Xiao Yan: The Guild President Is Actually Liu Ling!

"How strange... These people actually made it to a level-four mercenary group." A captain of a level-five mercenary group with the strength of a Dou Wang looked at Xiao Yan's group in great surprise.

"It is strange indeed... If you ask me, a mercenary group with this kind of strength must have been doing those unprofitable jobs—recruiting people in bulk to take on level-two missions!"

"With the few points level-two missions offer, how many missions would they have to complete to reach level four?"

After the Dou Wang-level mercenary captain spoke up, several others began mocking Xiao Yan, Xiao Yu, and the others. What they did not know was that this mercenary group they looked down on had been established less than two months ago. They had risen to a level-four mercenary group so quickly only because they specialized in taking on missions above their level.

Along the way, the strongest six-man team Xiao Yan had seen was one entirely composed of Dou Zong and Dou Emperor experts. Their captain was a middle-aged man in a yellow robe, with the strength of a One-star Dou Zong.

Of the five people behind him, the strongest had reached Eight-star Dou Huang, while even the weakest possessed the strength of a Three-star Dou Emperor.

A team like that should be at the top of the mercenary groups' points rankings! Xiao Yan murmured inwardly as he looked at the six-man team. If these six had been placed in the Jia Ma Empire four or five years ago, they could likely have become a top force capable of crushing the imperial family and the Misty Cloud Sect. Yet now, they were willing to register as mercenaries with the Mercenary Guild!

As a student of Jia Nan Academy who had also experienced certain events at the