Ye Liuyun had no intention to fight himself. Instead, he hoisted Orchid on his shoulders, trailing behind them to watch the exciting battle.

The martial practitioners in the fort turned pale at the sight of them being protected by a level five professional, fearing a brutal attack.

"Defend the gate! As long as their Level 5 experts can’t get in, they won’t be able to leverage their advantages!" Their leader deployed most of their manpower to the front.

Once everything was set, Ye Tiandao advanced to the line and directly unleashed a Colossal Rhino, charging toward the stronghold.

Wu Qingcheng and her people, along with their demons, raised their shields as barriers and followed behind it.

The gate was naturally not as sturdy as the city walls, crumbled under one hit from the rhinoceros. Wu Qingcheng and others stormed in.

Ye Liuyun also unleashed Lei Ming, Dragon Lady, and Manshu to join the battle and get active.

Ye Tiandao, Leiming, Longnu, and others were officially the most powerful and unstoppable martial practitioners once they made their way beyond the gate.

Their leader was struck by a bolt of lightning from Lei Ming, and had his divine soul devoured by her. After a short battle, the remaining members immediately surrendered.

It wasn’t just the overwhelming strength of Ye Tiandao and Lei Ming, Wu Qingcheng and others were impossible to be resisted either.

Even Wei and the other mercenaries could slay across realms, it was almost effortless in this battle. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Ye Liuyun watched the battle from a high place with Orchid. After observing numerous battles, she was becoming braver.

The prisoners from the Poison Dragon Mercenary Group didn’t even enter the fort before the battles inside ended.

They thought they would be made cannon fodder before witnessing Ye Liuyun’s strength.

After the battle ended, Ye Liuyun ordered them to repair all damages of the fort. Wei, on the other hand, made the surrendering members sign a sould contract with him.

The Tiger Mercenary immediately swelled from its original number of twenty-something people to a few hundreds strong, as well as an increasingly abundant resources at hand.

Ye Liuyun told Wei and the others, "Those who do not wish to fight can stay in the fort. Those who wish to, can continue to train."

Master Wei and other original mercenaries didn’t expect that their live would met a change in less than a month time, not having to go out and put their lives at risk anymore.

Yet, they all wanted to continue the training. They knew that only by becoming stronger could they truly ensure their safety. Even if they stayed inside the fort, a stronger power could wipe them out any time.

What they didn’t foresee, however, was that the forthcoming training was all going to be a real fight.

This time, with the Poison Dragon leading the way and Helian Xiu leading the team, they embarked with Wu Qingcheng and others to subjugate the minor powers within their domain.

On the other hand, Ye Tiandao, along with Leiming, Long Nu Manshu and various demons, launched a surprise attack on another similar power scrambling for survival—with the clone guarding in the shadows, bolstered by the hundred of ordinary soldiers of the Blade Legion that Ye Liuyun had assigned to them.

Faced with these untrained martial practitioners, their task of subduing them was as easy as turning their hands.

Ye Liuyun immediately took power of two powers outside the buffer zone.

However, they were separated by a larger power—the Kong family, who had issued the task at the Goldragon Hill.

The Kong family was a mercenary family on the border of the east, with business relations with many other large families. They specialized in services to explore secret realms and providing cannon fodder.

Rumor had it that there seventh level experts within their family.

Meanwhile, they were also sending people to Qi’s Fort to demand the remaining thirty martial practitioners who were set to explore Goldragon Hill.

They had assembled over three hundred people for this exploration.

Though Ye Liuyun was quite curious about the situation at Goldragon Hill, he was currently occupied and could only prepare to hand over the hostages for the time being.

"Eh, where’s the fort leader?"

The person sent by the Kong Family was an external executive Kong Chenglin, a middle-aged martial practitioner. He was supposed to settle the payment with the Qis once they had enough people, not expecting the fort to change hands.

"I killed him! Now this place belongs to the Tiger Mercenary," Ye Liuyun explained to him.

"You killed him? You dare to kill our Kong Family’s men?" Kong Chenglin was obviously annoyed.

"It’s all about money. Is there any difference who you deal with? I don’t see a problem maintaining this collaboration, we’ll take any mission you have," Ye Liuyun said indifferently.

"How can it be the same? We only recognize the Qi Fort leader!"

Whenever he visited in the past, the fort leader would receive him warmly, and sometimes he even got to glean quite a few benefits. But how could Ye Liuyun bow to him, hence his attitude was strongly dissatisfying to Kong Chenglin.

He didn’t really mind the change of hands as such. But when it impacted his own interests, he naturally refused to agree.

However, Ye Liuyun retorted with a smile, "I have already slain him into halves, it’s going to be a real hard job if you insist to see him!"

"You..." Kong Chenglin was so angry he was lost for words.

Ye Liuyun was of the fifth realm, while he was merely in the early stages of the fourth realm. Moreover, he only brought along two guards, clearly not a match for Ye Liuyun.

A wise man doesn’t fight when the odds are against him, so of course he wouldn’t provoke Ye Liuyun.

Besides, he had to take thirty people back with him. If he couldn’t complete the task, he would have a hard time explaining to his masters and the clients as well.

"I will report the change in ownership of Qi Fort to the higher-ups. But you still owes us thirty men. Hand them over to me first so I can complete my task."

Ye Liuyun nodded, "We shall continue with the deal, I have prepared the men. But for this last delivery, isn’t it time you guys settled the payment?"

"What fee? If I’m going to settle any fee, it’s with the Qi Fort leader, not you!"

From the moment Kong Chenglin learned of the personnel change here, he had already been strategizing on how to pocket this money to himself.

Ye Liuyun didn’t entertain his nonsense either, "Close the deal with the money right now or you’ll leave with nothing."

"I’m only paying for the 30 men, that’s our deal!" Kong Chenglin cunningly responded.

"Get lost!"

Ye Liuyun cursed and turned right away into the fort without giving him any heed.

"Ah? How dare you curse at me? Well, young man, just you wait. Once I gather enough people, I’ll be back to deal with you!" Kong Chenglin, caught off guard, had not anticipated that Ye Liuyun wouldn’t even consider him.

He thought of another faction neighboring theirs and rushed over to get thirty people from them while there was still time.

As he hastily made his way to the other faction, he schemed about how he would deal with Ye Liuyun upon his return. However, the other fort also had their hands changed when he arrived.

And astonishingly, it was the Tiger Mercenary.

"This is not our call. You should find our leader Captain Ye. He’s in Qi’s Fort!" Ye Tiandao tossed out these words and subsequently ignored him.