Spirit Pact Retainer

For Xuanye City, the destruction of the Yekan Gang was news of moderate significance; aside from a few factions in the upper echelons who had dealings with them and cursed their bad luck, the general attitude was one of indifference.

However, for the middle and lower classes, the annihilation of a faction that possessed multiple Foundation Establishment cultivators and quite decent infrastructure and weaponry was indeed a wake-up call.

The public story was that the Yekan Gang had been wiped out by a decapitation strike from Wilderness mercenaries hired by the Rusty Feather Platform, but in reality, everyone knew exactly whose toes the Yekan Gang had stepped on to meet their end.

An Jing and his companions were still in seclusion within that small house, but this time, truly no one dared to provoke him—if you tried even a slight probe and he immediately rushed out to exterminate your entire clan, that was simply unplayable; you couldn't possibly interact with someone like that.

It was at this moment that Iron Hand and Rusty Feather came to pay An Jing a visit.

Iron Hand went without saying, as he was an old acquaintance, while Rusty Feather was a beautiful red-haired woman with a scar on her face. In a world where not just faces but entire bodies could be replaced, she was a staunch "Original Humanist," with modifications only where absolutely necessary for Spirit Net interfaces.

"The more one connects to the Spirit Net, the easier it is to be invaded and exploited. My line of work involves too many people; it is best to keep an original body so that others can feel at ease."

This was Rusty Feather's explanation to An Jing, and the two of them had come this time specifically to pay An Jing his "mercenary reward"