Chapter 12: Bandits on the Highway

But I most certainly cared about his great generosity, and the materials he had prepared as part of the dowry for the beauty of my Sect.

25 pounds of Purple Divine Crystal!

Just this was more than enough for me to care about it. Forgetting about the rest of the precious materials, herbs, pills, and artefacts.

"Arrgghhh~!

These people are forcefully making me a bandit!

I don't understand, are they so interested in loosing fu*cking everything!?"

Of course, since this news had already spread throughout the whole Empire, there were two options.

Either the Crown Prince and the Empire weren't afraid of any other power, or this was whole a scene, and they were trying to trap something or someone.

Either way, it was something that I couldn't neglect, I had to take part in this mess.

Since they were going to bring so much Divine Purple Crystal just to propose it showed that the Imperial Clan had pretty good reserves.

Still, I was sure that the Divine Purple Crystal would be accompanied by great experts, it would be crazy if that weren't the case.

Just imagine how big of a problem would be if someone stole the Divine Purple Crystal on the way, it would be a slap to the Imperial Clan's face.

As for the possibility of them not bringing the Divine Purple Crystal, that was inexistent, making such a commotion and then not bringing the stuff would be the same as shooting their face.

So, what concerned me right now was the fact from which side to steal the Divine Purple Crystal from.

Taking it from the hands of the sect was certainly much easier and it would be closer, but I couldn't help but feel that there was something wrong with this.

After all, the Crown Prince could bring the Purple Divine Crystal and propose, but not necessarily leave it behind.

Most importantly the Sect would use everything they had to protect it, and to make sure that followed the thief beyond death.

Not like the Imperial Clan wasn't going to do it, but I wasn't staying within the Imperial Clan was I?

Furthermore, thinking about it in a different way, wasn't this a great opportunity for me to create chaos to the outside.

I could just steal that great treasure and pin the blame on someone else, it's not like the World knew of my existence.

Of course, the most important point about this matter became where to exactly attack the Crown Prince's group, in order to create the most chaos.

Attacking in the Imperial Capital would be a death wish, as reinforcements would be quick to arrive, but I had no intention of drawing out the battle.

Not to mention that I had no intention of personally taking part in the attacks, while boons came from life and death situations, if I went there, it was a sure death.

Currently I was extremely weak, despite my efforts at cultivation I was still not even at the third level of Body Tempering Realm.

Even the current level was obtained by physical training and bath in medicinal herbs. Of course I could upgrade quickly, but that would be detrimental, as I wanted the most solid foundation.

In order to build a skyscraper, the foundations needed to be the best.

With those thoughts in mind, I didn't waste my time and quickly prepared three plans.

The main plan, the backup, and the backup to the backup. This was just how important this matter was to me, so I couldn't allow any problems to appear.

Of course, in order to make sure that this wasn't backtracked to myself personally, or to the Yin-Yang Prairie Sect, I needed to recruit some mercenaries.

Noone would be so stupid as to accept attacking the Crown Prince's group, so the only option was to create some temporary slaves that could be easily thrown away.

With those thoughts in mind, I didn't waste time, and immediately sent the order to recruit 30 people from the areas of the adjacent Sects and Cults.

I didn't have the luxury to pick and choose right now, as the Crown Prince would get moving in a couple of days.

Another issue cropped up in the meanwhile though, firstly I didn't have enough spots for 30 more slaves, and secondly, I couldn't have them brought to the Sect.

If they came here, wouldn't it be the same as admitting that I was the one behind the steal?

So, in order to deal with small problem, I decided to give a cheaper version of my Slave Seal to three of my already slaves.

These guys would be my spearheads, they were each going to enslave the 10 people from different regions and be responsible for the attacks.

Each of the trio was a True Yang Realm expert, while their own power was anywhere close to enough of dealing with the situation, their auxiliary weapons would be.

That's right, from the very beginning I didn't intend of having my people, or the new recruits fight with the Crown Prince's group.

Well, while they would fight, it wouldn't be a honourable one-to-one fight of sorts, no they were in there just to throw out the weapons.

In order to fully complete the preparations, I entered closed door cultivation and went into a crazy bomb making session.

In but three days, I had already managed to create 1423 bombs, which each of them having enough gunpowder to make an explosion in equal power to a peak True Yang Realm expert.

Of course, that wasn't all there was to them, because if the Crown Prince's group was accompanied from a high level Yang King Realm, or Yin Queen Realm it would be useless.

It might give them a bit of pressure, and even injure them a little bit, but that would be nowhere close of being enough to steal the Crown Prince's Space Ring, or that experts.

That is where the second layer of addition to these special bombs came in place, anaesthetics and paralytic poisons.

Since the herbs required to prepare these kinds of poisons were easy to find, and purchase I had a big stash of them.

They were a great help in defeating the strong by being weak, so I had already created an enormous amount of them.

Of course, they wouldn't have an immediate effect, or a big effect on the targets immediately, but that was why there was a backup to the plan, and a backup to the backup.

Not to mention that the quantity in each of them was enough to put a small ranch of horses to sleep.

Besides that, I also had the trio I sent out for the mission to use the local people they enslaved to look for needles.

A large number of needles, cover them in poisons and then then attach them to the bombs.

Like this, even if they didn't breathe the poison in, they were still going to take it directly.

Of course, it was impossible to penetrate the defence of a Yang King Realm, or a Yin Queen Realm expert, but what if the attack caught them unprepared.

After all, what kind of such a powerhouse would actually take seriously 10 madmen that were throwing rocks at them.

Even if they did though, the attacks would be so many that would actually deplete their energy, and at some point, they were bound to be scratched.

I thought about using formations, or talismans but those that were of enough power were too fu*cking expensive, and those affordable made no difference at all.

It was at that moment, when a good idea crept in my mind, and I decided to provide it to the first two groups as a last resort weapon.

Just to increase the chances of the third group to the maximum, after that it was useless to do it as it would be gifting the opportunity to the next hunter.

…

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to me, in the main hall of the Yin-Yang Prairie Sect, the Matriarch was seating on her throne in front of the Elders with a dark and gloomy face.

"Matriarch I don't understand why you are making such a face, this joyous cooperation will benefit our Sect extremely!

Aren't the disciples raised in order to serve the sect, well she is doing a great contribution."

The one to speak these words was no one else but my target of anger and hatred in this sect, the Vice Sect Master who had brought me here.

It was clear that this guy had no good intentions with what he said, but he looked like he was truly concerned about the Sect.

The Matriarch was clearly unhappy which was shown on her unblemished oval face, that looked like an angry goddess.

The flimsy clothing she was wearing, clearly showed every bit of her body, from her protruding cherries on top of those big cotton candies.

To her thin waist, wide hips, and even that small bush between her legs, that seemed to be in the shape of an arrow pinpointing the direction to her secret cave.

Her smooth legs were one above the other, as she even emanated an aura of secrecy.

Looking at the bastard in front of her the Matriarch couldn't help but smile mockingly as she said,

"Well, I don't know how great of an opportunity this is for the Sect, but I most certainly do know how big of an opportunity this is for you Vice Sect Master.

After all, you are going to get an extremely beautiful and influential Dao Companion for yourself, making even this Queen a little bit jealous…