Chapter 399: Full Force

After seeing the five representatives out, Li Na found Su Wangchuan in his room.

Taking advantage of the fact that her boss had not yet entered spirit realm, she hurriedly asked,

“Boss.”

“Are we really going to wipe out the Beggar Sect disciples in Sanhe Commandery with full force?”

“Wasn’t that obvious enough?”

Holding his Gaming Helmet, Su Wangchuan smiled and said,

“I was originally planning to do it myself, but after thinking it over, escalating the conflict directly would be troublesome. It might even bring Beggar Sect experts crashing into the Hall to assassinate me... So it’s much easier to let them do it for us.”

A faint smile hung on Su Wangchuan’s lips.

“The people in the Land-Clearing Teams of the major studios have no grudge against them. When they move, it will come completely out of nowhere. The Beggar Sect and the Five Poisons Sect won’t be able to guard against it.”

“And besides!”

“They all come from different backgrounds. Even if the Beggar Sect starts investigating, they’ll be completely confused. They won’t know who is targeting them. At the very least, they won’t dare move against our Caobang right away in the short term.”

Li Na reminded him,

“But you also said that they only won’t dare move against us in the short term. Once they come to their senses, they’ll realize that we were the ones offering rewards to target the Beggar Sect and purge them.”

“Exactly!”

“Purging the Beggar Sect disciples in Sanhe Commandery is only the first step of our operation.”

The moment Su Wangchuan said that, a flash of alarm appeared in Li Na’s eyes.

“Boss, are you planning to...”

“They’d better know their place and stay away from me...”

A cold light flashed through Su Wangchuan’s eyes.

“Otherwise, I don’t mind turning the Beggar Sect upside down.”

...

The five major studios moved quickly.

The ten Land-Clearing Teams of Warring States Game Studio had already set out under their respective captains, each heading toward a different inland county in Sanhe Commandery. Their targets were Beggar Sect disciples who had fallen behind or were easy to deal with.

Tianxia Studio, Black Panther Studio, Black River Studio, and Lingji Studio had also each deployed their own Land-Clearing Teams, fully armed and thoroughly prepared.

Kuaiji County.

That was where the largest number of people had gathered.

The Beggar Sect’s temporary sub-branch had been set up inside an opera house.

From the inside to the outside, the place was packed with Beggar Sect disciples.

Not far away, an inn served as the lodging place of the Five Poisons Sect’s new branch helm master and Scorpion Elder.

Five Poisons Sect disciples stood guard over the entrances and exits with extreme vigilance.

A few disciples from Black River Studio who had joined the Five Poisons Sect exchanged greetings with the disciples guarding the entrance, then walked inside.

Monk Dalong and the others saw the whole scene clearly.

Black River Studio had started working.

As the Five Poisons Sect’s stronghold came under attack, all fourteen of them, from top to bottom, were slaughtered. The members of Black River Studio had all fled before the incident even began.

The smell of blood soon alarmed the innkeeper.

Then, with a cry of shock, constables from the county office rushed over...

Beggar Sect disciples streamed out of the opera house to watch the commotion.

“Tsk tsk...”

“This is awful.”

“All fourteen of them had their heads cut off.”

“Weren’t these people... from the Five Poisons Sect?”

“A martial artist with Third-Rank cultivation was killed without anyone making a sound?”

“They deserved it!”

“No one should pity a bunch of poison-users.”

The Beggar Sect’s old, weak, women, and children huddled together and chatted away with great relish.

They never noticed...

that someone had quietly slipped inside while the opera house was nearly empty...

One by one, the Beggar Sect’s First-Rank disciples and Second-Rank Martial Artists were suddenly hit by a violent surprise assault from a group of Second-Rank Martial Artists.

“Enemy attack!!”

“Who are you people!?”

“Urgh...”

The people from Warring States Game Studio and Tianxia Studio moved together. More than thirty Second-Rank Martial Artists descended like a force of destruction, slaughtering every Beggar Sect disciple inside the opera house.

Then they cut off the heads.

And finally looted the corpses...

By the time the Beggar Sect disciples outside cautiously poked their heads over to look, the killers inside had already leaped over the wall and fled. Every one of them had their faces covered and carried severed heads in their hands as they ran like thieves.

The yamen constables charged into the opera house, only to be hit by the overpowering smell of blood all over the ground. Their brows twisted at once.

“Damn it!”

“I shouldn’t have gone out without checking the almanac today!”

“People are dying everywhere!”

“Who the hell would dare storm even a temporary Beggar Sect sub-branch?”

“Are we supposed to sleep tonight or not?”

“What are you all standing there for? Call for help! Ask for reinforcements!”

“Hurry up and send carrier pigeons to notify the prefectural government! Notify Six Gates!”

The county constables were completely on the verge of collapse.

In a single night, more than fifty people had died in Kuaiji County!

Apart from the Five Poisons Sect disciples, all the rest were Beggar Sect disciples.

...

Wangchuan was in his own courtyard, training 《Meteor Hammer》.

At that moment, someone hurried in from outside. It was Ye Baiyi.

“Hall Master.”

“Wang Yuehui just received word that the operation in Kuaiji County has ended. The Five Poisons Sect branch helm’s people were all wiped out.”

After reporting that piece of good news, Ye Baiyi saw that the Hall Master continued swinging the meteor hammer without the slightest change in expression, so he went on:

“The Beggar Sect’s temporary sub-branch there was also attacked. It’s said they lost seven or eight Second-Rank Martial Artists, as well as more than twenty First-Rank Martial Artists and full-fledged martial artists.”

At that, Wangchuan smiled.

“Black River Studio is quite capable after all. Lin Tao said he’d be sending over more than two hundred wild boars. Contact him and tell him we’re ready to receive their people at any time.”

“Yes!”

Ye Baiyi accepted the order and withdrew.

Wangchuan turned and resumed training.

The operation against the Beggar Sect and the Five Poisons Sect had already begun.

The victory report from Kuaiji County was only the first wave...

The purge was far from over.

And sure enough!

That same night, more news arrived one after another from other counties.

In every county far from the waterways, Beggar Sect disciples were being targeted and purged.

The five major studios had gone all out, hunting down every Beggar Sect martial artist they could find within Sanhe Commandery.

In a single night, the Beggar Sect in Sanhe Commandery suffered devastating casualties.

Some Beggar Sect disciples were cut down in full public view, hacked to death with random blades, their heads severed and taken away at once.

These players either masked their faces with black cloth or smeared them with such bizarre markings that no one could tell whether they were men or ghosts.

Early the next morning, the five major studios each sent a few people over to collect their rewards.

One Niche Cultivation Method for every head.

Both sides left satisfied, carrying away what they had come for.

Wangchuan never showed himself the whole time.

He continued training.

Once 《Meteor Hammer》 advanced to Practice Makes Perfect and gave him 2 points of Strength, he immediately turned to cultivating the Niche Cultivation Method 《Heavy Sword Technique》 to continue stacking his Strength attribute.

As the Hall Master,

there were now many things he no longer needed to oversee personally.

On the Weapon Room side, the master blacksmiths arranged for people to convert the ruined temple into a huge blacksmith forging yard, setting up twelve blast furnaces and more than one hundred and twenty Forging Tables.

Because that blacksmith forging yard came into being, it opened up more than three hundred job positions for Sanjiang Studio.

Sanhe Commandery Hall recruited three hundred apprentices in one go!

Every one of them would be given the opportunity to change professions and become blacksmiths, so long as they could calm themselves down and study properly.

Meanwhile, Fei Zai quietly established an escort agency, recruited more than eighty Quasi-Martial Artists, and drew twenty First-Rank Martial Artists and three Second-Rank Martial Artists from the Hall. Then he began expanding into the regions around Kuaiji County, swallowing up the markets left behind by the Beggar Sect...