72 First mission (1/2)

Bai Yun left the bar before heading home. As he did, he started to read the information on the card given to him. Bai Yun had already told the bartender that he wasn't going to kill innocent people. The bartender had accepted it. There were many different kinds of personalities in the outer section of blood moon. Some of them were here to hone their craft, some to fight powerful enemies, and some for the thrill. So he was used to some eccentric requests. Besides, he had already thought of Bai Yun as a young master who wanted to play an assassin, so he was given some leeway.

The person that he was asked to kill was a local tyrant. Even though yellow city was controlled by the major forces of the continent it did not mean that everyone here was extremely strong. Just like anywhere else, there were mortals and weak people eking out a living in the shadows of the strong here too.

And the further you walk into the neglected parts of the city, the weaker and darker it gets. In places like this, the police of the city, which is controlled by the hunters union to maintain law and order in the city, does not even appear. Thus these places were even worse than the outside world, places where fists rule without reason.

And there were places where the strongest was only in the qi condensation realm even in the city. These would be places where most of the inhabitants were mortals. And it was in one of these places that Bai Yun's job was going to take him to.

In a little slum outside the city, there was a place called leftover lane. It was ruled by a local gang of bullies who would kill anyone who resisted their will and did whatever they wanted, including raping and pillaging. The job was placed by the inhabitants of leftover lane. Here the job was to kill the leader of the gang, a ninth stage qi cultivation realm practitioner.

Since the job was placed by the poor residents of the place, it was not very wealthy. In fact, the money offered by them was the very least that could be offered for a ninth stage qi condensation realm practitioner. As a result this mission was placed in the bottom of the pile, with no one willing to pick it up.

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But the blood moon was very professional. If they could not finish the mission in a year, they would return the money deposited. This was the reason the people trusted the blood moon too. And the idea was good for blood moon too. Even if a mission was not completed, they would still gain money that they could keep for a while. The crescent moon organization could invest that money and make a profit in the period the money was deposited with them. Even if a single such mission was very cheap, a lot of similar missions would lead to a lot of money, which would lead to a lot of profit as well.

And the reason that Bai Yun ended up getting this mission was also because of the soft spot of the bartender. As a professional, he would never do the job for so little compensation, but giving the job to Bai Yun could be considered as public service.

Bai Yun looked at the map at the back of the card and started to walk home. The place that was mentioned on the map was quite far from the pub, so he had to walk a great distance. If he went there tonight, he would not be able to get back by daybreak. Bai Yun was not even the slightest bit bothered by the mission. He could most likely kill someone who barely reached the peak of qi condensation using the worst kind of techniques even in a frontal match. But he was terrified to his bones of the thought of his mother catching him out of the mansion. Death might be a preferable alternative.

So Bai Yun directly returned home. Thankfully it was still dark out by the time he returned. It seemed as if his mother had not checked in on him when he was out, his father must have made sure of it. Bai Yun knew that his father was still watching when he left last night.

Bai Yun crept back into his room and slipped under the covers once again. He slept for a few hours and went out at sunup.

Bai Yun spent the whole day both exercising as well as devising a plan for tonight. By the afternoon, he had recovered to his perfect condition. And, due to the secret technique he employed, he was stronger than ever before.

In the afternoon Bai Yun spent it trying to convince his mother to let him out of the mansion. After hours of persuasion and promises by him, and aided by his father, finally she relented. But even then she did not give in completely. She only relented under the condition that old Hi accompanies him.

Bai Yun was fine with it. After all old Hai was mostly responsible for protecting him from the shadows and would not interfere with his day to day activities. And more importantly, he would be able to get good help in transportation. If he was to travel all over as part of his missions, he might end up spending more time moving rather than killing. Yellow city was truly too vast, and the jobs that he would be getting would be all over the place. After all, the blood moon only cared about how he finished the mission itself, not how he got there.

Once the sun set, Bai Yun asked old Hai to drop him off near the leftover lane. Funnily enough, there were multiple leftover lanes in the city, so old Hai accidentally took him to the wrong one at first. He had used one of the clan's map to locate the place. After all, someone like old Hai had no reason to go to such places at all. Only after confirming their location with the map given along with the mission, and realizing the mistake, did they turn back and go to the right one.