There were four of them: Lu Ye, the middle-aged man who had posted the recruitment notice, an old man, and a flat-headed youth.
They exchanged names.
Naturally, Lu Ye gave the name Li Taibai. The middle-aged man was called Zhu Yuan, the old man Fan Yunhua, and the flat-headed youth introduced himself as Jia Yu.
No one looked too deeply into whether those names were real. It was common for cultivators traveling abroad to conceal their true names and origins. This was only a short-term collaboration, after all. Even Zhu Yuan, the employer, had no right to pry into the backgrounds of the people he had recruited.
One paid for labor; the others worked for the money. That was all there was to it.
What left Lu Ye slightly puzzled, however, was that among the four, his cultivation was the lowest. The other three were all at the Star Constellation Realm Late Stage.
Come to think of it, when Zhu Yuan recruited him, he had not seemed to ask about his cultivation at all. He had simply offered fifteen hundred jade, and after a few words, they had settled the matter.
Perhaps that was simply how he did things, or perhaps his eyesight was exceptional enough to see that Lu Ye's cultivation was not low. Either way, now that he had joined this small group, they were companions until the task was complete.
"Everyone is here. Let's go. This journey will likely take several months. Zhu hopes the three of you can join hearts and efforts with me, and cross the difficulties together!" Zhu Yuan said.
Lu Ye frowned. "We're not going to Middle Righteous Island?"
Though this was his first time taking on such work, even if he had never eaten pork, he had at least seen pigs run.