Chapter Eighty-Nine: Do Not Show Your Back

“We...we really don’t know. If we did, we would have gone hunting for it ourselves long ago,” Tang You said helplessly.

But Lu Sheng had no intention of listening to any more of their nonsense.

“So none of you know anything?”

His gaze swept slowly across the group, meeting each of their eyes in turn.

“My lord, we truly don’t know!”

“If we knew about something like that, we would have gotten our hands on it already. How could we have kept it hidden?”

Several of them struggled and pleaded for mercy. Only Xiao Yong remained silent, already resolved to die, waiting quietly for death.

Lu Sheng shook his head in disappointment. “Kill them all. What a letdown. I thought there might be some useful information.”

He had already inspected the items dropped by the desert wolves. Nothing worthwhile, of course—at least, not to him.

To others, the things he dismissed as trash were treasures beyond price.

For instance, the vial of energy fluid dropped by the wolf pack leader.

That was a treasure capable of enhancing one’s cultivation.

After Lu Sheng gave the order, his monsters moved in to slaughter the captives.

The raised clubs were about to fall, and the crowd was nearing complete collapse.

“No!” Tang You screamed, tearing open her clothes. “My lord, can you spare me? You can have me any way you like~”

Lu Sheng’s face darkened. “Please don’t flash your backside at me and call it humiliation. Do I look like the sort of man who likes that?”

A quick glance told him all he needed to know; it was already turning dark. And she still wanted to hook him with that?

The others were stunned. What had they just seen?

There was no more time for them to react. In the next instant, Lu Sheng’s subordinates struck.

Six heads burst apart, leaving behind six headless corpses.

“Ah, that’s far too violent. Couldn’t you be a little gentler? Try to pay attention next time.”

Seeing this, Lu Sheng scolded the monsters. Couldn’t they be a little more gentle and courteous, like he was?

He walked up to the earth-rock bear, ended its suffering with a single slash, and returned it to a card.

After waiting ten seconds, he switched back to his true body, placed the earth-rock bear card on the ground, and changed identities again.

Thus, a brand-new earth-rock bear appeared.

Then he gathered up the items that had dropped and left the area.

On the way, he checked the harvest.

A casual glance was enough to see that it was all useless junk. The highest-grade cultivation resource was only fourth-tier quality, and even that was the notoriously hard-to-refine essence of a century-old tree root, along with a few second-tier and third-tier spirit fruits.

Was this really the legacy of a fifth-tier powerhouse?

To Lu Sheng, it was complete garbage. He would hand it over to his subordinates later; he had no use for it.

That fifth-tier expert was truly poor as dirt. No wonder he’d gone out to rob people.

There were a few origin pearls, but not a single fifth-tier origin pearl, and that disappointed Lu Sheng greatly.

Changing direction, Lu Sheng continued searching for monsters, wondering when he would finally manage to obtain the return quicksand.

He summoned all the frogmen and goblins, then led twenty fifth-tier monsters in a sweeping hunt.

As long as he kept exterminating every monster he encountered, he would eventually find the return quicksand.

Time passed quickly, and before long it was already afternoon.

The huge stir caused by Lu Sheng had spread throughout the rocky strata region. Anyone hunting monsters here knew there was a fellow roaming everywhere with a large force of low-grade monsters, slaughtering all he encountered.

A team passed by Lu Sheng. There were about ten people in the group, and one of the younger-looking men was looking at the goblins with open disdain.

“Captain, why would anyone bother raising these green-skinned monsters?”

“Who knows? Maybe he’s just stupid and rich.”

“True. If he has that much money, wouldn’t it be better to use it to improve himself?”

“I think the person raising these goblins must have something wrong with his head.”

“Let’s say less. It’s not good to gossip like that in front of him.”

“What’s not good about it? He’s the one doing something stupid. Are we not allowed to say it? And don’t be scared. How strong can goblins be? I could crush one with a single hand.”

“But are you sure you can handle goblins covered all over in muscle like these?”

“What’s the use of being covered in muscle? Rank is everything.”

In their fixed impression, goblins were the lowest and easiest monsters to kill; even someone who had awakened a trash life card could deal with them effortlessly.

Lu Sheng had just directed the goblins to finish off a monster, and hearing these people talk made him irritated.

What was wrong with goblins?

Looking down on goblins?

His goblins were fifth-tier, and they had the nerve to mock them? What a joke.

He was already growing impatient from the long search for the return quicksand, and now these people were ridiculing him too.

The more he thought about it, the more displeased he became. With the goblins and frogmen, he directly surrounded the group.

“None of you move!”

The leader stepped forward and said, “What are you trying to do? Are we not even allowed to raise goblins anymore?”

He was somewhat annoyed. This man was doing something like that himself, and they weren’t even allowed to say a few words?

“Say?” Lu Sheng looked at the entire team with calm indifference. “What right do you have to say anything?”

The leader burst out laughing. “What right? I’m a fourth-tier existence. What’s wrong with me saying a few words? To put it nicely, that’s called advising you. Don’t be so stubborn and waste resources on garbage goblins like these.”

Lu Sheng sneered twice. “This is hilarious. Fourth tier, and you think that’s impressive? Come on, release your auras and let this so-called ‘fourth-tier expert’ have a look.”

At his signal, the goblins and frogmen released their fifth-tier auras. A fierce wave of energy erupted, and the pressure of fifth-tier power spread in every direction.

It was like a mountain crashing down on the ten of them, crushing the breath from their lungs. One by one, they began to cower.

At that moment, their faces all turned green.

What were they doing?

Mocking a strong expert who had a large number of fifth-tier monsters?

Especially the captain—his face was flushed red.

What had he just said? That he was a fourth-tier existence?

Right then, he wanted nothing more than to find a hole in the ground and crawl into it. It was humiliating beyond words.

“Well? Fourth-tier expert? How exactly are you planning to advise me?” Lu Sheng showed no intention of letting them off. He rubbed salt into the wound with perfect precision. “Weren’t you talking so loudly just now? Why is not a single word coming out now?”

The team leader’s face was red with embarrassment as he forced out a few words. “My lord, I was joking. Why would you need my advice?”

“Enough nonsense. Each of you slap yourselves ten times, and then you can go.”

“Before that, let my goblin give you a demonstration with your captain.”

“After all, something as weak as a goblin couldn’t possibly hurt you, right?”

Lu Sheng smiled at them and motioned for the goblin to step forward.

“Ah... my lord, that’s not appropriate, is it? This... this would cost me my life, wouldn’t it?”

Lu Sheng bared a row of white teeth. “Don’t worry. I’ll have the goblin hold back.”

“No! No! I’m willing to trade a piece of information for our safe departure!” Zhou Zhen did not want to be struck by a fifth-tier goblin, and he dared not resist. All he could do was reveal the piece of information he had just learned.

“What information? I don’t collect just any information. If it has no value, then don’t bother saying it.”

Lu Sheng thought it over and decided to hear what the man had to say.

“News about the return quicksand. As long as you let me go, I’ll tell you.”