because he had someone throw bodies into the city! He looked back to see that the three Silver Armors were still there, but there was no sign of Director General Wang and the commander. Li Hao suspected that he was so rewarded because those two had seen his deeds. Who wouldâve thought that a careless thought would result in one hundred points?
These points could be traded for one hundred high level stones, the equivalent of one thousand regular stones! That was more valuable than the dozens of storage rings heâd obtained!
He was making out like a bandit and couldnât help the grin that stretched from ear to ear. Two hundred and ten merits! Too bad thereâs no announcement about doubling them... Li Hao was slightly regretful.
He swept a glance over He Yong and Hong Yitang, those two had received significant gains as well. One had fifty, the other seventyâHong Yitang. It looked like theyâd been rewarded for some valor as they hadnât killed seven Novas.
He Yong was smiling happily when Li Hao suddenly transmitted, âMartial Uncle He Yong obtained a lot of merits, didnât you? Then the ten I lent you before...â
The smile dropped from He Yongâs face. What the heck? How did that turn into a loan? Didnât you say that was the reward I received for protecting you? The Supervisory Guard approved it, which means itâs set in stone. Iâm not giving anything to you!
Heâd finally accumulated fifty points and wasn't about to lose any to Li Hao.
The young man laughed and didnât mind He Yongâs derisive snort. Hou Xiaochen and Yuan Xingwu seemed to have reached an agreement elsewhere; the young man didnât care.
âManager Yu, you have a key right? The key is Battle Heavenâs token and needs to be returned. Why donât you give the key to me?â
Yu Luocha blinked and looked at Hou Xiaochen. The man smiled meaningfully. âThe keys are awarded based on individual skill. I wasnât aware they would be taken back.â
Li Hao needed the item. One could join the army only with the key, or else one had to go through the new recruit training. However, that part of the barracks was yet to be activated again. He needed the key as he wanted Liu Long to join the army. As for Manager Yu and the others... he didnât want them in his troop.