Diligence System: From Servant to Martial King

Chapter 684: Chapter 359: The Jade Girl Appears, Geniuses Besiege the Island, Corpses Delivered as Gifts, A Gift from Ranran!

Before the hour of Xu, everyone had already dispersed. On the fourth day, the elders were full of smiles, no longer feeling fear. As they entered the hall to discuss and exchanged greetings, the atmosphere was relaxed and pleasant.

Zhang Kaixuan, Meng Han, and several elders including Han Zisha were fashionably late. Zhou Zhengde did not blame them, just smiled it off. By noon that day, the elders were bored and sought ways to relieve their boredom. Playing Pai Jiu, throwing dice... They gathered until evening and then left separately, completely forgetting other matters.

Li Xian was neither excited nor anxious, he handled matters with a calm mind, thinking: "The situation is unclear now, the Five Element predicament is perilous, I need to watch closely and find a perfect plan for Sister Liuli and myself."

He returned to his residence to spend the night there. On the fifth day at the hour of Chen, Li Xian arrived at the hall on time, only to find it empty. He spoke to himself: "Despite being elders, they relax too quickly. If not overly wary and trembling due to fear of enemies, then it’s overly underestimating them and seeing them as nothing."

He sat quietly with his eyes closed. After half an hour, Zhou Zhengde finally arrived late, saw Li Xian, and smiled: "Brother Li, so early?"

Li Xian smiled and said: "I’m used to getting up early, with nothing else to do, I came here to sit." Zhou Zhengde chided: "Young man, it’s just not steady enough. Those Jade Girls, you need not worry."

Li Xian asked, "Does Elder Zhou already have a foolproof plan?" Zhou Zhengde smiled: "What need is there for a foolproof plan, now on the fifth day, even if you give her ten days more, she won’t even see the Water Altar. Why bother yourself with her."

"Our Flower Cage Sect stands unyielding, not a little girl can easily topple it. Right, I’ve heard your Spear Technique is quite strong, the front hall is spacious, why not show me..."

While speaking, suddenly came hurried footsteps, someone rushed into the front hall. Zhou Zhengde said irritably: "Why so hurried?"

The intruder said: "Elder Zhou, there is something, there is something!" Zhou Zhengde tensed, asked: "What is the situation?"

The intruder said: "A disciple reports, in the southwest direction, saw... a mysterious ship."

Zhou Zhengde frowned: "You quickly go notify other elders. Go investigate the southwest side!" Cursing further: "Damn it, can they really find it here?"

Soon came all elders rushing to the coast, ordering disciples to arrange formations and prepare bows and arrows. Zhou Zhengde, Ye Cheng, Zhang Kaixuan, Wang Shouxin, Qiao Zhengqi... all the elders gazing in the distance, indeed saw a black ship approaching.

Han Zisha had practiced the "Pupil Skill", had keen eyesight, said while watching: "Strange, it seems there’s no one on the ship?"

The elders asked: "Zisha, you didn’t see wrong, did you?" Han Zisha shook her head and said: "I don’t think so, there’s indeed no one, but there are many black boxes."

When the black ship neared the shore slowly. Fearing ambushes within the boxes, Zhou Zhengde ordered disciples to form an encirclement, waiting for a moment, without any sound from the boxes. Determining there’s no living thing, then slowly approached, kicked one box fiercely.

Boxes rolled several times, tumbled onto the beach. Zhou Zhengde kicked several more times, knocking over all twelve black boxes in the ship, said: "There’s no ambush inside, extremely peculiar, let’s open them and see."

Zhang Kaixuan righted a black box, saw a silver lock. He raised his hand and pinched it, the silver lock clicked, turning into a pile of scrap metal. He opened the box cover, immediately startled into a backflip, shouting in shock.

Inside was a corpse.

Han Zisha exclaimed: "It’s Elder Gao!" Immediately checked his breath, already dead. His clothes stripped off, had the words "Gifted by Nangong Xuanming" written on them.

The elders cried out in shock, this Elder Gao had profound qualifications, strength, and methods surpassing eighty percent of the elders. Now dead here, the impact was overwhelming.

Zhou Zhengde said solemnly: "Quick, quick, open the other boxes!"

Boxes were opened one by one, each contained an elder’s corpse. Elder Gao, Elder Luo, Elder Li...

Also one elder’s body, who had once shared food and drink with Li Xian: Liu Yu, Elder Liu. The corpse inscribed with: "Gifted by Bian Bianyun".

Every elder had similar handwriting: "Gifted by Nangong Wuyang", "Gifted by Bian Chengfeng", "Gifted by Taishu Yuzhu", "Gifted by Su Lanfeng"...

The elders’ hearts pounded intensely, feeling it’s shocking by sight, seeing many colleagues laid out like this caused a huge blow to their spirits, leaving them distraught. Although Flower Cage Sect had always had casualties, it was never this tragic.

Opened the last black box. None didn’t exclaim in shock, weaker-hearted ones even collapsed on spot, Zhou Zhengde’s face was ashen, Wang Shouxin fled in fear, Ye Cheng trembled, Meng Han sat on the ground.

Inside the corpse was the mediator "Jin Shichang", with the inscription: "Gifted by Zhao Ranran."