Chapter 12

And the moment it appeared, an invisible wave radiated outward from Huang Rong in all directions.

At the same time, as the master of the seal, Huang Rong understood its function immediately.

Then her pale, smooth little face darkened.

Shangguan Haitang's guess was correct; the Kunji Seal confirmed Huang Rong's status as the mistress of the harem.

The harem, naturally, was Jiang Sishui's harem.

And the numerous prospective harem members were the owners of the various diary copies.

As the mistress of the harem, the Kunji Seal granted Huang Rong corresponding powers and responsibilities.

Power one: she could sense the location of all prospective members through the seal.

Power two: any attack from any prospective member would be ineffective against her.

Power three: if any prospective member harbored evil intentions toward her, she would sense it within a certain distance.

As for the responsibility... there was only one: protect the safety of all prospective members.

In fact, Huang Rong did not need to do this task personally.

As long as she held the Kunji Seal, the object would automatically protect the safety of the women.

The invisible wave that had just spread out had simply included all the women within the seal's protection range.

Take a simple and clear example—

Once Xiao Longnu suffered an unavoidable disadvantageous injury, the Kunji Seal would form a Qi shield around her body.

The defensive strength of this Qi shield equaled the sum of all the women's Qi defense capabilities.

Note!

The defense here refers only to "Qi defense capability," excluding physical resistance and "using offense as defense," etc.

For instance—

If Yueyue stood still without releasing Qi, relying solely on her body, her defense would be only 10.

After releasing Qi to protect her body, still standing motionless, her defense would be 200.

While releasing Qi, if she also employed various Wu Gong to dodge and weave, using offense as defense, etc., her defense could even reach 1000.

Then the defense strength the Kunji Seal would draw from her would be 200!

Yet even so, a Qi shield with such defensive strength was extremely astonishing.

With the women combining their forces, there were absolutely very few people in this world who could break through the defense.

After learning the function of the Kunji Seal, Huang Rong almost smashed it!

In the eyes of some, becoming the mistress of the harem should have made her happy.

But Huang Rong originally planned that after meeting Jiang Sishui, if she was still satisfied, she would find a way to monopolize him and make him abandon those messy thoughts.

Even if Jiang Sishui did not listen to her, he could not marry too many women.

But after obtaining the seal, she sensed slightly and discovered that the targets she could sense numbered in the hundreds!

This made her feel like she couldn't hold it together anymore.

What? Does he really want to marry all these women?

Then even as the mistress of the harem, how much favor would she get?

Huang Rong felt jealous in her heart.

"You want me, yet you still provoke other women. Letting me manage them is one thing, but actually making me their bodyguard!"

The more Huang Rong thought about it, the angrier she got, and she was about to throw the seal into the sea.

But thinking of the various benefits the seal could bring, the hand she had just raised hesitated to put it down.

"Hmph! This Miss has a generous heart and won't throw you away!"

Playing with the exquisite, small seal, Huang Rong murmured regretfully, "It's a pity it can only defend and not counterattack; otherwise, wouldn't I be able to walk sideways through the Jianghu?"

With a thought, the seal vanished from her palm and, turning into a streak of light, sank into her brow.

Two phoenix light shadows flashed briefly in her pupils, then returned to normal.

Suzhou.

Jiang Sishui also received today's reward.

Unfortunately, this time there was only Martial Arts experience, and it was less than yesterday, only 400.

This left Jiang Sishui momentarily stunned.

How could the rewards be getting worse?!

"Could it be that I misunderstood the rewards of this diary, and that the Tiered Heavenly Art at the beginner level is actually very strong?"

Although he had used the Heavenly Sword Drawing Technique to chop Shopkeeper Tie, Shopkeeper Tie was just an ordinary person and held no reference value.

Therefore, Jiang Sishui still did not know how strong that sword strike of his was.

"Or perhaps this diary system can actually be upgraded, but I haven't met the conditions yet?"

Jiang Sishui suddenly had another guess.

"Forget it, it's only the second day now; I was too impatient. Let's wait and see."

012 Central Plains Escort Agency, Murong Fu Returns

With no other choice, Jiang Sishui added the 400 Martial Arts experience to the Heavenly Sword Drawing Technique.

【Heavenly Sword Drawing Technique (Heavenly Art): Beginner (900/**

Looking at the sky, Jiang Sishui took the silver he had looted last night, picked up his long sword, and went out the door.

A little less than half an hour later, he stopped in front of a magnificent building.

Looking up at the plaque hanging high, four characters were clearly written on it—

Central Plains Escort Agency!

Without hesitation, Jiang Sishui stepped forward and explained his purpose to the escort guard.

Hearing that he wanted to entrust an escort, the guard immediately reported it up, then led Jiang Sishui into the agency.

Entering the main hall, he saw a long-bearded old man of commanding righteousness seated in the host's chair, his eyes bright and piercing, his very Gu Pan carrying an air of dignity and authority.

Jiang Sishui knew this man was the chief escort head of the Central Plains Escort Agency—"Central Plains' One Sword" Zhao Tianhao!

Jiang Sishui did not dare slight him; he offered a junior's salute and said, "This junior is Jiang Sishui, paying respects to Chief Escort Zhao!"

Jiang Sishui?!

The moment that name was spoken, a young girl standing beside Zhao Tianhao instantly showed a look of astonishment, her gaze sweeping over Jiang Sishui with suspicion.

Could this Jiang Sishui be that Jiang Sishui?

Or merely someone with the same name?

The girl could not be sure, but her eyes remained fixed on Jiang Sishui, unable to look away.

Jiang Sishui, however, noticed none of this.

Because he currently had No martial arts on him, and the girl's gaze held no malice, he was not sensitive to her stare.

Zhao Tianhao returned the courtesy: "This old man is indeed Zhao Tianhao. Does this young brother wish to entrust an escort?"

"Exactly."

"May I ask what escort this young brother wishes to entrust?"

"Myself."

"Yourself?"

"That's right. What I wish to entrust is precisely myself, this person."

Zhao Tianhao understood.

The escort agency protects goods, protects wealth, and also protects people. The other party wanted the Central Plains Escort Agency to serve as his bodyguard.

His expression immediately grew solemn.

Protecting people—the Central Plains Escort Agency had not never accepted this kind of mission, nor was it unable to accept it, but generally such escorts were not easy to take, because they often meant trouble.

However, the Central Plains Escort Agency had its iron-clad rule: as long as the conditions for accepting an escort were met, the Central Plains Escort Agency would never make excuses and refuse.

Even if that escort was destined to be very dangerous!

Precisely because of this, the Central Plains Escort Agency was greatly renowned throughout all of Suzhou, with an excellent reputation.

Zhao Tianhao was about to ask for details when Jiang Sishui spoke first: "Chief Escort, please rest assured, this junior has no enemies."

No enemies?