"What benefits are there to becoming the City Lord's personal guard? And what would we need to do?"
Luo Hong asked further.
"I trust that Fellow Daoists have seen along the way that the environment within Ji Lin Kong Jing is close to that of the primordial era, with resources extremely scarce.
"Therefore, our only source of food is these scaled beasts that mutated from demonic beasts.
"Among the four subsidiary cities, Baiyan City has become the strongest because we possess the most hunting grounds.
"And every hunting ground must be guarded by a Taiyi Mystic Scholar. Otherwise, it will soon be occupied by Earth-grade or higher scaled beasts.
"Normally, we City Lord's personal guards need do nothing. We only need to kill or drive away any Earth-grade scaled beasts that appear in the hunting grounds we are responsible for.
"Of course, if one believes they cannot complete the task alone, they may also pay some Beast Cores to ask others for assistance."
End of discussion, Xu Yinglong paused. Then, pointing at the Scaled Earth Dragon, he continued:
"My brother and I came this time to kill this beast. Yet judging from the earlier ambush, it should have been deliberately driven here by Puppet City. If not for the two of you, my brother and I would likely have met a bitter end by now!"
After speaking, the two of them solemnly cupped their hands and thanked Luo Hong and Zhu Yan.
"I see. Since our meeting is fate, and since Brother Zhu and I happen not to know where to settle, we would trouble you two to take us to Baiyan City."
Luo Hong nodded, finally understanding the status of a Taiyi Mystic Scholar within Ji Lin Kong Jing.
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