CHAPTER 640: CHAPTER 508: A DIFFICULT CHOICE—FENG XUN OR WU ZHONG

After saying this, Young Master Long Baobao waved his little fists and rolled up his sleeves, his face full of eagerness, and headed to the refining room Ye Lingyue had temporarily prepared for him to work hard on refining artifacts.

Watching the little guy walk away, Lan Cai’er couldn’t help but cough a few times.

"Ling Yue, tell me, aren’t you being a bit unkind? He’s such a small child, and you’re exploiting him?"

Ever since that day when Young Master Long Baobao was slapped by Ye Lingyue and cried a lot before waking up, he seemed like a completely different person.

The child, who was previously clingy and somewhat arrogant, had completely transformed.

Moreover, his obedience to Ye Lingyue was absolute.

He agreed to help Ye Lingyue refine five spiritual artifacts every day to repay the tripled mercenary points owed by him and Housekeeper Huang to Ye Lingyue and Emperor’s Slaughter.

This time, the Mercenary Alliance offered a reward of 100,000 points to the two teams, but due to the mission’s failure, they got nothing.

Ye Lingyue charged all this to Long Baobao’s account. With the tripled points, that made 300,000 points.

At the rate of refining one spiritual artifact per day, earning thirty points each, this meant that Young Friend Long Baobao needed to refine at least 10,000 spiritual artifacts, each of a certain grade. Calculating with 365 days a year, Long Baobao would probably have to keep forging until he was eighteen to completely clear this debt.

Not only earning points from Long Baobao, Ye Lingyue also set up a small Artifact Refining Shop outside, specifically dealing in various spiritual artifacts’ purification and customization.

With Long Baobao’s astonishing artifact refining talent, the shop was packed every single day within just three days of opening.

In order to get a spiritual artifact, numerous mercenaries offered hundreds or even thousands of mercenary points, all vying to purchase a spiritual artifact.

Moreover, the business was entirely hers alone. In this way, Ye Lingyue was essentially doing nothing while receiving points with both hands.

On the individual mercenary points leaderboard, ’Ugly Girl Hei Yue’s’ ranking skyrocketed, and at this rate, by next spring, Ye Lingyue was very likely to replace Bo Qing, known as the Treasure Child, and become the number one on the individual points leaderboard.

Poor Long Baobao, doing such calculations, Lan Cai’er suddenly felt that Ye Lingyue was a big profiteer.

"Big sister, you’re wrong about that. I’m doing all this for Long Baobao’s own good. He’s different from ordinary Martial Artists and Alchemists because from a young age, he had Star Power, and his cultivation in spiritual power and Primordial Power is almost nil. However, the Five Spirits Melt Spirit Technique he’s learning is also very special. It’s a unique Body Refinement cultivation technique. Every additional spiritual artifact he refines, his internal organs and body get trained once. The more he refines, the better it is for his future cultivation." Ye Lingyue explained without batting an eye.

Since Long Baobao needs to practice the Five Spirits Melt Spirit Technique, and there’s still time until the World’s First Refining competition, why not let the little guy refine more artifacts.

Moreover, the news of Long Baobao’s ’death’ had already spread. Although Ye Lingyue had ways to change his appearance to make him look like a normal person and live in Mercenary City, it wasn’t guaranteed that Long Sixuan hadn’t positioned spies in Mercenary City, so it was better for Long Baobao to go out less during this period.

"Anyway, I can’t win against you. But, good sister, the little guy now listens to everything you say, can you let him help me refine a Melt Spirit spiritual artifact? I’m not being greedy, just any Qiankun Bag will do." Lan Cai’er had long been coveting that Pig Head Qiankun Bag carried by Long Baobao.

Especially since she became a mercenary, she often went out on missions, carrying too many things, and had always wanted a Qiankun Bag.

But this item is priceless, not available on the market at all, and even in the Treasure Cave, you might not come across one in a year.

If it weren’t for Long Baobao’s pitiful background, and his Pig Head Qiankun Bag having a prohibition, Lan Cai’er would have turned into a strange sister robbing someone’s money bag long ago.

"Isn’t that greedy? A Qiankun Bag isn’t something you can just have, and besides, without the Qiankun Purple Gold Bamboo, even if the little one agrees, there’s no way to help you refine it. However, I can point you to a clearer path. In the Exchange Centre of Yan City, there must be Qiankun Bags. You could try to build a relationship with Yan Jiu. If he’s happy, he might just give you a discount and let you get a Qiankun Bag." Ye Lingyue said with a smile.

"Pah, who would want to deal with that rogue!" When Yan Jiu was mentioned, Lan Cai’er’s little face suspiciously reddened.

It was only afterwards that she learned from Ye Lingyue that the vice team leader "Slaughter" was actually Yan Jiu, the one wearing the silver mask from Yan City No.9.

How could a person who looked so proper and cool in Yan City change entirely once he got to Mercenary City, behaving so improperly.

Lan Cai’er spat out in disdain.

Lately, aside from missions, she kept her distance from Yan Jiu, to avoid his inappropriate advances.

"Sister, speaking of which, what do you think of Yan Jiu? It’s been many years since your affair with Captain Dao." Ye Lingyue still had a good impression of Yan Jiu.

Especially since she learned from Wu Zhong that Yan Jiu had never been involved in any messy relationships with any woman before. His attitude towards Lan Cai’er was also definitely different.

Just this point alone made Ye Lingyue give more points to Yan Jiu.

"He is him, I am me, I... am not worthy of him." Lan Cai’er’s expression dimmed as she spoke.

A single Dao Ge had already left her love-wounded all over.

"You say that, but what about you,Wu Zhong, and Feng Xun?" Lan Cai’er pursed her lips.

She was more shocked to find out that Captain Di was Wu Zhong than to learn that Slaughter was Yan Jiu.

Wu Zhong’s name resounded throughout the entire mainland.

For Ye Lingyue, he willingly became a mercenary within the mercenaries, if this news spread, it would probably shake the entire mainland.

From a selfish perspective, Ye Lingyue preferred Feng Xun as her brother-in-law over Wu Zhong.

Not to mention temperament and appearance, solely based on their identities, Feng Xun was much more reliable than Wu Zhong.

Feng Xun had no parents, and his heart was dedicated to Ye Lingyue.

Not many on the mainland knew about Wu Zhong’s background, but one thing, being the Ghost Emperor, the head of the largest Dark Forces on the mainland, his enemies were spread across the entire mainland.

Not to mention enemies; just the Righteous Forces including the Three Sects and Nine Schools, if they knew about Ye Lingyue’s association with Wu Zhong, they would probably attack collectively.

Lan Cai’er had watched Ye Lingyue come all the way, she didn’t want her little sister to suffer any hardships or criticisms.

Ye Lingyue herself was not unaware of Lan Cai’er’s concerns, but she also couldn’t clear up her own feelings.

While the two women were troubled by their own concerns, a person walked into the small Artifact Refining Shop.