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The Divine Yuan Crystal, just one, can create a cultivation holy land, at least it can guarantee that an area is extremely rich in spiritual energy for several months! If a person can cultivate in that environment, as long as the realm is sufficient, his cultivation will definitely advance by leaps and bounds!

This effect is extremely clearly reflected from Lin Xue and Lin Shuilan.

...... At this moment, Lin Shuilan, who had consumed a large amount of Divine Yuan Crystal, was discussing some cultivation issues with Lin Xue and the others alone, and they were talking properly, but they suddenly felt a large amount of energy fluctuations coming from the end of the sky, which was obviously caused by a large number of strong people flying at extreme speed, and it seemed that these strong people were specifically coming for them to go to the Xuanjian Sect.

Lin Xue and Lin Shuilan glanced at each other, unable to remember what people their Shangxuan Sword Sect had offended. Seeing that the other party was approaching, the two immediately went out and walked outside the sect.

This group of people was obviously not good, after arriving at the Shangxuan Sword Sect, they didn't even greet one, and directly sent a holy sword master powerhouse, wielding a powerful fighting qi slash, fiercely bombarding the pavilion gate engraved with "Shangxuan Sword Sect" in front of the courtyard, and the strong fighting spirit completely shattered the entire pavilion gate, and a large amount of dust fluttered up.

Such a move surprised not only Lin Xue and the others who were rushing over, but even the disciples who were in retreat in the door were also alarmed, and after a while, except for Ling Yun and Lin Ruoruo, who were in retreat and struggling to break through the realm of the Holy Sword Master, all the disciples rushed out.

Lin Xue saw that the other party couldn't help but say something, and knew that what was going on today might not end well.

She carefully looked at the person in front of her, and when she saw the lineup of an eighth-order, four seventh-order holy sword masters, and more than twenty great sword masters on the other side, she breathed a sigh of relief, and stepped forward and asked in a deep voice: "I don't know where I offended your sect in the Xuanjian Sect, and let your sect mobilize people to commit crimes like this." ”

The eighth-order Holy Sword Master glanced at the Xuan Sword Sect slightly, but when he saw that there were actually two Holy Sword Master powerhouses in their sect, he was secretly a little surprised.

This eighth-order holy sword master is one of the sects that Han Chen instructed to blackmail the Upper Xuanjian Sect, they have not participated in the opening ceremony of the Upper Xuanjian Sect, although they know from the intelligence that there is a holy sword master in this sect, but they don't take it to heart, and now there is a discrepancy in the information, and there is an extra holy sword master, but it makes him frown slightly.

Two is two, an opportunity to please Lord Hanchen, how to let it go easily.

Thinking of this, the eighth-order holy sword master's expression suddenly turned sideways, and he glanced at Lin Xue with a cold face: "You are the head of the Shangxuan Sword Sect, I am in a newly established force, it is not easy to develop, and it is not easy for you to pay tribute in the first year, and it will take time to ensure security, and I will not embarrass you." I don't want your sect to be so ignorant, for three years, there has never been a fee that should be paid by Fengxian, such a move is simply not to take our Tianzhao Sect in his eyes!"

"Security fee?" Lin Xue was surprised in her heart, she had never heard of opening a sect in Wuji Mountain, and she had to pay this kind of fee.

Instead, a disciple beside her cautiously said, "Second Sect Master, the security fee is actually the protection fee. It is one of the expenses set up by other sects to exploit our sect. In addition, there are air pollution fees, water pollution fees, sect site fees, and so on...... It is said that there are as many as 100 kinds, and there is even a sect that will come to the door to collect air defense fees when they see some relatively weak new forces, that is, the fees set for defending against the death and injury of meteorites in the sky!"

Defend against meteorites in the sky...... Lin Xue immediately understood, this was clearly a group of robbers.

Not to mention whether there will be a meteorite hitting the ground, if there is a meteorite falling from the sky, how can it be competed by a mere holy sword master? This is definitely a needless expense.

Extort!

See blackmail again!

Lin Xue calmed down the dissatisfaction in her heart and said calmly: "Your Excellency, please calm your anger, peace should be valued in everything." The Upper Xuanjian Sect owes fees, since it is wrong for me to go to the Xuanjian Sect, we will compensate immediately, I don't know how many spars we need to pay. ”

A sneer of contempt appeared on the face of the Eighth Order Holy Sword Master, and he directly stretched out a finger.

"Ten high-grade spars?"

The face of the eighth-order holy sword master sank, and a trace of murderous aura just emerged, pressing towards Lin Xue.

Lin Xue's face changed slightly, and she looked surprised: "Could it be ...... A hundred high-grade spars?"

The Eighth-Order Holy Sword Master immediately shouted angrily, "A hundred spars want to send us away, really when we are beggars." We have dispatched so many people from the Heavenly Summoning Sect to mobilize the people, don't we need to pay for the dispatch? Moreover, we have spent a lot of brain power for you to go to the Xuanjian Sect over the years, this is not a mental loss fee? Now that we are wasting time with you here, isn't time money? If I seize this time and work hard to retreat, maybe I have already broken through to the ninth-order realm today, can you bear this loss?"

A stern shout and a burst of unwarranted charges made Lin Xue's heart rise with anger again, and even the disciples behind her were angry, glaring angrily at dozens of people, if it weren't for the fact that the other party's strength was too strong, I am afraid that she would have been unable to help but do it.

The eighth-order Holy Sword Master snorted coldly, ignoring the anger on the faces of the people of the Xuanjian Sect, and said indifferently: "For the sake of the Wanghai Sect and your first offense in the Xuanjian Sect, I will not destroy your sect if I take it lightly today, and now, within one hour, I will hand over one thousand top-grade spars to compensate my Heavenly Summoning Sect for all kinds of expenses, if you hesitate, I will teach you to go to the Xuanjian Sect and remove your name from the Fog Containment Mountain Range from now on!"

"A thousand high-grade spars!"

All the people present who knew about the financial situation of Central Star all changed their faces.

Even the seventh-order holy sword masters behind the eighth-order holy sword masters were no exception.

A thousand high-grade spars, every year the Wanghai faction collects taxes from those small sects, and it is only a hundred high-grade spars, and this number is enough to bankrupt those unprepared small sects. Right now, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was actually a thousand high-grade spars...... Not to mention that the Shangxuan Sword Sect is eating the old book, even if there is an industry that is in line with the scale of their sect, it will not be able to take out thousands of spars in ten or twenty years!

Ling Yun had a hundred Divine Yuan Crystals given by the Goddess of Nature, although these Divine Yuan Crystals had been consumed by the six of them in the past few years, but at the price of a Divine Yuan Crystal of 100,000 high-grade crystals, they didn't care about it for a thousand crystals.

But from that disciple's mouth, I learned that this Fog Containment Mountain not only has a security fee, but also countless other expenses, once they give in this time, there will inevitably be more forces taking this opportunity to kick their noses in the face and blackmail them to the Xuanjian Sect, and when the time comes, ...... Even if they have polycrystals, they won't be enough.

Lin Shuilan seemed to have seen her decision from Lin Xue, and when she saw that she was about to speak, she hurriedly said: "The other party has an eighth-order or four seventh-order holy sword masters, if we fight hard with them, we will definitely alarm the young master." The young master has been in a critical period of cultivating the power of space in the past two years, if we disturb rashly, I am afraid it will not be conducive to the young master breaking through the Sword Saint realm......

"So what?"

"Let me do it. After Lin Shuilan saw Lin Xue nodding, he stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency this Holy Sword Master, you should also know that thousands of top-grade spars are ...... to us."

The Eighth Order Holy Sword Master stretched out his hand and waved: "Don't talk nonsense, today, if you don't hand over a thousand top-grade spars, the Upper Xuan Sword Sect will cease to exist from now on." ”

Lin Shuilan saw that he was so decisive in what he said, and frowned: "There is no discussion at all?"

"I don't want to say the same thing a third time. ”

The negotiation broke down, Lin Shuilan's tone was cold, with the help of Ling Yun's prestige over the years, they had also stayed in the position of the superior for a while, and said, they had the courage that the superior should have: "Very good, if I don't hand over a thousand high-grade spars from the Xuan Sword Sect, there will be only one way to be destroyed, then I want to ask Your Excellency, with your one eighth-order holy sword master and four seventh-order holy sword masters, can you leave all of us here?"

The Eighth Order Holy Sword Master was slightly stunned!

If the other party only has one Holy Sword Master, with the strength of the five of them, it is naturally possible to leave it, but there are two of them at the moment...... At this time, Lin Shuilan had already said again: "A thousand high-grade spars, our Shangxuan Sword Sect can barely make it up with all the strength of the whole sect." We won't give it to you, though. You have to have the ability not to let our entire faction not miss a single one, once any of them survive, these thousand high-grade spars will immediately appear in the mercenary union as a reward for issuing tasks, and carry out indiscriminate assassination of you Heavenly Summoning Sect!"

A chilling cold light flashed in the eyes of the Eighth Order Holy Sword Master: "You dare to threaten me." ”

"Hmph, it's better to be broken than to be complete!"

Several seventh-order holy sword masters knew the power of a thousand top-grade spars!

Due to the fierce competition, the task remuneration of the mercenary guild is also quite low, for the sake of thousands of spars, there will definitely be a seventh- or eighth-order holy sword master to intervene in this matter, and if you are particularly lucky, there may even be a ninth-order holy sword master involved!

If a ninth-order holy sword master really intervened, even if their Heavenly Summoning Sect could be spared in the end, they would inevitably suffer a great loss of vitality. The vitality is greatly damaged, which means that the strength of the sect has declined, and the decline in strength also means that the low position in the Fog Containment Mountain has decreased, once there is no status and strength...... At this time, Lin Shuilan had already asked the disciples about the amount of protection money charged by these sects, and in order to save the face of the Tianzhao sect, he had to immediately say: "Regarding the rules of your sect, we have no intention of offending the Xuanjian Sect, your sect has come all the way, and we can't let you go home empty-handed." According to the scale of our sect, we need to hand over eight high-grade spars every year, and now we have not paid for three years, which is twenty-four. You have worked hard all the way, and I am willing to take out six more high-grade spars from the Xuanjian Sect, fill the number of thirty spars, and end this matter. Everyone can also make friends, and make money in harmony. ”

Although the eighth-order holy sword master arrived with a gloomy face, considering the deterrent power of the opponent's thousands of crystals, he had to temporarily restrain his thoughts.

Anyway, his task of testing the financial resources of the Xuanjian Sect has been completed, so he naturally takes advantage of this step to go down, so as not to lose both sides in the end.

Thinking of this, the eighth-order holy sword master's face eased slightly, and said: "I think that it is not easy for you female streamers to open a sect in the Fog Suppression Mountain, and now that you are willing to take the initiative to pay the spar that you owe before, I will open the net and not pursue it for the time being." However, if you dare to hesitate in the slightest amount of the cost of eight high-grade spars a year in the future, don't blame me for being disregarded and bullying you weak women!"

After saying a few words, the eighth-order holy sword master asked a great sword master who came with him to collect the spars from the Upper Xuanjian Sect, and then left the Upper Xuanjian Sect.

As soon as they left, Lin Xue, Lin Shuilan and the others immediately returned to the hall and discussed urgently!

"Although we have scared the Heavenly Summoning Gate away this time, we have already exposed our financial resources, I am afraid that it will not be long before the people who summon the Heavenly Summoning Gate will gather more strong people to besiege our Upper Xuanjian Sect, and what awaits us at that time will definitely be a thunderous killing. ”

Thousands of spars are enough to make the hearts of the ninth-order holy sword master powerhouses move, so this sentence is definitely not alarmist.

"Since we rely on the mercenary union to break the siege, why don't we just do it?"

"What do you mean......"

"It is foreseeable that if we want to survive safely in the Fog Containment Mountain, it will not be feasible without a strong force deterrence, and at the moment we have nothing else, but the spar ...... But there is no shortage, so we might as well go to the mercenary union and ask a reputable mercenary group to come and temporarily assist in the garrison for us. ”

Unless they wanted to disturb Ling Yun's cultivation, this seemed to be the best way to do it at the moment.

"Okay, let's do it first!"

Considering that the time was urgent, after leaving Lin Shuilan to guard the gate station, Lin Xue immediately took a large number of spars to the city guarded by the mercenary union.

As the mercenary guild second only to the Supreme Temple, it has more cities than all forces can imagine. Moreover, the management of the city where the mercenary guild is stationed is quite lax, and there is a tendency to neutralize the city, even if outsiders enter it, there will not be too many constraints.

Of course, since they are all mercenaries, there are many people who don't agree with each other in this city, and some high-level powerhouses are fighting, which is even enough to cause violent turmoil in the power of heaven and earth. It was with this in mind that the neutral city that was originally the most suitable for hiding was reluctantly abandoned by Ling Yun.

Whoever is cultivating and cultivating, suddenly there is a rumbling sound, and the vitality of heaven and earth is chaotic, and he can't help but be upset and unable to continue. If you're unlucky, you're in danger of going mad.

Can cultivation progress in this environment?

After entering the mercenary city, Lin Xue immediately came to the most eye-catching building in the city, the mercenary union, and then asked the waitress for a list of the city's mercenary group in front of the counter for a moment.

Although mercenaries have the rules of mercenaries, after accepting the task, everything is aimed at completing the task as the ultimate goal, and once they commit a minor offense, they will inevitably be hunted down by the entire mercenary union. But this rule doesn't mean absolute!

Mercenaries are outlaws who survive for profit, and God knows if they will see the interest in the heart and eventually start to secretly kill people and seize treasures.

After searching for a moment on the roster, several mercenary groups with matching strength and high reputation were immediately selected by her, but when she asked about the minimum employment price of these mercenary groups, she was so frightened that she immediately gave up her mind.

With a ninth-order, more than a dozen seventh- and eighth-order holy sword masters, the annual employment price is as high as five thousand high-grade spars!

It's not that they can't come up with the money, but it's too conspicuous to do so.

After a long time, Lin Xue finally set her goal on a mercenary group, and then said to the waitress: "May I ask if the melody mercenary group is on a mission now?"

The waitress quickly found out: "The Melody Mercenary Group is currently resting and has no mission. Do you need me to inform their principal to come and talk to you?"

Lin Xue nodded.

The waitress immediately led Lin Xue to a guest room of the trade union and received her politely. After waiting for less than a few minutes, the door to the guest room was pushed open, and another waiter led a sweet-looking young girl in.

This girl still looks quite young, only similar to Lin Xue, but the energy fluctuations that she unintentionally emanates from her body have already reached the seventh-order level!

As soon as the girl entered the door, her eyes immediately fell on Lin Xue, and then a sweet smile appeared on her face: "This sister is the employer, it is really an honor for our melody mercenary group to be hired by such a beautiful sister, for the sake of my sister being so beautiful, I will call the shots in a while and give you a twenty percent discount." Saying that, the girl seemed to remember something, and hurriedly said: "Ah, I forgot to forget, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Zuo Yi, and I am one of the external principals of the melody mercenary group, hello hello." ”

Lin Xue saw that it was a woman, and she was also a little impressed, and after introducing herself, she greeted her warmly.

The disciples of the Shangxuan Sword Sect are mainly female surnames, and if they really hire a lot of men, it will be really inconvenient.

At this time, the intermediary of the mercenary union appropriately withdrew, leaving space for the two families to negotiate.

The time was urgent, Lin Xue politely went directly to the topic: "Specifically, because the surrounding sects peeped at a large number of spars in my Xuanjian Sect, I wanted to forcibly extort them through various brutal reasons, but we were scared back by the method of burning jade." However, it is estimated that this kind of deterrence is only temporary, and after they gather enough Holy Sword Master powerhouses, they will definitely make a comeback again, and when the time comes...... We are afraid that the Xuan Sword Sect will not be able to resist, so we would like to invite your mercenary group to assist our sect in defending against the invasion of foreign forces. ”

A sect has actually fallen into the need to invite other mercenary groups to protect them against foreign enemies, which is absolutely very fatal to the reputation of the sect, and it is very likely to lead to the entire sect's disciples lacking confidence in the leader, and even eventually disintegrating! Even if you are lucky enough to escape this catastrophe, your reputation has been lost, and if you want to gain a foothold in this area in the future, I am afraid that you will no longer have face.

But this phenomenon is for others...... Upper Xuan Sword Sect ...... If it weren't for the façade, I'm afraid I wouldn't have accepted even one disciple at all.

Zuo Yi is in the mercenary world, and there is an essential difference between the rules of the sect and the world, although he had heard of this phenomenon before, but after hearing about it, he still felt very angry, and immediately assured with both hands: "Don't worry, Sister Lin Xue, leave it to our melody mercenary group." Our group leader's sister has just broken through to the realm of the ninth-order holy sword master recently, plus the six sisters in our group, unless the heads of the major sects in the fog curb mountain come in person, they will kill one by one, and two will kill a pair. ”

"Ninth Order Holy Sword Master ......"

The mercenary group with the ninth-order holy sword master and the mercenary group with the eighth-order holy sword master were completely two different concepts, and Lin Xue couldn't help but be a little worried about the price.

Zuo Yi saw her concerns, and said generously: "Sister, rest assured, the head of the regiment has just broken through the ninth order, and you, as the first employer of the elder sister's promotion, all I will give you this time is the price of the eighth-order holy sword master! As for the affairs of the sisters in the group, it will be covered with me." ”

The price of the eighth-order holy sword master, please go to the ninth-order holy sword master, this kind of good thing is naturally unwanted.

Although the Shangxuan Sword Sect was not short of money at all.

After everything was negotiated, the two parties immediately signed an employment contract under the witness of the notary of the mercenary union, and after paying half of the total of 400 high-grade spars, the employment relationship between the two parties officially took effect!

As soon as the contract came into effect, Zuo Yi immediately jumped up happily holding the contract: "Haha, it's done, it's so simple." I'll just say, with me out of the horse, there is no business that can't be negotiated. ”

Looking at this little girl with a completely childlike mentality, Lin Xue began to feel a little bottomless in her heart...... He hurriedly asked the staff member next to him who had not yet left, "Although the reputation level of the Melody Mercenary Group is very high, ...... Can I learn more about the Melody Mercenary Group's mission experience?"

"Absolutely. The staff generously took out a copy of the recent tasks and various evaluations of the melody mercenaries and handed them to Lin Xue. When Lin Xue saw clearly the various tasks that this mercenary group had been accomplishing, she was speechless for a while...... In the nearly three years since the establishment of the entire mercenary group, it has almost never received any large-scale or difficult tasks, either to find some more precious medicinal materials, or to protect the safety of those swordsmen...... Use a lineup of several holy sword masters to complete these low-level tasks...... It's really hell if the degree of completion, efficiency, and credibility is not high.

Zuo Yi was happy for a while, and immediately said to Lin Xue: "Okay, Sister Lin Xue, I know that your sect must be very dangerous now, let's set off to your sect immediately, let's go, I'll take you to call the sisters." ”

The contract had already been signed, and Lin Xue had no choice, so she had to say: "It's troublesome." "Follow her to the headquarters of their mercenary group.

After coming to the Melody Mercenary Group, Lin Xue breathed a sigh of relief.

The strength of this mercenary group is still genuine, with seven members, including three eighth-order holy sword masters and three seventh-order holy sword masters. Especially now, the head of the regiment has reached the ninth-order realm, and his strength is even more powerful! It is definitely cost-effective to invite a few such powerful holy sword masters with four hundred high-grade spars.

After understanding the process of the mission, Anya of the Melody Mercenary Regiment nodded and accepted the task, and then quickly went to the Xuanjian Sect under the leadership of Lin Xue on the grounds that the time was urgent.

What is surprising is that the law of mercenary groups, which has always been mercenary, was broken in the melody mercenary group. From beginning to end, Anya didn't pay much attention to the four hundred high-grade spars, and casually handed them over to a holy sword master in charge of finances, as if ...... Their real purpose is not four hundred crystals at all!

(To be continued)