I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense - chapter 36

Chapter 36

Splitting the profits, seventy-thirty.

Li Xiaobai instantly turned into a little tycoon.

Spiritual Medicines, Spiritual Artifacts, Elixirs piled up like a mountain inside the Space Ring—these things could easily break ten thousand once exchanged for Spirit Stones after getting out.

By then, he could even enjoy the luxury items in his own mall.

Feeling utterly content as he gathered all the resources, Li Xiaobai patted his bottom ready to depart.

“Junior brother, do you want to make a fortune?”

“Senior brother, please enlighten me!”

Li Xiaobai’s eyes gleamed; following his senior brother meant meat on the table.

“There are still quite a few Sect Disciples in the inner area. We can pull one more job—this time, let’s cooperate and aim to take them all in one swoop!”

“No problem!”

After preparing himself, Li Xiaobai quickly followed Liu Jinshui’s steps upstream along the river.

“Junior brother, how do you usually cultivate? Why is your speed so slow?”

Liu Jinshui looked at Li Xiaobai, who was sweating profusely behind him, and felt puzzled.

“Senior brother, my physical body is quite strong, but in other respects, I’m no different from an ordinary person.”

Li Xiaobai felt helpless; the problem with the System was that it added all attributes to defense, without much improvement in speed.

“I see, no worries, senior brother will take you flying!”

Liu Jinshui patted Li Xiaobai’s shoulder, and the two of them vanished on the spot.

At the top of a mountain, this used to be the dwelling of a Golden-Winged Roc, but for some unknown reason, the roc was not in its territory.

This location was very conspicuous, perfect for setting up a trap for cultivators.

“Junior brother, we must manifest a miracle here, to fulfill the treasure-seeking dreams of many cultivators,” Liu Jinshui sighed.

“Senior brother is wholeheartedly helping cultivators fulfill their dreams. I believe they will one day appreciate your profound intentions,” Li Xiaobai replied.

“If everyone had the same comprehension as junior brother, the world could see much less strife.”

“Senior brother concerns himself with the lives of all, truly a role model for our fellow cultivators.”

Liu Jinshui took out a small Array Plate and placed it on the mountain top. His hands were continuously forming seals and chanting spells. The Array Plate lit up, and luminescent patterns grew intensely bright, forming a huge purple totem that resembled a tree.

As Liu Jinshui kept infusing Spiritual Power into the Array Plate, purple light shot into the heavens, and a towering purple Dried Tree Totem materialized, making quite an impact.

The totem’s light was so intense that anyone seeing it would know there had to be treasures here.

“Done, our great work is complete!”

Placing a Treasure Box at the center of the formation, Liu Jinshui let out a long sigh of relief.

“Junior brother, senior brother has offended quite a few people. This time, more than half of the cultivators in the inner area will be attracted here. If senior brother shows up, I might be recognized, so you’ll have to act this out,” Liu Jinshui said.

“Sixty-forty?”

“Fifty-fifty?”

“Deal!”

Li Xiaobai felt thrilled inside, splitting resources half and half—definitely on his way to becoming a major financier!

Liu Jinshui’s face was bitter; his junior brother was too good at exploiting opportunities.

After passing a Rescue Token to Li Xiaobai, Liu Jinshui disappeared into the jungle.

Observing his surroundings, Li Xiaobai felt that the act his senior brother had previously performed by the river wouldn’t be suitable anymore.

The treasure box was right at the mountain peak, and you could see it as soon as you climbed up, which diminished its air of mystery quite a bit. The same old trick might not fool the many cultivators.

After some thought, from his Space Ring, he took out about a dozen Demonic Beast inner cores and tossed them into the Formation.

He used a Rescue Token to send a distress signal.

Then, Li Xiaobai found a flat piece of land on the edge of the Formation and lay down, slowly closing his eyes.

In the shadows, hidden among the bushes, Liu Jinshui saw this set of maneuvers and couldn’t help but give a thumbs-up in his heart. Damn, the little junior brother surpassed his teacher; this move was more clever than his!

The mountain breeze blew softly, and the peak was serene, with only the giant purple shadow proclaiming the extraordinariness of this place.

About half an hour later,

several figures cautiously appeared at the summit, clearly being very careful.

Unwilling to rush rashly to the peak, they scouted around for a while, and after confirming that there were no dangers on the mountain top, they slowly made their way up.

If Li Xiaobai were to open his eyes at this moment, he would realize that all the faces in front of him were familiar.

The two leading figures were none other than Zhang Rui, the True Disciple of Tianwu Sect whose arm had been cut off, and the black-robed youth from the Holy Demon Sect he had met before.

Following them were quite a few cultivators, Sect Disciples in tow.

Zhang Rui had originally planned to leave the mountains and not get involved in this messy affair.

But he hadn’t taken two steps before a nearby mountain peak suddenly exhibited a mystical phenomenon; the huge Purple Dried Tree Totem was clearly the manifestation of a great treasure being born.

This reignited his ambitions, feeling the heavens still favored him.

The black-robed youth had noticed the anomaly here after receiving a distress signal.

“A great treasure has emerged, and the worthy may claim it. I am a True Disciple of Tianwu Sect, and I ask everyone to show some courtesy. My Tianwu Sect will generously repay this favor in the future,” Zhang Rui said blandly.

“Tianwu Sect and my Holy Demon Sect have been on good terms for generations. I, your sworn enemy, am willing to grant you this courtesy. Nobody else move!”

The black-robed man said cheerfully, gesturing for Zhang Rui to go ahead with a hand wave.

Zhang Rui looked puzzled. Since when was his sworn enemy so easy to talk to?

But when he saw the dozen or so Demonic Beast inner cores inside the Formation, and Li Xiaobai lying in front of the Formation, his pupils suddenly constricted.

There was something fishy about this Formation!

In his haste, he had not thoroughly observed the surroundings, not expecting to find Li Xiaobai at this place, and even less expecting that even a cultivator as powerful as Li Xiaobai had fallen victim to it.

Shit, he was almost tricked!

Those sneaky bastards from the Holy Demon Sect had put him in an awkward position.

“Hehe, actually, I came to rescue. Getting the treasure is secondary; what’s important is saving a life,” Zhang Rui said with a chuckle as he approached Li Xiaobai’s “corpse.”

He crouched slightly and began inspecting Li Xiaobai’s injuries.

“It’s a pity that even a senior with such mighty cultivation has succumbed to this Formation.”

“Hehe, don’t worry, senior. Your legacy will be well continued by me. You severed one of my arms, and I’ll just take your Space Ring. That’s fair, right?”

“Senior’s belongings will be put to great use in my hands!”

Zhang Rui muttered to himself, discreetly removing the Space Ring from Li Xiaobai’s hand.

The moment he saw Li Xiaobai’s “corpse”, he abandoned the idea of going for the treasures within the Formation. Li Xiaobai’s formidable power was deeply etched in his memory.

Confronted with a Formation that even such cultivation couldn’t withstand, he obviously stood no chance.

What he didn’t notice, though, was that the finger from which Li Xiaobai’s ring was taken twitched imperceptibly…