World’s End: My Keyword is One More Than Others

Chapter 192: Plucking Feathers

Seizing the Starlight?

Guan Xuan had been plagued by hardship, frustration, and despair these days.

She couldn't see a future ahead.

Du Ge's words were like sunshine piercing through the clouds, gradually dispelling the fog in her heart and making her eyes sparkle with hope.

Indeed!

The Big Dipper Technique was all about seizing the starlight from the heavens for oneself; the Seven Stars Sect's founding martial arts clearly instructed them to fight and compete...

The third senior brother was right; they must seize and snatch!

Guan Xuan's admiration for Du Ge grew, but then she thought of a practical problem: "Sect Leader, what if we can't outcompete others?"

After setting the path of robbery for the Seven Stars Sect, Du Ge's attributes surged again. Delighted, he looked at Guan Xuan and tirelessly advised: "Open robbery, stealthy theft, or justifiable plunder, as long as our minds don't slip, there are always more ways than difficulties. It's not easy to be a good person, but is it not easy to be a bad one?"

"No, it's just a metaphor," Du Ge chuckled. "The means can be ruthless, but the heart must be kind. If you rob the poor, you're indeed a bad person, but what about robbing the rich who are unkind? That's called enforcing justice on behalf of Heaven."

Although he wasn't aiming for nobility anymore, Du Ge still left a margin for it.

Blocking the road completely would make it hard to turn back later.

After all, he could take the second keyword skill with him...

If necessary, he could use plundering to boost his strength and wealth, and then turn back to pursue nobility.

Hasn't Buddhism said, 'Lay down the butcher knife and become a Buddha on the spot'?

Enforcing justice on behalf of Heaven?

Guan Xuan learned a new term, her eyes lighting up as she looked at Du Ge: "Third senior brother... Sect Leader, I feel like you've changed."

"Change is good," Du Ge looked up at the sky and sighed, "I've been pondering these days, why has the Seven Stars Sect become like this? We did nothing wrong, is it just because Tianlan Valley took a fancy to our sect?

After much thought, I couldn't understand it; I saw no way out. So, I decided to leave with the seventh junior brother to find a new direction. But when I saw you in front of our master's memorial tablet, holding the Yellow Dragon Pill, ready to embrace death...

My heart was touched at that moment. I realized the essence of where to settle and stand in life; I guess this is what enlightenment is!"

Bang!

Guan Xuan's heart skipped a beat.

Was the third senior brother taking pity on me?

She stared blankly at Du Ge.

At that moment.

It seemed as if a halo enveloped him.

The little junior sister's heartbeat quickened, and at this moment, only one thought remained in her mind: it was her father, her father had shown a sign, her father had heard her prayers, awakening the third senior brother, the Seven Stars Sect was saved.

Since the third senior brother was awakened by her father, then everything would be alright.

Guan Xuan stopped, bowed to Du Ge again, her face resolute: "Sect Leader, I'll follow your lead, whatever you ask me to do, I'll do."

What's this?

She believed it just like that?

This must be a desperate attempt for a cure!

Du Ge glanced at Guan Xuan and nodded: "Get up! Let's get to work."

"Okay."

Guan Xuan nodded firmly, becoming much more obedient.

The two walked to the outer courtyard, just in time to see several servants carrying large and small bundles, heading out of the mountain gate, one of them even holding a chicken.

Guan Xuan's face changed immediately.

"Stop." Seeing the few, Du Ge immediately shouted.

The servants, seeing Du Ge and Guan Xuan, stood still, at a loss, as if caught red-handed stealing.

"What are you doing with those things?" Du Ge asked.

"Third Young Master, we saw the seventh young master leaving the mountain with his belongings, and thought the Seven Stars Sect was done for, so we decided to find another way out," one of the older servants replied honestly and submissively.

"I'm still here, and so is the eldest senior brother. Who says the Seven Stars Sect is gone?" Du Ge said angrily.

"Even the young lady is packing up to flee; what's left of the Seven Stars Sect?" A younger servant with more courage pointed at the bundle on Guan Xuan's back and said defiantly, "If you can leave, why can't we?"

"She's been detained by me." Du Ge took out the Sect Leader's token and said coldly, "From now on, I am the Sect Leader of the Seven Stars Sect. The sect has a leader now, and as long as I'm here, no one from the Seven Stars Sect is allowed to defect, not even the young lady..."

I'm not defecting!

The bundle is clearly yours.

Guan Xuan's face flushed red, wanting to explain, but thinking of Du Ge's status as Sect Leader, she silently took the blame; she couldn't smear the Sect Leader's face.

The servants looked at the Sect Leader's token in Du Ge's hand, all stunned.

The young servant who had spoken earlier said, "Even if you are the Sect Leader, we're just servants, not sold to the Seven Stars Sect, why can't we leave?"

"Of course you can leave, but the things belong to the Seven Stars Sect. Taking my things in front of me, the Sect Leader, is stealing..." Du Ge glanced at them and drew his sword sharply, "Killing thieves who steal from the sect's property, no matter where you go in the world, you can't justify it."

Seeing Du Ge draw his sword, the servants turned pale and hastily dropped what they were holding.

The honest servant even knelt down, kowtowing like pounding garlic: "Sect Leader, we were wrong. We've heard about the Seven Stars Sect's troubles, and the Sect Leader has passed away. Staying here, we can't even support our families. Third Young Master, please let us go!"

"Sect Leader, let them go," Guan Xuan, seeing the kowtowing servants, felt pity and quietly tugged at Du Ge's sleeve, "Their hearts are not here anymore. After we deal with Tianlan Valley, we can just find a few more servants."

Du Ge didn't turn his head, continuing to question the servants in front of him: "So, this is your reason for taking the sect's things?"

"We've already left the things behind!" a servant muttered.

Rob them?

Du Ge looked at the few silent servants and suddenly lost interest, waving them off, unwilling to bother with them anymore!

After all.

The servants didn't even know martial arts; forcing them to stay wouldn't make them work well. Guan Xuan was right; it was better to let them go and find new servants later, easier and less troublesome.

Robbing them would bring no sense of achievement.

The servants breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and looked back longingly at the possessions they had abandoned before heading out of the sect.

The servant who had been holding the chicken picked it up from the ground and walked out with it.

Du Ge, watching the servant, asked subconsciously, "Wait, what's with the chicken?"

The servant defended, "Third Young Master, the pheasant was caught in my own field when I went up the mountain the day before yesterday; it's my own..."

Uh!

Du Ge choked, waving his hand at him again.

The servant sneered, turning away and muttering, "Really gone mad with poverty, even wanting to rob a chicken..."

Rob?

A flash of inspiration crossed Du Ge's mind.

Seeing you pitiful, I didn't have the heart to rob you, and you took advantage of it, really thinking I'm easy to bully!

Even a mosquito leg is still meat...

He suddenly dashed forward, snatched the chicken from the servant's arms, plucked the two most beautiful feathers from the chicken's tail, and then threw the chicken back: "Letting you go is a kindness from me, not a reason for you to think the Seven Stars Sect is easy to bully. The chicken has been raised on the sect's land for a few days, plucking its two tail feathers as compensation to the sect, as a punishment. Go, and hope you don't regret today's decision."

Crazy!

Watching Du Ge rob the pheasant but only pluck two feathers, the servant was dumbfounded, holding his own chicken and hurrying away, feeling even more that there was no future in Seven Stars Mountain.

Du Ge rushed to rob the chicken and pluck the feathers, and Guan Xuan was equally stunned by the scene, looking at Du Ge helplessly: "Sect Leader, why pluck those two feathers from the chicken? So childish!"

"Didn't I say? Rob the heavens, rob the earth, rob the air," Du Ge looked at the flickering personal interface, casually explaining, "Of course, we must start with the small things; we need to gradually develop the habit so that robbery becomes second nature, and you should learn too..."

Then.

His voice stopped abruptly.

Because he saw a new advanced skill appear on the interface:

Plucking Feathers: Anything that passes through your hands will inevitably have something taken by you.