"Pavilion Master Wang!"
Inside the car, Ye Cang spoke respectfully.
"You killed Xue Qing?"
Wang Xu grunted an hmph, then spoke offhandedly.
"Yes!"
Ye Cang spoke calmly.
"Do you know Xue Long?"
"I know, it seems he has already become a War Venerable by now, right?"
Ye Cang leaned back against the seat, his tone calm and even, completely unaffected by 'War Venerable' and the significance it represented.
Yet beside him, after glancing at Ye Cang's casual expression, Wang Xu wore a startled look.
A few breaths later.
"Rest assured! You are a member of my Divine Firmament Martial Arts Hall, and with me here in Crimson Cloud City, Xue Long wouldn't dare do anything to you."
"However, once you leave the city, that will be troublesome. My Divine Firmament Martial Arts Hall has no stationed War Venerable powerhouses stationed in Crimson Cloud City, so we cannot protect you."
"Therefore, you cannot return just yet, nor can you expose your tracks, lest you be targeted by others."
Wang Xu spoke in a deep voice, explaining.
Ever since he fell out with Xue Long, he had hurried back to understand the whole situation.
And then paid extreme attention to Ye Cang's information.
When the martial artist account under Ye Cang's name had a deposit, he hurried right over.
"You can comprehend artistic conception with martial artist-grade strength, and your martial arts potential is truly heaven-defying. Therefore, I have already reported your matter and received a reply."
"In a few days, the martial arts hall powerhouses from Vermilion Bird King City will come over and take you to the King City for cultivation. So during this time, do not think about other matters and peace of mind staying in the martial arts hall to cultivate."
Wang Xu spoke unhurriedly, having arranged everything.
"Many thanks, Pavilion Master Wang!"
Hearing this, Ye Cang felt a warmth in his heart and offered his thanks.
Soon, the two of them arrived at their destination.
Divine Firmament Martial Arts Hall!
On the floor where General Grade members resided, Wang Xu directly arranged a room for Ye Cang.
"Rest first, daily necessities and meals for these few days will be handled by dedicated personnel, so you don't need to worry."
After laying out the arrangements, Wang Xu turned and left the room.
The moment Wang Xu left, Ye Cang lay directly down on the large bed and fell asleep.
Out for a day and a half, coupled with the clash with the Scorpion Three Generals, he had kept his nerves tense the entire time.
Only at this moment could he truly consider himself relaxed.
Before long, he had already drifted off to dreamland.
Elsewhere.
Wang Xu, who had yet to reach his office, looked at the two messages on his mobile phone in his hand, a hint of shock welling up in his eyes.
One came from an information push.
Looking at the attached photos sent by someone, they showed three dead figures bearing scorpion tattoos.
The surroundings were the scene of a battle, looking utterly tragic.
The three died not far from Crimson Cloud City, and it was only logical that they were discovered by someone.
Besides, if one wanted to claim the bounty, the identities of these people still needed verification by the martial arts hall, which was why Ye Cang had not destroyed the corpses and erased the traces.
"Killed well! These three malignant tumors have finally been butchered by someone!"
Looking at the information in the report along with the characteristics of the Scorpion Three Generals, Wang Xu was eighty or ninety percent certain that this was the notorious Scorpion Three Generals.
These three roamed among the surrounding subsidiary cities, hunting down quite a few martial artists returning from the Gray Mist Zone, among whom were many martial artists from the Divine Firmament Martial Arts Hall.
Yet these three always used masks to hide their faces, concealing themselves extremely well; even when information was passed back, it was difficult to discern their true identities.
This had also given him a huge headache.
He never expected that they would meet their downfall in the territory of Crimson Cloud City this time.
Looking at the report, Wang Xu was in an exceptionally good mood.
Then he opened the second message.
This message originated from the 'Divine Firmament Palace'.
Opening it, it turned out to be information for claiming the bounty on the Scorpion Three Generals.
"Oh? It's starting to be claimed so quickly. It seems the information about the death of the Scorpion Three Generals is all the more reliable. Still, the procedures must be gone through, though."
Wang Xu muttered to himself while flipping through the submitted materials, but when he turned to the end and saw the applicant for a split second, his pupils shrank violently.
Ye Cang!!!
The moment he clearly saw this name, Wang Xu's hand trembled fiercely, nearly sending his phone flying out.
The next day.
Ye Cang slept until noon before leisurely waking up.
Stretching lazily, he only felt refreshed and invigorated.
Looking toward his sea of consciousness, his spiritual power was already full.
Hearing movement, someone knocked on the door outside.
Opening the door to look, it was the personnel arranged by Wang Xu, who had brought various daily necessities and the long-prepared lunch.
After washing up and finishing his meal, Ye Cang lay on the bed and turned on his mobile phone.
Logging into the 'Divine Firmament Palace', he checked the status of his bounty claim, only to find that the prize money had already arrived.
The reviewer was Wang Xu.
"Oh? The review was actually pretty fast!"
Ye Cang exclaimed in pleasant surprise, then glanced at his assets.
[Contribution Points: 0 (1-Star) Currency Balance: 180.8 million Huaxia Coins]
"I'm still quite a ways off from purchasing a tube of Dragon Marrow Paste!"
Ye Cang sighed, but his eyes lit up shortly after as he searched for 'Dragon Marrow Paste' in the item sales section.
Before long, a piece of information appeared on the screen.
[Dragon Marrow Paste: 240 million Huaxia Coins (full price) or 180,000 contribution points]
Looking at this price, a trace of joy surfaced in Ye Cang's eyes.
The internal price actually turned out to be an eighty percent discount.
While it seemed like a small discount, it could save him sixty million Huaxia Coins.
"If exchanged using contribution points, it's sixty percent off the external price—surprisingly so cheap."
Yet Ye Cang soon reacted.
Contribution points could only be obtained by hunting fierce beasts. If he could hunt fierce beasts worth 180,000 contribution points, the money from the fierce beast materials he obtained would be more than enough to purchase a tube of Dragon Marrow Paste.
"Going out one more time will allow Wu Guang to fully recover."
Murmuring softly, Ye Cang continued browsing around the 'Divine Firmament Palace'.
He was supplementing his reserve of martial arts knowledge.
Suddenly, a piece of information caught his attention.
Seen in the combat technique column, it was a book concerning psionic energy.
[Psionic Energy Detailed Explanation, Category: Psionic Energy. Evaluation: General Grade. Price: 100 million Huaxia Coins (full price) or 50,000 contribution points]
Looking at the brief introduction, Ye Cang casually tapped on the cover of the combat technique.
The page jumped, presenting a detailed introduction concerning this combat technique.
After reading for a while, Ye Cang's heart was filled with excitement.
Comparing the description from the synopsis, the psionic energy he currently wielded was extremely crude.
Under normal circumstances, a psionic General Grade could simultaneously control nine pieces of psionic weapons to unleash peak combat power.
For instance, now that he possessed the cultivation of an intermediate psionic General, he was able to control nine 'King Slayer Flying Swords' while simultaneously unleashing seventy thousand kilograms of force.
Then, manipulating these 'King Slayer Flying Swords' to launch attacks was equivalent to nine early high-level General martial artists jointly ganging up on an enemy.
Yet currently, he could only control a single 'King Slayer Flying Sword' at a time to unleash seventy thousand kilograms of force.
Though quite a few flying swords participated in the battle against the Scorpion Three Generals, the only one truly unleashing ultimate force at any given moment was consistently just one.
The gap between these two was truly enormous.
If he had been able to simultaneously manipulate nine 'King Slayer Flying Swords' to unleash ultimate force in accordance with the power described in the book beforehand,
then wiping out the Scorpion Three Generals would have taken merely a matter of breaths; where was the need for such a hard-fought battle?
"This book is simply a guiding beacon for my psionic energy cultivation!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Cang directly selected and purchased it, completing the payment in one go.
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