"Brother Ning, can you at least give me a hint? What in the world is your plan?" Leng Yi couldn’t stand it anymore. He felt like he was being driven mad.

Just then, Ning Xuan suddenly stopped. "Found them," he said to Leng Yi.

"Huh? Where?" Leng Yi asked, completely bewildered.

"Right beside you."

Leng Yi looked to his side and saw a heavily pregnant woman. *This has to be a joke!*

But in that same instant, his eyes widened in shock. With a thunderous roar, an expert struck from the shadows, seizing the pregnant woman next to him with a vise-like hand.

Then, BANG!

A fist the size of a sandbag smashed into her stomach.

The anger on Leng Yi’s face hadn’t even faded before it was replaced by utter astonishment as the pregnant woman transformed into a large, fat man!

"What the hell is going on?!" he exclaimed, dumbfounded.

"Young Master, the number of people is correct! But are you certain it’s them?" the expert who had struck asked Ning Xuan. "We’ve captured all four, but where is our own young master?"

Ning Xuan gestured with his chin toward one of the captives.

The experts from the Zhang Family were stunned. *This bandit is our young master? Are they kidding?!*

Without a word, Ning Xuan suddenly appeared before the bandit pinned firmly to the ground. His fingers moved like a blur, and in just a moment, the man’s appearance changed completely, morphing into that of Zhang Yi.

The expert pinning Zhang Yi scrambled back several steps in fright.

"Thank you for saving my life, Young Master!" Zhang Yi immediately clasped his fists toward Ning Xuan, not even bothering with recriminations. His rescuer’s methods were too bizarre; without Ning Xuan’s help, he definitely wouldn’t have seen the light of another day!

"Ning... how did you figure it out? And what was all that about?" Leng Yi asked hurriedly, having regained his composure. Ning Xuan had been with him the entire time and hadn’t seemed to do anything. How had he completed the mission so suddenly? The others also stared intently at Ning Xuan, their faces mirroring Leng Yi’s question.

Ning Xuan glanced at another captive’s left shoulder. That man’s eyes narrowed, and he immediately reverted to his true form—the young man from before. He finally understood.

"To be defeated by you is no injustice," he sighed, utterly humbled.

Ning Xuan then smiled at the increasingly baffled Zhang Yi and his men. "Given that we’ll be cooperating in the future, I won’t tell you the details. I hope you understand."

Someone immediately relayed Ning Xuan’s conditions to Zhang Yi via voice transmission.

"Understood," Zhang Yi nodded at once. "Gentlemen, this way, please." As he spoke, he shot his men a meaningful look, and the kidnappers who had attacked him were instantly released.

Now, it was the kidnappers’ turn to be more perplexed than Zhang Yi’s group. *What in the world is happening?!*

However, their young leader was intelligent and quickly realized their lives had been spared. He sent a swift voice transmission to his comrades, warning them not to make any rash moves.

「An hour later.」

Inside a spacious courtyard, Leng Yi pinched himself hard. "Brother Ning, am I dreaming?"

He answered his own question. "It’s not a dream! *So it’s true! With enough wealth, even the rules must bend to serve it!*"

As Law Enforcement Officers, they were required to reside in designated quarters. Yet thanks to the Zhang Family’s influence, the True Servant Society had actually sent people here to personally handle their registration and answer their questions. The so-called True Servant Society was exactly what its name implied: they proclaimed themselves to be servants of the True Saint. It was composed of the ten strongest experts in the Dali Realm, and the final ten cultivators from this selection would be accepted as their disciples. Each one of these ten Supreme experts stood at the pinnacle of the Dali Cultivation World, an incredibly prestigious figure.

Yet now, all of them were bending the rules for the sake of wealth.

"What do you want us to do?" The group of four former kidnappers was also present. After a discussion via voice transmission, their young leader got straight to the point.

Ning Xuan’s lips moved, relaying his plan.

"What?!" After listening, the young man stared at Ning Xuan as if he were a lunatic. The other three looked at him, and when he came to his senses, he told them what Ning Xuan had proposed. Their reactions were even more extreme than his.

"Brother Ning, you can’t..."

Before Leng Yi could finish, Ning Xuan’s voice sounded in his ear: "We’re going to rob the Four Seas Bank."

THUMP!

Leng Yi’s knees gave out. *Damn. What an absolute madman!* He had just been doing some mental calculations. Each betting station held millions of Divine Crystals. With ten stations, that amounted to tens of millions!

"Tens of millions of Divine Crystals, and they belong to the Realm Lord," Leng Yi muttered. "We’re provoking a power far beyond us!"

"Tens of millions? You’re severely underestimating the Four Seas Bank," the young man corrected, shaking his head. "The Divine Crystals from all the wagers have likely been moved to the bank’s Secret Vault through special channels. Rumor has it that the vault holds Divine Crystals numbering in the tens of billions!"

They had considered it before but had quickly dismissed the idea. The Four Seas Bank was far too well-guarded; not even a fly could get inside. Only a fool would entertain the thought of robbing it.

But Ning Xuan was clearly no fool. And so, after the initial shock, the young man was filled with an intense excitement. If they pulled this off, they would be set for life! More importantly, he was dying to see how Ning Xuan planned to do it.

"Tens... of billions of Divine Crystals... My gods!" Leng Yi stammered, stunned by the number.

"What’s the plan?" the young man asked Ning Xuan directly.

"First, we have to find the entrance, obviously," the portly member of the group said grimly. "It’s not like others haven’t targeted the Four Seas’ Secret Vault before. In the end, they could never even find the entrance!" He was clearly pessimistic about the operation, as were his other two companions.

"Oh, I know where it is," Ning Xuan said casually.

His words left them all speechless.

"Are you from the Realm Capital?" Leng Yi asked. The thought arose naturally, recalling Ning Xuan’s feud with that oddly-named man and how easily he’d located Zhang Yi.

"No. But think about it—what’s the safest place in the city right now?"

The men exchanged glances, and the same location popped into their minds: the lodgings of the Law Enforcement Officers!

The young leader immediately unfurled a map. After finding the officers’ quarters, he pointed to a spot.

"No way! The Secret Vault of the Four Seas Bank is underneath the dueling grounds!" Leng Yi blurted out, realization dawning on him.

"No wonder no one could ever find the entrance! This is the last place anyone would look!"

"That area is used for events and competitions year-round! When there’s nothing scheduled, it’s under maintenance. It’s never empty. We all thought the Realm Lord was just obsessed with providing a better experience, but this was the real reason!" the young man’s group chimed in, the pieces clicking into place.

"So, what do we do?" Leng Yi asked Ning Xuan immediately.

The other four also stared at him, their eyes burning with anticipation. At this moment, the tens of billions of Divine Crystals no longer mattered. What truly excited them was the thought of robbing a Secret Vault whose entrance had never been found. The sheer uproar a successful heist would cause sent a thrill of anticipation through them