Chapter 72: Unexpected Windfall

  To vent the anger brought by being unfairly banished, I decided to show off in the royal capital. Of course, my actual income from the territory is not something that can be said out loud, otherwise, I wouldn't dare guarantee what that greedy dead king would do. However, bringing some local specialties back and making a big profit at the auction is still possible. It's just that this way, we'll have to pay taxes to the king, which is quite annoying!

  In short, the purpose of this trip back home is very clear: apart from visiting my family, it's to thoroughly anger the king, and if possible, to infuriate him to death - that would make me happy! So I packed a lot of luggage. Just those two magical beasts took a huge amount of effort. The magic wolf was relatively easy to handle; it was only as big as a horse, so keeping it in a steel cage specially made by the dwarves was fine. But that earthworm was a real pain - it was about 2-3 feet thick and nearly 20 meters long! How big would its cage need to be?! It even stumped the dwarves; such a huge cage wouldn't fit on a carriage, and space rings can't hold living creatures or they'd come out dead! In the end, we had to specially make a cage as big as a shipping container for it, and custom-make a 10-wheeled large cart pulled by two land dragons. After experimentation, we found that the land dragons needed to be replaced every two days! Luckily I have plenty of these things, so I decided to bring 200 crazy dragon riders back with me. There were also 2000 green dragon iron knights escorting us. The carriages following us had over 200, filled with valuable furs, alchemy materials, magical lumber and the like, worth nearly 300,000 gold coins in total.

  The poor Daoist was busy until the third day before he could set off, and all along the way, there was a big commotion, but not a single bandit appeared. Those two magical beasts caused a huge stir in the cities they passed through, and not only were the common people interested, but also the nobles from various places came out to enthusiastically welcome the poor Daoist. Damn it! When I was exiled, I didn't even see their faces, now that I have money and power, they all come out to fawn over me! Hypocrites! But there's no way around it, it's not suitable to make too many enemies right now? Can only pretend to be friendly with the fake snakes, constantly socializing. It feels more tiring than fighting with Gai Shi, so later on, when I see a city, I'd rather avoid it!

  After nearly two months of traveling, I finally returned to my home, which I had been away from for half a year. Seeing the warm welcome from my family members, and even my mother's tears of excitement, I felt an inexplicable thrill filling my heart! The taste of family love that I had never experienced in years of cultivating Taoism was so wonderful!

  After a big fuss, we finally entered the house. My parents, grandfather and brothers were all sitting together, listening to me tell them stories of the past.

  It was over an hour later when I finished speaking, and Grandfather said: "Not long after you left, the Ishihara family reported to the king that their eldest son, Ishihara Shinichi, had died heroically in battle against the Northern Four Lords! At the time, I thought it was strange - hadn't we received any news of an attack from the Northern Four Lords? How could he have died? And besides, the Ishihara family wasn't particularly eager for revenge! It turns out you were the one who killed him! You did a great job! To be able to annihilate 15,000 bandits with zero casualties and wipe out their leaders is something that even famous generals of our time can't do!"

  "Haha! Just luck, who made them get caught by radar?"

  "Hehe! When you first made it, I asserted that its value was no less than a divine artifact. Now, isn't what I said proven to be correct?" Grandfather smiled and said to Mother.

  "Really! I didn't quite believe it at the time? Now it seems, you are indeed wise!" Mom chimed in with a compliment for Grandpa.

  Grandpa stroked his beard, with a self-satisfied expression on his face, apparently very pleased!

  "Son, your old man has given you all the best troops. Now that I'm helping you like this, shouldn't you show some filial piety to your old man?"

  "What do you want?" the poor Taoist asked cautiously

  "Haha! Look at me, I'm a Sword Saint now, but I don't even have a decent mount? Are you going to give me that demonic wolf?"

  "Cut! How old is it? Can you sit on it?"

  "Then can you get me a ticket for the Dragon's Head Line?"

  "You think it's easy to deal with that thing? It's not even mine! I just wanted to give it to you, those mad warriors wouldn't agree either!"

  "I didn't ask you to give it to me now, I meant for you to get one specifically for me in the future!"

  "Alright! But don't get your hopes up too high! It's really hard to catch the beast, besides, you have a horse, right? Our purebred horses are very famous, they're very powerful and can definitely carry you!"

  "Hmph!" Grandfather said discontentedly, "This rascal only knows how to charge forward every time he goes into battle, without paying attention to protecting his horse. He may be satisfied with himself, but every battle means another warhorse dies. Who can stand it? He's already gotten three of mine killed, so I won't let him ride a purebred horse again. From now on, only ordinary warhorses for him! Our family has only a few dozen purebred horses in total. If we keep letting him use them like this, before long they'll all become 'extinct' horses!"

  "Haha!" The poor Tao and his brothers couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "What's so funny?" Father said discontentedly: "Now I'm riding an ordinary war horse, and I can't rush far at all. At most half an hour, I'll be exhausted and get off. You must get me a rideable magic beast, preferably a land dragon!"

  "Alright! Let me take a look!" The poor Taoist replied

  "We want some too!" said his brother

  "Everything is on me, I'll prepare the best cub or beast egg for you!"

  "Ah! Too good!" A few guys excitedly jumped up

  At this time, Mr. Wang, who followed me back, suddenly came to report with joy: "Great joy! Master, madam, great joy!"

  "What's going on? Tell me slowly!" Mother said

  "I had arranged for the three wolf cubs earlier, and unintentionally discovered that its belly was a bit big. Recently, its spirit hasn't been very good either. I was afraid something unexpected would happen, so I specially invited several veterinarians to take a look. They said that the three wolf cubs are pregnant!" Mr. Wang excitedly said.

  "Really? Oh my! That's great!" Mom exclaimed excitedly: "Wolf cubs! There are several in a litter!"

  Even the normally composed grandfather couldn't help but exclaim: "Haha! You're truly our family's lucky star! On average, only a few seventh-level magical beast cubs are captured across the entire continent each year. This is equivalent to monopolizing the continent's annual output! If every powerful member of our family can get one, our overall strength will increase significantly! You must take good care of that guy now!"

  "Alright! Don't worry! Old Wang, go find a superior house, it must be big and sealed, can't heat it up, ask more people to come and watch it at any time of the day! Must take good care of it!"

  "Yes! Madam!" Old Wang hastily walked away

  "Little Wu! When did you catch it? Didn't you notice that it was pregnant at the time?" Mom asked.

  "I just caught it a few days ago! At that time, I didn't see anything different about it!"

  "Haha!" Grandpa said: "That's exactly the time of spring and summer, wolves are usually shedding their fur at this time. It's possible that she just finished shedding and was caught by you. You're really lucky! They can live for hundreds of years, and it may take ten or more years to encounter one again!"

  "Then we're not going to buy it!" My father asked: "A seventh-level cub is worth a fortune, isn't it?"

  "Scoundrel! I knew you were just in it for the money!" Grandpa said discontentedly, "I've decided that our five kids, plus those three from the Zhuque Military Branch, will get priority selection. If there's any left over, then we'll sell them!"

  "Long live Grandpa!" The brothers all jumped up high

  "What Father said is right! We should first equip our own children, so they will have a much higher survival rate on the battlefield in the future!" Mother said, "But it really costs a lot of money, doesn't it?"

  "Great! Mother! Take it away and sell it! Besides, my brothers will be warriors in the future, this thing is not suitable for them. If they believe me, I'll give them better and more suitable ones later!" said Poor Dao.

  "Ah! You're so confident! This isn't a joke!" Grandfather said seriously, "Do you know why this thing is so valuable?"

  "Perhaps it's because they can multiply their combat strength?" said Poor Way

  "If a warrior were to obtain the Three-Headed Demon Wolf, their combat power would at most increase by one fold!" Grandfather said: "But if a high-level mage were to get it, they could take down five Golden Warriors, that is to say, their combat power would increase several fold! If we're not careful and are bought out by the enemy family, our situation will be dire!"