Elowen: “My lord, this room is our VIP. You can stay in this room.”
Mike then nodded his head: “Okay, but call me when you succeed in convincing the principal.”
Upon hearing Mike, Elowen bowed: “Yes, my lord. Please take your time. I'm going to start looking for 20 candidates for our elite squad.”
Mike nodded, and Elowen left. Mike then scanned the room: “Hmm, not bad. My Zeit clan is indeed poor. I hope the old man and the clan are doing fine.”
After thinking for a while, Mike locked the door and set up a concealed formation in the corner. He placed his ring at the center of the formation and went inside the ring. Since his storage ring can accommodate living beings, when he was inside the ring, Mike felt refreshed, as if he had returned to the cave. The energy from the heavenly crystals covered the entire area. Heavenly crystals constantly release Qi energy until they become useless. Since it was inside the storage ring, the Qi energy that the heavenly crystals released was trapped inside.
Mike then took a bottle of God-rank Qi concentration, opened it, and a relaxing fragrance started to come out. Mike could literally feel that, due to the richness of heaven and earth energy, a mixed fragrance of Qi concentration was in the air. He felt that his body was automatically absorbing the heaven and earth, and he was shocked because he never knew something like this.
Mike didn’t know that he had a constitution unique to the rest. Before, he didn’t notice that his body was actually doing automatic absorption and conversion of Heaven and Earth energy to Qi energy. Previously, he failed to notice it because it was only a small change. When he cultivated in the cave before, he was too focused on cultivation. Now, with the help of God-rank Qi concentration and his body becoming sensitive to heaven and earth energy, his progress became two times faster.
Mike: “So, which means my body can cultivate by itself. It’s just that I can’t feel it outside because the heaven and earth are too thin. So, which means I can sleep whenever I want without wasting much time! But sadly, I don’t have that much free time. I only have 20 thousand years, and I need to become strong enough to defend this realm from the outside cultivator.”
Mike then sat in a cross-legged position and started cultivating. A mist began to form above him, as if Mike's body was forcefully absorbing the surrounding heaven and earth energy.
Meanwhile, Elowen arrived back at her office and saw Rod organizing the heavenly crystals and potions. Rod also noticed Elowen, took a sidelong glance, and blushed, remembering Mike's words.
Elowen moved forward, opened the door, and was about to exit. But before she closed the door, she spoke: “You know what, Lord's suggestion sounds not bad.”
She closed the door, and Rod's brain lagged. He was trying to absorb Elowen's words, and his face turned red, as if he was about to explode but also confused at the same time.
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Rod: “Did she mean the 20 elite squads or…”
Rod didn’t finish his thought because, for him, it was impossible.
When a man falls in love, it's very common to become stupid. The purer the love, the more innocent the man becomes. But the man doesn’t know that, for a woman, those behaviors are annoying. Same as Rod, he was always embarrassed when facing Elowen, while Elowen found it annoying. Women don’t know that if a man is truly in love, his mind is full of imagination, but his mouth becomes empty, and they find it even hard to compose even a simple reply like hi or hello. That's why they call those men “simps” in real life. But they don’t know that those are the type of men who will love them unconditionally—the love they wish for and the love they dream of, right beside them. But they feel disgusted toward it because they don’t understand. Not for Elowen, because she already sees Rod as a dao partner.
While Rod was busy in Elowen’s office, Elowen summoned all the Freeway enforcers.
Elowen: “Now, I summoned you all here to announce our new law, and I will pick 20 who can pass the requirements to become part of the elite squad. They will receive absolute resources. From now on, we will have a task, and every mission will have rewards, and the reward will be Qi concentration potion, from low level gold rank to high gold rank potions.”
The crowd of a total of 138 enforcers was in an uproar when they heard “Qi concentration” because it was rare for someone to sell Qi concentration potion. Even the Freeway could rarely have those since the Freeway Merchant Guild doesn’t have alchemists, and most of the alchemists are recruited by big clans or sects. Now, their boss announced that the mission rewards would be Qi concentration, and they couldn't help but be shocked.
Elowen quietly scanned the 138 enforcers using the scan technique and found 8 with a red aura and 14 with a yellow aura based on Mike's command. Red and yellow must be killed, but not until they were judged properly.
Elowen then called out the 22 enforcers, and they became excited, while the others looked at them with jealous eyes. The 22 enforcers humbly bowed toward Elowen.
Seeing this, Elowen nodded, and suddenly she released her Middle Gold Core aura and suppressed the 22 enforcers, of which only 4 were in the late stage, 10 in the peak stage, and 8 in the middle Foundation Establishment. Elowen then used soul search one after another, and no one dared to move. The onlookers were shocked because it seemed unreasonable for someone to spy on a person's memories.
After Elowen was done performing the soul search, she used wind blades to cut the heads of the 21 enforcers. The sudden change of situation was too quick, and the others were shocked to the core because most of them had been loyal for too many years to the Freeway, but they were just killed like that.
Seeing the other enforcers' reactions, Elowen didn’t think much about it. Instead, she looked at the remaining old man, and she said: “From now on, you can take your granddaughter with you to the Freeway Guild. I will give her a job so that she won’t have to hide anymore. Your heart is good, but your hands are tainted by so much blood. However, you did it to protect your granddaughter.”
The old man's name was Robert. He used to be a guard of a clan. The Yu clan destroyed his village because his granddaughter stabbed the Young Master of the Yu clan. The Young Master of the Yu clan wanted to have fun with her, and that's why Robert's granddaughter stabbed him when he wasn't paying attention. Robert heard his granddaughter scream, dashed forward, and saw the Yu Young Master stabbed in the stomach. When he noticed his granddaughter's torn clothes, he was consumed by anger and killed the Yu clan Young Master. He escaped, killing many Yu clan cultivators along the way, and was saved by Freeway enforcers. That's how he became one of the Freeway enforcers to make a living.