Kapitel 338: Chapter 331: Treasure Hunt Sect!
"I... I prefer to be called as Na Zem Xi.." he replied with a reminiscing look.
The Treasure Hunt was a small ancient sect that had long since retired from the world. They were nomads of the desert and used to be active around one of the Forbidden region, the Red desert! As their name implied, they were a group of treasure seekers unearthing ancient artifacts from lost ruins and past civilizations.
Since their nature of job was dangerous, they divided themselves into three groups, namely; the Seeker, Pathfinders and Miners.
The Seeker was usually called as the Right hand of the Treasure Hunt. They possessed some hint of precognition ability that could divine the rough location of valuable treasures. Meanwhile, the Pathfinders consists of rare individuals known to have an extreme amount of luck. After all, if the main task of a Seeker was to find the location, then the Pathfinders job was to explore the location, secure the exits and entrances, as well as mapping the area to find the safest route - the most dangerous of the three jobs.
That means that if the Pathfinders were not those with luck on their side, they might sooner meet their demise first than locating the treasures instead!
Finally, the Miners would then follow the guide given by the Pathfinders down to their details, and their role was excavation and extraction!
However, finding someone who could divine the location of treasures was not something easy to do. In fact, while the ability itself was powerful, it will gradually wear down the eyesight of the owner, eventually turning them blind. Even if someone does possess such ability, they would only use them sparingly, and definitely decline to become the Seeker of the Treasure Hunt where they will have to use the ability quite frequently.
Currently, the old man known as the Sacrosanct Elder was a Seeker back in his prime. Now, his age had gone past hundred, and he was already blind. Their Founder, Na Xi, had set up rules that unless a new Seeker was titled, the Treasure Hunt will go into a state of hibernation. Ever since the Sacrosanct Elder lost his sights, three decades had already past, and many of their original members has either passed away or moved on.
Since there was no new recruits during their hibernation, every member that stayed had already went past their prime, becoming old and feeble. The only young member they had left was Na Zem, who was the hope of the Treasure Hunt. Thus, the Sacrosanct Elder named Na Zem as the Left hand of the Treasure Hunt, one that will prop the entire Sect in the future to eventually become the Patriarch, just like Na Xi, his late father!
"I might have found.. a new Seeker!" Na Zem Xi said with a solemn expression.
"What?!" his response immediately turned the old men around him agitated!
"Child, don't joke around like that!"
"You are in the presence of the Sacrosanct Elder, how could you just.."
BAM!
The Sacrosanct Elder knocked the end of his staff to the ground creating a deep 'Boom' sound in the earth, "Silence!" he bellowed, immediately turning the atmosphere quiet once more. "Continue." he urged.
"Yes, Sacrosanct Elder! I met a customer of mine who later appears to be... someone I dared not to imagine at first. Long story short, he gave me a list of ruins in the Red desert.." Na Zem Xi replied as he took a list that was given to him by Shen Lu and Guo He.
He then began to recite the names of these ruins along with their location to everyone.
After he was finished, the old men around the campfire whispered among each other as they didn't understand Na Zem Xi's intention by listing all those locations.
However, the Sacrosanct Elder pondered deeply upon hearing Na Zem Xi's words with furrowed brows.
"Does that list have their exact locations?" he asked.
"Yes... I also know some places mentioned here too, but even I do not know most of their locations in such details..." Na Zem Xi replied as he moved closer to the Sacrosanct Elder and whispered the locations into his ear.
The more the Sacrosanct Elder listened, the more shocked he was.
Werrrr!!
"Who among you have leaked out the locations of these ruins?" the Sacrosanct Elder questioned with a deep voice. His aura as a Pinnacle stage Nascent Soul realm cultivator leaked out.
Majority of the locations listed was places that he had long known existed, as he was the one who divined their locations back when he still has his sights. But divination was not something exact, and there were times that even when the places was divined, it would be located inside the Danger zone of the continent, or the Forbidden regions.
As someone responsible to give a feasible location to be explored, he naturally eliminated all those locations from his to-be-explored lists, but the locations that Na Zem Xi told him even contained the direction into these locations!
Even back when he was in his prime, his precognition ability to divine the location of treasures was never that accurate!
Silence...
No one dared to utter a word. After all, to leak the location of the ruins to outsider would mean that one has betrayed the Treasure Hunt, punishable by death. However, this was also something impossible to do.
"Sacrosanct Elder, the only people who knew of the exact location of any ruins... is you..." one of the old men answered politely.
Huuu...
Hearing this answer, the Sacrosanct Elder also knew it to be the case, thus he calmed himself down and reigned in his aura.
"Who is this person that told you these locations, and how are you sure that he is a Seeker?" the Sacrosanct Elder turned towards Na Zem Xi.
"This..." Na Zem Xi hesitated for a moment. "His identity is not someone simple enough for me to say out loud, but..." he whispered to the Sacrosanct Elder.
"!!!"
After hearing the name and the title of the person, the Sacrosanct Elder whose eyes remained shut ever since he lost his sights, opened wide - revealing the pair of eyes that has lost its lights to the crowd, causing everyone around the campfire to flinch!
Scary!
BOOM!!
The Sacrosanct Elder knocked the end of his staff to the ground as he stood up abruptly from his seat. Then, with the disposition of an otherworldly expert that has seen the vicissitudes of life, he declared with a solemn voice;
"As the Incumbent Head of the Treasure Hunt, I hereby declare that the Treasure Hunt will once again ravage the old lands from their treasures! Make the vow!"
BOOM!!
The Sacrosanct Elder knocked his staff once more as every member of the Treasure Hunt stood up around the campfire, their entire being was now trembling with excitement!
Finally! We shall roam the lands once more! It has been far too long!
"We drink to our brothers, for the long past has been done, for the age of wonders is all but gone! Down with ancients, the ravages of time, for their time that was past will be now be undone!"
With their clenched right fist placed on their chest and their left fist placed on their back, the vow that marks the resurrection of an ancient sect resonated under the moonlight of the solemn night!
...
On the third floor of the Seven Saints Culinary restaurant, Heng Wu the old butler was shocked silly.
These minions of the tyrant will pay in full?
Has the sun risen from the West today? Screw that, has the Sun risen from the North?
Snapping from his dazed state, he immediately laughed in excitement!
"Hahahaha! Esteemed customers of the Seven Saints Culinary, please wait for a while, your dish will be served in a moment!"
Whooshh!
Heng Wu disappeared on the spot as he rushed into the kitchen.
"Old Heng Wu, how was it? How much are they willing to pay?" one of the Saints Chefs asked nervously.
"Go back and tell them that if its not at least one High quality spirit stone per month, they cannot eat here!"
"Yes! Yes! We must have some face for ourselves! If it's the Culinary Seer then it's a different matter, but as for them, they cannot just dine in and dash anytime they want!"
The Seven Saints Chefs began to voiced out their concerns with a constipated look.
"Ah? What are you guys on to about? They are willing to pay in full tonight! Hahahahaha!" Heng Wu replied, his expression full of elation!
"What? They are willing to pay in full? Are you sure?" the Saint Chefs almost slapped themselves to make sure they weren't dreaming.
"Yes! Now go and cook these dishes before they change their minds! Quickly!" Heng Wu nodded like a woodpecker.
"Hahahaha! The Heavens are truly not blind! Come brothers! Today, this kitchen will be in a bloodbath!"
Just like that, the sounds of rapid chopping, blazing flames and the sizzling, aromatic smell of cooked meat began to waft out from the kitchen, enveloping the Seven Saints Culinary restaurant from top to bottom!
...
"This smell... what is this heavenly smell?!" a customer with a sensitive sense of smell abruptly stood up from his seat and breathed in the surrounding air to pinpoint the location from where the smell was coming from.
"Eh? You are right! Oh my god! This smells so delicious!"
"Was it on the second floor? No! This smell came from the third floor!"
"Just what kind of heavenly dish are the Seven Saints Chefs cooking right now?! Hurry, inform your father, your mother, your grandparents! They must come and smell this delicious dish!"
"Inform the scribes! This needs to be documented in history! This is a one in a thousand-year phenomena!"
"Quick! Quick!"
In just a few moments after the Seven Saints Chefs began cooking, the ground floor, first floor and second floor of the restaurant became restless as all the customers turned mad. Had it not been because the Head of Security was guarding the stairs personally, the mobs would have definitely rushed upstairs considering how their minds was now hypnotized by the smell to even think rationally.
In fact, the crowd outside the restaurant also began to gather around the restaurant like a moth attracted to a flame!
"Calm down! Calm do- Ah! Hey! My clothes! Stop pulling!" the new security that was guarding the entrance got pushed by the masses and his clothes was now in tatters.
...
"Why does it sound so noisy downstairs? Is someone fighting?" Xu Rong said as the noise became louder by the second.
"Ah!" Heng Wu that was setting up the table finally realized, "I forgot to seal the area!"
Taking out a jade token, he then activated the surrounding formation array.
Wengg!!
"Fuhh! Catastrophe evaded!" Heng Wu wiped the sweat on his forehead. There was a similar incident in the past where their restaurant was almost turned upside down by customers who went berserk from the smell cooked by the Seven Saints Chefs!
Tingg!!
"Aha! The food is done!" Heng Wu sprinted into the kitchen and brought out the dishes one by one, each wafting out extremely alluring smell that could cause even the dragons to descend!
"Please, enjoy your dinner!"
Heng Wu was earnestly happy that their restaurant was able to generate such an enormous amount of income in one night! For him, this amount of income would be enough to balance all their deficits in the past and future!
Meanwhile, the previously elated Saints Chefs in the kitchen was now thinking, "Hey, don't you guys think that... this is too good to be true?" one of them said.
"Well... you are right. But, they won't renegede on what they just said right?"
"Hmm.."
Slowly, the sense of foreboding began to loom over them, causing them to become uneasy.
...
"That was the best food I ever eat before!" Xu Rong commented, her face flushing red.
"En! I need to work on my fried chicken more.." Xiahou Yu nodded as she made her own assessment from her taste bud. She was planning to reverse engineer the taste and unlock the mystery to its secret ingredients later on.
As for Di Rou, she only gave a satisfied smile after she ate, looking more graceful than the two before her. Then, turning to Heng Wu, she thanked him for the delicious food.
"As promised, we will pay in full tonight..." Di Rou said as she whipped a single Superior quality spirit stone.
The bright blue color emanating from the spirit stone was as bright as the sun, even radiating out extreme energy pulsations even!
"T-T-That is.... a Superior quality spirit stone!" Heng Wu jumped up in disbelief, thoroughly shocked.
He had only heard of the Superior quality spirit stone before and never saw them personally. But since the energy radiating out from the spirit stone on Di Rou's hands right now was even stronger than a High quality spirit stones by hundreds of times, the only conclusion was that it was a Superior quality spirit stone!
He was so entranced by the beauty of it, before he suddenly realized!
"Wait a minute.."
Their total cost was only about 30 High quality spirit stones at most, and I've heard that a single Superior quality spirit stones should be valued around a thousand High quality spirit stones...
"If that was the case, then....!!"
Heng Wu's face turned pale!
"It was a trap!"
The moment he realized this, he wanted to cry out loud to the night sky!
The Seven Saints Culinary restaurant... does not have enough change!
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