"Hey! Haven't we finished the last mission? Can't we just go back?" Dong Santong asked in surprise. "What trouble could there be?"
"Take a look at Ailishan and the other two!" Li Xiaoya said, shaking his head with a bitter smile.
"Uh... right!" At that, Dong Santong reacted to the Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl and answered helplessly, "With the injuries those three have now, won't they need fifteen or twenty years of cultivation to recover?"
"Exactly!" Li Xiaoya said with a bitter smile. "If I'd known, we'd never have gone into those ruins!"
As it turned out!
After Li Xiaoya's Special Group killed the three Dragon Race cultivators, they naturally left the area and began tackling the missions they had accepted. This time, all their missions were in fairly remote locations...
Although the Special Group thought little of these five-star missions, the journeys were long, and they encountered attacks from quite a few Elder Demon Beasts. None posed a threat to them, but traveling took a great deal of time. They spent several times longer than on their previous outing before completing all the missions they had accepted...
Three or four years had passed before they finished so many missions.
In truth, that was already extremely fast. Had Li Xiaoya and the others not killed those three Dragon Cultivators, each member would only have received several tens of thousands of merit after turning in these missions, putting them at roughly merit rank three. Even that was only because Li Xiaoya's group had completed every mission successfully, without a single failure to cost them merit...
However!
That was normal. An ordinary cultivator relying solely on missions would need fifty or sixty years to reach merit rank five. Li Xiaoya's main advantage was that they had killed three Dragon Cultivators on this outing,