"Guess I've got to go out to greet the uninvited guests!"

Seeing that this group of guests wanted to enter his mountain, Zheng-Fu did not sit still and wait for them any longer. He got up and signaled the two purple-winged lions to come to him by whistling. After hearing Zheng-Fu's call, they immediately rushed over to him.

Grrr!!! Grrr!!!

The two purple-winged lions let out a sound of response to Zheng-Fu as they bowed their heads in respect to him. Although Zheng-Fu was weaker than they were, they had their own minds and could sense that this young man was sincere and reliable, which made the two of them surrender and choose to follow Zheng-Fu.

"Let's go out to greet the uninvited guests!"

Zheng-Fu said and jumped onto the mother purple-winged lion's back, immediately ordering it to fly down to the foot of the mountain to meet them.

Swish!!!

At the foot of Zheng-Fu's private mountain...

"Chief, are we really going up?" a skinny man asked the middle-aged man in the very front with a worried tone.

"What are you afraid of? This is the command of Young Master Bei-Chuan of the Heavenly Floating Cloud Tiger Force. If we succeed in this task, we'll have money to spend for a long time!" If it were a normal time, he would not dare to invade this place because, even though they were not the Heavenly Command Sect's disciples, they knew well about the disciples' private area rules, especially in a private mountainous area like this.

"Even so, Chief, I think…"

"If you're scared, then go back home. You won't earn a share of this mission. Don't complain later about why I didn't share the money with you!" The middle-aged man, who was the chief, became dissatisfied when he heard the young man say something that made him feel bad.

"Then I'll wait for you guys here. I won't accept any share of this money!" The thin young man was not as strong as the others. He had joined the group because of his ability to track and map. If it weren't for this ability, he wouldn't have been able to join the group.

"All right then! You're waiting for us here, and when the job is finished, I'll give you some money. After all, you're our guide. Without you, we'd have lost our way!" Though the middle-aged man was displeased with the young man's words, he could understand. Even if the young man had gone with them, he wouldn't have been able to help them because the skinny man was only at the advanced Divine King stage.

"Thank you, Chief. Then I'll be waiting over here. If someone comes, I'll send you a signal immediately!" The skinny young man thanked the middle-aged man before turning around and walking back to the foot of the mountain to be on the lookout for others.

After that, the middle-aged man immediately led the other subordinates up the mountain. The path up to the top was not very steep and could be walked, ridden on horseback, or even by horse-drawn carriages.

About five hundred meters away from where the uninvited guests were…

"There seems to be a lamb in the wolf pack!" Zheng-Fu said with a smile at the corner of his mouth after watching the group of guests for a moment. At first, Zheng-Fu thought of greeting them immediately, but he abruptly changed his mind. He stopped, not walking toward them because he overheard their conversation.

"I'll hand them over to you guys to deal with. Wipe them out, don't let even one of them go back alive. As for that guy, I'll take care of him!" Zheng-Fu did not really care about this group of guests. He ordered the mother purple-winged lion and its son to do the task. With the mother purple-winged lion's energy level at the sixth level of the Heavenly Golden Core stage, none of these guests would escape death.

Grrr!!! Grrr!!!

The two lions let out a low roar as a sign of acknowledgment before they flew away in the direction of the middle-aged man and his group.

Roooar!!!

Booooom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!!

AAAAAH!!! Argh!!!

"Noooooooo!!!"

Just a few moments later, the purple-winged lion's ferocious and frightening roar was followed by a moan of pain and suffering.

"Chief!?"

The thin young man, who was standing guard along the path, was shocked and let out a frightened exclamation. He remembered his chief's voice very well, and the tormented cry just now was definitely his chief's voice.

"Wha… what… what happened? Or…"

"They're all dead. Penalty for entering my area without permission. You're very lucky not to have followed them; otherwise, you, too, would be fertilizer for the trees and grass on this mountain like those people!" Before the young man could finish his words, Zheng-Fu's voice interrupted as he appeared in front of him without the latter realizing it.

"Ah!!!"

Thump!!!!!

The young man stumbled over his feet and fell hard to the ground when Zheng-Fu appeared in front of him like a ghost. His face and expression at that moment showed that he was extremely frightened.

"I was wrong, Master. I was wrong. Please don't kill me!" The young man immediately clasped his hands and begged Zheng-Fu for mercy after coming to his senses and seeing that the one who appeared in front of him was not the monster beast whose sound he had just heard.

"Calm down! I already told you that you didn't enter my territory, so there's no need for me to kill you. Anyway, I want to know who commanded you guys to follow me?" Zheng-Fu did not want to kill this young man at all. What he wanted to know was who had ordered the young man and those people to follow him because he did not arrive in time when they spoke of the mastermind.

"It's Young Master Bei-Chuan, sir! He ordered all of us to investigate where Master stays. And if you're not from any major clan or any major force, he ordered us to kill you. So, Chief decided to kill you because he knows you're..."

"Weaker than him, right?" Zheng-Fu knew exactly what the young man's last sentence was. He did not think to argue or make any excuses. It was true that he was weaker than that middle-aged man, who had energy at the fourth level of the Heavenly Foundation Building stage. At best, Zheng-Fu could only fight a martial master at the second level of the Heavenly Foundation Building stage. Therefore, Zheng-Fu assigned the task of crushing the middle-aged man and his underlings to the two purple-winged lions.

Grrr!!! Grrr!!!

And at that moment, the purple-winged lions flew back and stopped right next to him. There were still bloodstains at the corners of their mouths, as well as fresh blood dripping onto the ground. This blood, needless to say, was the blood of that group of uninvited guests.

"You two did a great job. Once we're back up on our hill, I'll give you rewards. You may go now. If something happens again, I'll signal you!" Zheng-Fu was very satisfied with the work the two of them had done. He complimented them before ordering them to go back up the mountain.

Grrr!!! Grrr!!!

The mother and son purple-winged lions let out a soft roar in response before the two of them flew away and disappeared into the dense forest.

"Well! Let's get on with our business. You said that the person who ordered you is Senior Disciple Bei-Chuan from Heavenly Floating Cloud Tiger Force, right?" Zheng-Fu continued to repeatedly ask the young man about the person who had ordered the group to follow him.

"That's right, Master. It was that Young Master. But we didn't meet him directly. We only accepted the job from his confidant!" The young man nodded and replied with the same answer. However, the task they received did not come directly from Bei-Chuan, but from someone else who assigned the task to them instead.

"Confidant? Is that confidant a big, fierce young man?" At that moment, Zheng-Fu thought of someone after listening to the young man's answer, so he asked if the one who had hired them was the big, fierce young man.

"Yes! Yes, Master. It was that man who came to hire us. He said that Young Master Bei-Chuan ordered him to do that. So, with the power and position of Young Master Bei-Chuan, we didn't dare refuse, sir. And because of that, we had to come here!" The young man recalled when his chief took on this job. He remembered the face of the man who hired his team, which was the same person Zheng-Fu asked about.

"Mm… So it's actually those ticks. I also wonder how someone like Senior Disciple Bei-Chuan, who has never seen lower-level people in his sight like that, could pay attention to me. But if it's that guy, it's possible. And as his confidant, he can claim Senior Disciple Bei-Chuan's name. Huh! Sure, since you want to play with me like this, next time we meet, I'll repay you nicely!"

Zheng-Fu did not expect that the person behind hiring these thugs would be the big young man he had threatened at the Treatise Tower. Since the other party wanted to take his life, there was no need for him to be kind to that guy. But he would not be able to kill him within the sect because the Heavenly Command Sect had rules against killing each other, except in a life-and-death duel at the arena.

"Then can I leave right now, sir?" Seeing that Zheng-Fu did not intend to punish him, the young man wanted to hurry away from there.

"No!"

"!!!"

Just one word made the young man tremble. Even though it was not loud or backed by any energy wave, it was as sharp as a blade shot straight into his throat.

"Master, please spare my life! I've told you the whole truth. I swear to the heavens and all the gods that what I said is true!" The young man did not know what Zheng-Fu still wanted from him, as he had already told the truth.

"I already told you that I won't kill you. But I still can't let you go now. From what I've seen, you probably have a lot of good information that I don't know yet. And I'd like to know all that information. So, you must follow me up the mountain!" Zheng-Fu still did not let the young man go. He thought that the young man would definitely know many things about the area outside the sect, which was why Zheng-Fu decided to restrain him.

"Oh!"

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