It was night; the Eroh Domain was bustling with people. There were lamps and glowing stones everywhere, prevailing over darkness.
There were guards roaming around.
Outside the city gate appeared a boy, and accompanying him was a leopard. The boy was wearing a cloak that covered his body completely.
He gave five mid-grade essence stones. Eroh Domain took essence stones based on a person's rank.
"Now, where was the auction supposed to take place?" Yang Zhai didn't attend this auction in person in his previous life, so he wasn't sure.
He looked around as he walked. After looking for a while, he stopped in front of an inn.
"Let's look for it tomorrow, right now, I need to take a rest,"
He sat beside a table and looked outside through the window. He could see people walking around.
After a while, a worker of the inn came and took his order.
"I would like spinach cooked along with a bull's meat. Bring two flatbreads with it. Make sure the meat is cooked properly. Cook the spinach separately from the meat and then cook them together. Simple water would do, no need to bring any other drink."
The worker nodded and left.
This was the Eroh Domain; they had thousands of things stored. This inn was supposed to be owned by a rank 7 cultivator. So, there was no doubt it would have this much at least.
…..
The bandit leader lay on the ground, heavily injured all over. As for the other cultivators, Yang Zhai had already killed all of them, sparing no one.
This was inside the inheritance gate, so there was no fear of the bandit leader running away.
"Tell me, are you handing me your storage kas or not?" Yang Zhai said.
He was standing at least a hundred meters away from the bandit leader. In front of him stood a rank 5 gorilla, guarding him.
He is the leader of the Storm Bandits, he definitely has a lot of riches. I wouldn't be surprised even if he has four to five rank 5 storage kas: Yang Zhai reflected.
"Forget it… I am not going to… hand even a single one to you,"
Yang Zhai silently looked at the bandit leader. He had never expected it to be that easy.
"Fine, then, let's make a deal,"
"What do you… mean?"
"Here,"
AAAAAAAAA!!!!
After that, Yang Zhai activated rank 4 Red Poison and threw it at his two feet.
They started to rot at an extremely fast speed. In a matter of seconds, they melted away from extremely piercing poison.
"Ugh, Ahhhhh! Ahhhhaaa!"
He shrieked in pain.
Yang Zhai didn't even give him the time to prepare mentally.
…..
Yang Zhai came to the room he rented.
He first looked around before summoning The Last One, Reen, and Vara.
"The Last One, from now on, you will be called Zuh Qil. Vara, your name will be Yah Yan. As for you Reen, it will be Ina Ya." Yang Zhai gave all three of them new names.
"Yes, master,"
"Master, if you don't mind, can I ask something?" Ina Ya requested respectfully.
"What is it?"
"Why are you giving us new names, I thought you didn't care about it?"
"Isn't that obvious? The world we have entered is filled with unknowns. Eroh Domain is quite powerful, there might exist someone who knows about the three of you. If that happens, it will put me at risk." Yang Zhai replied. He didn't mind answering that.
"Oh, so that's what it was,"
Even if there is no one inside the Eroh Domain, there might be one in the future. Only knowing these you guys have reappeared will send this world into a huge shock, and I will most likely be chased by people of higher rank, I mean, the peak experts of this world, he contemplated.
"Anyway, you two, return back. Zuh Qil, keep guard while I sleep."
Yang Zhai made Yah Yan and Ina Ya return back to the ring. He didn't want these two to waste away their energy and not appear when he truly needed them.
…..
The gorilla killed off the rank 5 cultivator. After that, it went for the rank 4 cultivators. It spared the bandit leader as ordered by Yang Zhai. However, it had severely injured the bandit leader.
The moment it went for the rank 4 cultivators, their formation broke and they were just like trinkets¹ to him.
It slapped the rank 4 cultivators to the ground. Their defensive ires and kas managed to protect them for a while before they were eventually killed.
"Are we going to die? Why, I still have my whole life left to live…" the cultivator muttered in despair before being killed off.
His eyes stared in despair as a hand became larger in his eyes before his head burst open. His brain matter splattered on the hounds around him.
"Please spare me, I will, iw I'll dow anthig, Ilw sware, Il becmoe yur svale!" A man started to shout in despair. His speech was quite interesting. He couldn't even speak properly anymore.
He lay on the ground when he felt pain all over his body as he was being eaten alive by the hounds.
On the other hand, a bandit was trying to run off with all her might, but the knee of her right leg was bitten off by a hound. He fell down.
She desperately moved forward by dragging herself forward with her hands. However, a hound bit her left foot and dragged her back. She tried to hit the hound with her right hand. But her hard was bitten by another hound and her fingers were severed off from her hand.
"Ahh, Aaaaa!!!" She screamed in pain and the realization that she was going to die and be eaten alive sent her into despair.
With this, her screams disappeared in the crowd of the hounds.
In the crowd of the hounds, the screams loom,
Disappearing whispers blend with the scent of doom,
Once, the known beknown cross the unknown,
With a walking tone of death forlorn,
Here, where death speaks begone,
Do you expect to be left alone?
Yang Zhai looked at the situation outside and recited a poem.
He was standing on his feet and indifferent looking at the hounds and the cultivators' struggle.
…..
Yang Zhai looked outside and saw no one except for his hounds.
After that, he stepped outside of the inheritance gate.
After that, he ordered the hounds to return to the inheritance place.
He activated the yellow lines and looked around to see if he could find something useful.
After finding nothing, he ascended a shiq and continued his journey toward the Eroh Domain. Accompanying him were a rank 5 and a few other rank 4 water hounds.
He had ordered the Shadow Leopard to keep on running and hide about twenty miles away from here.
If it had stopped, it would have been killed off in a matter of seconds: Yang Zhai reflected.
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Trinkets: Even though it means ornament or jewelry of little value, take it as a toy in this context.