Dragon's Origin

Chapter 388: Retaliation (Part 2)

During the Suanni transformation, the enhancement that the golden patterns on the giant cauldron brought to Wang Sheng was the ability to conceal all his presence when needed.

Even if Elder Lingxu closed his eyes face to face, he wouldn't be able to detect Wang Sheng's aura. If the strongest expert in this mountain village could still detect Wang Sheng from hundreds of meters away, then they must be a god.

There was no need to deal with the villagers; they were just a group of pitiful people who had been coerced. Even if there were a few spies among them, Wang Sheng couldn't possibly identify them all at this time. Anyway, most of the Triumph Palace people were dead, and those with guilty consciences would naturally live in constant anxiety.

There were quite a few diligent experts who were still cultivating at this hour. The disciples of a secretive sect who could carve out a few vassal states from between the cracks of the eight great families were indeed confident.

Unfortunately, this time they touched Wang Sheng's cake, and no matter how clever and hardworking the disciples were, they were destined to have no good outcome. It wasn't that Wang Sheng was bloodthirsty, but that Wang Sheng wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, using the Triumph Palace chicken to scare another group of daring monkeys.

Although two groups of people in the capital had already fallen into Wang Sheng's hands one after another, that only meant that the people in the capital didn't dare to reach out anymore. The people of the various vassal states had never taken the Emperor seriously. It was only during this grand ceremony, for the sake of being enfeoffed and establishing a state, that they gave the Emperor a little bit of face. As for the industries protected by the Emperor, wouldn't anyone who took a fancy to them just take them?

If the Runzi Workshop's industrial chain hadn't been relatively closed this time, the Triumph Palace would have made a big killing. Even if they didn't succeed this time, everyone understood that it was just that the Triumph Palace had failed this time, that they hadn't grasped the key. Before long, the Triumph Palace would definitely find a way to deeply excavate the Runzi Workshop's industrial chain and take the supply and those few key materials into their own hands.

Of course, they didn't know that the three key materials were being handled by the Old Lord Temple, so they thought very highly of it. At least half of this group of experts would return to the capital after a rest to continue what they hadn't been able to accomplish.

Could Wang Sheng allow this kind of thing to happen? If the Triumph Palace bullied him today and Wang Sheng didn't show any reaction, tomorrow it might be the Shi family, the Gan family, or the Qiu family. After being tricked by Wang Sheng so many times, it would be too normal for them to trick Wang Sheng once in return, right?

Therefore, when Wang Sheng's Tiger Tooth Dagger cut across the carotid artery of the sleeping Triumph Palace disciple whose mouth and nose were covered by Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng didn't feel any reluctance. His movements were skilled, just like wiping out terrorists on Earth.

No one could detect Wang Sheng's aura, not even the highest-level experts. As for footsteps and such, people in their sleep definitely wouldn't feel them. Wang Sheng restrained his killing intent, and there were his own people patrolling outside. Who would care about those almost imperceptible footsteps? Not everyone had ears like Wang Sheng, and even if they heard them, they would think it was the patrol.

The spurting blood was directly covered by Wang Sheng's quick hands and eyes with the quilt. Wang Sheng had also smeared Black Bean Spider's venom on the Tiger Tooth Dagger. A scratch basically meant being unable to move. The person attacked by Wang Sheng could only feel their life force slowly draining away in their sleep, yet they couldn't do anything.

People in their sleep were easy to deal with, but the troublesome ones were those experts who were cultivating. These people were generally above the fifth level of cultivation, and it was impossible to not alarm them at all.

However, these people were, after all, only a minority, only twenty or so, and Wang Sheng had already remembered the specific location of each person, heard their breathing and heartbeat. For Wang Sheng, that was enough.

Bang, when the sound of the heavy sniper crossbow string rang out, all the disciples who were still cultivating were already alarmed. Their reaction was not bad, and they all quickly interrupted their cultivation and jumped up, each occupying a hidden corner, ready to strike back at any time.

Wang Sheng, who had been paying attention to everyone's movements, nodded secretly in his heart. It was not without reason that the Triumph Palace could firmly occupy this territory in the situation where the vassal states stood in great numbers. It could be seen from the reaction of this group of disciples.

No one knew that the strongest expert in their mountain village, an elder at the eighth level of cultivation, had instantly died when the first sound of the bowstring rang out.

The speed of the crossbow bolt fired from the heavy sniper crossbow was more than three times the speed of sound. When the crowd heard the sound, the crossbow bolt specially customized by Wang Sheng had already pierced through the expert's body. In order to ensure the power, Wang Sheng used explosive bolts. The first sound that those Triumph Palace experts heard was the sound of the bowstring, and the second sound was the sound of the explosion.

The eighth-level expert who was cultivating didn't even make any counterattack movements, and was directly shattered to pieces. The power of the explosion was so great that the room where the expert was located was directly blown into ruins.

Two Triumph Palace experts rushed out immediately after hearing the explosion, but what greeted them was not patrolling disciples, but two silent heavy arrows one after another.

Two seventh-level experts were not worth using explosive arrows on; fine steel heavy arrows were enough. The two heavy arrows were a dozen seconds apart. After the first one who rushed out died, the second one immediately found a hidden corner, but it was useless. The second arrow still accurately found his head, pierced through the pillar he was hiding behind, and then pierced through his head.

The remaining Triumph Palace experts heard the screams and rushed out two more, constantly cursing and expecting the enemy to show up and have a face-to-face battle with them. Unfortunately, the result was still the same. Wang Sheng didn't show any trace at all, and directly killed them with the heavy sniper crossbow. The rest all understood that a strong enemy had come after hearing the screams of their companions, who were even more powerful than themselves, so they didn't rush out immediately. They each released their spiritual energy and frantically probed the surrounding movements.

It wasn't that they didn't want to rush out to gather the strength of the crowd to fight against the strong enemy. The fundamental reason was still night blindness. Of course, not everyone had night blindness, but the scene was really too strange. The other party had come to their door to kill, but there was no movement, and even the sound of the bowstring rang out in different places, making it impossible for them to find their opponent.

But Wang Sheng didn't care about these people's thoughts, and used the heavy sniper crossbow to name them one by one. Everyone could only hear the sound of the bowstring ringing non-stop, and the screams ringing non-stop, but they didn't know where the enemy was at all. Especially when the familiar screams were from fellow disciples who were even more powerful than themselves, how dare they show up and fight at will?

In the pitch black, Wang Sheng easily killed the last Triumph Palace expert. Just to be sure, he walked around the mountain village, opened all kinds of senses to the limit, and after finding that there were no more experts, he leisurely left the mountain village. The time before and after, calculated, did not exceed an hour.

After dawn, those trembling villagers dared to go out to see what was going on, and they were all heartbroken when they saw so many dead people. Without anyone guarding them, these villagers also knew that the trouble was big. After a few leading people discussed it, they quickly packed up some of the mountain village's valuables while no one noticed, and fled in a hurry.

It was not until two days later that the situation of this mountain village was discovered by the Triumph Palace's on-duty disciples. As soon as the news was reported, the Triumph Palace's top management was in an uproar.