"Womehing but trouble!" Xiao Long quickly turned his head to avoid being affected.

  Notig Xiao Long's awkwardness, Xiao Bai blushed and happily turned away.

  "This annoying snake may have a sharp tongue, but it's kied."

  As Xiao Long said, their experiences were quite simir—one failed a tribution, the other self-destructed and reborn. Such experiences made them empathize with each other.

  Xiao Long crawled out of the cave.

  , there were three tasks for Xiao Long to aplish.

  First, he o visit Fire Cloud City and raid the Fire Cloud Sect's headquarters. Offending him, the Burning Heaven Dragon Emperor, could only lead to their destru.

  Moreover, the Fire Cloud Sect's "Temporal Treasure" had always been a thorn in his side. It could repy events from the past day, and su item might tain the Laws of Time, something even Xiao Long coveted.

  Sed, he o gather spirit stohe Myriad Worlds Mall did not sell spirit stones, oremely expensive spirit crystals. Most of the spirit stones Xiao Long had seized were destroyed during the detonation of the formation, leaving him with only those in Gu You's ste ring.

  Xiao Long po set up a massive innate-level prehensive formation in this ring-shaped valley, incorporating effects like spirit gathering, defense, enemy killing, and illusions to cover the entire valley. The spirit stones required would be immense.

  Third, he o enhance his strength. Apart from the soul teiques he couldn't easily use, Xiao Long's own power wasn't particurly strong, at most able to tend with a tenth-level Demon General. For others, this might be impressive, but for a reborn Martial Emperor, it was clearly ie.

  If the geniuses of the Burning Heaven Dragon Pace from back then were brought to this desote pce, surpassing levels would be a breeze. In parison, Xiao Long, as a sect master, athetically weak.

  "Let's head to Fire Cloud City first."

  Xiao Long moved swiftly, heading towards Fire Cloud City.

  "Hmph! Off to py again without me, damn snake," Xiao Bai muttered, quietly following behind towards Fire Cloud City.

  Fire Cloud City wasn't far. At Xiao Long's current speed, it took him only half an hour to reach it at full speed.

  Fire Cloud City was as bustling as ever, with crowds like waves at the city gates, merts ing and going, a se of prosperity. It seemed the Fire Cloud Sect's misfortune hadn't affected the city.

  "Have you heard? The Fire Cloud Sect retly shut itself off. I walked around the city and didn't see many disciples from the sect."

  "Haha! I heard someone caused a huge otion in Fire Cloud City st time, injuring the Fire Cloud Sect Master so badly that he fled and hasn't dared to show his face since."

  "My goodness! How powerful must that person be? Could it be an Innate Expert?"

  "You're mistaken. I heard that person was just at the first level of the Qi densing Realm, called Lord Xiao, wearing a mask, very mysterious."

  "It's truly satisfying. The Fire Cloud Sect has itted so many evils, finally someo with them."

  Hearing the discussions at the city gate, Xiao Long couldn't help but sneer. Indeed, one ot escape the sequences of their as.

  The Fire Cloud Sect had offeoo many forces in the past. Now that they were down, they were like rats ireet, everyone wao beat them. If they didn't shut themselves off, their disciples might be assassinated by enemies.

  With a thought, Xiao Long's human avatar disappeared from his Inner World and appeared outside, while his true form coiled around the human's arm.

  He casually found a robe to wear over himself, now looking like a young man in his twenties.

  Xiao Long picked up a stone, i with spiritual qi, and moments ter, the ordinary stoed a milky white glow, transf into a lrade spirit stone.

  After lining up and paying the spirit stone, Xiao Loered Fire Cloud City without attrag any attention.

  Qianlong Bank, reception hall.

  Wan Jianfeng sat in the chief seat, his face extremely gloomy. Beside him, Su Ya held an at book, rep a series of losses a events.

  "The herbal caravan was robbed by Bck Wind Stronghold bandits, losing both money and goods, leaving only one survivor; the silk shopkeeper Xie Yu was assassi home; the tavern owner Zhang He disappeared; the bank's guard captain Jiang We without a word, leaving only a letter..."

  "Oh, the funds lost over 13.2 million lrade spirit stones, oh, over 5.01 million lrade spirit stones, oh..."

  As Su Ya listed the data, Wan Jianfeng's face grew darker.

  I days, Qianlong Bank seemed to be targeted. The shop owners us banner were either dead or fled, former partners refused to meet, and even the herbal caravan was robbed.

  Three days ago, Wan Jianfeng personally anized an au, some treasured items to boost morale, but only a dozen people came, all of them unknown figures. In the end, the precious au items were sold at low prices, resulting in a loss of at least several million middle-grade spirit stones.

  "Gu Yun! You'll die a miserable death!" Wan Jianfeng, of course, k was Gu Yun's doing behind the ses.

  Back then, Gu Yun demanded Su Ya from Wan Jianfeng, but Wan Jianfeng, following Xiao Long's instrus, refused. Gu Yun then decred to the world that anyone cooperating with the Qianlong Bank bran Fire Cloud City would be his enemy.

  inally, Gu Yun didn't have sufluence, but he left the Fire Cloud Sed became the chief honorary elder hired by the Beast Tami! With two of the four major sects weakehe Beast Tami undoubtedly became the reized number o in Tianfeng Kingdom, unrivaled in its promineno one dared to provoke the Beast Tami at this time.

  Thus, Wan Jianfeng became the sacrificial mb.

  Although the Qianlong Bank headquarters owerful, it adopted a petitive policy among its branches. If a branch colpsed or performed poorly, the president would be repced immediately, survival of the fittest, which emboldened Gu Yun tet Wan Jianfeng without restraint.

  "Tap, tap, tap..."

  At this moment, footsteps sou the door. Wan Jianfeng looked up to see six men and womeering the reception hall, their robes adorned with a star-engraved alchemy furnace, indig they were six first-grade alchemists.

  These six were alchemists uhe bank's employ, having refined pills for the bank for many years, f its foundation. Seeing all six of them arrive together, Wan Jianfeng had a bad premonition.

  "President Wan, we've e to inform you of something," the leading middle-aged man said with a smile, cupping his hands.

  "Are all six of you here to say goodbye?" Wan Jianfeng asked expressionlessly.

  "President Wan, ologize, but we ot refuse Master Gu Yun's invitation," the leading middle-aged man replied, still smiling.

  Hearing this, even though Wan Jianfeng was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in his chest, almost spitting blood.

  "President Wan, a wise man submits to circumstances. Master Gu Yun is the top alchemist in Fire Cloud City, his alchemy skills are renowned even in Tianfeng Kingdom. Now that he's joihe number o, the Beast Tami, he's even more formidable. We are forced by circumstances," another alchemist said with a smile.

  Wan Jianfeng said in a deep voice, "We signed an agreement back then. Even if you bear the cost of breag it, you still want to leave the bank?"

  "President Wan, the bes Master Gu Yun offers us far outweigh the cost of breag the agreement," the man replied with a smile.

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