What caught Happy's attention though was a poisonous palm technique called Five Poison Divine Palm that could only be learned in Moksha Realm and the fourth Sky Demon Order!
Happy quickly wrote a letter to Thunderous Battle and gave him a few instructions. [Big Brother Thunder, help me find out where Song Yuanqiao is, and have someone help me buy Sky Demon Orders.]
Thunderous Battle answered very quickly. [Sky Demon Order? Why? Do you want to go to Sky Demon Order now? This thing is currently selling like hot cakes. I heard that there is a group of people who have been buying Sky Demon Orders recently, but this item doesn't drop often. Only one evil cult disciple from Sky Demon Order out of a thousand drops it, and it's considered pretty good if those who look for it get one per day. The item is ridiculously expensive, yet we don't know what use is there for it.]
'There's already someone buying Sky Demon Orders?'
Happy was taken aback.
The evil cult had only appeared recently, and there was already someone who discovered the use for Sky Demon Orders? Happy remembered that someone had only managed to discover its use after a long time since the orders had appeared!
If a change like that had truly happened, it seemed that Happy had not been paying much attention to the game recently. He had missed a lot of information.
[What's the current selling price?] Happy quickly asked.
[One million taels of silver!] Thunderous Battle answered.
Happy thought about it for a moment before he quickly sent a letter in reply. [It's not much. Increase the price and buy it in bulk for two million taels of silver! Buy as many as you can!]
When Thunderous Battle heard Happy's decision to buy Sky Demon Orders in such a flashy manner, he instantly became interested. [Do you have inside information? Can you leak it to me?]
Happy knew that Thunderous Battle would not be able to wait from his curiosity, so he smiled and quietly fished out the four Sky Demon Orders, which reflected a dazzling light when put next to each other. They quickly merged into one, and new information appeared on them.
[Gathered four Sky Demon Orders. Filled in the information for the mechanism leading to the hall of Sky Demon Sect ruins. You can now activate Recondite Steel Gate and enter Sky Demon Secret Cave!]
The information vanished in a flash.
The four Sky Demon Orders split up quickly and returned to four normal orders.
[It's a secret quest for Sky Demon Sect, and it's about the same as the royal mausoleum. The Sky Demon Orders can be considered as a means to get into the place. Only those who gathered four of them can enter.]
Happy stopped writing for a moment and thought for a moment before he quickly added, [Since someone seems to have been paying attention to the information in these Sky Demon Orders, we can't delay matters. Help me contact Silver Wolf, Momo, Little North, and Wind Chimes. Have them hurry to Sky Demon Sect. They'll be clearing Sky Demon Secret Cave with me!]
Thunderous Battle gloomily noticed that Happy did not include him in his list of names. [What about me? And why did you add Wind Chimes? She still isn't considered part of Mu Clan.]
[You need to continue serving as a garrison in Mu Clan. We'll be enough in handling this small matter,] Happy replied in a joking manner. [As for Wind Chimes, if we run into too many evil cult disciples in Sky Demon Secret Cave, she's the best in wiping large numbers of enemies.]
That was no joke. Happy had a deep understanding of Sky Demon Secret Cave, and he knew that activating Sky Demon Secret Cave could be a lucky matter, but also a death sentence if the players who entered did not have enough strength.
There would be countless evil cult disciples who would descend from the sky and all sorts of ingenious death traps along the way. It was a place that could send an entire sect's worth of people to their deaths.
Wind Chimes could not be missing from an operation inside there.
Thunderous Battle knew that Happy always made his plans after much contemplation, so there had to be a reason why he did not include him in his plans. He immediately agreed to it and quickly had the four people contact Happy.
Once Happy spoke to them, he sent a messenger pigeon to All-powerful Medicinal Stone.
[Miss me?]
Happy smiled and replied, [I heard that you had ran to West Region lately. Can't I ask after you? So? Are the people there so rich that the successor of Marvelous-handed Sect forgot to return?]
West Region could be considered as part of Mu Clan. Even though their fights against the other countries at the borders never ended and war frequently erupted there, there was a group of elites from Beautiful Robes Hall serving as garrison there, and their equipment as well as strength was above those of the small countries they fought.
In such a place, All-powerful Medicinal Stone was naturally not in danger.
[Heh heh, it's pretty good. During the past few days, I suddenly realized that stealing from our own people is not as satisfying as stealing from foreigners. Heh, a few days ago, I stole fourth-echelon Recondite Steel Gloves from a Thai. The brat made a ruckus outside the city in his mother tongue while looking for me, but he doesn't know that I can put on a disguise, so I walk in front of him every day, and he doesn't even know! Ahahahaha!!!]
[Dude, you're getting worse.]
[Sky Demon Sect isn't too far away from you. If you have time, do you mind coming over? I'm going to do a quest there, and I need someone who is rather good with mechanisms and traps.]
Chapter 596 - The Fight for Sky Demon Orders
Song Yuanqiao was sent to Sky Demon Sect in chains.
Happy was certain that he had been secretly moved to Sky Demon Secret Cave instead of the Sky Demon Sect ruins that countless martial artists frequent and bother day after day.
Since Happy had accidentally gathered four Sky Demon Orders together, he could set his plan for the trip to Sky Demon Sect into motion.
He knew that even though with his current power and the number of people he was thinking of bringing, entering Sky Demon Secret Cave would be very dangerous, he did not worry. As long as they did not enter the deepest parts, they could handle the situation with Silver Wolf and the others' strength.
He really did not want the other factions of power getting there ahead of him.
Learning about the secret of Sky Demon Secret Cave was not just a small achievement. If one of the most precious grade one medicinal pills from there circulated in the market, even if it did not change the situation in the world of martial artists in China, it might change the situation of one faction at the least!
That was why Happy decided to buy Sky Demon Orders at twice the market price once he learned that there was someone buying them. He did not want to miss any chance in increasing Mu Clan's strength.
Even though Mu Clan was currently so large that countless sects in the game could only feel powerless before them and their resources, equipment, logistics, elites from War Hall, and the supreme number of top-class elites, who could guarantee that their journey would be as smooth as it was now? If they did not continue progressing forward, they would fall. They could not just relax and sit on their throne!
Once Happy contacted Silver Wolf, Wind Chimes, Little North, Momo, and All-powerful Medicinal Stone, he began traveling to Sky Demon Sect. He trusted that Thunderous Battle would locate Song Yuanqiao in due time.
*****
Song Yuanqiao and his group seemed to be moving along the coast. Even though Hoof Shadows were fast, the horse could not reduce the gap of half a day travel because the speed of the ship was the same as that of the Hoof Shadow.
Hence, Happy took a ship, but he did not dare to neglect practicing Nine Yang Divine Skill. He thought about his experiences while fighting against Inaction Realm martial artists and continuously simulated fights against various opponents he ran into in his previous life. While he thought about the clashes of different ultimate techniques, he gained quite a lot.
During that period of time, Happy received some news.
Once Thunderous Battle increased the buying price for Sky Demon Orders, it seemed like quite a number of competitors suddenly jumped out, and everyone began to pay attention to Sky Demon Orders. They increased the price and secretly began to compete against Mu Clan.
But no matter what, Thunderous Battle was a man with ample resources in his hands. When it came to prices, he was not afraid of anyone. In one go, he increased his bidding price to an insane five million taels of silver and f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y suppressed the competitors who had come out of nowhere.
It allowed him to get dozens of Sky Demon Orders, but Thunderous Battle felt gloomy, because he felt like he had been scammed...
Once he sent the Sky Demon Orders to Happy, he grumbled about how he wanted to figure out who were the people that jacked up the price and caused him to lose more than one hundred million taels of silver.
Since someone wanted to buy dozens of Sky Demon Orders, it meant that they had activated Sky Demon Secret Cave, but they did not gain any benefits from it, and some of their people even died. That was why they jacked up the price when Mu Clan decided to buy Sky Demon Orders and sold all their acc.u.mulated Sky Demon Orders in one go.
Even though they managed to get quite a large sum because of it, it was just an unexpected but delightful surprise for Happy's team.
Sky Demon Secret Cave could only be activated once per day during a certain period of time, but in his previous life, there would only be someone who would manage to get four Sky Demon Orders once every four to five days.
Yet Thunderous Battle had bought more than forty of them in one go. He might have used up a lot of money, but in Happy's eyes, they earned big in this deal.
He did not say it though. He only ordered Thunderous Battle to continue buying them while he switched to light gear and disguised himself to enter the ruins of Sky Demon Sect.
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Ever since Sky Demon Sect was stormed by various sects more than thirty years ago, it vanished from the world of martial artists. However, there were always traces of activities from some of the remnants of the sect.
The people who were active at the ruins of Sky Demon Sect were the apostles and disciples of Sky Demon Sect.
Just as the name suggested, Sky Demon Sect disciples were already part of Sky Demon Sect and could be considered inner sect disciples. The apostles were normal martial artists who adopted Sky Demon Sect's doctrines after it was destroyed, and they were at Life and Death Realm.
But since they carried some money on them, there were many good players who liked training there. After all, they could get money as well as improve their skills.
While Happy walked there, he noticed that most of the spawning spots for Sky Demon Sect apostles were already occupied by parties or people who appeared to be quite good.
Happy was not interested in those mobs. He went straight into Sky Demon Sect!
When he arrived at the entrance, he saw around ten men and women dressed in strange clothes guarding the place. They held various weapons and guarded the entrance with hostile expressions as they swept their gazes across every player who approached the area to warn them not to approach.
Those people seemed to be rather famous in the area. Quite a number of players who approached Sky Demon Sect stopped moving forward and backed down when they saw that one of the men had a Nation Protecting Divine Sword and a blue hero's bandana around his head. They turned around and left in resentment.
There was a man with a Refined Crimson Snake as thick as a toddler's arm wrapped around his arm in the team by the entrance, and he started a conversation from extreme boredom.
"What's going on with the boss? Why did you bring us all here to Sky Demon Sect and lock down the entrance? I don't even know what's going on inside. We nearly offended a few powerful people just now…"
One of the girls beside the man cast a disgusted look at the slippery and red thing on his arm. "How would I know? I say, can't you get it further away from me? Don't you know that I hate that sort of thing? If you continue flaunting it in front of me, I'm going to cut off your—"
The man said nothing.
"It might be because of the price war for Sky Demon Orders that started just yesterday."
The person stopped speaking for a moment, and when he saw that everyone's gazes were trained on him, he was slightly stunned. "What? Haven't you heard of it?"
"Duh. I've heard of Sky Demon Orders, but we don't usually come over here. Why else would the boss leave us outside? Hurry up and tell us what's going on."
"Mu Clan's Master Thunderous Battle suddenly began buying Sky Demon Orders at the price of two million yesterday, but some great players seemed to have come out and stopped him by engaging him in a price war.
"In the end, Thunderous Battle increased the price to five million in one go, and he didn't reject anyone who offered him Sky Demon Orders. Boss must have been shocked by this, so he wants to know what's going on inside."
"It has to do with Mu Clan?"
"That's right. Thunderous Battle had never paid any attention to Sky Demon Orders, but he suddenly increased their price, which is a little surprising. Many people are making guesses that Mu Clan might have learned some sort of secret or received a hidden quest. They would not aimlessly buy Sky Demon Orders at such a high price... There should be some sort of major operation from them soon."
The man with Nation Protecting Divine Sword suddenly frowned and asked, "Isn't it inappropriate for us to join in this mess when Mu Clan is about to take action?"
That one sentence caused the people in the party to suck in sharp breaths and suddenly think of a certain scenario.
'He's right!'
Since Mu Clan could buy Sky Demon Orders in such big bulks, didn't it mean that they were prepared for their operation in Sky Demon Sect?
As they talked to each other, they suddenly heard a commotion from outside the door...
Chapter 597 - Storm Outside the Evil Cult
"What's going on?"
"There're so many people here… Ah, it's the people from Snow Eagle Group!"
The crowd at the back suddenly burst into a commotion, and Happy turned his head around to look. He immediately noticed that the attention of the players who had been grinding nearby was attracted by a group with pretty good equipment.
They had more than one hundred people, and they came from outside in a mighty wave with an extraordinary presence. At a normal speed, they headed to the entrance of Sky Demon Sect. By the looks of it, it the large group had some kind of quest, and they were prepared to carry it out inside Sky Demon Sect!
Happy said nothing, but he instantly frowned.
The inside of Sky Demon Sect was an open hall. There were less than one hundred Moksha Realm evil cult disciples and Sky Demon Sect apostles inside. Such a big lineup was not necessary to deal with them.
'Looks like someone leaked the news of Sky Demon Secret Cave.' Happy smiled coldly. He might not know who it was, but it was clear that it was due to Mu Clan's act of buying Sky Demon Orders. It was an attack against Mu Clan.
While thinking about that, Happy mingled among the players without batting an eyelid and followed the group to get closer to the entrance of Sky Demon Sect!
"Snow Wolf, what's going on? You brought the elites from Group 1 and Group 2 over. This is a major lineup… Is there some sort of operation inside?"
"Let's go inside and talk," the person in the lead answered in a very soft voice.
He had white-hair, which he had dyed that way, and he did not even forget his eyebrows. He looked incredibly cold and callous, and he stood out in his group by being incredibly eye-catching.
With one wave of his hand, the group entered Sky Demon Sect in a continuous stream!
This sort of mysterious move naturally caught even more attention from the large group of players who were following after them. Quite a number of them had pretty decent equipment and strength, and they were very interested in Snow Eagle Group's operation. Without slowing down, th
ey followed them in groups of three and five.
"Stay where you are."
The man with Nation Protecting Divine Sword naturally noticed that. He frowned, and the other people from his group blocked the entrance.
Since Sky Demon Sect was located inside a mountain, once the entrance was blocked, no matter how good a person's lightness skills were, it was useless.
"My apologies, everyone. This is a sect quest. We'll have to temporarily make things difficult for you. One hour later, we will naturally open up the place for you."
However, since the crowd was already interested in Snow Eagle Group's quest, there was no way the people would be sent away with just a few words.
"What now? When did Sky Demon Sect turn into Snow Eagle Group's personal territory? Are you just going to lock it and open it up for public at a whim? I never heard that Snow Eagle Group was the one calling the shots here."
"That's right!"
"Your sect master's orders are for you alone. If I want to go in, can you stop me?"
The people from Snow Eagle Group said nothing. Even though they were quite good, there were also many good players who often wandered about Sky Demon Sect. Each of them had the support of a sect behind them, and they also had some degree of skill as well as strength, which allowed them to fear nothing.
"Don't let them cause a delay to our operation."
Snow Eagle, who was the one who had brought the large group over, stood by the side and watched. When he saw a group of good players at the entrance, he narrowed his eyes slightly. "Stop them here, and I'll guard the place inside. No matter what, don't let them enter."
This time, he did not intentionally lower the volume of his voice!
The expressions of the elites at the entrance changed.
Snow Eagle Group was actually pretty decent. If they truly sent a group of people to guard the entrance, then unless someone had Happy's skills, there would be very few who would be able to get through safely.
At that moment, an indifferent voice rose arrogantly from outside. "Heh! What arrogant words! I'd like to see whether you people will be able to block my Six Pulses Divine Sword and my people from Towering Palace!"
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