The archaeological site of the ancient tomb was bustling with activity, resembling a large-scale construction site.

"There's more over there."

"Yes, yes, yes, you need to dismantle this like this."

"Girls are meticulous, you guys go pry up that small railing over there, don't break it."

On the scene, everyone's hands held Luoyang shovels, crowbars, wheelbarrows.

Most of these tomb raiding tools were sold to them by the Shi Family.

Three Magic Coins for a set.

This made everyone heartbroken.

"Oh my, the Shi Family has learned our tricks."

"I'm gonna puke! It's just a bunch of scrap iron, and they sell it for that? So greedy!"

"But we have no choice but to buy them, there's no time to have the blacksmith forge them."

"Damn it!"

Many blacksmiths gritted their teeth, feeling like they've trapped themselves.

— The Shi Family, they learned the wrong ways from them.

After all, urgent procurement was too late; only the Shi Family had these large stocks of tomb raiding tools.

If that was all, it would have been fine.

The most crucial thing was, Shi Youyou set up a stall there, haggling with the blacksmiths, constantly saying:

"Can't afford the three Magic Coins? Reflect on whether you've been working hard enough moving bricks!"

"You don't buy? Others will. You don't do it, others will."

"Hmph, wait a bit, the price of the sets will probably rise. Many people are buying again, and we can't keep up with our stock."

"What? Why buy again? They wore out their shovels until they sparked, broke several, they worked so hard, look at yourselves?"

"Always so nitpicky, can't even move a warm brick."

...

How many days has it been?

The Shi Family truly lives up to being a major Demon Cultivator family.

Their skill is impeccable, mimicking and crazily making fast money off of them.

They truly are a long-established Demon Cultivator family!

They're so malicious, so evil, not human at all.

The blacksmiths, seeing this scene, almost spat blood.

Hoisted themselves by their own petard!

Watching them make money off them was more painful for the blacksmiths than losing their own money.

This reminded them of the famous Gold Rush in history.

A group of people rushed to pan gold, digging sand, not earning much money, while those selling water and tools by the roadside made a fortune.

More blacksmiths secretly learned a lesson from this.

They were still inadequately prepared.

The dozen-page tomb raiding guide still had loopholes!

If they had procured a large batch of tomb raiding tools from Zhang Huaping a few days before starting raiding, how would they have fallen for this trick?

Still not cautious enough!

Not nearly prudent enough!

In the future, facing such situations, they need to be more thoroughly prepared.

From now on, when entering dungeons, they need to prepare three weapons, a main weapon and a spare, plus a backup for the spare.

...

The full-scale house dismantling operation proceeded quickly, especially with the help of the prisoners.

Now, the prisoners don't even need to go to the labor zone.

Helping dismantle the prison is their labor.

One cart after another went back and forth, carrying all sorts of steel pipes, building materials, walls, screens, sorted into categories, piled into a pyramid shape.

Then using a Storage Bag for a hard collection, walked outside, transported back to the villa, and came back again.

Embers and Jiucai Rong, seeing this scene, felt that these Storage Bags needed to be stocked up.

Previously.

He felt everything was well prepared.

When it came down to doing things, there were all sorts of large and small loopholes, very tricky.

He really needed to buy Storage Bags.

Though expensive, they're worth it; they'll come in handy for all sorts of things in the future.

Otherwise, even the act of looting becomes clumsy!

At this time.

After a large portion of the prison's public facilities was demolished, they also wanted to probe the Spirit Plant area but were sternly refused by several Prison Guards.

After all, what does prison construction have to do with someone else's planting area?

"Here, it doesn't need to be rebuilt!"

"Sorry, there's no construction inside, just planting fields!"

A few blacksmiths withdrew disheartened, not given entry, forced to re-strategize.

As they discussed, indeed, the prison was divided into several demolition areas.

1. Prison facilities.

Walls, floors, screens... these are best dismantled.

Although they're not very valuable.

But they're crafted with Spirit Soil, which adds up, ironically becoming one of the most valuable projects.

2. Prison inmates.

Shi Youxing once said, through negotiation, during reconstruction, inmates are allowed to be temporarily detained at another nearby "prison" and taken away.

Since there are no felons in the prison currently, only low-level offenders, "sending away inmates" is very simple for them.

(There could not be any major felons, as essentially they are just burial accompaniments, there's no way they'd buy too advanced and sinister Demon Cultivator felons; it's unsafe and disrupts the prison's harmonious atmosphere.)

3. Spirit Plant area.

The prison also has an internal planting area, but they cannot interfere or enter.

The Spirit Plant area should also be one of the most valuable areas, possibly containing many Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Grasses.

4. Prison warehouse.

It contains low-tier Spirit Talismans, Pill Medicines, Magical Artifacts made by the inmates.

Judging by the standard of inmates here, no one holds high expectations for the products inside.

Furthermore, spirit talismans and pill medicine have time limitations and will diminish over time; these things probably aren't amassed in large quantities.

At the same time, they have no reason to enter.

That is to say.

Of the four areas, they can only handle two: buildings, prisoners.

The remaining [Prison Planting Area] and [Prison Warehouse] aren't so easily resolved.

...

Outside the tomb tunnel, Shi Youyou was setting up a stall to sell tomb raiding supplies.

Their Tomb Raider Family had too many miscellaneous items.

Some clothes and tomb raiding tools that were stockpiled in the warehouse and no one wanted, surprisingly, when brought out at the right time to sell, earned them several thousand magic coins.

She was grinning from ear to ear.

Isn't this way more convenient than robbing?

At this moment.

Embers Jiucai Rong quietly approached outside the tomb tunnel, observing the intelligence gathered by various miners, and said, "What does your Shi Family think should be done next?"

"The most valuable are the buildings and prisoners."

Shi Youyou, sitting at the stall, said:

"Our patriarch says we can easily take these two and then retreat immediately."

With their years of tomb raiding experience, they instantly recognized what was most valuable in this tomb: female prisoners.

Typical prisoners wouldn't be so valuable.

But the ones buried here were all beautiful women!

You might think they are prisoners, but in essence, they don't have a cruel, bloodthirsty nature; in fact, they are mostly timid and cowardly.

Selling such people as prisoners would be foolish.

If you package their life experiences before death, who would know they were prisoners in life? Belonging to prisoner embers?

They can absolutely be sold as gentle and considerate maids, which is the most valuable!

Furthermore.

They also have that unique charm that comes only after bearing children, making them beautiful and mature — perfect for serving as maids.

Although dead people cannot perform those activities, following the aesthetic logic of their previous lives is inevitable.

Burying beautiful maids has always been a hot commodity.

Back in the day, for this city guard to obtain this batch of accompaniments, who are even of the prison line of attributes, shows that their family's power back then was immensely overwhelming and domineering.

"If we steal the buried prisoners intact, it will surely satisfy us." Shi Youyou said:

"If it were in the past, being able to take away this batch of prisoners would already be the best solution, but now, we can dismantle these buildings as well, multiplying the profits significantly."

In their past tomb raiding ventures.

Items such as buildings scattered here and there were too hard to remove, and they had to be abandoned.

Because to move buildings, you must launch a full attack, and even if you join forces to kill the tomb owner, after a battle breaks out, the entire building becomes a ruin.

Therefore, obtaining the buildings still wasn't possible.

"This time, being able to take the buildings is already very profitable." Shi Youyou said: "Our family is planning to retreat in this manner."

Jiucai Rong contemplated: "I admit that the talismans and pill medicines in that [Prison Warehouse] probably aren't worth much."

"But the [Spirit Plant Area]? There should be plenty of spirit plants inside, and they should be very valuable, possibly with various ten-thousand-year spiritual medicines."

Shi Youyou shook her head, "Actually, the value of the spirit plants inside the tomb is much lower than you imagine; most of the spiritual medicines are polluted by muddy qi."

"Those polluted spirit plants, the extracted spirit plant liquid is also heavily polluted, and the spiritual roots they cultivate have severe side effects, causing early death and a miserable end."

Embers Jiucai Rong was deep in thought.

They fear those that have been polluted, but we do not.

The side effects are significant, and longevity isn't achievable...

What does that have to do with us?

They never planned to live long anyway.

Spiritual roots are permanent commodities to others but are short-term consumables for the blacksmiths of the manor.

Shi Youyou continued:

"We also can't forcibly attack; spiritual medicines are even more fragile than buildings and more easily damaged, and the success rate of forceful seizure is too low."

"The most likely scenario is deploying cultivators of the Three Elements Realm from various families; in battle, the spirit plants get damaged, and nothing is gained, leaving each family's elder at a loss."

A city guard isn't just a simple role.

They must be strong enough to hold such a position.

Take Pingchang City's city guard, for instance; they can suppress the three major families, do you think they're simple?

The general spiritual root of a city guard is an upper-grade spiritual root.

In terms of combat power, it requires several middle-grade spiritual roots of the same tier to besiege.

And the cultivators in this world are extremely difficult to kill.

Even if ganging up, killing the tomb owner would result in some degree of injury to oneself.

And back then, when Gui Pu attacked the three families of Pingchang City, why didn't the government-side city guard intervene?

Firstly, during the Red Sun period, the government was busy as well, too busy to touch the ground.

Secondly, they were also too lazy to bother with your attack on the three families, usually treating it as a private vendetta; secretly, they wished you would weaken the three families to bolster the local governmental power.

"So, in matters of combat within the tomb, there's generally no need to engage; tomb raiding, stealing is the core — steal the goods and leave." Shi Youyou reminded: "Of course, we're not giving up on spirit plants."

"Then what are we planning to do?" Jiucai Rong humbly asked for guidance; the other's tomb raiding skills were undeniably authentic.

"Trade item for item."

Shi Youyou sat back in the chair, changed positions, thought briefly, and then smiled, saying:

"We can propose a trade to purchase the spirit plants from their planting area, selecting those that aren't polluted or have low pollution levels to buy."

Jiucai Rong instantly understood.

The purchasing approach is the most cost-effective.

Buy some usable spirit plants; the polluted ones are unusable anyway, so there's no need for fighting and killing.

It must be said that the other party is indeed experienced.

This wave of tomb strategy took everything that should be taken; buildings, prisoners, usable spirit plants... they retreated stealthily, nearly flawlessly.

However.

The blacksmiths still wanted those polluted ten-thousand-year spirit plants and thousand-year spirit plants.

Upon closer consideration, this became very challenging!

"Then let's dismantle the place first." Jiucai Rong said: "Remove the prisoners and buildings, dismantle the prison until only the [Planting Area] and [Prison Warehouse] are left."

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