LWGP - Chapter 203
Chapter 203: Black Eats Black
“This old bastard has a tough life, quick, stop her!”
“Quick, tie her down—”
Ning Kungui’s voice came to an abrupt halt. Wang Jiu, who had been pierced by the sword, suddenly pulled out her blade. Her attributes surged, her stats of twenty thousand instantly skyrocketing to over thirty thousand, and a single slash unleashed the power of two Orders. Coupled with a terrifying critical damage boost, it was as if a demon had crawled out of hell from within a dying corpse. The demon drew its blade and stabbed it back into the Patriarch’s body.
It took his last sliver of health, instantly depleting the Patriarch’s HP in proportion to the physical damage dealt.
The Patriarch was in disbelief, blood pouring from his mouth.
Zhou Yan in his cage and the surrounding slaughtered members of Nevernight were all stunned.
Song Yin and the other two were also silent.
So, because they had no feelings for her, they didn't care about Wang Jiu's life or death. In turn, Wang Jiu used them to whittle down the Patriarch's health bar. In the end, she unleashed her strongest single attack to take his head, securing all the benefits by claiming ownership rights with the final blow.
She felt no qualms about it.
Adults, after all, rely on their methods.
The Shanghai Old Lady’s exquisite makeup nearly cracked. “Lord of Gobi, you are…”
How cunning. To kill a powerhouse like the Patriarch, Wang Jiu was certainly strong enough to solo him; taking him down wouldn't have been a problem. But if she revealed her full strength, the others might not have been willing to cooperate fully. Instead, they would have held back their damage, waiting for Wang Jiu to do the heavy lifting and get him to a sliver of health so they could snatch the final kill.
Killing a person was a bit different from fighting a BOSS. The final blow decided everything. Rather than let them get any funny ideas, she turned the tables. Her damage output was high, so she didn't give them a chance to ruin their relationship by fighting for the last hit. She finished it in one go.
Happy? Thrilling?
Swoosh! With a flick of her wrist, Wang Jiu bisected the Patriarch’s corpse. The blade sliced upward, tearing through flesh and blood. She flicked the blade, flinging off the viscous blood. Blood streamed down her own body, but she pressed down on the wound where her right arm had been pierced and cast a Holy Light. In its halo, she received a notification from the System.
Ownership had been transferred. All of the Patriarch’s legacy was now hers, including, of course, the spoils of war from the Seven Star Day Array that she wanted most.
Seven designated areas. After the explosions, all the Undead—tens of thousands in each area, totaling three to four hundred thousand Undead heads—plus several Purple Gold BOSSes and even more Golden BOSSes. The scale of these resources was comparable to the rewards of several Nightmare Dungeons combined.
All the benefits were on the person who came to collect the loot. Although she hadn't seen that prophet, the benefits on the old man were quite good.
With the rights secured, Wang Jiu began collecting the “corpses” in Butterfly Valley. The System collected them with a single click; she didn't even have Wang Shu bother unlocking the Purple Gold BOSS corpses.
Because there were still huge piles of loot in the other six designated areas.
However, as Wang Jiu surveyed Butterfly Valley, she raised an eyebrow, a thoughtful look in her eyes.
Compared to Ning Kungui’s gloomy face from having come up empty-handed, the Shanghai Old Lady was an expert at putting on a front. She said with a smile, “The Lord of Gobi is as beautiful as a flower, with heavenly methods. Truly, it makes one…”
Before she could finish, Lao Wang, who had no respect for the old or love for the young, teleported away.
In a hurry to be reincarnated? No, she was off to get rich!
The Shanghai Old Lady: “…”
She doesn’t even give me a chance to suck up. How am I supposed to invite you to a social gathering? Even the honey trap won’t work!
The intel said that this monster Wang Jiu cared most about her old lady, but it seems that old lady is one of a kind.
But the Shanghai Old Lady didn't mind. She smiled and said to Song Yin, “I truly envy you, Young Master Song, for once having been engaged to a woman like the Lord of Gobi.”
Song Yin: “…”
They thought Lao Wang had dominated the field, a 100% successful black-eats-black maneuver, but at that moment, Wang Jiu, who had teleported to Jiuzhaigou, had a slightly strange expression on her face.
There was only one person in all of Jiuzhaigou.
Cai Wujun.
Face to face, Cai Wujun looked at her, took three seconds to react and deliberate, and finally replied, “It wasn’t me.”
“I know. Mr. Cai isn’t shameless like Xie Jiang.”
“…”
You make a very good point.
My second-in-command is indeed a shameless person.
Cai Wujun was a career-oriented boss and got straight to the point. “I took care of the ones from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, but when I went back to the explosion sites in Heishui County and Amu Township, I found all the loot was gone. I had my suspicions, so I came to Jiuzhaigou to have a look.”
He didn't explicitly state that he had also come for the loot, because he was certain Wang Jiu had the same objective. There was no need to mention it.
No one here was a saint. Everyone wanted to play black-eats-black.
Wang Jiu stared coldly at the surrounding ruins, her mind racing: That old bastard made a big move, but he wasn't strong enough to take them all on, which is why he resorted to such a clever scheme. But the explosion was also huge, and the major Bashu Territory would definitely react. In reality, he couldn't handle the official forces like Liu Wuren, who were still in Chengdu. He had to collect all the loot from the seven star points in the shortest possible time and then either leave Sichuan or go into hiding. Therefore, when he led his people to Butterfly Valley, he must have simultaneously sent trusted individuals with shared party-looting rights to the other star point areas. While everyone was outside the blast zones, they would sneak in to pick up the loot.
Cai Wujun had already figured out what Wang Jiu was thinking before he came to Jiuzhaigou. He didn't care about the ownership of the loot in Butterfly Valley, but he was certain that the Nevernight Patriarch’s trusted subordinates would be at the other areas collecting things. As long as this person collected the items, he could then kill them and get the loot from one star point without worrying about ownership rights.
His calculations were sound, but unfortunately, someone was a step ahead.
“It seems we aren’t the only ones playing black-eats-black,” Wang Jiu said faintly. Cai Wujun studied her expression and understood instantly.
“That Great Prophet.”
It was good to deal with smart people.
They could understand the unspoken meaning.
“And a Great Prophet who can come back from the dead.”
Wang Jiu guessed this person might possess a top-tier talent skill from the Light Arcana—Resurrection—or something similar to the power of an Order Book from the Light faction, like the Life Order. In any case, they had some kind of revival ability.
She herself possessed an Order Book, so she was just judging others by her own standards.
Wang Jiu’s brief statement wasn't from a god's-eye view, but a deduction.
A reverse deduction.
When he appeared in Butterfly Valley, the Patriarch’s spirit power was full. Because there were no effective spirit power recovery resources available at the moment, and there wasn't enough time, this indicated he wasn't the one who activated the Seven Star Day Array. Yet he did have full rights to the loot, which meant the person who activated it had already been killed. Adding the fact that he hadn't received a prophecy about the Sichuan coalition's counterattack, one could infer that this incredible prophet had been killed by the Patriarch.
It was unlikely that such an amazing prophet would be so easily discarded after serving his purpose. But considering that someone had managed to cleverly avoid proactive "black-eats-black" freelancers like Cai Wujun and had scooped up all these benefits so quickly, they must have been aware of Wang Jiu and the others' movements and timing. That would be impossible without prophecy.
“It’s like this in Jiuzhaigou and Aba. It seems the other places are much the same.”
Just as Cai Wujun finished speaking, feedback indeed came from the other areas.
They weren't the only smart ones. In truth, Jiang Chengjing of Snow Sea Forest Stream and Min Xiangwang of Kowloon Tong had also come up empty-handed.
In reality, the benefits weren't insignificant; at least they could still get the loot from their previous kills. But they hadn't managed to snatch the rewards from the Seven Star Day Array.
Right now, it seemed only Wang Jiu had reaped the benefits from Butterfly Valley. The rest had all been snatched away by that Great Prophet.
This person was truly formidable.
So many people had been played right into the palm of his hand.
Including Wang Jiu.
If time were to rewind, the Nevernight Patriarch would have discovered that three seconds after he teleported away upon securing the rights, the body that had been fading away was restored. From a dead man to a living person with returning HP—this was the most mysterious and terrifying method seen to date. But it truly existed in his lowly adopted son.
He opened his eyes, touched the already healed sword wound, and stood up. He calmly began to prophesy.
“Ah, as expected, I still can’t prophesize about Wang Jiu. But I can prophesize about my dear adoptive father… It seems the power gap is quite obvious, which means he will surely die.”
Since Butterfly Valley was a death trap, he wouldn't be able to play the oriole even if he went. He could guess Liu Wuren's deployment even without a prophecy—three great lords plus Wang Jiu.
He could only avoid the brunt of their force.
“Then I’ll go take care of my brothers on behalf of my adoptive father.”
He teleported over and easily and ruthlessly slaughtered the teams led by his three brothers, naturally harvesting the benefits from the six star points as well.
The vast resources didn't make him complacent. In fact, he became more humble, and was about to leave the final point—Tianlong Temple—with an air of mourning the death of his “relatives.”
Suddenly, atop the mountain peak, he heard the toll of a bell.
Tianlong Temple, the tolling of the Heavenly Drum Bell?
No, Tianlong Temple had long been blasted to ruins. Where would a bell toll come from?
A Shu narrowed his eyes and suddenly formed a hand seal. The scorching sunlight in the sky above the cliff was stripped away into rays of light. The light entwined around his body, and also entwined with space itself.
One of the advanced Light Arcana—Luminous Void Step!
That bell toll came from afar, a lock-on that spanned across realms, based on the abilities of two people.
1. Shen Wan. She had already used her Divine Light Spirit Pupils to prophesize about this resurrected Great Prophet.
2. Liu Wuren used her prophecy to lock onto his position and used his own item, a bronze bell, for a targeted soul stun.
Unfortunately, while the stun was precise, effective, and broke through his defenses—Liu Wuren was Liu Wuren, after all—unexpectedly, this A Shu either used a high-level exemption or a top-tier immunity to simply MISS it, then activated Luminous Void Step.
In the brief three seconds that the Luminous Void Step skill was active, A Shu had already prophesied that someone was teleporting over.
He couldn't determine who it was, which meant the person teleporting over was of a high level and great strength.
In turn, he prophesied about the others.
The Shanghai Old Lady and her group were coming.
Then Wang Jiu and Cai Wujun must be coming too!
Swoosh!
When the crowd appeared atop the cliff at Tianlong Temple, they only saw the faint halo of light left behind by the Luminous Void Step, along with a sentence the other party had left hanging in the air.
“Thank you all for your great assistance. We shall meet again.”
Everyone: “…”
It wasn't exactly "great assistance," since the Seven Star Day Array was their resource to begin with, but they still felt like they had done it all for nothing, completely played from start to finish.
The many influential great lords wore strange expressions, saying nothing.
The System was amused and teased Wang Jiu, “What's this? First time being out-schemed? Even though you got some benefits, he was a step ahead, you know. He basically used you to get rid of his adoptive father. Aren't you furious?”
So damn cheeky.
Wang Jiu glanced in the direction A Shu had left and replied slowly, “I am a little angry.”
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