Chapter 225 This amount of spiritual stones may not be enough
Two Jindan-stage cultivators were traveling around Luofeng County. They were obviously familiar with the route. Luofeng County would arrange cultivators to patrol at night, but these two people cleverly avoided the patrol route.
At this time, Li Haoran was awakened by Su Yiren. After listening to his fiancée's brief explanation of the whole story, he looked a little strange.
"Brother Meng's display of wealth has finally been noticed?"
"What do you mean by showing off your wealth? Can't I tell others that I'm rich?" Meng Jingzhou glared. When he was the young master of the Meng family in the Imperial City, who dared to set his eyes on his things?
Su Yiren and three others secretly followed the two Jindan-stage masters. When they were moving back and forth on the roof, Lu Yang caught a glimpse of a figure in the distance who was also moving back and forth on the roof like himself.
"Is the night in Luofeng County so lively?"
Lu Yang originally wanted to chase after them to see what was going on, but he saw the two Jindan-stage cultivators climbing over a high-walled house, so he had to take care of the situation at hand first.
"I remember this is...the County Magistrate's Mansion?" Li Haoran hesitated, suspecting that he had remembered it wrong.
The Phoenix Blood Stone worth 500,000 spirit stones was indeed precious, but it was not precious enough to make a county magistrate excited.
Unless there is some hidden story behind the Phoenix Blood Stone that Senior Brother Meng bought.
The high-walled house is covered by a formation. If you move forward rashly without knowing the method, you will be noticed by the people inside the house.
Su Yiren ignored the formation and successfully led the three people into the house.
"Master, we are back." The two Jindan stage cultivators said respectfully to the middle-aged man who was standing with his hands behind his back.
Li Haoran had never seen the county magistrate before, so he didn't know whether this middle-aged man was the county magistrate or a steward or something like that.
The middle-aged man hummed calmly: "Did you get that thing?"
The two felt a little ashamed: "We encountered an accident, and we were worried that the noise would be too loud, so we didn't continue to steal the thing."
"Accident?"
"Yes, we met the same people who went to steal that thing at Li Haoran's house. Although they did not reveal their identities, I suspect they were sent by the Mo family."
"What happened? Tell me in detail."
The two of them reconstructed the scene in detail, but the master flew into a rage: "Humph, you've been deceived! The people you met were not members of the Mo family, but disciples of the Dao Sect!"
"If I'm right, they're eavesdropping on the roof right now!"
"I've come to this point. Please come out and have a frank conversation."
Li Haoran was startled and was about to show up when he was stopped by Lu Yang.
Lu Yang shook his head and said nothing.
The master waited for a long time but no one showed up: "It seems that the people you met are indeed members of the Mo family. As expected, the Mo family also knows about the existence of that thing."
He was just lying.
Yesterday, he heard from his subordinates that three disciples of the Asking Dao Sect in the Foundation Establishment Stage had come to Luofeng County, one of whom was a native of Luofeng County. However, he did not take it to heart.
Unexpectedly, this afternoon, the subordinates reported that one of the disciples of the Wendao Sect bought an extremely rare Phoenix Blood Stone and went to other shops to look for similar Phoenix Blood Stones.
When he heard his subordinates describe the appearance of the Phoenix Blood Stone, he was shocked and suspected that it was the problematic Phoenix Blood Stone.
This cannot fall into the hands of the Wendao Sect. It would be terrible if the Wendao Sect found out.
He sent two men to steal the Phoenix Blood Stone and met the Mo family.
The Mo family is the largest family in Luofeng County. They don't get along well with him as the county magistrate and have always wanted to find something to hold against him.
"Tsk, I don't know how that thing got out. Have you asked the owner of the shop that sold it?"
"He's gone. I heard from the shop assistants that the shop owner made a lot of money and went traveling with his wife and children. He won't be back for a while. Now there are only a few shop assistants left to look after the house."
“It’s really enviable.”
"Ah, what did you say, sir?"
"nothing."
The county magistrate thought that after finishing this job, he would take his wife and children to visit other places.
"What did the mine say? When will the project be completed? We can't keep using the mine collapse as an excuse to stop miners from going in to mine."
The reason for the mine collapse can only delay for a while. After all, in the world of immortal cultivation, finding a few cultivators with high realms can directly create a new mine.
Take the county magistrate himself as an example. As long as he takes action, he can open up a mine in half a day. Now he announces to the public that something has gone wrong in his practice and he cannot take action within half a month.
"They said it would take another three days."
"Tell them to speed up, but keep it confidential. We must not let outsiders know about this. This matter not only concerns us, but also the interests of the Phoenix Clan!"
"yes!"
Lu Yang and the other three were stunned after hearing this. From what the county magistrate said, he was colluding with the Phoenix Clan?
With the arrival of the great era, the momentum of open and covert struggles between the Central Continent and various forces is intensifying, including the conflict between the Central Continent and the demon race.
Some of the monster tribe wanted to go to war with the Great Xia Dynasty, while others wanted to ease relations with the Great Xia Dynasty and face the great crisis together, so the monster tribe was divided into the pro-war faction and the pro-peace faction.
"I just don't know which faction the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan belong to."
Lu Yang heard that the demon tribe had sent many spies to sneak into the Central Continent with the intention of causing chaos in secret.
Please...collect 6...9...books...!
"Also, do you know how to treat them after they have completed this?"
At this point, the county magistrate showed an expression that showed he was reluctant but had no choice but to do so.
The two Jindan stage cultivators were stunned for a moment, and then murderous intent appeared in their eyes.
"You mean... they should be paid three times their wages for working overtime these days?"
"right."
The county magistrate turned around and was stunned when he saw the looks in the eyes of the two Jindan-stage cultivators.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
The two Jindan-stage masters said with some resentment, "Master, you never told us that you would pay us when we were working the night shift, like tonight."
Even if we don't need to sleep in the Jindan stage, we can't use it up during the day and then continue using it at night, right?
My wife is still waiting in bed.
Why do others get paid for working overtime, but they work for free?
"…I'll give you some processing money, too."
"Master, what should we do with that piece of Phoenix Blood Stone?"
"Humph, since doing it in secret won't work, then let's do it openly. Tomorrow you pretend to be merchants and say that the Phoenix Blood Stone is very rare and you want to buy it for a large sum of money!"
"How heavy?"
"One million spiritual stones!" The county governor didn't believe it. This was a deal that netted him 500,000 spiritual stones. How could a foundation-building-stage disciple of the Daoist Sect not be tempted? The two Jindan-stage cultivators showed hesitation.
"What's wrong? Just say whatever you want to say."
"Master, the disciple from the Daoist Sect may not be short of these spiritual stones."
"Then one million and five hundred thousand spirit stones!" The county magistrate was furious. He didn't believe that two million spirit stones would not be enough for the other party to let go?
“It may still not be enough.”
"Two million!"
“It’s still not enough.”
The county magistrate was furious: "Then tell me, how many spirit stones do you want before the other party will let you go! I don't believe that the other party, who is only in the foundation-building stage, has so many spirit stones that he would not be tempted by two million spirit stones!"
"We heard that the other party is the eldest son of the Meng family."
The Meng family and the eldest son, these two words together mean tremendous power and wealth, and no one dares to mess with them.
The Meng family is the number one family in the Central Continent and is well-known.
The county magistrate became even angrier upon hearing this, and was not afraid of Meng Jingzhou's identity at all: "So what if the eldest son of the Meng family is so great? At worst, I can go and steal it myself tomorrow night!"
(End of this chapter)