The Sword God of the Universe

Chapter 2150: Contact

Mystic Moon Trading House, a giant in physical commerce.

Ancient Land of Morning Light, occupying a massive ancient ruin.

Under the Xin Family’s banner, directly controlling nearly ten Divine Continents.

On the other hand, the Shadow Association is vastly different from these three powers, as it specializes in intelligence and assassination. The headquarters of the Shadow Association is within a region influenced by Yuantong Immortal Venerable, but its tentacles extend across most of the Immortal Domain. In the Shadow Association, as long as you can pay the price, you can obtain any information you desire. If even the Shadow Association doesn’t have it, there’s no point looking elsewhere.

Meanwhile, the assassination work of the Shadow Association is extremely outstanding; whether you want to kill a Daoist Realm, All Things Realm practitioner, Nether Sky Realm cultivator, or even an Immortal Rhythm level expert, as long as the reward is sufficient, they can accomplish it for you.

In the history of the Shadow Association, they once successfully assassinated an Immortal Venerable level being.

Therefore, in terms of mystery, even the Ancient Land of Morning Light can’t compare with the Shadow Association.

These Four Great Forces are the overlords of this region. Sometimes, they might not even show respect to Yuantong Immortal Venerable. Of course, in most cases, the Four Great Forces do not tear their faces with Yuantong Immortal Venerable. For example, the opening of the Yellow Spring Cave sees the benefits shared among the Four Great Forces and Yuantong Immortal Venerable.

The Four Great Forces compete for quotas at the Advanced Entrance, and the Yellow Spring Cave provides the list of hired persons. Additionally, when people from the Four Great Forces enter the Yellow Spring Cave and bring out Netherworld Crystal Stones, Yuantong Immortal Venerable also takes a share.

Now, with Yuantong Immortal Venerable suddenly changing a hired person, the Four Great Forces naturally investigate the circumstances regarding this new hire, Jing Yan.

The Shadow Association is the first to obtain detailed intelligence.

In the lair of the Shadow Association, a figure completely shrouded in a black robe stood in a room, holding a relatively detailed information document. Despite being detailed, it actually contained not much content.

”Don’t know this person’s background? Can’t find it out?” The voice of the black-robed person was very distinctive, impossible to discern male from female.

In the room, there was also a woman in black attire, her appearance extremely stunning, possibly only slightly less so than the Wuxia Heavenly Monarch. Yet, this woman had a quality about her that felt very cold and unapproachable.

”Can’t find it out,” the woman in black said.

”Interesting. Even my Shadow Association can’t uncover this person’s background. He can defeat that waste Ji Bian but is only at the Nether Sky Realm cultivation himself. It seems among the ten hired, his strength is at the top. Hmm, before the Yellow Spring Cave opens, make contact with him, see how much the hiring fee would be.” The black-robed voice spoke again.

”Yes!” The woman in black responded, then retreated.

The Shadow Association was the first to receive information on Jing Yan, and the Mystic Moon Trading House followed. The Mystic Moon Trading House is an enormous business organization, originally giving considerable importance to intelligence work. Additionally, the Mystic Moon Trading House has a branch in the Blue Rain Divine Continent, where the Mystic Moon Trading House’s building owner had previously been focusing on Jing Yan, so they also quickly acquired relevant information.

The building owner of the Blue Rain Divine Continent’s Mystic Moon Trading House was somewhat surprised after learning that Jing Yan became a hire. However, remembering Jing Yan’s performance in the battle of Divine Martial City, it didn’t seem too unexpected. With Wuxia Heavenly Monarch’s recommendation, Jing Yan becoming a hire was indeed unsurprising.

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Living in the valley beneath Yuantong Immortal Venerable’s palace, Jing Yan immersed himself in cultivation daily.

The materials for the fourth layer of the Great Demon Seal Suppression Technique were complete, so he could practice, but the progress was very slow. When Jing Yan reached the third layer of the Great Demon Seal Suppression Technique, it was already quite challenging. It was only by using Netherworld Crystal Stones that the progress significantly improved. But he consumed four low-level Netherworld Crystal Stones when practicing the third layer, leaving only one pale yellow Netherworld Crystal Stone on him.

No other choice but to take it slow. While cultivating the fourth layer of the Great Demon Seal Suppression Technique, he continued to use the Virtualization Treasure to deduce and perfect the Virtualization Technique.

Three hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

When the Yellow Spring Cave was about to open, Jing Yan also came out of seclusion, ready to be hired by the Four Great Forces.

About two years and less than three after Jing Yan emerged from seclusion, Yuantong Immortal Venerable summoned Jing Yan and the other nine hires.

”Let’s go, to the entrance of the Yellow Spring Cave. The exact opening time of the Yellow Spring Cave should be in a year or two.” Yuantong Immortal Venerable said to Jing Yan and the others.

Concerning the Yellow Spring Cave’s opening time and the number of cultivators entering, Yuantong Immortal Venerable couldn’t change. However, he could monitor the signs of the Yellow Spring Cave’s opening, as energy fluctuations became increasingly frequent thousands to tens of thousands of years before its opening.

Jing Yan and the others did not say much, all following to leave for the Yellow Spring Cave.

The entrance to the Yellow Spring Cave lies within the vast region influenced by Yuantong Immortal Venerable. When Yuantong Immortal Venerable brought Jing Yan and others to arrive, there were already quite a few people there.

There were Heavenly Monarchs from various Divine Continents, as well as people from the Four Great Forces.

The number wasn’t small because these Heavenly Monarchs brought quite a few cultivators with them. Each Heavenly Monarch had a number of slots for the Low-level Entrance. Some had one or two slots, others had three or four. Wuxia Heavenly Monarch held three slots for the Low-level Entrance.

With Yuantong Immortal Venerable’s arrival, those with some standing among the big figures came over to greet and pay respects. The prominent figures of the Four Great Forces were also personally present, conversing with Yuantong Immortal Venerable.

Yuantong Immortal Venerable introduced Jing Yan and the other ten hires to the prominent figures of the Four Great Forces one by one.

Jing Yan, as this hire, attracted quite a few gazes; none of those big figures were simple, and they could sense Jing Yan’s Divine Soul Aura, deducing that he was quite young. Among the ten hires, Jing Yan was undoubtedly the youngest and much, much younger than the others.

Near the Yellow Spring Cave was also a large area of entirely black buildings. This area was used for residence only when the Yellow Spring Cave was about to open. Ordinarily, apart from guards for watching and maintenance, no one lived there.

Jing Yan and the other hires were also arranged to stay in buildings near Yuantong Immortal Venerable’s residence.

Just after moving in, Wuxia Heavenly Monarch came to find Jing Yan, telling him about the situation with the Four Great Forces and discussing how much hiring fees he should charge if the persons from the Four Great Forces came to negotiate the employment.

Only a few days later, a representative from the Four Great Forces arrived as the first visitor.

”Mr. Jing Yan, I am Xin Li of the Xin Family.” The man who appeared before Jing Yan was a middle-aged man, identifying himself to Jing Yan.