(A/N quick question to all you people out there does anyone else love the smell of air conditioning just blowing right in your face or is it just me?)
After settling in Yi Xian, ulquiorra reappeared with a spatial ring filled with items. "Did you destroy the buildings or just the people?" I ask him.
"Just the people was I supposed to destroy the building aswell?" he asked.
"Nah I've got plans for it." I summon out exactly 100 shadow hack shadows. who speed off towards the building all wearing raiments with different kinds of weapons.
I had decided to make my own mercenary group to hunt for treasures in the beast forest and kidnap monsters for the kingdom. my collection of items has been growing but the people in the area are pretty weak and not all beasts have magical cores. a whole group could die killing a single beast and then it turns out that the beast had no core. That's just the tragic fate of people in cultivation worlds.
My group however have stealth capabilities and are able to easily slip into higher level monster areas for hidden goodies without upsetting the ecosystem much. I imagine if I go deeper and kill off babies of monsters or kidnap them then tons of people would suffer do to monsters rage.
So the Thunder wolves mercenary group showed up and took over the abandoned headquarters.
There was a billboard in town where people could make requests for items or monster parts I had some of the group do them to make a name for themselves and earn some side cash.
Not all missions where for item gathering as we had missions to find criminals hiding in the mountains or kill off bandit groups who would murder unsuspecting parties.
Even in this far off area news started to spread about the Xiao clan apparently they were searching for my dad. As after he left everything kind of fell apart since he was the strongest in the clan after he left the other families in the area started to hire the services of alchemists and other well known people to increase profits and push the family out of the area. How tragic.
They reached out to this bodies elder brothers for help or information but where shut down hard. in other news the misty cloud sect was also searching but instead of for my dad it was for me. Apparently I had become a heart demon for the little princess of the clan and now all she focuses on is trying to surpass me or find me and her training has plummeted. her grandfather refuses to talk to her and I may or may not have spread rumors about her cowardly deeds including trying to attack me while my back was turned. Everyone knows that's a cowardly move.
It made me chuckle a little bit when I heard it.
Over the course of the next few weeks all my businesses went well. The mercenary group got better jobs and higher pay as their failure and death rate was zero.
However they did discover something nice and informed me.
There was going to be a battle.
I swapped places with one of my shadows to watch the show. There was immense pressure in the area but we can just shake that off. The battle was between a human and a beast.
The Magic Beast had a gigantic body that was seven or eight meters long. The surface of its body was covered by a layer of purple colored crystal, which reflected the sunlight and shone it in all directions.
The Magic Beast's head was an ominous looking lion's head with a pair of bloody red beast eyes that carried a strange glint of purplish light and a large mouth covered with fangs. At the top of the beast head was a fiery red helix shaped horn with a cluster of purple colored flame clustered around it. A pair of purple colored wings grew from the back of the lion's body. When it flapped, numerous small clusters of flame were swept in all directions, much like a flamethrower. Its four rough and strong claws were similarly covered with a layer of purple crystal. Each time they stepped down, they would cause the empty air to shake, displaying a great strength that was difficult to imagine.
The huge Magic Beast stood in the air while a shapeless pressure descended from the sky, an Amethyst Winged Lion.
The other was a woman. The lady in the sky was wearing a tight dress that covered her exquisite frame while wielding a strange looking longsword that was emitting a green colored light. Her black hair was held in place by a noble looking phoenix accessory. The beautiful and moving face of hers was very calm, revealing not the slightest change even when faced with a Magic Beast that rivaled her in power.
On the mysterious woman's back was a pair of green colored wings that appeared slightly illusionary. Those were likely formed from the amalgamation of her Dou Qi. The transformation of Dou Qi into wings was a symbol of those who were Dou Wang or stronger.
The mysterious woman lightly stood in the sky. Her calm and beautiful face carried a gracefulness and nobility that the simple dress she wore could not hide.
"Human woman, why did you come and disturb my rest?" The huge Amethyst Winged Lion in the sky suddenly roared using the human's language.
"I wish to borrow your highness' Purple Spirit Crystal." The mysterious woman parted her red lips as her beautiful eyes stared at the Amethyst Winged Lion. Her faint voice was clear and moving.
"Purple Spirit Crystal? I can only drop a small piece every twenty years. Who are you to ask for it?" The Amethyst Winged Lion mockingly said.
"I can exchange for it with something that you need." The mysterious woman seemed also slightly afraid of this rank six Magic Beast that was well known for its fierceness. Thus she was not forceful when she spoke.
"Exchange? Ha, alright. It so happens that I am now in the body transformation stage. If you can get me a 'Body Transformation Pill', I will give you a Purple Spirit Crystal. What do you say?" The Amethyst Winged Lion howled when it heard the woman's suggestion.
the mysterious woman frowned and shook her head upon hearing the Amethyst Winged Lion's demand. With a soft voice, she said, "I'm sorry, There are only a few people in the Jia Ma Empire who possess something like a 'Body Transformation Pill'. But if you are willing, I can use three rank five Monster Cores and a High Xuan Qi Method and Dou Technique that you can train with to exchange with you."
"Not interested. If you cannot produce the 'Body Transformation Pill' then you should leave the Magic Beast Mountain Range." The Amethyst Winged Lion shook its large head, not hesitating to reject the mysterious woman's terms.
Letting out a soft sigh, the mysterious woman slowly lifted the strange looking longsword in her hand and said helplessly, "If it is like this, then I'll have to use force."
"Ha ha! Humans are always like this." Seeing the mysterious woman's action, the Amethyst Winged Lion immediately let loose a thundering laugh. A while later, the laughter finally receded and its voice became cold once more, "I know that you are also a Dou Huang but if we were to really fight, it would be a real question of whether you are able to walk out of the Magic Beast Mountain Range alive."
"You don't need to be concerned about that." The mysterious woman responded indifferently as she lifted her hand gently. As she did so, a small wisp of a green colored tornado suddenly appeared in the air. Initially, the tornado was only two meters wide but a moment later, the tornado began to expand and turned into a huge tornado that was over a hundred feet wide.
In the space between the sky and the ground, the green tornado whizzed and whirled, constantly uprooting the huge trees on the ground. The ferocious wind quickly grinded the trees down, filling the air with sawdust.
"Hmm! The Magic Beast Mountain Range is not the territory of you humans. You do not have the right to behave so atrociously!" The Amethyst Winged Lion eyed the growing enormous tornado and growled. From its large mouth, a deep roar echoed throughout the mountain range.
Following the lion's roar, the amethyst on its body shone brightly. In the blink of an eye, a savage purple flame violently surged forth from its body. The purple flame gradually spiraled upwards, finally forming an enormous pillar of purple that shot towards the sky.