102: Your life has become more valuable...

"Pang Long, keep on acting. Why did you stop?"

That nasty voice rang out again, and Xiang Ning sauntered over with a devil-may-care attitude.

Mao Rui looked full of regret: "Tsk tsk, 500,000 military merit. Honestly, if I were you, I'd go find a cool place to die right now..."

"Hey, don't say that, Fatty. It's just 500,000 military merit, right? What's that to the Pang Family?"

Xiang Ning draped an arm over Mao Rui's shoulder and said generously, "If they're lucky, won't their old man be able to earn it back after fighting on the extraterrestrial front line for a dozen years or so?"

Mao Rui played along and asked, "Then what if they're unlucky?"

Xiang Ning waved his hand heroically and said, "What to do? Have a big, fancy funeral!"

"Tsk, wouldn't we have to give condolence money then..."

Watching the two of them play off each other, Pang Long clenched his fists and squeezed two words through his teeth: "Xiang Ning!"

"He's angry, he's angry~!"

"Yo, it's come to this, and you still have the energy to bare your teeth at me?"

"Looks like the penalty was too light..."

Pang Long took a deep breath. He really couldn't do anything about Xiang Ning and Mao Rui; others might be slightly weaker than him in strength, but their Family backgrounds were no worse than his.

So he just stared fixedly at Chu Yuan: "I'll remember you!"

Chu Yuan's expression changed: "You don't intend to kill me, do you?"

"Heh~"

"...Don't tell me you also want to take revenge on everyone related to me?"

"I..."

Just as Pang Long was about to speak, someone behind him quietly poked him with a finger and whispered, "Brother Long... stop talking! During the last Secret Realm trial, he already killed several Family Disciples... Even Ma Chengye of the Ma Family from the Mochen Prefecture died at his hands."

"So what? The Pang Family absolutely cannot suffer such a huge loss without reason!"

Pang Long's expression was gloomy as he looked at Chu Yuan: "500,000 military merit, your life is truly expensive..."

"Chu Yuan, he's threatening you, huh?"

Chu Yuan shook his head: "Then what can I do..."

He pulled the zhenwu token from his pocket and said with worry: "I hope the Zhenwu Bureau can stand up for me..."

Seeing that small token, Pang Long's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"Chu Yuan!!"

"Commander Zheng! Pang Long is threatening me! He has already admitted that the Pang Family will take action against me. I want to report him!" Chu Yuan said loudly.

The figure of the young man with an inch-cut hairstyle appeared once again, looking at Pang Long with a smile that wasn't quite a smile: "Refusing to repent and threatening a holder of a zhenwu token is a crime compounded! The confiscated military merit amount is doubled!"

Pang Long said anxiously: "Commander Zheng! That's not it! Listen to my explanation!"

However, Commander Zheng still didn't give him a chance to speak and disappeared again.

"Chu Yuan! How dare you set me up!!"

Chu Yuan said innocently: "I didn't. Did I force you to say you wanted to kill me? I didn't..."

Xiang Ning was even more gleeful: "Long-Long, you guy, the old man of the Pang Family really didn't waste his affection on you, heh~!"

Mao Rui pretended to be envious: "One million! Chu Yuan, your life has appreciated!"

There were also people who had no concept of military merit and asked ignorantly: "Is one million military merit a lot?"

Such people felt that there was nothing in the world a Martial Arts Family couldn't do, so why did it feel like Pang Long looked like the sky was falling?

"Let me put it this way: right now, you wouldn't even be able to find change for a single military merit..."

The military merit of the army and the contributions of the Zhenwu Bureau are interchangeable, whether one wants to exchange for a Cultivation Technique, equipment, or any other martial arts resources... Low-level ones can be purchased with currency used by ordinary people, but high-level ones can only be purchased with military merit!

The conditions for obtaining military merit are also unique... it can only be obtained on the battlefield by killing alien races or sabotaging their strategic operations!

Chu Yuan didn't know the difficulty of obtaining military merit yet, but he knew that even the Legacy of the Blood Beast Clan... was only worth one million Zhenwu Bureau contributions!

In other words, the act Pang Long put on... directly cost him the equivalent of a clan Legacy?

Of course, the calculation method might not be that simple; it's just for comparison...

"Invincible spirit... tsk~"

"You are indeed invincible, child."

"..."

Pang Long wished he could leave right now, but he couldn't.

Many precious resources provided in the Jianmu Project were not easily obtainable even by the Pang Family.

The loss was already heavy, and if he gave up on the Jianmu Project as well, it would only make matters worse!

Now there was only one path left to take, and that was to gain enough harvest in the Jianmu Project...

"Brother Long... don't lower yourself to their level." The comfort from the boy behind him was pale and powerless.

Pang Long didn't speak; he closed his eyes.

But then Chu Yuan walked over again...

"What else do you want!?" Pang Long said gloomily, while a faint worry rose in his heart.

Could it be that Chu Yuan didn't feel satisfied after setting him up once? Did he still want to make a move...

But at this moment, he at least understood that he was no match for Chu Yuan...

But Chu Yuan ignored him and looked at the boy behind Pang Long, asking: "Where is Tian Tian?"

He had felt this person looked familiar before; after recalling slightly, he remembered that in Secret Realm No. 7, he seemed to have been with Tian Tian. They came from the same place!

He hadn't seen Tian Tian when he was in line, and he had assumed she was just running late.

Only now did he realize... Tian Tian might have really run into a problem!

With her Inner Breath Realm strength, it was impossible for her not to pass the quota selection.

Yet she didn't come today...

"I... I don't know!" The boy looked panicked, his expression full of lies.

Chu Yuan pressed down on his shoulder, gradually applying force: "You don't know? Should I help you think?"

"Chu Yuan! This is the training base! You... you can't act recklessly!" Cold sweat seeped from his forehead, and the sound of bone cracking could be heard.

"Still haven't remembered?"

"Brother Long! Save me!"

Pang Long hardened his heart and acted as if he hadn't heard anything...

A trace of real killing intent enveloped the boy. At this moment, he felt as if he had returned to Secret Realm No. 7, trapped and hunted by Blood Beasts!

It was as if a giant beast had already bared its hideous fangs at him!

His voice already carried a hint of sobbing: "Chu Yuan... I, I really don't know! I just heard... heard that she broke the law! She was arrested by the Zhenwu Bureau... I really don't know anything else!"

"Zhenwu Bureau?" Chu Yuan frowned. He didn't quite believe that Tian Tian could break any law.

She was very smart and knew what could be done and what could not.

However... Tian Tian clearly had his terminal number, so why hadn't she asked him for help?

"Does it have anything to do with the Pang Family?"

"I really don't know... let me go..."

Pang Long stood by silently. Under his Divine Sense monitoring, he didn't detect anything unusual.

Chu Yuan was thoughtful. It seemed this matter had nothing to do with the Pang Family... at least not with Pang Long.

He activated the Niyuan Qianshen Technique, and a summoning sensation faintly came from a certain direction.

The next moment, with a burst of golden light, Chu Yuan's figure disappeared...

Liu Yun didn't know when she had walked over, and her tone was complicated: "He's already this strong, yet he still comes to fight us for food..."

Xiang Ning rolled his eyes: "Would you ever complain about having too much to eat?"

"No..." Liu Yun was thoughtful and suddenly asked: "Is he already a direct descendant of the Zhenwu Bureau?"

Xiang Ning nodded: "Yeah, I heard Elder Wei has already taken him as a Disciple."

In that case, his last shortcoming had also been filled... Liu Yun lowered her eyes; she felt as if she could already see Chu Yuan rising rapidly...