My equipment is designed for cultivation; I started by slaughtering my way through a small world.

Chapter 195 The Company's Favor Can Never Be Repaid

Gu Qing was unaware that once he left the ancient remnant plane, the entire plane's situation would undergo a tremendous change.

Because of Gu Qing's intervention, the fates of many people have been altered.

Not to mention what might happen in the future.

When the guiding light of the supreme immortal artifact [Gate of the Void] shone in the trial hall of the Immortal Wood Group, figures with different auras quickly gathered in the hall.

Having gone through three mercenary trials, it would be enough to select usable individuals from this group.

Some of them had the aura of the Foundation Establishment Realm, while others still had the aura of the Qi Refining Realm.

The third trial mission has two standards.

To participate in the trial, mercenaries must advance to the Foundation Establishment stage and obtain the Phoenix Perching Wood.

To be precise.

What the Immortal Wood Group actually values ​​is the standard of advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

As for obtaining the Phoenix Tree, the original intention of this mission was not to test the mercenaries, but to use this mission to manipulate and test them.

To know.

The Nirvana Trial held by Phoenix Palace attracted participants from all planes of the Immortal Kingdom, and the competition was even more intense than the Bloodline Competition.

If the second task is not completed, the company will have a reason to force the trial mercenaries to renegotiate their contracts.

A while later.

When the guiding light of the Void Gate fades, it means that all those who survived this trial have arrived.

The Foundation Establishment sword cultivator who had been guiding everyone arrived at the front of the trial hall once again. His gaze swept over all the trial participants, and a smile appeared on his face as he said, "Congratulations to all fellow Daoists on successfully establishing your foundation. Next, you will report to the military camp and be assigned to different dimensional conquest teams."

"As for those who failed to establish their foundation in this trial—"

The Foundation Establishment sword cultivator's smile vanished, replaced by a cruel expression: "Those who have failed to establish their foundation, you have one last chance, which is the Blood Trial."

The Foundation Establishment sword cultivator finished speaking.

Immediately afterwards, two more cultivators from the Immortal Wood Group came to the front of the group.

"Foundation Establishment Realm mercenaries, come with me."

The cultivator who was guiding everyone was also at the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, this person's aura was extremely powerful.

It is stronger and more ferocious than many Foundation Establishment mercenaries who have just completed their third trial.

After leaving the trial hall with the Foundation Establishment cultivator, the group walked for a while and then arrived at a huge military camp.

Besides Gu Qing and his group of mercenaries, there were also mercenaries selected from other places gathered in this military camp.

"I know that the vast majority of people did not complete the second mercenary mission."

"Don't worry, everyone. The company will be signing new official mercenary contracts with you all later. Even if you don't complete the second mission, it's okay. You can still become official mercenaries."

"Furthermore, each newly promoted mercenary will receive a low-interest loan of 50 million from the company, which can be used within the group to purchase various true techniques, strengthen bloodlines, and buy magical artifacts and talismans, etc."

"The company will not treat everyone unfairly!"

"Queue up first—"

The Foundation Establishment cultivator who brought everyone here said to the crowd.

Many people breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

According to the student loan agreement they signed in high school, if they fail to get into university, they must become trial mercenaries for the Xianmu Group.

If they fail the trial mission, they will become test subjects of the Immortal Wood Group, participating in various cutting-edge immortal arts experiments and testing their technological achievements in the Crimson Trial.

Gu Qing, mingling in the crowd, couldn't help but roll her eyes.

An abstract fairyland.

An abstract fairy company.

This guy's taking out a loan to work has become a perk.

Following this pattern, use company loans to buy company products and continue to relentlessly expand the company's reach.

This scheme is a series of interconnected steps.

If the contract is amended, it's estimated that this debt of gratitude will never be repaid in this lifetime, and in the next life, one will have to work like a slave for Xianmu Group to pay off the debt.

Fortunately, with the current technology of the Immortal Kingdom, it has not yet mastered the Reincarnation Immortal Technique, and therefore cannot control the reincarnation authority over the beings of the Immortal Kingdom.

At least ordinary people can delete their accounts and stop playing.

Just as everyone was queuing to amend their contracts, Gu Qing glanced ahead and saw a dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators with extremely fierce auras at the front of the line.

These people all bore scars, more or less.

Someone with a centipede-shaped scar on their face is already considered to have delicate features.

Some were even more ruthless, losing their arms entirely and replacing them with demonic limbs—clearly a human modification technology developed by the Xianmu Group.

The line kept moving forward, and soon it was Gu Qing's turn.

"This is the new contract, sign it!"

As soon as Gu Qing sat down, an employee from Xianmu Group handed him a contract.

"Feel sorry."

"I do not intend to renegotiate my mercenary contract."

"Um?!"

Upon hearing Gu Qing's words, the employee in charge of re-signing the contract frowned, put down his pen, looked up at Gu Qing, and said sternly, "What, you think you can negotiate with the company just because you have some talent?"

"Let me tell you, you haven't even completed the third mercenary trial mission, what right do you have to talk—"

*Snap!*

Before the other party could finish speaking, Gu Qing tossed a jade box onto the table.

"What do you mean?"

The employee responsible for re-signing the contract was very unhappy.

"Just open it and you'll know!"

"Inside is the quest item for the third mercenary trial: the Phoenix-Perching Wutong Wood."

Gu Qing said calmly.

"You...you really completed the mission?"

The employee in charge of re-signing the contract changed his expression and said in a trembling voice.

Before he presided over the re-signing of the contract, he received veiled instructions from Sima Xiao, the dean of the Bloodline Research Institute, to give Gu Qing a good talking-to before signing the contract again.

however.

In his plan to reprimand Gu Qing, he implicitly assumed that Gu Qing had failed to complete the task.

But something's not right with this script. How can Gu Qing complete the mission?

His plan to reprimand his opponent died before it even began.

Trembling, he opened the spirit-sealing jade box and saw a section of tree branch, as red as jade, with amber light flowing from the broken edge, and phoenix patterns flowing in the shadows.

A surge of heat emanated from this branch, making the air slightly hot.

"Did someone actually complete the mission?"

"That's impossible. Even Zhong Jiufan, who ranked second at the end of the second mercenary trial, died in the Nirvana Trial."

"Gu Qing actually completed the mission. He truly deserves to be called the man who surpassed Zhong Jiufan by more than 100,000 points."

"...

Many of the mercenaries in the same batch stared at the phoenix-shaped parasol tree and couldn't help but sigh.

Everyone recalled the terrifying scene of Gu Qing slashing 23 settlement points at the end of the second mercenary trial.

This time.

Gu Qing is probably the only one capable of completing the mission.

"Is it okay now?"

A cacophony of voices rose around them, but the employee in charge of the contract re-signing was dumbfounded.

What should we do?

The company certainly won't let go of a super genius like Gu Qing.

However, without a new contract, he wouldn't be able to complete the tasks assigned by the company.

"Slap slap slap"

Just when the stalemate was at its peak.

A round of applause suddenly came from behind Gu Qing, followed by praise: "As expected of a talent that even Zhang Yubai praised highly, you really do not disappoint."