Monarch Night
Chapter 144 - 102: Flaunting Wealth and Boldly Acquiring Ancient Jade

Chapter 144: Chapter 102: Flaunting Wealth and Boldly Acquiring Ancient Jade

"Mission: Search for natural ancient jade the size of a fingertip. Submit immediately, regardless of quantity. Urgent order!"

Fang Che was instantly perplexed.

What on earth is the Yixin Sect up to?

Have they started dealing in ancient jade?

And this isn’t nitpicking, but when you say ancient jade the size of a fingertip, what about the shape? The color? Is it white or green? Gray or purple?

Right?

Also, "fingertip size" is quite vague, so whose fingertip size are we talking about, mine or Mo Gan Yun’s?

Is it thumb-sized, middle finger-sized, or pinky-sized?

This time, Fang Che didn’t dare ask Yin Shen Palace but instead questioned Mu Lin Yuan, sending all these inquiries over.

Mu Lin Yuan looked at the messages with a wry smile and only replied with one sentence: "Just search as instructed, submit whatever meets the criteria, isn’t that enough? Why ask so much? Are you trying to find trouble?!"

Fang Che was immediately displeased, so he harshly trained the Five Spirits Gu three times.

When the Five Spirits Gu was on the verge of collapse, he fed it a little spiritual power to help it recover.

Mu Lin Yuan had already gone to find Yin Shen Palace.

"Sect Hierarch, has anyone asked you what exactly it looks like?"

"No one has asked."

"I have someone who asked."

"Who?"

"Yemo."

"What did he ask?"

Yin Shen Palace was very interested, as he knew how vague his order was.

So Mu Lin Yuan showed Yin Shen Palace Fang Che’s messages.

"What color? Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet? Which kind? Fingertip size? A child’s fingertip size or an adult’s? A boy’s fingertip size or a girl’s? A martial artist’s fingertip size or an ordinary person’s? Is it the thumb, middle finger, ring finger, or pinky? A sword trainer’s fingertip size or a sword training person’s? Those who practice hidden weapons have different sizes..."

Yin Shen Palace cursed harshly.

"This bastard must be looking for trouble! Why didn’t he come to ask me!"

Mu Lin Yuan lamented, "This kid is clever; he wouldn’t dare ask you such questions, and he just wants to torment me... Sect Hierarch, I kind of miss Sun Yuan."

Yin Shen Palace was in a great mood these days, and couldn’t help but laugh heartily.

Then he said, "Send him a reply in my words, tell him everybody is searching but him, and if he doesn’t find anything, break his legs!"

Mu Lin Yuan’s spirits lifted, and he immediately sent a message in front of Yin Shen Palace: "Sect Hierarch says everyone’s searching, and you’re the only one talking nonsense! Don’t worry about so much; in any case, if you can’t find anything, your legs will be broken!"

Yin Shen Palace also stuck around to wait for the reply.

As expected, after a little while, Yemo’s message arrived: "Subordinate pledges to go all out, braving fire and water, fearless of death, to find it! Please rest assured, Sect Hierarch, that subordinate is already putting in utmost effort to search."

"Damn it!"

Yin Shen Palace cursed once more, "This kid is really sharp, instantly guessing I was watching from the side!"

Mu Lin Yuan laughed heartily, "This kid, his brain indeed works well."

...

Having successfully made his presence felt again in front of Sect Hierarch, Lord Night Demon began to ponder.

Ancient jade!

Fingertip size.

The purpose of this ancient jade, Fang Che wasn’t considering it at all.

What he was considering was the other half of the sentence.

"Everyone is searching!"

This "everyone" is very worth contemplating.

It means, including himself, all of Yixin Sect’s seeds, including hidden posts, subordinates, and everyone else, are searching for this ancient jade?

So Fang Che didn’t go to Old Man Shen in the afternoon but went straight back to the Scholar Residence.

How should it be collected?

Fang Che furrowed his brows; this command from Yin Shen Palace was clearly in a wide scope.

In other words, many people will definitely be exposed.

And as for himself... he absolutely can’t collect it with his true appearance.

Better safe than sorry.

Although his identity here is practically exposed, it still can’t be done openly; there must be a reason for the Guardian to protect himself, right?

If he openly went out to collect ancient jade, then even the Guardian wouldn’t be able to protect him because it would clearly indicate Fang Che has issues to everyone.

Fang Che exerted all his power, activating Phantom Bones, Shifting Forms, changing his appearance, and then brought his silver notes.

Going out and wandering around a few turns, he reached the shopping street.

Then he searched store by store, especially those dealing in jade.

And all sorts of pawnshops.

"Do you have jade about this size? About fingertip size, complete pieces, take them out and let me see."

"How much does the customer want?"

"How much do you have? Take out all of them; otherwise, I’ll smash your store!"

"..."

A moment later: "I’ll take all these. How much in total? Let me tell you, I’m going to collect from other shops too, you understand."

"Understood, understood. Altogether, these are..."

"Any more? Are you sure there’s nothing left?"

"There’s none left. Really not one whole piece of this size left."

"Package it, pay!"

Fang Che paid gracefully, picked up the bundle, and left, the bundle filled with jade.

Entered the next store.

"Do you have jade about this size, approximately..."

A moment later.

"I’ll take all of them!"

Moved on to the next store.

After seven or eight stores...

Fifteen large bundles, hired a cart.

Now it was easy.

One bundle after another was thrown onto the cart.

Young Master Fang was generous; silver was thrown out in handfuls.

Besides, these aren’t very valuable, so each shop is happy to dispose of them for a quick profit.

In one night, Fang Che swept through more than fifty stores.

Upon receiving at the fifty-sixth store: "Sorry, there’s none. A customer just came and bought everything."

As he went further, there was nothing left.

So Fang Che drove the cart leisurely, changed carts halfway, and then quietly transferred out the ancient jade under the cover of night, stacking stones on the cart to disguise it.

Given his cultivation, the cart driver, being an ordinary person, didn’t notice a thing.

Then he gave the cart driver fifty taels of silver to head out of town.

"Just take it to Li’s Manor outside the city for Li Dabozhi."

The driver was overjoyed; fifty taels of silver were enough for his whole family’s expenses for a long time, a substantial amount of money.

He agreed eagerly.

Hurriedly driving the cart out of the city.

Fang Che watched as the cart disappeared into the night, turned a corner, and quietly carried away the pile of ancient jade, as if carrying a small mountain, quietly heading home.

That night.

Sent a message to Mu Lin Yuan: "Second Master, I collected tens of thousands of pieces of this jade; where should I submit it?"

The message received on Mu Lin Yuan’s side, he hurriedly reported: "Yemo has already collected tens of thousands of pieces of this jade..."

Yin Shen Palace hadn’t reacted, but Bei Mingxin’s face already turned pitch black.

This much? And collected by just one person?

Relying only on himself to identify them, how long would it take to get through them all?

Damn, why is there so much jade of this size in Baiyun State?

And other reports kept coming in about how much had been collected...

Currently, they’re all piling up in their respective places.

Bei Mingxin lifted his head like a defeated rooster: "Let’s go and take a look."

In a dispirited tone.

Because it’s not only the Yixin Sect’s personnel in their shops collecting, but also several other sects’ shops and personnel.

Moreover, a lot of reports have already reached the hands of each sect leader, who also notified Bei Mingxin.

Bei Mingxin now had thoughts of suicide.

The idea of identifying millions or tens of millions of ancient jades himself was enough to drive Beitan Master to the brink.

What a sin!

Who would have thought that I, the esteemed Law Enforcement Altar Master of the Wei Wo Zheng Main Sect, a person whose mere footstep shakes the world, would have to do such menial work?

Bei Mingxin wanted to go, but Yin Shen Palace didn’t come.

Because: "Lord Bei, with all the sects working together collecting this, it’s sure to draw attention. The waves are strong in Baiyun State now; I’m too much of a target, so I won’t go."

Bei Mingxin sighed, not pressing it.

Mu Lin Yuan accompanied him.

Both changed their appearances and hurried on their way.

...

Outside the city.

The cart driver had found the so-called Li’s Manor: "I’m looking for Li Dabozhi."

"We don’t have such a person in Li’s Manor."

"For the things he ordered."

"We really don’t have such a person!"

The cart driver was bewildered: what’s going on?

Why can’t he find anyone?

Turning around with a sigh, he opened the cart’s boxes to have a look; those things should really get to the recipient.

Opening it, he couldn’t help but stagger to the ground.

The things? Where are they?

How did they all become broken, shoddy stones and bricks?

This, this, this... I walked the entire way, yet didn’t see anything unusual happening.

No incidents at all.

Connecting the dots to the absence of a Li Dabozhi at Li’s Manor, a chill rose suddenly in his heart.

Could it be I encountered...

Were the things actually delivered? And then turned into bricks? What other explanation is there?

All kinds of legends flooded his mind.

I was possibly employed by a ghost. And even delivered goods to a ghost...

"Ghost..."

The cart driver screamed, fleeing in terror, hurriedly driving the cart away....

And thus this place gained another ghost legend, with eyewitnesses and physical evidence.

That so-and-so cart driver, and what happened that night...

Became widely talked about.

...

That night.

Fang Che almost slept on a mountain of jade; he continuously stroked various ancient jades, using his cultivation and Divine Thought to communicate with all the ancient jade he had in hand.

Because... there must be something strange.

Returning to his room, Ye Meng saw the sudden addition of so much jade, instantly sensing something unusual, starting to think and relay messages.

"Fang Che is showing strange behavior, collecting ancient jade. Uniform standards, collecting it at any cost. He has collected tens of thousands so far."

"On the market, countless other forces or shops are also collecting such jade for unknown reasons."

The Guardian Hall received the report immediately.

So they quickly dispatched someone for a secret investigation.

During the investigation, they also received similar reports successively: "Someone is buying fingertip-sized ancient jade on a large scale, which seems unusual."

From all directions, within the Baiyun State and beyond, everyone is collecting.

"Why?"

"As expected, everyone’s collecting this jade, but why?"

So they reported upward immediately.

Dongfang Sansan had long listed this area as a priority.

Upon receiving the message, he immediately issued orders.

"Immediately monitor everyone collecting ancient jade. For the collection phenomenon, refrain from intervening, but during this period, those making such moves must not be overlooked."