Chapter Sixteen: The Temptation of the Ring (Part Two)

  Lei Xingfeng said: "I don't have much to do, you help me gather some intelligence, and... expand the territory a bit, this place is considered my foothold, I will send people over to help you, hehe, every year..."

  Lei Xingfeng suddenly felt a bit embarrassed, he didn't know how many cycles it would take to make these people return to their senses. Originally, he wanted to say 500 cycles per year, but after thinking for a moment, he continued: "How many cycles do you need each year?"

  Zhong Geng looked at Tan Da, he had no experience at all.

  Tan Da thought for a moment and said, "Every year... I want fifty... no, forty rings. How many do you want, Zhong Geng?" He doubled his income from the Black Angle Gate.

  Zhong Geng hesitated for a moment, after all, Tan Da was a true master-level expert, and he was just a Mi Lun Master. The only advantage he had was that he was more familiar with Lei Xingfeng. He said: "I... I want thirty wheel rings... uh, thirty wheel rings per year."

  Tan Dadao: "I'm at Hei Jiaomen, Mi Lun Shi, every year there are only a few wheel rings, mainly getting gold rings."

  Zhong Geng smiled wryly and remained silent.

  Others remained silent, it was no longer their turn to speak here.

  Lei Xingfeng smiled and said, "Since you are my subordinates, I won't be stingy. In the first year, 200 Luoyin Rings; in the second year, if you do a good job that satisfies me, it will be 300 Luoyin Rings. For every additional True Person-level expert, I'll add 50 more Luoyin Rings. Of course, this also depends on the level of their true body. The higher the level, the more they get. Additionally, if I assign a task and you complete it, there will be rewards, and I might even reward Luoyin Rings. How about that?"

  Tan Da was overjoyed, he could be certain that in a decade or so, he would definitely have enough Ring and Seal Rings to break through the Second Heavenly Layer. He exclaimed repeatedly: "No problem, great!"

  Zhong Geng also happily said: "I'm in, no problem, haha."

  Lei Xingfeng said: "So, Tan Dawai is the main one, and Zhong Geng is the secondary one. Is there any objection?"

  Tan Da Dao: "None, no opinion, I agree!" He was very satisfied.

  Zhong Geng nodded and said: "Good, I will seriously assist Mr. Tan Da, hehe, I agree." He was beaming with joy.

  Lei Xingfeng said: "Also, Zhong Geng, you should take care of Zhou Tong uncle and Zhou Xin little brother from now on. They are my lifesavers."

  Zhong Geng was startled, he knew that Lei Xingfeng had always lived on Zhou Tong's boat, and couldn't think of anything else. These two ordinary people were actually Lei Xingfeng's lifesavers. He said seriously: "Don't worry, I'll take care of them, I'll arrange..."

  "Assign them a relatively leisurely job, hmm, with slightly higher income, no need to specially raise them up, that would be worse."

  Zhong Geng responded with a "yes" and said: "Don't worry, I'll take care of everything. I definitely won't let you down."

  Lei Xingfeng nodded and said, "It's done, there will be a reward, this is also a task."

  Tan Da asked curiously: "Are these two practitioners?"

  Lei Xingfeng said: "No, ordinary people. When I first came here, I was unconscious by the reeds and was rescued by these two."

  Tan Da said: "Understood, we will take it seriously." He began to grab tasks without hesitation.

  Zhong Geng couldn't help but smile wryly to himself. This guy was really not considerate at all. He also couldn't say much, after all, they were already in cahoots with each other. In this regard, he was no match for Tan Da, who had always been a wealthy and arrogant person, completely unfamiliar with the ways of the sect. In the sect, one must not only know how to fawn on superiors but also how to bully inferiors. Many tasks required competition; otherwise, you wouldn't get any resources.

  It's not that Tan Da bullied him, but mainly this guy has gotten used to this way of doing things and unintentionally started taking advantage.

  Lei Xingfeng didn't mind, as long as Zhou Tong and Zhou Xin got a good deal.

  Wu Zhen suddenly became clever and said: "I know Zhou Tong, hehe, Master, let me handle this matter."

  "Alright, I'll leave it to you to handle. If you can't do a good job, then you'd better pack up and leave on your own."

  Wu Zhen was startled and hastily said: "Master, rest assured, I'll risk my life to get it done!"

  Lei Xingfeng smiled and said, "It's not that serious, okay? Let Wu Zhen handle this matter. Oh, I promised to give a small boat to Zhou Xin, we'll do it together later."

  Wu Zhen respectfully replied with a sound, a small boat is nothing, even a large sailboat is no problem.

  "Also, I have another task. If you can complete it, hehe, the reward is five Wheel Imprint Rings! No, ten Wheel Imprint Rings!"

  Suddenly, Tan Da went crazy. Just kidding, a wheel ring, according to the exchange ratio, that's 10,000 wheel rings. Of course, even if you have wheel rings, you can't exchange them for that many wheel rings. Although wheel rings are the lowest in value among the three types of rings, they also have the most uses, mainly because mid-to-low level disciples can use them. Of course, wheel rings are extremely rare, and once a large sect receives a wheel ring, it's always collected by high-level officials, and others can't get their hands on one.

  "What task did I take on!"

  Tan Da's eyes gleamed with a fierce light as he stared fixedly at Lei Xingfeng, the fervor in his gaze sending shivers down the spines of those around him.

  Zhong Gengdao said: "Tan Daxian, this task... should be taken by us together!" He's not stupid either, of course he'd try to get in on it.

  Lei Xingfeng said: "No need to fight, this task is very difficult for a few people to complete, I need to investigate a message, whoever brings me accurate information, I will heavily reward."

  "What news?" Tan Daodao asked.

  Lei Xingfeng said: "I want to ask about someone's whereabouts."

  Tan Da's face suddenly lit up with joy, as if he had heard something wonderful. He said that compared to those rural tyrants like Zhong Geng, he was in a completely different league, and didn't know how far apart they were. After all, he had been in the sect for a long time and had access to a lot of information, plus he liked to go around gathering various news. He always thought that having more information meant having more gains. He asked: "What kind of person is it? Does he have a name and a sect?"

  Lei Xingfeng said: "There is a name, but what is the sect, I don't know. I only know... she is in a large sect."

  "Ah, a large sect... this is going to be tough. The people in a large sect... there are at least tens of millions, and possibly hundreds of millions..." Suddenly he felt extremely troubled, and the Wheel of Samsara was not easy to obtain either.

  Lei Xingfeng said: "I'm looking for a woman..."

  Tan Da and Zhong Geng saw that his eyes were suddenly not right, and they actually revealed a few hints of lewdness.

  Lei Xingfeng suddenly reacted, laughing and scolding: "Damn, where did I think of that? That's one of my elders, named Aslan, the true body of the Four Rings, the true person of the Great Wheel Seal. However, I don't know which major sect she is in. Alas, I forgot to ask, so I couldn't find her."

  Tan Da was startled, the elder of the Fourth Ring True Body. But Lei Xingfeng was also a Fourth Ring True Body, so he said: "In that case, I need to go out and ask around. If this person is very famous, maybe there's still hope to find him. If he's unknown, it'll be difficult."

  Lei Xingfeng said: "She should be very famous, she is a Green Wheel expert."

  Green wheel!

  This attribute is also relatively rare, especially for practitioners of this attribute, who have two major characteristics: the ability to produce medicinal elixirs and possess healing skills. Every high-ranking True Person has great respect for top-notch masters with this attribute and absolutely does not want to offend such a master. People like this usually have a big reputation among high-ranking True Persons.

  Tan Da let out a sigh of relief, and immediately became excited, jokingly saying "Green Wheel, the true body of the Four Ring's Great Wheel Imprint is actually a woman. This kind of person must be very famous." He suddenly saw a glimmer of hope, and said: "I'll go find her, I still have some friends outside."

  Zhong Geng was completely deflated, he is a rural tyrant, you want to ask about the surrounding situation, such as taking care of Zhou Tong and so on, he has no problem at all, but if you ask him about the outside situation, it's like asking a blind man, he doesn't know anything.

  "Wu Zhen muttered: 'A large sect... I can't even get into a small sect...' "

  Lei Xingfeng asked: "Wan Huzhou, how many large sects are there in total?"

  Tan Dalian's face showed a difficult expression, he sighed and said: "I don't know, Wanhu Zhou is really too big, I still can't use the wheel point, can't pass through the ancient wheel passage to go outside, so the information is limited, mainly because I have never paid much attention to this kind of news."

  Lei Xingfeng nodded, he understood. Tan Dadao had run to a remote place to mix in, of course, would not collect intelligence on large sects. He said: "Is there someone who is informed about this kind of thing?"

  Tan Da thought for a moment, then said: "There is indeed someone who likes to wander around and should know a lot of news. We can ask him." He added another sentence: "He is also the true person of the four-ring true body, the big wheel print true person, and can use the ancient wheel passage. I don't know if he will be at home now."

  "Where does he live?" Lei Xingfeng asked. "How far is it from here?"

  Mr. Tan said, "In the past, it would take three months to get there... The distance was very far... It would take at least two months by boat, and then you'd have to walk for almost another month. If he wasn't home, we would have gone in vain."

  Lei Xingfeng said: "Is there a Wheel Point? If there is a Wheel Point, we can pass through the ancient wheel passage."

  Tan Da Dao: "Yes, there is a Wheel Point, just the right distance from here, about three days away. That person's home is even closer to the Wheel Point, so if we use the ancient Wheel Path, it will be faster."

  Lei Xingfeng nodded and said, "Alright, Zhong Geng will stay here, Tan Da will lead the way, Wu Zhen will go together, and Kun Yu... will stay with Zhong Geng. You two are in charge of things here, with Zhong Geng as the main one. If we leave... it'll be about ten days or so before we come back."

  There are too few people on hand, so Leixingfeng can only use this method to bring the two families together.

  Wu Zhen was overjoyed, being able to follow the real person out would at least broaden his horizons and might even bring him some benefits, which made him extremely happy.

  Zhong Geng didn't feel too much loss, he believed that if Lei Xingfeng found the person and got the wheel ring, he would definitely have a share of it. In any case, he was already considered the second leader. With Tan Da's cleverness, he absolutely wouldn't eat alone, he couldn't bear to look so selfish, which would be unfavorable for Tan Da.

  Lei Xingfeng said: "Alright, let's go find your friend."

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