The Golden Ridge Mercenary Guild

Xia Tian learned from the restaurant owner about the nearest medicinal market, he went there and showing his wounds, he brought the appropriate medicines, he then roamed around for a while seeing the development of the city.

They are equally developed as humans are and are performing all trade activities that humans are doing. It is just like a human world and he did not find any difference.

The people here are from different sub-races from different kingdoms neighboring to the Divine Tiger kingdom. There is the Great Ox kingdom, the Savvy Mouse kingdom, the Genial Pig kingdom and the Lightning Rabbit kingdom which are near to the Divine tiger kingdom.

All the kingdoms got their name from the different sub-races living in that places. All the kingdoms have a friendly relationship with each other but some fight between natural enemies is a common occurrence.

The race of a person can be easily identified by observing the face, eyes, ears, and tail of a person which are distinct for each race.

After eating the race changing pill, Xia Tian appearance belong to that of a tiger race, he has a pair of tiger ears which are yellow in color, nose which is like that of a tiger and a light-yellow color tail hanging on his back.

After observing for a while, he bought some spirit stones with half of the money in his hands for cultivation. The cost of spirit stones is very less here because there are no sects to monopolize the spirit mines, the spirit mines are equally shared between the kingdoms.

Xia Tian returned to the room and began to recuperate, along with cultivation with spirit stones. He stayed in the room for ten days, in these ten days he successful broke through to the second level of origin realm, but all the spirit stones he bought are refined completely.

If some cultivator knows he refined ten spirit stones just in ten days they will definitely get a big shock, a person with a normal talent takes at least fifteen days to refine spirit energy in one spirit stone and a talented genius takes maximum of ten days to refine the energy in a single spirit stone but due to some unknown reason Xia Tian able to refine 10 spirit stones in ten days and smoothly broke through to the second level of origin realm. Due to medicines and the spiritual energy from the spirit stones, his wounds and fracture are completely healed.

Even Xia Tian found it unbelievable about his speed in the refining of spirit stones, in the past, he would take at least two months for refining qi from a single spirit stone, but something is changed now.

Xia Tian kept thinking where the change happened, the one unique thing he has done after reincarnating is having sex with Xiao Mi except that, the things he had done are all routine works. he is skeptical about change in the nature of spiritual roots due to reincarnation. he thought for some time and he cannot find a valid reason to convince himself of his increase in refining speed so he decided to think about it later.

"today, I will go to a mercenary guild and register my name and take up a suitable mission", thought Xia Tian and stepped out of his room. He enquired the owner of the restaurant, where the mercenary guild is and quickly made his way to the guild.

Xia Tian is standing at the entrance of a mercenary guild, where huge words ' The Golden Ridge Mercenary Guild' written with a golden color on top of the entrance gate. This mercenary guild is one of the most famous guilds in this region. Xia Tian entered the guild and went to the reception to register as a mercenary.

The young girl who seems to be at the vein opening realm greeted him at the reception and asked him politely " how may I help you."

" I want to register as a mercenary."

The girl looked at Xia Tian and said " I think you are new to our guild, here you just say your name and registration is over, we will give you a copper badge for a newbie and they can select any of the missions on the board depending on their strength, there are no restrictions on selecting the mission, you can also form groups to complete group missions and the reward points are divided equally among the group, after selecting a mission you just have to register here and after completing the mission you have to submit the proof of completion of your mission and you can collect your reward at any of our branches in the southern wilderness."

Xia Tian nodded his head and registered his name and collected the copper badge and went to see the notice board, there are so many people in the guild chatting about their recent missions, exchanging things with others and some people observing notice board and chatting about their previous missions and deciding to select the mission they are capable of.

Xia Tian went to the notice board and there are five columns in it, the first column indicating the name and purpose of mission, the second column indicating the rewards, the third column indicating the difficulty level of the mission that is from E to A ranks, with increasing difficulty as rank increases, there are some high-level missions which are ranked as S, SS, SSS and they can only be completed by spirit realm and fulfillment realm martial artists, the fourth column indicated if it is done by the group or individual, how many minimum numbers of people should present in the group and the fifth column indicated, what has to be submitted as the proof of completion of mission.

At the other side in the Misty sky city, after waiting for fifteen days Xia Tian's father got the message that all the people who went to Southern wilderness are missing, no traces are left behind and it is the same for remaining people who went hunting after Xia Tian's team, seeing the situation getting critical, the Profound Seven hill valley restricted the hunting at the border and sent masters to investigate the situation.

Reading this message he was thunderstruck and his pupils dilated, if he knew before that Xia Tian is going for hunting with his meager strength, he would have prevented him at all cost.

After his wife left him, he is only striving for the better life of his son. He did not scold and always protected him even though his talent is poor. He did not think that Xia Tian who always stays inside the mansion will go hunting.

Now reading this news he felt his world collapsed, how he should answer to his wife when they meet in the future, what he should say to his father and how he should say this news to his new daughter-in-law, it is not even a month since their wedding, he felt a huge pain in his chest and tears began to roll down his eyes and howled loudly in pain and grief.

The news of people going missing in the Southern wilderness traveled all over the kingdom, Du family is filled with a gloomy atmosphere as their future patriarch was also went missing in the southern wilderness.

Xiao Mi is still in her closed door training in the underground of the mansion. Song Tingyu is standing at the window of her room and gazing into the sky, she is like a fairy who came down to the mortal world, suddenly a maid came running into the room and stopped, hesitating to speak. Song Tingyu noticed the maid and asked gently "why are you hesitating, speak, what you want to say."

The maid still hesitated and said slowly " young master went to the southern wilderness to hunt for magic beast cores ten days ago and today came a message that all the people who went for hunting are gone missing and probably they all died as there are no traces of them are left in the forest." Song Tingyu is stunned by hearing the news, seeing the stunned expression on the Song Tingyu face, the maid silently left the room.

In the Ye family hall, Ye Tian is furiously scolding Xing Tia for not performing his duty well and leaving alone Xia Tian to go hunting. All the members in the hall are silent but none of them has any sad expressions on their faces. At the side Ye Xiao is standing like a lifeless corpse and he seemed to be aged considerably, he stood there for some time and left the hall silently, from his back one can feel how desolate he was now.

Ye Tie is also very sad about Xia Tian's missing news, he and his wife treated Xia Tian as their own son, he wanted to stop his brother and alleviate the pain of his brother but he did not know how to console his brother.

Meanwhile, in the Golden ridge mercenary guild, Xia Tian is observing the notice board and seeing all the missions he felt very helpless, as all the missions with good rewards needed at least the strength of the vein opening realm.

The lowest E ranked mission needed the strength of at least fifth level of origin realm, which is collecting the listed herbs on the herb mountain and submitting them here, the rewards are also very poor and he is not able to support his cultivation with that money. Xia Tian who left without any choice decided to select the herb picking mission.

When Xia Tian is moving towards the reception to register his name for the mission, a muscular man with strong arms, stout body and a pair of horns above his head saw Xia Tian and his eyes shined as he saw the copper badge in Xia Tian hands.

The man smiled slyly and stopped Xia Tian asking "little brother my name is Niu Ming, may I know your name."

"My name is Xia Tian, what work you have with me?" The man smiled and said, " little brother Tian, I know you are new to the mercenary guild and don't have enough strength to do large missions, by selecting small missions you will take a long time to gain money. If you are willing, I have a suggestion for you."

Xia Tian nodded his head in approval and said: " big brother Ming, please suggest me other methods to gain money."

Niu Ming smiled and said, " how about you joining our group, our group lacks a single member to be eligible for the mission and if you join us we can equally share the reward and the things obtained during a mission can be kept with themselves and no need to be shared with the group."

Xia Tian did not agree immediately as he felt something is not right, "why did you choose me, I definitely do not have enough strength for the mission and I am a complete stranger to you".

Niu Ming laughed and said " little brother Tian, please you look around yourself all the members with medium strength already formed the groups and people with high level of cultivation do not wish to share their rewards. So I was only left with you."

Xia Tian looked around and nodded his head and said, " but I am clearly don't have any strength to help you, I can only be a burden to you in the group, I am just at the second level of origin realm. Think for your self."

Niu Ming gawked by hearing Xia Tian cultivation level, seeing the appearance of Xia Tian Niu Ming thought Xia Tian will be at least at the second level of vein opening realm, he never in his dreams think Xia Tian to be in the second level of the Origin realm, he stuttered and said " little brother this… this… you just come with me and our group leader will decide that you can join the group or not."

Xia Tian thought for a while and decided that it is the only way for him to gain money and followed Niu Ming to the place where his group stayed.