Of the few contracts they had, aside from Huo Zhiyun, the other two targets were bandits native to the snowfields who murdered and robbed travelers. Their cultivation barely reached the threshold of a Grandmaster, but their martial attainments could only be described as abysmal.
Yunli was the Young Master of the Sky-Pacifying Sect to begin with, so her resources went without saying. Apart from the Heavenly Lang Pearl, she had everything Ye Jingtang had. Now that she had become a mid-tier Grandmaster, killing small fry like these took only a single slash. From setting out to finishing the job, it had taken just an hour altogether.
Since she had rid the people of scourges and earned some silver along the way, Yunli was in an excellent mood. After finishing the jobs, they removed their disguises and headed back together. Along the way, she hopped onto Ye Jingtang's back again and muttered,
"That's it? Northern Liang is crawling with scoundrels, even worse than Liangzhou. Surely there are more pests we could get rid of?"
"This is Shuofeng City. At least a third of the people here have dirty hands. If we really started slaughtering, wouldn't that turn into massacring the city? Our real business comes first..."
"Oh..."
Seeing this, Zhe Yunli could only give up in disappointment. When they reached the vicinity of the inn where they were staying, she climbed down from his back for fear of her master seeing them and called out from afar,
"Coo-chee, coo-chee?"
"Cheep!"
Niao Niao was crouching beneath the eaves. Spotting them, it plunged straight down and landed on Yunli's arm, looking around to see whether they had brought it anything tasty.
Ye Jingtang stroked Niao Niao's head, then went upstairs. Finding Qingzhi's room dark, as though she had fallen asleep, he first went