19: Chapter 19 Return, Submit the Mission

Chiyun Valley.

Task Hall.

Streaks of light flashed past.

Lin Shen and the others put away their Flying Swords with weary expressions and descended from high altitude.

To play it safe.

These past few days, they traveled day and night without daring to delay for a single moment on the road, hoping only to reach Chiyun Valley sooner.

After all, they were carrying the resources accumulated by the entire Liu Family over many years.

If news of the Liu Family being destroyed were to spread, some ill-intentioned Loose Cultivators might harbor greed and specifically set up an ambush halfway.

Fortunately...

Along this entire journey, it was calm and peaceful; on the way back to Chiyun Valley, the group did not encounter any unexpected incidents.

"We are finally going to submit the task. With the resources harvested this time and the task reward, I can finally retreat in seclusion to Cultivate with peace of mind!"

Looking at the Task Hall, a trace of a relieved smile inevitably flashed across Wang Zhan's originally icy face.

He led the group inside and found Wang Chaoyang, who had issued the task to them back then.

Seeing everyone return safely, along with the covert agent planted in the Liu Family, Liu Pingzhi, a slight smile also appeared on Wang Chaoyang's face.

He warmly stepped forward, heavily patted Wang Zhan on the shoulder, and smiled as he spoke to the others: "Good, not bad. Seeing that you all can return safely, I am finally relieved."

As early as on the way back for Lin Shen and the others, he had already received the message from Liu Pingzhi's communication talisman.

In the message from Liu Pingzhi's communication talisman, he had already understood all the causes and consequences of this task, and naturally knew the perils of this task.

At this moment, Wang Chaoyang couldn't help but cast a rather guilty glance at Lin Shen and Wang Zhan.

If not for Wang Zhan having trump card methods, I'm afraid this task passing through his own hands would have resulted in the entire group of five before him being completely wiped out.

"This time, it is naturally thanks to Senior Brother Wang Zhan!"

Lin Shen and the others all said with smiles.

Wang Chaoyang smiled and nodded, saying: "Rest assured, the Sect distinguishes right from wrong, and the credit that is due will not be shortchanged from you. The Elder on duty today is the Seventh Elder, and I will take you up to find him right now!"

As he spoke.

Unlocking the restrictions via identity tokens.

Wang Chaoyang led the group all the way upstairs in the Task Hall.

Very quickly.

The group soon arrived at a private room upstairs in the Task Hall.

Inside this private room, a Cultivator with the Peak Foundation Establishment Realm was sitting squarely inside.

And this was the Seventh Elder of the Task Hall.

Wang Chaoyang respectfully led everyone inside, and then took the Image-Recording Stone from Liu Pingzhi's hands, along with the Storage Pouch collecting the Liu Family's resources, handing them upward together.

That Seventh Elder nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping indifferently across Wang Zhan.

He did not reveal any emotion, but instead carefully examined this Image-Recording Stone and the resources harvested from the Liu Family.

After a good long while, calculating the resources harvested from the Liu Family, this Seventh Elder couldn't help shaking his head with some regret.

"Sigh, in the end I was still careless. I didn't expect that this Liu Family would actually be so bold as to raise remnants of the Blood Fiend Sect, vainly consuming so many resources of my Chiyun Valley."

The Seventh Elder cursed inwardly, his face showing a rather painful expression of distress.

After all, if not for the matter of the Blood Fiend Sect remnants, a large portion of the resources harvested by Lin Shen and the other task teams at the Liu Family would have entered the pockets of their Task Hall.

Now that such a thing had happened, the harvested resources had become less, and the tricks and channel profits that his Task Hall could make from it naturally became extremely minimal.

Such a huge loss naturally made the Seventh Elder's face ache with distress.

These were all shiny Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Shaking his head, the Seventh Elder turned his gaze to Wang Zhan and the others, offering a reluctant word of encouragement: "Very good, you all completed this task well, and I have seen it all. I will report it truthfully to the Sect, and by then the rewards for slaying the Blood Fiend Sect remnants should be distributed to your hands one by one according to your respective merits."

"This is all Junior Brother Wang Zhan's credit; how could we have the face to take a share from it!"

Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan glanced at Wang Zhan, then stepped out and spoke.

Lin Shen, however, remained silent.

Not my business, nothing to do with me.

Now that they had already returned to Chiyun Valley, he naturally had no need to make any other moves; doing so would instead arouse even more suspicion.

"Hmph, the Sect naturally distinguishes right from wrong. Do you need to preach here?"

Hearing Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan's words, the Seventh Elder couldn't help letting out a cold humph, and a terrifying wave of pressure swept outward.

"Pfft!"

Feeling this terrifying pressure, Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan couldn't help feeling a sweetness in his throat, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood as his body staggered back several steps.

He originally wanted to say a few nice words to show that he didn't contend or compete, lowering Wang Zhan's vigilance.

He didn't expect this move to actually provoke the Seventh Elder's displeasure, which couldn't help making Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan complain bitterly inwardly.

Not daring to hesitate.

Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan immediately knelt on the ground, lowered his head, and said: "Yes, yes, yes, the Seventh Elder's lesson is correct. This Disciple will never dare to talk nonsense again next time."

As he spoke, in order to appease the Seventh Elder's displeasure, Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan even fiercely slapped his own face twice.

"Mn, control your mouth next time!"

Seeing Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan act in such a manner, the Seventh Elder then impatiently waved his hand, signaling that everyone could scram.

The reason why he acted like this just now wasn't really because Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan's stance made him unhappy.

It was purely because Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan bumped into the muzzle of a gun.

He was already quite dissatisfied in his heart because the reduced harvest this time left him with not much oil to skim off, and Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan had to come and talk too much, which naturally gave him a reason to vent.

Everyone cautiously exited the private room.

Seeing Senior Brother Lin Zhiyuan's wretched appearance, the others shook their heads and didn't say much else.

Under Wang Chaoyang's arrangement, the task was successfully settled.

The reward of one thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones was also evenly distributed according to their respective merits.

After obtaining the task settlement.

Lin Shen did not leave immediately, but waited until there were fewer people around accepting tasks before approaching Wang Chaoyang's side.

"What is it? Does Junior Brother Lin have any other matters?" Wang Chaoyang asked with a knowing smile.

Lin Shen took out a Storage Pouch from his bosom, inside which were two hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

He handed it forward with a slightly apologetic smile: "Sorry, the two hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones I borrowed from you last time I only now have the ability to return. Please Senior Brother Wang, do not take offense."

Judging by what was openly visible of the extra oil he skimmed and task gains from this mission, Lin Shen giving a reward of two hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones could already be considered quite generous.

Hearing Lin Shen's words, Wang Chaoyang's eyes lit up slightly. He nodded very satisfied and took this Storage Pouch.

Without leaving a trace, he put the Storage Pouch away into his bosom, and Wang Chaoyang smiled and patted Lin Shen on the shoulder: "We are all fellow Disciples from the same Sect anyway, and everyone has times of emergency. Returning what is borrowed makes borrowing again easy. Next time Junior Brother Lin is tight on money, feel free to come find me as your Senior Brother!"

"Hahaha, then I will have to trouble Senior Brother Wang in the future!"

Lin Shen laughed out loud, cupped his hands in greeting toward Wang Chaoyang, and left the Task Hall.

He naturally knew Wang Chaoyang's implicit meaning.

It was nothing more than telling him that if in the future he wanted to take on tasks with rich rewards and plenty of oil to skim, he should naturally come find him again, and then offer a certain value of Spirit Stones.

Regarding this.

This was already a tacit understanding in both of their hearts.

Lin Shen naturally had no aversion to it.

Pay how much money, do how much work.

If he himself was stingy and didn't squeeze out a single cent, the next time there was a good task, this Wang Chaoyang would definitely not think of him.

The tasks received at that time would definitely be quite difficult, and the returns pathetically small.

Otherwise, without a certain profit, who would issue some good tasks to you?

Shaking his head.

Lin Shen's figure gradually faded into the distance.