Chapter 287: I Gave You a ce, But You Were Useless!

  "Sigh!"

  As a weary sigh echoed from the ring on Xiao Yan's finger, his aura began te dramatically. Within moments, he exhibited the aura of a Dou Spirit level.

  "What's this!"

  "Why has our little brother's cultivation surged so rapidly?"

  Xiao Ding and Xiao Li were visibly shocked by Xiao Yan's sudden transformation.

  Their eyes filled with disbelief.

  Seeing the expressions on Xiao Ding and Xiao Li's faces, Xiao Yan's lips curved slightly, and he said calmly, "Big brother, sed brother, now do you believe I have the strength?"

  After Xiao Yan for a while, Xiao Li, struggling to tain his excitement, suddenly asked, "Xiao Yan, you maintain this state for long?"

  "Don't worry, sed brother, I sustain it for quite some time!" Xiao Yan fidently patted his chest.

  ...

  The day.

  In Sto City, within a manor evehan the Mo Tie Merary Group's headquarters, a well-built young man ractig bat skills in one of the courtyards.

  Suddenly, two middle-aged men radiating a bloodthirsty aura appeared at the entrance of the courtyard.

  The well-built young man gradually ceased his movements as he seheir arrival. Two maids standing not far behind him immediately ran forward—one carefully wiped the sweat from his training off his face, while the other tenderly helped him into a beautifully crafted robe.

  This robe, the distinctive garb of a respected alchemist in the Jia Ma Empire, signified his status as a third-grade alchemist through the emblem dispyed on it.

  This well-built young man was Liu Ling, sent by Gu He to train iagor Desert. Having not been in Sto City for long, he quickly formed the Eldest Brother's Merary Group to fulfill Gu He's mission.

  Initially, the Eldest Brother's Merary Group had only two or three members. However, under Liu Ling's leadership, they almost always returned from their missions den with success.

  Gradually, other merary groups began to trip them up, but once Liu Ling demonstrated his formidable bat abilities, he methodically dealt with each group targeting them.

  Following this, the Eldest Brother's Merary Group's development accelerated rapidly, and it wasn't long before their strength rivaled that of the three established merary groups in Sto City.

  Naturally, this rapid growth caught the attention of these groups, with the third-raorm Merary Group losing patience first. They attempted to swallow up the Eldest Brother's Merary Group but were soundly defeated by Liu Ling, who needed only two moves to best their leader. The Storm Merary Group's influence was subsequently absorbed by Liu Ling's group.

  This was followed by the bita Liu Ling by the Sand Merary Group and the Mo Tie Merary Group.

  Now, as the two maids dressed him, Liu Ling g the two middle-aged men standing at the courtyard entrand said indifferently, "What is it? Speak."

  "Leader, i days, the movements of the Snake-People Tribe have bee increasingly frequent. We suspect they may soon un atta the empire's borders," one man replied respectfully.

  "The Snake-People Tribe?"

  Upon hearing the man's report, Liu Ling pondered for a moment before responding, "Pass some of the information we've gathered to the imperial army. There's very little our merary group do about such a rge-scale war."

  "Yes, I will carry out your orders immediately, sir!" The man respectfully responded and thehe courtyard.

  "Cassida, do you have something to report as well?"

  Seeing the other middle-aged man still standing at the entrance, Liu Ling tinued.

  "Leader, the three-day deadline has passed, and the Mo Tie Merary Group has not withdrawn from the city as you requested!" Cassida reported gravely.

  "Mo Tie Merary Group, I gave you a ce, but you were useless!" Liu Ling murmured to himself.

  "e, follow me to the south of the city!"

  With a sweep of his robe, Liu Ling strode out of the courtyard, the two elegant maids following closely behind him.

  At the entrance of the manor, a grand carriage was already prepared, with over thirty formidable meraries mounted on horses waiting behind it.

  "Leader!"

  As Liu Ling approached the gate, these thirty-some meraries dismounted and bowed in unison to greet him.

  "Hmm!"

  With a slight nod, Liu Ling, apanied by his two maids, slowly got into the carriage.

  "Let's go!"

  Following this and from ihe carriage, the meraries quickly mouheir horses again and followed swiftly behind the carriage, speeding along the broad streets.

  It wasn't long before the carriage reached the entrao the Mo Tie Merary Group's headquarters.

  ...

  "Leader, it's bad, the Eldest Brother's Merary Group is here!"

  As soon as the carriage arrived, a cry of arm was heard from within the courtyard of the Mo Tie Merary Group's headquarters.

  The three brothers of the Mo Tie Merary Group had already heard the urgent sound of hooves and rushed to the main gate, their eyes fixed on the luxurious carriage approag.

  As a pair of delicate hands lifted the carriage curtain, a tall young figure slowly stepped out.

  Xiao Yan, on seeing Liu Ling's face clearly, was inwardly shocked.

  inally, based on Xiao Ding and Xiao Li's descriptions of the Eldest Brother's Merary Group leader's cultivation, Xiao Yan had guessed this person might be a young man around thirty.

  Now it seemed this person was hardly a few years older than himself.

  As his gaze moved downward, the alchemist robe worn by the young man on the carriage immediately caught Xiao Yan's attention.

  "That is... the emblem that only a third-grade alchemist wear!"

  "That such a third-grade alchemist exists in this remote border area."

  Just one g the young man on the carriage had already stirred immense waves in Xiao Yan's heart, and at that moment, Yao Lao suddenly reminded him.

  "Xiao Yan, this young man looks to be only about eighteen or een years old, yet he is just oep away from reag the Dou Spirit level. He's a rare genius!"

  "What!"

  "Just oep from reag Dou Spirit!"

  Hearing Yao Lao's reminder, Xiao Yan was even more astonished. Xiao Ding and Xiao Li had only mentiohat this person might be above a three-star Dou Grandmaster, but they had not realized his true cultivation was at the peak of ar Dou Grandmaster.

  Such a terrifying pace of cultivation was rare, even iire Jia Ma Empire!

  At this moment, Xiao Yan's gaze towards Liu Ling was suddenly filled with wariness.

  Liu Ling, after stepping out of the carriage, looked at the two leaders of the Mo Tie Merary Group standing at the gate, a traockery on his lips, and slowly said, "Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, the three-day deadline has passed. It seems you have no iion of leaving."

  (End of the chapter)

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