Chapter 447: Sky Sparrow Sect - 447
Zhu Yi moved his sword in a circular motion, using it as if it were a saw. After completing a circle, he pulled the sword back and a chunk of meat fell to the ground.
Zhu Yi reached his hand inside of the beast and pulled out its core. Zhou Fan quickly used the river of cultivation to clean and absorb it.
In an instant, Zhou Fan felt a change. Although it was not really a leap, it was a clear boost. With only a few more, or perhaps even a single one, he would make a qualitative change in recovery.
Zhu Yi looked at Zhou Fan, waiting.
Zhou Fan spoke. "Good stuff. If you get a few more, I'll be able to help a bit. Have you decided to work with the assassination guild?"
Zhu Yi nodded. "It's too profitable. Cultivators kill, I might as well benefit. Either way, it seems that the assassination guild isn't all that bad."
The person he had killed had been a bad person, and if the assassination guild only killed such people, were they really that bad?
"Zhu Yi." Zhou Fan said in a serious tone.
Zhu Yi turned and looked Zhou Fan in the eye.
"Do not trust people so easily. Especially those who kill for profit. I would bet everything I own that this assassination guild is much much worse than you think."
Zhou Fan's words caused Zhu Yi to go into thought, but Zhou Fan interrupted him. "You've been in this place long enough."
This reminded Zhu Yi that he was still in the assassination guild. He began to cut up the rest of the beast. A foundation establishment realm beasts corpse could be sold for a lot. After bagging everything up, he left the room and saw Bernard.
"Is everything you need settled?" Bernard asked.
Zhu Yi nodded. "Thank you for waiting."
Bernard waved his hand. "I'll only wait this once. You are on your own from now on. You will also no longer meet the guild master yourself. We have crystal pads to accept missions. Don't worry, all information is kept only by the assassination guild."
Zhu Yi nodded and Bernard led him to the tavern room. Bernard said his goodbye's and returned upstairs.
In the room were many people, and Zhu Yi seemed to stick out like a sore thumb due to his youth and unscarred skin, as well as his clothes.
However, nobody seemed to pay attention to him. He was now a member of the assassination guild.
Zhu Yi walked over to an open crystal pad and clicked on it. Everything was the same as he knew it, but the background was darker.
Zhu Yi found missions, but they were not specific. Perhaps to guard against traitors, there was only basic information about the targets such as gender, cultivation, and affiliation.
Low-level missions were what Zhu Yi had done. They involved those below Qi gathering 6. Mid-level involved those between Qi gathering 6 and Qi gathering 10. High-level involved those between Foundation Establishment 1 and Foundation Establishment 5. Top-level involved those between Foundation Establishment 6 and Foundation establishment 10.
Unlike the rogue cultivator guild, there was no information or missions from branches outside of white palace city. As a result, the highest level mission was only at the 10th level of the Foundation Establishment realm, though Zhu Yi could not see those.
Naturally, Zhu Yi scrolled through the low-level missions. Even if he was above the 5th level of the Qi gathering realm, he may not take mid-level missions. Assassinations were very dangerous, as could be seen by the amount of scars in the tavern.
Zhu Yi found a mission to assassinate a 3rd level Qi gathering realm man. He had no sect affiliation, though most of the targets were like that.
Just as he was about to accept the mission, the screen went black and all of the talking in the assassination guild stopped. A voice sounded out through the room.
"All proceedings are to stop for 5 days. The sky sparrow sect's disciples are visiting White Palace city."
Zhu Yi was confused, but most of the people in the guild seemed to understand.
Many voices spoke.
"Another one comes."
"As expected of White Palace City."
"Have any of you heard of the Sky Sparrow Sect?"
"No."
"Nope."
"I have."
Everyone's attention turned to the man who spoke, including Zhu Yi. He was one of the smaller and less scarred people in the assassination guild. He was holding a book as he spoke.
"The Sky Sparrow sect is the 4th ranked sect in our world."
The room fell even more silent than before.
Even Zhu Yi was shocked.
A door opened and the Guild master stepped out. "It's nothing too surprising. The greatest sect in the world has visited more than once in the past. This is White Palace City after all. You all take a break. You've worked hard."
The tense air seemed to move again as the guild master spoke.
Still, everyone seemed to be slightly worried. If the disciples of the Sky Sparrow sect wanted to do something in the White Palace City, as long as it did not affect the White Palace city itself, nobody could stop them.
Even if they didn't use their status, nobody had enough strength to stop them. They were, after all, disciples from one of the world's top sects.
Zhou Fan spoke. "There shouldn't be too much to worry about as long as you mind your own business."
Zhu Yi nodded. It seemed that he would be taking a few rogue cultivator guild missions, unless, for some reason, they were stopped as well.
Zhu Yi left the assassination guild and walked to the rogue cultivator guild.
When he entered the building, he heard many people talking about the visiting sky sparrow sect, but it seemed that, as expected, the rogue cultivator guild would continue operating.
Zhu Yi also heard another type of conversation. How to please those of the sky sparrow sect. Some talked about serving them like servants, while others mentioned gifts. Anything to get into their good graces.
Zhu Yi unconsciously found himself disdaining those people. Unlike in the assassination guild, these people thought about becoming servants to live better.
Zhu Yi wondered if those at the assassination guild were more willful, but he soon realized the difference. The rogue cultivator guild was about living, while the assassination guild was about surviving.
Chapter 448: A Homeless Cultivator - 448
Zhu Yi shook his head and got in line to use the crystal pads. After 10 minutes, he was up.
He quickly found a fitting mission and set out, bringing the guilds loan bag and his weapon as usual.
Zhu Yi ran along the path and soon reached his destination.
The next day, he returned to White Palace city after finishing his mission.
As he saw it in the distance, he noticed a grand scene. Floating just outside White Palace City was a giant flying ship. The ship was in the shape of a sparrow.
"The sky sparrow sect has arrived." Zhu Yi mumbled.
As he got closer to the city and saw some buildings, he saw many decorations, as if a festival was taking place.
This was White Palace City, perhaps the greatest historical monument in the world. All sects wanted their disciples to visit it, and if any sect could send people to visit, White Palace City would constantly be filled with sect members.
However, in order to keep White Palace City as a true city and not just a landmark or monument, the top ten sects of the world had created a system of visitation.
This was all Zhu Yi knew. He did not know how the system worked, but he knew that it was the reason why White Palace City was not filled to the brim with sect members and was instead a gathering place of rogue cultivators.
All he knew was that one of the top ten sects of the world visited once a year. As for sects not in the top ten, they could only send their disciples in without using the name of their sect or going with them.
Zhu Yi walked towards the rogue cultivator guild. As he walked further and further into White Palace City, there were more and more decorations.
Although all of the decorations were spotlessly clean, Zhu Yi could still spot some signs of aging on a few. It seemed that they did not make new decorations for every visit.
Just as Zhu Yi was about to reach the rogue cultivator guild, he noticed a large number of people standing on the side of the road, looking in the same direction.
Zhu Yi made his way to the side and watched. After a few moments, a group of people a little older than Zhu Yi, but not yet adults, passed by while sitting on the top of a fancy carriage. As they passed by, many people clapped their hands.
The atmosphere was truly like a festival.
As the carriage passed by, Zhu Yi made his way to the rogue cultivator guild to turn in his turtle claws.
He did not face any more issues and walked out of the rogue cultivator guild slightly richer.
Inside his room in the Inn, Zhu Yi spoke to Zhou Fan.
"Master. If you break a recovery threshold, how high will you be able to raise my talent?" Zhu Yi asked.
Zhou Fan answered. "I'm not sure. I'll have to find out when it happens."
Zhu Yi nodded, his curiosity satisfied, and soon fell asleep.
Days passed normally until the Sky Sparrow Sect finally departed from White Palace City.
Zhu Yi sighed in relief and walked to the assassination guild. He had completed three missions since the assassination guild closed down, and he had made three fifths of what he could have made with three missions from the assassination guild.
Zhu Yi entered the assassination guild and everything seemed normal. He walked up to one of the crystal pads and found a similar mission to the one he had seen before, though this one paid three times as much.
Male, no sect affiliation, Qi gathering three.
Zhu Yi accepted and received information on the mission. White Palace City, while merely a city, was actually huge. Zhu Yi stayed in one of the most popular areas as it held the rogue cultivator guild and the history records, but what he had seen was only a hundreth of the city.
More than tens of millions of people lived in the city. Zhu Yi's mission was to kill someone on the other side of the city, a less populated area with cheaper and lower quality everything.
Although White Palace city was huge, it was not difficult to traverse even for a mortal. A mortal could walk from end to end in around two days, even if they had to spend around 48 hours of nonstop walking to do so.
Zhu Yi jogged on an express path, a place reserved for only travel. Here, no shops lined the sides and instead there was a bit of nature.
The express path covered White Palace City like grid lines, and it was easy to reach almost any area from them.
They were not hard to traverse at all, and Zhu Yi soon reached the point where he got off. He walked past many buildings, taking many twists and turns, before stopping in an alleyway.
There was a group of homeless people here, and Zhu Yi's target was one of them. Zhu Yi did his best to remember the target's description.
"Mid length brown hair, scar diagonal to right eye, wears a heavy hood, no beard."
There were 20 homeless people, and Zhu Yi soon spotted his target.
He stood far back and stared at the man. A homeless cultivator? Unlikely.
Whatever reason the man was acting as a homeless man for, Zhu Yi had no intention of finding out.
The biggest difficulty of this mission was getting the man out of White Palace City. No matter where, killing was absolutely forbidden.
This homeless man had stayed in White Palace City for many years without leaving.
In order to complete this mission, Zhu Yi would need to set up some sort of bait or trap.
"No wonder it paid triple. Are you even smart enough to complete this mission?" Zhou Fan asked.
Zhu Yi responded. "Master. There is no need to insult me."
Zhu Yi sat and watched the target from afar while thinking about what sort of plan could possibly lure him out of the city.
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