While I'm at the martial arts academy, my wife is cultivating while I enjoy life.

Fang Jing and her husband Fang Dalong packed their essentials at home into her 300-cubic-meter personal space.

Ye Rou took the Soul-Severing Spear and Yang Ding carried the Beast Crystals to the weapons market to register and get money.

Today is different from usual; the mall entrance is very quiet. I initially thought it was because the temperature suddenly soared and people didn't want to gather in enclosed spaces. These days, industrial capacity is declining rapidly, and comfort products like air conditioners are no longer produced.

Unexpectedly, upon entering, they found nearly a hundred team members gathered around the glass case of the Ironblood Gun, discussing it animatedly.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Yang Ding and Ye Rou quickly gathered their inner strength to eavesdrop.

"This specially made bulletproof glass uses high-temperature resistant interlayer material, which can withstand temperatures of 200°C or even 500°C in the short term, yet it was still melted."

"That means it's at least a B+ level fire element, instantly pushing the temperature to over 2000 degrees."

"Who the hell is so stupid as to steal the store's prized possession?"

"I don't know. The equipment in the monitoring room was also burned to the ground. The general has already reported this to the governor."

Yang Ding had a bad feeling.

He vaguely remembered that once, when he was taking a morning walk with his two wives, they admired the Ironblood Gun for a while, and Hu Feng came over and said that he wanted to give this thing to him.

He didn't take it seriously at the time and even reminded Hu Feng not to do anything reckless.

A stolen, expensive gun is not something you can easily use unless you go to the northern frontier.

The more he thought about it, the more convinced he was that it was Hu Fengqian's doing; only the unrestrained and unconventional Hu Huoxing could have done such a thing.

"What's wrong, honey?" Ye Rou asked.

"It's alright, hurry up and go sell the goods."

The six employees responsible for collecting the beast crystals were drenched in sweat and complained bitterly, only managing to cool down thanks to the water system's power.

"It's already the end of October, what's going on?"

"A strange phenomenon has appeared in the sky; something big is about to happen," the fire-element acquisition agent analyzed, not daring to mention the name of Grandmaster Zhao Lie.

Yang Ding placed the bag on the counter. "No need to count them one by one. We'll use an estimation method to weigh them and calculate the money."

"Why is it you again?"

The acquisition agents all recognized Yang Ding's face.

Last time they took several million in cash and left, then suddenly jumped from 17th to 5th place. What are they doing here again?

"I'm here to sell goods."

The six buyers stood up at the same time, looking at the huge lump in the bag, which was almost ten times larger than the last time.

"Don't tell me these are all beast crystals."

Yang Ding untied the bag and pushed it over, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and give it to me, all in cash."

The six buyers screamed simultaneously the moment they saw the beast crystal: "Holy crap, this is outrageous!"

"Where did you get so many?"

Normally they're sold by the piece, each weighing between 0.2 and 0.8 grams. But just by lifting them today, I can tell they weigh over a pound!

"Of course, it was obtained through hunting."

"Aren't you Instructor Ye's husband, a freshman?"

Ye Rou slammed the Soul-Severing Spear heavily on the counter. "Why all this nonsense? Is it so hard to settle the payment and goods cleanly?"

"Instructor Ye, this is an unusual situation..."

"Should we accept it or not?"

The six buyers looked at each other in disbelief. The amount was enormous, comparable to the total number of beast crystals hunted by all the law enforcement teams and students in the past three months.

"I reckon you have some space-type items here, as well as a few super-large beast crystals weighing over 1 gram. If they're all genuine, they'd probably be worth over a hundred million. We need to consult with the secretary to the governor of the law enforcement bureau."

"Why ask for instructions? Just inspect the goods, weigh them, enter the weight into the system, pay, and that's it."

"Yang, if we weigh it, we'll take the lower-middle price, just in case you lose money," the Space Department's acquisition agent said with a smile.

Seeing that these guys started to make small talk and deliberately stall for time, Molly, who had been observing from the shadows, had no choice but to show herself.

"What happened?"

After listening to the reports from several acquisition agents, Molly said in a serious tone, "Are the acquisition rules set by the Enforcement Bureau a joke? Follow the rules."

"But we don't have that much cash."

"The bank is right next door; send someone to collect it immediately."

"Okay, Secretary Mo, we'll get right on it."

As Yang Ding requested, they first spread out the beast crystals and roughly checked them. After confirming there were no problems, they weighed them.

"A total of 607 grams. If we're using an estimation method, the maximum price we can get is 12 per gram, which means..."

The buyer swallowed hard; there was so much money, the most money he had ever seen before.

"Ahem, that is, 7284 million."

"Okay, that's all. I'll go with you to get the money."

The six acquisition agents glanced at Molly again.

"Go ahead, isn't having so many beast crystals a good thing?"

Yang Ding followed the acquisition team leader to the bank to collect the cash. The 7284 million Blue Star banknotes weighed 1700 jin (850 catties) and were packed into four large boxes. Yang Ding carried two boxes in each hand with ease and did not feel tired at all.

The bank clerk was also bewildered. "Yang, even if you distribute it to your group members, they'll still come to deposit it. Why bother?"

Yang Ding ignored her completely and got up to leave.

When he arrived at the mall lobby, he saw Huang Aqing and Huang Agui leading a hundred disguised law enforcement officers who surrounded Ye Rou.

Molly asked, puzzled, "What are you doing?"

"Secretary Mo, we are from the Zhongwei Law Enforcement Bureau. We suspect that Yang Ding's close friend Hu Feng stole the Iron Blood Gun. We are taking him back to cooperate with the investigation."

"Did the governor approve it?" Molly asked.

Huang Agui was very curious. Wasn't Secretary Mo his father's man? Shouldn't he be cooperating? Why was he causing trouble?

The Stinger tissue shouldn't be exposed casually.

Just then, Yang Ding came over with the money and exclaimed loudly, "What did you say? What are you talking about? What happened to my good buddy Hu Feng?"

Huang Agui was so angry that he gritted his teeth when he saw him carrying four large boxes of money.

But there was nothing he could do; there was no evidence to prove that these beast crystals were illegally captured.

"It must have been parasitized by a fire-type parasite," Huang Agui said.

Molly, worried that Yang might get into trouble after joining the Stinger organization, drew her black gold knife.

"You are not allowed to take him away without the governor's orders."

"Secretary Mo, this is the city lord's order."

Huang Agui quickly contacted his father and handed the walkie-talkie to Molly.

A deep voice came from the other side, belonging to the city lord Zhou Liren.

"Molly, Old Zhao's grandson had an accident. His reproductive system was damaged by steel bars, and he probably won't be able to have children in the future. Now he thinks that Yang Ding and Fang Jing plotted against him, so he took him to the Poison Sting Secret Room to avoid the limelight."

"Can't we ask Elder Sun for treatment? He's an SSSSS-level wood-type."

"The steel bars were engulfed in high-temperature flames, and their function was completely destroyed; there was no cure."

"What about Fang Jing?"

"Never mind, if she can run, she can run; if she can't, let Old Zhao kill her to vent his anger. Fang Hongbo can't do anything to him anyway."

Molly looked at Yang Ding.

Yang Ding wanted to go to the law enforcement bureau to take Zhou Ruoxi with him, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go with you."

Ye Rou nudged Molly, "It's alright, my husband can run away anytime."

Yang Ding handed the four boxes of money to Ye Rou, "Understand?"

"Understand!"