Chapter 261 Zhang Family Destruction
The Fourth-Order Professionals next to the Zhang Family Clan Head heard his desperate words, silently turned around, returned to the family, and headed to the family's treasure vault.
However, as the treasure vault's defensive array was breached and the various storage boxes opened, the Zhang Family members discovered that many resources had disappeared!
The Zhang Family Clan Head glared fiercely at the Professionals guarding the vault and cursed, "You bastards are truly greedy enough!"
The Professionals guarding the vault looked bewildered, then cast suspicious glances at the other vault guards, only to see equally bewildered expressions.
"Stop pretending!" The Zhang Family Clan Head roared, "I won't hold it against you. Quickly categorize and pack the remaining resources and hand them over for the juniors to take away!"
The Professionals guarding the vault were unjustly scolded, feeling immensely wronged, yet they did not refute. They simply bowed their heads and collected the resources.
With resources missing, the Professionals guarding the vault were undeniably responsible and had no face to defend themselves.
However, they secretly resented the other people guarding the vault.
Stealing family resources was truly detestable.
What was even more detestable was that they were hogging it all!
The more the Professionals guarding the vault thought about it, the angrier they became, collecting resources with furious expressions.
A moment later, an urgent bell suddenly rang outside.
The Zhang Family Clan Head said, "The enemy has broken in. Those guarding the vault, go out and meet them."
The Professionals guarding the vault were very familiar with it and could collect resources faster.
But now they were being told to leave, clearly indicating a lack of trust.
The Professionals guarding the vault grew even more resentful towards the clansman who had stolen the treasures.
However, they did not argue, throwing down their storage rings and rushing out of the treasure pavilion with a heart full of anger.
Not long after they left, the remaining people collected all the resources.
The Zhang Family Clan Head took out a token and pressed it on the ground, and a gap instantly opened in the ground.
Then, the Zhang Family Clan Head handed the resources to a Professional and said, "The juniors should have already gathered at the end of this passage. You take them and escape. The rest of us will fight to the death with the other families!"
After saying this, the Zhang Family Clan Head turned and ran outside, with most of the others following closely behind him.
Only the Professional who received the resources hurried into the tunnel. A moment later, the tunnel collapsed, blocking the entrance.
On the other side, after the Zhang Family Clan Head led everyone out of the treasure vault, he discovered fires everywhere and countless Professionals fighting.
Although the Zhang Family had gathered a large amount of resources and cultivated countless Professionals with the help of their Fifth-Order Old Ancestor,
However, when facing the encirclement of all nearby families, the Zhang Family's numbers were still too small.
At this moment, every Zhang Family Professional was facing at least three people's encirclement, completely at a disadvantage.
However, what puzzled the Zhang Family Clan Head was that the Professionals from other families clearly had the ability to kill the Zhang Family members, yet they kept wearing down the Zhang Family Professionals.
The Zhang Family Clan Head was puzzled but had no time to think.
At this moment, Professionals from other families had already rushed towards the Zhang Family Clan Head's direction.
Not long after, the Zhang Family Clan Head was passively defending under the attack of a group of enemies, losing all ability to counterattack.
After the battle continued for some time, the first Zhang Family Professional fell to the ground and was captured.
The people around immediately tied him up and threw him into a storage bag.
Then, the person who captured him ran to other places to besiege others.
The scales of battle quickly tilted towards the other families.
"Boom~"
A sudden explosive sound rang out. A Zhang Family Professional self-destructed, injuring all those who were besieging him. Several of those with more serious injuries even fainted.
It was fortunate that this Zhang Family Professional had consumed a large amount of energy. If he had self-destructed without consuming energy, a portion of those besieging him would have definitely died.
As the first Zhang Family Professional self-destructed, more Zhang Family Professionals chose to self-destruct, perishing together with the Professionals from other families.
Seeing this, the Professionals from the various families either retreated or struck more fiercely.
Thus, more and more Zhang Family Professionals were killed.
The Liu Family Clan Head felt it was a pity to see this.
The dead Zhang Family Professionals could not be sold.
However, the Liu Family Clan Head did not speak out to remind the other families to show mercy.
The self-destruction of the Zhang Family Professionals had killed many people, and the other families were in a fit of rage, so they could not be provoked further.
Moreover, there were certainly some Zhang Family Professionals who held onto hope and would not self-destruct.
If a sudden reminder was given, those who held onto hope might fear the torture after being captured and choose to self-destruct.
The Liu Family Clan Head put away the thought of reminding others to show mercy and carefully attacked the Zhang Family Clan Head, avoiding the Zhang Family Clan Head's self-destruction from injuring people.
After the battle continued for some time, the Zhang Family Clan Head felt that he had no chance of winning, so he observed his surroundings, preparing to take a few people with him before he died.
However, the Zhang Family Clan Head found that the people around him were too far away. They could hit him, but his self-destruction damage could not reach them.
Seeing this, the Zhang Family Clan Head immediately accelerated, approaching a nearby Professional.
But the next second, the Zhang Family Clan Head was hit by countless skills, his body became heavy, his movement speed slowed, and he watched helplessly as his target ran far away.
After the Zhang Family Clan Head's movement speed recovered, just as he was about to choose a new target, his body became heavy again, and his speed slowed down again.
After being delayed like this for some time, the Zhang Family Clan Head found that he had little energy left in his body, and self-destructing at this point would hardly injure too many people.
The Zhang Family Clan Head looked at the traces left by his self-destructed clansmen with immense grief, and then his body rapidly expanded.
"Boom~"
After a loud bang, the Zhang Family Clan Head self-destructed and died.
With the death of the Zhang Family Clan Head, the other Zhang Family members lost their will to fight, either self-destructing or being captured.
After all the Zhang Family Professionals were captured or died, the Clan Heads of the various families quickly went to the Zhang Family's treasure pavilion.
Liu Family Third Brother stood in place and said, "Everyone, you can cripple the Zhang Family captives and sell them to us. Of course, you can also keep them for interrogation for a period of time before selling them to us!"
Upon hearing this, the Professionals from the various families immediately released the Zhang Family Professionals they had just captured, fed them special pills, directly crippled their strength, and then crippled their bodies.
At the moment their strength was crippled, the Zhang Family members were filled with immense regret.
If they had known this, they should have perished together with the Professionals from other families earlier. Now that their strength was crippled, even if they were alive, there was no hope.
After all the Zhang Family Professionals were crippled, the people from the various families re-collected the Zhang Family Professionals who originally had Third- or Fourth-Order strength.
Then, everyone took the remaining Zhang Family Professionals and came before Liu Family Third Brother.
Liu Family Third Brother quickly took the people and paid the remuneration.
Meanwhile, the Clan Heads of the various families had already cleared the stones in the tunnel of the Zhang Family's treasure pavilion and gone to track down the escaped people.
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Chapter 262: All Fifth-Level Families Are Destroyed
After tracking along the underground tunnel for a moment, the Clan Heads of various families quickly discovered over a dozen diverging paths.
The Liu Family Clan Head raised his hand, scratched his brow, and used the gem on his ring to observe the conditions of these passages.
Then, the Liu Family Clan Head lowered his hand and grinned, saying, "When there are many paths, resources will definitely be taken away separately.
Among the Zhang Family Professionals who escaped, only one reached Fourth-Order, and the rest were juniors.
These juniors can't possibly destroy the resources in front of us. Let's each choose a path. Whoever can snatch the juniors' resources will be considered lucky!"
After saying that, the Liu Family Clan Head plunged into the third passage on the right.
The remaining Professionals from various families also began to move.
Not long after, ninety percent of the Professionals had already left, leaving only two people standing in place.
Their gazes all simultaneously looked towards the third passage on the right that the Liu Family Clan Head had chosen.
The two exchanged glances, a mysterious smile appearing at the corners of their mouths.
A tall Professional spoke, "Everyone else just entered the passage closest to them, only the Liu Family Clan Head was an exception. He didn't take the short path but chose the long one. I think there's something fishy here!"
The short professional smiled, "Great minds think alike. We'll act together and deal with the Liu Family Clan Head next."
The tall Professional nodded, "Good, let's go."
Then, the two immediately plunged into the third passage on the right.
While they were pursuing the escaping Zhang Family Professionals, Fang Che's Voodoo Doll had already discovered the fleeing Zhang Family members.
Fang Che did not deliberately search for their traces. The Voodoo Doll discovered them because these Zhang Family members appeared in an area where another group of families was fighting!
Fang Che paid no attention to the arrival of these people.
Fang Che had long since taken the resources he most needed, and the remaining resources were simply not worth Fang Che's attention.
These resources could be left for them to improve their strength.
It wouldn't be too late to capture them after their strength had improved.
Fang Che ignored them and continued to monitor the situation of the families in combat.
Once it was confirmed that the strongest family could not resist the combined assault of others, Fang Che manipulated the Voodoo Doll to leave and observe the battle situations of other families.
At this moment, the entire Plane was filled with fighting. Intense resentment gathered within the families where Fifth-Order Professionals had died, directly dispersing the aura belonging to the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book.
Even if the Emperor Plane were to devour this Plane in the future, it would be unable to ascertain the situation of the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book.
Fang Che completely relaxed, then continued to monitor the battle situation within the Plane through the Voodoo Doll.
A few days later, all families with Fifth-Order Professionals were annihilated under the siege of other families, and many captives had their strength crippled.
Then, Fang Che manipulated the Voodoo Doll to go and collect captives, with the first stop being the Liu Family.
The Voodoo Doll directly emerged in front of the Liu Family Clan Head and began to write: "Are the Zhang Family captives ready?"
The Liu Family Clan Head quickly took out a storage bag, placed it in front of the Voodoo Doll, and smiled:
"They are ready. If possible, I hope to obtain more defensive items, as well as items used to find traces left by Professionals long ago, and also lie detection items."
The Voodoo Doll directly took the storage bag into Fang Che's Plane.
On the other side, Fang Che then took out the storage bag through the Professional gem to check the situation of the captives inside.
All the captives in the storage bag had their strength crippled. Those captives who originally possessed Fourth-Order strength were covered in wounds, clearly having suffered torture.
After Fang Che confirmed that they were temporarily out of danger, he put them back into his Plane, then, through the Voodoo Doll, threw out a pile of items.
The Liu Family Clan Head saw the powerful aura emanating from these items and grinned:
"Thank you, thank you. Next, I will wage war with other families and capture more captives to give to you!"
Upon hearing this, Fang Che manipulated the Voodoo Doll to write the words 'Farewell' and then sent the Voodoo Doll to the next family to collect captives.
After the Voodoo Doll left, the Liu Family Clan Head put away his smile and, carrying a pile of items, went directly to his family's treasure vault.
At this time, most of the Liu Family members had already gathered in the treasure vault, and the boxes containing treasures were already open in front of them.
The Liu Family Clan Head took out a bell-shaped item and said with a serious expression, "This is a lie detection item. It won't ring under normal circumstances. If someone lies, it will ring."
Then, the Liu Family Clan Head shook the bell, and no sound came out.
The Liu Family Clan Head continued, "Next, everyone must say that they have not privately misappropriated anything from the treasure vault, starting from the left!"
The person on the left spoke, "I have not privately misappropriated anything from the treasure vault."
The Liu Family Clan Head saw that the bell did not ring, nodded slightly, and walked to the next person.
The next person calmly said, "I have not privately misappropriated anything from the treasure vault."
The Liu Family Clan Head nodded and walked to the next person.
A moment later, the Liu Family Clan Head suddenly noticed that the person in front of him was a bit nervous.
The Liu Family Clan Head frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Did you misappropriate the resources?"
The person in front of him trembled and quickly argued, "I only took a portion, I didn't take that much!"
The Liu Family Clan Head glanced at the bell, saw that it still didn't ring, and probed with some doubt, "All the resources that disappeared here were taken by me?"
"Ding-a-ling." A crisp sound instantly came from inside the bell.
Seeing this, the Liu Family Clan Head looked at the person who had misappropriated a portion of the resources and said, "Compensate for the resources, and I will not hold your past mistakes against you."
The person who misappropriated the resources instantly relaxed, quickly took out a pile of items from his storage ring, and said:
"I've used up those things. The value of these items is equivalent to the value of the resources I misappropriated.
I can only compensate with these things for now. If the Clan Head is unwilling, please give me some time, and I will definitely gather the resources!"
The Liu Family Clan Head glanced at the bell, saw that it didn't ring, and said, "Just compensate with these resources. Don't let there be a next time."
The Professional who misappropriated the resources said guiltily, "Thank you for your understanding, Clan Head. I know I was wrong."
As soon as he finished speaking, a Professional next to him took out a pile of resources and said, "I am also willing to compensate for the misappropriated resources. Please forgive me, Clan Head."
Immediately after, more people took out resources, requesting forgiveness.
The Liu Family Clan Head glanced at the resources and frowned, saying, "Have you all taken out the resources you misappropriated?"
Everyone replied, "We've all taken them out."
The Liu Family Clan Head glanced at the silent bell and frowned, saying, "Compared to the lost items, this is just a drop in the ocean!"
Then, the Liu Family Clan Head looked at the people who had not taken out resources and said, "You all continue to say that you didn't take resources."
Those who had not taken out resources all repeatedly said they hadn't taken resources, and the bell remained silent.
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Chapter 263 Frame-up
After the Liu Family Clan Head used the bell to test everyone, he frowned and said, "Since no one misappropriated resources, then there's only one difficult-to-accept answer: someone snuck into the treasure vault and stole treasures right under your noses!"
Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions turned grim.
If someone had indeed entered the family's most heavily guarded place and silently stolen treasures, it would be even more terrifying than their own people misappropriating resources.
The Liu Family Clan Head then took out a pile of tools, distributed them one by one to everyone, and introduced them, "These are used to check for traces left by Professionals. Everyone, use these to observe every corner of the treasure vault and search for the thief's whereabouts."
Everyone immediately activated the tools and inspected the interior of the vault.
Traces were found by the tools, but when observing the auras emitted by these traces, it was discovered that all auras came from the people present, and there were no additional auras.
Everyone's expressions became even more grim.
Even these powerful, never-before-seen tools couldn't find any traces left by the thief; how strong must this thief be?
A moment later, the Liu Family Clan Head spoke, "Currently, the only possibility is that a Fifth-Order Professional quietly infiltrated and stole the treasures. Besides this, there is no other explanation."
The Liu Family Third Brother immediately asked, "Could it have been someone from the Zhang Family?"
The Liu Family Clan Head shook his head and said, "I don't know. I wasn't able to catch up to the Zhang Family's escaping Professionals, so I don't know how many treasures they have.
Perhaps it could also have been other passing Fifth-Order Professionals. In short, we can't investigate any further."
The Liu Family members were silent for a moment, then the Liu Family Third Brother suddenly spoke, "Is it possible that the person who provided the tools stole our resources?"
As soon as he said this, everyone immediately felt that this possibility was very high.
The Liu Family Third Brother looked at the approving gazes of the crowd and continued, "His puppet appeared silently and has the ability to steal our resources.
Furthermore, he can also weaken these Observe tools based on the puppet's ability, preventing the Observe tools from discovering traces left by the puppet!"
The Liu Family Clan Head was silent for a moment, then spoke, "He only needs to sell some valuable tools to collect massive resources; there's no need for him to steal.
We have no evidence, so let's not make groundless conjectures. Moreover, we will need many more tools in the future!"
Upon hearing this, the Liu Family Third Brother also thought of the importance of the tools and said, "It was my overthinking. He indeed doesn't lack resources."
The Liu Family Clan Head looked around and said, "Alright, since we can't find the thief, let's stop here. Everyone, go back and prepare for the upcoming attacks on other families."
Everyone responded in unison, "Understood."
At this time, on the other side, Fang Che was controlling the Voodoo Doll, rapidly buying captives.
After selling captives, every family would request some tools for observing traces, and occasionally, some would even ask for lie detection tools.
Fang Che knew full well the reason for their requests for these tools.
These people had obtained some resources by eliminating other families. When storing and categorizing these resources, they would discover that the resources had decreased. It was normal for them to request tools to check for traces of the thief.
And Fang Che was not worried about them finding him. The Voodoo Doll's concealment ability was very strong and could not be detected by these tools.
Perhaps they would suspect the Voodoo Doll of theft, but Fang Che did not care.
Currently, various families needed tools, so even if they had concrete evidence of the Voodoo Doll's theft, they would temporarily endure it.
And Fang Che had the ability to make them endure forever!
After purchasing all the captives, Fang Che controlled the Voodoo Doll to search for isolated Fourth-Order Professionals and use the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book to hunt them down.
Subsequently, the Voodoo Doll cleaned up the traces on the ground, took the body to the territory of another family, stored it briefly, and then moved it into Fang Che's Plane.
Afterward, Fang Che came to a new place, controlled the Voodoo Doll, searched for isolated Professionals, and performed the same operation.
In a flash, several more days passed.
On this night, the Liu Family Clan Head and the Liu Family Third Brother secretly infiltrated a nearby hostile family's territory under the cover of night, observing everywhere.
When they arrived near a woodpile, the Liu Family Third Brother stopped, pointed to the ground, lowered his voice, and gritted his teeth, "He died here! He died right here!"
The Liu Family Clan Head reached out, took off the Liu Family Third Brother's glasses, put them on himself, and observed the ground. After a long time, the Liu Family Clan Head sneered, "Even with this tool, it takes me a long time to find the problem. Their concealment methods are truly formidable.
If we hadn't obtained these powerful tools, I'm afraid we wouldn't even find the killer!"
The Liu Family Third Brother's eyes were red, and he said anxiously, "We already have a grudge; we can't delay any longer. What if they also obtain powerful tools? That would be troublesome. Let's quickly go to war with them! With the tools in our hands, we can definitely eliminate them!"
The Liu Family Clan Head took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and then said,
"We can't rush. Although the tools are strong, they can't withstand the combined attack of all families.
Now is not the time to expose these tools. We must first cripple the various families. When the combined families can no longer defeat us, then we can openly use the tools!"
The Liu Family Third Brother said anxiously, "How long will that take? Or should we borrow some tools from him in advance?"
The Liu Family Clan Head patted the Liu Family Third Brother's shoulder and whispered, "We don't know where he is, so it's hard to borrow tools. Don't worry, victory belongs to us."
The Liu Family Third Brother took a deep breath and nodded, "Okay, I won't worry. What should we do?"
The Liu Family Clan Head replied, "Unite a group of close relations and suppress a group of enemies. I've been preparing for this for a long time. We'll be able to eliminate these enemies soon. Let's go back first."
The Liu Family Third Brother nodded and left with the Clan Head.
At this time, in other places, those families who had obtained Fang Che's tools found their missing Professionals near the territories of families they had grudges with.
Some impulsive Professionals directly attacked members of the hostile families, leading to battles between the two families.
The battles attracted many families. When the various families discovered those powerful tools, they unhesitatingly joined forces to attack the families who had obtained the tools. They quickly eliminated these families and divided the tool resources.
There were also some families, like the Liu Family, who were more cautious. They chose to unite a group of people and suppress another group.
Under this model, the suppressed families were quickly eliminated, and the closely related families also suffered significant casualties during the battles.
And they did not forget to capture prisoners. All prisoners, after having their strength Waste, were sold to the families who had obtained Fang Che's tools.
After Fang Che perceived these events through the Voodoo Doll, he immediately sent the Voodoo Doll to collect the captives.
The Voodoo Doll's first stop was the Liu Family.
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Chapter 264 Suspicions of the Families
After the Voodoo Doll emerged from in front of the Liu Family Clan Head, the Liu Family Clan Head said expressionlessly:
"My family members were killed. The murderer I suspect said nothing. I don't know if he's stubborn or if he was framed by someone. Do you have an item that can help me find the murderer?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Che manipulated the Voodoo Doll to write: "I can give you the strongest Observe item I currently possess, as long as you provide me with enough captives."
The Liu Family Clan Head saw these words and felt somewhat bewildered.
In the Liu Family Clan Head's imagination, the puppet would either directly admit to framing, change the subject, or completely ignore his question.
The Liu Family Clan Head had not considered the possibility of it actively offering an item.
Could it be that this matter truly has nothing to do with the puppet's owner?
Or is it that the puppet's owner doesn't care about being exposed at all?
Or perhaps, the puppet's owner intends to provide an item of little use?
The Liu Family Clan Head remained silent for a moment, then said: "Let's investigate the deaths of the clan members later. Right now, I need to eliminate the other families around us and monopolize this area. I need items to enhance attack power, and also some healing items."
After saying this, the Liu Family Clan Head took out a storage bag and placed it in front of the Voodoo Doll.
The Voodoo Doll took the storage bag into the Plane, then Fang Che retrieved it.
Fang Che checked the Professional situation in the storage bag, then provided the Liu Family Clan Head with items of equivalent value, based on the original strength of these Professionals.
The Liu Family Clan Head looked at the items, but his mood was not as happy as during the last transaction; he merely said calmly: "Thank you, goodbye."
Fang Che saw that the Liu Family Clan Head did not promise to continue capturing captives, and felt a little disappointed. He then controlled the Voodoo Doll to burrow underground and head to the next location.
At this moment, the door opened, and the Liu Family Third Brother walked in, looking at the items on the ground, and excitedly said:
"This is a lot more items than the last transaction! With these items, plus the previous ones, we can definitely defeat the remaining families and capture them all!"
The Liu Family Clan Head heard this and waved his hand, saying: "This time, do not capture any more captives; kill them all!"
The Liu Family Third Brother was slightly stunned and asked in confusion: "Capturing captives can be exchanged for items, which allows us to continue expanding outwards. Why suddenly kill them all?"
The Liu Family Clan Head replied with a worried expression: "I have a bad feeling that the owner of that puppet might be detrimental to us."
The Liu Family Third Brother quickly advised: "Even if it's detrimental to us, we must continue trading captives.
A large number of Professionals have appeared on the outskirts of several surrounding counties, as if they want to invade our county. Without item support, and without the change of a Fifth-Order Family, we simply can't hold out!"
The Liu Family Clan Head heard this and was not nervous, calmly saying: "As early as when some of the Zhang Family fled, I was prepared to be attacked by other Fifth-Order Families;
No matter what, we cannot resist the attack of a Fifth-Order Professional. When the time comes, we will just surrender."
The Liu Family Third Brother was shocked and said: "How can we just surrender so easily? If we surrender casually, why attack other families? Why occupy so much territory?"
The Liu Family Clan Head answered very seriously: "Of course, it's to get a good price when we surrender!"
The Liu Family Third Brother instantly fell silent, not knowing how to respond.
The Liu Family Clan Head continued: "You keep a close eye on the other counties. Whoever sends a Fifth-Order Professional first, we'll sell this place to them;
If a Fifth-Order Professional doesn't appear, then we will resist resolutely and not retreat!"
The Liu Family Third Brother nodded silently and said: "I understand. When do we attack the other families?"
The Liu Family Clan Head looked at the items on the ground and replied: "Arrange it in half an hour. You go get busy."
The Liu Family Third Brother nodded and turned to leave.
The Liu Family Clan Head remained to distribute the items on the ground.
On the other side, Fang Che continued to control the Voodoo Doll to collect captives.
Almost all families were suspicious of Fang Che, however, they did not fall out with Fang Che and still chose to trade captives for items.
After completing transactions with these families, Fang Che went to the counties where families that had received items but were still destroyed by others were located, to find new cooperation partners.
Upon just arriving at the first county, Fang Che found that it was already in chaos, with many families attacking each other and plundering resources.
Some of the weaker ones directly activated their family's defensive formations, hiding within them and barely surviving.
Seeing this, Fang Che directly controlled the Voodoo Doll to pass through the defensive formation and appear in a relatively weak family.
As soon as the Voodoo Doll emerged from the ground, just as it was about to write, a fireball struck the Voodoo Doll.
Fortunately, the fireball was only released by a Fourth-Order Professional, and the Voodoo Doll was not injured, only a little blackened.
And the Professionals of this family, seeing the Voodoo Doll in this state, bowed in unison: "Senior, please don't be offended. We didn't mean to harm your item, it was just a subconscious reaction."
Fang Che didn't mind, and controlled the Voodoo Doll to write: "I will give you a batch of resources. I hope you can help me capture captives from other families and hand them over to me for research."
After writing these words, the Voodoo Doll directly threw out a pile of items.
Everyone saw the items and found that they were very similar to the items used by the previously destroyed Chen Family!
Everyone finally understood why the Chen Family had captured captives before.
It turned out that the Chen Family had been favored by the strong one who controlled the puppet!
The Clan Head of this family said with some fear: "I did not know Senior supported the Chen Family before. I apologize to Senior here, and I am willing to pay any price to appease Senior's anger!"
Fang Che was very satisfied with this person's attitude, and threw out another pile of materials, then wrote a text message: "Just help me capture captives."
Afterwards, the Voodoo Doll burrowed underground and left the place.
The few people breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the Voodoo Doll leave, then eagerly reached out and picked up the items on the ground.
The Clan Head of this family excitedly said: "With these items, we no longer have to fear annihilation. Next, once the various families have consumed enough, we will go out and capture captives;
But remember, items must be used at critical moments, don't just take them out and use them casually, otherwise we will definitely follow in the Chen Family's footsteps and be besieged!"
Everyone said in unison: "Understood!"
Afterwards, everyone happily divided the items.
On the other side, Fang Che arrived at a new county and found that this county was very quiet. Every Professional stayed quietly in their own family, and there were no conflicts between the various families.
And after Fang Che carefully investigated, he found that a Professional of one family was currently advancing to Fifth-Order!
Fang Che did not hesitate to take out the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book and directly eliminated him.
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Chapter 265: Provocation Failed
As the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book took effect, the Professional who was promoting to Fifth-Order Professional in the Secret Chamber suddenly had a hole in his chest and died instantly.
Outside the Secret Chamber, the Fourth-Order Professional responsible for guarding was completely unaware and diligently stood guard there.
It wasn't until several hours later that the guards noticed something was wrong, broke into the Secret Chamber, and rushed inside.
By then, the Professional who had been promoting to Fifth-Order Professional had already bled dry.
After a brief panic, they used defensive skills, entered the Secret Chamber, and carefully inspected it.
However, no matter how they checked, they couldn't find any traces left by anyone else.
The look of terror on their faces became even more apparent.
"It must be a Fifth-Order Professional from another county who came over; we're finished!"
Someone next to him immediately retorted, "Impossible. If a Fifth-Order Professional knew about our situation here, he wouldn't need to secretly kill people; he would just directly attack!"
Someone else rebutted, "A Fifth-Order Professional cannot occupy such a large territory alone; he definitely needs help from others. That Fifth-Order Professional must be eliminating threats and preparing for the upcoming battle!"
Immediately after, someone else proposed a different view: "I think a Professional from another family nearby snuck in before the Secret Chamber closed and escaped when the Secret Chamber opened.
We can't see the traces they left, but that's because they used the latest powerful tools to achieve it."
As soon as this view was put forward, some people nodded in agreement, and the sense of fear in their hearts was significantly reduced.
As long as it wasn't a Fifth-Order Professional acting personally, there was a chance to turn the tide.
Similarly, some people continued to retort, "We usually help other families, and other families respect us. Didn't they all abide by it when we said to temporarily cease hostilities? How could other families assassinate us?"
Then someone else retorted, "No matter how good we are, as long as we are stronger than others, others will be afraid and will live at our mercy. In that case, it's safest to maintain equal strength."
Someone else next to him retorted, "People have consciences. We led other families to eliminate the two worst families; they couldn't possibly repay kindness with enmity!"
The people present argued endlessly, while Fang Che had already bought off the weakest family in this area and was manipulating the Voodoo Doll to go elsewhere.
In the following time, Fang Che easily negotiated a deal with a group of weaker families.
Subsequently, various weak families began to help Fang Che capture captives and exchange them for tools.
As for the Liu Family, the earliest family to obtain Fang Che's tools, they stopped capturing captives and began to kill off members of other families!
This was not what Fang Che wanted to see, so Fang Che began to support other families, providing tools to weaker families, as well as cultivation elixirs that Fang Che had stolen from other families.
These supported families knew that Fang Che had ulterior motives, but to survive, they could only help Fang Che capture captives.
Under Fang Che's constant instigation, Professionals from many families became captives and were thrown into Plane storage by Fang Che.
The strength of the remaining families was also severely weakened; some families even no longer had Fourth-Order Professionals, relying entirely on Third-Order Professionals to sustain themselves.
However, after a long period of fighting, many enemies had been killed, and the remaining people had begun to grow weary of war.
In the Liu Family, most of the Fourth-Order Professionals were missing, and only the Liu Family Clan Head and Liu Family Third Brother, two Fourth-Order Professionals, remained in the family.
At this moment, the two of them were staring blankly at the spot where the Voodoo Doll had previously emerged from underground.
After a long while, the Liu Family Clan Head closed his eyes and regretted, "He won't come again. We have no way to get our captives back. If I had known this, I should have continued to collect captives and sell them to him."
"Bang!"
The Liu Family Third Brother angrily smashed the teacup in his hand, pointed at the Liu Family Clan Head's nose, and cursed:
"You son of a bitch, I told you long ago to continue selling captives and exchanging them for tools, but you just wouldn't listen, and even said you had a bad premonition.
Now look, the Liu Family has been ruined by you, and only the two of us useless people are left. What do you plan to do?!"
The Liu Family Clan Head's mouth twitched, and he didn't have the heart to scold the Liu Family Third Brother, saying helplessly:
"It was my oversight. It's useless to talk about these things now. Let's go to other counties and seek refuge with a Fifth-Order Family. With their help, we might have a chance to trade for captives and get our clansmen back."
The Liu Family Third Brother nodded and said, "Okay, I'll personally go and talk to the Fifth-Order Family in other counties. By then, not only will I trade for captives, but I will also tell them about the puppet.
If they know about the things the puppet's owner has done, they definitely won't sit idly by, and we can consider it our revenge against him."
The Liu Family Clan Head silently nodded, then took out a storage bag and said, "These are captives from other families. Take them with you; it might increase your bargaining chips."
The Liu Family Third Brother took the storage bag and said, "I'll be back as soon as possible."
Then, the Liu Family Third Brother turned and left, heading towards the most prosperous county nearby.
However, the Liu Family Third Brother stopped in a dense forest before even entering the next county.
The next second, a hole appeared in the Liu Family Third Brother's chest, and he died on the spot. At his feet, a Substitute Talisman slowly disappeared.
Then, the Voodoo Doll emerged from underground, took the storage bag holding the captives, collected the corpse and other resources, and re-entered the ground.
At this time, in a hidden location, Fang Che, after obtaining a storage bag full of captives, was not so happy.
Many families were now giving up fighting, communicating with surrounding families, and preparing to surrender.
Many families had already learned about each other's situations, stopped fighting, and began trading captives.
Although Fang Che tried his best to intercept them, Fang Che had limited means and could only use Substitute Puppet to control them, and then use the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book to eliminate them.
Fang Che couldn't stop everyone, so he could only do his best.
After some time had passed, all the living families in the entire Plane learned about what had happened in the nearby counties, and all fighting ceased.
The survivors of the destroyed families who had gone into hiding and fled to other places were filled with resentment but lived even more cautiously.
Currently, families in various counties were lacking resources, and if they discovered survivors of destroyed families, they would definitely not be merciful.
On the other side, after Fang Che detected that the fighting had stopped, he took out the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book and eliminated the remaining Fourth-Order Professionals one by one.
After all the Fourth-Order Professionals died, the Plane Will weakened again.
Then, Fang Che opened his storage ring, took out a communication token, injected energy, and said:
"I am Fang Che. Mission No. 37 has now been mostly completed by me. The Plane Will has been suppressed, all Fourth-Order Professionals and Fifth-Order Professionals are dead, and most of the other Professionals are dead or injured.
I can no longer cause harm to the Professionals in this Plane; please send someone to take over immediately."