Chapter 75: A Game
Once Rulong made up his mind, he began to prepare for implementation.
Rulong sneaked into the city to inquire about the situation. Rulong learned that this was a small immortal cultivation city named Bancheng, which was controlled by two immortal cultivation clans.
One is the Zhang family, known as Zhang Bancheng, and the other is the Li family, known as Li Bancheng. That is, the two families each manage half of the city.
The highest level of cultivation in Zhang Bancheng's family is in the late Jindan stage, and so is the Li family. This is similar to Rulong's estimation, and does not pose much of a threat to him.
Rulong found the Zhang family and studied the defensive formation protecting the Zhang family compound to see if there was anything that could pose a threat to him.
After Rulong entered the Zhang family, he went to the treasure pavilion to study the protective formation of the treasure pavilion. After knowing the protective formation of the Zhang family's treasure pavilion well, Rulong studied the use of the storage bag.
Although he didn't have a storage bag, he could simulate in his mind how to use it and then give it a try. It wasn't that difficult to use a storage bag anyway. Besides, if he didn't have a storage bag to put things in, he could just go there next time.
Rulong entered Zhang's house again and entered the treasure house. There were indeed many good things in the treasure house, which might be enough for Rulong to cultivate to the foundation-building stage again.
As Rulong expected, there were five storage bags in the treasure pavilion, but each of these storage bags had a "Zhang" character printed on it, indicating that they were for the Zhang family's exclusive use.
When Rulong checked, he found the storage bags were empty and had not been used. This was perfect, so Rulong imprinted his soul on the storage bags and immediately became the owner of the five storage bags.
There is quite a lot of space in the Zhang family’s special storage bag, which is just right for Rulong.
Haolong happily packed all the rows of spiritual stones, the shelves of spiritual medicines, the piles of materials, the top-grade weapons, and the lower-grade spiritual weapons into storage bags.
Originally, one storage bag could hold all the things, but Rulong was worried about the same thing happening last time, so he put some things into five storage bags respectively. This way, all the eggs were not put in one basket, which was safer and more reliable. Then he put the four storage bags into one storage bag.
After Rulong succeeded, he said to himself: "If you dare to steal my things, you will have to return them sooner or later."
Rulong found Mr. Zhang's residence again, took back his stolen storage bag, found his Yitian sword, and got a lot of other treasures. Then he quietly left Zhang's house, collected the fourth level of the chameleon's invisibility ability in a secluded place, and quietly left half of the city.
Soon the Zhang family discovered that the treasury had been stolen, but they dared not make it public, for fear that the Li family would find out and rob the thieves. So they secretly sent people to investigate, not letting any suspicious person go, and carefully checking anyone entering and leaving the city gate.
The Zhang family believed that if it was the Li family who did it, once it was discovered, they would have to settle the score with the Li family.
While the Zhang family was secretly investigating, Rulong had already left the city far away.
Just when Rulong thought he was safe, he was surrounded by a group of Li family disciples who had returned from hunting monsters. There was a character seal on the storage bag hanging around Rulong's waist, so this storage bag was quite valuable.
The Li family didn't care whether the person on the other side was from the Zhang family or not. They killed him and dumped the body in the wilderness, and no one would know.
The leader of the Li family said, "You are such a bold thief, how dare you steal the Zhang family's storage bag? Hand it over quickly, or I will tear you into pieces."
Rulong thought they were pursuers and ran away quickly.
More than ten foundation-building cultivators from the Li family began to chase and intercept Rulong. Rulong ran away and said aggrievedly: "It's all your fault, Master Zhang. He stole my things first, so I took revenge."
When the person who was chasing Rulong the closest heard this, he said, "Bullshit Master Zhang, we only know Master Li."
Rulong thought, could they be Li Bancheng's people? Rulong took a quick look while running. The colors of these people's clothes were different from those of the Zhang family. He almost made a mistake and was deceived by them. The people in the cultivation world were really cunning. It was also his fault that he was guilty and careless.
Rulong took out a storage bag from the storage bag and threw it away, then ran again, saying, "The things are all in there, don't chase me."
When Master Li saw that there was still a storage bag in Rulong's storage bag, he said, "Throw away the storage bag around your waist, and we won't chase you."
Rulong thought, if he didn't throw away everything like last time, he would have to fight, so he had to throw away everything.
Since the Li family wants to steal my things, don't blame me for moving their treasure house. But I'd better act naturally, and it will be difficult to make them let go unless I exhaust them.
So Rulong ran for a while and threw a storage bag, which made the Li family very happy. How many treasures did this kid have? Did he move the Zhang family’s treasure house?
The Li family members did not attack anymore. They just chased them. If they chased them, they would get treasures, just like playing a game.
When Rulong threw away the storage bags around his waist, the Li family members were already out of breath. The last breath they had held was gone, like a deflated ball. They no longer cared about Rulong and sat on the ground to regulate their breathing. Rulong took the opportunity to run away.
Next, Rulong studied the protective formation of the Li family compound and the protective formation of the Li family treasury. The Li family's protective formation was similar to the Zhang family's protective formation, and was considered a good protective formation. However, in Rulong's eyes, it was only slightly higher than the basic protective formation of the Longqi Sect. Although he could not break it, he could still understand it.
When Master Li snatched Rulong's things, he opened them and was surprised and happy. He guessed that something big might have happened to the Zhang family, so he ordered his men to keep silent.
After returning to the city, Master Li secretly inquired and learned that something big had happened to the Zhang family. He knew what was going on and hid all the stolen things. However, his actions could not be hidden from Rulong, who could use the invisibility technique. So before stealing the Li family's treasure house, Rulong first took back his things from Master Li.
After Rulong stole the Li family's treasure house, he found a small tree on the side of the Li family's treasure house's protective formation. He wiped out his own spiritual mark on an empty storage bag with a character print on it and hung it on the small tree. Then he placed a spirit stone next to the small tree, and then slowly left the Li family, left half of the city, ran a long way, and then retracted his invisibility magic in a secluded place and continued running.
Rulong summed up the experience last time and tied the storage bag to his body. Last time, he ran very far and thought that the opponent could not catch up, and he also thought that no one would pay attention to the word Zhang because he was far away. Of course, the main reason was that the opponent was not strong enough, so he was not very afraid.
It is troublesome if the storage bag is targeted, let alone one with the Zhang family logo.
Rulong hated the families of Li Bancheng and Zhang Bancheng, and allowed their children to rob openly. He was also worried that the Zhang and Li families would find out and pursue him, so he set up a trap. Whether this trap would be effective or not was up to fate.
The small tree that Rulong placed the spirit stone underneath grew very fast and in a blink of an eye it grew into a big tree.
The big tree triggered the protective formation of the Li family's Sutra Library, and suddenly the protective formation made a loud noise, alarming the Li family.
When everyone rushed over to take a look, they saw a storage bag with characters printed on it hanging on a big tree.
When the Li family checked the treasury, they found that it had disappeared. So the Li family's top leaders analyzed that it must be someone from the Zhang family who stole the treasury and dropped the storage bag and spirit stones. That's why the storage bag was hung on the tree, and that's why the tree grew so fast.
The Li family gathered their men and went to the Zhang family to demand an explanation.
The Zhang family learned about the Li family from the spies and determined that the Li family had stolen their treasure house. Otherwise, how could the Zhang family's storage bag appear in the Li family's treasure house? So they also sent people to the Li family to question them.
Mr. Li, who felt that something was amiss, dared not reveal a word. The two families met in the center of the city.
When Zhang Bancheng said that his treasure house had been stolen, Li Bancheng mocked him for crying out loud.
When Li Bancheng said that his treasure house was stolen, the Zhang family said that the Li family staged the theft themselves.
The Li family said, "Don't think that our Li family is easy to bully." The Zhang family said, "Our Zhang family is not easy to mess with either."
As they were talking and arguing, they started fighting. Suddenly, there was a bright light rising into the sky, and there were shouts and sounds of killing. Was it Li Bancheng who destroyed Zhang Bancheng, or was it Zhang Bancheng who destroyed Li Bancheng, or...
Ru Long didn't think about these things, and had no way of knowing them, because he had already run far away.