"I'm not listening, I'm not listening, the toad recites scriptures!"
As Gu Shanhai spoke, he was already charging forward with a potted plant, carrying a corpse on his back. His speed was so fast that even the White Ape Elder was taken aback.
Fortunately, the elder had enough experience to calmly aim his bamboo walking stick towards Gu Shanhai's chest.
Clang~
The sound echoed as the bamboo stick struck just in front of Gu Shanhai, as if it had hit a wall.
"This is inner strength protecting the body!!! Impossible..." The White Ape Elder's expression changed drastically as he swiftly retreated.
In this era, anyone who had cultivated inner strength was already considered a Grandmaster, let alone manifesting it externally, which was simply considered nonsense.
The three people from before didn't have any inner strength at all; they relied on hardened bodies and skillful techniques.
The White Ape Elder could still roam the jianghu at his old age precisely because he had cultivated traces of inner strength, which gave him the capital to do so.
Therefore, when he saw Gu Shanhai's technique, he felt his mindset begin to crumble.
Crack!
In the next instant, his bamboo stick was shattered by Gu Shanhai's protective Spirit Blade.
The protective aura and the Spirit Blade were quite strong, especially with the law mirror and the law robe as their server, reducing consumption but increasing power.
"Wait, wait, there's been a misunderstanding." The White Ape Elder was ready to admit defeat; having lived for so long, he naturally knew how precious life was.
"Doesn't matter, as the saying goes, let's just go with the flow." Gu Shanhai had made up his mind to take his dead body. There was no way he would let his opponent go.
"Miss Wang, make him stop and I'll tell you who's the informant and why I came here to kill you." The White Ape Elder, having no other choice, began to call out while running.
In this world of low martial prowess, jianghu people are in quite an awkward position. They have great martial skills but can't compete with powerful crossbows and armor, barely able to fight against ten men.
It's still good if one could cultivate inner strength, but if not, old age would not be easy, with declining vigor and injuries emerging all at once.
Seeing this, Miss Wang wanted to speak, but looking at Gu Shanhai's somewhat crazed appearance as he carried the corpse, she finally gritted her teeth and said, "Young hero, please stop for a moment, there might really be a misunderstanding in this."
But Gu Shanhai completely ignored her, continuing the chase. The White Ape Elder had already been hit by Gu Shanhai's several kicks and was rolling on the ground.
"The two of you, please persuade him, this matter concerns the Wang Family's major affair, there will be a hefty reward afterward." Seeing that Gu Shanhai was totally unresponsive, Miss Wang could only try an indirect approach.
The two exchanged looks and checked the task system, but no hidden quest was triggered.
They looked again at Gu Shanhai, who now had the White Ape Elder under his foot, and remained unmoved.
This was nonsense to them. Stop fighting a BOSS without any incentive? As if they were fools.
An ordinary NPC and a great god player who could lead them to fly, it was clear which one to choose. Plead on behalf of a BOSS? Complete nonsense.
If it weren't for Gu Shanhai's impressive methods, would this White Ape Elder have shown them mercy while attempting to kill them?
"No quest?" Gu Shanhai turned and asked.
"Nope, it's probably a trap." The resilient little cauldron spoke sturdily, clearly a bit annoyed.
"Alright, then I'll see him off." Gu Shanhai effortlessly killed him, then put down the corpse of Ghost-faced Vajra and began to loot the White Ape Elder.
"This is a BOSS? Besides having higher attributes and better skills, he ended up poor like this." Gu Shanhai looked disdainful, as he found nothing valuable.
Finally, stacking the two corpses, he picked them up and headed towards the three people.
Miss Wang's face was not looking good; after all, Gu Shanhai didn't give her any face. She was the esteemed Miss of the Wang Family, but now her life was in his hands, so she couldn't say much.
"Once we're out of this forest, we'll be at Qingshui City, right?" Gu Shanhai said.
"Yes, we're almost there," Miss Wang replied, her voice revealing her thoughts on what to do next.
"Great, you can walk the remaining distance on your own, I won't accompany you. But hey, I don't work for free. Let's settle this now," Gu Shanhai's tone was quite unpleasant.
He would let her walk the remaining few hundred meters on her own, but before that, he had to plunder what he could.
"Young hero, wasn't it agreed that we'd share the treasure map after we return to Prince Manor?" Miss Wang smiled, somewhat strained.
"Who's talking nonsense with you? Big White Goose, get to work, pluck everything, be it a sachet or whatever else, just take it all out." Gu Shanhai directed the Flapping Big White Goose.
The two just shook their heads, knowing he was up to his old scavenging tricks. If it weren't because this was a mission target they couldn't kill, they bet he would've taken her too, and he seemed to have a bit of OCD.
For instance, he didn't want anything to do with the incomplete corpses of Huang Huadiao and Luo Xiake.
"Miss Wang, don't bother resisting. You don't want him to use force," said the Flapping Big White Goose with a friendly smile, walking over and beginning to search her.
Gu Shanhai didn't care about that, he turned to the resilient little cauldron and said, "By the way, this thing is equipment, right? You take it, I'll trade it for one of your Red Flame Talismans."
Equipment wasn't of much use to Gu Shanhai. For instance, Luo Xiake's sword added properties and had special effects in the hands of a player, but in Gu Shanhai's hands, it was just an ordinary sword with possibly subpar quality.
He didn't specify which item, because he couldn't tell, but the resilient little cauldron knew and quickly found a Jade Pendant.
"Great god, aren't you at a loss here?" said the resilient little cauldron after he got the item.
"Talent reasons, specialized in scavenging, equipment... it's complicated," Gu Shanhai glossed over, then continued, "Once you escort her and complete the quest, I won't be accompanying you."
Meanwhile, the Flapping Big White Goose also gathered everything from Miss Wang, including the sachet, silver taels, and the so-called treasure map.
Then he stuffed everything into the potted plant of Yunling Grass, along with three Red Flame Talismans.
"I'll give all three Red Flame Talismans to you, great god. Let's add each other as friends later," the Flapping Big White Goose was sharp.
"Sure, but I guess it won't work, because due to my talent, you've probably noticed my ID is blocked." Gu Shanhai explained he couldn't add friends since he didn't have a friend system.
"Oh... I thought your ID was just '***'..." The resilient little cauldron grew even more curious about what kind of talent Gu Shanhai had, as it seemed even more peculiar than his.
"Alright, take this thing and complete the quest, we've been delayed long enough." Gu Shanhai felt like if he stayed any longer, Miss Wang's glares would flay him alive. After all, what he had done was indeed very unethical to normal people.