Annie and Bill want to see me?
Guan Ya’s expression remained normal, as she wasn’t familiar with either of them, but Zhang Yuanqing was somewhat surprised. He thought for a moment and said:
“Okay! Please let them in.”
Since Fu Qingyang had agreed, refusing would seem deliberately confrontational to his superior. What if Fu Qingyang asked for another sparring match?
I just advanced to Saint and made a name for myself. It's reasonable that Annie and Bill want to visit me, Zhang Yuanqing thought, silently pulling the cup closer to cover the splint on his leg.
The bunny girl bowed and left the room, returning moments later with two foreigners.
The man was tall and straight, with light brown short hair and deep, calm eyes. His features were sharp, and the fine wrinkles around his eyes showed a weathered maturity. He was a very appealing middle-aged man.
The woman was dressed in a skirt suit, a white shirt, and a small blazer, a simple and elegant business outfit. She wore no excessive jewelry, but she shone like the brightest jewel.
With blonde hair and blue eyes, delicate features, and a seductive charm, even women would exclaim in admiration, "A beauty!"
“Mr. Yuanshi, I heard you just sparred with Elder Fu and he broke your leg?” Mr. Bill eagerly approached the bed, expressing his concern.
The bunny girl brought in two high-backed chairs and invited the guests to sit.
Who told you that? Was it Fu Qingyang, that trash? Zhang Yuanqing thought to himself, but chuckled aloud:
"We agreed to compete at the same level, but Elder Fu couldn't beat me and got impatient. He couldn't help but use Dominator-level power."
Bill nodded in understanding, exchanging a glance with Annie beside him, inwardly shocked.
Fu Qingyang had told them: "I accidentally broke Yuan Shi Tian Zun's leg during a sparring match, and he's resting in a guest room downstairs."
They didn't expect there was more to it.
Fu Qingyang, at the same level, couldn't beat him? Annie's eyes sparkled.
Guan Ya frowned slightly. From Annie's micro-expressions, she sensed this woman had a strong desire for Yuanshi.
Guan Ya wouldn't be worried about an ordinary woman, but Love Desire practitioners were the fox spirits of The Way of the Extraordinary, with unparalleled seduction skills.
A beautiful Love Desire practitioner lusting after your soon-to-be boyfriend was enough to make anyone anxious.
Guan Ya was a little worried about Yuanshi's willpower, after all, “I am a Capricorn.” At that moment, Mr. Bill said:
"I'm here on behalf of the Merchant Guild to congratulate Fu Qingyang on his advancement to Dominator. I didn't expect Mr. Yuanshi to be here as well.”
As he spoke, he took out a white card from his pocket and handed it over, saying:
“This is a gift from the Merchant Guild, a Supreme White Card. Holders can enjoy a 25% discount on materials and items purchased from the Guild. With this card, you can attend auctions held by the Merchant Guild. If you have the opportunity to travel abroad, the Merchant Guild can handle your travel and accommodation.”
“Our Guild only issues twenty Supreme Black Cards annually.”
A 25% discount? Saint-level items cost tens of millions at a time. A single transaction could save two or three hundred thousand. Zhang Yuanqing eagerly accepted the card:
“Thank you for the Merchant Guild’s generosity.”
After Zhang Yuanqing accepted the card, Annie smiled charmingly and said, "Mr. Yuanshi, I have something I want to say to you in private."
Mr. Bill took the opportunity to stand up and nodded, saying, "You two can chat."
Annie turned to Guan Ya, her azure blue eyes curved into crescents, revealing a sweet smile:
"Madam, please give me a few minutes."
Guan Ya looked at that angelic face, feeling a strange stirring in her heart, a sense of goodwill. She mumbled:
"Then you two chat, I won't disturb you."
She was captivated by Annie's charm, feeling that such an elegant and captivating woman was beyond Yuanshi's reach, and her fondness and trust in Annie rose sharply.
Love Desire practitioners' charm seemed to work on both men and women? Zhang Yuanqing watched Guan Ya leave, then turned his gaze back and said:
"Miss Annie, although it's my honor to be alone with such a beautiful woman, please keep it brief. Otherwise, when my girlfriend realizes, she'll point a rifle at your head."
“Girlfriend?” A surprised look flashed across Annie's pretty face, then she smiled and said:
"Indeed, you are a rare talent Mr. Yuanshi, I would like to represent the Goddess Association and invite you to become a member. That's why I requested to speak with you alone."
Becoming a member of the Goddess Association, like Demon Monarch? As expected, the Goddess Association wouldn't let go of any potential Night Wanderer! Zhang Yuanqing appropriately showed a hint of surprise and said:
“What is a member?”
"You can think of it as an unofficial member or partner of the Goddess Association. As long as you become a member of the Goddess Association, you can use the Association's channels, including obtaining information, posting bounties, receiving tasks, interest-free loans, and so on." Annie explained the benefits of membership:
"You can make any request to the Goddess Association, and the Association will try its best to fulfill it. If it can't, it will find cooperation channels for you. Also..."
Annie paused, pulled the high-backed chair to the bedside, charmingly brushed her hair to the side, and smiled ambiguously:
"Each member will receive the exclusive service of a member of the Foreign Affairs Department. You can ask me to do anything in life and business."
Including milking cows? Zhang Yuanqing's mind was filled with images of Demon Monarch and Betty's intimate encounters.
He pushed the lewd thoughts out of his mind and asked rationally, "What price do I have to pay?"
Annie smiled. Asking that question meant that Yuan Shi Tian Zun wasn't against becoming a member of the Association. He was shrewdly weighing the pros and cons.
This blonde, blue-eyed woman, whose chest was no less impressive than Guan Ya's, puffed out her chest and smiled:
"An annual membership fee of 500,000, and occasionally completing tasks issued by the Goddess Association. This isn't mandatory. If you feel the task is unsuitable or the risk factor is too high, you can refuse. However, you must complete three tasks each year.”
Zhang Yuanqing fell into thought.
The price wasn't high. The annual membership fee of 500,000 was more like a token gesture. As for the tasks issued by the Goddess Association, although there was an annual quota of three tasks, if the tasks issued by the Goddess Association were too dangerous, it didn't matter if you couldn't complete them. You could just quit the Association.
These explicit costs weren't worth mentioning. The truly dangerous cost was beauty!
As long as you couldn't resist in the process of interacting with a Love Desire practitioner, and you were milked once, you would become a vassal of the Goddess Association.
If you were a genius who wasn't afraid of Love Desire practitioners at the same level, like Demon Monarch, there would still be high-ranking members such as the president of the Goddess Association waiting to sleep with you and control you.
Of course, from Demon Monarch's perspective, even becoming a vassal of the Goddess Association wasn't a particularly terrible thing. A vassal didn't mean a slave.
And as long as you resisted and weren't seduced by a Love Desire practitioner, there were great benefits to becoming a member of the Goddess Association.
It was equivalent to sharing the Association's channels, expanding your network, and having another way to go when you encountered trouble, rather than relying entirely on the Five Elements Alliance for your life.
In addition, if you wanted to investigate Demon Monarch's past, the Goddess Association was a good place to start.
Zhang Yuanqing pondered for a few seconds and said, "If I agree to become a member of the Goddess Association, will Miss Annie be the one providing exclusive service to me?"
Annie suppressed her excitement. “Yes!”
This couldn't be changed. She couldn't be a bridesmaid for other seductresses in the Association.
Zhang Yuanqing said:
"Okay, but we need to agree on three rules.”
Before he could finish speaking, Annie interrupted him in confusion, "What does agree on three rules mean?
"It means agreeing on some things in advance," Zhang Yuanqing said, seeing her nod in understanding, and continued:
"First, our relationship cannot be made public. Second, you can only appear in front of me when I need you.
When I don't need you, you can't follow me. Of course, we can contact each other by phone and text at any time.
"Finally, don't use your charm on me. I have a girlfriend."
Annie nodded, smiling brightly: "Mr. Yuanshi is truly a devoted person. I understand."
She didn't like serving people with her beauty in the first place. Beauty was a secret weapon to be used when necessary. As long as she could develop Yuan Shi Tian Zun into her member, not being able to use her beauty was regrettable, but acceptable.
Most importantly, what she needed now was an opportunity to get to know him slowly. After spending enough time together, would she still be afraid of not being able to sleep with Yuan Shi Tian Zun? She had even prepared the pig tail.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
Annie got up and opened the door. Standing outside was an uninhibited, handsome young man with a gentle temperament. It was Ling Diao.
“Oh, my Miss Annie,
We Chinese have an old saying, 'A day apart feels like three autumns,' but my longing for you seems to have traveled through thousands of years.”
Ling Diao leaned jauntily against the doorframe, struck a pose, and said with deep affection:
"You are the light in my life, and whether I like it or not, I can't live without you. My beloved Annie,
I wonder if I can invite you to dinner tonight?"
Also saying: learn from me
As he spoke, he inconspicuously glanced at Zhang Yuanqing on the bed, as if saying:
What an oily toad, woman of love and lust
Women of that profession are naturally comparatively promiscuous, and thus romantic and oily dialogue might be more to their liking. As if saying: I've learned that
Who knew that Annie would frown, glance back at Yuan Shi Tian Zun, and then turn back, cold and indifferent:
“Mr. Ling Diao, please don’t look for me again in the future, I fear that Yuan Shi would misunderstand”
Ling Diao had completely blanked out. His devil-may-care smile had congealed. This was quite..she..
Ah
Zhang Yuanqing, who had been considering how to explain himself, to win back his mentor’s trust, when he heard a burst of crackling static
From the pouch on the nightstand wafted a man’s deep singing, “Snowflakes are floating, the north winds are howling, heaven and earth are a vast expanse ~” In the lugubrious
music, Ling Diao turned and left, his back view ineffably desolate and alone.
Gold Mountain City, corner milk tea shop. Ren Xue Man Tou slowly suppressed the emotion in his eyes, unobtrusively stowing it away, as though nothing had happened, composedly picking up the milk tea and drinking it down in big gulps. The interior drama, however, had already exploded:
Scared me to death, that traitor Kou Bei Yue actually belongs to Yuan Shi Tian Zun, no wonder he dares to let fly bold words, saying that Yuan Shi Tian Zun wouldn’t..kill me”
“Strange, if he’s one of Yuan Shi Tian Zun’s people, why didn’t he betray me
I’ve known him for some time, is he plotting something?
Could the target be the director behind me?”
“His reward is pretty bountiful, do I want to report his whereabouts to the director, so he can send reinforcements to kill Kou Bei Yue and I can collect the reward?”d
“Aigh, it’s not easy to find a like-minded friend, it’s a shame to kill him, but on the one hand this will guarantee but on the other hand the bounty is indeed tempting, and moreover, that Kou Bei Yue kid, looks simple on the surface, but his schemes run deep.”
While these thoughts churned, Ren Xue Man Tou had already decided.
Which was to report this matter to the director Gu Wang, and see how he decided. Kou Bei Yue finished drinking the milk tea in one gulp, and said with feeling:
“This is really fracking good, I couldn’t bear to buy milk tea to drink before. The way he’s acting, Ren Xue Man Tou is truly strong
Though smiling, he assented: “Yes, yes, we’re all Saints now, we can drink milk tea ourselves."
Fu Jia Wan Villa.
Just having sent Annie away, Guan Ya dragged her rifle into the house. She stood by the bed, looking down at Zhang Yuan Yang with coldness, twitching her nose several times.
Zhang Yuanqing, while saying “Sister Guan Ya calm down”, asked: “What are you smelling?”
“Smelling whether there’s the smell of Chinese hawthorn!” Guan Ya’s melon-seed face was frosted with coldness
“There’s no smell of Chinese hawthorn here, there’s only the smell of missing you!” Zhang Yuanqing said loudly.
What’s the smell of missing me like
The smell of Chinese hawthorn”
Fu Qingyang stood beside the French window in the study, watching Annie and Bill leave. These two foreign The Way of the Extraordinary ones represented their respective organizations, bringing gifts to congratulate him on his promotion to Dominator.
The Association of Goddesses was alright, but the Merchant Guild had quite a bit of business dealings with the Fu family.
Of course, apart from presenting gifts, Mr. Bill had also brought a message, which was that the relationship between the Merchant Guild and the Dionysus Club was sharply deteriorating,
And that large-scale clashes might happen recently.
The Dionysus Club was an overseas sinister organization, the organization and the business people had a feud spanning nearly a century
The Dionysus Club was the greatest criminal organization in overseas
Greatest criminal and business organization, they charged protection fees and controlled also such businesses as elixirs and wine for The Way of the Extraordinary.
Even The Way of the Extraordinary ones with Righteous occupations, wanting to buy some spiritual pills, or potions with amplification abilities, needed to go through the Dionysus Club.
Until the ranks of The Way of the Extraordinary grew ever higher; after passing the period of weakness that Void occupations suffer at the beginning, powerful individuals constantly emerged, the Merchant Guild rose up in the ranks and stole the jobs of the gods
With the help of numerous Righteous occupations overseas, the Merchant Guild had defeated the dominant organization
Snatching the market share, becoming the most important industry among The Way of the Extraordinary ones in foreign lands.
Moreover, the Merchant Guild had also swept away and annexed all of the Dionysus Club in reality.
The struggles between the two sides had continued for a century, so all of their brains have already poured out
Recently, because that unworthy merchant director, had finally agreed to assume the directorship, the Merchant Guild was shouting and celebrating throughout. The Dionysus Club however couldn’t sit still.
All these years, the Merchant Guild, relying on the alliances of the great Righteous organizations, had been able to suppress the Dionysus Club
If the world’s strongest Void occupation were to return, the Dionysus Club’s circumstances would grow progressively worse. To prevent that director from returning the Dionysus Club would definitely start a war with the Merchant Guild soon, Bill had received information from HQ, that the
The elites at the upper echelons of the Dionysus Club, may well travel to China to give that director a warning
When the time came, there would very likely be clashes. The Five Elements Alliance would have a headache over that.
What Fu Qingyang was most concerned about was the sinister organization, taking the opportunity to join with the Dionysus Club to conspire some horrific actions
With his worries, he left the study, walked through the carpeted corridor, and saw Ling Diao drinking away his sorrows in the parlor.
“Your behavior tells me that you’ve been rejected by Annie, but how do I explain the anger and regret secretly hidden in your emotions?” Fu Qingyang stood at the entrance of the parlor
Saying indifferently
Ling Diao, on hearing this, gulped down a mouthful of strong liquor, and said with gritted teeth: “Teaching one’s student to starve one’s master, the ancients were not deceiving me!”
The next day
Zhang Yuanqing, sitting at the dining table, felt rather displeased in his heart, because Ling Diao had blocked him He had lost the guidance of the director in life, and lacking romantic experience, he might well make mistakes in the process of dating Guan Ya.
Aigh, what a mess, he would find another trade for Ling Diao later, like Demon Monarch’s trade, he drank a mouthful of plain porridge, and asked casually: “Brother, are you coming home for dinner tonight?”
“What are you asking that for?”
Jun looked at his younger cousin somewhat strangely This was not something that he would ask.
Swallowing the bun, he looked at his maternal grandmother, and said: “I forgot to say, Grandma.
I’m not coming home for dinner tonight, there’s an operation at the station!
His maternal grandmother nodded, “Remember to be careful, safety first, work secon” His maternal cousin’s hemorrhagic misfortune was today
It was just right to handle some cases of frequent female panic and loss of voice, if it was done by a The Way of the Extraordinary one, I could incidentally make a fortune Zhang Yuanqing thought to himself. PS: Misprints corrected later.