On the sofa, Ling Yi ( the Paper Talisman Puppet ) had the same expression as an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
"Damn it, there's a registration fee for signing up, and they only accept Martial Practitioner Coin? Let me see... who organized this lousy competition? How can they be so shameless?"
That's right, you have to pay Martial Practitioner Coin to register, and not only that, but a lot of them—ten Martial Practitioner Coin per person.
Money isn't the key issue; the main problem is that Martial Practitioner Coin are hard to come by.
That night, Ling Yi browsed the Jianghu Winds and Clouds app, which gave him a clearer understanding of the Martial Practitioner settings in this Simulation arena.
For example, the gold coins, also known as Martial Practitioner Coin, are only produced in quantities of 100,000 by the official authorities each year.
Not one more.
The Martial Practitioner Coin were only produced and distributed seventy years ago, and there are only about 7 million of them to date.
How many Martial Practitioner are there?
In the Ancient Country alone, there are over 80 million Martial Practitioner who have obtained legitimate Martial Practitioner certificates.
Moreover, this number is increasing year by year.
I estimate that in two years, it will directly exceed 100 million.
There are nearly 100 million Martial Practitioner, but only 7 million Martial Practitioner Coin, and transactions between Martial Practitioner are limited to Martial Practitioner Coin.
This has led to the increasing value of Martial Practitioner Coin, since scarcity drives up prices.
The Martial Practitioner Ling Yi met yesterday who possessed Martial Practitioner Coin were actually Big Shot.
"No wonder the hot pot restaurant owner was so happy when he saw the Martial Practitioner Coin yesterday, he was laughing so hard his mouth was practically sticking out."
The people around him were looking at him like he was an idiot!
When Ling Yi used Martial Practitioner Coin to pay yesterday, he already knew that the value of Martial Practitioner Coin was likely extremely high, and definitely not the exchange rate of 1 Martial Practitioner Coin = 1000 RMB published on the official website.
But no one expected that this thing would be sold for a million, or even several million, per piece on the black market.
Why call it the black market?
Because the buying and selling of Martial Practitioner Coin is strictly prohibited in private transactions, the only way to exchange Martial Practitioner Coin for cash is at designated official banks.
Private transactions are illegal.
As the saying goes, for every policy from above, there's a countermeasure from below.
The value of Martial Practitioner Coin is so high that some people will inevitably take the risk, which leads to the emergence of the black market.
"This gathering of Jianghu Winds and Clouds Gathering is being organized by the Martial Practitioner Alliance, huh? The Martial Practitioner Alliance isn't an official organization?"
Ling Yi then searched for more information about the Martial Practitioner Alliance.
Gradually, the problems were discovered.
"This Martial Practitioner Alliance is hiding something shady!"
But none of that matters, and it has nothing to do with Ling Yi. His goal has always been to complete the mission.
As for the underlying issues, Ling Yi couldn't be bothered with them.
Register first!
The registration process is very simple. First, register on the Martial Arts Grand Gathering app, and then go to the local office of the Martial Practitioner Alliance to pay the gold coins.
"You want to sign up for the Martial Arts Grand Gathering?" Jin Xiaoxiao looked at Ling Yi with some surprise.
"Yes!"
"You, a Master, registering for the Martial Arts Grand Gathering, aren't you just bullying people?"
"How is this bullying? The Martial Arts Grand Gathering doesn't have a rule that Master can't register!"
Jin Xiaoxiao wanted to say something more, but she swallowed the words back.
His eyes suddenly lit up. "Hehehe!"
Ling Yi looked at her speechlessly. Why did this girl seem so silly?
After finishing breakfast, Ling Yi took out twenty Martial Practitioner Coin and handed them to Jin Xiaoxiao. Jin Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up as she looked at the twenty glittering Martial Practitioner Coin.
" Ling Yi, are you trying to keep me as a sugar daddy?"
Ling Yi rolled his eyes. "Go to the Martial Practitioner Alliance and pay my registration fee!"
"What about the remaining ten gold coins?"
"When you have free time, try to find out as much information as possible about this Martial Arts Grand Gathering. Consider these ten Martial Practitioner Coin your service fee."
"No problem!"
Ling Yi stood up, put on his coat, and turned to walk towards the window.
" Ling Yi, where are you going?" Jin Xiaoxiao asked curiously.
"Complete the Assassins quest."
"You're still going to do the Assassins quest?" Jin Xiaoxiao asked, utterly puzzled.
Ling Yi didn't explain further; he simply waved his hand and jumped off the balcony.
Jin Xiaoxiao was startled and quickly ran to the balcony to look down, only to see Ling Yi already taking to the air and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Jin Xiaoxiao frowned, feeling increasingly unable to understand Ling Yi.
She and Ling Yi were childhood sweethearts, and her perception of Ling Yi could be summed up in two words: good-for-nothing!
After ten years of martial arts training, he has only recently broken through to the Early Body Tempering Realm and successfully obtained the Martial Practitioner Certificate.
Then, under his own deception, he became the Assassins.
I had planned for the two of us to team up and do the Assassins quests together in the future, since we trusted and knew each other well.
But now, everything Ling Yi has shown has completely shattered Jin Xiaoxiao's understanding.
"How did you become Master?" Jin Xiaoxiao asked, puzzled.
"Even with a stroke of luck, one can't become Master overnight, right? Or has this kid been hiding his true abilities all along?"
"No, it's impossible to hide one's talents. That means something extraordinary must have happened to Ling Yi in the past two weeks."
Jin Xiaoxiao was extremely curious, but when she saw the gold coins on the table, she immediately forgot about them.
"Hehe, Ling Yi has signed up for the Martial Arts Grand Gathering, so he'll be able to crush everyone. I'll find another place later and beat Ling Yi to first place. Wouldn't that make me rich?"
"However, ten gold coins seem a bit few. Where can I get some more gold coins?"
On the other side, Ling Yi had already flown away from Dafeng City and soon appeared in a mountain village 30 kilometers away from Dafeng City.
It's called a mountain village, but it's not a village at all.
Everywhere you look there are small villas, and every family owns a car; clearly, the people in this mountain village are all wealthy.
Whether it's compensation for demolition or compensation for land occupation, that's unknown.
Ling Yi landed at the village entrance, Perception the surroundings with his mind, and then headed into the village.
They soon arrived at the gate of a courtyard.
The courtyard gate wasn't closed, Ling Yi walked straight in.
Just then, a middle-aged woman came out of the room.
Upon seeing Ling Yi, the woman was taken aback and asked, "Excuse me, who are you looking for?"
I'm looking for Ling Han!
"You've got the wrong person. We don't have anyone named Ling Han here!" The woman shook her head.
Ling Yi ignored her and instead shouted, " Ling Han, I am the Assassins. Come out and meet me."
The door to the inner room opened, and a thin, middle-aged man walked out with a gloomy expression.
"How did you find me?" the middle-aged man asked.
The tasks of the Assassins come in many forms.
Most ghostwriting quests are created on the same day and then taken by other the Assassins on the same day.
For each level of mission, there will be a corresponding level of the Assassins to assist.
Failures are extremely rare.
If the task is difficult, the Assassins will cooperate with each other.
After all, the Assassins and Hire, or rather assassins, are similar; they take on missions to make money.
I rarely accept tasks I'm not confident about.
Furthermore, the tasks assigned by the government to the Assassins rarely resulted in any errors or omissions in the information.
Missions like Cheng Hu's are, after all, rare.
In addition to these regular the Assassins missions, there are also some deadly missions.
The term "dead knife" refers to tasks that, for various reasons, cause the Assassins to fail multiple times, even to the point that the authorities cannot resolve the issue.
There are many such Deathblade missions.
Some became "Death Blades" because they went into hiding and concealed their identities; others became "Death Blades" because they were too powerful or their methods were too ruthless, making them difficult to execute.
Take Ling Han, for example, a level 1 the Assassins quest.
He was a womanizer who had ruined the chastity of many women over the past ten years. Although he was not very strong, he had an extremely powerful Disguise.
The initial commission was 500,000, Later was gradually increased to 2 million.
This guy's Disguise were superb, and he was extremely good at hiding himself, which is why he was able to live freely for ten years.
Over the past decade, it has also caused considerable trouble for many the Assassins.
After all, giving up a ghostwriting task requires paying a penalty for breach of contract.
Many the Assassins accept tasks but can't find the right person to perform them, so they have to give up.
Gradually, this task became a death knell.
No matter how well Ling Han could hide, he couldn't escape Ling Yi's Perception.
Moreover, the mission description contains very detailed information about Ling Han, including not only pictures but also videos.
No matter how much Disguise, their physical structure and frame cannot be hidden.
"Go to the yamen and turn yourself in. Tell them that the person who made you turn yourself in is Ling Yi!" Ling Yi waved his hand and sent out a beam of white light that directly entered Ling Han's body.
Then he turned and left.
Ling Han was dumbfounded!
Seriously, are the Assassins this brazen now? Good grief, they want us to turn ourselves in? Have you lost your mind?
But the next moment, an indescribable itching sensation started from his lower abdomen and then spread throughout his entire body.
The feeling was like millions of ants were gnawing at his skin.
Ling Han felt an urge to tear his skin off to feel any relief.
Soon, a piercing scream rang out from the villa's courtyard.
Ten minutes later, a bloodied man, whose skin was almost entirely covered in blood, drove a car out of the yard.
They headed straight for the government office in Dafeng City.
The moment Ling Han stepped into the yamen gate, the intense itching sensation vanished instantly.
Ling Han naturally didn't want to turn himself in, so he turned around and walked out of the yamen gate. But then, that intense itching sensation returned.
After several attempts, Ling Han finally resigned himself to his fate.
Now Ling Han understood that he had encountered a master.
But Ling Han wasn't the first.
On this day, the government office in Dafeng City became incredibly lively.
One after another, the targets of the Dead Blade missions went to the yamen to turn themselves in, and the person who made them turn themselves in was a the Assassins named Ling Yi.
In just one day, more than twenty people turned themselves in.
This made everyone in the Dafeng City government office curious about Ling Yi.
However, when people checked Ling Yi's information, they were filled with confusion.
This Ling Yi was actually a newcomer to the Assassins. Not only was the Assassins, but he had only received his Martial Practitioner certificate half a month ago, and his cultivation level was only at the Early Body Tempering Realm.
The key point is that they simply couldn't understand Ling Yi's methods of controlling people.
Good heavens, once I'm inside the government office, everything's normal, but once I leave, I get an unbearable itch all over my body, it's like I'm dying.
But it's not poison.
If it's not poison, then it must be some kind of powerful Kung Fu Hustle.
However, I've never heard of any Kung Fu Hustle being so bizarre.