All Things Are Contracts

“Looks like I made it in time,” Gong Xiaoyun, summoned over, smiled slightly at Zhanyue, glad she had arrived.

“What an incredible technique,” Zhanyue was completely amazed, watching Gong Xiaoyun transform from a puddle of water into human form. Were Spirit Contractors really this terrifying? No wonder he had heard that although Contractors were divided into many types, in reality, there were only two categories: Spirit Contractors and others.

“It’s not difficult for you to fight four at once, is it?” Zhanyue looked at the others, who were equally shocked.

Gong Xiaoyun gave Zhanyue a resentful look, “Although I don’t know what methods you used, it’s not easy to have held out until now. Help me hold off this Nightmare, I’ll handle the other three.”

“Alright,” Zhanyue nodded, continuing to battle the king-grade Nightmare possessing the fierce beast with his sky-piercing halberd.

“I must say, you look quite presentable in that armor,” Gong Xiaoyun chuckled, then attacked Bloodthroat and the other two. The battlefield instantly split in two, with Zhanyue engaging the king-grade Nightmare using the Silver Moon Armor on one side, and Gong Xiaoyun single-handedly fighting Bloodthroat, Stonemason, and Puppeteer on the other. Fortunately, the strongest, Demon Bow Huoxing, had already left with the Golden Pill Cultivator.

“Hehe, I’ve long heard that the chief female official of the Thousand Charms Empire is extraordinary. Seeing it today, it’s indeed true. We have no enmity with the Thousand Charms Empire, why are you pressing us so hard?” Bloodthroat said calmly.

“No enmity? You set traps at my Thousand Charms Empire’s border, ambushed our people, captured our Alchemists. Given my position, I have no choice but to intervene,” Gong Xiaoyun replied. She had roughly guessed their purpose, as there were no human corpses here, indicating that the Alchemists hadn’t died but had been captured. The Alchemists who came after Zhanyue had narrowly escaped and had long since fled.

“Damn it, we’ve only completed half of the master’s task. But we unexpectedly captured the Golden Pill Cultivator, which should make up for it. Don’t fight this woman to the death. The people have all escaped, the plan can be terminated. Find a way to escape. Delay breeds change!” Bloodthroat said to the other two. At this point, continuing to fight made little sense, but Gong Xiaoyun clearly didn’t want to let them go.

The king-grade Nightmare was extremely fierce, not only swift in movement but also incredibly tough physically, able to quickly recover from any injury.

“Fine, I’ll have to rely on the Sun God Stone,” Zhanyue stopped holding back, placing the partially recovered Sun God Stone into his armor. The armor changed from silver-white to being covered in red patterns. In the previous battle with Wild Blade, Zhanyue’s Sun God Stone had depleted most of its power and hadn’t fully recovered yet.

The sky-piercing halberd carried the Solar Essence Fire, with a flying sword providing cover on one side.

The king-grade Nightmare indeed showed fear, as the power of the Sun God Stone was also the bane of Nightmares. For a while, Zhanyue easily suppressed the king-grade Nightmare. On the other side, Gong Xiaoyun, fiercely fighting the three, occasionally glanced at Zhanyue’s situation. Her face was full of shock, “This guy, he’s really hiding his abilities. Just a mortal who hasn’t even entered the Profound Realm, yet he’s able to contend with a king-grade Nightmare using a treasure armor.”

“You dare to be distracted while fighting us, we’re really being underestimated!” Bloodthroat sneered, his body enveloped in blood mist that transformed into bats attacking Gong Xiaoyun. Meanwhile, Stonemason’s right arm grew massive, then hurled the stone pillar in his hand, with the power to smash mountains and shatter iron. The Puppeteer also used her killing move, with countless ‘feather’ blades flying from her paper wings behind her, able to cut gold and stone.

“Water Dragon Rise!” Gong Xiaoyun condensed water into a dragon, which coiled around to protect her. Whether it was blood bats, stone pillars, or feather blades, all were blocked by the water dragon.

“Too overpowered, she’s on the same level as the boss. We three can’t handle her. Retreat!” Bloodthroat’s gaze was solemn. Their full-force attack was easily blocked by Gong Xiaoyun.

“Blood Condensation Explosion!” Bloodthroat used his ultimate technique, spitting out a drop of heart blood towards Gong Xiaoyun.

“Hmm?” Gong Xiaoyun pointed a finger, and a water droplet flew out, colliding with the blood drop in mid-air. Instantly, blood mist spread, obscuring vision.

“Go!” As Bloodthroat and the other two were about to leave, they heard Stonemason cry out in pain.

As the blood mist dispersed, a flying sword was seen piercing Stonemason’s heart, eagerly absorbing his power and blood, turning crimson all over.

It turned out that the battle on the other side had ended. The king-grade Nightmare had been incinerated by the Solar Essence Fire. Zhanyue had seized the moment when they were most careless and unaware of his actions, using his flying sword to ambush Stonemason, the weakest of the three, succeeding in one strike!

Bloodthroat and the Puppeteer had already escaped the hall, but seeing Stonemason fall, they stopped.

“You go first, I have to retrieve Stonemason’s corpse. The thing the master gave him is still on him, we can’t lose it!” Bloodthroat said, turning back.

“You dare to come back!” Gong Xiaoyun’s gaze sharpened seeing Bloodthroat return.

“Blood-Burning Escape!” Bloodthroat, no longer holding back, used his ultimate life-saving technique. He transformed into a mass of blood, wrapping around Stonemason’s corpse at extremely high speed and carrying it away. During this process, Gong Xiaoyun’s techniques couldn’t even catch up to Bloodthroat’s speed.

“He got away,” Gong Xiaoyun’s face darkened. The opponent had used some forbidden secret technique, and she couldn’t hold him back.

“What a pity, we only killed one,” Zhanyue said regretfully, recalling his flying sword.

“I don’t know where those Alchemists were taken. I’ll go scout around, then return to the imperial capital to report this. Be careful,” Gong Xiaoyun said, leaving as a shadow without even properly saying goodbye to Zhanyue.

“Are Night Lord’s subordinates all so loyal? Risking death to retrieve a corpse? Could there be some treasure on that person?” Thinking of this, Zhanyue felt he had missed out big time.

“Here, this is the spatial ring from that person,” the illumination Goddess suddenly appeared, handing a ring to the stunned Zhanyue.

“Sister, how did you know he had treasure?” Zhanyue asked in surprise. The illumination Goddess had taken the spatial ring from the corpse when no one was paying attention, her actions undetectable to others.

“When Bloodthroat turned back to retrieve the corpse, I acted. If you could guess it, how could I not?” the illumination Goddess said somewhat proudly. Bloodthroat’s blood escape was extremely fast, but to the illumination Goddess, it was turtle speed. During this process, she easily took the ring.

“Let’s leave first. I’m afraid they might come back if they discover the ring is missing,” Zhanyue immediately used his earth traversal technique to leave.

Sure enough, Bloodthroat’s face turned ashen as he examined Stonemason’s corpse outside.

“It’s not here, how can it not be here! His ring is gone!” Bloodthroat roared. “The formation diagram the master lent us was in there. It’s an ancient teleportation formation diagram. I have to go back.”

The Puppeteer stopped him, “You’re heavily injured from using the blood escape. Besides, you’re no match for that woman even if you go back. We should quickly send those Alchemists away and inform the boss about these events. Minimize the losses, be rational!”

Bloodthroat forced himself to calm down, muttering hatefully, “Gong Xiaoyun, I’ll remember this grudge!” He naturally suspected Gong Xiaoyun had done something.

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