Speaking of craftsmanship, Wu Jinliang naturally isn't someone who admits defeat easily, but it really depends on who he's up against. That Tong Mingshan is an expert in this field; how could he compete?

What he wants to compete on is quantity, while Shi Chun insists on quality. How should he argue? He can't just say he wants quantity without quality, can he?

Forget it, let's drop the subject. Feeling uneasy, he changed the topic, "That Lu Yin is really arrogant, daring to chase us alone without letting up. He's backed by the Command Center tracking our whereabouts. Even if we use Earth Escape Technique, it's no use. Either we ditch the token and armor now, or sooner or later we'll be caught. If you ask me, if we really clash, we're loaded with magical treasures, we might not fear him."

This sort of sounds like venting. According to his usual code of conduct, he wouldn't fight without necessity, without confidence, or without benefit.

Shi Chun immediately rebuked, "You think only you have magical treasures? Can you guarantee they don't have more powerful ones than us? Why not let others probe the depths first? Besides, it's not that we're disobeying the Demon Path; we're being hunted, and this excuse is good, and we can run wherever we want."

Wu Jinliang doubted, "The problem is we can't keep running for long. The Command Center has calculated that at this speed, they'll catch up within half an incense stick's time."

Shi Chun sneered, "Catch, my ass. I don't believe the Demon Path would only send one person in to contact us, even if they can't reinforce us quickly, I can find others to help."

Wu Jinliang smiled wryly, "Come on, Master, you can't possibly rely on other teams to save us, can you?"

Shi Chun scoffed, "Those tokens I had you prepare, are they just for show? Ten tokens not enough? I'll flash twenty, twenty not enough, then thirty, forty, how about fifty? I don't believe there are only Demon Path troops in this area. I want to see if others will come when they see the spoils. Preferably everyone comes, Demon Path included; they're sneaking around, who knows what for. If all their people die, they'll have to rely on us; how can they keep secrets from us then?"

"..." Wu Jinliang looked at him in shock, realizing that the Master had already adapted, and reacted strategically to another level.

He was pretty sure this was a spur-of-the-moment improvisation; when they were using fake names, making fake tokens, and wearing masks, he likely didn't know they'd be chased like this.

Could he have started making fake tokens to deal with the Demon Path?

He realized that even after spending twenty years in prison, the Master was still the Master,

Of course, entering with a fake name, making fake tokens, and wearing masks all signaled one thing: unless absolutely necessary, the Master no longer planned to hide in the Netherworld.

Admiring and yet somewhat worried, he said, "Manxi said they couldn't reinforce us anymore, that we should find a way to face the situation. If Mulan Jin's daughter were here, he wouldn't have said something like that. It's clear he knows Mulan Qingqing has left, likely not providing us with prior support strength. Without the Command Center's aid, we're unaware of the changes in the situation and might struggle to cope."

Shi Chun scoffed, "Does Manxi think he's the commander and he can decide everything?"

Suddenly, he raised his hand to pull down the mask from his face, glanced at the large umbrella, signaling, "Put the umbrella away."

Then he cast a spell and loudly said, "Everyone take off your masks."

The group following behind, though unaware of the reason, still sequentially complied.

Shi Chun, who had verified the fake tokens with Wu Jinliang, picked up the real token and directly sent a message to the Command Center: give me the Heavenly Mirror image.

It was a direct command.

Wu Jinliang, beside him, glanced at the message sent, then looked at the Master's true face after removing the disguise, feeling a bit toothachey, "What's the deal?"

Shi Chun tied eleven tokens together on a string around his wrist, saying, "Different troops can accurately pinpoint our location. Each side has spies in the Command Center; without flaunting our wealth, where would reinforcements come from?"

Wu Jinliang's mouth immediately stretched to his ears, revealing a big grin with white teeth, thinking about the numerous potential unforeseen consequences of attracting all sorts of people, laughing with a twinge of apprehension—will we truly manage to escape in the end?

He wasn't afraid of being exposed either; the token only activates when recognized by its owner. The original owner's death signifies failure, and the token's mark on the Mountain River Map would extinguish.

At the Heavenly Court Team's Central, the person who received Shi Chun's message immediately reported the situation to Manxi.

Manxi already lost interest in Shi Chun's matters over there, focused on the fight in the Heavenly Mirror image. Upon hearing this, he furrowed his brow in curiosity about what Shi Chun was up to, promptly issuing instructions to those controlling magical treasures to check.

Soon, after switching rapidly, the mirror image finally captured the accurate target, displaying Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang flying swiftly on Wind Scale. The spinning light and shadow from Wind Scale blurred the names on their collar tags, but those who knew them immediately recognized them, seeing as they weren't masked this time, and Wu Jinliang's tall stature stood out.

Of course, none of that mattered; countless eyes both on stage and off were fixated on Shi Chun's hand, hard to ignore as he was repeatedly counting and checking a stack of tokens.

What's going on? Manxi was dumbfounded.

The pacing Mulan Jin also stopped, surprised at the sight of so many tokens after a brief absence.

The Mountain River Map had been switching targets, and they hadn't noted any battles happening, were they not being pursued anymore? How did they have this downtime?

Mulan Jin transmitted to Manxi, "Did he steal them?"

He thought Manxi checked because the Mountain River Map detected signs of collision.

Manxi transmitted back, "He stole nothing; the tokens of five families have different colors, all his tokens are Heavenly Court Team's, unless he stole from his own people."

Mulan Jin wasn't aware of the color distinction between the five families' tokens, hadn't paid attention before, transmitted, "Could it be someone else stole Heavenly Court Team's tokens, then he took them?"

Being chased like a dog, Manxi certainly wondered how Shi Chun found the time to do that, immediately transmitting orders to his subordinates to inquire where the tokens came from.

Shi Chun said someone passing by threw them to him earlier, unsure of the intent, thus requesting the commander to wisely judge the situation.

Manxi felt a throbbing in his temples and quickly instructed the Heavenly Mirror's image projection to switch away. After conveying the situation to Mulan Jin via voice transmission, he cursed, "Still calling himself clever, I see nothing but a dumb bird. It's obvious someone's trying to divert disaster eastward to harm him, yet he brazenly shows up in the image, afraid others can't see him?"

Mulan Jin immediately turned to look at the supervisors from various factions below and saw someone had already slipped their hand into their sleeve.

Despite the curses, Bao Shichun's team's tokens were many—about a dozen. If they all fell into Lu Yin's hands, it would be a considerable loss. Manxi immediately ordered nearby units to meet up with Shi Chun.

He had previously told Shi Chun that there was no one nearby to provide reinforcement.

Of course, this was not reinforcement. Manxi forcibly ordered Shi Chun to hand over all the tokens to the team coming to help and instructed him to continue running after handing over the tokens. To put it simply, he was helping the support team with cover.

Manxi had no choice. He had seen Lu Yin in action and knew that nearby troops were no match for him. He wanted to secure those dozen tokens first.

As for the credit for those tokens, Manxi also ensured that Shi Chun wouldn't be wronged. He promised to return those tokens after Shi Chun and his men escaped.

Shi Chun expressed difficulties, saying he came with heavy responsibilities, and would only comply if Mulan Jin agreed.

He directly exposed the fact that Mulan Jin could actually contact him directly.

Mulan Jin, who previously claimed he couldn't reach his daughter, was left somewhat embarrassed, but someone of his stature was not easily unfazed.

Manxi could also understand Shi Chun's predicament. Shi Chun was here to serve Mulan Jin's daughter, so he indeed needed Mulan Jin's consent when situations arose.

Given the urgency of the situation and facing Manxi's plea, Mulan Jin could do nothing but cooperate, reluctantly sending Shi Chun a message commanding him to obey.

Shi Chun gladly complied and even replied with a message of thanks.

Mulan Jin thought he was being sarcastic, so he coldly snorted in his heart.

In the Heavenly Court Team's command center's Heavenly Mirror's projections, Wei Mo finally saw the familiar face of Shi Chun, along with a pile of tokens in his hands. A sinister smile appeared on his lips, and he immediately ordered his subordinates to inform Lu Yin that his efforts wouldn't be in vain, and that resolving Shi Chun would yield significant rewards from the tokens.

In the Nanshan Team's command center, Commander Ming Chaofeng, upon receiving the news, also switched to Shi Chun's image, though he didn't recognize Shi Chun. Moreover, he had previously confirmed that Shi Chun wasn't among these three thousand teams. He now recognized the pile of tokens in Shi Chun's hands; so far, his experts had only managed to obtain three tokens.

Ming Chaofeng quickly glanced at the light points on the Mountain River Map, swiftly ordering people to report the good news to their nearby troops and informed his little junior brother, allowing him to decide independently.

The Beiju Team's command center had a similar situation. Commander Lan She didn't recognize Shi Chun but recognized that pile of tokens and similarly mobilized nearby forces to try their luck.

The West Ox Team's command center acted in the same manner and quickly relayed the message to nearby forces.

Jie Yunzhao, while chasing a troop, fished out a Mother-child Talisman to check. The insider transmission told him the Heavenly three thousand squads had already secured over a dozen tokens, leaving him somewhat dismayed.

Forget it; he had already run far away. Since it wasn't Shi Chun, he wasn't interested anymore. By the time he rushed back, he'd probably miss the feast...

Whoa, a troop flew in diagonally, exchanging a pre-agreed hand signal with Shi Chun from a distance and then rapidly charged toward him. They were reinforcements sent by the Demon Path.

Once the troop passed, Shi Chun immediately changed direction and headed towards the meeting point given by the command center.

The command center had already noticed the movements of various forces in this area. To acquire the tokens first, they ordered Shi Chun to move towards the supporting troops, allowing him to meet them ahead of the others at the fastest speed.

Soon, sounds of fighting could faintly be heard from behind. The Heavenly Court command center suddenly sent a message, stating that there was a large canyon approximately tens of miles ahead, commanding them to rush through the canyon once they arrived, and to throw the tokens to the hidden support personnel while crossing the canyon.

Upon the emergence of the canyon ahead, Shi Chun, following orders, immediately led his men to dive in. As they passed through the canyon, he tossed the tokens to the waiting individuals at the designated location, the people had even removed their battle armors, so they shouldn't appear on the Mountain River Map.

As Shi Chun threw the items, he also shouted a reminder, "Run quickly!"

He feared the support personnel would check the tokens and didn't want them to find out so soon that the tokens were fake.

He estimated that with the various forces closing in on the scent, the supporting personnel wouldn't have the chance to verify the authenticity of the tokens.

Once he led his team out at high speed, the supporting personnel were also frightened and promptly gathered up the tokens for an urgent escape.

Racing out of the canyon and running a short distance, Shi Chun, observing the terrain from above, suddenly led a team dashing towards the ground and ducked into a valley to hide, urgently calling Wu Jinliang to use the Earth Escape Technique.

The Earth Escape Technique was of little use, but Wu Jinliang was anxious and complied at this critical moment.

As soon as the group burrowed into the earth and cliff wall, Shi Chun immediately discarded his battle armor and instructed everyone, "Battle armor can be located. Take it off quickly and sneak through the mountains."

Feng Chi urgently reminded, "Tokens can be located too."

Shi Chun casually replied, "I already threw them all to the others just now."

Manxi did tell him to hand all the tokens to the support troops, and he did so completely, not keeping a single one.

"..." Everyone was stunned. Could the Centurion Tokens of the team be discarded as well?

"Damn, take off your armor and run!" Wu Jinliang suddenly realized, letting out a strange cry and swiftly shed his battle armor while using the Earth Escape Technique to flee with everyone.

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