"Lord Liang Tian, why not stay for the night? Let me send some staff to inform your disciples so they can come to pick you up tomorrow?" the person accompanying Liang Tian on having a game of chess and conversation offered him an accommodation for the night.

"Hahaha, Branch Master Jing Feng, this old man will not bother you any longer. All I hope is the understanding of the Upper South Merchant Corporation in not participating in this inner struggle of ruling power inside our Seven Star County."

"In return of your cooperation, I am very willing to say that our Apprentice Hall will be the exceptional partner for the Upper South Merchant Corporation. I believe Branch Master Jing Feng will consider this beneficial relationship between us." Liang Tian continues to persuade his opponent in the chess game to consider his proposal.

"Lord Liang Tian, this surname Jing really unable to make any decision on behalf of the branch now. But I do have a suggestion for Lord Liang Tian to consider. I wonder if Lord Liang Tian interested to listen to my humble proposal?" the Branch Master replied.

"Branch Master Jing Feng, please go ahead. Liang Tian is all ears," he replied.

"The Upper South Merchant Corporation is indeed looking forward in conducting our business here to for the sake of improving our financial stability, but I do carry another task of coming here. And that task is related to conveying a message to Lord Liang Tian." Jing Feng started to speak.

"Oh? A message directed to me?" his word confused Liang Tian, but after seeing no action for this few days, his alertness toward this message remain at highest.

"Yes. Under the instruction of Second Prince Zhao Feng Yi, I am here to convey the message to everyone belonged to the Apprentice Hall."

"From this moment onwards, The Wen Qing City, Wen Yang City, and Seven Star Sect will send all their forces to subdue Wen Wu City. Under the direct order of Second Prince, We suspect the Wen Wu City is carrying the intention to rebel against the Southern Imperial Kingdom!"

"Lord Liang Tian, to maintain your reputation, I hope you will remain here until we handle this suspicion by subduing Wen Wu City and clarify this matter!" unexpectedly, the Branch Master Jing Feng's duty in delaying their discussion for so many days is for the sake of this arrangement!

"Jing Feng! You dare to restrain me inside this place?" Liang Tian smashed the chess table they're playing to express his anger, but in return of his action, Jing Feng answered his act with both hands cupped together and slightly bowed.

"Lord Liang Tian, please do not force this humble one to report to the Second Prince!" Jing Feng purposely behaves in such a way to force Liang Tian to stay still while they attack the Wen Wu City. Perhaps, if he dares to take a step out from this guest hall, all the Inner Qi Lords in this city will take action to suppress him under the reason of Liang Tian and Apprentice Hall is intending to rebel.

Liang Tian can only grit his teeth and express his dissatisfaction throw his expression! How will he not know the person attacked him before the Counties Gathering is exactly the Second Prince, Zhao Feng Yi personally? Only from the attack itself, Southern Imperial Fist Stance already revealed his identity on that time.

"Tell me, Jing Feng! How long has the Second Prince co-operated with your Upper South Merchant Corporation? Didn't the corporation always place the importance of monetary profit first in their policy? How can you suddenly shifted to support one of the royal members for the sake of the Crown Prince position?" Liang Tian questioned the Branch Master.

"Lord Liang Tian... Your thinking is too shallow. Second Prince is always the owner of Upper South Merchant Corporation. It was established for the sake of helping him take over the throne when the emperor decided to surrender the throne to his successor." Jing Feng shared the information that only higher status members like himself know.

"Hahaha... Never in my life ever thought before that the Second Royal Concubine already planned this earlier before she even gives birth to the second prince. I guess that the Second Royal Concubine is already a member of Upper South Merchant Corporation the moment she's born!" Liang Tian did not guess about this possibility before.

Who would have guessed that among the Empress and five Royal Concubines, the second is born a member of Upper South Merchant Corporation? No wonder, on the subject of treasures alone, not even a single sect in the Upper Southern State able to win against them.

But as he started to lost his confidence that they're going to overcome this hurdle, shouts came from the outside.

"Open the door! For what reason are you keeping my master is your imprisonment! Release him right away or face our wrath!" a sentence came from outside of the hall. It was so familiar to Liang Tian that he immediately guessed the identity of the person.

"Gen-Er..." he whispered. As he was imprisoned inside here, who can bring him out except the second prince or his disciples? But all of them is away from his side for this few days. In his mind, he was puzzled by their sudden appearance.

"How will the child know I need them now? Did they found out about this trick earlier and come to save me?" Liang Tian considered the possibility that leads them to his side, but never in his imagination that it was all because of Zhang Wu Ji's accidental doing.

If that child did not go into seclusion for so many days, won't he end up getting into their distraction too? If that child did not go to the Ma Hua Town to settle the Jie's Forging Factory, then how will his Silver Horn Bear found Liu Su Mei and Lin Mao Dan?

If that child did not save them and let the two shared the news with their fellow brother and sisters, how will they know that their master needed them now? If that child did not destroy the Bandits and Jie's Forging Factory, won't their opponent progress is escalated to another level by now?

Without a proper aim in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji actually destroyed his enemies weaponry support and manpower, leaving the opponent with a lack of weapon and number of people to follow their main force. Although their people are well equipped, they must pass one main hurdle before entering the Wen Wu City.

And that is the invulnerable City Wall that won't fall even bombarded with a large number of Rhinoceros Roar.

"Let our master out from your unethical imprisonment! Or else, we will treat this reason as the Upper South Merchant Corporation tactics to weaken our power in Seven Star County!" Han Yan added.

"Under the Kingdom Law, the unapproved participation of another sect/establishment/or clan into counties not of their origin will be treated as an intention of treason, and the act will be treated as an act of aggression!" Cheng Hao continued.

"Branch Master..." a few subordinates of the newly built establishment came inside to see Jing Feng's decision. After waiting for the Branch Master for a while, he finally agreed to release Liang Tian.

The master and disciples quickly met with each another, but out of haste, they left the city almost instantly by riding on top of the Iron Kong-Que. But the issue is, only eight of them is there, with the exemption of Zhang Wu Ji. Due to the rush to quickly return to their Apprentice Hall to expect their enemies attack, nobody questioned about his disappearance.

Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji is questioning himself again with his sense of direction.

"Where the hell is this place? Didn't I follow the route to Wen Qing City?" it was either by luck or accident, Zhang Wu Ji arrived at the location Wen Qing City positioned their Militarized Forces. With the addition of Upper South Mercenary in their ranks, their numbers reach between 14,000 to 16,000 soldiers, with 95% of them in their early Inner Qi Warrior Stage and a few Inner Qi Soldiers.

"Seems like all of them is preparing to march somewhere... And based on my understanding, there is no war in our county except the hostile exchange between Apprentice Hall and Seven Star Sect. This means they're my enemies." Zhang Wu Ji quickly deduces his opinion towards the military camp before him.

But instead of worrying, he gives out a smile filled with a hint of danger, deceit, and death. Putting himself into invisibility again, Zhang Wu Ji entered their military camp and started to do what he's best at. And what was that?

Robbing.

It was ironic enough for him as a cultivator to steal his opponent's supplies sneakily, but what was there to be discussed about his ethics? They're his enemies to begin with! Inside the camp filled with so many soldiers, there were so many things for him to steal.

It was a lucky thing for him to engrave quite a few numbers of Wooden Universal Plates earlier, where it allows him to keep everything without worries. But for the soldiers, it was an unlucky situation when Zhang Wu Ji withdraw a Manual from his spatial ring.

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[Primary-Stage] Universal Daynight Poison +10 (Phase-Less)

-Ability Acquired (1): Day Poison Mist. The ability of Day Poison Mist includes weakening/ vein blockage/ Qi dispersing. This poison can be afflicted through breathing and meditation. [Application Cost: 5 Fighter Qi | Antidote Cost: 25 Fighter Qi] Symptom activates at the strongest point during daylight.

-Ability Acquired (2): Night Poison Mist. The ability of Night Poison Mist includes bleeding/ confusion/ Inner Demon Claw. This poison is afflicted through breathing only. [Application Cost: 15 Fighter Qi | Antidote Cost: 45 Fighter Qi] Symptom activates only at nighttime.

-Limitation: Poison inflicted by the user can be cured by using higher quality or amount of Internal Qi. Poison is only applicable at the target once. Any further application will bring no results.

-Durability: 22/22

-Special (+5): By paying twice of the required Fighter Qi, the user can forge a mythical Day Poison Dan or Night Poison Dan ten times more potent. The forged Dan is used for Life-Saving and not Poisoning.

-Special (+10): By applying both poisons on user personally, increase the bed performance of user by 150%. Poison applied on the user are not life-threatening.

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"It seems unethical for me to sneakily poison them, but for the sake of Apprentice Hall and our faction able to reclaim this piece of land, this kind of tactic has to be done!" deep inside his mind, Zhang Wu Ji hesitates. Although they're his opponents, he assumes that the effect of using poison between their fight is somewhat unethical.

Still, what needs to be done, has to be done.

The Day Poison Mist is spread carefully to assure every single man positioned in this camp is poisoned. The process took the whole night for him to get it done before the sun started to rise in the morning. He monitored them carefully and smiled.

Every soldier is claiming that they have a few pain here and there, plus some of them seem annoyed from the meditation due to the blockage in their veins. Although these problems are not severe, they still need to spend some money to purchase the pills to get rid of these ailments.

They started to equip themselves with soldier equipment and armor. In between of their action, a group of soldier noticed that their weaponry is gone from their storage camp. This commotion caused a few of their commanding officer to come out and resolve this trouble.

"What is happening in our camp?" when more and more of this problem happened everywhere inside of their camp, the commanding officers started to question themselves. Didn't this symptom is similar to the incident that left their City Lord's Golden Wolf Syndicate burnt and robbed?

"Group everyone together! Quickly!" one of their commanding officers gave an order to ignore the problem and quickly gathered in their camp's open square. When Zhang Wu Ji caught this officer's command, he smiled. Standing up from his hiding spot, Zhang Wu Ji started to clean their unguarded belongings.

They gathered, received their orders to take note of their surroundings, but the moment the sun is at their highest spot to indicated that the afternoon is here, the effect if the Day Poison Mist is at their most lethal moment! Immediately, without a way to stop it from happening, the Inner Qi inside their body started to disperse!

"My Inner Qi! Why did it start to disperse from my body! No! I cannot control their flow either! The flow of my vein is blocked! I can't stop the Inner Qi in my body from flowing out!"

"Commanders! What is happening to us?" the group of soldiers questioned their commanding officers, but how can they know what happened?

"Idiots. You've been poisoned." Zhang Wu Ji stands on top of their flagpole and discloses to them about he's poisoning them.

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[Author's Note]

Once again, another manual is exposed. What else is left?