Chapter 434: Team Contract

Stowing away the only wooden box that needed stowing, Zhu Bajie and Ao Yulie departed.

Three days later, nearing the time for the mission return.

Tang Luo took out the Cursed House; back when he took Ao Yulie away he used this method, so now he naturally did the same.

"This cat?" Inside the Cursed House, Zhu Bajie stared closely at Xiaotian Quan, "Could it be Xiaotian Quan?"

"Impressive, Second Senior Brother; I didn't even recognize him back then." Ao Yulie said.

"Master's masterpiece — I study it devoutly every day, even keep it under my pillow when I sleep; how could I not know the important characters inside?" Zhu Bajie said.

"..."

Ao Yulie frowned, realizing the situation was not simple.

Second Senior Brother's return was certainly cause for joy and delight, yet he came with an aggressive air, demanding favor the moment he arrived.

His own position as Master's most beloved disciple was in jeopardy!

"But the place you secluded yourself in didn't have Master's books." Ao Yulie said, refusing to lose.

"That's because I memorized the books' contents, truly internalized them; the books are in my heart." Zhu Bajie said with a face of piety, glancing at Ao Yulie.

You little junior brother, learn well; Second Senior Brother will teach you a life lesson.

"Oh, then what is the fifth character on the fourth line of page one hundred and eight?" Ao Yulie wasn't one to back down either; Second Senior Brother, bluffing comes at a price.

"Ming."

Zhu Bajie smiled faintly; Little White Dragon, you're still a bit too young, "I still remember that line: 'It was me first, clearly it was me first, no matter whether...'".

Ao Yulie's dragon body shook; he hadn't expected Second Senior Brother to actually be able to recite it?

▄█▔▉●, he had lost!

"Don't grin like a fool; rein in your aura, act like you're dead." Tang Luo walked in and said to Zhu Bajie.

"Then I'll turn into a stool." Zhu Bajie thought for a moment, shook and transformed, becoming a stool.

From any angle, it was a genuine stool.

His aura converged to the utmost, not revealing a trace.

Even Sun Wukong's Fiery Golden Eyes would need some time to spot anything amiss.

Lying low — he was truly skilled at it.

Bringing Ao Yulie and Xiaotian Quan out of the Cursed House, at the very instant before the return, Tang Luo stowed the Cursed House away.

Back on the Dragon King, Tang Luo came to the deck and released the Cursed House.

Zhu Bajie came out from inside.

"Such thin Heaven and Earth Qi, basically equivalent to none." He sensed the real world's Heaven and Earth Qi and said.

"Alright, Second Senior Brother, many things can be explained now." Ao Yulie said.

The situation could now be fully explained to Zhu Bajie in detail.

Before bringing him to the real world, to be safe, neither Tang Luo nor Ao Yulie had mentioned anything about gods and demons walking.

To avoid violating the rules of the God and Demon Game.

In fact, this is probably also one of the difficulties in bringing out "natives" from other worlds.

Tang Luo believed there must be more than just the Cursed House — equipment that can hold people, hold living things, and be stowed away.

Thinking carefully, perhaps he wasn't the only one who had ever brought people out of mission worlds.

This point is worth pondering.

But now is not the time for these matters; Tang Luo temporarily had no interest either.

While Ao Yulie explained the situation to Zhu Bajie, he "took stock" of this mission's gains.

This had become routine after every completed mission.

This was Tang Luo's twelfth completed mission; so far, not a single mission had failed — a one hundred percent success rate.

Pity there wasn't much reward.

For this survival mission, the greatest gain was undoubtedly finding Zhu Bajie again.

Additionally, the reward given by the God and Demon Game was a piece of equipment — a fan named "Fierce Wind".

It can fan up a gale; it counts as a replica of the Nine-Tooth Rake's "Inverting Heaven and Earth" when split into nine.

Tang Luo glanced at it briefly and tossed it to Ao Yulie, making him overjoyed.

Young Master Jade Dragon, the Third Prince naturally must carry a fan — dashing!

Besides that, there were also the Frenzy Whip and Azure-Gray Armor, two pieces of equipment; unsurprisingly, both were to be sold.

Then there was the merit harvest from the mission; that chaotic Jianghu brought Tang Luo no small amount of merit power.

In the mission world, accumulating it was useless; there were also the Eden Apples Zhang Xiuping sold to Tang Luo and Tang Yuhan's healing medicines.

Both were quite excellent healing items.

"I'm heading back first; Little White Dragon, you help Bajie sort out his real-world identity." Tang Luo said to the two.

"Okay, Master." Ao Yulie nodded.

Sketching a Flight Talisman, Tang Luo slapped it onto himself and shot into the sky, vanishing in an instant.

"Since when did Master learn this move?" Zhu Bajie asked.

"This is a God and Demon Game reward." Ao Yulie said, "Current 'Blessed Lands' basically have no entrances; without the God and Demon Game, we'd have no way to 'find people' everywhere."

"I see." Zhu Bajie nodded.

Back home, Tang Luo sat on the sofa, took out the two healing items, examined them a few times, and ate them directly.

The Eden Apple melted in the mouth, instantly turning into a warm current that surged through his whole body, repairing his injuries.

Both in quality and quantity it was quite remarkable.

Tang Luo even felt this power could, to a certain extent, strengthen his body and enhance his physical constitution.

Placed in the Journey to the West world, it is also a pretty good heavenly treasure.

However, for Tang Luo now, it is merely passable.

The healing item given by Tang Yuhan is slightly less effective, but still not bad.

Combined with the healing item, the Merit Jade Lotus floats above his head, shedding warm radiance; Tang Luo closes his eyes and begins to heal.

One day later, Tang Luo opens his eyes.

He sees Zhu Bajie in a suit, hair slicked back into a neat pompadour, not a strand out of place, and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

He looks like a successful boss or businessman.

After all, he has an aura about him; otherwise, he would be a salesman, or just a puffed-up nobody who breaks into a sweat after a few words, with zero business ability.

Beside him is Ao Yulie, looking at his phone.

The Xiaotianquan lies asleep in a cardboard box beside the cat's nest, snoring loudly.

"Master, how are you?" Zhu Bajie sees Tang Luo wake from meditation and immediately asks.

"Four point five percent." Tang Luo says.

After this healing, his invulnerability limit has increased from the original 4.2 percent to 4.5 percent.

"Then that's good." Zhu Bajie laughs, showing a mouthful of white teeth.

That is, "Master still has four point five percent of his strength left," which is 4.5 times one unit of strength, rounding to one hundred million.

Master is invincible!

His own injury is not serious; rather than saying he is injured, it is better understood as a modern person's subhealth from long-term sitting and lack of exercise.

No need to deliberately consume merit power to recover.

Just let it recover slowly; anyway, in this state, those he cannot beat now might not be beatable even at his peak.

It is still more convenient to use his ultimate move.

Back on the Journey to the West, he rarely made a move, mainly responsible for watching over Master and the eldest senior brother, watching over Master alone, and stopping Master from saying "Forget it, forget it, Master, forget it."

"Master, Old Kong has found the team contract, not bad, a rare item."

Ao Yulie puts down his phone and takes out a contract.

Tang Luo previously asked Kongming to help find a team contract.

Although Ao Yulie can follow Tang Luo in and out of mission worlds, he has never received any reward.

A typical temporary worker.

Back then, everyone thought about whether forming a team could make him a regular member, so they asked Kongming to pay more attention.

Now Kongming has found them a pretty good contract—a team contract, which also comes in many varieties, not a single uniform type.

Some contracts are similar to those of the Martial Gods Mythology and the Gods Alliance, such as prohibiting mutual attacks.

This type is relatively common.

There are also some special and rare contracts that come with special abilities.

For example, Life Link, which can share the life force of team members; if one dies, they can achieve a "resurrection" effect by draining the life force of another member.

The "Companion Halo" ability: when team members are within a certain range, their physical qualities receive a certain boost.

There are also permanent boosts, but if a member dies, they suffer a punitive decrease.

There is also soul communication, enabling unlimited communication in most situations.

The contract Kongming found for Tang Luo and them does not carry any of the abilities mentioned above.

Instead, it is "Skill Grant."

Between team members, one can transfer or grant their skills to another.

Each skill can be transferred only once.

If Tang Luo transfers his Immobilization Technique to Ao Yulie, then this "Immobilization Technique" can no longer be transferred.

Whether retransferred back to Tang Luo or given to others, it is not allowed.

Another benefit is that when skills are full and mission rewards are skills, they can be directly transferred and granted to other teammates.

Very suitable for high-level accounts bringing up low-level accounts.

Obviously, Kongming also spent some effort to obtain this scroll.

"As an exchange, I gave the Frenzied Mutation and the Azure Blue Armor to Old Kong." Ao Yulie says.

One item is the exchange object for the contract itself; the other is Kongming's hard-earned fee.

Anyway, Tang Luo and his disciples are filthy rich.

Anything that can be solved with equipment is not called a problem.

"No problem." Tang Luo nods.

This team contract allows up to five members; signing requires only a drop of blood and mental agreement, very convenient.

Tang Luo and them did not delay; they signed the contract on the spot.

That contract, whose material is unclear, splits into five parts; three fragments turn into a different kind of qi that flows into the three people.

The contract has few restrictions; come and go freely.

Wanting to leave the team is also very simple: just silently affirm in the heart.

However, after leaving, the fragments will shatter together and cannot be rejoined to the team.

The team's upper limit will decrease by one.

"Should have become a regular now, see if you get rewards next mission." Tang Luo puts away the remaining two fragments.

If this regularization succeeds, then we should also sign up the Xiaotianquan; skills are never too many.

In this mission, Tang Luo has mastered Parrying, freeing up one of the six "skill slots."

Now the five skills are: Level 1 Immobilization Technique, Level 2 Lotus Step, Level 3 Sparta War Cry (Buddha's Law is Boundless), Level 2 Ghost Shadow Step, and Level 1 Blood Talisman · Flight Talisman.

There's also nothing that doesn't need to be specially transferred to Zhu Bajie and Ao Yulie.

These two salted fish, giving them skills, it'd probably take a very long time before they could cultivate to Level 3, let alone reach a state of thorough mastery.

Unless there comes a time when it's necessary, only then would they start cultivating hard.