Chapter 270

Chu Danqing took the Phoenix-Pairing Pendant handed over by Sun Dashou, and the trial mission was completed accordingly.

【Mission completed, you obtained: Paradise Points × 5000, Attribute Points +3】

【Trial Mission: Protect Li Fengjie and Yang Qianzheng to safely withdraw from Meilong Town within 3 hours】

【Trial Difficulty: B-Rank (Warrior)】

【Trial Reward: Paradise Points × 5000, Attribute Points +3】

【Trial Failure: Paradise Points -10000, forced return】

After Chu Danqing took a look at the mission, he found it was still B-Rank; he had thought it would reach A-Rank.

The difficulty of the first stage of the mission existed, but it wasn't great.

Yang Qianzheng should be Sun Dashou's real name.

After all, he was Yang Qianyuan's cousin, a person of the same generation.

"Meilong Town is no longer a place to stay; I'll take you away as soon as possible," Chu Danqing said to Li Fengjie and Sun Dashou.

Tang Ziwei sized the two up; he couldn't quite understand why Chu Danqing wanted to talk to them.

"What about us, Mr. Chu?" Yun Shan asked hurriedly.

Big shots certainly wouldn't joke with their own lives, so Yun Shan had brought the Yun Mansion family members along.

Chu Danqing glanced at Yun Shan and then said: "Those willing to follow us can come along; we'll set off in half a cup of tea's time. Pack whatever you need to pack as quickly as possible."

Hearing this, Li Fengjie ran toward her bedroom in a flurry.

The rest of the waiters and diners also began to move.

"An omen of great misfortune." Yang Qianyuan had just finished his Heavenly Secret deduction and said with a face full of worry.

Chu Danqing was not surprised by this result; he had already experienced so many missions that he understood some patterns.

"By Prince Ning's side, there is also someone who has refined a Heavenly Secret spirit beast, so he probably already knows about our situation here."

"If nothing goes wrong, we may have to face Prince Ning's main force next."

Since Prince Ning arranged for his trusted personal guards to capture Li Fengjie, it meant Li Fengjie's importance was high, so the level of attention was certainly high.

They would definitely be able to detect it immediately.

"Let's withdraw to a safe place first. Do you have any suggestions?"

"It's best to arrive within an hour and a half, calculating the time from when I mentioned the withdrawal just now," Chu Danqing asked.

Hearing this, Yang Qianyuan's brain turned frantically.

"I know, go north; they are coming to pick me up," Sun Dashou suddenly interjected.

Chu Danqing didn't ask how he knew; the man was the Anyong Emperor, so even if he was deposed, how could he not have some backup plans?

"Is it safe?" Chu Danqing asked: "After all, you ended up in this state yourself; are the people coming to pick you up trustworthy?"

It wasn't that he didn't trust the Anyong Emperor's judgment, but the core of the southern tour team, led by the Emperor, had their spirit beasts killed and had to flee in a sorry state.

Now you say people are coming to pick you up? It's not guaranteed they aren't coming to kill you.

"This..." Sun Dashou hesitated for a moment and then said: "It should be safe; those eight people are still loyal to me."

Chu Danqing understood that the eight people Sun Dashou mentioned were the Eight Tiger Eunuchs spoken of in the court.

The two talked while moving away from the crowd; once they were far enough away, Chu Danqing asked: "How exactly did you end up in this state?"

After listening, Sun Dashou smiled bitterly and said: "It's also my fault for being too careless. When touring south to the An territory, the Prince of An presented a pearl in the name of tribute."

"The pearl was made from the eyes of a Deep-Space Nether Demon, so it was beautiful and magnificent."

"I naturally loved it dearly, so I carried it with me and played with it all the time."

"Later... I realized that this object was a spirit treasure. After it was stained with my aura, it triggered a teleportation, sending me into the net laid by the Prince of An."

"It was all thanks to my spirit beast, the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon, which saved me with its life, burning its heart's blood to send me out."

"Originally, it wanted to send me directly back to the capital, but the Prince of An's net had interceptions, which caused the teleportation to go wrong, making me land in the vicinity of Meilong Town."

"I was seriously injured and disheartened, which is why I stayed at the Dragon-Phoenix Inn," Sun Dashou said, his face filled with disappointment as he explained the situation to Chu Danqing.

Chu Danqing stroked his chin: "Prince Ning and the Eight Tigers are in collusion; you know about this, right?"

Sun Dashou was stunned after hearing this, then shook his head: "I don't know."

"Then can you still guarantee the loyalty of those eight people now?" Chu Danqing continued to ask.

At this moment, Sun Dashou also fell silent.

He really had no way to guarantee it.

As for Chu Danqing lying to him? What would be the point at this stage?

"We can go; I've deduced it, it's just a bit dangerous, but if we can regain control of the southern tour team, we can take back some military power," Yang Qianyuan walked over and interjected.

Otherwise, going in any other direction would truly just be a pure escape.

"Good, then we'll head north," Chu Danqing said immediately: "But there is still one problem here, and that is, what is the situation with the Prince of An?"

Sun Dashou shook his head and said self-deprecatingly: "I don't know either, but since he wants to kill me, it's highly likely he is coveting my position."

Otherwise, Sun Dashou couldn't think of any other possibility.

It seems that the vassal kings still need to be suppressed.

If he could return alive, the reduction of vassal states would be inevitable.

However, this time he also saw that not all vassal kings had ulterior motives; his cousin, this Prince of Jiaoying, was loyal and devoted.

Therefore, the target would be the vassal kings who had the right to establish their own offices, and then he would have to strengthen the welfare benefits for the powerless vassal kings to use as appeasement and recruitment.

Li Fengjie quickly ran down with a small bag of gold and silver valuables; Chu Danqing had given them five minutes, and they were quite fast.

Once everyone was gathered, Chu Danqing took them directly toward the north of Meilong Town.

On the way, he took a casual look at the Wandering Dragon Pendant and the Phoenix-Pairing Pendant; they were a set of equipment.

【Wandering Dragon Pendant / Phoenix-Pairing Pendant】

【Type: Equipment · Jade Pendant】

【Quality: Fine】

【Durability: 100/100】

【HP/Mana +1000】

【Charm +10 × 2】

【2-piece set: Luck +1】

The attributes were vastly different; besides one increasing HP and the other increasing Mana, the real value lay in the Charm +10 attribute and the Luck +1 from forming the set.

Chu Danqing equipped them directly; with the increase in Charm and Luck, the "Appearance of the Sun" took effect.

It immediately increased his own soul strength, the true damage of his summons, the attributes of his summons, and his own HP and Mana.

It was just that his Luck was only 9 points, missing 1 point; otherwise, he could have further increased the damage reduction of his summons.

Chu Danqing's main cultivation attributes were the five-dimensional attributes, and his secondary attribute tendencies were Charm and Luck.

Unlike the Elemental Fertilizer No. 1 of the elemental army style he had encountered before, whose secondary attribute tendencies were Perception and Agility, belonging to further improvement within the existing five-dimensional attributes.

As for who was stronger or weaker, it was hard to say; the strong were always the people, not a certain profession or a certain attribute.

What suits you is the best.

"Mr. Chu, what are your plans for heading north?" Tang Ziwei came over to ask.

There weren't many people willing to follow them; besides the staff of the Dragon-Phoenix Inn, there were only the family members of the Yun Mansion, not even the retainers.

Not everyone could leave so decisively; more often than not, it was hard to leave one's homeland.

And as for Tang Ziwei, he had been "cooked into rice" on the night he met his little fan, and this was even with Yun Shan's tacit approval.

Then he was forced to be tied to this chariot.

"To find the southern tour team," Chu Danqing did not hide it.

After hearing this, Tang Ziwei scanned the people present and then locked onto Sun Dashou.

The southern tour team coming to find someone, combined with what Chu Danqing had said to Li Fengjie and Sun Dashou earlier.

Li Fengjie was a local of Meilong Town, so the person the southern tour team came to pick up didn't need to be guessed—it was Sun Dashou.

Tang Ziwei could be world-famous; there was certainly no problem with his talent and ability, so it wasn't difficult to deduce it based on the intelligence.

"But are these Eight Tigers reliable?" Tang Ziwei asked softly.

Chu Danqing said: "Unreliable, but it doesn't matter; the Vajra Warriors are very reliable."

It didn't matter if they were unreliable; he could just kill them.

From the current point of view, Sun Dashou was indeed mediocre and lacked sufficient ability, which was why he was deceived by the Eight Tigers, but to say he was hollowed out and became a puppet was not quite accurate.

It was more that he didn't notice the abnormalities, which eventually led to a series of disasters.

But in terms of power, if he hadn't been plotted against, there would be no problem mobilizing the state machine of the Anyong Dynasty.

The premise was that he had to be able to return to a position where he could issue orders.

And as long as he made contact with the southern tour team, Sun Dashou would have that possibility.

Whether it could succeed, Chu Danqing actually didn't have much confidence.

He would take it one step at a time; if it really didn't work, he would pay to invite Guo Ming.

Chu Danqing could also see from the trial mission that because he chose to obtain the two jade pendants as completion progress, he was basically tied to Sun Dashou's camp.

Fortunately, Sun Dashou wasn't as calculating as Ma Yunfeng of Linyuan City, and although the personnel in his camp were a bit weak, the atmosphere was better.

"About Meilong Town..." Tang Ziwei continued to ask.

Chu Danqing left so hurriedly that he suspected Chu Danqing knew something.

"Leaving might be fine; if we don't leave, Prince Ning won't let Meilong Town go," Chu Danqing didn't know if Prince Ning had already learned about Sun Dashou's situation through his Heavenly Secret spirit beast.

But he didn't plan to gamble on that possibility.

Because whether he knew or not, Prince Ning wouldn't let Li Fengjie go.

"Sigh." Tang Ziwei sighed and finally didn't say anything, running back to find his father-in-law, Yun Shan, to explain the situation.

On the other side, Yang Qianyuan came over again.

"Big Brother, the Prince of An over there is also likely a big trouble," Yang Qianyuan said: "My Heavenly Secret deduction deduced some things; he seems to..."

Yang Qianyuan said everything he had deduced, but many of them were vague and hard to distinguish between true and false.

After all, there wasn't enough information, and it was already quite good to be able to deduce anything at all.

Chu Danqing's eyes narrowed: "Ignore him for now; our top priority is to get rid of Prince Ning, or find an opportunity... to kill Prince Ning."

"As long as he doesn't come to make trouble, just be on guard for now; it won't be too late to settle accounts later."

If the person didn't come, it was unlikely that any schemes could affect them remotely.

(End of chapter)