Bonus chapter for May's golden tickets because I promised to release one if we reached 30 golden tickets.
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Sophia never got her answer; Miles attacked her after Ken stepped back. Ken didn't join in the assault, so she managed to block a few hits, but she was injured heavily quickly. She was stronger than Miles, but the formations weakened her too much.
Once Miles got the upper hand, his Fire Qi seeped into her body with every hit, until she finally lost and collapsed on the ground, dying soon after.
"All right, let's see the spoils."
They agreed to share the loot unequally. Ken took 40% because his formations were the most crucial to the ambush, while the rest took 15% despite the girls' relative weakness.
They split everything among themselves. There were pills, herbs, ores, a few weapons, formation scrolls, and so talismans. Most importantly, they had now 4 tokens of fifth-stage disciples.
'The top 5 sects are rich; they don't have a single imperfect pill.'
Ken was impressed; these disciples used only perfect fourth and fifth-rank pills. While in his sect the top disciples did the sa with the fourth-rank pills, there was a shortage of perfect fifth-rank pills.
"What are you doing? How dare you use your fellow disciples' bodies just to lure enemies?"
The group heard a stern masculine voice and turned around to see the couple from the Divine Sword Sect looking at them from outside. However, the two didn't get inside and kept a distance from the entrance. They weren't sure what was going on and didn't want to risk getting inside the formations.
"The most important thing is that we killed the enemies. You may leave."
Ken replied indifferently.
"Give us the bodies and we will pretend nothing happened. We will give their belongings to their families."
Oliver demanded he hands over the corpses with a strict voice. Ken wasn't worried, the group were all wearing masks anyway. With all the formations in the cave, the pair outside couldn't even see what was going inside exactly other than blurry silhouettes, so he wasn't worried about his height giving his identity away.
From outside the cave, only the corpses and the treasures in the middle of the cave seed to have light on them while the rest around was dark and unclear.
"No. We will bring them back to the sect once we're done with this trap. Leave."
"You can expect us to tell this to the sect's elders. I hope for your sake that you didn't kill those disciples yourselves."
Emilia didn't feel like wasting her ti anymore and turned around to leave after threatening the people lurking inside the cave.
"Hahaha, There's no need. I'm overseeing this matter, and I approve of their tactic."
Everyone heard a voice coming from above, and the couple raised their eyes and found a red-hair elder standing in the air, hovering in the sky. Ken and his group could only listen since they weren't able to see through stones.
"Elder Benjamin."
The two bowed without speaking much. They knew the man; he was one of the more violent elders, and he ca from the Shang clan, the clan that purchased Ken's tainted pills and lost most disciples in this war.
His origins coupled with his identity created a man thirsty for the blood of the Four Seasons Sect, making him cross many vague lines of righteous morals.
"I'm supervising it, and I assure you that they didn't kill those disciples themselves. You guys may leave now."
"Elder Benjamin, it might be inappropriate to use the-"
Emilia tried to protest against the unjust actions of the group inside the cave, but Benjamin didn't care.
"I said you may leave now, and if you don't appreciate it, I will let you join the disciples lying inside the cave."
"We will leave."
The pair bowed with their fists cupped and left the place. Emilia was from an elite family, but it was weaker than the Shang clan. Even if Benjamin wouldn't kill her, he still might kill her lover who was from a normal family.
"If you still want to report this to the sect, make sure to ntion that I'm already here."
"We won't report it."
She knew it would be pointless to report it now, so there was no reason to stir things with a stronger clan.
Benjamin then took a step from the sky, but instead of appearing a step away, he appeared in front of the cave. With another step, he moved a few ters forward right into the middle of the cave.
"Elder Benjamin."
The five bowed. The weakest elders in the top 5 sects were low seventh-stage cultivators, and the five didn't dare disrespect him. They didn't know him, but they heard his na earlier when Emilia said it.
'Is it the work of Henry's good luck?'
Ken wondered to himself inwardly while waiting for the elder to speak.
"Well done with the formations. You aren't the ones who killed those people, are you?"
"We weren't, but didn't you already know?"
Jane couldn't hold her tongue back when she heard this weird question.
"Ah I didn't, I only wanted to send them away. I noticed the Qi from the ores and ca to have a look. It's an interesting formation, does it make the ores' aura stronger?"
"Yes, Elder Benjamin."
"Good job. I will make sure to send away all the disciples from our sect and elders from their sect so you can keep lurking here. If you return to the sect with 5 tokens of their confird disciples, I will give you an additional prize to the MP from the sect."
Benjamin smiled in contentnt and left the cave. Needlessly to say, Ken was satisfied with the arrangent. Even if luck didn't change his life by feeding him directly, it was still a good way to make the small things work in his favor.
"Everyone back to the concealing formations, we are waiting for the next victims."
Everyone went back to their hiding spot hurriedly and waited for the next prey to arrive.
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