The silver notes, silver pieces, and gold items from the box were scattered on the ground.

Luckily, it hadn’t rained recently... otherwise, they would have been ruined.

Qin Fang walked over, picked them up, shook off the dirt, and began to examine them.

There wasn’t much loose silver or gold... but that was only relative. A quick glance suggested there were about forty to fifty taels of silver.

There were fewer gold items, but they were more valuable, likely worth around a hundred taels of silver!

That alone was over a hundred taels of silver.

And the Silver Notes...

Even more!

But they were all small-denomination notes, almost entirely five-tael and ten-tael Silver Notes.

But among them were three red ones: hundred-tael Silver Notes.

A whole box like this...

At a rough estimate, wasn’t this over one or two thousand taels?!

Qin Fang’s eyes instantly lit up.

’...This Wang Hu really was a man of wealth!’

’He was this rich?!’

’But that Ma the Second didn’t seem particularly satisfied just now, did he?’

Qin Fang subconsciously glanced at the corpse of Ma the Second, whose wide, unblinking eyes stared as if he couldn’t rest in peace...

’That’s true. After all, the Iron Tiger Gang is a gang of Anjin Martial Artists that occupies such a wealthy market in Pingze City. One or two thousand taels is undoubtedly a fortune to me, but for the Iron Tiger Gang, which controls half this market, it’s nothing...’

’But Wang Hu was an Anjin Martial Artist, and his own training must have consumed a vast amount of resources... It’s normal that there wasn’t much left.’

Qin Fang thought to himself.

He had only cultivated to the Early Mingjin Stage, yet he had already spent nearly a thousand taels of silver.

He knew all too well how resource-intensive training was.

’It’s easy to imagine... The resources an Anjin Martial Artist needs for training must be even more immense!’

’To have a surplus of one or two thousand taels is already astonishing!’

With that thought, Qin Fang closed the lid of the box.

And then...

He began to loot the corpses!

There were eighty or ninety corpses here. ’Even if I only find one tael of silver on each, that’s nearly a hundred taels!’

’That’s ten Qi Blood Pills—enough to train for ten days!’

Qin Fang had no intention of letting this opportunity pass.

Especially these people...

’Did they really not keep a private stash?’

Qin Fang didn’t quite believe that.

Qin Fang started with Ma the Second’s body. After patting him down, he pulled out a pile of miscellaneous items from inside the man’s robes.

Finally, he found a money pouch. He opened it, and his eyes lit up.

’Well now. No wonder the guy looked down on a mere one or two thousand taels. He was carrying a hundred taels in Silver Notes on his person!’

The money pouch was made of waterproof animal hide and looked like a sachet. When he opened it, he found some loose silver and a roll of Silver Notes.

The notes were of small denominations, but a quick count of the roll revealed it was worth over a hundred taels.

Qin Fang then realized that the man had clearly planned to skip town right after this job, which was why he was carrying his entire life’s savings!

’As expected of a Mingjin Martial Artist. They really do have some money.’

Qin Fang was very satisfied and put the money into the box as well.

Then he started on the other corpses.

He was particularly thorough with the bodies of those who had been inside the house, searching them from head to toe. He didn’t just check inside their clothes but even inspected their shoes for false soles.

...And sure enough, he found several who had been holding out!

Some had false-bottomed shoes, others had hidden layers in their clothes, and a few even had secret pockets sewn into their crotches...

The methods for hiding their stashes were truly diverse.

’...Qin Fang even began to wonder if he’d just failed to find the hiding spots on the bodies he’d already searched.’

But time was tight, and Qin Fang couldn’t exactly go over each body with a fine-toothed comb. Whatever he found was a bonus; whatever he missed was just too bad.

But even so...

The haul was staggering!

What they hid for themselves wasn’t much, just twenty or thirty taels of silver or so.

But aside from their private stashes, they were also clearly carrying their life’s savings!

It wasn’t a lot—comparable to the group from Zhao Cheng’s house—around seven or eight, maybe eight or nine taels each...

Just like that, after looting thirty-four corpses, Qin Fang had actually found a huge sum of over five hundred taels!

’...They were told not to keep private stashes... they really deserved to die.’

Qin Fang was momentarily speechless.

He continued looting the corpses.

But just as he was about done looting the bodies in the courtyard, Qin Fang suddenly heard a voice from outside the gate.

"Damn it! Someone beat us to it! Hurry!"

Then came the sudden sound of rushing footsteps.

Qin Fang’s brow furrowed. After a moment’s thought, he stopped looting, turned, grabbed the box, and in a single motion, vaulted over the wall and vanished into the woods.

Qin Fang left immediately. The moment he cleared the wall, a group of armed men burst into the courtyard.

When they saw the state of the courtyard, every one of them gasped!

...Nearly sixty or seventy bodies lay scattered about the courtyard.

Even though Wang Hu’s courtyard was large, the sheer number of bodies scattered around created a scene like a mountain of corpses in a Sea of Blood.

The expressions of the men in the lead changed drastically.

"We’re a step too late!"

Frustration showed on their faces as they began to examine the bodies on the ground.

"They’re all Iron Tiger Gang members!"

"Looks like they were fighting amongst themselves over Wang Hu’s fortune."

"Ma the Second is dead!"

"Did Zhang Cheng win?"

"Hard to say..."

"HISS... everyone, look! A lot of these men... they seem to have been killed by Hidden Weapons! HISS! What terrifying power! Their skulls are pierced clean through!"

"What?!"

At the mention of Hidden Weapons, everyone’s expression changed.

Hidden Weapons were notoriously difficult to master. Everyone knew they were powerful, but successfully training in them was another matter entirely.

Hearing about the terrifying power behind the attacks, they quickly gathered around to take a closer look.