【Foundation Building Level Mission: Eliminate all remaining Foundation Building and Qi Refining remnants of the assassin organization “Six Heavens” within the Qingtian Region. The Golden Core level assassins inside have already been killed. Currently, there are six Foundation Building level assassins and eighteen Qi Refining level assassins. Each elimination will earn you corresponding Black Market Points. If you clear them all, you can get a total of 7,300 Black Market Points.】 Below this mission description, the cultivation level and strength of each member are also marked.
“Now this is kind of interesting!”
“This is way more reliable than killing core disciples of the Qingyuan Sect!”
Given that no Golden Core cultivators are showing up, Qi Ping still has a bit of confidence in protecting himself when facing Foundation Building cultivators.
Qi Ping also noticed something else: after refreshing the missions, the original mission was still there!
“This mechanism is pretty good. At least I won’t run out of spirit stones without finding a suitable mission.”
But after considering the difficulty and risks of the mission, Qi Ping decided to put it aside for now.
When he refreshed again, Qi Ping chose to focus on Qi Refining level missions.
He precisely set the range to the Qingtian Region.
When Qi Ping clicked refresh again, only 20 spirit stones were deducted…
【Qi Refining Level Mission: Eliminate all remaining Qi Refining remnants of the assassin organization “Six Heavens” within the Qingtian Region. The Golden Core level assassins inside have already been killed. Currently, there are six Foundation Building level assassins—please proceed with caution; and eighteen Qi Refining level assassins. Each elimination will earn you corresponding Black Market Points. If you clear all Qi Refining level assassins, you can get 1,600 Black Market Points.]
Qi Ping: …
Next, Qi Ping spent four hundred spirit stones to refresh twenty times in one go. He found that most missions were assassination tasks, with a small number of rescue missions.
The assassination tasks were mainly divided into two types: one was eliminating assassin organizations like “Six Heavens,” and the other was taking out some up-and-coming genius disciples.
Qi Ping also noticed that these genius disciples seemed to share some common traits—they all practiced cultivation techniques that progressed very quickly but harmed the natural order. For example, Qin Shengyun, the core disciple of the Qingyuan Sect, practiced the Infant Devouring Method.
And behind these organizations, it seemed they were all involved in the trafficking of people and corpses.
These commonalities sent a slight chill down Qi Ping’s spine.
“It looks like you really can’t just practice any cultivation technique recklessly. Otherwise, who knows when you might end up on some assassination list.”
But what shocked Qi Ping even more was—how did these people get discovered practicing such techniques? Logically, they should have kept those methods very well hidden.
After thinking it over, Qi Ping could only attribute it to mysterious spells and methods. For the mysterious black market, this probably wasn’t too difficult.
“But does the mysterious black market go through all this trouble to deduce such things just to punish evil and promote good?”
Qi Ping felt things probably weren’t that simple.
As for those organizations involved in human and corpse trafficking, they also seemed to share some hidden commonalities.
“Looking at these individuals alone, nothing seems particularly special. It just looks like they’re practicing techniques that harm the natural order but allow rapid progression, and doing some human and corpse trafficking. That seems fairly normal anywhere…”
“But with so many people and organizations appearing in one region, and all of them being identified by the mysterious black market—which went through great effort to find them and post missions—it’s clear that two mysterious forces are colliding behind the scenes!”
Qi Ping also recalled that over the years, he had heard many rumors about people going missing, mostly children.
Looking at it now, it was very likely the work of these Behind the Scenes black hands.
Qi Ping even suspected that the wars between sects might also be related to these matters—for example, using some excuse to collect the flesh and blood of young geniuses?
But Qi Ping wasn’t sure. He was just making some random speculations based on the mission details and commonalities he saw on the mysterious black market.
“Either way, I’ll just be careful!”
“I’ll only take on the easy missions, so others can’t guess my true strength.”
“When doing missions, I’ll try to let the bees handle everything directly. And I absolutely cannot carry the token on me.” After all, no normal person would ever imagine that Qi Ping, with all his hidden tricks and powerful animal companions, would only be willing to do Qi Refining level missions.
Over the next two days, after making his mission plan and preparations, Qi Ping began carrying out the tasks.
Although Qi Refining level missions only paid a tenth or even a few dozenths of what Foundation Building missions paid,
Qi Ping still enjoyed doing them. The key was safety!
For other Foundation Building cultivators, finding targets might be troublesome, but for Qi Ping, who had his swarm of bees, it wasn’t much of a problem.
Those highly mobile organizations and hidden individuals, whose tracks were extremely difficult to trace, were relentlessly uncovered one by one under the search of Qi Ping’s bees!
Those organizations and hidden mission targets probably never dreamed in their wildest nightmares that they’d be targeted by such a terrifying existence.
Because in the past, the ones who came looking for them were mostly just Qi Refining level guys. With the advantage of terrain, dealing with them wasn’t too hard.
But how could they fight when they ran into Qi Ping?
It felt like the entire world was filled with Qi Ping’s bees. They couldn’t win, couldn’t escape—death was the only option. That was the most infuriating part.
This beekeeper is just too unreasonable. He doesn’t play by the rules at all!
After about three months of hard work, Qi Ping finally completed thirty-seven missions and earned 12,300 Black Market Points.
The efficiency wasn’t high, but Qi Ping was already satisfied.
However, just as Qi Ping was planning to do a few more missions and then call it quits, trouble eventually came knocking.
While Qi Ping was wiping out a small Qi Refining level organization, three Foundation Building cultivators suddenly popped out from within.
And these three Foundation Building cultivators happened to be from the “Six Heavens” organization and were also on the black market mission list.
But these three Foundation Building cultivators were even weaker than the two who had once pursued Meng Yan, so naturally, they posed no threat to Qi Ping.
After putting in some effort, Qi Ping successfully killed them all!
And Qi Ping earned another 2,700 Black Market Points!
【Black Market Points: 15,000】
Now Qi Ping had a total of 15,000 Black Market Points!
Completing Foundation Building missions was indeed much more efficient than doing Qi Refining level missions.
But this incident also served as a warning to Qi Ping. He had completed too many Qi Refining level missions recently and had attracted the attention of that mysterious organization.
“Now I should be on their radar. Luckily, the people they sent were far below my actual combat power. Not only did they fail to take me down, but they also delivered a nice chunk of Black Market Points!”
“But I should stop here for now. Unless I make a major breakthrough in strength or finish creating my clone, I absolutely cannot make another move for the time being.”
This stroke of luck was entirely because Qi Ping’s true strength far exceeded what he showed on the surface. If it happened again, the enemies definitely wouldn’t be such simple opponents.
So Qi Ping stopped and went into hiding.
Next came the time for him to collect and purchase the Essence of Spirit Veins!
