Chapter 377: Happy’s Appearance

Hongwu City.
An ordinary medium-sized town, yet it enjoys considerable fame. Thanks to its unique advantage of being closest to the Royal Tomb, it has attracted many martial artists. Many newly emerging gangs also established their headquarters in Hongwu City, contributing to its prosperity.
The news of Happy’s death spread first from within Hongwu City…
According to players who were at the Martial Temple at the time and witnessed Happy leaving, what should have been a group of unlucky people saw their gloom vanish after witnessing this astonishing scene. Instead, they took pride in being there at the time of his death and told everyone about it.
They said that when Happy left the Martial Temple, many gangs and experts in Hongwu City already had their eyes set on his equipment. From the start, many people followed him openly or secretly, closely behind him. After visiting a bank and a pawnshop, Happy left Hongwu City in a dazed state.
Shortly after, hundreds of martial experts rushed out of the city, eager to obtain his equipment, leading to a massacre outside Hongwu City. None of those present survived…
Despite being severely weakened, Happy still relied on his three-foot-long sword and indestructible golden armor to fight against hundreds of enemies. With a single swing, he killed several people at a time. In less than ten minutes, he slaughtered nearly 300 people, scaring away countless martial artists who dared not approach. Even those who chased after him later dared not appear in his line of sight.
An hour later, Happy changed into silver-colored armor and appeared briefly dozens of miles away before disappearing completely from sight!
…
Now!
The search team for Happy is more than 200 miles away from Hongwu City. People in nearby cities are searching everywhere and setting up checkpoints, but there is no trace of him. Some in Hongwu City speculate that Happy stayed in the Royal Tomb for too long, likely logged off for a while, and is now hiding within the search area.
…
With Happy’s disappearance and the tense situation at the Colorful Robes Sect, rumors began to spread in Hongwu City. The First-Class Hall had recently established a branch there. With Happy dead, most of the resources from the Royal Tomb would surely fall into the First-Class Hall’s hands!
Originally, among the three major powerful gangs, the First-Class Hall already had an unshakable advantage. Now, with Happy defeated and the Royal Tomb’s resources in their hands, the First-Class Hall will surely experience another period of rapid growth.

Inside Hongwu City, the members of Yipin Hall’s branch were indeed constantly asserting their dominance, putting immense pressure on the local gangs there.
…
That day, several disciples of Yipin Hall appeared together near a fortune-teller’s stall.
“Ten minutes left,” one of them said, checking the time, his voice tinged with excitement.
The others also looked thrilled and eager: “Let’s have some fun! After this, see how many in the martial world still dare to oppose us, Yipin Hall!”
Although it was impossible to predict the timing of Tiansha Xing’s appearance during this period, it was possible to determine when it would disappear. Seizing this opportunity, they planned to locate Kai Xin’s position immediately and relay the news to Vice Hallmaster Huang and Hallmaster Mengyun, who were waiting in the capital.
Yet…
Just as they waited patiently at the scheduled time, several black homing pigeons suddenly appeared among the crowd on Hongwu City’s streets, their wings flapping.
Whoa!
The black pigeons immediately caught the attention of all the players in the street. Countless gazes followed them as they landed, focusing on the several stunned disciples of Yipin Hall.
“…”
They exchanged glances.
These were… warning pigeons indicating an attack on their gang’s foundation.
“What the hell?”
One of them took the pigeon off his shoulder and frowned, muttering, “Who could be so reckless? To have Yipin Hall provoked in public like this really makes us feel embarrassed.”
When they read the note, their expressions shifted sharply:
“Damn!”
“Which idiot did this?”
The note stated that it wasn’t the main hall that had been attacked, but a branch in Hongwu City. The system indicated they had ten minutes to respond.
“Let’s go!”
“Go where? Hallmaster Huang ordered us to stay here and find Kai Xin’s coordinates as quickly as possible. There are people at the branch.”
“Right, I’ll send a message to Lao Yu. Maybe some bored kid is causing trouble for us.” The Yipin Hall disciples were quite confident in themselves.
It wasn’t surprising, though. After all, besides having a standard number of members, the Hongwu City branch was also led by Huang Sha, who brought along over thirty core members of Yipin Hall—each a top-tier expert. With such a strong lineup, no gang could shake the foundation of Yipin Hall’s branch unless they sent every last member they had.

As soon as the homing pigeon took off, a reply came quickly:
“I don’t know which bastard did this—cut our sect’s flag in half and nailed a dagger to our plaque. When we rushed out, we couldn’t see anyone. Some damn fool’s prank… Damn it! If I find him, I’ll chase him down for three days and three nights!”
Lao Yu, who sent the reply, was cursing angrily, clearly furious.
On the street, several disciples of Yipin Tang exchanged smiles and felt relieved.
Most disciples of Yipin Tang were usually very showy and had offended many people. This incident was likely done by local gang members in Hongwu City to vent their anger. So, they stopped caring about it.
As time passed…
Ten minutes arrived in no time…
Thud!
A small bag of gold was thrown onto Master Zhou Yi’s stall. A disciple of Yipin Tang ordered from above, “Help me find Happy’s location!”
Seeing Master Zhou Yi happily take the money bag, the men were excited but also secretly cursed the operation company for being shameless—finding one person cost so much.
Previously, finding Happy’s location only cost a few thousand taels of silver, but now it had doubled to ten times that! Thousands of taels of gold!
Moreover, such investigations usually took some time, costing at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver. By the end of the day, they wouldn’t know how much money they had to give to these NPCs.
Fortunately…
Master Zhou Yi was responsible and efficient. He threw the ox horn onto the Bagua disk and calculated the result, then handed a note to the disciple who paid him.
The latter quickly grabbed it and read it.
Oh no!
“This is…”
Seeing the words on the note, he gasped in shock and froze in place.
The others, seeing his stunned expression, couldn’t resist and snatched the note…
The next moment…
Their faces turned pale. They drew their swords and rushed onto the rooftops, heading toward their sect’s entrance at top speed.
Damn it!
Happy’s location was actually right at their sect’s entrance… What a joke!!