The Mightiest Little Peasant

ery grateful.

The other Taoist masters came up to them and exchanged greetings.

They were deep in the mountains, and would not attract unwanted attention.

“Qian Ji has something else to attend to and cannot come.
There’s so many of us though, there shouldn’t be a problem.”

“We’ll have to capture the old villain and seal him up again.
Otherwise, it’ll be a great shame for Mao Mountain!”

The elderly Taoist masters spoke.

“Looks here, Taoist masters, this is the base of operations of the Wang family.”

Tang Hao retrieved a map and drew a circle on it.
“Over here is a small mountain village called Horsebridge Village.
It looks just like any other rural settlement, but actually, the mountain range next to it has been hollowed out.
The Wang family’s base of operations is inside.”

Tang Hao pointed at the mountain range next to the village on the map.

“It’s that big?” The elderly Taoist masters furrowed their brows.

The bigger their base, the more complex the layout would be, and there would be more hidden paths for the enemy to escape.
It would be hard to capture all the Wang family people at once.

They discussed thoroughly their plan of action before deciding on it.

They rented several tour buses and drove toward Horsebridge Village through the night.

Tang Hao followed them.
He informed Sis Xiangyi about it before he left.

It was about three o’clock in the morning when they arrived at Horsebridge Village.

They dared not go too near.
Instead, they split their forces at the entrance to the mountain.
Half of the people would travel around the mountain and attack Horsebridge Village from behind.

The other half would launch a frontal attack at the village.
Tang Hao was in that half.

He had only returned from Dongying about ten days earlier.
He did not craft many jade talismans after he got back, and he did not have that many talismans left on him.
However, with many Taoist masters coming along, he was not the primary attack force.
That would save him a lot of energy.

The two tour buses stopped in the valley.
No one spoke, and the atmosphere was tense.

The Taoist masters were silent preparing for the battle ahead.

Their opponents this time were not Nanyang shamans but Wang family descendants.
Furthermore, they were attacking their home base.

The Wang family had been a menace for almost a thousand years.
Even though Mao Mountain had defeated them once a few hundred years ago, they were unable to eradicate them.
A few hundred years after that, the Wang family must have regained their full force.

Defeating the Wang family in their home base would be momentously difficult.

The atmosphere became tenser as time passed.

The Taoist masters’ morale was high.
Some of them considered the mission to be a one-way trip.

The Wang family were mortal enemies of Mao Mountain.
They would eventually have a decisive battle anyway.
Sacrifices were unavoidable.

“Distribute the weapons.”

A few Taoist masters opened the crates that were placed along the walkway.
All of them carried firearms.

The Wang family fought with firearms, which meant that the Taoist masters needed to use firearms to fight back.
Their first encounter would most likely be an exchange of gunfire.

Every Taoist master received a set of guns.
Some of them took a few more machine guns and slung ammunition and grenades across their body.

Tang Hao was silent when he observed the mood in the bus.

His mood was affected by the Taoist masters.

He retrieved his remaining stock of jade talismans.
He took apart the defensive jade talisman formations and distributed the individual talismans to the Taoist masters, giving special attention to the ones with weaker cultivation bases.

Those talisman formations were prepared for his Dongying trip.
Together, the formation’s defensive power was very high, and the individual talismans were a lot weaker.

Even so, at least that would prevent some unnecessary injuries or deaths.