Starting with the titmouse, seventy-two transformations

Chapter 393 Iron Conceals Gold, Geng Metal Sword Demon

"He is... a spy for the Gongsun family?!"

After listening to Tian Qi's account, Du Xingwu was stunned. He asked a few questions repeatedly, his eyes filled with doubt:
"He is the younger brother of Tian Ying, the head of the Tian family. He was appointed as a clan elder and has always been trusted and relied upon. His fate is intertwined with the Tian family's. Why..."

"Among a hundred people, there are all sorts of people. It's better to be in charge than to be ordered around by others, even if the other party is his own brother."

Liu Sheng guessed immediately. He had seen many people like Tian Qi in his previous life, and could see him as another kind of "better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix".

Moreover, since the Tian family has a spy from the Gongsun clan, the Wang and Chen families must also have one.

No wonder Du Renwang asked him to oversee the team; he had already suspected something.

Perhaps, this also implies that Liu Sheng is being forced to make a choice.

Finding the Tian family spy meant completely cutting off any possibility of future peace talks with the Gongsun family, while not finding or identifying them meant there was still room for maneuver!
"Old Du is cunning and manipulative; he's truly a shrewd old man. Now that I've made my choice, I reckon when we meet again, he'll consider me one of his own and reveal some of his secrets..."

Liu Sheng shook his head. At this moment, his mind was as clear as a mirror, reflecting the cause and effect of the matter as clearly as the lines on the palm of his hand.

However, every gain has its loss. He killed Gongsun Yu and then Gongsun Qianyu, so there was no possibility of reconciliation between him and the Gongsun family.

Make a decision sooner rather than later to save time and effort and avoid misunderstandings.

However, since Old Du has schemed against me like this, I'm bound to take a few more items from the Mo family's secret vault.

After exchanging a few words with Du Xingwu and instructing him on how to interrogate the head of the Mo family and Tian Qi, Liu Sheng plunged into the Mo family's secret vault and began to reap the rewards.

As for how to negotiate with the other members of the Tian family, that's for my future father-in-law to worry about. It's none of his business, hehe.

……

Three hours later.

The fire within the Mo clan's territory has been extinguished; not a single chicken or dog was spared, the lineage ended, and the temple was destroyed—truly, what was said was done.

The once mighty ruler of a prefecture vanished overnight.

Having witnessed the bloodshed, the combined forces of Du and Tian, ​​numbering over three thousand, were currently loading boxes of valuables and captured young women onto the cloud boat.

A cloud boat is a large transportation vehicle that can travel through clouds.

Although it is called a boat, it is actually similar to a ship. It is powered by spirit stones and consumes a lot of energy. If it weren't for the crucial mission tonight, the Du family would not have planned to send it out.

After all, even with the Du family's wealth, they only managed to save up three ships, and a round trip would cost more than two hundred spirit stones!
The total number of spirit stones found from the Mo family was less than eight hundred, which was barely enough to cover the expenses of a cloud boat for three or four trips.

However, none of this has anything to do with Liu Sheng.

In front of Du Xingwu, he put more than ten treasures from the Mo family's secret vault into his storage bag, making Du Xingwu's mouth twitch.

I wanted to say something, but in the end I said nothing.

I reckon Du Renwang must have given him some instructions beforehand.

This raid on the Shanggu Mo Clan only resulted in the deaths of about ten people and the capture of two others. The rest of the time was spent looting treasures and harvesting spiritual essence in the Mo Clan's secret vault.

Overall, the Mo family's secret vault is larger than the Du family's, and contains more treasures, but unfortunately, the quality is a level lower.

Most of the treasures provided him with a few dozen points of spiritual energy, with only a handful of a hundred or so items having more than three digits.

Among them, the most valuable item provided over 20,000 points, while the remaining treasures, which provided a few thousand points each, were all pocketed by him.

The most valuable items were carried by the two Tongxuan Ancestors of the Mo Clan when they went to ambush the Du Clan, but they never returned, and the items were lost.

Overall, the 680,000 spiritual points looted on this trip are barely acceptable.

He summoned the panel, where densely packed ink-wash characters cascaded down before his eyes like a waterfall—

Name: Liu Sheng
[Dao Fruit]: Seventy-two Transformations
[Talents]: Hawk Form lv4, Blade Heart lv6, Flowing Light lv4, Sky Rift lv4, Dragon Form lv5, Poison Devouring lv5, Four Fiends Yin Water lv5, Profound Origin Heavy Water lv6, Tiger Back and Bear Waist lv5, Tiger Roar lv5, Tiger Fierce lv5, Controlling the Enemy lv5, Qiongqi Blood Flame lv5, Spider Form lv5, Concealing Breath lv5, Pulling Silk lv5, Six Desires Silk lv5, Elephant Form lv4, Mountain-Pulling Power v5, Prison Suppression lv4, Standing Firm lv4, Ox Form lv4, Thunder Spirit lv4, Chaotic Thunder lv4, Crow Form lv4, Fire Flash lv4, Fire Spirit lv4, Fire Feather Dart lv4, Great Ape King lv5, Vajra Indestructible lv6, Innate Golden Spirit lv5, Blood Rage lv5, Bear Strike lv4, Black Wind lv5, Rat King lv5, Storing Grain lv5, Greed for Life lv5, Earth Spirit lv5, Inch of Light lv5, Turtle Form lv5, Turtle Breath lv5, Return to Origin lv5, Chasing Waves lv5, Carrying Mountain lv6
[Cultivation Level]: Entering the Dao (Perfect)
[Avatars]: Sky-Splitting Sparrow, Mysterious Water Azure Dragon, Bloodflame Flying Tiger, Stealing Fortune Puppet Spider, Golden-Toothed White Elephant, Silver-Horned Thunder Ox, Fire Crow, Long-Armed Demon Ape (Youth Form), Black Wind Bear, Thorough Earth Rat, Mountain-Bearing Snake Turtle
[Spiritual Essence]: 1541124
"...The spiritual energy value has accumulated to 1.54 million. It's just that these talents are piled up in huge clusters, so densely packed that they hurt my eyes..."

Liu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the more than 1.5 million spiritual energy points, and felt restless.

Keep one million as a reserve, and use the remaining five hundred thousand for deduction. This is enough to directly upgrade the remaining five incarnations into great demons, and also give them five more level 5 talents.

It's a bit wasteful.

Also, some talents can be combined, so we need to find time to combine them.

"Ah Sheng, let's go!"

At this moment, Du Xingwu came over and urged them to get on the boat and leave.

When playing away from home, the key is to move in and out quickly.

After all, the Mo family has been cultivating the ancient county for hundreds of years and has many hidden plans. Once they realize what's going on, there will probably be more complications.

"it is good."

Liu Sheng responded, hid the panel, and boarded the cloud boat with him.

Speechless all the way.

Back at the Du family residence, the other team that had raided the Chunyu family had not yet returned.

Liu Sheng greeted Du Xingwu, chatted with Du Bingyan who had rushed over upon hearing the news, offered a few words of comfort, and then returned to the courtyard.

The powerful clans had their own rules, and they were watched both openly and secretly, making it inconvenient for them to do certain things, so they could only endure it.

After meditating in the room for an hour or so and confirming that the surrounding environment was safe, Liu Sheng's body went limp and he sank a hundred feet underground, arriving at the cave he had previously dug out.

This time, more than ten treasures were taken from the Mo family's treasury, all of which had a spiritual essence value of over a thousand.

Most of them are inherited swords, spears, armor, and magical artifacts, as well as some talisman brushes and ink for drawing talismans, and some jade slips and fragments.

These are all things that the Mo family has accumulated over the past few hundred years.

After carefully examining these items and confirming that he hadn't made a mistake, he put them into his storage bag.

The remaining piece of spirit iron, about the size of a head, shone brightly and was incredibly sharp. As soon as it was taken out, it easily pierced through the nearby boulder.

Its surface is covered with dragon and snake patterns, making it clearly no ordinary object.

If someone else were to obtain it, they would certainly handle it with utmost care.

Fortunately, Liu Sheng was blessed with the talent of "Innate Golden Spirit". The moment he touched it, he sensed something unusual inside. In addition, this piece of spirit iron had the most spiritual essence, so it became his first choice.

It was just that it was in the Mo family's secret vault at the time, so it wasn't convenient to take action. Now is the perfect time.

However, to prevent any unforeseen circumstances, he still summoned the demonic ape avatar and entrusted the piece of spirit iron to it for disposal.

"Smells, really smells..."

The demonic ape shrank in size, becoming about ten feet tall, its white fur fluttering and flashing with sharp points.

As soon as he appeared, he set his sights on the piece of spirit iron, sniffing it intensely and drooling profusely.

After taking the spirit iron, he opened his mouth and bit it, and the spirit iron instantly broke open, revealing a terrifying golden light.

A sword cry echoed in the void!
"choke!"

(End of this chapter)