Chapter 332: The mysterious bellow!

"E-Esteemed customer.. do you have.. smaller money? W-We don't have enough change for this..." Heng Wu swallowed his saliva as he reluctantly returned the Superior quality spirit stone to Di Rou. Even if that was something truly valuable and enticing, there was no way that they could keep it!

"What? Hmmm.. now this is a problem..." Di Rou acted like she didn't expect this. In reality, everything was carefully planned for between the three of them, including this scenario where Heng Wu did not accept the Superior quality spirit stone from them.

She then continued, "We do not have any other smaller money than this, and we also do not want to be in debt. Since this is the case, perhaps we should just be allowed to eat to our heart's content until it reaches the amount equal to the value of this Superior quality spirit stone?" she suggested.

The moment Heng Wu heard this, his blood was drained from his face. If he were to agree, then their Seven Saints Culinary restaurant will become the lunchbox of these three ladies!

What if these ladies were to eat all the expensive food from top to bottom? How could they replenish their stock when their ingredients ran out all the time and they cannot receive any profits at all to hire people to procure their ingredients or even purchase them?

Wouldn't the restaurant go entirely bankrupt?

They must be the loan shark!

"Ah? N-No!" he immediately replied, "H-How about tonight's dinner is on the house instead? T-There is no need to pay!" forcing a smile with a contorting cheek muscles.

This was the only way out for them, and if these ladies did not agree, then they would truly be doomed! In the future, he will make sure to forbid customers from paying with a Superior quality spirit stone... assuming that they have one anyway.

"It's on the house?" Di Rou looked at Xiahou Yu and Xu Rong, as if they had already expected this and nearly bursted into laughter.

Though they already felt guilty from doing this, this was the only way for them to procure those huge lists of ingredients that Duan Li tasked them to get!

"Then, we shall continue to make orders!" Di Rou nodded and answered with a poker face, as if unable to see that the old butler in front of her was currently facing the greatest crisis ever in his life!

"Eh? P-Please Esteemed customers... don't do this!" Heng Wu started to beg. He knew where the direction was going with this one.

Damn it! What did I do in my past lives to deserve this torture? Oh Heavens! Please send me your guiding light!

"As long as our restaurant does not have to go into debt with you, then we are willing to do anything! Please understand that we also can't allow you to eat as you want... or we'll go bankrupt!" Heng Wu said, nearly bawling his tears out.

Seeing that the old butler has finally submitted, a smile crept up on Di Rou's lips.

Success!

"Well, if you insist. Here are the lists of ingredients that we want to procure within one week!" Di Rou passed onto Heng Wu the lists of ingredients that she received from Duan Li.

She then continued, "As long as you guys are able to procure them all, then there is no need for the restaurant to pay the remainder to us. You can take that Superior quality spirit stone with you now, and do whatever you want with it."

"W-What?!" once again, Heng Wu felt another shock to his old heart and almost fainted.

To give them the Superior quality spirit stone and stating that they they could use it however they like was the same as gaining ownership of it!

This was a total value of reaching the thousands of High quality spirit stones! With that staggering amount of money, they could do anything they want!

So what if the lists of ingredients was a lot and hard to come by?

What Danger zone?

What Forbidden f*cking region?!

Hah! Here's my middle finger!

The money they have right now would be enough to hire several experts at the Nascent Soul realm at once to personally fetch the ingredients on the field like a bunch of cheap labourers! In fact, after deducting all the possible expenses, they would still be earning profits of several hundreds of High quality spirit stones!

This was an unprecedented deal! A deal that could only happen once every few thousand years!

Was it because I am too handsome that the Heavens gave me this golden opportunity? That does seems to be the case!

Hais!

With his eyes renewed with extreme determination, and the flames of life began to burn like the second sun, Heng Wu immediately bowed his head!

"Esteemed customers! This is truly nothing too big of a deal for us! Hahahahaha! In fact, please have a seat again, tonight, everything will be on the house!"

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At the Southern region of the Jiu Empire, Fei Longwei and Wei Shang managed to rescue the kidnapped villagers near the lodging zone in the village.

As the village was still under assault by the bandits, it was not safe to roam around freely outside. Thus, they had to pick one inn and hid the rescued villagers there for the time being. They also stationed some of Cucko's minions to keep on a lookout while they head out to another area to help the rest of the villagers.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

With the efficient assassination and ambush tactics of Cucko and his minions, Fei Longwei and Wei Shang was able to clear most of the attacking bandits at lightning speed, the blitzkrieg technique!

They could hardly believe on what these chickens were capable of! In fact, unless one were to witness them personally in action, then one would never be able to believe it even if someone threatened to fart right into their mouth!

The sight was just far too inconceivable, that it would be more acceptable to believe that a dragon's offspring was a house lizard!

Unfortunately, no matter how fast they cleared out the bandits, since they arrived late, the damage was already done. Everywhere around the streets, dead bodies could be seen laying out cold by the cobble street, slowly turning stiff.

"Only the town square is left! We need to hurry!" Wei Shang said with gritted teeth as they sprinted along the shadows of the night.

...

"Hahahahaha! What do you think? I told you that it is pointless to resist!" a burly, fat and tall bandit laughed mockingly at an elder with a thick goatee beard, a big iron greatsword was hung from the bandit's shoulder. He was the bandit leader!

"Bastard! All of you damned animals will one day pay for what you have done today!" the elder with the goatee shouted with his saliva splattering all over on the bandit leader's face!

"Yuck! Stupid old man! How dare you have your saliva all over my handsome face?!" the bandit leader slapped the elderly man on the face, causing the latter to flew to the back and crashed over the wall of a building.

Crack!

The sounds of a few bones breaking could be heard as result of the crash.

"Puhe!" the elder spurted out a mouthful of blood as he clenched his chest tightly.

"Village elder!" the rest of the villagers that saw this called out in horrow as panic began to sunk into their hearts. All the guards and security forces in the village was killed by the bandits, leaving them utterly defenseless!

"I've sent one of my boys to invite the most beautiful lady from this village to marry me three days ago! How dare you mere peasants reject my gracious offer!" the bandit leader sneered as he scanned over the scared crowd while licking his lips.

"As punishment, tonight, ten of your most beautiful ladies will have to sleep with me! And if they cannot satisfy me, tomorrow, every single one of you, with no exception, will be beheaded by this greatsword of mine!" he bellowed, raising the huge iron greatsword into the air with one hand as if it were nothing!

"Oh, and there is no need to wait for rescue from the Jiu Empire, even if they came, we would be long gone by then! HAHAHAHA!"

...

Fei Longwei and Wei Shang that was observing this situation from a dark corner by the village square narrowed their eyes!

Strong!

"There is no mistake... that damned bandit.. his cultivation realm is at the Golden Core realm!" they said with a grim voice.

How the hell could a bandit have sufficient resources to even cultivate all the way to the Golden Core realm?!

"We need to proceed with the plan regardless, there is no time!" Fei Longwei said as he made a tough decision.

"I agree! Let's do it!" Wei Shang nodded as they looked at each other before disappearing.

On the other hand, Cucko and his minions was already positioning themselves around the bandits, who seemed to be unaware that a lot of chickens began to surround them slowly like the opened jaw of a snake, ready to devour them whole!

...

In the residence of the Shen Clan, the disturbance caused by Duan Li's explosive aura breaking free from the Dragon Sealing Formation caused a huge number of disciples to passed out.

They simply could not withstand Duan Li's might, even when it was just at half of his total strength!

Meanwhile, the elders of the Shen clan were not doing too well either and plummeted to the ground, barely able to stand on their feet!

"How in the world could someone be this strong?!" they exclaimed grimly in their minds, full of disbelief.

What was even more scary to them was that the fact that the masked intruder was placing his hands behind his back the whole time, not moving even a single step to suppress them all!

"D-Damn you.. just because you are strong.. do you think that we will go down without a fight? B-Brothers, let us all combine our might and-" just as one of the elder was about to rally everyone to face against Duan Li regardless of the odds, a bellow reverberated across the night sky!

"Halt!" the voice exclaimed.

"Let him in!"

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