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As the most famous and largest escort agency in Qinghe County, Pingwei Escort Agency naturally had a large amount of supplies in its warehouse.

But it's unlikely that there are any truly valuable items among them.

After all, where is there a safer place than the sleeve of Bao Tian, ​​the strongest member of the escort agency?

Even though most of these items are of rank three or below, they are still quite valuable when there are enough of them.

Mu Yang's gaze swept over several rows of wooden shelves, which were neatly stacked with numerous second and third-tier weapons, and even more than a dozen fourth-tier weapons.

It looks much more luxurious than the armory in their Qingxi County.

Besides the weapons, there were also many porcelain bottles containing pills, which were gathered together.

Its rank is just average.

The highest tier is only three, and most are only one or two, clearly intended for ordinary bodyguards in the escort agency to exchange.

Besides these, there was also a place in the warehouse to store books.

Inside were account books, land deeds, and martial arts manuals of varying grades, as well as methods for building the dantian (energy center).

Unfortunately, those dantian construction methods were the same as the ones he had previously searched from the sleeves of those Qi Condensation Realm martial artists at the escort agency.

Clearly, the types of dantian construction methods within the escort agency are limited.

Besides these, there were some travel supplies, such as carriage parts, saddles and reins, rainproof tarpaulins, torches and tinderboxes, or things like wine and medicine, which were valuable but not of much value to Mu Yang.

Rather than keeping them for himself, Mu Yang preferred to hand these items over to the Demon Slaying Division in exchange for merit.

"This is......?"

While Mu Yang was observing, he suddenly noticed a stack of parchment papers placed together with the land deeds.

He randomly picked one out, opened it, and found it was a map.

It was covered with dense lines, marking the various official roads and country paths around Qinghe County.

Some sections of the road were circled in red pen, with the word "Safe" written in tiny characters next to them. Others were marked with "Bandits," "Agreed," or "Toll," and a few were outlined in thick red ink and marked as "Extremely Dangerous" or "Monsters Appear."

It looks like a route map compiled by a security escort agency over many years.

Mu Yang quickly scanned the areas marked with red ink.

Most of it is the activity area of ​​third-tier monsters, but there are also a few areas with thicker borders in darker ink.

The label next to it reads "Level 4" or "Suspected Level 4, pending investigation."

Mu Yang spread out the parchment sheets one by one and turned the pages one by one.

The map covers hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers surrounding Qinghe County, and even includes the terrain of several neighboring counties.

There are more than twenty places where the existence of monsters has been confirmed.

The vast majority of them are located in the mountains and forests near secluded trails that ordinary people would not take.

There are as many as seven that are confirmed to be of the fourth rank.

Some are in mountainous areas, some in deep forests, and some in river basins—places that are not usually explored in depth.

"What a pleasant surprise!"

Mu Yang carefully folded the parchment and put it into his sleeve pocket.

Compared to gold, silver, and weapons, these maps suit his taste better right now.

This was arguably the most surprising and delightful surprise of the night.

A third-tier demon is guaranteed to increase strength by at least 3,000 jin, and a fourth-tier demon is guaranteed to increase strength by at least 10,000 jin.

The seven fourth-tier demonic creatures alone can increase one's strength by at least 70,000 jin.

If one were to sweep through all the other three-tiered demons, one could easily gain tens of thousands of jin of strength.

Just thinking about it is exciting.

Even excluding the demons from the neighboring counties, the demons within Qinghe County alone could increase strength by at least 100,000.

It's equivalent to more than half of his current physical strength.

"The escort agency is truly a wonderful place!"

Mu Yang sighed inwardly.

If the map were drawn by a government office or the Demon Slayer Bureau, not a single demon would be visible.

However, the镖师 (bodyguards/escorts) of the镖局 (escort agency) are only responsible for escorting the goods and will never take the initiative to attack the monsters. They only care about how to complete the escort in the fastest and safest way.

This gave Mu Yang the opportunity to snag a bargain!

Of course, this is a treasure to Mu Yang. For someone else, at most, they would just report the information to the Demon Slaying Division and get a small reward.

"Wait, credit!"

"Since I get credit for killing monsters during missions, can I just accept a mission, then 'accidentally' encounter a nearby monster and kill it while I'm at it, getting two benefits at once?"

Mu Yang's eyes lit up, and he felt even better.

"Have you collected enough?"

Qin Yuan arrived at the library and looked at Mu Yang and the others.

He took the ledger containing Zhou Yao's records of supplies, glanced at it, and asked, "Is there anything else you want? If not, I'll hand it over to the Internal Affairs Hall. The specific settlement of merits will probably not come down until tomorrow or the day after."

Mu Yang and the others shook their heads.

Seeing this, Qin Yuan took out the two sleeve pouches that Old Liang had given him.

Mu Yang glanced at it.

......

[Equipable Item: Extra Large Sleeve Pouch]

[Rank: Fifth Rank]

【Equipment Effect: ①Storage (White): Can hold non-living objects, with a space size of 100 feet square (approximately 36926 cubic meters)】

[Permanent fixation conditions: Equip this item for eight days, or kill any monster of rank 5 or higher while equipping this item.]

......,

"Extra-large sleeve pocket, a hundred feet square..."

This size is ten times larger than the space in his purple-quality, fourth-tier small sleeve pouch.

Unfortunately, this is a strategic resource, and the Demon Slayer Bureau doesn't have many of them. They are usually only used when raiding homes.

It's not listed in the armory's exchange catalog.

However, even if he had the means, Mu Yang estimated that he couldn't afford to replace it.

It would be more practical to switch to a few more meridian-clearing methods.

As for the small sleeve pockets not having enough space?

Why not just make a few more?

The space of the solidified small sleeve pockets will merge and become unified. As long as enough are solidified, the space will always become larger.

"Go home and get some rest."

Qin Yuan said this and then rode alone towards the Demon Slayer Division outside the city.

Mu Yang and the others naturally went back to their respective homes.

Back at the prefectural government compound, Mu Yang first washed and bathed, then changed into clean clothes.

Then, instead of sleeping, he took out the martial arts manuals he had acquired.

The night is deep and quiet, the perfect time for a breakthrough!