Mercenaries in Two Worlds

"Hmph, so you're still here. Be a good little brother to me, and maybe I'll take pity on you and beg the leader to take you in, since you know beast language. And you guys, Wang Yi, Wang Er, Wang San... uh, Wang San, forget it, he's too stupid." Zhao Yi pointed at the members of the Wang family mercenary group one by one, looking down at them with a condescending attitude and a condescending gaze.

"Get your dog paws off me." Looking at Zhao Yi's arrogant face, and seeing him pointing his finger at him, Zhang Qian felt even more disgusted.

"So what if I don't move it?" Zhao Yi moved closer and closer, his fingers almost touching Zhang Qian's.

"Ah..." A familiar cry rang out. Zhao Yi was being held by the wrist by Zhang Qian, just like a thug in an alley. The scene was different, but the feeling was familiar.

Unlike the thugs, Zhao Yi still possessed the cultivation level of the sixth level of Qi Refining. After being caught off guard and suffering a loss, he raised one leg and delivered a groin kick, while his other fist, gleaming with an earthy yellow light, smashed towards Zhang Qian's stomach.

"I'm going to cripple you." Zhao Yi was surprised to see the aura of the first level of Qi Refining flowing around Zhang Qian. He hadn't expected Zhang Qian to have entered the Qi Refining stage so quickly. He increased his strength and used his strongest move.

Little did they know, an even bigger "surprise" was yet to come.

Zhao Yi felt like he was hallucinating. Zhang Qian was clearly standing there, but he just couldn't hit him, and Zhang Qian's cultivation level suddenly increased to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

"Zhang Qian... Zhao Yi, what are you doing?" The four members of the Wang family mercenary group shouted anxiously.

Ye Mei moved her feet and took two steps in the void, flying towards Zhao Yi. However, the other two members of the Three Swords Mercenary Group, who had been silent until now, suddenly unleashed their Foundation Establishment Level 1 cultivation and blocked Ye Mei.

Seeing Zhao Yi make another move, Ye Mei bit her lip and stopped hiding her cultivation. She unleashed her Foundation Establishment Level 8 cultivation, took a step, and with a cyan wind, she easily knocked away two Foundation Establishment level members of the Three Swords Mercenary Group with a single palm strike, much to everyone's astonishment. It was no wonder that she had cultivated a Earth-rank technique.

Just as she was about to subdue Zhao Yi, she was shocked to see that Zhao Yi was as if under a spell, constantly punching the void in front of him with a fist. Zhang Qian stood calmly to the side, holding Zhang Yi's twisted and deformed wrist with one hand.

This is the wonder of the Heavenly Rank Footwork: Sunset Glow. This footwork can trap enemies in a brief illusion, preventing them from finding Zhang Qian's true location. Generally speaking, against enemies of the same rank, Sunset Glow can only confuse them for a moment. However, Zhao Yi was so enraged that he lost his composure and was unable to react for a long time.

Seeing the two additional techniques and martial arts skills of Zhao Yi appear in his mind, Zhang Qian curled his lip, stopped playing around, and kicked Zhao Yi in the back, sending him sprawling to the ground like a dog falling face-first into excrement.

"Yellow-rank advanced cultivation technique, Loess Technique, Yellow-rank advanced martial skill, Hard Stone Fist. It can only be perfected to this extent. This cultivation technique is really bad." Zhang Qian looked at the cultivation techniques and martial skills he had just acquired from Zhao Yi and suddenly felt a little sorry for Zhao Yi. He was strong-willed, but unfortunately his aptitude was not good. His cultivation techniques and martial skills were originally only the worst Yellow-rank low-level. Even with the help of the light brain to improve them, they could only reach the Yellow-rank advanced level. No wonder he was a level higher than Zhang Qian and still had no power to fight back.

However, there's always a reason why someone is pitiful. If Zhang Qian hadn't possessed such high cultivation, and had been crippled by Zhao Yi from the start, he probably would never have been able to recover.

Zhao Yi, his mouth covered in mud, scrambled to his feet, a vicious glint in his eyes. Only then did he realize that Zhang Qian was a super genius, having grown so powerful in just a few days. Seeing Ye Mei frowning at him, and the two Foundation Establishment level Three Swords mercenary group members lying on the ground unable to get up, he was utterly shocked. Ye Mei's cultivation far exceeded his expectations, and then a wave of inferiority, stronger than ever before, surged within him.

"Why...why?" Zhao Yi walked aimlessly, ignoring the mud that covered his clothes. He walked away in a daze. After walking a few hundred meters, he suddenly roared like a wild beast, "Why, why is this happening? This is not fair...why..." His voice was full of resentment. It was unclear whether he hated God, himself, or the Wang family mercenary group.

"You just wait." The other two members of the Three Swords mercenary group got up and left with a harsh remark.

Zhang Qian was about to chase after them and teach them a lesson when Ye Mei stopped him, shaking her head to indicate that they shouldn't go after them.

"Oh dear, what are we going to do? Damn Zhao Yi. We've provoked the Three Swords Mercenary Group. We're in big trouble now." Wang Er sighed with a worried look. The Three Swords Mercenary Group had several thousand members and could wipe out the Wang family's mercenary group in no time.

"Don't be afraid, they won't dare to do anything to us openly," Ye Mei comforted her, though her brows were furrowed. Although they wouldn't dare to openly do anything to the Wang family mercenary group, if they ran into them in Ghost Night Forest, they could do whatever they wanted; the mercenary center wouldn't care.

Ye Mei was also afraid that if she revealed her cultivation level, she would provoke the person she had been avoiding, an organization even more terrifying than the Three Swords Mercenary Group.

"Forget it, let's run away quickly!"

Seeing the Wang family mercenary group in such a gloomy and dejected state, Zhang Qian felt extremely uneasy. Was it really going to be a case of everyone abandoning each other when disaster struck?

No, he couldn't bear to leave his first home on the Tianxing Continent.

“Let’s form an even stronger mercenary group.” As if he had made up his mind, Zhang Qian suddenly spoke up.

No one paid him any attention, except Wang Yi patted him on the shoulder, "You've reached the fifth level of Qi Refining so quickly. With such talent, you'll definitely have a bright future if you join a major sect. And Ye Mei, you've been hiding your cultivation for so long, I didn't expect you to be so advanced."

The Wang family members all looked at Zhang Qian and Ye Mei with a hint of envy.

"That's right, Zhang Qian, Ye Mei, we might have to rely on you guys to get revenge for us in the future." Wang Er grinned, revealing a set of white teeth, and joked with a forced smile.

Seeing that everyone lacked fighting spirit, Zhang Qian turned around and went back to his room, where he went about his business.

The remaining four were trying to come up with a plan, but in the face of strength, everything was meaningless. They could only hope that the Three Swords Mercenary Group wouldn't take the matter to heart, but the chances were too slim. Which mercenary group wouldn't protect its own?

Trying to reason with them? You're kidding. Mercenary groups don't know anything about reason; whoever has the bigger fist is right.

As it grew dark, Wang Erqiang mustered his energy to prepare to cook, but Zhang Qian walked in.

With a "thump," he slammed a pile of papers onto the table. "Look at this." Then, rubbing his wrists and wincing, he said, "My hands are so sore. I've never written so many words in one afternoon."

The mercenary group members, unaware of what Zhang Qian was up to, picked up the sheets of white paper covered in writing and began to examine them one by one.

Just a moment later, an incredulous look suddenly appeared in the eyes of the four people.

Wang Yi exclaimed, "What? This is the Bull-Charging Skill? Zhang Qian, why... no... this seems even stronger than the Bull-Strengthening Skill, and so is the Tiger Roar Fist."

"This footwork is so similar to my Forest-Piercing Footwork, but several times more powerful," Ye Mei exclaimed in amazement.

All four of them stared intently at Zhang Qian, eager to know what was going on.

“That’s right, it’s exactly what you see. Those are your original techniques, but I’ve improved them. I’ve improved the Bull-Charging Technique to the intermediate level of the Yellow Rank, the Tiger Roar Fist to the advanced level of the Profound Rank, and the Forest-Piercing Footwork to the initial level of the Earth Rank.” Zhang Qian felt a little uncomfortable being stared at, so he pulled out a long bench and sat down.

"What? High-level Xuan-rank, and low-level Di-rank?" The three Wang brothers had never seen Xuan-rank cultivation techniques or martial arts skills before, let alone Di-rank ones.

Ye Mei herself possessed a low-level cultivation technique, but she was equally surprised and couldn't understand what was going on at all.

"Brother Wang, do you still remember when I went mad while serving the Supreme Dao Lord?"

"At that time, I received the inheritance of the Supreme Dao Lord, which allowed me to see through most cultivation techniques and martial arts skills, and even improve them. As for how much I could improve them, it depended on the structure and potential of the cultivation technique itself."

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