My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 307 - 302: Initial Gathering of Hidden Faction

Chapter 307: Chapter 302: Initial Gathering of Hidden Faction

These past couple of days, Minxin, a member of the Beast Control lineage, had been very cautious in light of what had happened the night before. He knew that a grand cleansing of the Ghost Spirit Dark Hall would likely be conducted by the Hidden Faction in the coming days, so he was being extra careful to avoid any sudden calamities.

In the afternoon, he suddenly became lost in thought as a task appeared before him amidst the shimmering charm summon.

Task: Resource Collection

Difficulty: None

Introduction: Please begin long-term sourcing of the following second-grade materials: Ning Shen Flower, Illusory Demon Grass...

Delivery Method: On the first and fifteenth of each month, at the beginning of Hai hour (9 pm), rituals should be held, and the acquired resources should be handed over to the Immortal Child who arrives.

The funds for the next purchase will be allocated in advance, with each purchase ending once the funds allocated for that round are consumed. Please receive the initial funding at Hai hour tonight.

Note: This task is assigned by your superior, the Demonic Child. It is a personally assigned task and a designated duty. Because there are no rewards set, you may choose to reject it.

Staring at the task, Minxin was stunned. Just a couple days ago, he had discarded the task to collect the First Grade Savage Medicinal Herbs, and now he was to collect Second Grade Hallucinogenic Herbs.

Was the Demonic Child Senior Brother studying alchemy?

Looking at it this way, it seemed like such events would be a common occurrence in the future.

"It seems the previous method of brusquely ordering the subordinates to collect wasn’t successful. If it’s for long-term procurement... might as well set up a proper supply channel!"

"Just right, those who don’t wish to join the Law Enforcement Team to participate in demon exorcism can trade within the sect. They must be made to do something. Ah, so that was what the Demonic Child Senior Brother meant originally!"

"No wonder Senior Brother Jiang was sent to the Law Enforcement Team, and I was allowed to stay in the sect. So that’s why."

"It took you this long to realize, my brain might as well be a pig’s brain. No wonder you can’t attract any attention!"

...

Wang Zijia loitered until just before the end of work and, like always, left early.

After returning to the Biyi Court and engaging in idle chatter or sparring with Xiang Feifei, and eating dinner, he pulled some strings for Bai Qian and then entered the Cultivation Room.

First, he pulled out the secret list that he got from Balofi. This top-secret list was the product of the Ghost Spirit Dark Hall’s development over three hundred years.

There were a total of eight groups, covering more than ten bloodlines.

Almost fifty monks at the realm of the Wine Monks were included. Out of these, only a small part were in charge of peripheral development and control, while close to twenty were of the direct lineage and managers, like Minxin and Jiang Mingda.

As for the child stage, each group had at least a hundred or more than a thousand at most. Such forces were already considered a sizable force within a Perfected Realm clan in the sect.

Out of these, except for one group from the Beast Hidden Group, members from four other groups could be taken in.

As for the remaining three groups, based on An Xingsheng’s information, because they had drugged the Disciple Recruitment Team last time, the group leaders were caught and eradicated.

Fortunately, due to the single line of contact and well-executed confidentiality, the understanding of the sect’s Law Enforcement Team by the Ghost Spirit was quite good. Thus, each group at most traced back to the person responsible and couldn’t proceed further. Hence, there are currently five groups and more than thirty Wine Monks left.

Looking at the list, Wang Zijia’s attention was drawn to three people.

Vice Hall Master Water Ghost Lady Ba Luo (already recruited);

Bloodline Transformation Lineage Vice Lineage Master Blood Spirit Gou Hongyuan (already recruited);

And lastly, the most difficult character whom Wang Zijia had been aware of prior to obtaining the list. He had not acted because he was not confident enough, not to mention, backed out later.

Name: Rao Xuelan

Code name: Ghost Sparrow

Age: Eighty-nine

Spiritual Roots: Top-grade

Cultivation: Late stage of the Wine Monks

Affiliation: Avian School of the Bloodline Transformation Lineage

Main Cultivation: Establishes a foundation using the bloodline of the Fire Spirit Ghost Sparrow, which can transform into a ghost sparrow, harm people’s minds, and is extremely difficult to defend against.

Information: The leader of the Ten Thousand Changes Group in the Dark Hall, also had gone through Ghost Spirit training. Before Balofi was sent into the sect, was once trained as a vice hall master.

This was the most tricky one in the Ghost Spirit Dark Hall, in Wang Zijia’s opinion.

Of course, if it weren’t for Gou Hongyuan having a soul medallion that allowed him to be easily captured, he would presumably be just as difficult.

However, Rao Xuelan, like Minxin, belonged to the direct lineage of the Ghost Spirit Hall. Without the Ghost Spirit’s control methods, she wouldn’t be so easy to subdue.

Especially since her specialization was in the unique Transformation Path, that made her even more difficult to deal with.

Looking over her information, he began to plan his actions for the night while entering tranquility to cultivate.

In a blink of an eye, it was late at night. Wang Zijia got up and left the cultivation room.

Riding on his Five Ghosts Technique, he vanished from Biyi Court.

...

The designated location, East Suburb, a part of the Transformation Lineage.

Gou Hongyuan arrived more than a half hour early, waiting nervously.

Suddenly, a silent man riding a Magic Panther appeared. Both people, not realizing that there’d be other people at the meeting place, were dumbstruck. After all, they both had disguise charms applied.

The two people looked at each other, sensing the guidance from the charm summons, nodded at each other, and vaguely guessed the other’s identity. Minxin initiated, "Shadow, Black Tiger!"

Without any hesitation, Gou Hongyuan responded, "Shadow, Blood Spirit!"

They introduced themselves in a flash, and then no more words were exchanged, falling into silence.

After all, those in the Hidden Faction concealed their identities from one another. Attempting to get to know each other would be a grave mistake.

After a while, another Sword Light arrived.

Seeing the two who had already arrived, Du Kang was surprised. He tried to stimulate his Mind Charm Summon, which unexpectedly did get a response. Indeed, the two of them were members of the Hidden Faction.