More people did not participate in this matter, but only looked from the sides and watched the scene unfold.
They could even lend money to the mercenary leader for betting. But, for them to raise the bet was not a joke. Who would bet against a man that stayed within the Aries Temple for three hours before coming out. Who would bet against him? Even without considering whether he had challenged the Three-head Chimera or killed the Sheep-head Monsters, just sleeping inside for 3 hours was a feat of its own.
In the many years that the Twelve Zodiac Temples had been challenged, who would have ever heard of a top level person who would sleep there for three hours?
No, only this little thief.
“I’ll be the witness for this.” The Golden Armour Captain did not ask for any proof from Yue Yang. He knew that this little thief was bound to win. Afraid that the mercenaries would be unhappy at the outcome, he stepped up to be the witness.
“Take it out, take the item of proof outside. How can you prove that you went inside the Aries Temple afterwards?”
He felt that Yue Yang did not necessarily bring an item out as proof seeing that Yue Yang was not up to scratch.
Even if Yue Yang did, he could just refuse and say that it was not. After all, nobody had seen the items in the Aries Palace. If he asserted that that was not an item from the Aries Palace, who could prove that it was?
Yue Yang extended his hands. On his hands was a peculiar rune crystal that was faintly glowing white.
The crowd did not know of this gem, and did not understand. “What is this?”
The Golden Armour Captain saw it and drew a breath of cold air. “Good gracious, you actually managed to get the Blindness Rune? How did you get it?”
“This, this is the Blindness Rune?” Everyone looked at each other in dismay.
Nobody could believe that Yue Yang had obtained the Blindness Rune which was said to be guarded by dozens of Sheep-head Warriors. Wasn’t he a Beginner?
Not only that, this youngster’s beast was one of the world’s weakest – a Thorny Flower.
How did he manage to get the Blindness Rune?
“That’s impossible, he’s lying! This must be a scam! This Blindness Rune must have been bought from somewhere else, then set up this scam for us to make us fall for it! I don’t believe it, even if I die, I don’t believe this!” The mercenary leader howled exasperatedly, and looked like a gorilla who had failed at copulating continuously and had his companions look at him extremely disdainfully.
“Shut up, this Blindness Rune is a special object that can only be found in the Twelve Zodiac Temples. It can only be used within Tong Tian Tower. Once it’s brought out of Tong Tian Tower, it’ll immediately become an ordinary stone. You’ve lost, now leave the ten gold behind.” The Golden Armour Captain smiled coldly and interrupted the howlings of the mercenary leader.
“This is impossible, he can’t have obtained the Blindness Rune! He’s a Level 1 Beginner, how could this be? He’s definitely a liar!” The mercenary leader’s heart was dripping blood. He was unable to accept the reality presented to him.
“You’ve lost. If you don’t leave the ten gold behind, I will leave your head behind.” The Golden Armour Captain warned him: “Although I don’t understand how he had got the Blindness Rune, this is the truth. Furthermore, any warrior who is able to get either treasure from the two halls beside the Aries Temple are reputable challengers, and are worthy of respect by people. Now that this young man has gotten the Blindness Rune, he has proven that he is more outstanding than me when I challenged the trials in those days. If you continue to insult him, I’ll kill you.” The Golden Armour Captain’s sight was like a sword, and his killing intent rose in an instant, scaring all the mercenaries until they were shivering.
“Isn’t it only ten gold? You beggar, just count it as my reward to you.” After dragging this matter around, Yue Yang acted like an obedient child again. He gave a stack of letters, a ring and daggers to the Golden Armour Captain. “This was what I got from the energy cauldron. They’re all the possessions of previous challengers. Since this guy doesn’t want to honour his bet, I’ll let it pass. I’ll trouble you to give these back to their families.”
The Golden Armour Captain’s hands were shivering as he received these items.
Especially when he saw the marriage ring, his tears had welled up, and said to Yue Yang emotionally: “The owner of this ring, this challenger, was my older brother who had died in battle ten years ago. I had always been wanting to fight through the right hall and get what he left behind, but my strength was not enough, and my wish had been unfulfilled for ten years…On behalf of my sister-in-law and my nephew who will never see his father, I offer you my thanks.”
He brought five Golden Armour Guards and with a ‘Pa’, gave him an army salute for a long time.
Yue Yang smiled and prepared to slip away.
That mercenary leader howled loudly in despa