When Zheng-Fu and the owner of the city saw eye to eye, the owner of the city called one of his soldiers at the door, who wore strong armor, to him. Then he whispered something to the soldier. The soldier then ran to the owner of the tavern and whispered something into his ears. Then the owner of the tavern ran upstairs immediately…

"Please wait a second. I just had someone prepare a room for us to talk." The owner of the city explained to Zheng-Fu when he saw the suspicion on the kid's face…

"Hmm…"

Even though Zheng-Fu did not completely understand what the owner of the city meant, he nodded along. He felt that the owner of the city was trustworthy, friendly, and sincere…

After half an hour had passed, the soldier in strong armor came back. He cupped his fists and said…

"Everything is all set, sir!"

"Good. Thank you. I'll take this man upstairs with me. You and the group can hang out downstairs." The owner of the city told the soldier in the strong armor, with a smile as usual. He ordered his men to wait for him downstairs because he only wanted Zheng-Fu with him…

"Yes, sir!" the soldier in the strong armor replied loyally. Then he led the rest of the soldiers to wait for the owner of the city at the other tables…

The soldier in the strong armor was the guardian of the owner of the city. His energy level was as high as the owners of both taverns. He also felt an eerie vibe from Zheng-Fu earlier…

After finishing ordering his soldiers, the owner of the city turned to Zheng-Fu and said, "Alright! Let's go upstairs. I want to consult you on some matters, I hope you…"

"Of course, no problem. I'll do my best on the matters that I know about. But please excuse me if I can't help you with matters that I don't know." Zheng-Fu cut in before the owner of the city finished the sentence. He wanted to get it over with because he wanted to leave the city as soon as he could. He thought it would be great if he could leave even today…

When the two agreed with each other, they started to walk upstairs to the room that was prepared by the guardian for the conversation. The room was twice the size of the normal room. It came with all the amenities. The room did not lack anything but beautiful women to entertain the guests…

Thud!

Zheng-Fu and the owner of the city sat down at the beautifully decorated table in the middle of the room. The owner of the city was the one who started the conversation because he was the one who invited Zheng-Fu to the room for some advice…

"Let's get started. I know that's what you want," the owner of the city said with a smile. Zheng-Fu nodded when he heard that. Then the owner of the city said…

"I want you!"

"What! What did you mean!? You want me!?" Zheng-Fu crinkled his eyebrows the minute he heard the owner of the city's wish…

"Wait, that's not what I meant. I do want you, but not in that way. I want you to work for me. What do you think about it?" The owner of the city rushed to explain his words to Zheng-Fu…

Phew!

"I see. I thought you…" Zheng-Fu sighed in relief. Then he got himself together and said, "I don't think I can work for you because I have a lot of things to take care of." Zheng-Fu said this while waving his hand to refuse the offer…

"I knew you would say that. Alright! Then I want to hire you to kill someone for me." The owner of the city turned more serious when he changed to the new subject…

"Kill someone? Who do you want me to kill?" Zheng-Fu was a little curious about the request from the owner of the city. He could have ordered his men to do it…

"The person whom I want you to kill will arrive in the city tomorrow. He is the most significant nobleman in this country. I'll reward you well if you can do it successfully."

Thud!

When the owner of the city finished the sentence, he took out a cloth bag and put it on the table in front of Zheng-Fu. He smiled lightly, saying, "This is the deposit for the mission. I'll give you ten times more after you finish the job."

Zheng-Fu grabbed the cloth bag and opened it to see what was inside. When he saw it, he exclaimed, "This is…" The owner of the city now let out a bigger smile when he saw Zheng-Fu's reaction. He believed that Zheng-Fu would be impressed with what was in the bag and would likely accept his request…

What was in the bag in Zheng-Fu's hand was the mid-level Qi energy stone. There were about ten of them. The owner of the city believed that no martial artist could say no to something this valuable…

Sigh!

Zheng-Fu let out a big sigh before going back to his calm state of mind. He appeared to be startled by the mid-level Qi energy stone earlier because of the number of the stones. However, the amount could only impress regular martial artists. For him, they were merely a few higher-level Qi energy stones. He normally consumed a lot of Qi energy stones in each of his energy cultivations.

So, what the owner of the city gave him was not convincing enough…

"They are very impressive, but only to the regular martial artists."

Thud!

"That's…!"

Zheng-Fu took out ten higher-level Qi energy stones and put them on the table. They were twice the size of the mid-level ones. The stones were so full of Qi energy that they leaked out. The owner of the city widened his eyes and gasped when he saw them…

"These are higher-level Qi energy stones, all five of them. I would like to hire you to kill the person you want me to kill. If you can do it, come take these stones," Zheng-Fu said with a light smile…

Gulp!

The owner of the city swallowed a big gulp of saliva. He had cold sweat on his forehead too. That was because the Qi energy stones in front of him equaled five hundred thousand lower-level Qi energy stones or five hundred mid-level ones. They had the value of more than fifty million monster crystal coins…

Even though the higher-level Qi energy stones could be exchanged with more lower-level stones, not a lot of people tend to exchange them. That was because the power of the stone would be lessened or increased by the levels, so it was not that worth it to exchange the higher ones for the lower ones. Some did so when they wanted a large amount of stone to be allocated to many people…

For example, any large clan would exchange a higher-level Qi energy stone for a large number of lower-level stones whenever their Caves of the Immortal produced one. They wanted to give away those stones to their junior martial artists for energy cultivation…

The owner of the city remained stunned for a long while. He did not know how to react to the higher-level Qi energy stones that Zheng-Fu owned. At first, he wanted to lure Zheng-Fu to work for him with the mid-level stones. But then he was too overwhelmed by Zheng-Fu when he was ready to give up the ten higher-level stones just to make him stop hiring him for the mission.

When the owner of the city regained consciousness, he gave a wry smile and said…

"I don't think I can take your Qi energy stones. Sigh! It's too bad that it turned out this way. Well, I don't want to bother your rest time. Please excuse me. I have a lot of other things to finish." The owner of the city got up and walked out of the room with disappointment at the failed negotiation…

"If I helped you kill that person, I'd get myself into big trouble. If I failed to kill him, you would expose me. But if I was successful, you might send someone to kill me off to seal the secret. So, it's best that I don't get involved. Well, I guess this would be the perfect time to leave the city. And I must leave as quickly as possible."

Zheng-Fu soared off the window the minute he decided with the greatest speed. No one knew that he had left the tavern. As soon as he came out of the window, he saw a large group of soldiers encircling the tavern. The owner of the city whispered something to his guardian and walked away. Then the guardian gave a hand signal to the soldiers around the tavern.

The soldiers broke into the tavern, and then Zheng-Fu heard the screams and horrifying moans from there…

"Did they just slaughter the villagers to shut them down? What about the owner of the tavern?" As soon as Zheng-Fu realized that, he started to use his sensory detector to look for the owner of the tavern. Then he found that the owner was not at the tavern anymore. He was about a kilometer away, toward the west…

"Heh… That was quick." Zheng-Fu mumbled with a light smile. Then he geared toward the direction that the owner of the tavern was heading with maximum speed…

Whoosh!

In one of the alleys on the west side of the city, a group of ten grown men was running for their lives away from the tavern…

"Darn it! It's a good thing that my hunch was real, so I left the tavern as soon as possible. The owner of the city really did the usual things he did. He can't be nice to anyone if he can't get anything from them. Not sure what is happening to that kid." The owner of the tavern, who was also running for his life, mumbled and moved toward the city exit gate. He wanted to go to Blue Land…

The owner of the tavern actually came from Blue Land (the name of Blueland will be changed to Blue Land from this chapter on). He was not originally from the Birdy Holy Fiery Heaven country. All of the men that were running away with him were also from Blue Land. They wished to get back to their country as soon as possible and waited for the whole thing to cool down before coming back.

But then, all of a sudden, they had to stop running because there was someone standing in their way…

Squeak!

The group of men from the tavern almost fell over when they had to stop abruptly when they saw the shadow of someone waiting for them. One of the people in the group was prepared to shout at the shadow as soon as he gained consciousness back. But then, as he saw clearer who was in front of the group, he had to withhold himself.

The person who was in front of them was none other than the kid whom they thought was in big trouble at the tavern…

"You! How did you get here?"

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In case anyone would like to know about the exchange rates on the Qi energy stone, the rates were different from city to city. It depended on how they got the stones too. The following rates are for the lower-level to higher-level stones: The rate for immortal-level stones is not included…

1,000 lower-level Qi energy stones = 1 mid-level stone

100 mid-level Qi energy stones = 1 higher-level stone

100,000 lower-level Qi energy stones = 1 higher-level stone

The prices for each level of Qi energy stone…

1 lower-level Qi energy stone = 500 monster crystal coins

1 mid-level Qi energy stone = 500,000 monster crystal coins

1 higher-level Qi energy stone = 50,000,000 monsters crystal coins

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