Walking into the thirty-first city, on the streets, martial artists riding tall savage beasts could be seen everywhere. They wore thick armour, huge swords on their waists, and carried bags on their backs, and some of them still had blood staining the top of their armour, as if they had just returned from a mission.
This area of the city was the gathering place of the most powerful mercenaries in the Eastern Region, and all large mercenary groups had set up their strongholds in the city, responsible for receiving missions and delivering them.
The Silver Sky Mercenary Corps, in the Eastern Region, was not considered a top level mercenary corps, with a history of only a few decades, it could not be compared to those top mercenary corps that had been in business for thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years.
From the leader of the group, to the ordinary mercenaries, the vast majority of them were young people, and the oldest person was no more than sixty years old.
It was such a young mercenary group that had quite a reputation in the Eastern Region, because, they only took in talented mercenaries. The mercenary with the worst natural talent had to be a Three Greatest Genius.
Moreover, the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps had an extremely high reputation value, enough to rank in the top five in the Mercenary Union.
For mercenaries, reputation was the most important.
A mercenary without credibility, even if his strength was high, no one would hire him.
The leader of the Silver Sky Mercenary Regiment, Silver Moon Lingkong, was a heavenly proud woman of unparalleled splendour, and although she wasn’t a Saint Body, she was able to compete with Saint Bodies, her cultivation had reached the Ninth Transformation of the Fish Dragon, and she would most likely become the youngest Half-Saint in the Eastern Region.
Below the Silver Moon Prosperity, there were also two deputy regiment masters.
Nie Honglou, was one of them.
Nie Honglou was already forty-two years old, only he looked very young, only around twenty years old, with eyebrows like green peaks, eyes like cold stars, and a nose like a hanging gall bladder, giving off an unusually handsome look.
On his body, there was not a single speck of dust, not a trace of dirt, unusually clean, and between his hands and feet, he gave off a dashing and elegant aristocratic temperament.
At this moment, Nie Honglou, Zhang Ruochen, and Lu Yi were sitting on the first floor of Kongyi Building, inside a luxurious elegant room.
The three of them, each sitting on one side, with a calm demeanour, were sipping wine.
Lu Yi, the disciple of the Divine Sword Holy Land that Lu You Cai had arranged to receive Zhang Ruochen, possessed the cultivation of the First Change of Fish Dragon, and was considered an expert.
Lu Yi put down his wine cup and asked curiously, “Sir Zhang, I heard the Elder’s message that you are going to hire a top expert, could it be to deal with that one Blood Spirit?”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “Dealing with that one Blood Spirit is one of the reasons. At the same time, I also wish to have an expert by my side who can protect my safety at all times.”
Lu Yi revealed a look of understanding.
Now that everyone in the world knew that Zhang Ruochen had swallowed the Dragon Pearl and was the heir to the Buddha Emperor, there would definitely be many people hitting on him.
It was reasonable for him to want to hire a top level mercenary to protect him by his side.
Nie Honglou’s lips hooked slightly as he said, ”That one Blood Spirit isn’t simple, it should have fused a large amount of Half-Saint’s Light, and its strength is stronger than some of the experts of the Fish Dragon’s Seventh Transformation, and it has the potential to impact the Half-Saints. With my own strength, I can’t kill her.”
Lu Yi frowned and said, “If even Vice Regiment Master Nie, can’t kill her, I guess the only way to have complete certainty and get rid of her is to invite a Half-Saint.”
Nie Honglou smiled and said, “That’s not necessarily true, if Mr Zhang can afford to pay a high enough price, I can go and invite the Silver Moon Regiment Master. If she is willing to take action, she also has full certainty that she will beat that one Blood Spirit to death.”
When Lu Yi heard the name “Silver Moon Troupe Master”, his spirit immediately trembled and he said, “Legend has it that the Silver Moon Troupe Master cultivates the Hundred Schools of Martial Arts and has observed eighteen volumes of the Semi-Sacred Sacred Intentions, and her cultivation is already infinitely close to the Semi-Sacred Realm. If she were to make a move, it would indeed not be difficult to kill that one Blood Spirit.”
Zhang Ruochen asked, “How high a price would it cost to invite the Silver Moon Regiment Master?”
The higher the strength of the mercenary, the higher the price would definitely be.
For a powerful person like Silver Moon Linnets to hire her for a day, it would also definitely require a huge amount of spirit crystals.
Nie Honglou laughed, “It’s hard to say. The Silver Moon Troupe Master has always done business out of the box, once, she helped a small beggar kill the heir of a Half-Saint family for a single silver coin. However, when the Xu Sheng Sect Valve hired the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps to do a job, she offered an astronomical price of one hundred million spirit crystals, scaring that one deacon of the Xu Sheng Sect Valve away.”
“So that’s why I don’t dare to promise you at all right now, I can only say that I can help you to report to the Silver Moon Regiment Master. Whether she is willing to make a move or not is unknown.”
“Alright! I’ll go with you to the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Although, Zhang Ruochen trusted the mercenaries that the Divine Sword Holy Land had contacted for him, he still wanted to personally go to the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps to take a look, and he especially wanted to meet that one Silver Moon Corps Leader, what kind of heavenly existence was she?
A cultivator who was able to impact the youngest Half-Saint in the Eastern Region was definitely not a simple figure.
If she was able to successfully reach the Half-Saint realm in a short period of time, then her talent was so high that even the six great kings of the new generation might not be able to compare to her.
Who wouldn’t want to meet such a character?
Lu Yi had other matters to attend to, so he left first. As he left, he told Zhang Ruochen that if he encountered any trouble, he could always go to the Divine Sword Holy Land’s branch rudder in the 31st City to look for him.
Zhang Ruochen thanked him and headed to the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps with Nie Honglou.
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“Wow!”
In the Thirty-First City, a verdant alley.
On the ground, a wisp of blood Qi flew out from the gap between two stone slabs.
The wisp of blood qi rose up and coalesced into the body of the Blood Spirit King, bare of a pair of delicate jade feet, stepping on a cloud of blood mist, hanging one metre off the ground.
She had a curvaceous figure, full breasts and hips, wonderful curves, and a head full of long, blood-red hair, and her entire body was permeated with an icy cold aura.
“Zhang Ruochen actually wants to hire mercenaries to deal with me, we must find a way to deal with this in advance.”The Blood Spirit King muttered to himself.
Being a Blood Spirit, concealing her figure was her strong point. Even if Zhang Ruochen possessed a forty-first rank spirit power, he might not be able to spot her.
Just now, she hid not far away and heard Zhang Ruochen’s conversation with Nie Honglou.
“Ta-da!”
Footsteps sounded.
A man wearing blue robes and carrying a two-metre long wide, huge blade diagonally appeared at the location of the alleyway entrance, lowered his voice, and said, “Zhang Ruochen has gone to the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps, once he invites the Silver Moon Advent, it will be your time to die. You now need allies to go with you to the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps to kill Zhang Ruochen.”
The Blood Spirit King’s eyes went cold as she said, “Who are you?”
The Spectral Blue Star Envoy stared at her and said word for word, “I am your ally.”
“Are you worthy?”
The Blood Spirit King sneered and disappeared from his spot, transforming into a wave of blood as he rushed to the Spectral Blue Star Envoy’s face and struck out with a palm.
The Spectral Blue Star Envoy’s body bulged out, like wind inside his clothes, and true qi surged out from his body, spinning rapidly around his body, forming a circle.
Standing inside the circle of true qi, he quickly punched out and struck the centre of the Blood Spirit King’s palm.
“Boom!”
Both of them took three steps backward at the same time, and then, stood firmly on their feet.
“Amazing, your strength, it’s actually not below mine. What exactly are you?”The Blood Spirit King asked.
The Phantom Blue Star Envoy moved his wrist, smiled, and said, “Black Market One Piece Hall, one of the Seven Deadly Star Envoys, Phantom Blue Star Envoy. Blood Spirit King, our family’s Young Lord is in the 31st City, he is very interested in you and wants to help you kill Zhang Ruochen and destroy the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps.”
“Emperor Yi?”The Blood Spirit King said.
“That’s right.”The Spectral Blue Star Envoy said.
The Blood Spirit King laughed coldly and said, “You call this helping me out? Emperor Yi’s demonic heart was scooped up by Zhang Ruochen, so I guess he wants to kill Zhang Ruochen even more than I do. Even if he wants to help, it is me who is helping him. Besides, killing a Zhang Ruochen is not a difficult task, so why yet involve the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps?”
The Spectral Blue Star Envoy laughed and said, “There’s no harm in telling you, Silver Moon Lincoln is a traitor of the Black Market, and the Young Lord came to the 31st City this time, originally to clean her up. Zhang Ruochen’s appearance was merely coincidental. Perhaps, this was called a narrow road between enemies! Since this is the case, the Young Lord decided to take this opportunity to get rid of Zhang Ruochen as well.”
The Blood Spirit King’s mind thought quickly, and in the end, he still had to admire the Black Market’s intelligence system, actually being able to learn that Zhang Ruochen had come to the 31st City in the first place, and also being able to find her in the first place.
Presumably, while she was eavesdropping on Zhang Ruochen and the others’ conversation, the Black Market’s experts, too, were secretly watching her.
This feeling of having every move under someone else’s control, just thinking about it, made one feel shaky.
“Let’s work with Emperor Yi first, get rid of Zhang Ruochen, and reclaim the Half-Saint’s Light.”The Blood Spirit King thought.
