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Chapter 396: Thieves Plotting? Then Kill the Thieves! · Nov 06, 2026

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351 Chapter 351: The Young Wife Can’t Cook Without Rice - Lu Ding Plays the Villain 2026-11-06
352 Chapter 352: The Scholar-Warrior Sleeves Xiaobai Ordered Before Seclusion 2026-11-06
353 Chapter 353: New Scholar-Warrior Sleeves, Clothing Adds Killing Intent, Cold Proud Wind Brushes the Face 2026-11-06
354 Chapter 354: Bigger Tasks, Sooner Finish; Do As You Please, If Anything Happens, I’ll Take the Blame 2026-11-06
355 Chapter 355: Seal the Gates and Mountains, Search the Temple, Arrest All Resisters! 2026-11-06
356 Chapter 356: Great Stone-Smashing Hand? Come Smash My Stele! 2026-11-06
357 Chapter 357: Can I loosen your Meditation Seal and take a look? 2026-11-06
358 Chapter 358: Seeking Master Kudou’s Aid for Moon Toad Temple 2026-11-06
359 Chapter 359: Though I’m a Si Ming, You’re Just an Earth Observer 2026-11-06
360 Chapter 360: If This Old Monk Doesn’t Teach You a Lesson Today, I Don’t Deserve to Be Great Compassion Temple’s Abbot 2026-11-06
361 Chapter 361: Abbot Zhikong Doesn’t Believe in Buddha 2026-11-06
362 Chapter 362: I Will Nail You to the Pillar of Shame! 2026-11-06
363 Chapter 363: Wutian Becomes the Enemy of Buddhism, Three Kneels of Gratitude! 2026-11-06
364 Chapter 364: You Truly Are Heaven’s Chosen One - Lingshun Buddhist Sects Get Torn Apart 2026-11-06
365 Chapter 365: Obedient, Pitiful, and Stubborn - Just Like an Adorable Little Puppy 2026-11-06
366 Chapter 366: The Pristine Flower Stained Crimson in Its Sway 2026-11-06
367 Chapter 367: If You Don’t Move, You’ll Be Lying There With Him in Three Seconds 2026-11-06
368 Chapter 368: Fine, Kneel Down. I Have Some Questions 2026-11-06
369 Chapter 369: Lu Devotee, Have You Ever Had a Conceptual Kindred? 2026-11-06
370 Chapter 370: Knowing Me Makes Things Easier - Teeth-Pulling Tea to Quench Thirst 2026-11-06
371 Chapter 371: Others Spend Money While I Catch Criminals, Others Run Errands While I Slay Monsters 2026-11-06
372 Chapter 372: Haven’t Eaten Today? Let’s Play Then 2026-11-06
373 Chapter 373: A Delicate Flower Blooms in Blood 2026-11-06
374 Chapter 374: Meeting of Kindred Spirits - So, You Want to Die, Right? 2026-11-06
375 Chapter 375: Slaying Fu Yun, Seizing Victory, Ascending the Final Throne 2026-11-06
376 Chapter 376: The Throne Held by Deities - Even I Admire Myself 2026-11-06
377 Chapter 377: We’ll Fucking Send You Back to the Stone Age! 2026-11-06
378 Chapter 378: Infantry-Artillery Coordination: Qi Refiners as Infantry, Mushrooms as Artillery Operators 2026-11-06
379 Chapter 379: Wang Qingge: Lu Ding, I’m Out Now 2026-11-06
380 Chapter 380: Human Emperor Banner? Soul-Stealing Banner! You Actually Have One? 2026-11-06
381 Chapter 381: Wang Qingge Joins, The Meat Grinder of War Begins! 2026-11-06
382 Chapter 382: Yingge Dance, Divine Procession, the Officials’ Formation Steps Upon the Seven Stars 2026-11-06
383 Chapter 383: Murderous Aura of the Tianshang Star, Savage Might of the Tianxiong Star 2026-11-06
384 Chapter 384: Yunhai 749’s Lu Ding Arrives to Shatter Formations, Kill Enemies, and Take Heads from Ten Thousand Troops! 2026-11-06
385 Chapter 385: Trash, Waste, The Fierce Great Heavenly Dog, Tearing Apart the Green Monk with Bare Hands 2026-11-06
386 Chapter 386: Snow Woman Stinking Fish, Oni Rotten Shrimp, Mononoke Worthless Scarecrow, Sato Selling His Head on a Pike 2026-11-06
387 Chapter 387: Clash of Mechanisms, Experience the Terror of Cheating 2026-11-06
388 Chapter 388: The Way of the Jinche Grinds Sato Takashi to Dust, Raise the Flags, Sound the Horns, Full Army Charge! 2026-11-06
389 Chapter 389: Four Ancient Kingdoms: Three Fall, Only the Phoenix Remains Unbroken 2026-11-06
390 Chapter 390: Unfavorable News About Lu Ding? First Take an Island as Stronghold 2026-11-06
391 Chapter 391: Deputy Director Ji, Let’s Make a Plan? Bringing Unorthodox Qi Refiners for Round Two 2026-11-06
392 Chapter 392: Night Assault with Three Thousand Unorthodox Qi Refiners 2026-11-06
393 Chapter 393: Surrender? We’re Volunteers - We Don’t Accept Surrender 2026-11-06
394 Chapter 394: Stealing the Fire Pillar’s Move, Spitting Down an Earth Expert 2026-11-06
395 Chapter 395: Twelve Symbols, Tiger-Type Technique, Tiger Qi Death Beam Cannon 2026-11-06
396 Chapter 396: Thieves Plotting? Then Kill the Thieves! 2026-11-06
397 Chapter 397: My Name is Lu Ding, I Will Bomb East Kang Island Alone 2026-11-06
398 Chapter 398: Charging Straight for the Enemy Base? Calm Down! 2026-11-06
399 Chapter 399: Discovering Lu Ding’s Weakness (Bonus Chapter for Youth Without Regrets) 2026-11-06
400 Chapter 400: Art is Explosion - The Rage of Mushroom Clouds (Bonus Chapter for Dao Seeker 01) 2026-11-06

This was genuine fear.

The main forces couldn’t keep up, the battlefield couldn’t be expanded, and breaking through would be meaningless.

Of course, these weren’t major issues. At worst, they could accelerate progress and deploy more personnel.

The main problem was not anticipating Lu Ding could move this fast.

More reports, more paperwork—if one 749 Bureau location wasn’t enough, use two or three.

But!

Allowing Lu Ding to continue advancing when knowing the enemy was targeting him specifically?

That would be reckless.

Slowing down was acceptable. If something happened to Lu Ding, it would be catastrophic.

A surprise attack only works once.

Try it again, and the enemy would be prepared.

They’d set a trap, you’d walk in, get strangled—game over, completely screwed.

So Qiu Fu was truly afraid Lu Ding might charge headlong into danger.

That said,

Lu Ding did consider it.

But he immediately dismissed the thought.

He wasn’t stupid—his mind remained sharp.

Night raids relied on the element of surprise.

Without absolute confidence in bearing the consequences of failure, the same trick couldn’t be used twice.

Besides,

His original plan was only to capture Tai Island as a defensive stronghold, then upgrade it, using information and combat advantages to expand their victories.

And to counter unforeseen crises.

On Tai Island,

The pessimistic Hetu Qi Refiner survived to the end.

Not because he was strong,

But because he waved a white flag, shouting: ”I have intel!!!! I need to see Grand Duke Lu!!”

Well then.

Even calling him ”Grand Duke Lu.”

Anyone would think he was their planted spy.

The soldiers notified Lu Ding.

The former Tai Island command center

Had become Lu Ding’s personal office.

He entered, tore down the enemy’s national flag, wiped the chair, and sat.

The Hetu Qi Refiner was dragged in,

Kowtowing before Lu Ding, trembling.

”Lu—”

An unorthodox cultivator behind him kicked his knee: ”How dare you stand before His Grace?! Kneel!!”

The kick sent him properly kneeling.

He hurriedly spoke: ”G-Grand Duke Lu, I have information, could you—”

He wanted to beg for his life.

Not everyone had unbreakable resolve.

Some still wanted to live.

But Lu Ding gave no negotiation chance: ”Take him away for distribution.”

”At your command, Your Grace. We thank your generosity.”

The unorthodox cultivator’s eyes gleamed.

An Earth Observation realm cultivator!!!

Damn, even his master’s master never got to use an Earth Observation Qi Refiner’s corpse, yet he could!!

This wasn’t just ancestral graves emitting smoke—this was ancestral graves exploding!

The Hetu cultivator nearly pissed himself.

At the mercy of these unorthodox cultivators, he’d suffer horribly.

Being half-unorthodox himself (though Hetu treated them better than Great Han),

He knew exactly what his Earth Observation realm meant to them.

Every inch of him would be utilized, wasted nothing.

”Your Grace! Your Grace! I’ll talk! Tomorrow! Tomorrow, Tanaka Hirota is coming!!”

”That’s the original plan!!”

”They’re targeting you!”

”Tanaka carries ’Scholar Stripe-Special’—he’s stronger than Suzuki Oshima! They plan to combine tiger-ox power to kill you openly on the battlefield!”

Lu Ding cared nothing for this Tanaka.

Only the ’Scholar Stripe-Special’ intrigued him.

’General Stripe-Tiger’ had given him a twelve-forms, tiger-type technique.

Logically, ’Scholar Stripe-Special’ should also grant a twelve-forms technique.

Or a crucial method to synthesize twelve-forms techniques.

Forget Tanaka coming—Lu Ding wanted to hunt him now.

Upon reflection,

Lu Ding almost regretted acting early.

Should’ve waited for Tanaka to arrive, then taken both out together—a double prize.

Now Suzuki Oshima was dead, Tai Island captured—Tanaka probably wouldn’t come tomorrow.

A two-person plan to kill him? Coming alone would require brain damage.

Lu Ding pondered: ”Do you know his current location?”

”He...”

The cultivator hesitated,

Eyeing Lu Ding nervously.

About to negotiate terms—

Lu Ding cut in: ”Take him away for distribution.”

”I KNOW!! East Kang Island! It’s a joint Tai Island-Wei Gao defensive stronghold!”

East Kang Island...

Lu Ding understood.

This was an inevitable major obstacle ahead.

Wei Gao, who’d stayed silent, was waiting there.

The situation clarified:

Perhaps his overwhelming combat power and terrifying control forced the enemy to prioritize eliminating him.

Of course,

Lu Ding feared nothing—bring it on.

But now arose a problem: to guard against potential Heavenly Perception ambushes, he needed seclusion to grow stronger.

Though his seclusions were brief

(Unlike Bai Hemen’s lengthy absences),

With Tai Island freshly captured, he couldn’t guarantee Tanaka’s arrival tomorrow.

Wait a whole day?

Unacceptable.

Wasted time.

Besides, thieves plotting were worse than thieves stealing—this couldn’t stand.

What if Tanaka came after his seclusion started?

After deliberation,

Lu Ding decided:

Now that he held Tai Island, the enemy wouldn’t send just one person to retake it—they’d mobilize entire armies.

Solution?

Prevent their mobilization.

Makes sense, right?

Coincidentally, he’d just obtained the Qi Refiner version of a nuke—[Tiger Qi Death Beam Cannon].

Just fly over, fire one or two shots... five or six... Hmm... still risky!

Screw it—drain all his spiritual energy!!!

Flip East Kang Island upside down.

Chaos would prevent their interference.

At this thought, Lu Ding deemed himself a genius!

When problems branch wildly with no perfect solution,

Uproot the entire problem tree!!!

Leave them overwhelmed.

Now he’d have time to upgrade.

He’d considered this earlier, but without [Tiger Qi Death Beam Cannon], he only had [Bloody Storm] for area coverage and [Way of the Jinche]’s charged strikes for power.

[Bloody Storm] required setup time and disturbed celestial phenomena—not ideal.

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