Chapter 550: Heavy blood stench
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
There and then, Ye Qing Luo with Long Yun Zhan and the others headed towards the Mercenary Association to hand in their missions.
Today the youngsters had toiled for the entire day so Ye Qing Luo asked them to take a good rest as they had an even more important training the next day waiting for them.
As for their team, it was merely Long Yun Zhan, Mo Han Shang and the others totalling up to six people.
With Di Mo Xuan around, there was no need to worry that the other mercenary groups would attempt to snatch their missions as well as the other items.
The youngsters were indeed tired out as they didn’t reject this arrangement.
Now with only a team of six, Ye Qing Luo summoned Xi Jue out to let Long Yun Zhan and the other three to use as their mount.
What made the others curious was when Xi Jue saw Long Yun Zhan, it actually developed a kind of fearful feeling.
The crowd found it strange.
But Ye Qing Luo and Long Yun Zhan understood what was the reason for that.
Because Long Yun Zhan’s original form was a human dragon.
Dragon species were the most respectable among the beast clan.
Especially for human dragons, their status was above the dragon clan.
When mirage beasts meet the dragon clan, they would instinctively show their fear.
Ye Qing Luo pacified Xi Jue for a moment before Xi Jue awkwardly became their mount.
Although it knew that this human dragon was its Master’s friend, but this natural born fear couldn’t be extinguished.
“Lil Luo’er, come up here.” Di Mo Xuan summoned Little Nine as he stretched out his hand towards her.
Ye Qing Luo patted Xi Jue’s head as she went back to Di Mo Xuan.
With a mirage beast and sacred beast as mounts, their speed was naturally faster than when the entire group moved together.
It took merely an incense time when they already went past the marketplace, heading directly to the Mercenary Association.
While they were passing by through the marketplace’s sky, Ye Qing Luo’s nose sensitively caught a whiff as her senses congealed, “Wait.”
Two war pets immediately halted their footsteps.
“Do you all smell something?” Ye Qing Luo’s eyes narrowed as she raised her jade like hand to cover her nose.
The others naturally smelled it too.
The wind arose and the air brought along a stench of blood.
That blood stench was extremely thick.
It was the marketplace!
Ye Qing Luo and the others exchanged glances as they leapt down from the backs of the war pets, landing on the ground.
Right in front of them was the marketplace’s side entrance.
A thick blood stench was extremely pungent.
Something happened to the marketplace!
The few of them dashed into the side entrance and saw…..
It was an extremely bloody scenario!
The entire marketplace was filled with dead bodies.
Those stall owners who were still setting up their stalls crying out to attract customers had all laid dead on the ground as that pungent smell was extremely intolerable.
Even their eyes were masked with a layer of red colour.
What made the others’ expressions sink even darker was that group of dense bird beasts. Their sharp claws and mouths were pecking around those dead corpses.
On and off, their beaks gave out an ear-piercing whistle.
The minute they detected a living person’s breath, those birds pecking on the corpses rose their long necks as they gazed towards Ye Qing Luo and the others.
These bird beasts were large in size, approximately about the size of a stone lion.
A pair of fiery red eyes which seemed as though blood had filled the entire pupils.
Drops of blood dripped down those shark beaks.
“It’s the dark forces.”
Di Mo Xuan’s brows creased slightly as his eyes were filled with a smirk of gloomy coldness.
When the crowd heard that, they suddenly seemed to have understood something.
Yuchi Peng’s wrist had been chopped off because of the dark forces’ profound yin qi.
He was Yuchi family’s future Patriarch.
With his right hand chopped off, it was equivalent to breaking off half of Yuchi family’s livelihood.
In order to nurture Yuchi Peng, how much time and resources had they spent on him?
In the end he turned out in this state….
Even if they had to find someone to replace him, they wouldn’t be as assured as a candidate like Yuchi Peng.
Chapter 551: Something happened to the marketplace
Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Would the Yuchi family let the matter off so easily?
The cause of all these were the dark forces’ power.
Towards this force, many people had heard of it but had never seen it with their own eyes.
But from the commotion of Yuchi Peng’s matter, it would definitely raise the concern of the other great families.
If the dark forces wanted to use their power as a bait to get cultivators to sign the soul trade agreement to trick them, it absolutely would not be as simple as now.
Yesterday they were at the marketplace and were in contact with these stall owners as well as the Iron Blood Warriors.
So the dark forces’ men massacred the entire marketplace.
They wanted to put all the blame onto Ye Qing Luo’s group.
Massacring everyone who had been in contact with them, so that when the Yuchi family came to investigate it, the dark forces had nothing to worry about.
Dark forces? Who could testify this?
It was merely Yuchi Peng’s own casual talk.
Furthermore, Yuchi Peng’s hand was obviously chopped off by Ye Qing Luo. It could be because of the conflict she had with Yuchi Peng which led to finding any excuse to cheat Yuchi Peng?
Moreover, the most important thing was…..
It was certain if Yuchi Peng and Duke Jing were still alive….
“Dark forces… they are indeed sinister, their methods are indeed despicable and underhanded!” Qiao Jin’s fists clenched tightly when he saw blood turning into a river.
Yan Xiao Yi was so infuriated that her petite body started shaking as she tightly grabbed Qiao Jin’s sleeve as all she could see in her vision was a patch of red colour.
Although their own power and abilities were not bad.
And they had used underhanded methods to punish others.
But they had never seen such a cruel scene.
These people, these stall owners were still conversing with them yesterday, talking happily.
Today, they had turned into dead corpses.
How could their hearts take this?
Ye Qing Luo pursed her lips as she gazed at those large bird beasts and clenched her teeth in silence, “Look around if there are any survivors!”
Qiao Jin duo suddenly regained their senses as they immediately grabbed their weapons and dashed into the blood bath.
Ye Qing Luo and Di Mo Xuan exchanged one glance as they too steadily walked towards those bird beasts.
The bird beasts were shrieking a sharp call as one after another started to flap their wings, flying neatly towards Ye Qing Luo and the others’ direction.
Their wings were large and every single time it flapped, it caused a strong airflow.
Those sharp beaks opened and revealed sharp teeth.
Blood red eyes were filled with a blood curdling imposing manner.
They were screeching excitedly as though they saw their prey.
Ye Qing Luo’s expression turned gloomy as her feather fan raised a hurricane and shot out several iron wires directly towards those bird beasts in front of them.
Di Mo Xuan stood by one side, not taking any action but he followed close behind Ye Qing Luo.
He was in a distance where he could protect her, yet not hinder her from taking action.
He would never affect Ye Qing Luo’s growth.
Towards this standard of bird beasts, Ye Qing Luo absolutely could take care of them easily.
Furthermore, this was an opportunity for actual combat training.
Only occasionally, some bird beasts which weren’t afraid to die tried to attack him.
Di Mo Xuan’s narrow long eyes merely shot a glance and a sharp penetrative blade flashed past his eyes.
That bird beast split into two halves in mid air.
These bird beats were at least high levelled magical beasts and had their own consciousness.
After detecting that Di Mo Xuan was no easy opponent, they then stopped attacking him.
But one after another started opening their beaks towards the other five people.
Ye Qing Luo’s fingers gripped hard on the feather fan as her strange footwork were swift, travelling among those bird beasts as the feather fan in her hand was both a long distant attack weapon and could also be used in close combat.
Her speed in killing those bird beasts was both swift and accurate.
She totally didn’t give the bird beasts any chance of counterattack.