Chapter 1 Now, We Must Successfully Take These Treasures Out

"Now, we must successfully take these treasures out." Xu Jingming felt the power of the mind, like a dark tide, enveloping a large area around him, and understood that after being targeted by the world, it would not be easy to take away the treasures.

"Hide it well." Xu Jingming handed the piece of Ziyun Treasure Jade (Purple Cloud Treasure Jade) to an eighth-order cosmic lifeform beside him. Then, he picked up a package, while Liu Hai and Tu Ling each grabbed a package.

The distribution of the packages was also based on rules.

Xu Jingming's package contained gold, silver notes with concealed writing, and other items, making it far more valuable! Liu Hai and Tu Ling's packages contained a lot of silver, jewelry, and other things.

Although the three packages seemed to be about the same size, the one in Xu Jingming's hand was worth more than the other two combined.

"I hope everyone will abide by the rules and not move. Anyone who dares to move a step will be killed!" Xu Jingming ordered. "Team One, retreat!"

"Go!"

Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, Tu Ling, three eighth-order cosmic lifeforms, and 60 first-rate experts all retreated! As for the 100 second-rate experts, they remained in Yicui House, all glaring at their surroundings.

None of the guests, including the famous courtesans, beauties, and guards of Yicui House, dared to move.

The corpse of the Third Young Master of the Duke's Mansion was right there, and they all knew very well… that moving even slightly would cost them their lives!

…

Outside Yicui House.

"Some of the thieves have escaped, but most of them are still inside Yicui House!" Dozens of Blood Rain Guards and more than a hundred auxiliary guards who had arrived cast fierce gazes. Through the windows and other gaps, they could see figures fleeing into the darkness in the distance, and also many thieves still guarding the place.

But the Blood Rain Guards and auxiliary guards all stayed where they were, not moving.

Chase? That would be suicide!

Didn't they see that even the guards of Yicui House weren't chasing?

Outside Yicui House, there was also a withered old monk holding a wooden staff. His vast mental power covered a distance of five or six *li*, and he clearly discovered that the fleeing thieves had split into four teams.

One team was an eighth-order cosmic lifeform holding the Ziyun Treasure Jade, fleeing alone.

One team consisted of Xu Jingming, an eighth-order cosmic lifeform, and thirty first-rate experts, fleeing together.

One team consisted of Liu Hai, an eighth-order cosmic lifeform, and fifteen first-rate experts, fleeing.

The last team was Tu Ling and fifteen first-rate experts.

"The team with the most people is carrying packages filled with silver notes, gold, and other items, which are the most valuable, but also the most difficult to obtain," the withered old monk instantly judged. If he besieged that eighth-order cosmic lifeform leading thirty first-rate experts… he would also be in danger of dying.

He couldn't do what Dean Ming of the Martial Arts Academy could do, which was to ignore first-rate experts.

He couldn't snatch that most valuable package by himself.

"The Ziyun Treasure Jade is of extraordinary significance to the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion." The withered old monk took a step and chased after the eighth-order cosmic lifeform who was acting alone. "If this fellow daoist can join my Red Lotus lineage, what harm is there in giving him the Ziyun Treasure Jade?"

…

"Whew!"

Xu Jingming's team of thirty-plus people all turned into afterimages, moving at extremely high speeds, reaching about fifty meters per second. They quickly ran several *li* away.

"I can't feel the mental power of that mysterious expert anymore," the eighth-order cosmic lifeform behind him said. "He's not chasing us."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Even if he did chase them, a group of powerful subordinates would be enough to intercept him, and he would be able to escape far away!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The team continued to advance rapidly.

Along the way, they encountered several Blood Rain Guards who had come to provide support. Some Blood Rain Guards pretended not to see them, but others wanted to stop them! Those who wanted to stop them… naturally lost their lives instantly.

In just a moment, they had run more than ten *li*, far away from Yicui House! They arrived in a secluded alley.

"Everyone can log off now," Xu Jingming said with a smile, but because he was wearing a human skin mask, his smile looked a bit awkward.

The group of experts nodded and then disappeared, logging off on the spot.

As long as no natives saw them, they could log off! This was the rule of the Blood Rain World.

"Whoosh."

Xu Jingming, carrying the package, quickly darted away, soon reaching an ordinary residence hundreds of meters away. This was a place that Pang Ze and the gang had personally rented. It was located in the area where the Southern and Eastern Cities met, barely considered the Southern City.

Entering the residence, Xu Jingming familiarly went inside the house. With the starlight shining through the window, Xu Jingming opened the package and began to carefully check it.

"This package of mine is the biggest gain this time." Xu Jingming began to count: stacks of gold leaves, as well as some gold bars, and silver notes with concealed writing. "The silver notes with concealed writing total 22,300 taels of silver, which is 2,230 gold!"

Xu Jingming took out a scale that he had prepared in advance and began to weigh the total amount of gold.

"The gold totals 39 *jin* and 6 *liang*, which is 3,960 gold!" Xu Jingming smiled. "It seems that those who go to Yicui House carry more gold than silver notes."

This was also the reality.

When carrying small amounts, it was enough to carry some gold leaves.

Even if the gold was twisted and deformed, it would not affect its value! But silver notes with concealed writing were, after all, paper. Once they were torn or damaged, the money would be gone. Therefore, only some important figures carried larger amounts, feeling that gold was heavy and uncomfortable in their pockets, while silver notes were lighter.

******

"Withdraw."

As the remaining 100 second-rate experts dispersed and retreated, they all disappeared in just a few breaths.

The escape of these second-rate experts was obviously somewhat chaotic. Some burrowed into the secret underground passages of Yicui House, some fled to different areas around Yicui House, and some ran towards the roof… but the vast majority disappeared without a trace.

Only a very few who were surrounded and blocked chose to commit suicide rather than be captured alive.

"What's going on? What exactly is going on?"

Outside Yicui House, a golden-robed man appeared, looking in disbelief at the nearly two hundred corpses.

"Lord Yu, more than a hundred thieves suddenly attacked and occupied Yicui House, looting all the money in Yicui House, including the money of the guests!" A woman from Yicui House nervously stepped forward and said, "We lost 192 guards."

"What about the guests?" the golden-robed man anxiously asked.

"These thieves only seek money, not killing," the woman said. "The beauties of our Yicui House are all fine, and most of the guests are also unharmed. Only one person lost their life."

"One person?" the golden-robed man asked. "Who?"

"The Third Young Master of the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion, Cheng She!" The woman was also a little uneasy. "The Third Young Master wanted to protect his Ziyun Treasure Jade, but the thieves were too lazy to say anything and directly killed him with a single strike."

"What? Ziyun Treasure Jade? Third Young Master Cheng She?" The golden-robed man felt like his head was about to explode. "An incident happened in our Yicui House, how can the Duke's Mansion let this go?"

The woman's expression was also helpless.

That Third Young Master was really too stubborn!

"Investigate! We must find out the identities of this group of murderers! We must give the Duke's Mansion an explanation. Otherwise, it will be difficult for our Yicui House to do business in the capital," the golden-robed man said anxiously.

"Lord Yu, the Duke's Mansion must also give our Yan Prince's Mansion some face," the woman said in a low voice.

"What do you know!" the golden-robed man scolded.

The Yan Prince had great ambitions and naturally had to win over some powerful forces in the empire. The Duke's Mansion was one of the powerful forces that the Yan Prince intended to win over.

Moreover, in the capital, the power of the Duke's Mansion was even stronger than that of the Yan Prince's Mansion. The power of the Yan Prince's Mansion was mainly in the Northern Lands!

…

"If anyone enters this residence, immediately remind me." Xu Jingming gave the order to the AI, and then he detached his consciousness from the Blood Rain World, letting the AI hang up! Apart from actual combat, the AI was not much different from Xu Jingming himself in other aspects.

Xu Jingming's consciousness quickly went to Pang Ze's personal space.

"You're here." Pang Ze, Liu Hai, and Tu Ling were all there.

"I'm safe here for the time being," Xu Jingming said.

"We are too," Liu Hai and Tu Ling both nodded.

Pang Ze nodded slightly. "The Ziyun Treasure Jade was smashed into powder. An old monk caught up with the eighth-order cosmic lifeform we hired. The old monk intended to win him over and invited him to join the Red Lotus Sect. The expert we hired chose to commit suicide after failing to defeat him, and also destroyed the Ziyun Treasure Jade!"

"Haha…" Liu Hai laughed. "I guess that old monk must be very confused. How could such a great expert commit suicide just like that?"

"We'll pay the resurrection fee for the deceased expert," Pang Ze said. "The key now is… we must protect the three packages! The danger hasn't gone away, and the Blood Rain World won't easily let us control this huge fortune."

Xu Jingming and the others nodded.

Players had their advantages, but also their disadvantages… which was being targeted by the world.

"Have you all counted all the treasures? Give me the recorded videos," Pang Ze said. "I'll find a buyer now. We must sell them as soon as possible."

"Okay."

Xu Jingming also handed over the videos he recorded, including the entire process of weighing the gold, to Pang Ze.

Liu Hai and Tu Ling did the same.

"Tonight is the most dangerous. You guys go to the Blood Rain World and guard your places. I'll go find a buyer," Pang Ze said.

"Alright." Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, and Tu Ling also felt the pressure, after all, they had so much gold and silver in their hands.

******

Xu Jingming took off his clothes, lay down in the house, but kept his eyes on the window, waiting for the time to pass by minute by minute.

In the second half of the night.

The surroundings suddenly became noisy, and many footsteps could be heard.

"Search!"

"One of the thieves' teams is in this area. Search carefully," an angry voice shouted.

Under the secret promotion of the Yan Prince's Mansion and the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion, coupled with the fact that so many dignitaries had been robbed, the Blood Rain Guards were also very diligent! They were pursuing all the traces of the thieves' escape, wanting to catch them.

"Bang, bang, bang." The door of Xu Jingming's residence was knocked.

Xu Jingming put on his coat, took a long spear in his hand, and walked out, directly opening the courtyard door.

Outside the door were two Blood Rain Guards, followed by several auxiliary guards, all staring at Xu Jingming with fierce eyes.

"Have you seen any thieves?" they said as they walked inside.

Xu Jingming directly took out his badge from his waist.

"Jingming from the Southern Prefecture's Criminal Investigation Department?" The two Blood Rain Guards were slightly stunned when they saw it.

"So you're one of our own." The two nodded.

"What's with all the commotion in the middle of the night?" Xu Jingming asked. This residence was barely within the Southern City! Xu Jingming had led his men to run more than ten *li*, precisely to reach the Southern City area.

"Yicui House in the Eastern City was robbed by a group of thieves. The thieves were too fierce and killed many people in Yicui House," a Blood Rain Guard sighed. "Second Master Shen of the Shen family, the Qi Prince's Mansion, the Chang family… many important figures were robbed! I heard that the Third Young Master of the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion was killed! It's a huge mess! We have to investigate all night."

They also looked inside the residence.

It was an ordinary residence, not big!

"We'll take a quick look." One of the Blood Rain Guards took a few steps inside, pushed open a door, glanced inside, and then withdrew. "We're just doing our duty, don't take offense, brother."

"It's understandable," Xu Jingming nodded.

"Let's go."

The two Blood Rain Guards immediately led the auxiliary guards away. The auxiliary guards didn't dare to investigate at all!

Xu Jingming looked at them from afar and discovered that the Blood Rain Guards were conducting a carpet search, entering each and every residence to investigate!

"Are they searching so thoroughly?" Xu Jingming frowned slightly. "Master and Tu Ling may be in danger."

His residence was in the Southern City.

He himself was a Blood Rain Guard from the Southern Prefecture's Criminal Investigation Department! So those Blood Rain Guards had to give him face and just conduct a quick search. But what about Liu Hai and Tu Ling?

"Creak." Xu Jingming closed the courtyard door, returned to the house, lay down, and glanced at the cabinet.

Under the cabinet, beneath the floor tiles, was a small wooden box containing gold and silver notes.

If others wanted to find it, they would first have to move the heavy cabinet away and then dig three feet into the ground! Without some suspicion, they wouldn't do that.

"Is it necessary to target us so much for just a few tens of thousands of taels of silver?" Xu Jingming thought to himself.

…

Xu Jingming didn't sleep all night. His place wasn't searched again, after all, the Blood Rain Guards' search power was also limited.

Dawn arrived!

The entire capital became lively, and countless people came out, starting a new day of work.

"Jingming." Pang Ze also came to Xu Jingming's residence. "I'll bring the guest over this morning, and then give him the gold and silver notes!"

"Sold?" Xu Jingming was pleasantly surprised.

"There are many cosmic citizens buying gold and silver in the Blood Rain World, and the gold and silver here have always been in short supply!" Pang Ze explained. "As long as you collect '10,000 gold,' you can directly make a sacrifice. Relying on yourself to slowly earn it? That's still too difficult."

"Yes, we only got so few points this time, and it attracted so much trouble," Xu Jingming said.

"This trouble isn't too big," Pang Ze laughed. "Because it's the first time we've robbed, and the amount isn't much, so the targeting is still relatively light! If it's a 'high-intensity' world targeting, that would be a nightmare. You wouldn't even be able to stay in this world."

Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

"This time it's still alright. Thanks to your identity, you were able to protect your package. Coach Liu Hai is an old fox, even though the Blood Rain Guards searched his area carefully, he still managed to protect his package. Tu Ling's package couldn't be protected," Pang Ze said, he was still quite satisfied with the result.

The Ziyun Treasure Jade was shattered, and one package was lost.

But the other two packages were protected!

That was already very good.

"It's almost time, I'll go pick up the person." Pang Ze guessed and walked out.

After a while.

Pang Ze brought two people over.

One of the two was an amiable old man. Seeing him made one instinctively 'forget' him, his presence was very weak. The other person was a young man, curiously looking around.

"With the supervision of the Myriad Realms Group, you don't need to worry about the safety of the transaction," the old man smiled. Xu Jingming had already changed his clothes at this moment, put on a human skin mask, and nodded stiffly. "Follow me."

He led the people into the house.

He used his strength to move the wooden cabinet, and after moving the cabinet away, he carefully picked up the bricks one by one, revealing the soil layer below. Xu Jingming inserted both hands into the soil layer and directly grabbed a box out.

Opening the box, inside were gold and silver notes.

The old man placed all the gold in the box on the ground, then took off his coat and removed a thick belt from his waist. Inside the belt were pieces of gold, a full thirty pieces of gold, each one heavy: "There's a total of 60 *jin* of gold here, which is 6,000 gold! Adding the 3,960 gold here, and some gold leaves I have, it's just enough to make up 10,000 gold!"

The old man looked at the young man. "Funa Leader, you can make the sacrifice now."

"I've long heard that the 'sacrifice' in the Blood Rain World is very special. But my parents forced me to reach the seventh-order cosmic lifeform before allowing me to try the sacrifice," the young man said with emotion, and then began to make the sacrifice.

The young man's whole body radiated light, and the light also enveloped the gold.

Xu Jingming curiously watched this scene. This was the sacrifice?

Whoosh!

The young man and the gold all disappeared into thin air.

"Sacrifice 10,000 gold to go to a mysterious place?" Xu Jingming understood that the young man had probably already arrived at the mysterious place. That was also the goal of his coming to the Blood Rain World, but he was still far from this goal.