Male protagonist, you are targeting the wrong person

"Several Mahayana, a dozen Nascent Souls, a bunch of Golden Cores, and even a few Foundation Establishment Stages. Are they here to attack the Demon Sect? Why do I feel like I'm just giving myself away to be killed?!"

Leaning lazily on the railing of the highest attic of the Bloodthirsty Hall, Ouyang Xian's brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a mosquito to death.

Next to him, Zhao Wenlong, who was dressed in tights, nodded solemnly, obviously agreeing with his idea.

Shangguan Zhi looked at his nose and his heart without saying a word, while Jiang Wenbai looked at those who entered the city with coldness in his eyes.

Perhaps he was tired of watching, Shangguan Zhi said confidently to Jiang Wenbai beside him:

"Junior Brother Jiang, I went to the city a few days ago and spent 1,700 taels of silver. Remember to pay me back."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Wenbai's mouth twitched, and he complained speechlessly:

"The soldier at the gate said you trespassed into the airspace and insulted the hall master. This is a fine, I won't pay for it."

Shangguan Zhi was furious when he heard this. He pointed at the monks entering the city and said angrily:

"Then why don't they have to pay a city entrance fee?!"

Jiang Wenbai glanced at him unhappily, and said rather depressedly:

"The entrance fee is gone, but other prices have gone up. For example, the fruit salad that Thirteen loved to eat has gone up by one tael of silver, and the bakery has gone up by two taels of silver, and the weight has also been reduced. Also..."

I rattled off a bunch of names, but the bottom line is that prices in the city went up overnight.

Upon hearing this, Ouyang Xian was stunned and asked in surprise:

"Why are they all food? Aren't you fasting, Junior Brother?!"

Zhao Wenlong nudged him with his elbow and explained seriously:

"Junior brother has practiced fasting, but junior sister hasn't yet, so he bought it for her."

Ouyang Xian responded to himself, showing that he understood.

But he was silent for a while, and suddenly seemed to react to something, and asked Jiang Wenbai in shock:

"In that case, has the price of rouge from Yanzhizhai also increased? No, I just saved up enough money to buy my junior sister her favorite light pink rouge. Now that the price has increased, I have to save money again."

As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Wenbai with a bitter face, grabbed his sleeve, and said pitifully:

"Junior brother, lend me some money, I will pay you back when I have enough."

Jiang Wenbai looked at Ouyang Xian awkwardly, showing an expression of helplessness, and said awkwardly:

"Brother, it's not that I don't want to help you, but I gave all my money to Thirteen, and I don't have any..."

When Ouyang Xian heard him say this, he couldn't help but turn his head to Zhao Wenlong with a hopeful look on his face.

Zhao Wenlong coughed awkwardly, and then said stiffly:

"Xiao Feng has recently become obsessed with something called boxing and has bought a lot of things, so I gave all my money to her."

At the same time, the three of them turned their gazes towards Shangguan Zhi. Their expressions were as if they had seen a savior, and they shouted in unison with full of expectation:

"Big brother"

Shangguan Zhi looked at his three useless junior brothers with a look of shame and anger, and said angrily:

"Yell, yell, yell, why are you yelling? Where did I get the money?! Didn't I just say that I was fined more than a thousand taels of silver?! Where did I get so much money?!"

Upon hearing this, the three of them withdrew their gazes and looked at the bustling city gate with depressed looks, full of loneliness.

Sighing helplessly, Ouyang Xian leaned weakly on the railing and couldn't help muttering:

"I heard Thirteen has arranged some new activities, but I wonder if they are fun? Really, we are her senior brothers, why doesn't she give us some money to spend?!"

In response to Ouyang Xian's complaints, Shangguan Zhi grabbed his ears and angrily scolded:

"As a senior brother, it's fine if you don't spend money on your junior sister, but you have the nerve to ask your junior sister to give you money. Do you have any shame?"

Ouyang Xian gave him a displeased look and said:

"You can't buy face as money. Recently, my sister has been refining pills, and she's been sending in cartloads of herbs. Although the herbs are free, the people who deliver them have to pay a labor fee, and that labor fee is ten taels of silver a day. Add to that rouge, powder, hairpins, jewelry, clothes, shoes and socks, and it would cost tens of thousands of taels of silver a month. The little money I have is not enough, brother."

As soon as Ouyang Xian finished complaining, Zhao Wenlong beside him nodded in agreement and echoed:

"The little money I have is not enough for Xiao Fenghua. I've been thinking about whether I should find a job to earn some money."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Wenbai interrupted abruptly:

"Thirteen said recently that they don't have enough people to patrol the streets, so they are planning to expand. Why don't we give it a try? I heard that the higher the level of cultivation, the more silver you can earn. Maybe a few hundred taels a day won't be a problem?"

Upon hearing this, several people hesitated for a moment, but finally gave up. The war was imminent, so they decided to talk about patrolling the streets later.

The topic ended here, and several people stared blankly at the city gate. At this moment, there was a commotion at the city gate, and then everyone pointed at the three white screens that appeared out of thin air.

The three white curtains are thirty meters long and ten meters wide. The three big characters "Hero List" are written in golden ink in a flamboyant style on the curtains. Below the Hero List, there are "Sect List", "Individual List" and "Self-cultivator List" which are slightly smaller than the Hero List.

Seeing this situation, Ouyang Xian was stunned and couldn't help asking Jiang Wenbai:

"Junior brother, what is going on?!"

In response to Ouyang Xian's doubts, Shangguan Zhi complained unhappily:

"Can't you see? Thirteen is telling those people nakedly that you'd better take it seriously. Otherwise, if this list of heroes gets out, you'll lose face."

Ouyang Xian still didn't understand what he said. Seeing this, Jiang Wenbai had to explain:

"The people they brought are too weak, and Thirteen can't openly dislike them, so he made a hero list to let these people stop while they are ahead. After all, those who can make it to the hero list will be praised by people for a while. If it is said that these sects sent some garbage because they were afraid of the Demon Lord, causing them to be at the bottom of the hero list, will they still have their reputation and face?"

Upon hearing this, Ouyang Xian nodded as if he had understood something, but then immediately asked in surprise:

"That's not right. Isn't it okay as long as they don't tell anyone about the Hero List?!"

The others were all very familiar with the naivety of the Third Senior Brother (Third Junior Brother), so they looked at each other and Jiang Wenbai explained helplessly:

"There are countless sects that have come here to fight the Demon Lord, not to mention the independent cultivators. If you don't mention it, someone else will. Once someone else mentions it, they will naturally know the inside story. Therefore, regardless of whether these sects with small calculations are willing or not, once this hero list is released, those people can only cut off their flesh."

After saying that, he looked at the hero list and couldn't help but guess:

"And I estimate that with Thirteen's personality, this hero list will probably be seen by the entire cultivation world."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Yan Wenmo, who had appeared behind him at some point, with an extremely resentful and accusing look in his eyes. The look seemed to be questioning him, "You are such a nice person, explaining everything?"

Jiang Wenbai looked at her awkwardly, not daring to say a word, while Ouyang Xian asked carelessly:

"You made this list, aren't you afraid that people will think you're cheating?!"

Yan Wenmo glanced at him and explained weakly:

"The ranking of this list is based on the opponent's strength, lethality, and the number of opponents killed. Not only that, we will also monitor the battle situation in real time and save the battle screen for reference and self-certification, so there is no cheating problem."

As she spoke, she looked with interest at the elders from various sects who had different expressions on their faces when they saw the Hero List appear, and curled her lips.

You are playing tricks on me, haha, learn about the top-level conspiracy and what it means to jump into a trap even though you know it is a trap. If you just try to fool me, you will be out of luck.