"Hmm... Hah! I guess that intimate session wasn't enough for you." Saying that, Long Tian made a gesture as if to stand up once again, which made the last man in front of him panic crazily as he got on his knees and bowed down until he was on the ground.
"N-no!! Please don't!!!"
"We were ordered to protect Young Master Hung Zhi while he steals the treasures and everything found in the spiritual mine!!!" He hurriedly said, making sure he spilled everything without fail, traumatized by what he had seen and felt during that horrible, cruel act of torture.
Hoh!.. I guess the Hung family really has too much guts... After having their young master return from the Wudang Sect, which is the strongest sect in the whole eastern region. He thought, smirking at the audacity of the Hung family.
I wouldn't have interfered or even cared about them, but... since you dared to put your eyes on what's mine... it wouldn't hurt to educate them myself and gauge their daring eyes, no? he added, his smirk widening, which made the already terrified last man almost pass out, as nothing good ever came from seeing that horrible smirk.
"Well, since you were good and spilled out everything, I'll grant you one wish!"
"Think carefully and state it!" Long Tian said with a smile, his mood lifting from hearing their scheme.
"H-huh!?" Hearing his words, the last man became flabbergasted, letting out a bewildered sound.
W-w-wish!?... A-and from this demon!? the last man thought, a bewildered look on his face as he had a hard time believing anything that came out of the mouth of the demon in front of him.
"What?... Did I not make it clear?" Long Tian said, narrowing his eyes at the last man, which made him even more terrified as he hurriedly spoke.
"N-no!! Y-your mighty self made it clear!!!" He spoke with terror deeply ingrained in his very being.
"Then state it already; I'm already being generous enough to let you have a wish from me..." Long Tian said in a majestic, cold tone, narrowing his eyes at the last man, showing how valuable his time was and that the last man shouldn't waste his already wasted precious time any longer.
"T-then... PLEASE spare us and let us go!!" The last man got on his knees and bowed until his head reached the ground with utmost sincerity and fear.
"Haha, if that's your wish, then let me, the kindest young man you'll ever see, fulfill that wish of yours!" Long Tian laughed out loud, his smile deepening, which gave the last man a glimmer of hope—a hope of making it back alive, even if it was just the two of them.
I-if... If I can just make it back alive... I-i-i'll stop cultivating... And mar— he couldn't even finish his delusions as his words turned upside down, and he saw the beautiful sky followed by seeing his own body still in the same place.
"!?"
"Haha, now you're free!"
"Oh wait... he said that he wanted 'US' and not him alone..." Realizing what that last dead man said, he turned his attention to the unconscious first man who had lost consciousness because he couldn't handle the pain inflicted on him.
"You too!" Saying that with a smirk, he pierced through the heart of the unconscious first man with his bloody red spear, killing him in his sleep.
"Well then... Let's go see our 'young master' who has become too rowdy and arrogant after returning from the Wudang Sect." Long Tian muttered with a smirk as he swiftly made his way to the place where his spiritual mine was and where Hung Zhi was located.
[Center of the Forest, Hung Zhi's POV]
"Dang, if not for me coming to steal these treasures, it would've landed in the hands of those unworthy Long family members." I sneered as I took the last high-grade spiritual stone inside my mid-grade spatial ring, which has about 100 cubic meters, enough to hold everything that this spiritual mine has to offer.
However, as I was putting the last high-grade spiritual stone inside my ring, I saw a dim light coming from the edge of the circular area of the spiritual mine, which made me curious.
Did I miss something!?... Well, since I found it early on, it's all good.
It should be the last item remaining in this mine... and with that, the task given to me by my father will be achieved. I thought with a smirk, feeling proud for stealing a high-grade spiritual mine, which was easy, like taking candy from a kid's mouth.
"Hah!... But where the hell are those useless maggots?"
"I told them to look out... and not disappear!"
"Tsk... I'll have to give them a good punishment when we go back home." I muttered in annoyance as I went to the edge of the spiritual mine where the dim light came from.
"Well, I guess you won't be able to give them the punishment you thought of giving them." However, while walking toward the edge of the mine, I froze.
I froze right in my tracks completely, as the voice wasn't from any of the useless maggots that I had ordered to look out for... and besides, they wouldn't have the audacity nor the guts to say such things right to my face.
"Tsk... Who're you?" I questioned the man who was behind me as I slowly looked back, my muscles relaxed and at ease, as I didn't sense any powerful aura from him.
But before I could fully see who the person behind me was, he threw a tall man's body, wearing a full black robe with an animal mask.
"What!" I hurriedly took out my sword from my spatial ring and cut whatever was thrown at me into tens of pieces.
"Tsk, aren't you ashamed of using underhanded techniques?" I sneered as I clicked my tongue in annoyance.
I then turned toward the man who had thrown that dead body at me, having no interest or clue about whose body it was, but it felt surprisingly too familiar.
"YOU!!" I let out a surprised sound as soon as I saw who the man was behind me.
And that surprised tone completely changed into a relaxed and chill one.
"Heh! I was just about to go on lookout for you... but to think you would come toward me. Thanks for making my work easier." I said in a haughty tone with a smirk.
The reason for my easiness and the chill tone was because I couldn't sense any powerful aura or pressure from him, and he just felt like a normal mortal with no cultivation.