“Where the hell are we?” 

“Why can’t I see anything?” 

“Do any of you bastard practice a fire martial art?” 

  Jing was quite surprised this kind of event happened. She didn’t even try to land here, it was purely coincidental that they arrived in some sort of treasure room filled with gold and magical treasures. When she made that teleporting array for the Wolfeng Gang, she was being honest when she said that she didn’t know where it was going to go. It was her first time in the Treasured Plains, she didn’t know where things were. Jing also hasn’t had much practice with long-ranged teleporting arrays either. She mostly used the short-ranged ones for combat purposes. 

  Ever since she refined herself, she’s has had no trouble with seeing in complete darkness. Jing also didn’t have any issues seeing in complete brightness either. So, when she lit up a talisman that helped everyone see, she could stare right at it without any irritation to her eyes. Jing thought to herself that these talismans are a lot handier than she thought they would be. Why doesn’t everyone try and master these spells? With enough time, you could potentially prepare yourself for any occasion with little risk to yourself. 

“Jing, have I ever told you how much I love you, because I do now...” Everyone could see their surroundings now. Jing made her cheeks blush at this statement. 

“Holy fucking shit guys. Do you see where we landed?!” 

“We’re rich!!!” They cheered loudly before rushing towards the shining loot like a pack of animals, even Ears wasn’t exempt. 

“Don’t you dare fucking touch that pouch, you boneless bastard!” Ears shouted. 

“I call that golden sword!” 

“Call it over my ass porky! I’m getting that baby!” 

“I never seen so much money in my entire life...” He rapidly shoved the gold coins into his pockets. 

“Your pockets are already filled you greedy bastard! Leave some for us!” 

“Oi! Zihao, don’t think I can’t see you shoving gold in your underwear!” 

“Eat me you gay bastard! Stop looking at my junk!” 

“You greedy tiny dick having bastard!” 

“It's cold in here fuck face!” 

  It was quite a chaotic situation but a good type of chaos. No one was being too malicious or greedy with one another. Some punches were thrown here and there but nothing really serious. Jing usually favored the opposite type of chaos where there was nothing but malice, death, and riled emotions. But this type of situation wasn’t too bad either. Jing was looking forward to seeing her chosen followers acting like this in the future. It might be a bit awkward though considering she doesn’t really communicate with them. She still has time to change that though.  

  Jing suddenly felt that there was no point to being a leader if you weren’t willing to connect with those that follow you. Obviously, she would need to connect with them and have them want to connect with her. Ruling through fear was viable in the short run but this group wasn’t short term. What she planned to do was something that was going to take several months and years. Jing would have to rethink how to be a proper leader along with treating her followers correctly now that she’s seeing the way Wenling runs her squad. Once these Treasured Plains are over, she’ll start making some big changes to the way she runs her group. Jing will also need to give her group a name. 

“What are you waiting for my protégé?” Wenling asked her as she rested her heavy breasts on the back of her head. 

“I just thought that I should let everyone else choose first and then I'll pick when everyone else got what they wanted...” Her face was flushed at the contact with Wenling’s chest. 

“Aren’t you just the sweetest? But that’s not how things work around here. It was because of you we even found this place so of course, you get first pick of what you want. You deserve to be rewarded properly.” She said. 

  When Jing got to know Wenling after the ranking match with her, Jing just thought that she had no sense for proper distancing between people. But as Jing spent more time with her, she realized that she’s only this close and touchy with her specifically. This still didn’t help her understand why she was like this though. Was she sexually attracted to her or was she falling for her innocent and gentle act?  

“Alright, listen up you pieces of shit! I don’t want to see another single thing touched by anyone else before Jing gets her pick of the loot. I’m sure I don’t need to remind you of the reason we’re even in here in the first place, do I?!” Wenling’s gentle and seductive voice was replaced by the voice of a strong leader that demanded her troops attention. 

“No, Captain!” Everyone responded seriously, no matter what awkward position they were in or items they were wearing. 

“Good. Now, go on my apprentice. Take whatever you like. Even if someone already has it on them. If they dare complain, I’ll rip their balls off.” Everyone held their hands over their genitals. 

“Okay...” Jing squeaked. 

  From what Jing could see, there was nothing too valuable inside this room that she couldn’t gain with SCP-914. But there were a couple things she was missing that would work with SCP-914's 1:1 setting and a few others that would be nice for her followers. Jing grabbed a single gold coin, a small purple box with 2 metal needles inside, and a nameless brown book sitting on the floor. Everyone was probably wondering why she picked those items in specific. She saw no need to explain herself. 

“I’m done...” Everyone looked towards Wenling who seems dissatisfied that Jing took so little. 

“Well, if you say so. Alright! Get back to looting!” She ordered while going to take some stuff of her own for now. 

  The three items she took weren’t super rare treasures that only she could see the true value of. The gold coin was for reward purposes to her followers, the needles were for Lei Zhi, and the book just pricked her interest. In a room filled with all this shiny and attention-grabbing stuff, why would some book that brings no attention to itself be inside here as well? Well that’s because it was just as important or even more valuable than the rest!  

  Well, at least that’s what she thought until she opened it to try and read it. The ink was barely legible and basically impossible to try and read even with her superior vision. It was upsetting to Jing that she couldn’t tell if this was trash or treasure. Jing tossed the book into her satchel and waited for everyone to finish stuffing themselves with mortal and stellar ranked treasures. 

  When they were done, Wenling led the shiny excited bandits out of the room and back into the forest. They were now on their way to the Great Tower and would spend the rest of their time in the Treasured Plains there. Now that they’ve gotten all this stuff, they didn’t need to risk their lives in the Great Mountain. The Great Mountain was the most dangerous area in the Treasured Plains compared to the other 3. The Great Tower was the least dangerous due to the many safe floors and areas inside it. 

“You know Jing, I always thought that spellmasters were useless cowardly bastards. But ever since I've seen what you could do with those talismans, my mind has been changed.” 

“Oh... Uhm...” Jing couldn’t finish as someone else chimed in. 

“Yeah me too! If I knew talismans could do so much stuff, I probably would’ve tried it myself!” 

“A dumb bastard like you? Ha.” 

“You don’t have to be smart to know how to draw.” 

“But you gotta be smart to use them the way Jing here does. I mean who would’ve ever thought of using a qi bubble to stop themselves from drowning?” 

“That’s true, that’s true. There was also when she used that flash spell to help us kill those guys. I’ve only seen spellmasters use that to run away! Never to fight with!” 

“I didn’t know you sorry bastards were ugly and stupid. Who in their right mind would ever think of spellmasters as weak? Have none of you seen a talented one fight?” Ears barked at them. 

“I didn’t know there were talented ones!” This joke caused a few of them to laugh. 

“Don’t underestimate formation specialists. Body cultivators like yourselves are easy pickings for them. Brute force only works on less experienced array masters. If any of you tried to face off against a decent spellmaster, you wouldn’t be able to do anything but die.” A few bandits gulped at this information. 

“They can’t be that strong, can they?” He asked frightfully. 

“Well, a body cultivator really only has one way of attacking. That’s by charging forward. Depending on the situation, a spellmaster could have set several trapping formations ahead of time to deal with the body cultivator. The trapping formations could vary from burning you alive, drowning you, striking you with lightning, sending thousands of qi blades to bleed you out, or restricting your movements and slowly stabbing a sword through your gut.” Jing unconsciously remarked. 

  Seeing the way she casually listed all those horrible ways of dying off made them more fearful than Wenlings explanation! They definitely need a way to deal with spellmasters for the future! Focusing solely on body cultivation was no longer their primary path! It might cost a few more resources in the long run but their lives were even more important! Money was no issue if they could protect their lives! They were going to learn some qi techniques! 

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Next chapter will be a bit suspenseful. At least i think so.

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