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#209 - Eye-opening

On the other side.

Liang Jin, along with two martial artists from the Star Demon Sea, was heading towards the south of the city.

He didn't expect to infiltrate so easily.

Liang Jin originally planned to kill everyone if he was discovered.

But to his surprise, no one suspected him.

Thinking about it, everyone here was wearing masks and clothes they wouldn't normally wear, making it difficult to distinguish each other without a close look.

Liang Jin didn't expect these guys to be so taciturn, not even speaking to let their companions recognize them.

But what he feared most was exactly what was about to happen.

The two martial artists in front had already stopped.

One of them, wearing a theatrical mask, said in a deep voice:

"This is the south of the city. Let's search and see if we can find anyone from the Great Snow Mountain Sect or the Boundless Bright King Sect. If we do, attack immediately."

Judging by the voice, it was a young man.

The other person wore a simple mask made of white paper, with a few holes poked in it for sight and breathing, making the mask look crude and casual.

But who would have thought that this crude white paper mask belonged to a young girl.

She spoke in a clear, crisp voice:

"Hey, why are you working so hard?"

"As the saying goes: 'It's a small matter to starve to death if you don't eat during the day; it's a big matter to die of sleepiness if you don't sleep at night.'"

"In the middle of the night, we might as well find a place to rest for a while, eat something, and then consider working."

These words immediately displeased the young man.

He argued:

"This is a task assigned by the Star Lord. If we don't do it properly, how can we gain the Star Lord's and the sect's favor?"

The man's words were full of righteousness.

The girl sneered:

"Oh, do you want to become the Star Lord?"

"Opportunity favors the prepared mind. Those without opportunity shouldn't bother preparing."

"You can never become the Star Lord without reaching the Fifth Rank."

"Reaching the Fifth Rank is as difficult as ascending to heaven. How many people in this world can cultivate to the Fifth Rank? No one will stop you from dreaming; you'll give up after you try."

These words seemed to anger the young man quite a bit.

He said indignantly:

"Everything is hard at the beginning. How do I know it won't work if I don't try?"

The girl retorted:

"Everything is hard at the beginning, hard in the middle, and hard at the end."

"There's nothing difficult in the world, as long as you're willing to give up."

"Anyway, I'm hungry, thirsty, and sleepy."

"I'm going to eat something now. If you two want to come, follow me."

With that, the girl was about to leave.

The young man angrily said:

"I know who you are!"

"Mi Qianmeng, known as the laziest person in the Star Demon Sea!"

"I'm so unlucky to be assigned to carry out a mission with you!"

The girl, called Mi Qianmeng, stopped when she heard she was recognized, put her hands on her hips, and glared at the young man.

"Boy, do you dare to take off your mask and let me see who you are?"

Mi Qianmeng said angrily.

The young man hurriedly covered his mask:

"The Star Lord said we can't take off our masks during the mission."

"When I get back, I'll definitely find out who you are!"

Liang Jin couldn't help but find it amusing.

These two guys, one proactive and the other a slacker.

It would be a shame to kill these two amusing characters later.

At the same time, Liang Jin also realized that the people from the Star Demon Sea who were out on missions tonight were not familiar with each other, to the point where they couldn't even recognize each other by voice alone.

He had heard that the upper echelons of the Star Demon Sea were powerful, but the lower levels were chaotic, a mixed bag with many rabble among them.

Seeing it tonight, it was indeed the case.

Just then.

The two turned their gazes and looked at Liang Jin together.

Mi Qianmeng asked:

"Hey, you, are you coming with me to eat and drink something?"

"The mission is the sect's, but your life is your own. Why be so desperate?"

The young man also spoke:

"This brother, please help me carry out the mission!"

"Otherwise, I alone... don't have much chance of winning."

Liang Jin stretched out his hand and pointed to the side.

What he pointed to was actually a slave market still open nearby.

This slave market was not as high-end as the Yunu Pavilion last night.

It was just a warehouse-like place, at least not a low-end open-air market.

Faced with the two's confusion.

Liang Jin explained:

"There's food and drink in there, and people to kill."

After he finished speaking, he was ready to strike.

If his identity was exposed, he would have no choice but to kill these two.

But who knew.

Not only did these two not recognize Liang Jin from his voice, but their eyes lit up after hearing his words.

What a great idea!

Whether it was disciples of the Great Snow Mountain Sect or the Boundless Bright King Sect, their martial arts were top-notch elites in the Western Desert.

It was extremely risky for them to fight with them for the mission, and people could die.

But if they were to deal with these slave traders, the risk would be small.

What the Star Demon Sea wanted was to disrupt the situation in the city, and killing slave traders could also achieve that.

When they went back covered in blood, they could pretend to have completed the mission.

They could also take the opportunity to rob food, drinks, gold, and jewelry.

Mi Qianmeng immediately nodded in agreement:

"I'm running out of money anyway, so I'll just go in and rob some."

"I'm best at robbing these beasts who traffic in women and children."

It seemed she wasn't so lazy when it came to money.

The young man hesitated for a moment, but could only agree:

"Okay, anyway, I can't complete the mission alone, and going there would just be sending myself to death."

"Then I might as well kill a few people with low martial arts skills and call it a mission."

It seemed that in the face of danger, he wasn't as diligent and motivated as he claimed.

Especially since their attire tonight was that of the legendary slave owner's assassin from last night.

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If something happened, it wouldn't be traced back to Star Demon Sea or their leader, but only to the slave owner's assassin.

Immediately, the three of them set off towards the slave market.

Both Mi Qianmeng and the young man acted cautiously, not directly barging in, but choosing a weak point in the defenses to infiltrate.

At the same time, Mi Qianmeng instructed:

"You two stay close to me. If there are experts, I'll handle them."

"But if it's just small fry, I'm too lazy to do anything. You can kill them."

Mi Qianmeng's confident words naturally came with the capital to back them up.

Liang Jin had already seen that Mi Qianmeng was a sixth-rank early-stage martial artist, while the young man was only a seventh-rank early-stage, a whole realm behind Mi Qianmeng.

Tonight's operation was indeed a gathering of elite disciples from Star Demon Sea.

At this moment, the young man couldn't help but ask:

"Mi Qianmeng, why are you so lazy, yet your martial arts are so high?"

Mi Qianmeng proudly raised her head:

"Because I am gifted with extraordinary talent and exceptional comprehension."

"Practicing martial arts for only one hour a day is more effective for me than you mediocre people practicing for eight hours!"

The young man didn't expect that his curious question would be met with Mi Qianmeng showing off, which immediately made him shut up and stop asking.

The three of them quickly arrived at the back door of the slave market.

The guards here were all eighth and ninth-rank martial artists, and the young man solved them all by himself.

After that, they encountered some low-level martial artists along the way, and the young man worked hard to clear the path ahead.

It must be said that Star Demon Sea's martial arts did indeed have unique features.

Not only were they strange and unpredictable, but they also had many methods and were skilled in using various tools.

This young man used tools such as smoke bombs, blowguns, poisons, and animal traps.

He even had ventriloquism skills, able to imitate various special sounds, luring others into the traps he set.

According to his own words, if it weren't for the mask, he would also be skilled in low-level disguise, which would make things even smoother.

The young man solved many martial artists, managing to do it silently without alarming the entire slave market.

When they encountered seventh-rank martial artists, the young man could no longer handle them.

Mi Qianmeng then personally took action.

Her methods were even more eye-opening for Liang Jin.

He saw that she actually used a hypnotic illusion technique!

Using some tools to create olfactory, auditory, and visual effects, she made the enemy seem as if they were hypnotized, obediently letting her manipulate them.

A seventh-rank mid-stage martial artist was subdued by Mi Qianmeng without even a bit of resistance.

This way of defeating the enemy could simply be described as effortless.

This also broadened Liang Jin's horizons.

No wonder Star Demon Sea was regarded as a demonic sect by the martial arts world.

These Star Demon Sea disciples' methods were truly diverse, insidious, despicable, and unscrupulous.

As expected, they were not upright at all.

At the same time, this made Liang Jin secretly vigilant.

Fortunately, he had infiltrated the Star Demon Sea tonight and witnessed these sinister and treacherous skills.

Otherwise, if he were to fight against a true expert from Star Demon Sea without any preparation, he would probably suffer a great loss.

Soon.

The group entered the back room of the slave market.

After seeing the situation in the field, the three couldn't help but exclaim:

"This..."

They saw that this place was filled with cage after cage.

Ordinary wooden cages held ordinary slaves.

Some iron cages held strong or martial arts-skilled slaves.

These cages were stacked on top of each other, layer upon layer.

The excrement from the slaves in the upper cages would flow to the middle layer; the middle layer's would flow to the lower layer.

This caused the place to be filled with a stench that made people sick.

Some cages only held one slave, as if this slave was more important, and only solitary confinement could avoid infighting among the slaves and prevent injuries.

In some cages, the narrow and cramped space was filled with more than a dozen slaves, making it difficult for these slaves to even turn around, and they could only squeeze together tightly.

Some special slaves were chained around the neck with iron collars and locked around the pillars.

These were all people.

But in the eyes of the slave owners, they were just like a group of poultry or livestock.

There was also a washing pool nearby.

Whenever a slave was to be taken out for sale, the guards would throw them into the washing pool to wash them, making them look a little better.

There was even a makeup table.

Many slaves were already sick or injured.

Some slaves' wounds were severely infected and deteriorated, not only had the flesh rotted, exposing the bones inside, but even maggots had grown in the rotten areas.

At this time, some simple and crude methods were needed to cover up their rotten wounds, such as directly applying white ash or plaster, which would solidify and block the wound.

It was also necessary to use the smell of some plants to cover up the stench on their bodies, and to make them look better through some simple makeup.

There was even a temporary birthing platform.

Among the slaves, there were also many female slaves, who had been repeatedly impregnated and had long become tools for producing little slaves.

"Is this... hell?"