ASER - Chapter 92
Chapter 92: KO!
Remnants of lightning lingered, and the poisonous gas was still present.
In the vast underground palace, a massacre that had originally involved over three thousand people now had only one survivor.
A'Diao administered some potions to herself and, together with Sparrow, quickly collected the spoils of war. Among them, Li Yuanshu's body parts were gathered by her, but she intentionally left behind a severed arm.
Because there were too many spoils, even a ten-cubic-meter space couldn't hold them all. Fortunately, there was Cui Yong's storage ring.
She managed to stuff all these items in, and then A'Diao glanced at Li Yuanshu's ring.
The space was vast, much larger than ten cubic meters, but there were too many items, and it was also packed full. It was clear that this dog Li Yuanshu was incredibly wealthy.
"No wonder he wanted to use this opportunity, borrowing the Cui family's hand, to eliminate Vulture and his men. This dog has backing, but he didn't dare to wipe out all these forces, nor did he dare to swallow all the wealth. He intended to use me this time to perform a 'golden cicada sheds its shell' maneuver, making it impossible for those above to investigate. That's why he was playing dumb and acting incompetent earlier."
A'Diao had already figured out this person's secrets. If she hadn't assessed that she still had a chance of winning later, she probably would have turned and fled.
"Li Yuanshu, this name is likely connected to his true identity. That's why he was so nervous at the time."
Although the wealth was all in the ring, and there were too many items to sort through, A'Diao didn't bother with it and seized the time to explore the underground palace.
The Toilet watched A'Diao, who had clearly plundered a massive amount of wealth, still take away some equipment, and was speechless.
But on second thought, it seemed right.
These millions upon millions, added up, might even reach several hundred million. It seemed to have gotten carried away.
But A'Diao seemed quite down-to-earth (perhaps just greedy).
The little evil dragon's nature was just like that.
But A'Diao hadn't expected to find this thing.
When she pushed open a door and saw a large, person-high piece of equipment in the server room, her expression was shaken, and she subconsciously retreated several steps.
Her recent military combat classes hadn't been for nothing.
"Damn! Rager No. 01! This Li Yuanshu hid such a large particle prime core here."
The Toilet also recognized it. "This was probably prepared for mutual destruction. But he cherished his life and knew that if it detonated, he himself would surely die. At the time, he couldn't escape past you all alone, so he probably didn't intend to use this thing."
"Indeed." A'Diao calmed herself. The main thing was that this device had immense destructive power; it could instantly kill a dozen A-rank individuals.
Its cost was naturally also formidable, about a billion, but it was relatively crude, couldn't be moved, and couldn't be remotely controlled. Otherwise, the price would be several times higher.
It could only be classified as a strategic weapon.
And A'Diao... she planned to dig out this strategic weapon.
Toilet: "???"
No, this thing can't be moved and used unless you take all its assembled components and then reassemble them.
What for? To sell it?
"It's a billion, that's a lot of money!" A'Diao said casually, but a glint flickered in her eyes, and she didn't say more.
The Toilet couldn't be bothered to ask. After all, compared to her swiping small detectors and other equipment, swiping Rager No. 01 was clearly on a higher level of audacity.
A'Diao and Sparrow practically scraped the place clean. It could be said that if a corpse's underwear had gold thread, they would strip the pants off it.
Once finished, they naturally had to leave.
Before leaving, A'Diao took the source of the Corrosive Titanium Poison. This stuff was rare and hard to buy even with money, and it could be useful later. Then she cleaned up some of her own traces and manipulated other scents to complicate the situation inside...
But where to go? Home?
Of course, home.
There are still my assets at the Cui family's place that I haven't taken.
A'Diao's "reserve a villa before buying a lottery ticket" + "mine, mine, all mine" mindset was deeply ingrained; she hadn't even considered giving up the Cui family's resources and property.
For no other reason than this: after so many assassination attempts on her, wasn't compensation required? Just a 3.5 billion suit?
Was there anything so unreasonable in this world?
Five minutes later, the blood-spitting Lord Cui, carrying the bodies of Shen Shan and the other, returned to the airship. As soon as he entered, he nearly knelt on the floor, clutching the washbasin and vomiting for a while. His body was a bloody mess. The two remaining Cui family pilots were astonished: So brutal?!
Impossible, was this Fierce Bandit Organization so strong?
"That bandit leader was from a secret faction, very strong. I barely managed to kill him. The others were tricked by him, and Shen Shan and the other one also died."
"Quick, go back!"
Since Cui Yong said so, they were naturally terrified and quickly started the airship to leave.
Those who benefited wouldn't talk too much.
Thus, Lord Cui returned to the Cui family in this state. The commotion was significant, and many in the Cui family learned of it. Just as he entered, the Cui family's old butler's eyes flickered, and he sent a message to Cui Liang...
After A'Diao returned to the Cui family residence, she took a bath, then surveyed and inspected the entire Cui estate, quickly determining the location of the Small Spirit Gate.
Just like the Chen family, whose Small Spirit Gate was built by the imperial court with set specifications, Cui Yong was also a high official at the time, a senior military officer. The family had established a Small Spirit Gate early on. Certain relevant departments in Jinling would likely have assisted in constructing a proper Small Spirit Gate cultivation facility, so the method of entry and exit should be similar.
Eye scan plus DNA detection.
It wouldn't involve personal, private spiritual energy... because family-type Small Spirit Gates also had to lay the foundation for the younger generation of the family, and this generation, in their early stages, couldn't release spiritual energy, let alone spirit power.
So there wouldn't be detection in that aspect. As for DNA detection.
A'Diao walked in. After the gate guard bowed, he saw her scan her pupils on the device as usual, then place her palm on the touchscreen beside it... Her palm was already insulated by a layer of spirit power, and beneath the spirit power was a biological tissue fluid saturated with DNA data from Cui Yong's corpse.
Beep, access granted.
After A'Diao entered the Small Spirit Gate, by sensing the flow of spiritual energy, she found Cui Yong's private, largest cultivation room.
She entered, and the door closed.
Toilet: "You suspect he built his treasury here in the Small Spirit Gate?"
A'Diao: "Even enemies, if they harbor hatred, would covet the Small Spirit Gate somewhat and wouldn't destroy it casually. Moreover, Small Spirit Gates officially registered with the imperial court are generally cataloged according to regulations. If damaged, the court would sense it and send people to investigate. Jinling should also have such a department. Therefore, the Small Spirit Gate can generally serve as a hiding place for family members during a crisis. Cui Yong doesn't care about the lives of others, but building the treasury here is logical."
Because to open the treasury, an attack is necessary. Once an attack occurs, it triggers the Small Spirit Gate's sensors, and people from the imperial court will know and send personnel to kill the attacker. This indeed serves as a warning to enemies, and it's another privilege of officially ranked families.
But how to open a treasury within a cultivation room?
A'Diao formed hand seals, finally placing her fingertips on her glabella. "Spirit Eye, open!"
Swoosh!
Her pupils gained a layer of hazy luster, and under her vision, the spiritual energy in the entire cultivation room became clear at a glance, strand by strand like hairs, their every path visible to her.
"No wonder not much spiritual energy has settled in this room. It turns out one of the release vents has become an intake vent."
There were 9 spiritual energy conduit openings in the cultivation room; 8 were releasing, but one was intaking.
A'Diao moved closer to this intake vent.
Intake, into where?
"Strange, the ground below is solid, there's no underground space."
A'Diao had Sparrow survey with its equipment but found nothing.
Could it be that her judgment was wrong?
But A'Diao was a rather persistent person. She firmly held to her original judgment regarding Cui Yong: the treasury definitely existed, and it was definitely placed in his private area.
Unless the equipment's exploration was ineffective, Cui Yong had used some means to block the equipment's signal detection.
"Spirit power methods?"
A'Diao suddenly brought out 101, moved the shield's range, and tried to pierce downwards. Sure enough!
There was a spatial interlayer below, likely released by a spiritual vessel.
Toilet: "There must be a spiritual vessel specifically for dimensional space. That intake vent is connected to this spiritual vessel. This old dog Cui is quite lucky; spatial-type spiritual vessels are extremely rare."
Exactly.
A'Diao hadn't expected such a villain to have such heaven-defying luck.
But she immediately used an earth escape technique under the protection of 101. She couldn't leave her spirit power aura behind. With a swoosh, she burrowed underground and cleared out a square space of about fifteen square meters beneath the ground.
The place was found, but how to enter was a problem.
Fortunately, Cui Yong's body was in her hands.
This spatial spirit vessel was surely bound to Cui Yong. She just needed to unbind it from his body and then rebind it.
The rebinding process took about fifteen minutes. During this time, A'Diao had the Toilet check its energy level.
Toilet: "5500."
A'Diao was stunned, thinking she had misheard. "How much!?"
"5500, but this spiritual vessel itself is 500, so there might be some treasures inside."
A'Diao, however, asserted decisively: "It's a Medium Spirit Gate, it must be a Medium Spirit Gate! I was wondering how this old dog, with his limited aptitude, could improve so quickly even if he absorbed spirit cores 24 hours a day. No wonder! It's entirely the effect of a Medium Spirit Gate plus a Small Spirit Gate, along with a massive supply of spirit core resources for his cultivation. With this setup, even a pig could fly by now."
When the time was up, buzz, the spatial spirit vessel instantly became A'Diao's possession, her property. This thing was good; unlike 303 which had limitations, this could be accessed at any time and could also serve as a hidden "house" in the wild.
But it definitely wasn't as heaven-defyingly life-saving as 303's dimensional space hiding.
"This thing can also be used for attack, but it's not easy to manage, very difficult. It needs some research."
Cui Yong, unlike A'Diao who received top-tier education and possessed sufficient intelligence, didn't understand any spatial science. After obtaining it, he purely used it as a treasury, sneakily hiding the Medium Spirit Gate inside.
However, A'Diao didn't rush in to explore the treasures within. Instead, she directly put away the entire spiritual vessel, which was equivalent to taking possession of the Cui family's treasury, all of the Cui family's wealth.
And then... escape?
No. After the spiritual vessel was removed, the underground space it had occupied remained. In this underground space, she took out Li Yuanshu's body. On one hand, she used Cui Yong's weapons and equipment to attack the underground space in various ways; a moment later, she would switch to using Li Yuanshu's light armor for defense and his staff for attack...
A back-and-forth, as if she had multiple personalities.
Toilet: "..."
Meanwhile, Cui Liang was on his way.
Two hours later.
A small, high-end airship landed in the Cui family's internal docking plaza.
The Cui Family Butler saw three people disembark from the airship.
One was the Eldest Young Master Cui Liang; the other two were of unknown identity, but their auras were menacing and heavy, suggesting they were extremely formidable experts.
Anyway, the butler was terrified. After quietly reporting to Cui Liang that his father was currently at the Small Spirit Gate, a dark glint flashed in Cui Liang's eyes, and he led the two experts inside.
The butler thought to himself: The auras of these two experts are even more terrifying than the family head's. They might be extremely dreadful masters.
He just didn't know what rank they were.
But they were definitely stronger than the family head... Was the Eldest Young Master going to have a showdown with the family head?
On the way to the Small Spirit Gate, Cui Liang's heart was filled with a mix of sorrow and joy.
The joy was that since his father had returned alive, he must have taken down the Fierce Bandit Organization and obtained its vast resources.
The sorrow was that, as expected, his father hadn't contacted him and instead wanted to monopolize all the resources.
Always like this, he was always like this.
If so, he deserved to die!
However, the two people behind him reminded him again, "Young Master Liang, thoughts and actions are two different things. We hope that when you truly see him later and certain situations arise, you can be decisive and not indecisive and hesitant."
They didn't care what Cui Liang thought, only what guarantees this Young Master Liang had made to their Second Miss.
Were people so easily borrowed?
Since they were lent out, benefits were naturally required.
If he hesitated at the crucial moment and refused to act, then... don't blame them for being merciless.
They couldn't make this trip for nothing.
"I know. Just act as you see fit later."
Cui Liang didn't even mention whether to negotiate with Cui Yong, because he knew very well: negotiation was useless. His father wouldn't agree and might even strike first.
Perhaps in his father's view, as long as he himself became powerful and extended his lifespan, he could have as many sons as he wanted in the future.
This kind of thinking... Cui Liang actually agreed with it.
His father could be so ruthless, so naturally, he could too.
"You may withdraw." Cui Liang had the guards leave, then used his own registration information to enter with the two men. Once inside, the three of them immediately sped up.
Soon, Cui Liang arrived at Cui Yong's cultivation room... Cui Liang pretended to request entry. After receiving no response, his eyes flashed, and he pushed the door open himself. The two behind him darted in like lightning.
No one!?!
The three exchanged glances. Cui Liang, after all, was Cui Yong's son and had developed ulterior motives these days, having done some investigation. "He has a treasury."
"It must be in here. Do you have any means to investigate?"
Cui Liang's cultivation and methods were insufficient, so he naturally relied on the two men.
But experts were experts, especially those from a Kyoto aristocratic family. One of them opened his hand, and a mysterious pupil-like gemstone flew out from his body. After activating it before him... it swept across the entire cultivation room. Soon, it locked onto the intake vent on the floor. He raised an eyebrow and smiled, "You said your father's aptitude was average, but that's not necessarily true. This hidden isolation technique is quite well executed. It seems you don't know him very well."
Cui Liang's expression wasn't too good.
If Cui Yong had poor aptitude and still monopolized family resources, that was naturally bad.
But if he had hidden his aptitude, even deceiving his own son... that was even worse.
"Stop the nonsense, go down!"
"Otherwise, he'll detect us."
All three used an earth escape technique... Soon, the three instantly entered the underground space, only to be stunned by the scene before them.
Inside this underground space were many miscellaneous pieces of equipment, a large iron box, and some biological instruments. They couldn't make out much at first because their attention was drawn elsewhere.
Traces of a fierce battle were everywhere, and a tragic corpse lay there—it was unmistakably Cui Yong!
And on the other side...
"Who's there!"
"Courting death!"
Cui Liang didn't sense it, but the two experts did—there was another person here!
And this person was invisible.
Enraged, the two attacked simultaneously—A-rank attacks.
So strong!
In that critical moment... the invisible person had already activated something.
With a click, a button was pressed.
The expert controlling the pupil gemstone saw that the invisible person was a weakened man with a severed arm. As he recorded this person's appearance with his device, he also saw what happened after the other party pressed the button.
The energy went berserk.
Within the space, he saw the contents of that strange iron box... activate.
"Run!!!"
In an instant, his nerves were like a cat whose tail had been stepped on; all his hair stood on end. With a furious roar, he rapidly escaped upwards.
But it was too late.
The other person was a fraction slower, but the slowest was Cui Liang. He didn't even know what was happening. The two experts couldn't spare a thought to pull him along to escape, also fearing he would hinder their own escape.
But did it make any difference?
None.
Rager No. 01 activated.
In an instant, the blast's halo engulfed the two men and everything else. And within this halo... A'Diao had already hidden in the 303 dimensional space.
From Cui Liang +22222!
From A-rank thug 1 +99999!
From A-rank thug 2 +122222!
KO! Eliminating future troubles, not one left behind.
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