Chapter 4: Beast Crystal

  "We've saved up a lot of beast crystals, let's take out all the low-grade ones and half of the mid-to-high grade ones to buy more advanced spiritual tools and medicines." Yang Tong gritted his teeth and decided.

  "Alright, this is also an unavoidable thing." Luo Xiaojuan was somewhat reluctant to part with it. After all, beast crystals were spiritual currency, and they were the energy source for everything in the house, from household items to spiritual tools and weapons. Although high-grade beast crystals were slightly inferior to standard crystal stones, the key point was that their source was the crystalline structures within the bodies of ferocious beasts, which meant there was no cost involved. However, what made beast crystals precious was their unpredictability - they weren't present in every ferocious beast's body. Some powerful ferocious beasts didn't have any beast crystals, while some weak and small ones did. It was possible that you could kill a hundred high-grade ferocious beasts and not get a single crystal, or you could kill ten weak and small ones and harvest one from each of them.

  Every household that makes a living by hunting and killing barbaric beasts will reserve a large amount of beast crystals as a backup resource like hard currency.

  In case one day the pillar of the family falls down, at least there is this reserve fund to meet the needs of life.

  Now that the barbarian beasts are gathering in large numbers and the beast tide may attack the city, all warrior families have chosen to take out their reserve funds to buy more advanced spiritual tools and expensive potions.

  The next morning, the Yang family had breakfast, and Yang Tong was about to go practice his fist when Yang Tong called out to him: "You're not going to school today, come with me to take a look at the Mercenary Guild."

  Yang Tong nodded immediately: "Good!" Actually, he had wanted to go for a long time. These years, every day was just a routine life of three points and one line, and he had been bored to death.

  Sat on dad's motorcycle and left home.

  The location of the Mercenary Guild is at the intersection of the eight major city districts, in other words, it's in the city center, adjacent to City Hall.

  While driving, Yang Tong said: "Son, after arriving at the Mercenary Guild, observe more, think more, and speak less, understand? The background of this Mercenary Guild is extremely large, even the Municipal Hall doesn't dare to provoke them, they are spread throughout each city and county in the entire Huang Yu Kingdom."

  "Got it, Dad, I won't cause any trouble." Yang Tong replied sensibly.

  The Mercenary Guild is indeed much more magnificent than other places, with just the wide gate having five entrances, a ten-story building that can be considered the tallest in the county.

  To know that the Feng Xuan continent is sparsely populated, take Luoyu County as an example. The entire county town covers a vast area, and every household lives in small villa-style houses, with no need to live in high-rise buildings. Therefore, the ten-story building where the Mercenary Guild is located is one of the few in the entire Luoyu County. Of course, there are no high-rise residential buildings, but they belong to a group of relatively poor people who live there.

  As soon as you enter the gate, you feel cool and refreshing. The entire hall is extremely large, and what attracts people's attention most is the huge screen directly opposite the gate. Various task information keeps flowing on the screen. People come and go, looking very busy.

  "Let's go, I see a few good friends over there, let's go." Yang Tong is extremely familiar with this place, pulling Yang Tao towards the small bar counter on the right. "The first floor is the task hall, the second floor is special tasks, and above the third floor is the trading hall, where many good things can be bought."

  On the left side of the hall, seven men of different builds sat at a bar counter, chatting and drinking together.

  One of them saw Yang Tong's arrival and called out: "Hey, Old Yang is here."

  "Yang Lao Da, is this your son?"

  "I remember your son is at most twelve years old this year, and he has really grown up."

  "Not bad, you have your father's youthful demeanor."

  Yang Tong walked over, smiled and introduced one by one: "This guy who looks like a monkey, you call him Uncle Chen." Among the seven people, he was the thinnest and smallest, indeed looking somewhat like a monkey.

  "Hello Uncle Chen." Yang Tong greeted politely.

  "Wow, you're really understanding, I like that." With that said, he flipped his hand and took out a piece of irregular crystal the size of a ping-pong ball and handed it to Yang Tong: "This is a gift for meeting, take it."

  Yang Tong looked at his old dad, somewhat hesitated.

  "Yang Lao Da, this low-grade beast crystal is nothing but a snack for my nephew." The monkey explained with a smile.

  "Alright, take it." Yang Tong nodded and said.

  "He, Uncle Li." This Uncle Li had a noticeable scar on his face, and was nicknamed Scar.

  "The monkey has shown his, I won't fall behind either." Knife Scar Li Uncle revealed a smile uglier than a ghost and also sent a beast crystal of the same rank.

  The rest of them each took out a low-grade beast crystal and handed it over to Yang Tong.

  Yang Tong ordered a plate of roasted meat at the bar and asked Yang Tong to take it aside to eat, while the adults gathered together to discuss something.

  "I believe everyone already knows." Yang Tong said in a low voice.

  "It's basically been confirmed, otherwise we wouldn't have been staying in the city all these days without going out."

  "Let's discuss how to deal with this crisis, our strength is not the strongest in the entire county, but it also belongs to the middle class. The task of defending the city may be unavoidable." Yang Tong concluded.

  "Old rules, but this time we few people are probably not enough, and must contact more teams to advance and retreat together."

  "Fatty, this is my beast crystal. This is the list of what I want to buy. Do you have a way?" Yang Tong said, taking out a bulging sack from his ring and handing it to the fattest guy. The others also followed suit, taking out their own beast crystals.

  "Don't worry, leave it to me." He took over everyone's list and looked at it in shock, "You guys are going to lose a lot of money?!"

  Several people exchanged a glance and sighed: "We don't want to either, our lives are at stake, we can't afford to lose too much blood."

  Yang Tong ate and listened on the side, but he managed to pick up some clues. He was shocked in his heart and carefully observed the surrounding soldiers, almost everyone had a worried face, with a hasty expression, as if there was a feeling of wind and rain coming, flowers filling the building. It seemed that something big was indeed going to happen.

  At this moment, a middle-aged man wearing a long gown stepped into the first floor hall, and the crowd of martial artists at the door made way for him with respect.

  "Have seen Lord Flame." Some of the ninth-grade apprentice warriors greeted, and those below the ninth-grade apprentices did not even have the qualification to greet.

  As soon as the voice came out, all the masters of the ninth level of martial arts in the hall stopped what they were doing and chatting, and one by one, they cupped their hands and greeted: "We have seen Lord Flame." Including Yang Tong and the other eight people also stood up and cupped their hands to greet.

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