Plundering the Heavens

Chapter 332: Lighting Sword Embryos Like Firecrackers

Translator: Myriea_ActiasLuna Editor: Nou

After the shout from someone in the crowd of cultivators, a few ideas began to spread in the thoughts of others as well. After those words had faded, however, Fang Xing let out a loud roar, picked up another Sword Embryo, and yelled, “Who dares to kill me?” He smashed the Sword Embryo against the other one he had in his hands, causing the two to suddenly explode. The mournful light of the sword spirits appeared once again before they flew up into the sky and exploded in scattering lights.

The sight was extremely beautiful, but a chill ran through the hearts of those who were present. These were Sword Embryos, yet two more had been destroyed; did this kid really see them as nothing more than firecrackers?

As the cultivators watched on with fear, Fang Xing spoke in an excessively cold voice, “I’ve said it before, if anyone tries something, I will destroy all the Sword Embryos!” After speaking, he turned to those behind him who’d already bought a Sword Embryo and continued, “Your Sword Embryos included!”

These words truly terrified the others. This little bastard had finally shown his true intentions.

As expected, as soon as Fang Xing said these words, although the six cultivators who’d obtained their Sword Embryos with mere hundreds of Spirit Stones were still suspicious and showed some hesitation, they still walked to the front, took six corners, and gave cold glares towards the other cultivators. “Anyone who wants to cause problems will be killed!” one of the six coldly proclaimed, filling everyone with dread. They realized now that these six cultivators had been the most powerful ones aside from Li Ying and Han Ying, and each one of them had enough battle prowess to hold dominance over a large area.

“Can’t you tell this is that brat’s scheme?” a cultivator in the crowd shouted while glaring at the six of them. “Why would you willingly sell your life to him?”

“Indeed, this little demon has intentionally tried to split us up!” another large and bulky cultivator yelled out while trying to incite everyone else. “Why don’t we kill him together!”

Fang Xing merely gave a cold smile, brought out two more Sword Embryos, and prepared to smash them together in the air.

“No….”

“Don’t be so hasty….”

All the cultivators flinched at this and a countless number began loudly shouting to try to get him to stop, but they could tell this little bastard was planning to use these Sword Embryos like firecrackers once again….

This was just too vicious.

Fang Xing paused his movements and laughed. “You don’t want to part with them? Sure, I’ve already gotten bored with watching fireworks. How about this: that bear-like guy looks really annoying, so whoever takes that guy’s head for me will be given the Sword Embryos I was about to use. What do you all say?”

Wasn’t this intentionally trying to cause the cultivators to attack each other? Everyone felt a chill run down their spines as they looked at one another without a single person daring to move. The bulky cultivator in question was shocked by this and activated his Qi for defense before shouting, “Don’t jump into the trap this brat set—”

Before he finished, Fang Xing once again picked up the two Sword Embryos and prepared to smash them.

“Wait!” someone shouted, and no fewer than four cultivators leapt up from the group to try to kill the bulky cultivator.

“Are you really going to kill me?” the bear-like cultivator yelled out. “Can’t you see it’s one of the brat’s schemes? I, Mo Gan, will fight against you with my life!” He growled out and performed several spells to fight against the cultivators attacking him. He was thoroughly enraged like a monstrous beast, but his battle prowess wasn’t actually very high; he was only at second-tier Foundation Stage, and it didn’t take long before he was reduced to nothing more than a corpse.

All the cultivators fought their way to cut off his head. The one who was fastest slit it off with a blade and kicked it in Fang Xing’s direction. “Here….”

Fang Xing raised his foot and stomped down on the head, pushing it down against the ground even while its eyes remained open. “Very well, they’re yours!” He sneered and raised his hand before directly sending both Sword Embryos to the cultivator who’d cut off the bear-like cultivator’s head.

The cultivator grabbed both Sword Embryos in frenzied excitement and joy. “Thank y—” he reflexively began to say, only to realize the atmosphere around him wasn’t quite right. A countless number of maddened eyes were staring at him with envy, and the shocked cultivator quickly flew behind Fang Xing and began watching the other cultivators with caution. Sword Embryos were priceless treasures, and two of them was enough for any one of the cultivators here to commit murder to get their hands on them.

Fang Xing’s voice rose up, “You can fight all you like later, but if anyone dares to do anything now, I might get upset, and being upset makes me want to see fireworks. Of course, the rules are still the same. If anyone makes me upset enough to want to watch fireworks, the person who chops their head off for me will be able to receive the firecrackers as their reward. So, anyone else want to try?” His words were overbearingly arrogant, but after the bear-like cultivator was turned into an example, none of the cultivators dared to argue. When Han Ying and Li Ying saw such a thing, they both exchanged glances filled with shock; this sworn brother of theirs… his evil schemes were really something.

Even in the very beginning when Fang Xing was acting like an idiot who would hand out Sword Embryos for practically free, he was working to break apart the cultivators’ cohesion. He sold the Sword Embryos for cheap, and although it seemed he was handing them out to random people, he’d been purposefully choosing the most powerful cultivators within the group. This was a skill in its own right, made possible thanks to the Book of Revelation.

As for the six people who were able to receive a Sword Embryo for such a low price, they were naturally very surprised as well. Fang Xing then took the fact the Sword Embryos would be destroyed if anyone made trouble as a means of coercing these six as well, since if they wanted to safely obtain their own Sword Embryos, the best method to do so was helping Fang Xing maintain order—they were forced to ally with him to ensure the remaining Sword Embryos could all be safely sold off. Although this plan was easy, it was indeed very effective; the most important thing to these six cultivators was successfully obtaining their Sword Embryos, after all.

As for when Fang Xing incited others to kill the bulky man, it was done as a show of force. Everything was coarse but direct, and although there wasn’t anything flashy, it was true these methods had still proven effective!

Fang Xing’s ninth uncle had taught him that all men are the same: when someone is poor, they will cry that it is unfair. It is when some people have money and others do not that chaos and strife appear, meaning stirring up chaos was very simple. This was a method that would work one hundred times out of one hundred tries: as long as someone was able to create “unfairness” in the hearts of their enemies, there would naturally be those who obtain an unfair advantage over others and come to help the perpetrator maintain the rules.

Of course, Fang Xing had dared to execute such a plan in large part because he’d already prepared for the worst. If anyone didn’t obey the rules of the game he put forward, he would truly destroy all the Sword Embryos and flee on his own. He also wasn’t afraid of these cultivators remembering him and trying to sneakily harm him later on, either. War had been declared between him and the Huangfu clan and he’d already been turned into a public enemy, so it was going to be difficult for him regardless. With such a brutish mentality, he was comfortable doing all of this.

Once he forced the cultivators to stop, Fang Xing continued the Sword Embryo auction. Although the expressions on the cultivators were gloomy and dark with complicated looks, there were still plenty of people who began to bid on the prices. Of course, who would actually have so many Spirit Stones on them inside the Mysterious Domain? For that reason, the bidding wasn’t limited to only Spirit Stones; after two rounds of bids, some cultivators also began taking out what they’d found inside the Mysterious Domain.

This had all been within Fang Xing’s expectations, and he accepted ten rare spirit herbs as a price before appointing ownership of the sword and commanding the buyer to wait on the side. Once that was done, Fang Xing continued on with the next Sword Embryo’s auction.

The golden crow had successfully fused with the blue immortal’s Sword Embryo and stabilized himself, so he excitedly rushed over to watch the fun. Fang Xing trusted the crow enough to have him continue the auction with the Peng King and Flag of Ten Thousand Spirits standing guard, while he himself showed a cold smirk, swept his gaze across the cultivators, and finally turned his back to head into the black hall.

Fang Xing’s cheeks were flushed and his body was on the verge of collapse. “You can’t keep up anymore?” the blue-clothed bandit softly asked after appearing behind him.

Fang Xing wiped the blood that had seeped down the corner of his lips and snickered. “Seems I can’t always fight with all I’ve got!”

Xu Linyun was currently stabilizing herself after having received the immortal’s Sword Embryo. When she saw the blood at the corner of Fang Xing’s lips, she stood up with great surprise and grasped his arm to have him sit down. Fang Xing waved his hands to show he was just fine, but Xu Linyun simply grabbed his wrist and checked his pulse.

Although medicine and alchemy were two different branches, the earlier parts still had many similarities and Xu Linyun did know some basics of medicine. After checking his pulse, she determined it had all been due to fighting too many battles back to back, causing Fang Xing to use up too much of his Qi. Xu Linyun fed Fang Xing two Stabilizing Pellets first to help him suppress his roiling blood and then moved on to start up her cauldron. Fang Xing didn’t refuse under such circumstances, either; he sat down with his legs crossed and begin slowly circulating his Qi to nourish his body and soul.

Time moved slowly. The golden crow auctioned off the Sword Embryos with excitement, and although he was even more annoying than Fang Xing, all these cultivators were already unhappy from being extorted in the first place—the crow’s grating personality wasn’t even worth discussing. After Fang Xing’s earlier actions, the auction proceeded extremely smoothly and more than seventy Sword Embryos were all sold at a good price. Although these cultivators didn’t have a lot of Spirit Stones on them and were forced to use the treasures they found within the Mysterious Domain instead, the Sword Embryos were still much more valuable than that of the treasures—it was an easy sacrifice to make.

While the auction continued, Fang Xing considered it carefully and had Xu Linyun take five Sword Embryos to Xiao Xue. Xiao Xue understood his intentions and inwardly thanked Fang Xing before silently leaving. She knew these five Sword Embryos encompassed the gratitude Fang Xiaojiu had felt towards the Snowy Mountain, and that from this point onwards, Fang Xiaojiu would no longer exist in this world. These Sword Embryos alone meant the Snowy Mountain profited greatly.

As more and more Sword Embryos were sold, the anxiety of some of the cultivators began to grow. The competition became fiercer and fiercer, and even those who’d looked at the auction in disdain before began to join in. It was only now they began to realize that the bids for the Sword Embryos would continuously grow more expensive as the remaining amount dwindled, and since the number of people enforcing the rules of the auction continuously increased, trying to take one by force was no longer an option. They only way they’d get a Sword Embryo of their own was to take out Spirit Stones or what they’d obtained from the Mysterious Domain.