Chapter 787.
Of all the cities, Red Cliff City was at best medium sized, but it also had a population of hundreds of thousands.
The food and materials that these city residents consumed on a daily basis were far from enough to rely on self-production alone, and a large portion of it came from the many villages below, as well as trade with other cities.
Therefore, the Sacred Ancestor’s Path was also a lifeline.
Once the Sacred Ancestor Road was cut off by the bandits, Red Cliff City would be able to hold out for a month or two at most, and chaos would surely ensue.
This was something Zhao Zhenxuan absolutely could not tolerate!
This innate powerhouse had already sent multiple teams to clear out the roving bandits, only to return in defeat and suffer considerable losses each time.
Up until now, two Houtian experts had been killed in battle, dozens of peak Marrow Refining martial artists had been lost, and the rest had suffered even more casualties.
No matter how big Red Cliff City was, it could not afford such continuous blood loss.
Wang Duan was taken aback, “The roving bandits are this strong?”
“That’s right.”
Zhao Zhenxuan nodded with a somber expression, “The head of the bandits is at peak Houtian cultivation!”
Peak Houtian also does looting work?
Wang Chen felt incredible even listening to it.
Even if such an expert couldn’t make it in one place, he could still make it in another city incognito, much better than being a roving bandit?
Could it be for the sake of excitement?
Zhao Zhenxuan gave a very reasonable explanation.
He speculated that the roving bandits that attacked Red Cliff City were most likely backed by other cities.
This was not something unimaginable.
There were countless examples of cities supporting or forming roving bands of bandits and sending them to other cities to plunder supplies, especially in years when the grain harvest was bad, there were especially many incidents.
These roving bandits not only attacked the Sacred Ancestor’s path, but also targeted the villages underneath the city to loot and pillage, and were very ferocious.
Currently, Chibi City has lost contact with several villages, and it is suspected that a few have already fallen.
Therefore, the most important thing for Red Cliff City is to eliminate these bandits.
The problem was that as the most important battle force in Red Cliff City, Zhao Zhenxuan could not easily leave the city to fight the bandits.
“There are many eyes and ears of the roving bandits in the city.”
This innate powerhouse said in a deep voice, “Once I leave, they’re bound to cause trouble in the city.”
What the roving bandits were best at was fighting guerrilla warfare, they would never fight hard with Zhao Zhenxuan and would only play sneak attacks and underhanded tactics.
Zhao Zhenxuan had to stabilize his fundamentals, which was why he had come here to ask Wang Duan to make a move!
After hearing this, Wang Dust asked bluntly, “Then what’s in it for me?”
In fact, at this point, Wang Dust was already motivated because purging these evil roving bandits was not a burden to him, and he was able to earn a large amount of qi value.
But if he just agreed directly like this, wouldn’t it make him look cheap?
Wang Chen didn’t want to leave the other party with the impression that he was a “good talker”!
“How about a Divine Soldier?”
Zhao Zhenxuan had obviously thought about this question long ago and said without hesitation, “There are two divine weapons in the City Lord’s Mansion’s secret treasury, and after you eliminate this group of roving bandits, you can pick one!”
This innate powerhouse’s heart was dripping blood.
Divine Soldiers were so valuable that if the situation wasn’t really bad this time, he wouldn’t have been able to spare one as a reward.
“Divine Soldier ah.”
As a result, he never expected that Wang Dust would actually look disinterested, “I already have it.”
Not only did Wang Dust have divine soldiers, but he also had as many as three!
It’s useless to have more.
The Divine Soldier didn’t even want it, which now made Zhao Zhenxuan a whole lot less likely to say, “Then you say it!”
Money, women, power, techniques, Zhao Zhenxuan had them all, but he was afraid that these mundane things wouldn’t be able to impress Wang Chen, so he simply threw the question to Wang Chen.
Wang Dust was also a little difficult – he didn’t lack anything!
After thinking about it, Wang Dust said, “How about this, you let go of the Secret Vault and let me choose three things, except for the Divine Soldier.”
“Deal!”
Zhao Zhenxuan agreed without thinking.
The City Lord’s Mansion’s secret vault was filled with his private treasures, the most precious being the two Divine Soldiers, and Wang Chen didn’t want the Divine Soldiers, so not to mention the three items, a few more would be completely willing to part with them.
In order to show his sincerity, he said, “We are just going to pick it out now.”
This Innate Powerhouse was still quite on the ball, and Wang Dust didn’t refuse, so he followed him to the City Lord’s Mansion.
The City Lord’s Mansion was undoubtedly the largest and most grandiose complex in Red Cliff City, with many high walled mansions and buildings, it was like a city within a city.
Zhao Zhenxuan led Wang Chen straight into the center of his mansion and opened the portal to the underground secret vault after dismissing his left and right.
The scale of this secret vault was comparable to Yao Lao’s one in the North Mountain, and basically everything inside was displayed on the shelves, with weapons, implements, materials, elixirs, techniques, and so on, but the grade was obviously much lower.
Among them, the most eye-catching ones were undoubtedly the two pieces of a hammer and a stick, two divine weapons.
However, the divine weapons that Zhao Zhenxuan regarded as treasures in Wang Chen’s eyes were no match for his Overlord Gun and Chopper Blade.
“The shield armor on the fifth compartment of the second row on the right is good.”
Just as Wang Chen was carefully selecting, Yao Lao’s voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
Without moving, Wang Chen walked over and found the item that this Yuan Ying True Immortal was referring to.
It was a palm-sized shield-shaped metal plate, almost two fingers thick, showing an ebony-golden color, with countless fine runes engraved on its surface, but without the slightest bit of spiritual charm.
“This is a protective magic treasure.”
Yao Lao’s voice carried a hint of gloating, “I don’t know which daoist friend brought it down.”
The one he called a daoist friend was bound to be a cultivator of the same rank!
The thing was there, the person was long gone.
Wang Dust didn’t even look at it and immediately pocketed it.
This magic treasure couldn’t exert much power in the Misty Mountain Realm, but once it was taken back to the Haotian Realm, it would be worth a lot more.
He had worked hard to come to this world, and it was only natural for him to get some benefits for himself.
Immediately afterward, under Yao Lao’s guidance, Wang Chen collected two more good items.
All of these things were left behind by cultivators in the lower world, and the only ones who could bring items down were YuanYing ranked existences, and the ones that had been preserved until now were definitely top quality.
As for natives of this realm like Zhao Zhenxuan, they should have perceived them as extraordinary, but couldn’t figure out the origin and use of these items, so they could only be placed in the secret vault to collect dust.
Over time, one forgot about them.
Now that they had been unearthed by Wang Chen and taken away, the eyes of Zhao Zhenxuan on the side flickered in thought.
Divine soldiers do not want, want these useless foreign objects, to say that there is nothing to say in this, then he would be too stupid!
But Zhao Zhenxuan didn’t have any intention of backtracking either.
“Alright.”
Wang Dust picked through the other party’s secret treasury and felt that he was still quite satisfied.
It was only natural that he would have to contribute to the work next.
“City Lord Zhao, please give me all the news involving this group of roving bandits.”
Wang Dust said, “Within three days, I’ll bring back their heads!”