The mercenary squad that was hired to escort Yun Chen were well equipped. And if they work well together, they can even threaten a peak innate realm demon beast.
«Young master Yun! We are all set to depart now. We are waiting for you. » said the leader.
«Ok! But I want to make a deal with you, and it will benefit you greatly. » Yun Chen said trying to bait him.
«Oh? What is it that can benefit us? I warn you! We can't kill someone for you. Our main job is to hunt demon beasts and sell their corpses. » the leader warned Yun Chen.
«When did I say I wanted you to kill someone? » Yun Chen replied.
«In that case, I'm all ears! » said the leader curiously.
«Before everything, I want to ask you something! Have you enough empty space-ring with you this time? » Yun Chen asked suddenly.
«What do you mean, young master Yun? » asked the leader a little suspicious.
«Isn't your main job to hunt demon beasts and sell their corpses? You must have enough space in your space-rings to bring them back with you, right? » Yun Chen asked again.
«Oh? Yes! We have enough. In addition to the 1000 m3 space-ring that each one of us possess, I still have another 10.000 m3 space-ring with me. So, we shouldn't have any space problem. » the leader frankly answered.
«That is what you call enough? » declared Yun Chen.
All of them were surprised at what Yun Chen just said.
«Forget it! I will order some space-rings! » said Yun Chen without care.
He turned himself to Lao Gu.
«Elder, what is the highest space-ring you sell in the auction house? » Yun Chen asked.
«Oh! The highest one should be a 100.000 m3 space-ring. » answered Lao Gu.
«Good! Sell me five of them! This should barely be enough. » Yun Chen ordered.
«What? » the four mercenaries shouted together.
«Yes, Young master Yun! Please, wait for a moment! » Lao Gu said before heading inside the auction house.
He returned later with four space-ring and a little box.
«Young master, these are the space-ring you ordered. And this is a special dragon-patterned space-ring crafted using an infinite stone ore. But even if it hasn't an infinite space, it still has 5.000.000 m3. The chairman asked me to give it to you. » Lao Gu said while handing him the space-rings and returned inside.
« Infinite stone ore! Normally, the method of crafting the infinite space-ring is already lost but I obtained its refining method from a book that I found in a secret realm in my previous life. Recrafting it shouldn't be a problem. Moreover, I have already all the materials with me. » Yun Chen though to himself.
Yun Chen handed one space-ring to everyone of them.
«Young master Yun, this is too expensive, and we don't need it! » said the leader in embarrassment.
«Didn't I say that I want to make a deal with You? You can take these as the labor fee. We will talk about the details of the deal on our way. » said Yun Chen while taking the lead and heading toward the city gate.
The others followed him after exchanging some look at each other. They came out of the town and headed directly toward the forest of the demon beast mountain. After some time, Yun Chen suddenly stopped.
«Now, I will talk to you about the deal! Take a look at this! » said Yun Chen while tossing them a map.
The leader caught it and hurriedly opened it. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. The others also took a look and were very shocked.
«This…. how did you obtain this map? Any mercenary would be willing to go bankrupt in order to buy this map. » cried out the mercenary leader.
«Now, about the deal. My primary objective was for you to help me hunt an innate realm demon beast deeper inside the mountain. But it would be a waste to let out those demon beasts in our way. The only thing that I want from them is their spirit roots. The corpses are yours to take. What do you think? Are you interested? » Yun Chen asked with a serious face.
After observing the map for a while, they finally responded.
«Young master Yun, are sure you only want their spirit roots? This deal is very unfair to you, right? » asked the embarrassed leader.
«Don't worry! I will only be taking the spirit roots and the spirit herbs that we find. But the innate realm demon beast that we will hunt at the end is all mine. » Yun Chen explained to them.
«If that is what you want, we agree to this deal! » the leader happily agreed.
«Very well! We are already at the perfect location to begin our hunt. So, let's begin. » Yun Chen said while smiling.
«What do you mean? » asked the leader doubtfully.
«Instead of searching for each beast, why not make them come to us! » Yun Chen said before taking out a little bottle.
«What is this, Young master Yun? » asked the leader after seeing the bottle.
«Oh! This thing can bait all foundation-building realm demon beasts and under which are about three hundred miles around us. Its effect last for about an hour and don't affect the innate realm ones. » Yun Chen answered with an innocent face.
«What? How is this possible? » all four of them cried out at the same time.
«We will begin tomorrow morning! For the moment we must place a lot of traps in this area. It is simple to defend and hard to attack. » Yun Chen said with a cunning face.
«!!!! » the mercenary squad fell silent after hearing this suggestion.
All of them began making their preparations for the hunt. Yun Chen even gave some poison for Muyun for his arrows.
«If we kill them with poison, their value will drop sharply so…. » Zhang Muyun wanted to object.
«Don't worry! I won't leave any trace of poison in the corpses. I can extract the poison from the corpse. So, don't worry about anything else and kill to your heart! » Yun Chen said with a poker face.
«I..I understand, young master Yun! » answered Zhang Muyun a little exited.
Xuan Bu and Xuan Yuan were in charge of posing the traps while Ling Yang was scouting the area in the case some beasts decide to approach. All the preparations were finished before sunset.
Ling Yang weapons were also two daggers like Yun Chen. At the end of the day, Yun Chen made some special poison for him using his poison qi that he imbued in Ling Yang's daggers.
After they finished, they did nightshift during the night to protect each other.
Yun Chen didn't sleep that night. He used that time to try and craft the legendary infinite space-ring.
Yun Chen sat cross-legged and took out the space-ring in addition to other materials. Using his fire and spirit power, he first destroyed the rune -formations engraved on the space-ring and then melted it to extract the infinite stone ore. He then refined the ore for more than an hour to destroy all the impurities. He put aside the purified stone and melted together the other materials. After refining the mixture to the size of a thumb nail, he gave it the form of a ring with a hole. That hole has two dragon heads surrounding it on opposite side. Yun Chen used his own blood essence to engrave some rune-formations on the ring. The preparations were finished. The crucial part was about to begin. To draw out the infinite space of the ore the future user must fuse it with a wisp of his soul. The more soul power that wisp contains the more difficult it will for another person to crack its soul lock.
Yun Chen extracted a little wisp of his soul, but he didn't use it directly. He used all the remaining demon cores that he collected at the auction house, purified them, and extracted all their souls. He fused those souls with the wisp of his soul increasing its soul power to that of a peak foundation-building realm one. After that he fused that wisp with the infinite stone ore. He then placed that ore which has the size of a corn's grain inside the hole on the ring. He refined the ring for about four hours and the red inscriptions on it became golden and disappeared which was sign of the completion of the infinite space-ring.