<h4>Chapter 901 - Lady Ji</h4>


    Once he became strong enough, he would head to the Underworld Estate and travel to the Swordsoul Territory using the Universal Teleporter there. Hopefully, he would already be at the Divine Martial Realm by then!


    After saying goodbye to the two, Long Chen talked to a few more people before finally finding where the Heavenly Martial Escort was located.


    But Scarlet Sun City was indeed big. Long Chen couldn’t walk that fast due to all the foot traffic, so it took half a day to finally reach the Heavenly Martial Escort at the west gate. He had entered the city from the east gate, so he had to trek through the entire city.


    After confirming with some passersby, he finally found the building. The Heavenly Martial Escort was arge building with dark green roof tiles. They reflected the sunlight brilliantly. Long Chen walked past the crowd and entered through therge doors. There were a lot of people inside, and it was very noisy.


    Most of the people inside were cultivators looking forpanions to travel together. There were also merchant caravans recruiting guards. There were even some rich people trying to find reliable guards to escort them through their journeys. Long Chen looked around the ce and decided that it was probably better to find someone to travel with.


    The Three Royal Territories were massive, and conflict and murder were amon sight outside of cities.


    But Long Chen was disappointed to find that most of the people today were looking forpanions to travel to other medium-sized cities. There weren’t a lot of people looking forpanions to travel to Underworld City. Most of the ones who wanted to go there were already strong, so they didn’t needpanions.


    “Hey, young man! You are only at the Fourth Heavenly Martial Stage. You should stay here quietly. You might lose your life if you go out carelessly.”


    A group of peopleughed at Long Chen and taunted him.


    The strongest person in the building was at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage. Those at the Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage were already on the level of Underworld Soldiers, so they were rarely seen here.


    Long Chen smiled and didn’t kill them. He had long grown used to people underestimating him. A cultivator underestimating an opponent would be the cause of their downfall. Even though Long Chen had decided to let them go, he was certain their arrogance would cause their downfall one day.


    He suddenly saw a group of people congregating in a corner. Long Chen pushed past the crowd to find an elegant booth. Ady was sitting inside the booth.


    She was smiling gently, but her eyes were very sharp. She scanned through the people with a wooden sign ced beside her.


    The wooden sign detailed her request. She was recruiting escorts to protect a VIP on the journey to Underworld City. The reward was fifteen hundred Emperor Crystals. The requirement to be her escort was to be at least at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage, and she was looking to recruit ten people!


    The journey to Underworld City from Scarlet Sun City was indeed further than the routes to the other cities. Because Underworld City was home to a lot of strong cultivators, most cultivators below the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage didn’t want to go there. Fifteen hundred Emperor Crystals was roughly half the worth of an average Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage cultivator. There would be countless dangers during the journey, so the reward was barely attractive enough.


    For the sake of the Emperor Crystals and how beautiful the girl looked, those at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage asked her a few questions before epting her request. Though there weren’t a lot of Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage cultivators in the building to begin with, half of the slots were taken within a short amount of time.


    <i>The fact that they have that much money to spend ... And she’s at the Seventh Heavenly Martial Stage... It feels weird for someone of her caliber to be escorting a single VIP to Underworld City without anyone else prior to this.</i>


    Long Chen decided to risk it. He didn’t know how to get to Underworld City, and now there was a group that wanted to go there. He decided that he would escape with Blood Warp if anything happened.


    Also, he needed to make friends so he could learn more about the Three Royal Territories. He didn''t want others knowing that he was from the Ten Thousand Nations Territory, so he couldn''t just ask random strangers. Neither Ling Xi nor Xiang were here, so he was very lonely. He had no one by his side except for the asionally pompous Little Cat.


    Only strength could give him the freedom to take back his loved ones.


    Long Chen observed thedy and saw that she was wearing an inky-green long skirt. Her face wasn’t extremely beautiful, but she definitely looked like someone who worked in high management for an influential family.


    After deciding to take his chances, Long Chen approached the Lady. Because only those at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage had approached her thus far, Long Chen stuck out like a sore thumb when he stepped toward her.


    At this point, thedy already had six escorts.


    Long Chen’s aura was clearly at the Fourth Heavenly Martial Stage, and no one could detect anything special about him. He was far below the requirement of the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage.


    “What is he doing?”


    “Is he illiterate? Doesn’t he know that thedy is looking for people at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage?”


    Long Chen’s actions made everyone talk about it.


    Hearing their conversations, thedy turned and stared at Long Chen. Even though she was smiling, Long Chen still felt her cold gaze sweeping past his body as if she was dissecting him.


    But Long Chen wasn’t afraid of her. He stood a meter away from her without flinching.


    “You are only at the Fourth Heavenly Martial Stage. Why are you here?” Her voice was as melodious as a nightingale.


    Long Chen kept it short. “Don’t just trust your eyes. If I can defeat someone at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage, can I join you?”


    Everyone who heard him was in mor.


    “What is he saying?”


    “Is he saying that he’s stronger than someone at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage?”


    “That can’t be right. The gap between each stage of the Heavenly Martial Realm is massive. How could he defeat a cultivator at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage?”


    “He’s just a lying idiot. Nothing to see here.”


    Even though everyone was saying that, thedy was interested in Long Chen “Are you telling the truth? You better not regret it.”


    “I’m telling you this so that you can test me.”


    Long Chen took a few steps back and looked at her. It was as if he wanted her to fight him.


    Thedyughed and waved her hand. “Alright, you can join. The Heavenly Martial Escort is not a ce for fights. If you truly have the strength, you can show it to me on our journey. But if you don’t have the strength to fight against someone at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage, then I won’t give you any Emperor Crystals.”


    Long Chen didn’t know why she didn’t want to test him, but he didn’t care. “Thanks!”


    “No need to thank me. I am Lady Ji.”


    Thedy smiled before sitting down again. She gestured for Long Chen to sit with the rest of the escorts that she had recruited.


    “What? No way he was epted just like that.”


    “She must be taking sides.”


    Everyone thought thedy would test Long Chen’s strength and toss him to the side, but the results were different than what they had thought. Long Chen had instead joined the group just like that.


    Everyone else was feeling dissatisfied with this.


    “Lady, didn’t you say that you needed someone at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage? Why can’t I join you even when I’m at the Fifth Heavenly Martial Stage while he could at the Fourth Heavenly Martial Stage?”


    “But you didn’t say that you have the strength to fight against someone at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage. He said that he could. I will make an exception for him this time, and only this one time.”


    Even though she was smiling, her tone was ice-cold. The youth didn’t know what else to say after hearing her ultimatum.


    The other escorts at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage were visibly upset when Long Chen sat down.


    “How can someone at the Fourth Heavenly Martial Stage get the same amount of money as us? What kind of help could he provide if we have to fight on the journey?”


    “I don’t like this.”


    The escorts whispered amongst themselves, but none of them dared to express their concerns to Lady Ji, since she was now their employer.


    Even so, they distanced themselves from Long Chen.


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    It was as if it was an insult to sit near him.


    Lady Ji did not look at Long Chen even once after recruiting him. She was waiting patiently for others to join. Soon, three others were recruited and she put the wooden sign away. All ten slots had been filled.


    Lady Ji was about to give them further instructions when a youth entered the building. “I’ve heard that someone was recruiting people at the Sixth Heavenly Martial Stage and above to protect them on their journey to Underworld City. Is this true? My name is Luo Wei.”


    He was a skinny youth with strange, light-green skin. His appearance and aura were eerie enough to warn others to not get close to him. The others stepped back after seeing that he was here. It was clear that he was quite famous in Scarlet Sun City.


    “I’m sorry, but as you can see, I’ve recruited all the people I need,” Lady Ji said helplessly.


    But everyone knew that she was lying.


    “All the slots are filled? Then it will be an easy fix,” Luo Wei said as he scanned the ten people behind Lady Ji. He chose one of the fiercer looking ones and pounced on him like a panther.


    He was so fast that he passed by Lady Ji within moments and appeared in front of the youth.