14: Team D's mission

A Martial Warrior's vital energy and blood are especially important.

Especially for a Martial Warrior of the Entrance to Martial Realm.

After all, even the nine levels of the Entering Martial Realm are judged based on the strength of vital energy and blood.

If this poison, Corrosion Blood, can corrode vital energy and blood, then it can indeed cause great damage to a Martial Warrior of the Entrance to Martial Realm.

However, simply corroding the blood is not fatal enough for a Martial Warrior of the Entrance to Martial Realm.

At the same time, there is a certain difficulty in its use.

It must come into contact with blood or a wound to be triggered.

This makes it difficult to poison through food, alcohol, etc.

Looking at the corpse on the ground.

After a moment of contemplation, Xiao Shi began to create various large and small wounds on the corpse, while also punching himself and leaving various injuries on his body, deliberately making himself messy and disheveled.

"This way... they should not be able to see the true combat situation."

He did not want to expose his true strength right now.

Such a disguise was necessary.

Otherwise, if he was completely unharmed while the prisoner had a gaping hole in his body... anyone who saw it would understand that it was a confrontation with a vast disparity in strength.

Now, he looked as if he had experienced a great battle, covered in wounds, and appeared very disheveled.

After doing all this.

Xiao Shi knocked on the iron door of the cell, his voice hoarse and weary.

"Senior Brother Yang, Senior Brother Wang, please open the door..."

Outside, Yang Zhen and Wang Changhuan both showed surprise in their eyes after hearing Xiao Shi's voice.

They quickly opened the iron door of the cell.

"Junior Brother Xiao, are you alright?"

The two looked at Xiao Shi, who was covered in blood and looked exhausted.

Then they looked at the corpse on the ground.

They found that the entire corpse was covered with numerous wounds; just from these wounds, they could imagine the intensity of the battle.

"A Martial Warrior of the Entrance to Martial Realm Fifth Level is truly formidable! It's a good thing he wasn't at his peak, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to defeat him."

Xiao Shi sighed with emotion, a look of wistfulness on his face.

"Junior Brother Xiao, for you to defeat and kill him is already very impressive. With your strength, I believe the subsequent missions will surely succeed."

Yang Zhen patted Xiao Shi's shoulder.

Xiao Shi immediately winced, showing pain.

"...Sorry!"

Yang Zhen thought he had touched Xiao Shi's wound and quickly withdrew his hand.

Wang Changhuan, on the other hand, laughed heartily.

"Let's go, let's go for a drink and celebrate Junior Brother Xiao's successful kill."

The three smiled and walked out of the prison together.

While drinking and chatting.

Xiao Shi also learned more about the Night Watch missions from the two of them.

It was just as the short-haired Night Watch had said before.

Night Watch missions are usually assigned randomly; what kind of mission one receives depends solely on luck.

"Actually, for us Night Watch with some seniority, even if our luck is bad and we receive the most difficult mission, there's no need to despair too much, because we can exchange missions with each other."

Wang Changhuan said to Xiao Shi while drinking.

"For example, if I receive the most difficult mission, I'll go find some of the strong members of our Team Ding to exchange with."

"Missions can be exchanged?"

This was something Xiao Shi had not expected.

"Actually, the four teams of our Night Watch Division all have fixed mission quotas. Usually, our Team Ding's mission quota is to complete at least one thousand missions within two months."

"Among these one thousand missions, there will be approximately fifty first-rank missions, which are the most difficult missions, one hundred second-rank missions, one hundred and fifty third-rank missions, three hundred fourth-rank missions, and four hundred fifth-rank missions..."

"Then the Team Leader will assign these missions to us."

"As far as I know, the other three teams allocate missions reasonably based on the strength of each Night Watch in their team; the strong ones are responsible for difficult missions, and the weaker ones handle less difficult missions."

"But in our Team Ding... the Team Leader usually assigns them randomly."

Yang Zhen explained to Xiao Shi.

"Why is that?"

Xiao Shi was puzzled by this.

He did not understand Team Leader Ding's approach.

It was clearly most reasonable to assign missions according to individual strength.

"Because our Team Leader's management philosophy is different from the other three teams."

"The Team Leaders of the other three teams all clearly know the strength of their respective team members, as the members are personally selected by them. The people in our Team Ding, however, are actually those that the other three teams looked down upon, so they were all gathered into Team Ding."

"So our Team Leader will not cultivate, manage, or operate like the other three Team Leaders..."

"We in Team Ding are all free-range; the Team Leader doesn't pay too much attention to us, nor does he spend time testing each of our strengths. He lets us develop on our own, so in terms of missions, he also adopts a random assignment."

"Anyway, team members can exchange missions with each other, so weaker people will naturally seek out stronger people to exchange with."

"It's just that for you newcomers, it's more about luck, because you newcomers don't know each other yet, so it's not easy to exchange missions. You can only carry out whatever mission you receive."

"This is also one of the reasons why the death rate of newcomers in our Team Ding is high."

Xiao Shi now understood.

Compared to the Team Leaders of the other three teams, Team Leader Ding was somewhat negligent.

But it was also normal.

The members of the other teams were personally selected by their Team Leaders, while Team Ding consisted of people that other teams did not want, so they were gathered here.

Naturally, he would not bother to specially cultivate and manage them.

However, there was one thing Xiao Shi did not understand.

"Will strong people necessarily exchange high-difficulty missions with others? Aren't they afraid of accidents?"

Xiao Shi asked.

"Strong people choose high-difficulty missions, in addition to being confident in their own strength, the most important reason is to gain more contribution points."

Wang Changhuan explained.

"Usually, the more difficult the mission, the more contribution points one receives upon completion. And contribution points, in addition to being able to exchange for powerful cultivation techniques, weapons, and pills, are also key to advancing to Inner Sect Disciple."

"The condition for advancing to Inner Sect Disciple is to raise one's contribution points to twenty thousand within three years of serving as a Night Watch!"

"And to advance to Core Direct Disciple, one needs eighty thousand contribution points!"

"If one only completes missions of average difficulty, even fighting to the death, one can only advance to Inner Sect Disciple..."

"To become a Core Direct Disciple, one must complete the most difficult missions."

Xiao Shi nodded.

He finally understood their Team Ding's missions.

Statistically speaking, the probability of receiving a first-rank mission under random assignment is not high, but given Xiao Shi's personality, as long as this possibility exists, he will certainly make full preparations.

Xiao Shi covertly looked at the prison.

It was rare to find such a place where one could obtain Entering Martial Rank items, and he felt that he could completely continue here, killing prisoners to obtain more Entering Martial Rank items.