Chapter 125 - Occupy And Conquer

Yu Ane also arrived beside boss Zu. 

The darkness had surrounded the three men from all sides, leaving not even a single gap. 

"So, tell me, why did you attack us?" Elder Yu Ene asked boss Zu.

Boss Zu did not say anything.

"Who are you?" Elder Yu Ane questioned this time.

Boss Zu was still silent. 

"Are there any more of your friends hiding in the forest?" Elder Yu Ene asked.

Boss Zu kept quiet.

"Do you want to live?" Elder Yu Ane asked.

"Who does not want to live? But, even if I tell you everything, you will still kill me, so I am not going to tell you anything. Huh, but I can give you a hint and that is that if I don't reveal anything to you right now, you will suffer heavily one day because of this, and this will be my revenge." Boss Zu spoke this time and said with a smile. He knew that his time had come. And he also knew that he had underestimated the twin devils of the Bai clan, they were a lot more stronger than expected. 

"Sigh, our fate was sealed the moment we attacked them, we stood no chance." boss Zu heaved a long sigh and muttered. 

He wanted to deal with the third elder of the Bai clan for giving them such a fated death mission. Even though the third elder had warned them to be careful of the twin devils, boss Zu was still feeling resentful toward the third elder. However, in spite of everything, he still did not tell the twin devils about the third elder.

It was because if he told Yu Ane and Yu Ene everything, then only the third elder of the Bai clan would die. In this way, what about his revenge over the twin devils? Therefore, he decided to keep quiet. After all, even a million times reinforced wall would be fragile if it was broken from the inside. A traitor was the biggest bomb that could be planted in the enemy's fortress.

"So, you have accepted your fate." Elder Yu Ane said and moved his fingers.

The darkness appeared from all four directions and enveloped them.

At midnight, tents were set again for the rest. Yang Zhai was sitting in his tent. They had stayed here because of the injured disciples; otherwise, they would have changed their location, however, this time the elders had set up defensive measures around the place and the elders were guarding the place themselves. 

Yang Zhai was not as injured as others, so he only needed a little bit of healing to be as good as before.

Yang Zhai activated the Bloody Storage Ka and pulled out the bracelet. This bracelet looked like a red snake. Its tail was in its mouth as if it were biting its own tail. Yang Zhai looked at the bracelet and examined it from all sides.

"Oh, so it's a treasure, no wonder he was so angry after I took his bracelet." Yang Zhai thought to himself after scrutinizing¹ the treasure.

He then tried to instill his essence water in it. However, his essence water was rejected, and the treasure was not activated. It was because this treasure contained someone else's will in it.

There were different ways to control a treasure. One of many ways was to instill one's own will in the treasure to make it recognize its new owner. After that, a treasure could be controlled by the person whose will was in it. The second way to control a treasure was through the Cultivation DNA, the third was through Kas, and many more ways. 

A treasure's control or occupation had two terms: The first was to occupy, which meant that the treasure was under no one's control and was owner-less and could be occupied. The second term was to conquer, which meant that the treasure was already occupied and needed to be conquered for it to be used by someone else. 

And what Yang Zhai was doing now was conquering the treasure. It was worth noticing that if a treasure was occupied by the will, then it could only be conquered with the will, and if it was occupied by the Cultivation DNA, then it could only be conquered with another cultivation DNA. This was how the conquering of a treasure worked.

What Yang Zhai needed to do now was to conquer the treasure with his own will as the treasure was already occupied by its last owner's will. And it was not hard for him, as his will was a lot stronger than the treasure's last owner.

Thus, Yang Zhai inserted his will in his Essence water and then controlled the Essence water to enter the treasure. After he did that, the will inside the treasure retaliated against Yang Zhai's will. Even though Yang Zhai's will was being pushed back, it did not lose. The only reason his will was being pushed back was that the treasure could be considered the home of the previous owner's will, and Yang Zhai was basically invading someone else's home. He needed to conquer the house and also the will.

After a while, the previous owner's will was eliminated by Yang Zhai's will. Now the treasure was occupied by his will. 

"Oh," Yang Zhai muttered after examining the treasure. It was because this bracelet-looking treasure was only a storage-type treasure. 

It was not that he was interested because this treasure was a storage type treasure, but because this treasure was only a storage type treasure. 

Almost all of the treasures were defensive treasures. It was rare for a treasure to have another ability with the defense as well. However, a treasure without defensive ability was even rarer. And the treasure that Yang Zhai was holding was of such a type. A treasure having defense as well as storage was rare, but a treasure only having storage was even rare.

And of course, Yang Zhai had seen many treasures of such types in his previous life.

After conquering the treasure, Yang Zhai examined what was stored inside.

"Huh…," Yang Zhai's eyes turned serious.

"How could he have two Blue Gems?" Yang Zhai found two rank 2 Blue Gems inside the storage treasure.

A person would usually not keep the Blue Gems and would use them, except for some special situations. One such example was elder Cu Gil. However, he could not use them and kept them for his children, and Yang Zhai was keeping the Blue Gem and was not using it because he had other uses for it, but the owner of this treasure was a rank 2 body cultivator, so why did he not use the Blue Gems?

"Could it be that this treasure did not belong to the body cultivator I stole it from, or did he obtain the Blue Gems right before they attacked us? It is possible." Yang Zhai considered the possibilities. It might have been the reward for attacking Yang Zhai and the others. 

However, he did not bother with these details anymore and checked what other resources were stored in the treasure. There were twenty or so essence stones, and everything else was not of much value. 

"I should probably wait before reaching the Ma clan." Yang Zhai decided that he would use the two Blue Gems after reaching the Ma clan. There was no benefit in keeping these two Blue Gems stored and would be more beneficial if he used them. And he did not need to keep these two Blue Gems as he already had a rank 3 Blue Gem for his other purposes. 

Yang Zhai stored the Blue Gems in the Bloody Storage KA and also the bracelet. Tomorrow, he could use the Blue Gems after reaching the Ma clan. 


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1-Scrutinize: examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.