novelzi Chapter 28 – Recruited Hou Yixiao
Chapter 28 – Recruited Hou Yixiao
Seeing Hou Yixiao hanging by a thread, Gu Feng rolled his eyes and casually tossed something out from his ring storage.
"Moo!~"
A silver-scaled exotic beast with a bull's head and deer's antlers suddenly appeared. It let out a long howl, and when it saw Gu Feng, its eyes were filled with flattery.
Ever since Gu Feng extorted this creature from the Immortal Messenger, he had kept it in his white jade ring storage. Now, with Hou Yixiao desperately begging for mercy, he remembered he had such a beast at the Elemental Infant Realm by his side.
"Stop her!" Gu Feng ordered calmly.
The exotic beast snorted heavily, its intelligence high. It shook its head, turned around, lowered its head, and charged at Fang Feixue's flying blade artifact with its massive antlers!
"Clang!"
A metallic collision rang out. The beast steadied its massive body, its hooves gripping the ground to absorb the impact.
The five-ringed flying blade was knocked several meters away, spinning back to Fang Feixue.
Fang Feixue was slightly surprised. To withstand her full-force attack, this strange beast must have at least the fifth level of the Elemental Infant Realm!
Gu Feng slowly stood up, walked to the beast's side, and stroked its silver scales. He turned to Fang Feixue and advised, "This chubby Daoist didn't mean it. I'll have her pour you tea as an apology. Why not let him go?"
Hearing this, Fang Feixue was sullenly angry, her gaze at Hou Yixiao still filled with killing intent. However, since Gu Feng had spoken, she dared not refuse and quickly cupped her hands, saying, "Since the Sequence has spoken, how could Feixue not comply? Otherwise, I fear I would be stripped of my cultivation status and have nowhere to go."
Leading the exotic beast aside, Gu Feng handed the rope to Manager Wu and listened to Fang Feixue's words with a wry smile.
Though she was yielding and showing submission, her tone was undeniably sour.
Indeed, one should never easily offend a woman; when they hold grudges, their words can be laced with sarcasm, making it hard to bear.
No longer entangled with Fang Feixue, Gu Feng turned to Hou Yixiao and asked, "Hou Yixiao, would you be willing to serve me?"
Hou Yixiao sat on the ground, despondent. Having just escaped death, he was overjoyed at Gu Feng's words and immediately crawled to Gu Feng, kowtowing repeatedly, "I am willing! Willing!"
Gu Feng nodded and gave Manager Wu a look.
If Hou Yixiao's spells were considered lowly tricks, the talents of these people were downright insulting to one's intelligence.
There were those performing feats like breaking stones on their chest...
Three people even showed up doing splits and somersaults...
Walking on tightropes, balancing ladders on their tongues, jumping through fire hoops, throwing frisbees...
Gu Feng even felt as if he had traveled back to the street performances of his previous life, a chaotic mix of street performers!
The most outrageous was a blind old man who spent half an hour telling Gu Feng a story...
Fortunately, there were some genuine cultivators among them. In just three hours, Gu Feng recruited over a hundred mid-level leaders for the Royal Guards.
These cultivators had no unique traits or advantages, merely possessing pure cultivation prowess, ruthless hearts, and a penchant for killing.
Many were even ghost cultivators, witch cultivators, and demonic cultivators from the northern lands, infamous for their deeds, all tired of their wandering lives and seeking stability.
Gu Feng employed people without fuss, offering generous pay and spiritual soul contracts. Those unwilling could leave as they came.
The only regret was that Gu Feng hadn't encountered any demon cultivators yet. But it was understandable, as the Eastern Region Divine Continent had always been wary of demon cultivators, and they dared not easily reveal themselves here.
The public selection continued into the night, with only a few candidates left from the original fifteen hundred. Gu Feng calculated that this Talent Recruitment Board had added over four hundred skilled individuals to the Royal Guards.
This approach had many benefits, not only diversifying the composition of the Royal Guards but also indirectly further eroding the last remnants of the Chen Long Army's spirit within the Royal Guards.
It was like having a bowl of green beans in front of you, and Gu Feng threw in a handful of red beans. Trying to separate the red and green beans again would not be easy.
"Number one thousand five hundred, enter!"
Finally, it was the last one. Gu Feng thought there wouldn't be any more talents and was about to return to his room to rest. The day's events had been exhausting!
"Sequence, please wait, wait!"
Ouyang Jing, dressed as a shopkeeper, jogged into the courtyard. He bowed and cupped his hands, saying, "Ouyang Jing from the Building of All Phenomena greets the Sequence! I humbly wish to discuss a business deal with you! I hope the Sequence will grant me this opportunity!"