killing people for treasures!
Dai Chong understood what Lao Liu meant.
It is not surprising that such things happened to soul masters. If civilian soul masters want to go further, they can only rely on various means to fight and rob.
However, under the high-pressure control of the Spirit Hall, the ambitions of some people are suppressed, and such things happen less frequently.
If there is no Spirit Hall, I don't know what this continent will become.
Just like the Far North, which is not under the jurisdiction of the Spirit Hall, killing people for treasures is much more brutal than the Star Dou Great Forest. There are almost no concerns about killing people there.
Every year, a large number of soul masters disappear in the ice and snow and never come back. No one knows whether those people are frozen to death, starved to death, or killed by others.
"You are crazy! This is the Star Dou Great Forest, not the Far North Snowfield!" Dai Chong glared at Lao Liu.
The Star Dou Great Forest lies between the two empires, and the control of the Spirit Hall is much stronger than that of the Far North Snowfield.
Moreover, they received the commission from the Spirit Hall this time. If something happens to the employer, the Spirit Hall will definitely conduct a thorough investigation. It will be bad if they are traced back to them!
"Boss, we can finish the task first, and then ask for the secret method!" A fierce light flashed in Lao Liu's eyes: "Besides, what if the Spirit Hall finds out? At worst, we can escape to the Slaughter City!"
The Slaughter City is the final destination of all those who are hunted by the Spirit Hall, the place where the evil people live freely, and the Spirit Hall cannot eliminate them.
If they are discovered, they can just hide in the Slaughter City, and the Spirit Hall can't do anything to them.
Dai Chong still couldn't make up his mind, his face was uncertain.
"Boss, I'll tell you the truth, I know my talent, I can't break through the Soul King in this life, but I'm not willing to give up, I still want to go further, day and night, I want to become a Soul Saint, I want to live a good life!" Lao Liu panted, his voice was low, but quite powerful, as if he was venting his dissatisfaction again.
"Look at my face full of scars. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to find a good wife in this lifetime. I am unwilling to marry a wife with a useless martial soul and no soul power. I have struggled for most of my life, but I don't want my son to become a useless person without soul power. I want to find a soul master wife!"
"Only by becoming a Soul Emperor or even a Soul Saint can we truly be considered the best of people. We don't have to look at other people's faces. Only then will female soul masters look up to us!"
"I..."
At this moment, Cheng Xiao suddenly walked out of the woods and shouted, "Okay, let's go!"
Lao Liu's body suddenly stiffened, as if a hand was strangled by the neck, and all the words were stuck in his throat. Cold sweat broke out on his back, his palms were sticky with nervousness, and he even held his breath subconsciously, as if all the filth in his heart was exposed to the sun at this moment, making him wish he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Dai Chong also became nervous, but he was still calm. He patted Lao Liu and told him to relax. Then he looked at Cheng Xiao and asked tentatively, "So fast today?"
"Ha, brother is really fast this time. Are you dissatisfied with this soul beast?" Lao Liu turned stiffly and forced an ugly smile.
"Practice makes perfect." Cheng Xiao naturally would not tell them about his failure. He shook his head and made up an excuse.
Not noticing anything unusual on Cheng Xiao's face, Dai Chong and Lao Liu breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that they did not overhear their conversation.
"Then let's go!" Dai Chong called everyone.
Soon, the seven people escorted Cheng Xiao to hunt the next soul beast again. Several people packed up their things. Lao Liu was grateful, but he did not dare to say much. He buried his head as if he wanted to hide himself in the shadows.
"Pop!"
Suddenly, a palm was placed on his shoulder. Lao Liu was startled and immediately turned around and retreated.
"Calm down!" Dai Chong scolded in a low voice.
Lao Liu relaxed when he found that it was Dai Chong behind him.
"Nothing has happened yet! Why are you like a ghost?"
"..." Lao Liu opened his mouth and said with a wry smile, "I know."
Dai Chong glanced at Cheng Xiao who was unaware in the distance, leaned close to Lao Liu's ear and whispered, "Find a chance, brothers, to discuss this." Lao Liu's eyes widened immediately, and he looked up at Dai Chong in surprise: "Boss, do you agree..."
"Shh!"
Dai Chong hooked Lao Liu's neck in frustration: "Keep your voice down! Aren't you afraid of being exposed?"
Lao Liu closed his mouth and nodded repeatedly.
"Be careful, don't let that kid find out something unusual."
"Yeah, I know!"
Dai Chong then let Lao Liu go with satisfaction.
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"Stand up!"
A sharp shout sounded, and a huge shadow stood up from its corpse.
This is the seventh soul beast. The last soul beast did not have any accidents. The three thousand year old Xuanming Turtle finally stood up at Cheng Xiao's third shout and became Cheng Xiao's shadow soldier.
The huge body was extremely oppressive, but in front of Cheng Xiao, it crawled on the ground like a puppy.
So far, he has finally collected the shadows of six soul beasts, namely the tiger demon cat with agility attack, the thunder pattern tiger with strong attack, the spotted giant anaconda with control, the Xuanming Turtle with defense, and... the Blazing Spirit Kite with air superiority.
Deeply influenced by the keyboard warriors in his previous life, Cheng Xiao would not forget the importance of air supremacy.
"Come back!" Cheng Xiao showed a relaxed smile and put the Xuanming Turtle into his own shadow.
After the six soul beast phantoms entangled at Cheng Xiao's feet, they returned to peace.
Seeing that they had discussed and divided the territory, Cheng Xiao walked out. The rhythmic purple soul ring on the Xuanming Turtle seemed to have lost a bit of luster.
"Is it over, brother?" Dai Chong asked with a grin when he saw Cheng Xiao walking out.
"Yeah." Cheng Xiao nodded.
"The seven soul beasts you requested have been hunted down. Look..." Dai Chong rubbed his fingers and asked with a smile.
In fact, the extraction of the shadow of the three-eyed giant ape failed, and Cheng Xiao now only got six soul beast shadows, but there was no way to argue with Dai Chong and the other seven people about this matter. After all, they were paid to do things. They agreed to kill only seven soul beasts, so naturally they would not do more.
"Let's go to the Wuhun Hall." Cheng Xiao nodded.
Then the eight people left the Xingdou Great Forest and came to the Wuhun Branch Hall where they had agreed to hand over.
Arriving at the commission office, Cheng Xiao took out a seal and handed it to the person in charge of the Spirit Hall.
The person in charge took the seal, then searched the task book, found the other half of the seal, matched the two, confirmed that they could be combined, and then checked Cheng Xiao's personal information and codeword according to the records in the task book. After
everything was confirmed to be correct, the person in charge handed the task list to Dai Chong and others.
After receiving the commission application form, Dai Chong smiled and bowed and asked: "Brother, are you going back? Do you need us to take you?"
"No, you go your way! I have something else to do." Cheng Xiao waved his hand and then quickly left the Spirit Hall.
Dai Chong narrowed his eyes, waited for Cheng Xiao to disappear from the hall, and winked at the third brother: "Third brother, you are fast, follow him, don't get lost, we will go to collect the commission first, and then come back to find you, remember to leave a trace."
The third brother nodded, rushed out of the Spirit Hall without saying a word, and followed in the direction where Cheng Xiao disappeared.
"Let's go, let's go quickly and come back quickly! After we get the commission, we will go find out what's going on with this kid!"