With Little Zi in tow, if it was just the two of them traveling, they would indeed be a rather conspicuous target.
A man and a woman, an adult and a little girl—even if they looked different, plenty of people would still notice them.
Traveling with a mercenary group might be slower, but it would make them less likely to be exposed.
However, Ye Tianyi absolutely could not hire a mercenary group as an employer.
Mission point.
Mercenary groups were everywhere here.
This was a profession on the continent. Countless people did this kind of work. Generally speaking, their realms were not high, and they were all Ordinary Martial Artists, doing it to earn commissions, spiritual artifacts, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects, and the like—or simply to buy things that martial artists from privileged backgrounds could obtain with ease.
Ye Tianyi took a casual look around and spotted several mercenary group missions headed for the Bright Moon Empire.
It did not matter where in the Bright Moon Empire they were going, as long as they were headed there.
"Uncle, are you leaving today?"
Ye Tianyi saw an uncle from a mercenary group accept a treasure-hunting mission to the Bright Moon Empire and Walked Over to ask.
"Yes. Do you need something?"
The uncle gave Ye Tianyi and Little Zi a once-over.
Ye Tianyi said, "I also wish to go to the Bright Moon Empire. The journey is fraught with danger. I wonder if we could travel together?"
"An escort?"
Ye Tianyi shook his head. "I do not have enough money to hire a mercenary group to escort me to the Bright Moon Empire, and I am reluctant to spend what I do have. I merely hope to travel alongside you. I have some cultivation as well, so perhaps I can