"It's impossible that there are no storage tools?" Mo Shougui's forehead was already full of wrinkles, but now it looked even more frightening.
"Could it be that his concealment methods are too strong, exceeding my perception?" Mo Shougui murmured. "That's possible. This kid has many secrets. He even managed to infiltrate the Origin Stone Mine in Black Bull Royal City. He definitely has a powerful magic weapon to hide his aura."
Thinking of this, Mo Shougui actually took action. He began to explore Gu Yu's body. There were some things he couldn't sense, but he could touch them through the most primitive means.
However, after searching Gu Yu thoroughly, Mo Shougui found nothing, leaving his old face filled with confusion and bewilderment.
So many Origin Stones, did this kid just conjure them out of thin air? Are you kidding me? Even a demigod like him couldn't do that, how could Gu Yu, a mere second-tier cultivator, possibly do it? It's unscientific, unrealistic, but where exactly did he put the Origin Stones? And what about all those countless precious natural treasures?
If it weren't for these reasons, why would he do such a thing? He's a demigod, resorting to petty theft to steal from a junior. You should know that he went through a long internal struggle before doing it.
"Where could the treasure be hidden?" Mo Shougui fell into deep thought. He remembered those years, a long time ago, when he was just a martial artist. Once, he obtained a treasure. To avoid being thoroughly searched, he put the treasure in his anti-theft trousers, perfectly evading all searches.
He searched Gu Yu's entire body, but there was one part he didn't search. It's very likely that the kid hid his storage tool there.
Thinking this, Mo Shougui immediately reached out to check, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he hesitated. This wouldn't be good! He was a demigod! Subduing a junior seemed increasingly wrong, but this kid was rich!
Such a vast amount of resources would tempt even a demigod, let alone a true god. Moreover, he wasn't doing it for himself, but for humanity.
"To ensure that humanity has resources for cultivation, I'm going all out today," Mo Shougui said through gritted teeth. But the next second, his expression turned grim, because there was nothing there.
Mo Shougui looked at Gu Yu with a dark face, feeling frustrated. It wasn't worth it for him to go all out!
"Where exactly did you put your resources?" Mo Shougui muttered.
Are we just going to leave like this? He's lived a life of integrity and honesty, at least he considers himself to be. He finally mustered the courage to do this kind of underhanded thing, and now he's got nothing to show for it…
"Should I wake him up and ask him?" Mo Shougui thought to himself. But if he woke him up now, wouldn't the kid know it was him? He couldn't very well kill him to cover it up! If he didn't kill him to cover it up, and the kid told everyone about it, how could he ever face anyone again?
This is difficult. Wait, I'll leave first and come back when the kid wakes up.
No, with that kid's intelligence, he'll figure out it was him.
"Sigh!" Mo Shougui sighed. He had really lost out this time. He thought he would have gained a lot. He should have known better than to compromise and ask for 70,000 high-grade source stones.
"Alas! One really shouldn't harbor evil thoughts!" Although Mo Shougui was somewhat unwilling, he had no choice but to leave.
His figure vanished instantly, and in that instant, Gu Yu suddenly opened his eyes, his chest heaving.
"Which bastard attacked me?" Gu Yu stood up and looked around. Someone had definitely attacked him, causing him to fall unconscious instantly. But that wasn't the main issue. The main issue was that he had a nightmare. He dreamt of a lewd old man touching him and...
The thought of this made Gu Yu feel nauseous.
"Long Yuan, can you sense who attacked me just now?" Gu Yu asked Long Yuan.
“The newcomer is extremely powerful. Just now, I also fell into a deep sleep. In my current state, even a peak Emperor Realm expert couldn't do that to me. It's possible that the newcomer's strength is comparable to a God Realm expert or a demigod,” Long Yuan said after thinking for a moment.
"A demigod?" Gu Yu frowned. There were only two known demigods: Man Jun of the Minotaur race and Mo Shougui.
Gu Yu suddenly remembered the look Mo Shougui had given him. He immediately realized who had attacked him earlier—it was Mo Shougui, that old bastard. A dignified demigod, he actually attacked him for some resources.
Recalling the lewd old man who had touched his body in his nightmare, Gu Yu's face immediately turned ugly, and he cursed Mo Shougui's ancestors for eighteen generations in his heart.
"When I become stronger in the future, I will repay what I did today tenfold," Gu Yu murmured.
Fortunately, he didn't have any storage tools, otherwise he would have really been tricked by that old bastard Mo Shougui. However, Gu Yu was still worried. He glanced at the things in his source space and made sure that nothing was missing before he felt relieved.
Just then, Li Shanpo suddenly appeared beside Gu Yu.
"Nothing happened, right?" Li Shaopo asked, looking at the unharmed Gu Yu.
"Someone attacked me just now," Gu Yu answered truthfully. Li Shanpo rushed over, he must have discovered something.
"Are you alright?" Li Shanpo's expression suddenly changed. He was dealing with something when he suddenly sensed an energy fluctuation. Although the energy fluctuation was extremely subtle, even a peak Emperor Realm expert would probably have difficulty detecting it, but his Golden-Winged Roc Armor could subtly sense it. He thought for a moment, and realized that in the entire Tu Niu City, the person most likely to be in trouble right now was Gu Yu. Everyone knew that Gu Yu was currently a fat sheep.
"I'm fine," Gu Yu replied. Then he thought for a moment. His current situation was not good. Even though he had handed over a lot of resources on the surface, everyone was not stupid. They all felt that he still had something. If a demigod attacked him, who would believe that the demigod gained nothing? He was just a second-tier cultivator. How could he hide it from a demigod? "My storage tool is lost."
Gu Yu immediately feigned extreme disappointment and indignation, his expression becoming extremely ugly.
"What?" Li Shanpo's expression also changed when he heard Gu Yu's words. "It must be Mo Shougui. That old bastard has really no shame."
Upon hearing Li Shanpo's words, Gu Yu was overjoyed. He hadn't said anything about Mo Shougui; it was all Li Shanpo who said it, and it had nothing to do with him!
“Brother Li, this can’t be! Senior Mo is a highly skilled person, how could he do such a sneaky thing?” Gu Yu said.
"A senior expert?" Upon hearing Gu Yu's words, Li Shanpo immediately scoffed. "That shameless old man is capable of anything, no matter how heinous, when it comes to resources. Our pro-war faction has been facing resource shortages for years because of this shameless old geezer. I was wondering why he agreed so readily that day, agreeing to 30,000 high-grade source stones. That's not like him at all! It turns out he was planning something like this."
"Brother Li, what should we do? My source stones and rare treasures! They didn't leave me a single one!" Gu Yu looked heartbroken.
"Sigh!" Li Shanpo sighed, "That old man's cultivation is too strong, and we have no evidence, so we can only suffer in silence."
"No, we can't let this go." A hint of resentment flashed in Gu Yu's eyes, and this time he wasn't faking it.
"What are you going to do?" Li Shanpo looked at Gu Yu, who was filled with grief and indignation. He was quite certain that Gu Yu's resources had indeed been taken away by Li Shanpo.
"Although I am weak, I am not someone that anyone can bully." Gu Yu clenched his fist and said, "I can't let him take my resources for nothing. I want the whole world to know what he did."
“That’s fine.” Li Shanpo suddenly fell into deep thought, and then said. In the eyes of countless people, Gu Yu is now a great person. Few people would doubt Gu Yu’s words. Moreover, there are quite a few people who have been eyeing Gu Yu these days, all for the resources on Gu Yu. Now that the news of his loss has spread, it’s a good thing. At least it will dispel some people’s thoughts.
“Brother Li, I need your help,” Gu Yu suddenly said to Li Shanpo.
“Go ahead and say it,” Li Shanpo said. Gu Yu then whispered a few words in Li Shanpo’s ear, and Li Shanpo nodded repeatedly. “I’ll add some more oil and salt, and turn that old man’s resources into a hot potato.”
Then, a furious curse and a huge roar echoed throughout the entire Tu Niu City, "Mo Shougui, you old codger, at your age, you actually did such a shameless thing, ambushing Gu Yu and stealing his storage rings, which Gu Yu was preparing to donate to the military and the country."
"Huh?" What happened? The sound made everyone in the city frown.
Who is Mo Shougui?
"have no idea."
"Oh, who cares who he is!"
"Wait, what did he say? Young Master Gu was ambushed? And his storage ring was stolen?"
"It seems so."
"That damned beast."
At the same time, Long Aotian and some high-ranking members of the Dragon Clan rushed to Gu Yu's side.
"Gu Yu, are you alright?" Long Aotian's face showed some anger.
"Brother Long, I'm fine, it's just..." Gu Yu lowered his head, his face pale.
"Li Shanpo, are you sure you're sticking to the rules?" Long Aotian asked Li Shanpo.
“Yes, I’m 100% sure. Although the aura was faint, it was definitely regular,” Li Shanpo said.
"You old bastard, Mo Shougui, I'll tear you to pieces!" Another furious shout rang out, echoing throughout the entire Tu Niu City once again.
"It really got robbed?" Xiang Bang frowned, and the other families and sects that had come to help were all dumbfounded. Some of those with ulterior motives even turned pale. They had their eyes on Gu Yu, and while the item was in Gu Yu's hands, they wouldn't have been without a chance. But now it was in Mo Shougui's hands. Mo Shougui was said to have lived for thousands of years. Although he always claimed to be at the peak of the Emperor Realm, many people felt that he was likely already a demigod. With the item in his hands, who could still covet it? "That Mo Shougui, he's really an old geezer, a damn bastard! Isn't he stealing their business?!"
"Damn it, that old bastard Mo Shougui!" Chi Long's eyes were bloodshot. He had originally wanted Gu Yu to give him some resources! Now that Gu Yu had been robbed, his plans were ruined.
"How many source stones did you lose?" Li Shanpo asked Gu Yu at this moment.
“One hundred thousand high-grade source stones, and over a hundred rare and precious materials,” Gu Yu said. “I originally planned to hand them over to the military and the country, but I didn’t expect it to turn out like this. If I had known, I should have handed them over to Commander Li immediately.”
At this moment, Gu Yu was filled with self-reproach, which angered Huangfu Jun, who was standing nearby. To be precise, everyone in the city was furious.
"You can't blame yourself. Who would have thought that such a respected person would do something so despicable? I'll go back and tell my father to go and demand resources from Mo Shougui." Huangfu said. Regardless of whether Gu Yu had donated resources to the military before, now that Gu Yu had said so, it meant that Huangfu Jun couldn't do anything to Mo Shougui, but his father, Huangfu Kui, was not afraid of Mo Shougui.
"I will tell Master and the rest of us fellow disciples about this," Long Aotian said.
“I’m also in the military. I’ll go ask him for it. If he dares not to give it to me, I’ll join forces with Marshal Huangfu,” Li Shanpo said.
Hearing their words, Gu Yu secretly rejoiced. Shameless old man, just wait for trouble to come knocking on your door!
Within a few days, the news spread throughout the entire human cultivation world, and even cultivators from other countries were cursing it.
“Oh my god, that Mo Shougui is a beast!” A foreign practitioner spoke to his compatriots in broken Chinese, his face full of indignation. “Mo Shougui’s behavior is shameful, disgraceful, a disgrace to humanity.”
One person tells ten, ten tell a hundred. Sometimes, rumors can be quite frightening. Originally, Gu Yu said he would donate a total of 100,000 high-grade source stones and more than 100 rare and precious materials to the military and the country. After a while, the rumor inexplicably became that he would donate them to all cultivators in China to help them cultivate. The number of source stones was even rumored to be a million, and the number of rare and precious materials was also rumored to be more than 10,000.
Even among ordinary people, a version of the story circulated that a very wealthy man wanted to help people escape poverty, so he donated his entire fortune, trillions of yuan, which seemed to be enough for every household. However, it was embezzled by a man named Mo Shougui, who immediately became the subject of gossip and insults.
For a time, the mere mention of sticking to the rules conjured up images of animals, scoundrels, bastards, and those who gave birth to children without an anus, etc.
As for Mo Shougui, the person involved, he was speechless and extremely frustrated. He did ambush Gu Yu, but he didn't take anything! At his age, he still had to bear so much infamy. He was heartbroken!
"Mo Shougui, hand over the resources of my military." At this moment, Mo Shougui was hiding in a dark space, his body reeking of stench. "You think I can't do anything to you just because you're hiding in the sewers? Even if you hide at the ends of the earth, I will still find you."
"Huangfu Kui, are you done yet? I've already said it wasn't me." Mo Shougui's expression changed drastically upon hearing this voice. He had been hiding in the sewers, how could they still find him? This is outrageous!
"If it wasn't you, who else could it be? You've even dared to steal from my military headquarters," Huangfu Kui said. This place was truly disgusting; how could this shameless old man stay here?
"I really didn't take it! Just kill me!" Mo Shougui was speechless with grievances.
"The whole world knows it was you, and you still won't admit it. Others may not know your character, but do you think I don't? You old bastard, back when I was weak and obtained a treasure, I was knocked unconscious. Was that you who did it?" Huangfu Kui suddenly remembered the old story.
"Don't make false accusations! I am your senior, a highly respected elder. How could I do such a thing!" Mo Shougui's eyes darted around. Did he do it? He didn't remember. He seemed to have robbed quite a few people over the years, but he couldn't admit it.
Once I admit it, those guys will probably all come looking for me, and that will be troublesome, since no one has any evidence.
"I'm slandering you? You old bastard, give me back my resources: 100,000 high-grade source stones and over a hundred kinds of rare and precious materials," Huangfu Kui said.
“I didn’t take it, I just didn’t take it, you can search me if you don’t believe me?” Mo Shougui said.
“Old man, there are quite a few people looking for you these days!” Huangfu Kui suddenly said. “If I tell them your location, they’ll probably come right away.”
"I really didn't take it, I really didn't take it! How can you believe me!" Hearing Huangfu Kui's words, Mo Shougui immediately became anxious. The reason he hid in the sewer was to avoid those people.
He was truly speechless with bitterness! His heart was filled with endless regret! He had never stumbled before! How could this have happened? That little lamb, Gu Yu, had ruined him! He should have just robbed Gu Yu outright.
"Standing firm to your principles, are you still being stubborn?"
“I really didn’t take it. You don’t believe me, so you’re going to search me? I’ll take off my clothes right now, not even leaving my underwear behind,” Mo Shougui said.
"You disgusting thing, you demigod, hiding something is easy enough for you." Huangfu Kui said immediately after hearing Mo Shougui's words.
"I'm truly innocent!" Mo Shougui said.
"Commander Huangfu, have you found Mo Shougui?"
Just then, several figures appeared and asked Huangfu Kui a question.
"Huangfu Kui, don't tell them I'm here. I'll give you the resources." Upon hearing this voice, Mo Shougui shuddered and immediately transmitted his voice to Huangfu Kui.
Although these people are not very strong, only at the peak of the King Realm, they are all responsible for managing the national treasury of China and allocating resources. No one would choose to offend them, because if they trip you up, your resources will decrease.
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