Chapter 177: True Wealth
Hong Zhu took out a crystal ball.
The crystal ball was filled with an unknown transparent liquid.
In the middle of the crystal ball was a suspended rhombus pointer.
The pointer was small and delicate.
It was a treasure hunting pointer!
The crystal ball was only iron level, but the pointer was a silver level alchemy treasure.
It was Hong Zhu’s most reliable detection method when she went exploring.
Hong Zhu immediately transferred battle qi to the treasure hunting pointer.
The treasure hunting pointer began to sway, then quickly fixed itself towards the southeast.
Hong Zhu closed in to where it was pointing.
As she got closer, the pointer’s tip slowly moved downwards.
Finally, Hong Zhu was standing somewhere in the cemetery where the crystal ball pointer was completely vertical, pointing at the ground beneath her feet.
There was nothing left to say.
Time to dig!
Hong Zhu took out a shovel.
Her shovel was also an alchemy item too, it was of decent quality and was of iron level.
With the iron level magic shovel’s help, Hong Zhu quickly excavated a coffin.
She opened the coffin and saw a human skeleton inside.
Around the skeleton were large amounts of jewels and jewelry. They were mostly maid of gold, adorned with silver, gems, agate, and other things that made them a feast for the eyes.
Hong Zhu’s eyes also glistened with golden light.
Without hesitation, Hong Zhu shoved the money and valuables into her storage belt.
After taking all of the funerary objects, she reburied the coffin and did her best to restore the ground above it.
Afterwards, she used the treasure hunting pointer to animatedly excavate the next coffin.
As a treasure hunter, Hong Zhu wouldn’t imitate the pirates in their plundering and killing. As for tomb robbing, she was fully on board with that.
When others were fighting and killing, she was relieving the dead of their money.
Yue Ban jumped on a roof.
She was an owlman with outstanding vision. Not only could she see far, but she could also see clearly in the dark.
She was very fat, but when she moved, her feet made no sound when she landed on the roof.
Her movements were nimble and had a distinctive sense of beauty to them.
She was a silver level dancer.
Yue Ban wasn’t like Mei Ban or Shi Fa who were busy defending places, nor was she like Hong Zhu who was making a profit, instead she was preoccupied with Zi Di and Cang Xu.
Or more accurately, she was obsessed with the Mushroom Dancing Shoes Zi Di had bought.
That pair of dancing shoes was very important to her.
Losing the auction hadn’t completely obliterated Yue Ban’s hopes.
“It’s a pity they left the auction early, otherwise I might have been able to negotiate with them.”
Zi Di and Cang Xu left early to receive slaves.
Yue Ban had missed them as a result.
“Where are you?”
“Where are you, come out now!”
Yue Ban constantly repeated that thought.
She traveled all over and scaled to high places to see father to find Zi Di and Cang Xu.
This search was quite troublesome for her.
Because she didn’t know what Zi Di and Cang Xu looked like.
She was mainly focusing on cultivators.
Especially the strange cultivators that appeared in the turmoil, they might be the ones she was looking for.
“Captain, the Wealth Church has already been looted!” A pirate fretfully returned to inform his captain.
“What?” When Yang Cong Tou hear this bad news, he instantly grimaced.
His amazing plan to rob the Wealth Church that had been full of joy and expectations had been overturned by this discovery that someone had beaten him to the punch.
“Move!” Yang Cong Tou was naturally unreconciled and led his underlings to the church gateway.
If these pirates weren’t strong enough, Yang Cong Tou planned to victimize the villainous!
They saw many pirates entering and exiting the church, each one moving a large box.
Some had gold and silver coins, many had gold and silver plates, and some had renowned paintings, sculptures, and other works of art.
Even the window curtains were torn down and taken by the pirates.
Upon careful examination, the window curtains had gold and silver thread, were made of the finest silk, and would definitely fetch a good price.
The Wealth Church was affluent, and its place of worship was bound to be adorned extravagantly and grandly.
Of course, any sculpture, portrait, or sacred icon depicting the Wealth Goddess were not touched by the looting pirates.
This was as world of faith and gods.
There were many problems when looting a church, but if one touched anything related to the gods and disrespected them, it might provoke divine retribution.
When that came, even a saint level pirate would fall dead in the streets.
The ones robbing the Wealth Church was the Lightning Pirates.
They were familiar with what to and what not to take.
“Dian Wan!” When Yang Cong Tou saw the Lightning Pirates’ commander, he couldn’t help but fume with rage with an indignant heart.
Previously, it was Dian Wan who had been a step faster and had robbed the fleet with the Sun Halo.
It had been for this Sun Halo that Yang Cong Tou was forced to participate in Two Eyes Island’s auction.
During the auction, he had lost to Zi Di and Cang Xu, causing the Sun Halo to slip through his fingers.
Now, Dian Wan had once again been a step ahead of him in robbing the Wealth Church.
When Dian Wan saw Yang Cong Tou and his people, he proudly said, “Ah, I thought it was you. Fellow Stench Pirates, you’ve come a bit late, everything here is ours!”
“Boss, please stop talking.” The Lightning Pirates’ first mate advised.
But Dian Wan didn’t listen, he never thought well of the Stench Pirates, and wouldn’t let this chance slip by.
Dian Wan put his hands on his hips and burst into laughter, “Oh? I remember, it was us who robbed that fleet. Yang Cong You, you’re always eating my butt’s dust. Does it taste good?”
“Young man, you are too arrogant!” Captain Yang Cong Tou became enraged that a sore spot had been exposed.
As soon as he said that he cast a spell.
Dian Wan felt the threat and jumped back at once.
A clump of brambles suddenly scuttled across the ground where he had been standing, it seemed to snap at the air like a monster and its densely packed sawtooth thorns frightened people.
Dian Wan avoided the spell and grew very angry.
“You’re looking for a fight!” Dian Wan launched at Yang Cong Tou through the air, his fists crackling with lightning.
“I ought to give you a lesson!” Yang Cong You suddenly transformed into treeman.
Druids were experts at wood path magic, and some also knew how to use nature divine spells and spells that could turn them into a bear, wolf, eagle, and other animals.
Yang Cong Tou was a depraved druid, and the treeman transformation turned him into a depraved treeman.
The treeman was sinister and terrifying, and its long tree trunk had a person’s face that looked like Yang Cong Tou.
Vines on the sides of the tree trunk formed a pair of arms that were wildly scratching at Dian Wan.
“Are we attacking?” The Lightning Pirates asked their first mate.
“No, keep calm.” The first mate shook his aching head, “Let them fight, you guys get out of here now!”
Meanwhile, the Stench Pirates hadn’t been given the order to attack yet either.
Both groups did their own thing, only their captains were fighting each other.
Several rounds later.
The depraved treeman Yang Cong Tou had been scorched black by lightning, smoke curling from his tree trunk.
Dian Wan was also a sorry figure, his clothes had been shredded and the front of his body dripping with wounds.
Suddenly, both stopped at the same time.
They sensed life auras on the same level as theirs.
Pirates on both sides reported simultaneously that it was the Wealth Church priest and the playing card magician Shi Fa!
Dian Wan and Yang Cong Tou glanced at each other and stopped fighting.
After the barracks were stabilized, the Wealth Priest led his subordinates and Shi Fa back to the church.
Near the church, they had converged with the Fertile Land priest.
When they met, the Fertile Land priest shamefully apologized.
He was responsible for looking after the Wealth Church, and when the Lightning Pirates attacked, he bravely stepped forward to fight Dian Wan.
He blocked Dian Wan but couldn’t protect anyone.
The Lighting Pirates’ first mate headed the violent attack, and because the Wealth priest had taken all of the church’s elites with him, the church’s defenses collapsed in a dozen seconds.
The pirates rushed into the church and when the Fertile Land priest saw that the situation was unsalvageable, he was forced to helplessly retreat.
He didn’t retreat far, just near the church.
Because when the battle began, he had sent someone to inform the Wealth priest.
Now that the church had been stormed, the Fertile Land priest had assembled the remaining people and waited for the Wealth priest to return.
When he finally saw the Wealth priest return, he was pleasantly surprised to see Shi Fa with them.
“What are we waiting for, let’s take back the church together!” The Fertile Land priest suggested.
Yang Cong Tou and Dian Wan had stopped fighting.
Yang Coing Tou gazed at the two priests’ forces in the distance and laughed, “Trouble has come for you.”
Dian Wan frowned, but his words were vigorous, “There is no such trouble. If you can’t take it away, then you might as well burn it!”
Yang Cong Tou couldn’t help but chuckle, “Perhaps we can work together.”
Dian Wan muttered wordlessly to himself for a moment.
When faced with the Fertile Land priest’s proposal, the Wealth priest shook his head and tactfully refused.
“It’s just some property.”
“Let them fight over it.”
“This is my God’s parish; the most precious wealth is my God’s believers!”
“Protecting Thy believers’ lives and beating back the fishmen and pirates as soon as possible will again bring stability to the new island.”
“We have come here to link up with you, that’s all.”
“We need your strength to assist the port battlefield over yonder.”
“Now, all of the gold levels are busy with each other. Our performance will shake up the war situation and thereby influence the result of the entire battle!”
The Wealth priest’s words moved the Fertile Land priest!
Shi Fa gazed towards the church, his eyes fixing on Dian Wan and Yang Cong Tou, “It won’t be easy to attack the church.”
“Just now, the two pirate leaders had been fighting each other.”
“If we attack, I fear both their groups will unite to deal with us.”
In terms of silver level experts, the priest’s side had a slight advantage, but in terms of subordinate numbers and quality, the pirates undoubtedly dominated in that aspect.
3 silvers against 2 wasn’t a big advantage, and if they were deadlocked, the pirates would slay the priest’s subordinates, and the outcome would be unpleasant to speculate on.
The priest and the others slowly retreated.
This surprised the two pirate bosses.
Dian Wan let out a breath.
“Humph, a group of cowards.” Yang Cou Tou was the most frustrated.
If the priest and the others attacked, he could join with Dian Wan and have reasonable grounds to divide the spoils.
If the enemy was formidable, he could retreat from the attack.
In any case, he hadn’t snatched any property, and when the two sides began to fight, he could run away, while the Lighting Pirates who had the goods would be watched closely by the priest and others, not so easily able to escape.
If that happened, he could hoodwink the Lightning Pirates.
But that evil scheme didn’t go his way.
The priest and the others voluntarily retreated.