Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 200 - 200 152 A Worker Wants to Do a Good Job【An

Chapter 200: Chapter 152: A Worker Wants to Do a Good Job【An Extra Chapter Added for the Tantrum of the Silver Alliance】 Chapter 200: Chapter 152: A Worker Wants to Do a Good Job【An Extra Chapter Added for the Tantrum of the Silver Alliance】 Just at this crucial time, the war had ended; the people of Yan State had either left or died; even the martial artists had also collectively retreated.

All those who shouldn’t have left had left, but the one who should have, had stayed behind!

Especially Dong Xiaoyan, the one who should have left.

Why did she, with so many issues on her, decide not to leave?

“Didn’t you go back to deal with your Ice Phoenix egg? How are you so unruffled now… isn’t that your real responsibility?”

Feng Yin sighed deeply.

Left with no choice, he could only research those few Gold Rank targets to see if he could possibly get lucky.

He had to do the research. What if nobody came during this period?

Or even if someone did come, it seemed like he wouldn’t be able to compete with Dong Xiaoyan!

Not only did he have to research, but he also had to do it quickly. If one day that girl had nothing else to do and cleaned up these Gold Rank targets as well, it would really be a pitiful scenario!

“How has the situation suddenly taken a turn for the worse?”

Feng Yin, speechless, had a stomachache.

Originally, he wasn’t in a hurry. After all, he had just reached Silver Rank a few days ago and the Gold Rank was out of reach. He could slowly complete the tasks, accumulate achievements bit by bit. He believed that as long as he was diligent, he would catch up and join the Gold Rank training.

Surprisingly, during a single battle, he had shot up to the skies, bypassing the entire process of accumulating from Silver Rank to Gold Rank, only short of the final step in order to upgrade to a Gold Rank badge.

And this feeling of being so close yet so far, coupled with the sense of urgency and torment, was really…

Given the thought of an avenging Dong Xiaoyan challenging him for tasks in Yuezhou, it would be strange if his mood was good!

Feng Yin really couldn’t understand it, this repeated killing back and forth like a sieve.

Doesn’t that girl feel tired? Don’t you have any other place to go except Yuezhou?

Previously, he only thought that this girl was good in every way, except for her loud-mouth!

Now it seems, her perseverance is the truly amazing part. But why can’t you apply this great perseverance to where it should be, like dedicating it to your Ice Phoenix egg…

This girl really is…too stubborn, right?

“One-track minded! Pigheaded!”

Feng Yin grumbled in discontent: “You’re so young and beautiful, why don’t you know to enjoy life a little, you fool!”

He had no other choice.

Based on Dong Xiaoyan’s actions, she was still clearing up the tasks in the vicinity of Yuezhou time and time again; for Feng Yin to complete a target before she sweeps them all up, would be very difficult, extremely challenging.

What makes it even more difficult is, the targets are still Gold Rank.

And what’s even more difficult is that all the current Gold Rank tasks, each one of them is a thorny character.

“This Gold Rank task target… Li Zhengyun. Looking at his profile, there doesn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary. Apparently due to changes in his rural estate on the outskirts of the city three years ago, he ended up killing half the villagers, thereby making him a target of the Heavenly Judge.”

“This individual has always resided in the rural estate where the incident occurred.”

“A Gold Rank task target… who has managed to survive this long, even flourishing while doing so, there must be a reason behind it.”

“Then there’s this one, Mo Zhengdao; hmm, his name is quite fitting. This person has been a resident of Yuezhou City for over ten years. The reason he became the task target… eight months ago, he was attracted to a martial arts dojo master’s daughter. When his courtship and wed-lock was rejected and he could not have his way, he killed the entire martial arts dojo to cover up the truth about the plague, and the girl was desecrated and killed by him… He has been the mission target of Heavenly Judge for over seven months, also a tough character to deal with…”

“Lastly, this one, Liu Mengjiang, his name has been on the target list for a long time, that is, two years ago, and until now he still defies capture…hiss!”

Feng Yin gasped.

A task from two years ago that still remains unfulfilled, and the target’s resume describes him as “defying capture,” this really raises big questions.

The thought is incredibly terrifying, downright chilling.

During this period, Feng Yin had already discovered a major loophole, or rather, a dangerous pitfall in the Heavenly Judge’s operations regarding their targets.

The Heavenly Judge only releases personal information about the subject without mentioning the power or backing that the subject can rely on.

Like having a Martial Artist as a target and issuing a Bronze Badge task, it adheres to the principle. But in truth, the target is protected by an Earth Level guard and even relies on his Heavenly Level father…

Situations like these are never mentioned in the information provided.

For Heavenly Judge assassins at this stage to execute such a task, it is simply sending a lamb into the mouth of a tiger, courting death!

These three tasks, having been uncompleted for such a long span, led Feng Yin to consider these possibilities.

But now, he really had no other options left.

There weren’t any Silver Rank tasks left; even Bronze tasks were quite scant. Moreover, even if completed, it wouldn’t help much, better to leave them for those who need it more!

Humph, I am different from that Dong Xiaoyan. I will never take on a higher-ranked task, it’s absolutely not because I have realized that doing a Bronze Rank task at this stage is simply meaningless!

“Is there still time left, shall we wait a few more days?”

Feng Yin pondered for a long time, and in the end, he still decided to wait a while longer.

If a new target appeared, he would not need to risk doing the task himself.

However, Feng Yin knew that the likelihood of this hope being dashed was quite significant.

Because deep down, he had a feeling: he would eventually have to perform one of these tasks to complete his final promotion.

This kind of intuition was a treasured skill of Feng Yin and always proved to be exceptionally accurate, he believed that this time would be no exception.

So, he didn’t really hold out much hope.

Instead, while waiting, he focused on those three targets, seriously studying and exploring them in earnest.

By studying meticulously and seeking related clues about the task targets, even though time was limited, he might be able to find some crucial points that would be beneficial to completing the task.

In this regard… Feng Yin would never be careless.

After a few days, Feng Yin started going out every day, spending his time idly wandering around, and occasionally even venturing outside the city…

With his Feng Ying pet kept in his pocket, the two of them observed their surroundings from different angles.

He even transformed all of the 130-some trees surrounding the hideouts of the three targets.

Yes, he still used the first stage of the Spirit Gathering transformation technique. When he left the city, he didn’t forget to go over to the pine tree and transform it twice.

Displaying his elegant and noble demeanor, Feng Yin would occasionally lean against a tree and gaze into the distance. His intriguing character, not unlike an immortal descended to earth, became a beautiful sight on the outskirts of Yuezhou City.

After a few days had passed, many young women waited by the road early in the morning, just so they could catch an extra glimpse of him when he passed by…

Of course, they didn’t know that Feng Yin’s habitual tree-leaning was actually him transforming the trees, diligently transforming as he went along.

This wasn’t solely in preparation for the task, but also a way to enhance his Spiritual Transformation Technique, develop his Dao Classics, provide energy feedback to his blade. Most importantly, it served as an extra layer of security for his escape routes during task execution.

With so many benefits to be had, how could Feng Yin not be diligent?

If it weren’t for fatigue, and if he didn’t lack the energy needed for transforming, Feng Yin would wish to transform every single flower and grass along his way!

After ten days, Feng Yin had managed to cycle through all those trees twice.

As for the pine tree, it had been transformed three times.

When transforming trees, at most a tenth or a fraction of the spirit is scattered. But in the case of the pine tree, each time a complete spirit rotation is transformed.

Even if it couldn’t digest it all, it was still stored in the tree roots.

In just a few days, the pine tree once again grew into a large, towering tree.

Located in the wilderness, there was no fear of anyone discovering the astonishing rate of growth of the little pine tree.

No one would know that this pine tree had not only grown at an unbelievable speed but was also about to become sentient…

No one would know that the roots of this pine tree had expanded far and wide…

At this point…half of the mountain was within the detection range of the roots of the small pine tree, and that was just so far.

This, for a pine tree or, for that matter, any plant, could be considered nothing short of horrifying.

After confirming that he had completed two rounds of transformations, Feng Yin carefully laid out multiple possible escape routes for each of the three targets.

Even so, Feng Yin still felt it wasn’t enough, it wasn’t secure enough.

Through his own observations, through the investigations of 130 trees, through the exploration of two transformed little foxes that crawled into the targets’ hideouts, and through seventeen snakes that crawled into the various hidden places around the targets’ locations…

Discontented with potential gaps, he transformed a group of field mice to explore every hole, and transformed a group of magpies to circle the targets’ homes over a hundred times.

This made the three families extremely joyful, feeling that a joyous event was about to happen.

After all, the arrival of magpies has been an omen of good things to come since ancient times. This auspicious sign made them not only disregard the magpies’ scrutiny but even provide food to feed the magpies…

Under such comprehensive and three-dimensional scrutiny…

The current Feng Yin’s understanding of the three houses exceeded even any member within the houses themselves, specifically in terms of the layout, having reached an intimate understanding of every nook and cranny.

For example, the interconnectedness between the waterways in the ponds inside their houses and the waterways outside, which big tree in the household envies the fortune of the external tree that had been transformed…

Everything was clear.

Even, by chance, Feng Yin came to know of a certain affair where a minor wife was having an affair with a stable boy, therefore adding a ‘green hat’ to the master of the house.

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[There should be one more chapter, right? I was feeling dizzy from writing yesterday, I didn’t expect it to be past one in the afternoon when I woke up. Starting the next chapter now, estimates showing that it won’t be ready before six. If so, let’s say eight. Please vote for sound month tickets.]