"Everyone, look at my merchandise today, everything is high-quality materials from the Crystalline River County!" one of the peddlers shouts to market his wares into the ears of people walking along the street. Unconsciously, his call attracts Zhang Wu Ji to take a look.

"Mister, did you say all these products came from the Crystalline River County? Which city to be exact?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned him as he touches the raw material packed on top of his stall. Among the item, three items managed to get Zhang Wu Ji interested.

The first item is the Early-Grade 10 Carats Sapphire Crystal Pillar, the second item is a stack of five Qi Accumulating Pill, and a weapon made of precious Tomb Silver.

It was worth calling them High-Quality Material because of how they're made. What's more, each product is stamped with a special engraving that indicates where and from what corporation.

Huo-Cheng Corporation

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Golden Carapace City

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Tier 2

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"Tier 2? Does that mean this corporation holds the qualification to process both 1st-Tier and 2nd-Tier products? That means his corporation qualification is above my Apprentice Hall!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised with the fact all three treasures is stamped with the same engravings.

"Hehehe, I suddenly found a good idea to threaten the Upper South Merchant Corporation..." Zhang Wu Ji secretly laughed as he looks at the merchandise. From the outsider's view, they felt Zhang Wu Ji must have some mental illness.

"Wu Ji..." Meng Ran nudge Zhang Wu Ji to wakes him up. The moment she knows this guy is not daydreaming but scheming, she quickly pulled him away from where they stand. But unexpectedly, the Master Senior disagree to leave his spot.

"Mister, if our Seven Star County able to produce these kinds of material for your business, will you agree to cooperate with them?" Zhang Wu Ji nicely asks the peddler to see what he think about it. Listening to his question, the peddler considered the option for a moment.

"Well... I will cooperate with them. Of course, the better the county does, the better is my business here. Why won't I support my own county to get better?" the peddler speaks his mind out loud. From his manner when speaking, Zhang Wu Ji caught the next issue.

"Mister... Is there anything you wanted to add? Feel free to tell me." Zhang Wu Ji secretly took his Master Senior Plate out into his view and let the peddler know the motive for his question. When the plate and the name engraved on it came into his sight, the peddler immediately tries to kneel before Zhang Wu Ji.

"Mister! Please leave the ceremonial greetings aside. May Wu Ji ask about the issue bothering your mind? Please feel free to tell me, I am here to know what the people think about the county, and could we work things out from here."

With his words, the peddler relaxed and started to share the mistreatment he received in the Golden Carapace City. Due to the short of supply for such material in his business, the peddler was given no choice but to suffer for their high export tax. Although the price offered for their treasure is considerably low, the lowered price is heightened at the end purchase due to their export tax.

Worst, as a person that come outside to resupply his business, most of the peddlers are subject to irregular prices on the product, lousy customer services, and always short of supply forcing them to raise the price again and again when they came back to conduct their business.

Listening to his words, Zhang Wu Ji nodded in understanding before he convinced the peddler to tell everyone around that the Apprentice Hall will be here soon as well to help regulate the prices and supplies. When his exchange of words with the peddler is over, Zhang Wu Ji left to their second main street.

And after walking for a while, Zhang Wu Ji caught somebody familiar in his memory!

"Aren't that mister trader! What happened to him?" Zhang Wu Ji remembered that from the day they're out from the Seven Star Sect, this merchant has stopped visiting him. Based on his impression regarding this merchant, he will not despise Zhang Wu Ji for his status, because this trader held his own profession highly.

"Mister Trader! Do you remember me? I'm Master Senior Ninth!" Zhang Wu Ji made his way towards the peddler kneeling on the ground. When he caught the fact his peddler's both legs are gone, Zhang Wu Ji's felt a corner of his heart is cracked.

"Ah, Master Senior Ninth... This trash has no right to talk with you, please ignore me..." the moment this peddler recognize the person before him, he quickly denies knowing Zhang Wu Ji and kept all his wares into his bag before trying to crawl away.

Worst of all, the kneecap that was wrapped with bandages is still bleeding!

"Small Nourishment Art! Long Mu's Blessing Stance!" Zhang Wu Ji quickly applied some treatment on the peddler to ease his pain, while trying to recover his ability to walk. But when the bandages went off from the healing, Zhang Wu Ji finally know what happened on this peddler!

"Meng Ran... Get me a room and please let mister stay there..." Zhang Wu Ji instructed Meng Ran to prepare him something, while he stands up and faces all the people looking at him. Right in front of everybody, Zhang Wu Ji swings his hand and hold a stack of Qi Sensing Pill in his hand.

"All news related to this peddler worth 10 Qi Sensing Pills. All major news deserve 100 Qi Sensing Pills. If you can bring me to the person that cause this to him, 1,000 Qi Sensing Pills!" Zhang Wu Ji packed the Qi Sensing Pills in a pouch and waited.

After spending a total of 2,000 Qi Sensing Pills, Zhang Wu Ji left. He entered the Inn located not too far from the second Main Street. Entering the room where the peddler and Meng Ran is staying, he took a seat beside Meng Ran while still having his two hands in the shape of a fist.

"Who?" Meng Ran questioned.

"Crystalline Pavilion."

"How?" she continues.

"Because his wares caught the eye of their Vice Pavilion Master."

"And then?" after she finished her word, she takes a glance on the Master Senior.

"He got kidnapped, crippled, and thrown to the street. His stall is confiscated by the City Lord, and he got ordered to pay the fine before getting back his stall."

"When?" again, she continued.

"The day I met you."

"I see..." Meng Ran nodded her head. She looks at the sleeping peddler for a moment and then continued with her unfinished words.

"I will take care of him. When everything is done, come to the grassland two kilometers outside... No... Wait... Come back to the Inn when we're ready to go." she took the responsibility to take care of the peddler while leaving Zhang Wu Ji to do whatever he wanted.

At first, she has the intention to wait for him outside of Wen Yang City, but when she remembered his sense of direction, she dropped her plan immediately.

"Waiting in the Inn is the best because there's a name. Hell, I even worried that he will look for the Inn at the other Main Business Street." Meng Ran is slightly speechless at this Master Senior.

"How did he managed to get to his enemy all the time anyway? Is that sheer luck or bad luck?"

That night, only Meng Ran remained inside their rented room, with nobody caught the silhouette of Zhang Wu Ji left the Inn. Even the guard standing outside to prevent worst case scenario failed to notice the Master Senior has disappeared.

Meanwhile, inside of the Crystalline Pavilion.

"Pavilion Master, Vice Pavilion Master, subordinate have some matters to report." one of the guards working for his pavilion as a listener outside of their base came back.

"Go on." the Pavilion Master ordered. While he was busy getting entertained with two female companions, the Vice Pavilion Master is busy engulfing himself with the food placed on top of his eating table.

"This subordinate heard about a mysterious person purchasing information related to the merchant we robbed his stall and crippling him. All I get from asking the people around is this person is very young, dressed in a black robe, and walks around the city with a female attendant."

The subordinate reported. But looking at the two people in charge of the Crystalline Pavilion, they seem unbothered with the news at all. Instead, the Pavilion Master become more aroused with the two female companions as he started to have fun with his [Dragon Claw]...

"Pavilion Master... Vice Pavilion Master..." the subordinate wishes to get their response, but instead of an answer, the two waved their hand to sent him away from their room. Following from the subordinates exit, another row of dishes went inside the room.

"The two of them underestimate this mysterious person too much. What will they think when they know this person's name have a [WU JI] inside? If it's Master Senior Zhang Wu Ji, then our establishment is F*cked!" the subordinates continue to complain as he walked past two corridors. But when he reaches the third corridor leading to the Residential area, a silhouette appeared behind him.

"Tok!!! Thup..." Zhang Wu Ji appeared behind him with a swing on his neck. This attack leaves the subordinate unconscious when Zhang Wu Ji takes everything off from him. After leaving this naked man behind some hidden corner, he went deeper into the building.

Wherever he goes, Zhang Wu Ji will at least sent two to three members into unconscious state as he steals everything from them. By leaving each of them naked when he's done with them, Zhang Wu Ji does the same to all male members and left them with clothing for female members.

After clearing most of the members below Inner Qi Fighter Level, Zhang Wu Ji proceeds with the Inner Qi Warrior members. Although there was between 600 members in their establishment, only 50 of them belonged to Inner Qi Warrior Cultivation, and three more in their Inner Qi Soldier Cultivation.

"Intruder!" one of the members failed to fall down from a knock, but luckily before his voice transferred outside of the room, Zhang Wu Ji sent him into his own fairytale. After cleaning the room from any treasures, Zhang Wu Ji finally reaches their blacksmithing department.

But when he inspected the room, it was actually an empty shell that used to fake their production! None of the tools within this department is used before! If that is the case, then where did their supply came from? Carrying the urge to unravel this mystery, Zhang Wu Ji went deeper until he reaches a very well protected building.

"Iron Door... Eleven guards, and formation flags... This must be their secret storage..." Zhang Wu Ji finally found their Vault. But it wasn't easy for him to enter. From the Formation Flags scattered all around the vault and did not activates when the guards walking around means they're coded to recognize this eleven guards but not the intruders.

If he recklessly breaks their formation, it might alarm his enemies. Based on his situation here alone without support, it's very unsafe for him to fight against the three Inner Qi Soldiers alone. He remained near the vault until out of sudden, a bell alarmed everyone inside of this Crystalline Pavilion.

A few Formation Flag is activated in every entrance and locking everyone either inside or outside of their buildings. With only a few top management members possess the ability to went inside and outside of the formation flag, they started to run a check from one building to another.

"Heh... They caught my appearance inside their pavilion. Luckily I'm outside, or else, I will be stuck inside the building like a sitting duck." Zhang Wu Ji felt a sense of relief as he looked at the management members going in and out one building after another.

And a few of them is throwing their tantrum when they a large number of their members is stark naked inside the building because everything belonged to them is all stolen.

"Quickly change the formation coding to all the members! The thieves have stolen a lot of our entrance tag into the vault!" the Vice Pavilion Master scolded the naked members. With his finger pointing at one of the management members, he instructed them to change the coding for their members to enter the vault.

"Damn! I got the entrance key into the vault at the beginning of my robbery!" Zhang Wu Ji knocked his head for missing the hint in his starting of his mission.

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[Author's Note]

Alright. Everyone get ready your popcorns because Bandit Zhang is on his robbery operation once again! This time, it's Upper South Merchant Corporation's turn!

And I loved it.