As the sky began to brighten, the shopkeeper of the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion opened the door as usual and deactivated the protective formation.

Just as he was about to take a deep breath of fresh air, a pungent odor struck him.

"Ugh!"

"What is that awful smell... What is all this on the street?"

The shopkeeper quickly activated the formation again to block out the stench.

Upon seeing the state of the street, the shopkeeper's face broke into a smile as he went back inside the store.

Noticing their boss's good mood, the staff asked in unison, "Boss, what good news do you have?"

"You guys go outside and take a look, but be careful not to leave the formation."

"Xiao Zhang, hand me that one-meter-long iron rod. I lost so many customers because of them, now I finally get a chance to take revenge," the shopkeeper said through gritted teeth.

A similar scene played out in other shops.

Some stores, regardless of age or gender, had everyone prepare a long stick.

A shop owner instructed, "When I give the signal, everyone hit them hard. Don’t leave a single one alive, but don't use spiritual energy. We are on someone else's turf, we don’t want to cause any fatalities."

These shopkeepers were all merchants, and merchants cared most about foot traffic.

The more people there were outside, the more customers they would get, and the more money they would make.

But whenever disciples from the Beastmaster Peak appeared at the market, the foot traffic would immediately drop by half, severely impacting their business.

They had reported this issue to the sect, but the sect hadn't offered any solution.

After all, they couldn’t take away someone’s freedom to visit the market just because they were disliked by others.

Moreover, these shopkeepers didn’t dare provoke the disciples of the Beastmaster Peak.

Not long ago, a medicinal herb shop had angered the Beastmaster disciples, and in retaliation, they came in groups, not causing any noise or disturbance but simply walking around inside the shop.

Other disciples, who came to buy medicinal pills, avoided the shop, preferring to go to another one instead. After all, there were plenty of shops selling pills at similar prices and quality.

The shop owner had no recourse but to watch his business decline, eventually moving to another location.

This had caused the other shop owners to quietly endure their anger.

However, it was like a wolf lurking in the dark. Now, at last, the merchants saw their chance for revenge.

Meanwhile, the senior disciples who had set up stalls in the market also arrived.

Upon seeing the chaos in front of them, their anger flared.

"The Beastmaster Peak is going too far!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and soon, the entire market echoed with responses.

"Beastmaster Peak disciples are lawless!"

"We can't even set up our stalls now, this is simply life-threatening!"

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"We can’t take this anymore, brothers, if we tolerate this now, next time it’ll be on top of our heads."

"Do you think we can stand for this?"

"No!"

"Absolutely not!"

"Let’s go, brothers, let’s head to their place and drag them out!"

Instantly, a large group set off towards the residence of the Beastmaster Peak disciples.

Hidden among the crowd, Qin Yu and his companions were secretly overjoyed. The reactions of the others were even more intense than Qin Yu had imagined.

It seemed the Beastmaster Peak's outer sect disciples were truly hated by everyone.

When Qin Yu saw how the others reacted to the Beastmaster disciples the day before, he could already tell that the disciples of the Beastmaster Peak were the most despised people in the sect. They were like rats in the street.

However, this rat was protected by sect rules, so no one could do anything.

Qin Yu knew how to use this to his advantage.

Since they used sect rules to protect themselves, let’s make them violate those same rules.

That’s why last night, Qin Yu had collected the spiritual beast waste and spread it evenly around the market and central square, creating the illusion of the Beastmaster Peak breaking the rules.

Qin Yu provided everyone with the perfect excuse.

No one cared whether the excuse was real or not. All they needed was a spark to set the fire burning.

They only needed a reason that wouldn’t lead to punishment by sect rules.

...

Soon, the group arrived at the residence of the Beastmaster Peak’s outer sect disciples.

Qin Yu looked around. The residences of the Beastmaster Peak disciples looked similar to his own, except their courtyards were larger since they kept their spiritual beasts there.

"Kon Tianjiao, get out here!" someone yelled loudly.

Kon Tianjiao was the owner of the Earth-shattering Dragon Elephant, the leader of the outer sect disciples of the Beastmaster Peak.

When the Beastmaster Peak disciples heard the ruckus outside, they rushed out of their residences.

"What are you all doing?"

Seeing the large crowd outside, they were shocked and hurried to activate the defensive formation around their courtyard.

But after thinking for a moment, they remembered they hadn’t done anything to break sect rules recently, so they boldly shouted back:

"What do you want? Do you have the guts to make a scene here?"

Qin Yu yelled from within the crowd, "Get out of the way! What do you think you're doing? Tell Kon Tianjiao to come out!"

One of the senior disciples stepped forward and addressed all the Beastmaster Peak disciples, "You’re openly defying the sect’s rules and disturbing the peace of the outer sect. I’ll count to five, and if you don’t come out, we’ll break your formation and drag you out."

"Five!"

The Beastmaster Peak disciples didn’t take it seriously.

"What did we do? Stop slandering us."

"Yeah, you’re accusing us of breaking the sect’s rules. What rule did we break?"

"Hmph, you should know what you’ve done, but you’re too scared to admit it. A bunch of cowards."

"Four!"

"Three!"

As the crowd grew more agitated, the Beastmaster Peak disciples started to panic.

"Wh—What do you want? Breaking into other people’s residences is a violation of sect rules. Those found guilty could lose their cultivation and be expelled from the sect!"

"You have the nerve to talk about sect rules? What about last night when you brought your spiritual beasts to the market and central square and made a mess? You didn’t think about sect rules then, did you?"

"You’re the ones who broke the rules first. We are here to stand up for justice and bring you to justice."

‘Enough with the chatter!’ Qin Yu thought to himself, knowing that the villain always dies by talking too much. He quickly interrupted the arguing, shouting, "Stop counting! Brothers, let’s rush in and take action!"

Bang!

Kon Tianjiao kicked the door open, cursing, "You’ve grown some courage, huh? Let’s see who dares to break my formation!"

Kon Tianjiao, adjusting his clothes, walked out confidently.

Behind him was a beautiful female disciple, whose face turned red upon seeing so many people. She smoothed the wrinkles of her robes.

Seeing this, the crowd grew even angrier.

Not only had they ruined the market, but now they were calmly playing with women, showing no regard for the people they had offended.

"Rush in! Catch him!"

The crowd surged forward, crashing through the formation and binding Kon Tianjiao tightly.

The ropes that bound him were enchanted, suppressing his spiritual power.

Some even took out suppressive talismans and covered him with them, taking out their most powerful tools to deal with him.

The Earth-shattering Dragon Elephant, terrified, hid in the corner, shaking, ignoring Kon Tianjiao's calls.

"I don’t know him!" it seemed to say.

"Damn it, you’re crazy! What do you want?"

Kon Tianjiao realized that the situation was serious and stopped pretending.

"I advise you to calm down, brothers, hurry and save me!"

"Shut up!"

Someone quickly pressed a binding talisman onto Kon Tianjiao’s mouth.

The other Beastmaster Peak disciples were too frightened to move, not one of them daring to step forward.

But Kon Tianjiao’s words reminded everyone.

"Brothers, don’t let any of them go. Get the rest of them out here, now!"

"All Beastmaster Peak disciples, listen up! Either you come out peacefully, or we’ll drag you out!"

"We’ll take you all down, no exceptions!"

"Three!"

"Brothers, let’s rush in and drag them out!"