Not long after Liu Canghai went in, Chu Qingyun erged from the forest in another area.
"Xia... *cough*, Chu, you're out too. Did you run into anyone from the Martial Soul Hall?"
Seeing Chu Qingyun, Sun Daxiong almost called him Xiaoyunzi, but rembering Chu Qingyun's strength, he hastily corrected himself and called him Chu instead.
Chu Qingyun shook his head lightly. "Don't even ask. I was ambushed by a whole mob of Martial Artists from the Martial Soul Hall. I'm lucky I could run fast, or I would've been a goner in there. Captain Sun, are we the only ones who made it out? What about Liu Canghai?"
"For now, it's just the four of us. The others... *sigh*, they're probably done for. Liu Hujun went in to check."
Sun Daxiong shook his head and sighed, feeling an imnse sense of sorrow.
He had been with the Great Xia Dragon Guard for several years. He'd seen his share of deaths, even entire squads being wiped out, but he had never seen anything like this before.
At this point, you didn't need to be a genius to figure it out. This was definitely a conspiracy targeting their Great Xia Dragon Guard!
A perfectly good operation and assessnt had turned into this. The hearts of Chu Qingyun and the other three felt heavy. Even Chu Qingyun temporarily lost the mood to bring up the matter of making Xia He his underling.
The four of them waited for a while before they saw Liu Canghai walk out, looking dejected and lost.
At this mont, Liu Canghai's mind was a ss, and his heart was filled with regret and anxiety about the future. Needless to say, he would have to bear the primary responsibility for this incident.
So many of his n, and only two were left alive!
This incident was an undeniable stain on his life, a disgrace!
A black mark from which he could never recover!
Even if he managed to escape punishnt from the Great Xia Dragon Guard, he would beco a laughingstock among all the Guard Generals, an object of eternal ridicule!
"Lord Liu, inside..."
Although he had already guessed the gist of it, Sun Daxiong still had to ask.
Liu Canghai's face was pale with horror. "Dead... they're all dead. Except for the four of you, everyone is dead. Sun Daxiong, what do you think I should do now?"
Hearing this, Chu Qingyun and Xia He couldn't help but shoot Liu Canghai a look of contempt. Even the other captain, Zhao Jing, secretly pursed his lips in disdain.
'A dignified Martial Spirit Level Guard General, falling into a panic at the first sign of trouble and even having to ask his subordinate what to do... What a dereliction of duty.'
Sun Daxiong pondered for a mont before saying in a low voice, "My lord, we must report this to the Grand Commander imdiately. This situation is already beyond our control. Also, the assessnt should proceed as planned. We only had a problem with the mission and our intelligence; the assessnt itself is fine."
"Right, right, right! Inform the Grand Commander! Sothing like this is beyond the capabilities of a re Guard General..."
At Sun Daxiong's words, Liu Canghai's eyes lit up. He quickly took out a small scroll of paper and wrote a secret letter briefly describing the incident.
Then, he took out a small bamboo tube and tipped out a thumb-sized, erald green insect. As soon as it was out of the tube, the insect imdiately unfurled its wings.
Its two pairs of translucent wings were even longer than its body.
"Chu, Xia, don't underestimate that insect. That's a Tier Two Demon Beast, a Green Worm. It flies faster than an arrow and has incredible stamina. It can fly from here to Lianshan County City in just three or four days."
Standing beside Chu Qingyun, Sun Daxiong explained in a low voice.
The little insect clutched the secret letter Liu Canghai had rolled up, its wings vibrating at high speed. With a WHOOSH, it shot into the sky and vanished in the blink of an eye.
After sending the secret letter, Liu Canghai stood rooted to the spot, staring blankly in the direction the Green Worm had disappeared.
'The situation has been reported. With sothing this major, maybe Lord Chuyu will co personally? And what will the consequences be for ?'
For a mont, Liu Canghai felt as if his entire world had turned to gray.
"My lord, it's ti to distribute the official Great Xia Dragon Guard Tokens to Chu Qingyun and Xia He. Once they have their Tokens, the assessnt will be considered complete, and our responsibility... will also be lessened slightly," Sun Daxiong reminded him in a low voice.
Liu Canghai nodded hastily. "Right, right, right! We only failed the mission to exterminate the Martial Soul Hall; the assessnt was still completed successfully! Chu Qingyun, Xia He, I now grant you your Great Xia Dragon Guard Tokens. From now on, you are official mbers of the Great Xia Dragon Guard. As for your assignnts, those will be arranged after we return to the County City."
Liu Canghai's plan now was to shed as much responsibility as he could. Once he got back, he would use his connections to pull so strings, and maybe there would still be so hope for him.
As he spoke, Liu Canghai took out two palm-sized Tokens from a small box nearby and handed them to Chu Qingyun and Xia He.
The Tokens were golden-yellow all over. The front was engraved with the word "Dragon," while the back was carved with a lifelike, golden, coiled dragon, giving them an air of majesty.
Originally, the box had contained fifty Tokens, prepared for the top fifty Examiners ranked by Military rits.
But they were useless now, because there were only two Examiners left...
On the way back to the city, following the thod Sun Daxiong had described, Chu Qingyun and Xia He each infused a stream of Primordial Power into their Tokens, leaving their mark and activating them.
After activating his official Token, Xia He took out his Assessnt Token, wanting to transfer his Military rits to the official one.
However, he tried several tis but was unable to transfer them at all.
"You can't transfer between official Tokens and Assessnt Tokens. You can only use the Military rits on your Assessnt Tokens once we get to the County City. You can either spend them directly or have soone at the Military rits Office help you transfer them over."
Sun Daxiong explained from the side.
Speaking of Military rits, the others, including Sun Daxiong and Liu Canghai, all looked at Chu Qingyun with burning gazes.
Chu Qingyun originally had 12,830 Military rits. During his escape, he fought and killed more Martial Artists from the Martial Soul Hall, earning another two thousand-plus rits.
At this point, his total Military rits had reached a terrifying 15,140!
Over fifteen thousand Military rits! You would have to complete three Level Four missions to earn that many!
And Level Four missions were tasks that only Earth Spirit Realm experts, experts at the Grand Commander level, were capable of undertaking!
Among the four, although Sun Daxiong and Zhao Jing were green with envy, they didn't entertain any foolish ideas. They both knew that with their strength, they wouldn't last a single move against Chu Qingyun.
Chu Qingyun had easily finished off Zhang Yunqiu and the other three Level Nine Martial Artists combined, let alone the two of them.
As for Xia He, he was simply annoyed because those Military rits should have been his. But as for robbing him? He really couldn't be bothered over a re fifteen thousand Military rits.
For Liu Canghai, however, it was a different story.
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