Stealing the Heavens.

Chapter 47 Expanding the Demon Hunter Team

Zi Dong encountered another problem in his cave: he wanted to convert high-grade Qi into low-grade Qi, but Donglai Ziqi would charge a handling fee!

Cultivators can only use the grade of luck corresponding to their own cultivation level for cultivation, and the conversion also requires the help of a higher-level cultivator; they cannot convert it on their own.

The purple aura from the east is really too dark. It charges a two-point handling fee for transforming even a little bit of luck. Zi Dongcheng is just a laborer.

His maximum luck is ninth-grade. If he wants to transform it into second-grade luck, he can only find a cultivator. Even if there are cultivators on the Eastern Continent, they would not be able to help him.

Zi Dong sighed inwardly; 90,000 points of ninth-grade luck weren't even enough to cover the handling fees for Donglai Ziqi.

Let's cultivate slowly. When the Demon Hunter Group moves again, we must acquire more second-grade luck.

Feng Qingwu didn't deliver the list to Zi Dong herself, but instead sent a junior sister who was a little embarrassed to see Zi Dong.

More than two thousand disciples from Yuntian Peak have joined the Demon Hunter Group, bringing the total to more than five thousand. Zi Dong had no choice but to call a meeting with Feng Qingwu and Zhou Xinyu.

Although Feng Qingwu was unwilling, she still came to Zi Dong's cave because it involved the affairs of the Demon Hunter Group.

"Junior sisters, the Demon Hunter Corps already has more than 5,000 people. I plan to form a brigade, with each brigade leading five squads, and have the disciples on the main peak disperse to the squads. What do you think?"

Zi Dong wanted the disciples on Yuntian Peak to manage the disciples of the affiliated sects, so that each team could quickly form combat power.

Although the disciples on Yuntian Peak may not necessarily have higher cultivation levels than those of the affiliated sects, they are superior in both vision and ability.

The main peak is the head office, so naturally it is full of talented people, whose level is incomparable to that of the disciples of the affiliated sects.

“I agree to form a brigade, but I do not agree to disperse the main peak disciples into various small teams.”

Feng Qingwu quickly took the initiative to express her opinion, determined not to let Zi Dong and Zhou Xinyu reach a consensus:
"We should organize the disciples from the main peak together; that would make them even stronger in combat!"

Previously, Zi Dong divided the teams according to their affiliated sects, which was to make the cooperation between familiar disciples more seamless.

Disciples of the main peak should be in the same team, not only for better teamwork but also for a stronger battle formation.

As the main peak that governs the entire Azure Dragon Mountain Range, it naturally possesses the most powerful cultivation techniques and the best resources in all aspects.

"Junior Sister Qingwu is right." Zhou Xinyu surprisingly agreed with Zi Dong, but quickly stated her own opinion:

"It's just that Junior Sister Qingwu didn't understand the Sect Master's intention in having us form a Demon Hunter Team."

"What's the intention?!" Feng Qingwu interrupted Zhou Xinyu directly: "Isn't it just to allow the disciples to obtain more resources and fortune?"

“These are only one aspect.” Zhou Xinyu glanced at Feng Qingwu, who was glaring at her, and continued to elaborate on her point of view:
"The sect leader asked us to form a demon-hunting team, mainly to consolidate the power of the affiliated sects."

“Indeed.” Zi Dong nodded: “If we only consider combat power, there is no need to form a demon-hunting group. We can just have the disciples of the main peak form a few demon-hunting squads.”

"The elders will handle the task of uniting the power of the affiliated sects. What does it have to do with the Demon Hunter Group?" Feng Qingwu scoffed.

"The elders have turned the affiliated sects into many factions. The Azure Dragon Mountain Range has long been a place of open and covert struggles. When they encounter a strong enemy, they fight their own battles and are unable to unite as one."

Although Zhou Xinyu's master had already ascended to the Central Continent, he was still very clear about the situation in the Azure Dragon Mountains.

He failed to integrate the Azure Dragon Mountain Range back then, and Zhou Yunting was also powerless to do so. When Zi Dong formed the Demon Hunter Team, he asked Zhou Xinyu to take the opportunity to help Zhou Yunting integrate the Azure Dragon Mountain Range.

Only in this way can the Cloud Heaven Sect become the truly strongest sect on the Eastern Continent, and only then can it receive greater support when establishing the Immortal Palace. Zi Dong will not only gain more fortune himself, but he can also help others gain fortune, which will rapidly strengthen the Demon Hunter Group.

"Even the sect leader can't do it, so how can a mere demon-hunting team composed of disciples think they can unite the entire Azure Dragon Mountain Range? It's a joke!"

Feng Qingwu was well aware that her grandfather and father were using affiliated sects to weaken Zhou Yunting's power, all in order to seize the position of sect leader.

"Once the Demon Hunter Corps grows powerful, the elders will have no choice but to follow the trend, or they will be stripped of their power!"

Zhou Xinyu didn't say it directly, but that Zhou Yunting would use the Demon Hunter Group to sideline the elders who opposed him.

"Let's decide this by raising our hands." Zi Dong didn't want the two of them to argue anymore; everything should wait until the Demon Hunter Team was stronger.

"A vote by raising hands?!" Feng Qingwu immediately objected: "There are only three people in total, and you two are practically inseparable, how can we vote?"

"Feng Qingwu, which eye of yours saw that Zi Dong and I are in cahoots?!" Zhou Xinyu angrily pointed at Feng Qingwu's nose and shouted.

"Junior Sister Qingwu, what do you think?" Zi Dong asked hurriedly, his head aching. These two always started arguing whenever they met.

"Find two more people to join the Demon Hunter Squad's decision-making team!" Feng Qingwu said smugly, clearly already having candidates in mind.

"Do you have a suitable candidate?" Zi Dong asked calmly, wanting to see what Feng Qingwu planned to do.

"Let Zhu Xiaoyuan and Song Ke join the Demon Hunter Team's decision-making level!" Feng Qingwu directly stated the two names.

"What right do those two have?!" Zhou Xinyu immediately questioned. Zhu Xiaoyuan and Song Ke were both Feng Qingwu's lackeys.

"I plan to make them both captains!" Feng Qingwu naturally wanted to arrange appropriate positions for them first.

"Junior Sister Qingwu, I plan to appoint Zuo Fei as the captain of the special operations team and Song Ke as the captain of the reconnaissance team, so that they can enter the decision-making level."

Zi Dong immediately ruled out Zhu Xiaoyuan, as neither her cultivation level nor her abilities were sufficient to be the captain.

“Okay, I agree!” Before Zhou Xinyu could express her opinion, Feng Qingwu agreed directly, which surprised Zhou Xinyu.

"Let's hold the first meeting of the Demon Hunter Team's decision-making body at the headquarters by Dragon Saliva Lake tomorrow morning to discuss the matters of each brigade."

Zi Dong did not insist on dividing the brigades into different units. He said it would be better to discuss it after Zuo Fei and Song Ke officially took office.

"I'll go and inform them right away." Feng Qingwu decided to strike first and go talk to Zuo Fei.

"Zi Dong, that Zuo Fei is the key. Can you guarantee he won't side with Feng Qingwu?" Zhou Xinyu asked worriedly after Feng Qingwu left.

Song Ke is Feng Qingwu's man, and Zuo Fei is Elder Yuanchen's disciple, whose cultivation is second only to Li Kunlun.

“Zuo Fei will not take sides with anyone; he will only support what he believes is right,” Zi Dong said with a smile.

That's why Feng Qingwu agreed to let Zuo Fei become the captain of the special forces team and allow him to enter the decision-making level of the Demon Hunter Group.

In other words, Zuo Fei is the key referee, and his vote determines all the decisions of the Demon Hunter Team.

Zi Dong's agreement to allow Song Ke into the decision-making level had already achieved a balance, but the maverick Zuo Fei was the one who broke that balance.

(End of this chapter)