"We were saved by others. How could we be alive otherwise?" Feng Da explained.
"What about the people who saved you?" the middle-aged man asked angrily.
"They left after saving us."
"Then why didn't they save my third brother first but instead saved you?" The middle-aged man was furious.
"Elder Xu, we might be mercenaries with low status and not of noble birth like Third Master and Second Young Lady, but we are also raised by our parents. Please don't insult our dignity. Moreover, can we decide who our benefactor wants to save?" Feng Da said righteously.
Feng Da's words resonated with the mercenaries present. Elder Xu's words despising the lives of mercenaries had already made them a little unhappy, but now Feng Da's words had completely aroused their dissatisfaction.
"That's right. Are the lives of your Xu family precious while the lives of us mercenaries worthless?" someone said in the crowd.
"That's right. The Xu family is too much. Isn't this bullying?" someone else said.
"Young Master Zhang Jian, your mercenary group didn't do a good job of protection. You must give our Xu family an explanation for this matter!" The middle-aged man's angry face turned livid after everyone accused him. So he simply turned his spear toward the young master of the Anaconda Mercenary Group and demanded an explanation.
"This…" Zhang Jian frowned and glared at Feng Da fiercely. How dare they cause trouble for the mercenary group. He turned his gaze toward the young masters of the Hurricane Mercenary Group and Universal Mercenary Group, Ju Ri and Cang Ran, hoping they could help him. However, they refused to look at him. He was so pissed off!
"Elder Xu, this incident is indeed a mistake of our Anaconda Mercenary Group. In order to make up for the bereavement of Elder Xu, we are willing to hand them over to you to be at your disposal," Zhang Jian steeled himself and said. Feng Da's team was indeed one of the main forces of the mercenary group, but they could not offend the Xu family. If a few people did not die, it would be difficult to dispel the Xu family's hatred. Therefore, he had to sacrifice them in hopes that the Xu family would see his sincerity and not pursue the matter further.
"Young Master Zhang, you are a sensible person. The patriarch will see your sincerity," Elder Xu said with admiration. The Xu family had always had a close cooperative relationship with the Anaconda Mercenary Group. Therefore, he was very clear that the patriarch would not destroy the group just for his brother and the seemingly favored Lin'er. After all, there were many things that the Xu family found inconvenient to come forward for personally, so they still needed the help of the Anaconda Mercenary Group. However, since the people were dead, it was impossible not to pursue the matter at all. The Xu family's face still had to be retrieved.
"Young Master, you can't give up on us!" Feng Da said with grief.
"Young Master!"
"No need to shout. I'm expelling you from the Anaconda Mercenary Group. From now on, you are no longer a part of us," Zhang Jian said sternly.
"Go down and accompany my brother!" Elder Xu said with a grim face. He raised the saber in his hand, gathered his spiritual power on the blade, and slashed at them.
Ding! A stream of spiritual power knocked Elder Xu's sword to the ground.
"Who is it? Come out!" Elder Xu roared in anger.
"How can the people I saved be killed at will?!" Leng Ruoxue's group of four walked out from the crowd.
As soon as they appeared, their extraordinary elegance immediately stunned the crowd, making the people reluctant to look away.
"You were the ones who saved them?" Elder Xu came to his senses and asked while gritting his teeth. Among the four of them, there was an advanced Spiritual Sovereign and an advanced Spiritual Monarch, but he could not discern the strength of the beautiful girl and the freakishly good-looking man in black.
"Yes, we saved them," Leng Ruoxue said coldly.
"Why didn't you save people from our Xu family first?" Elder Xu shouted furiously.
"I save people by mood, not by identity," Leng Ruoxue said disdainfully. So what if you're from the Xu family. The Xu family isn't any better than pigs to me.
"You… Our Xu family won't let you go!" Elder Xu threatened, trembling with rage.
"Are you threatening us? The Xu family is worthy of being one of the Five Great Families. So imposing, I'm so scared!" Leng Ruoxue said mockingly with a scared expression on her face.
"The Xu family is too much. They're threatening people who didn't save their family members. The Xu family only has this level of tolerance!" All the men present saw the stunning beauty being threatened and wronged by others, and they immediately interrupted in righteous indignation.
"Miss, you've just saved me and my brothers once again. My brothers and I are willing to follow Miss and repay you for your great favor. I will fight against whoever dares make trouble for Miss," Feng Da said solemnly. Even though he knew that the young lady didn't need them to act in this way, they would always feel a knot in their hearts if they didn't. Moreover, they did this to let people know of the ruthlessness and bullying nature of the Xu family and the Anaconda Mercenary Group.
"Since you've been expelled from the Anaconda Mercenary Group, I will accept you." Leng Ruoxue nodded. She found that Feng Da and the others were becoming more devious. But just as well. She was pretty satisfied.
"How dare you take in the people who our Xu family wants to kill." Elder Xu's face darkened with anger.
"You said you wouldn't let us go, then what does it matter if I take them in or not?" Leng Ruoxue said without any fear, not paying attention to this angry Elder Xu at all.
"Young Master Zhang…" Elder Xu turned his head to look at Zhang Jian for support. Although he really wanted to kill them to vent his anger for the death of his brother, he was an elder of a prominent family after all and hadn't lost his reason yet. He was not afraid of the Spiritual Sovereign nor the Spiritual Monarch. Who he feared were the stunning girl and the freakishly good-looking man. He couldn't tell how strong these two people were at all. But since they could kill two holy beast-level earth pythons, then they were definitely not weaker than him, so he didn't dare to act rashly.
"Elder Xu, I expelled them just now. You heard it." Zhang Jian was not stupid. Since he had already handed them over, he wouldn't care if they were killed or not.
Zhang Jian turned his head and looked at Leng Ruoxue. When did such a great beauty appear on the Ling Feng Continent? Even Shui Xinran of the Shui family is like a weed compared to her.
"May I ask your good name, Miss?" Zhang Jian asked, thinking he was being very polite and authentic. He couldn't help but convince himself that only he deserved to have such a stunning beauty.
Leng Ruoxue looked at the young master of the Anaconda Mercenary Group. He looks okay, but his character isn't very good. Because she did not have a good impression of him, she did not plan to talk to him.
"Wife, who is this person?" Ye Chen said with a look of jealousy and dissatisfaction. Hmph, how dare he have any ideas about Xue'er. He must be tired of living.
"I don't know!" Leng Ruoxue said helplessly. This man insisted on calling her his wife whenever there were many people around.
Zhang Jian couldn't believe that such a great beauty was actually married. But since she was married, she wasn't worthy of him even if she was so beautiful.
Leng Ruoxue glanced at Zhang Jian with a bit of disgust, and she then looked at the young masters of the other two major mercenary groups. These two young masters were superior in both appearance and demeanor. It seems that this Anaconda Mercenary Group will be destroyed in his hands sooner or later.
Seeing Leng Ruoxue's gaze on them, Ju Ri and Cang Ran nodded friendly.
"Miss, your tent is set up." Feng Da walked over.
Leng Ruoxue nodded. She completely ignored the fuming Elder Xu and went directly into her tent to rest.
Not long after entering, a purple shadow jumped into her arms. "Beloved Master, your Darling is back!"
Leng Ruoxue gently touched the thick, fluffy fur on Darling's body. Ahh, it feels really good.
"Did the ape agree?" Leng Ruoxue asked. Any spirit beast with wisdom would agree to exchange a green spirit pill for a purple pearl fruit. It was not a loss.
"With Darling going into action, how could that stupid ape dare not to agree!" Darling said proudly. Hehe, his strategy was to exchange his cute master's green spirit pill for the purple pearl fruit.
"However, that stupid ape has another condition!" Darling said a little uncomfortably. Even though he had always called that guy 'stupid ape', the ape wasn't stupid. On the contrary, he was really smart!
"What condition?" Leng Ruoxue asked, a little baffled.
"He wants to acknowledge you as his master." Darling was a little annoyed. After that stupid ape knew that his beloved master was an alchemist, he wanted to be with her too. Wuuu… It's all my fault. I shouldn't have told that stupid thing.
"…"
Leng Ruoxue was speechless. Why are the spirit beasts I meet all so savvy? But I really don't want to have an ape as my spirit beast. She felt terrified just thinking about having a huge ape following behind her. It would really become Beauty and the Beast!
"Go and tell him that I won't accept him as my spirit beast. However, if he's willing, let him acknowledge Big Brother Feng as his master. I won't treat him badly," Leng Ruoxue said after some thought. Big Brother Feng was the weakest among them. His strength would improve a lot if he contracted with this ape.
"What's the matter?" Ye Chen walked in and asked. He just saw that stinky fox come back. Why did he go out again?
"He went to look for the ape," Leng Ruoxue explained.
"What? The matter isn't resolved yet? Didn't he say it's easy!" Ye Chen said gloatingly.
"The ape said he wanted to acknowledge me as his master, but I didn't agree. I asked Darling to tell him to acknowledge Big Brother Feng as his master," Leng Ruoxue said. There were so many people here, so it would be really inconvenient if they were to go negotiate with the ape in person. She didn't want to become everyone's target.
"Xue'er, you are being biased. You don't share good things with me," Ye Chen complained, looking at Leng Ruoxue with pitiful eyes.
"Don't tell me you want that ape." Leng Ruoxue didn't believe he was interested in that ape!
"Regardless, you are being biased," Ye Chen said aggrievedly. He wasn't interested in the ape, but he just couldn't stand seeing Xue Er caring so much about other men.
"We'll have earth python meat for dinner tonight." Leng Ruoxue didn't say anything useless and directly threw out food as bait.
"Okay, give it to me!" Ye Chen directly stretched out his hand to ask for the meat so that Xue'er would not regret it. During this period, he had been asking for it for a long time, but Xue'er was reluctant to take it out to eat.
What a glutton. Leng Ruoxue reluctantly took out dozens of pieces of earth python meat and put them in front of Ye Chen.
Ye Chen unceremoniously collected the meat hurriedly into his ring, for fear that someone would snatch it from him.
"Big Brother Feng, come with me," Leng Ruoxue whispered to Feng Moran.
"Xue'er, where are we going?" Feng Moran was puzzled. Xue'er was bringing him quite a distance away.
Leng Ruoxue led Feng Moran around randomly to make sure that no one was following them, and then they went into a cave. The cave was very small, and they had to bend down to get in.
"Darling, which way should we go?" Leng Ruoxue asked Darling, who was lying in her arms, after they entered the cave.
"Turn left and go all the way to the end," Darling said.
The two walked for about half an hour and finally came to a very spacious cave.
Leng Ruoxue looked at the king kong great ape. He was about ten meters tall and covered with long black hair, and his body was strong and resembled a mountain. She couldn't help but be impressed. What an ape. He's probably the tallest and most robust spirit beast I've seen.
"Big Brother Feng, this ape will be your spirit beast from now on," Leng Ruoxue said.
"Huh, Xue'er? No, this isn't good." Her words shocked Feng Moran. This was a level nine holy beast, a level nine holy beast! There were only two such beasts in the Feng family.
"Acknowledge your master!" Leng Ruoxue said directly to the king kong great ape. This gorilla was unexpectedly also a spirit beast with an ancient noble bloodline.
The king kong great ape nodded and directly initiated the process. After a while, the contract array disappeared, and he successfully acknowledged his master.
"Master." The king kong great ape's voice boomed. His master's current strength was now very low. But with such friends, he believed that following his master was definitely the right choice.
"Uhh…" Feng Moran was obviously still a little dazed. But he felt the connection between his soul and the ape's and knew that the ape had already acknowledged him as his master.
"Xue'er…" Feng Moran looked at Xue'er and didn't know what to say. Xue'er treated him better than his family did, and he really didn't know how to repay her.