Chapter 530: Chapter 299: Time Pause Shows Its Might Again!

Su Que’s gaze moved downward again, revealing more detailed information about himself beneath the bounty.

It mentioned that he had just ascended from a Martial Arts Small World, with special skills in Fist Techniques and Saber Techniques...

As he looked down again, he realized there were no details on where to claim the bounty.

Su Que was puzzled and was about to find someone to inquire about it.

But in a second thought, he realized that asking about this might reveal that he was a new ascender, aligning him with the person on the bounty.

So, he held back from asking and instead mingled with the crowd, listening for information.

"Another force is offering a bounty for a newly ascended person!"

Su Que’s ear twitched as he heard someone in the crowd say.

He sharpened his hearing, listening to the person continue speaking.

"I don’t know which force it is, whether it’s Spirit Mountain, the Celestial Court, or some other major power. This person must have exceptional talent to be bountied."

Su Que listened as another person conversed with the one who had just spoken.

He steadied his mind and continued listening.

"Five hundred taels of Profound Gold, that’s quite a lot for someone newly ascended. This shows that person’s talent is indeed quite exceptional. Even if they enter Spirit Mountain or the Celestial Court, they could cultivate for a while. If it were us, upon entering the Celestial Court of the Spirit Mountain, we’d have to participate in divine wars. A few battles and we’d likely perish, wasting hundreds of years of hard cultivation for nothing!"

"Alas—"

Su Que listened to the two of them converse further, but still didn’t hear any other useful information.

After staying a while longer, the crowd gradually dispersed, and he left as well.

He continued towards the casino, planning to gather information there.

But due to the bounty, he wouldn’t actively ask people for news anymore and could only listen quietly.

...

Near noon, Su Que stepped out of the casino with a light stride.

He pretended to be gambling while listening to the chatter of the people inside.

Unexpectedly, using some of the Profound Gold from Emperor Jing of Liang, he won a bit of change.

Moreover, he also heard quite a bit of useful information.

He learned that even in the "Unclaimed Land," there were divisions of power and territory.

The valley he was in now belonged to "Luohong Mountain."

This "Luohong Mountain" was just one of many mountains in the entire mountain range nearby.

The mountain range was called the "Valley River Mountain Range."

The person in charge of this mountain range was known as the "Ridge Master."

And the person in charge of each mountain was known as the "Mountain Master."

If someone captured the person on the bounty, they were to hand them over to the Mountain Master first.

The Mountain Master would then hand them over to the Ridge Master.

’It must be the monk from Spirit Mountain who found the Ridge Master here and issued a bounty order on me.’

Su Que thought as he walked toward the inn.

He returned to the inn, closed the door, and continued cultivating the Circulation of the Six Void Skill.

Circulation of the Six Void Skill (Peak of the 8th Realm 38%)

After about an hour of cultivation, the progress increased by another 2%.

Remaining lifespan: 8003

The remaining lifespan finally broke the threshold of eight hundred.

As he was practicing, he suddenly felt the presence of one Second-Layer and one Third-Layer of the Realm of Merging approaching, stopping at his door.

Soon after, his door was knocked on twice.

Then, a gentle voice came from outside:

"Dear friend, may I ask you to open the door to discuss a matter."

Su Que squinted his eyes, got down from the bed from his seated position, put his foot into his boot, and asked:

"What is it?"

The person outside gave a light laugh and then said: 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"Dear friend, did you see the bounty poster for a newly ascended person from the Upper Realm, who might have arrived here?"

"We are people from the Mountain Master, and we checked the inn records and know that you checked in just yesterday."

"As long as we ascertain your identity is not related to that person, we will not disturb you further."

Upon hearing this, Su Que pondered how to resolve it, and asked, "How do you intend to check?"

The person outside said, "Just come with us to the Mountain Lord’s Mansion. The Mountain Master has his ways to ascertain your identity."

"If it’s confirmed you are not that person, the Mountain Master will not treat you poorly and will invite you to have a bowl of Laba Porridge cooked with Celestial Medicine."

After saying this, the two outside waited for a response from Su Que inside.

If Su Que responded with a "no" or didn’t respond for a long time, they would be certain there was something ’fishy’ in his mind.

One of them had his hand on the Divine Short Blade on his waist, and the other was making a hand technique, secretly gathering Mana, ready to take action.

"If there’s Laba Porridge, I’d like to thank the Mountain Master."

Su Que’s disguised voice came from inside the room.

The two outside let out a sigh of relief.

"Squeak—"

Su Que opened the door. Just as the two were about to look inside, a vortex like a black hole appeared on Su Que’s right fist.

Dark Evil Fist, Time Pause!

In an instant, everything around lost its color.

The two outside were still in a peeking posture.

Taking advantage of the moment during Time Pause, Su Que reached out, grabbed the back of their collars, and forcefully pulled them into the room.

As True Qi circulated, a gust burst forth from his body, closing the open door.

Just before time flowed again, Su Que punched them in the head, knocking them out.

Then, he used Telepathy to invade their spirits and obtained their memories.

Turns out these two were underlings of the Mountain Master.

At the Mountain Master’s place, they heard that in the latter half of the night, a divine Buddha from Spirit Mountain sought out the Ridge Master, telling him who they were looking for.

The Ridge Master then instructed his subordinates, informing each Mountain Master.

Firstly, to post bounties and station people at water, land, and air routes leading to other gathering places of cultivators.