Chapter 910
Change of Ownership
Master Xie looked at the chief and said, "Hehe, no matter what you say, I, Xie Guankun, won't care. From the first day I entered the stronghold, I swore I would never submit to you. So I humbled myself, treated you humbly, and pretended to treat you as a brother. I didn't expect you to be so foolish as to actually take it seriously."
Now, in this mountain stronghold, no one can rival my strength. My scheme has finally succeeded, and I can finally reveal the secret I've kept hidden for so many years. I don't care if you call me ungrateful or heartless; as long as my goal is achieved and the result is good, who cares about the process! As for divine retribution, needless to say, judging from your current state, you're doomed. If anyone's going to suffer divine retribution, it'll be you first, hahaha…”
Upon hearing Master Xie's words, the chief realized that Master Xie had been plotting this for a long time. Now it seemed that no matter what he said, it would be in vain. Master Xie was a person with ulterior motives and stubbornness, and he would not listen to anything he said!
Even if the chief no longer wanted to waste words with him, he would rather die than comply with Master Xie's wishes and allow him to humiliate him like this.
After saying this, the leader tried to bend down to pick up the sword he had just dropped, intending to end his life. However, having had a large amount of his life essence drained, he had barely bent down when he fell heavily to the ground. After a while, he used all his strength to reach out and grab the sword, intending to stab it into his chest and end his life with one strike.
But even with all his strength, he couldn't move the sword hilt by the slightest movement.
Master Xie was initially worried that the chief would commit suicide, thinking that if he did, he wouldn't be able to torture him anymore. However, when he saw that the chief didn't even have the strength to lift a sword, Master Xie immediately burst into laughter and said to the chief in a very contemptuous tone, "Long Wanshan, you are now just a person who can't even lift a sword. You are a complete piece of trash. Don't waste your energy anymore. Just wait for me to torture you properly!"
Master Xie has been in the mountain stronghold for so long. In our eyes, he is an ungrateful and treacherous person. However, he has also developed his own group of followers. Then he shouted at the door, "Someone come here!"
As soon as Master Xie said this, two people entered through the door. Master Xie said to the two people who entered, "Lock him up and take good care of him. Don't let him die easily. I want to torture him properly!"
Upon hearing Master Xie's words, the two men bowed and replied in unison, "Yes, sir!"
Then the two men picked up the bandit leader and prepared to take him away, but suddenly Master Xie thought of something and said to the two men carrying the bandit leader, "Wait!"
Upon hearing Master Xie's words, the two immediately stopped in their tracks.
Master Xie walked to the leader's side, bent down and took something from the leader's waist. That thing was the bandit's token, a token made of hardwood that belonged exclusively to the bandit leader. Whoever possessed this token could command the bandit's men at will.
After Master Xie received the token, he examined it carefully for a while, then smiled with satisfaction and muttered to himself, "After all these years, this token has finally come into my hands!"
Then he ordered the two men to carry the chief out again.
Master Xie was very pleased after capturing the leader. He was even happier to get the stronghold's token. Master Xie stroked his beard with pride, clipped the token to his waist, and then went to bed to rest, quite satisfied.
The next morning, when the roosters crowed in the mountain village, all the brothers got up, and the village went from quiet at night to noisy. After breakfast, the brothers returned to the "Hall of Righteousness" to wait for the chief to discuss matters concerning the village with them!
Normally, when everyone arrived at the Hall of Righteousness, the chief would already be sitting in the main seat, waiting for them. But today, the brothers had been waiting for quite some time, yet the chief hadn't arrived. The other chiefs, seeing that the brothers had been waiting for so long without any sign of him, were getting anxious, assuming he was just being sleepy. The sixth chief immediately offered to personally bring the chief over. He had only taken a few steps when Master Xie entered through the side door next to the main seat. Usually, only the chief was allowed to enter the Hall through this side door, so everyone was quite surprised to see Master Xie enter through it.
The brothers below began to murmur amongst themselves. The sixth leader, who had just walked a few steps away, heard the brothers' chatter and turned around to see Master Xie entering through the side door of the Hall of Righteousness.
Seeing this, the Sixth Master turned back and said to Master Xie, who was standing in the middle of the Hall of Righteousness, with great doubt, "Master Xie, it seems that this is not the place for you!"
The other leaders echoed the sixth leader's words, saying, "That's right, everyone in the stronghold knows that only the chief is suitable to stand in this position. It's a bit against the rules for you to be standing there!"
Standing on the high platform in the very center of the Hall of Righteousness, Master Xie, who was looking down smugly at the hundreds of brothers below, looked at them indifferently after hearing the words of the other leaders and said calmly, "You are all extremely foolish. Since I, Xie, dare to stand in this position, I naturally have my reasons for standing in this position. If I asked you to come up here, would you dare?"
Upon hearing this, the sixth leader angrily said to Master Xie, "You..."
But before the sixth leader could finish speaking, the second leader, who was standing to the side, pulled him back and whispered to him, "Don't be impulsive!"
After hearing what the second leader said, the sixth leader stopped preparing to refute Master Xie's words.
Aside from the top leader, among the leaders, the second-in-command is relatively the most composed and calm.
The second-in-command addressed Master Xie, who stood on the high platform in the center of the Hall of Righteousness, saying, "Master Xie, then tell us why you are qualified to stand here!"
Master Xie did not answer the second-in-command's question directly. Instead, he walked leisurely to the chair on the high platform of the Hall of Righteousness, which was usually reserved for the first-in-command. Then, he turned around and sat down on the chair.
"Could it be that our stronghold has changed hands?" someone in the crowd murmured. (End of Chapter)