Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 384 - 384 283 Feeling like Im being fooled

Chapter 384: Chapter 283: Feeling like I’m being fooled Chapter 384: Chapter 283: Feeling like I’m being fooled Chapter 283: Feel Like I’m Easy to Fool

As the capital of a country, the Chi Di Capital is still very prosperous, attracting many cultivators to come and go. Qi Tian, riding on a Golden Flur Tiger, entered the Chi Di Capital. To the Chi Di citizens accustomed to the presence of cultivators, Qi Tian’s appearance was just too normal. There were hardly any spectators to watch Qi Tian, at most, they just curiously glanced at him as he passed by.

This time, Qi Tian planned to rest properly in the Chi Di Capital. Since leaving Zhangshui City, he had been constantly in action, having countless encounters with people. His life has been a string of events, one after the other, not even having a chance to take a good rest.

Qi Tian picked an inn that looked very upscale and booked a high-end suite for half a month’s rent. Afterwards, he settled down here with Hu Niu.

Every day, Qi Tian was enjoying the best food, sometimes getting to know the local customs, sometimes enjoying music and dance performances. The feeling of comfort from these daily activities was unparalleled. His negative emotions gradually dissipated, and his mood returned to tranquility. If Qi Tian had initially seemed unapproachable when he first arrived at the inn, now he appeared like a refined gentleman, without a trace of hostility.

Qi Tian was quite satisfied with this transformation. If possible, he preferred a life of peace, but there weren’t many chances for that since his arrival in this world.

Of course, Qi Tian only liked the idea, but this didn’t imply that the peaceful life would erode his fighting spirit. His short rest was to renew his strength for continuing on his path. Moreover, how could the Chi Di people possibly grant the peaceful life he wanted?

After half a month of living a peaceful life, Qi Tian was ready to soothe the vestiges of his battle-worn heart. It was time for him to leave. But before leaving, Qi Tian planned to leave a deep impression on the Chi Di people. He didn’t just spend his days doing leisure activities, he also practiced cultivation and spent time getting familiar with important locations.

After surveillancing for a while, Qi Tian had found his targets. He had excluded the royal palace because high-level characters certainly resided there, encountering them would be very troublesome. Even if they couldn’t stop him, they’d likely alert the Chi Di royal family to his activities.

After careful consideration, Qi Tian decided the first targets would be several princes of the Chi Di kingdom. He found out that although there were cultivators around them, there were no highly formidable characters. Even in the case of the eldest prince, deemed the most likely to inherit the throne, he only had a low Foundation Establishment level lackey protecting him. It could be said that it would be an easy task for Qi Tian to kill him.

However, Qi Tian didn’t plan to kill anyone. He had a clear understanding of the locations of each prince’s mansion. On a dark, windy night, he quietly slipped into these mansions. He didn’t kill anyone, just swept the mansions’ treasuries clean. The money acquired from each of these places, converted into silvers, the least was a million taels and the most even exceeded eight million taels, which belonged to the emperor’s youngest and most favored son.

All these princes didn’t earn their wealth through hard work, it was either rewards from the emperor or confiscated from the Chi Di citizens. Qi Tian took all their wealth in one swoop. To calm his sons, the Chi Di Emperor would need to drain his resources, which would weaken the state power of Chi Di.

After pulling this off, Qi Tian didn’t stop, continuing to raid the homes of several high-ranking ministers throughout the night. When it all added up, he had collected more than two million taels’ worth of assets.

The second day, while eating in the inn, Qi Tian heard the entire inn filled with people discussing the startling theft case from last night. The Chi Di court was in chaos, and several princes even kneeled in front of the palace crying and begging the emperor to see justice served. Alongside, they also asked the emperor to reward them with a few hundred million taels of silver to help tide them over this crisis.

Qi Tian simply ignored these discussions because for a cultivator like him at the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, pulling such a stunt was nothing worth bragging about. Of course, if you asked if he regretted it, the answer would be definitely no. After what he had gone through at the Tongmen West Pass, any goodwill towards the Chi Di people was out of the question. Even if it required some unconventional methods, he wouldn’t feel he did anything wrong.

When it came to nightfall, Qi Tian once again made his move. He targeted the Chi Di horse ranch, located five hundred miles north of the Chi Di Capital. This was the second largest horse ranch in the Chi Di lands, with more than a hundred thousand horses in a radius of five hundred miles. Given that the Chi Di people were known as the nation on horseback, the importance of this horse ranch was self-evident. Qi Tian fled there in the night and went after not only the horses but also the cattle and sheep raised for food.

Averaging all together, over tens of thousands of horses, as well as a large number of cattle and sheep, the total number exceeded one million. This wasn’t a task any ordinary person could handle easily. Even if he was to kill all of them, it would be extremely difficult and couldn’t be completed in a short period of time.