"What is the Mercenary Guild?" asked Ying Ziyu.

"Why do you want to go to Dongcheng Academy first?" Wen Yu said with a smile.

"Because I want to be a cultivator!" Ying Ziyu confessed.

"In that case, the academy is really not suitable for you! Dongcheng Academy is just a junior spirit academy, which aims to teach people with the blood of gods all kinds of knowledge about spirits, issue some low-level tasks, and organize students to experience collectively to improve their abilities, which can be regarded as a recruit training camp before the spirit cultivator sets foot in the world, and there is no way for you to become a spirit cultivator. ”

Ying Ziyu frowned a little disappointedly, and Wen Qianqian behind him was bored and secretly curled his hair with his fingers.

"And the Mercenary Guild is the ultimate testing ground. In addition to the relentless and martial arts you already know, you can also meet the forgers who are a treasure trove of weapons and the alchemists who walk the medicine chest. You may even encounter professions such as Xuanheng Master, Beast Master, and Spiritual Cultivator, which are rarely practiced. Your strength there determines how many resources you can get, and what kind of people you will gather around you. Every day, a variety of bounties are posted by a variety of people according to their needs. You'll be rewarded with great bounties for completing missions, and you'll also be able to get the resources you need along the way. ”

"It's so good there?" Ying Ziyu listened to Wen Yu's description of the Mercenary Guild, and his heart was instantly moved.

But Wen Yu shook his head with a smile: "As much as you pay, you get as much as you get, and high returns come with high risks." There, you can either gain a huge amount of resources at once, or you may lose your life all at once. The mortality rate for missions and training in the academy is almost zero, and the mortality rate there is more than forty percent. Every resource there has to be exchanged for life. Every day a new face appears in the guild, and every day an old face disappears forever. Who knows if it's going to be me next?"

"Then how can I get there?" Although Wen Yu said terrifyingly, Ying Ziyu still longed for it.

"If you want to register as a mercenary, depending on each class, you can enter as long as you meet the minimum standards, such as second-grade martial arts cultivators, red spirit masters, first-grade alchemists, first-grade spiritual cultivators, junior casters, one-seal Xuanjing array masters, and one-star beast masters. This is the minimum standard required for all types of occupations. As for the task issuer, there are no restrictions on strength and status, and it can be opened to anyone. ”

"Uh......" Ying Ziyu was suddenly embarrassed to find that he didn't seem to belong to any profession.

At this time, Wen Qianqian, who was standing behind him, patted him on the shoulder understandingly, and said delicately: "Congratulations, you don't belong to any of the above professions." ”

"Wen Wenwen, you are really very suitable as the target of others to vent when they are in a bad mood!" Ying Ziyu rolled his eyes.

"Awards, awards!" Wen Qianqian said modestly.

Ying Ziyu didn't have a problem with her, and turned to look at Wen Yu and said, "Do you have a way?"

Hearing this, Wen Yu directly handed over a bright moon token in his hand to Ying Ziyu, as if he had already prepared it.

"This is the Crescent Moon Order, there are only three pieces in total, it is the status symbol of the Moon Guard Commander whose strength has reached the purple level and above, and the group of people in charge of the registration of newcomers in the Mercenary Guild all recognize it. You can take it and sign up as a mercenary!"

Ying Ziyu took the crescent moon token carved from white jade with both hands, and said with some excitement: "Then take it, am I one of the three commanders of the Moon Guard, and I can mobilize the Moon Guard?"

Wen Yu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then shook his head helplessly with a smile: "It's just to lend it to you to register, and you don't have to think about anything else." When I go back, I will also order them to go down, so that if they see a young man coming to look for the Moon Guard with a crescent order, they will be beaten out with sticks!"

Ying Ziyu sighed in disappointment when he heard this: "Ruthless!"

"Is there anything else you want to ask?" Wen Yu asked Ying Ziyu.

"This time ......"

"The preliminary judgment should be that the Lin family in Huailiu Lake in Crescent City did it!"

"Why are they doing this?"

"It's just for the control of a dozen mountains! This kind of thing happened many times in the past, during the tenure of the city lord. It's just that their approach is more extreme and reckless!"

"For the sake of a dozen mountains, you don't hesitate to fight with the city lord's mansion?" Ying Ziyu expressed disbelief.

"The mountains are a treasure trove of resources for cultivators, and spiritual stones, minerals, and all kinds of heavenly and earthly treasures are bred in the mountains, on which endless resources can be generated for mining. There are more than 300 mountains in the jurisdiction of Crescent City, but the City Lord's Mansion only controls half of them, and the other 170 are divided by the major families and forces in the city. Among them, the Huailiulin family occupies seven and has become a first-class family in the city. Wen Yu told Ziyu calmly.

And this time, what they want is not a dozen or so scattered mountains, but twelve mountains starting from Shangqian to Shangkun, which means that the network of resources formed by the continuous mountains is large enough to cover a radius of 100 miles will fall into the control of their family. The massive resources contained in this are enough to support his Lin family for a hundred years! If it were you, what would you do?"

Ying Ziyu listened to Wenyu's narration while thinking about the pros and cons. In the end, he found that the Lin family was indeed worth taking the risk.

However, why was Wen Yu so calm and indifferent when he said these words, and he also felt that there were many strange things about the Lin family's actions this time.

I always feel that things are not simple, but I can't figure it out for a while.

Finally, Wen Yu and Wen Qianqian said goodbye and left, and Ying Ziyu got up and wanted to send it.

After the two left, Ying Ziyu returned to the bench by the lake and sat down, thinking about the last thing Wen Yu said to himself before leaving: If you want to get clues about the spirits, then pay more attention to the movements in the city in the near future!

It was already afternoon, and the sun had shifted much from midheaven to the west, and the sun was much less dazzling and much softer.

The tree-lined avenue has been transformed into a cozy path paved with golden sunlight. The lake was also sparkling with the sun.

The Green Mu Garden is gradually ushering in the most lively time of the day, and the residents of the city will come here for a day or two in the next one or two hours to relax, date, watch the sunset, enjoy the sunset, enjoy the shade, tryst and other things that ordinary people will do.

Ying Ziyu was dressed in red, sitting alone on a bench by the lake and looking at the sparkling lake in a daze, her back looking a little lonely.

Gradually, some people with a heart noticed him, mostly cardamom girls, and of course, there were some men who recognized him as girls.

Then some girls with a budding heart looked at him on the other side of the lake, and then they came around from afar, but they didn't dare to come forward.

After a long time, Ying Ziyu finally came back to his senses, and after taking a look at the gradually lively Green Mu Garden, he decided to go back to the tavern.

At this time, a quiet girl in a light-colored dress finally sat on the bench of Ying Ziyu with the courage to sit on the bench of Ying Ziyu, and there was a long distance between her and Ying Ziyu.

Ying Ziyu stood up, smiled at her, clasped his fists, and then turned to leave.

When the girl woke up from the almost suffocating feeling just now, she could only see Ying Ziyu's slender back from a distance.

"You're like a red carp in this lake......"

Every day at almost the same moment, a quiet girl in a plain dress would sit on a bench by the lake in Lumuyuan for a while, watch the red carp swim to the surface of the lake and blow bubbles, then turn around and dive into the lake and disappear.

When Ying Ziyu returned to the tavern from memory, it was already sunset, and the sky was full of red clouds.

Ying Ziyu gently pushed open the two hidden doors of the tavern, walked slowly inside, and then closed the door again.

The tavern was now the same as when he left, and the dozen or so wine tables were cleaned up and placed neatly, and the originally dirty floor was now spotless.

There are four windows on the wall of the tavern against the street, and the bamboo curtains have been lowered at this moment, and the drunken orange-red sunlight of the setting sun can only shine into the quiet tavern through the gaps in the four-leaf bamboo curtains, forming soft beams of light, illuminating and dyeing long horizontal lines red.

Ying Ziyu glanced at this tavern, suddenly felt a little warm, and suddenly had such a thought in his heart: If only I had a tavern like this.

Then, Ying Ziyu saw Lan Sixi, the proprietress who was sleeping on the wine table where she had drunk wine with her.

Ying Ziyu walked to the wine table and looked down at this mature woman wearing a red cheongsam, plump and enchanting, drunk and sleeping at the moment.

Lan Sixi is a sexy woman, but she is not an elegant woman.

At this moment, she was sleeping on the wine table with the whole person in her arms, and a thin snoring sound came from her nose, and a trace of crystal sparkled unrestrained from the corners of her lips and fell on the table into a puddle. Her two big white legs, which were exposed, were crossed over the chair, and it could be said that she was not sitting. Under the chairs are red embroidered shoes from the east and west, and people unconsciously think of their owners sitting on the chairs and kicking them off their fragrant jade feet with impunity. Now her hair is in a messy bun, her curly hair is softly draped on her back, and the heavy makeup on her face is also spent, revealing a little pale and plain makeup.

Ying Ziyu picked up the purple wine bowl with sauce that was upside down at the mouth of the wine jar, and wanted to scoop a bowl of wine from it to drink, but found that the jar was empty, and on the contrary, a bun with a few bites was ruthlessly left behind.

Ying Ziyu then remembered the bag of buns he brought with him when he came here, and when he opened the paper bag on the table, he found that it was empty.

"It's quite edible!" Ying Ziyu said, unloading the longbow and arrow box and placing them on the adjacent table.

Then he went back to Lan Sixi's table and took out three money bags.

These three money bags are from the Yellow Soul Master Lin Shan, the third-rank archer, and the first-rank assassin.

What makes Ying Ziyu speechless is that the weight of the money bag is the opposite of their master's strength.

Ying Ziyu first opened the money bag of the third-rank archer, and carefully poured all the contents out on the table. Suddenly, Ying Ziyu's eyes were shaken by a pile of glittering coins.

Ying Ziyu counted the number of coins with a happy mood, and finally counted a total of 33 gold coins and 100 silver coins.

Ying Ziyu naturally didn't know what the carry value between the coins was, but he felt happy when he looked at the shiny gold and silver.

Ying Ziyu pushed them aside and continued to open the money bag of the Yipin Assassin with great interest.

Sure enough, the heavier purse also had more coins. But value is not necessarily.

"One hundred and seventy-four copper coins, forty-two silver coins, and only seven gold coins!"

Ying Ziyu was a little frustrated, piling up the gold coins in one place, and the silver coins in one place, and then pushed the copper coins aside.

And then he suddenly noticed a pair of charming eyes looking directly at him over the wine bowl covering the wine jar.

To be continued