Dragon's Origin

Chapter 388: Retaliation (Part 1)

The Triumphal Palace was originally considered a secluded sect, but unlike those completely hidden sects, some disciples were still active in various places, making it a semi-secluded sect.

After the Emperor promoted the grand ceremony of enfeoffing vassals, the Triumphal Palace couldn't sit still watching the major families establish their own states and become marquises. Along with several other hidden sects, they also occupied their own territories to establish states and become marquises.

Compared to those established major families, the Triumphal Palace had fewer but more elite experts, but this was enough for them to establish their own vassal state and dominate one side.

The villagers of Runzi Workshop were now being brought to a large manor in the Triumphal Kingdom. To avoid being tracked by experts from the capital, they were initially very careful, traveling during the night and resting during the day, so the speed was slow. It wasn't until they left the capital that they sped up.

However, when passing through other vassal states, everyone had to be careful when crossing the border. Once the news spread and people knew that this group was made up of Runzi Workshop artisans, one could easily imagine what measures these vassal states would take along the way.

It wasn't just the Triumphal Palace that coveted Runzi Workshop. It could be said that, except for Qian Shengyuan and Runzi Workshop being owned by the same boss, anyone in business wanted to get their hands on Runzi Workshop. Which of the major vassal states wasn't drooling with envy? It was just that some could restrain themselves.

Because they had to go around the Thousand Absolutes Land, it took more than ten days longer than usual for this group of artisans to safely reach the Triumphal Kingdom. Once they arrived here, they were considered safe.

The people were settled, but other troubles came. News of what happened in the capital later also spread to the Triumphal Kingdom. The general idea was that unless they had the core formula of Runzi Workshop, these three hundred villagers could only produce the lowest-end, mass-market cosmetics with the lowest profit margin based on what they knew. They couldn't produce those with high profits and high value.

This made a group of people in the Triumphal Palace feel awkward. They originally thought that as long as they controlled the key personnel in all production processes, all the products produced could be produced. Who would have thought that Runzi Workshop would also have a hand in preventing the acquisition of raw materials?

For this operation, just the visible expenditure of gold coins for the Triumphal Kingdom to buy off internal spies and arrange accommodation and safe passage along the way exceeded one hundred thousand. This didn't even include the intangible losses brought about by the dispatch of so many experts. After throwing down hundreds of thousands of gold coins, this was the result?

The planner of the operation was directly dumbfounded. If he had known this, why did he have to take this action?

No one had expected such a result. According to the previous experience of various countries taking action against Baoqing Yu Tang's salt and sugar business, as long as they controlled the production manor and the key personnel who mastered the craftsmanship, they would basically get the goods. But who knew that the same group of people would actually have an extra control over raw materials?

If it was simply cutting off the source of raw materials, it would be easy to handle. With the power of the state, they could always find suppliers of raw materials. But the problem was that now everyone didn't even know what the key raw materials were. What could they do?

It could only be said that Mei'er and her team learned from their mistakes and became more cautious, but what could the people of the Triumphal Palace say? Blame them for hiding the things too well and not letting them steal them smoothly?

A group of people looked at each other. Not only had they done all the useless work of arranging, deploying, and buying off people for half a year, but how should these three hundred people be settled?

Although the Triumphal Kingdom was a vassal state, settling more than three hundred people was a trivial matter. Any minor official could handle it. The problem was, what were these three hundred people arranged to do? Farming or continuing to make some low-priced cosmetics?

The experts who participated in this operation and these three hundred villagers were all resting in this manor. They had been worried along the way, and naturally needed to rest after returning to a safe place.

No one knew that on a small hilltop ten miles away, someone was using a sniper scope to observe the entire manor.

Although Wang Sheng went to the Lao Jun Temple for more than ten days after the Runzi Workshop manor incident, Wang Sheng arrived here only two days later than the people from the Triumphal Palace, who took a detour with the villagers, because Wang Sheng went directly through the Thousand Absolutes Land.

The scope could only be used during the day. Wang Sheng had roughly determined the distribution of the manor's guards and experts through the scope. He was resting in the mountains and forests a few miles away, waiting for sunset. Two or three o'clock in the middle of the night was the time when people were the most tired, and it was also the best time for a surprise attack.

Wang Sheng was already a little excited. After coming to this world for so many years, this was the first time he had carried out a large-scale special operation, and the target was a manor with nearly a hundred experts. It wasn't that he hadn't done it before, but usually the target was only one person, and Wang Sheng wasn't satisfied at all.

At night, Wang Sheng approached the manor in the dark. In this Yuanhun world where at least half of the people had night blindness, even if Wang Sheng didn't have enhanced vision, he was still a leader in the dark. Could he be a sniper if his eyesight was poor?

After the second strengthening during the Qiuniu Transformation, Wang Sheng's eyes could see hazy spiritual energy clusters in the dark, and his hearing and sense of smell could accurately determine a person's position.

Crack, a guard outside the manor had his neck easily twisted off by Wang Sheng from behind. Wang Sheng supported his body and carefully laid him down in the corner of the wall. There was no broken skin or bleeding, so there would be no bloody smell.

Puff, a blowgun dart made by Wang Sheng himself, smeared with the venom of the small black bean spiders in the Thousand Absolutes Land, silently pierced the neck of the guard sitting against the pillar dozens of steps away. The instantaneous paralysis effect prevented him from even making a sound, and his body directly softened there. Wang Sheng easily touched him and crushed his throat.

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There were not many people patrolling outside, and their cultivation was not high. A dozen people were easily dealt with by Wang Sheng one by one. No one had the opportunity to make a sound, and no one had shed a large amount of blood. At most, a guy walking was stabbed in the heart by Wang Sheng from behind with an awl. It was also a strong paralyzing venom. Wang Sheng covered his mouth from behind, without a sound.

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This manor was near the capital of the Triumphal Kingdom, not a very secretive manor. The guards were not strict enough. If the three hundred villagers could produce completely, it might be different, but they could only produce the lowest-grade cosmetics, so there was no need for such a defensive posture.

No one knew that the outside of the manor was empty and there was not a single living person. Everyone was sleeping soundly at the moment. Diligent experts in cultivation would inevitably reduce some vigilance. Was it necessary to be so defensive in their own territory?