MEIWITA Chapter 675: The Power of the Hidden City

Hearing what the Third Holy Maiden said, the First Holy Maiden thought that she just mainly wanted her to remember a personal favour, and the initial vigilance relaxed a little.

“You’ve obtained news of that damned girl?”

The Third Holy Maiden chuckled and stopped beating around the bush: “The Alchemy Pagoda of the Human Realm is holding its once half a century alchemy competition. The five divisional competitions already finished, and there’s news that the name of the person who won the champion of the Northern State is Lou Mu Yan.

“But maybe it’s just the same name, I’m not sure that she’s who Elder Sister’s looking for.” Then the Third Holy Maiden said.

The First Holy Maiden’s expression revealed ferocity and viciousness: “No, if it’s the champion of the divisional alchemy competition, it must be her.”

That damned girl’s alchemy skills were pretty good.

“Why does Eldest Sister hold a grudge against a little human fellow?” The Third Holy Maiden asked, looking curious.

Her curious expression made the First Holy Maiden place down her last suspicions and replied faintly: “Third Younger Sister doesn’t need to worry about this, just give me the information you’ve obtained.”

“Eldest Sister, if there’s anything you need younger sister for, remember to just say it.” The Third Holy Maiden handed a jade slip to the First Holy Maiden.

The First Holy Maiden nodded: “Rest assured, I’ll remember this personal favour.”

“Then Eldest Sister can continue to cultivate, I’ll return first.”

“Go.”

The gentle smile on the Third Holy Maiden’s face vanished the moment she exited the door of the hall, and a half-smile of ridicule rose on her face.

This woman must’ve been hurt stupid by that man back then. Now she was becoming more and more brainless, but this was just as she wanted.

After the Third Holy Maiden left, a man in black appeared behind a stone pillar not far away. He smiled playfully, then soon left the large hall.

The First Holy Maiden read all the news about Lou Mu Yan in the jade token, then soon disappeared in the large palace.

An additional assassination mission for Lou Mu Yan, the leader of the Mu Feng Mercenary Party of the Human Realm, also appeared in the headquarters of the Hidden City in the Devil Realm, and it was intermediate level.

The Hidden Cities of Guang’ling World and Tian’ling Continent were different. The Hidden City in the four realms were all controlled by the mysterious Hidden Emperor.

There were two levels of missions in the Hidden City of Guang’ling World. One were missions under the Core Elemental Realm, and the other were missions above Core Elemental Realm.

Missions above Core Elemental Realm were also divided into initial rank, intermediate rank, high rank, peak rank, difficult rank, super difficult rank, and life and death rank.

The mission ranks weren’t up to the client for the final say, but based on the information of the person they needed to kill.

Originally, Sword Masters at Core Elemental Realm and had no background should be initial rank, but given that the Mu Feng Mercenary Party defeated the rank 8 Wild Lion Mercenary Party, the Hidden City decided it to be intermediate rank.

Of course, if the intermediate rank mission fails, the rank of the missions would rise, and the price that the client needed to pay will also change drastically.

Three months later.

The night was cold, a round moon hung in the sky, and stars flickered.

A woman sat atop a deep mountain peak. Her fingers constantly changed forms, and the power of the stars scattered and entered her body little by little.

Lou Mu Yan’s body was as if it were enveloped by a layer of silver, misty and ethereal.

After a while, the spiritual force in the surrounding area quickly built blooming spiritual clouds.

As spiritual lightning struck down one after another, her body was like a bottomless hole, absorbing the spiritual force of heaven and earth.

Such an anomalous phenomena lasted all night until light broke out in the distant horizon, and it stopped.

She slowly opened her eyes, her eyes were as deep as the sea, with the feeling of peace and serenity, and her lips raised into an arc.

She stretched out one hand and looked at it. With a thought, she was covered with a layer of silver on her wrist.

This wasn’t a spirit flame protection, but were the benefits brought by the second part of the Sorcerers Skill that had been cultivated to the second layer. Her body was now unable to be pierced as long as it wasn’t a Divine Tool above middle-quality.

Her cultivation base was also impacted and advanced to Earth Elemental Realm and Void Refining Stage1, so now many immortal cultivator secret skills could also be used.

“Let’s go.” Lou Mu Yan stood up and said to the little white beast lying not far away.

Mo Yan leapt onto her shoulder, “Mm, they must be waiting anxiously.”

This time, Lou Mu Yan suddenly felt the breakthrough bottleneck, so she found a private place to breakthrough. It was expected to last only five days, but it took ten days.

Lou Mu Yan and her party set off from Bei’yuan Empire and had taken on missions through the Mission Crystal.

Whenever they arrived at a city, they’d go to the Mercenary Union to hand in the missions, then continue.

Because Central State was far from Bei’yuan Kingdom, so they would complete missions until they reached transfer stations and then teleport to other cities.

Time passed little by little. Lou Mu Yan and her party also encountered several life-threatening dangers when completing missions, but they all worked together to resolve them, and the Mu Feng Mercenary Party successfully advanced to rank 7.

Along the way, they also recruited many mercenaries with good character and also rescued the Gale Mercenary Party that had met danger again. Bu Zhan and the others also joined the Mu Feng Mercenary Party.

Half a year later.

The teleportation array of the Central State transit station continued to light up, and Lou Mu Yan and her party exited from it.

After exiting the transit station, Bing Ji sighed with a laugh: “The transit stations sure are really convenient to use. It can be used to teleport such long distances, which is much easier to use than flying using our spatial ability.”

Long Yao glanced at him and said: “It’s easy to use, but our movements can also be obtained by the transit station. If there are people who don’t want to expose themselves, then it wouldn’t be good to use it.

He could’ve used the Teleportation Array to go directly to Bei’yuan Kingdom, but he was afraid that the news would be leaked, so he hurried there by himself.

“Owner has a means to hide auras, so this time, didn’t you teleport along with us.” Bing Ji pursed his lips and said.

A small smile rose on Long Yao’s cool face, “That’s because Female Owner’s amazing.”

“Which force controls the transit stations?” Lou Mu Yan asked curiously when she heard the words of the two in her sea of consciousness.

Long Yao replied: “The transit station belongs to the Hidden City, so they can grasp the movements of many people so clearly.”

The teleportation arrays of the transit stations were very convenient to use, as it not only greatly shortened the distance and time on the road, but also avoided a lot of danger encountered when taking the road, so many Sword Masters would rather expose their whereabouts to the Hidden City and spend a fortune to use the Teleportation Array.

Lou Mu Yan’s eyes revealed surprise, “Can the Hidden City’s force also be operating so openly?”

The Hidden City belonged to an underground dark organisation, so on Tian’ling Continent they all acted underground, and there weren’t many forces that could be brought to the open on Tian’ling Continent.

“Of course, the Hidden City’s a large organisation that involves the entire four realms. Top forces such as the Mercenary Union of the Human Realm can’t even be compared to it. Their organisations are all on the surface except for their assassination organisation.”

Long Yao paused, then continued: “The Hidden City in the Central State is a huge organisation, and many transactions are no longer underground transactions, but they’re still rather chaotic, so it can’t be guaranteed to be safe.

“The power of the Hidden City’s actually this huge, and no one knows which race the mysterious Hidden Emperor belongs to.”

Lou Mu Yan rubbed her chin and asked: “So based on that, the Ming Palace Royal Clan’s force isn’t as powerful as the Hidden City then?”

1So to clarify, these stages LMY is cultivating is from her PAST life and it’s basically one of the generic stages in cultivation stories. So the moment I look it up on baidu, I find info on it. There may be different variations of the order, however, that’s why for this one, I wasn’t able to find a prior English translation for 炼虚期 (Void Refining Stage) by other translators. But the stages before this one followed the order I found online: Meditation Stage, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, and Incarnation. Which reminds me I really need to update the INFO page on MEIWITA but… maybe I’ll update it after I finish fully translating this novel… hahaha… it’s very behind…