Chapter 922: Membership

Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9

After many summonings, Gu Qing Shan was finally able to pick out an evil creature.

It was a Fear Fiend, the main characteristics of which were long red hair, a single horn on top of his head, and a face familiar to humans.

“How’s this one?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

Lin glanced over and replied: “Do as you like”

Before the evil creature noticed, Gu Qing Shan plucked a strand of hair from its head, knocked it out, and sent it back.

Of course, he actually paid it this time.

Before the evil creature vanished, Gu Qing Shan put one coin into its hand.

After a bit of thinking, he put another one in.

With a puff of white smoke, the evil creature disappeared.

Gu Qing Shan held the strand of hair in his hand and used [Mystery of All Beings Equal]

Very quickly, he turned into a Fiend with red hair and a single horn, while wearing the Silent Dusk Cloak, he gave off a sense of mystery.

Lin judged him: “I didn’t sense anything from him, but you actually seemed a bit easy to the eyes”

“Alright, let’s leave it at that” Gu Qing Shan replied.

He controlled the airship to fly through the sky into the lively seaside area below.

Lin pointed at a certain direction:

“There, that hotel should be quite decent, let’s go there”

“Alright”

…

Two days later.

The middle of the day.

After finishing his swordsmanship practice for the day, he emerged from the bottom of the sea and flew back to the hotel.

Although his swordsmanship practice was done, Gu Qing Shan still had a lot of things to do.

Standing on the balcony of the hotel, he looked down at the light blue ocean and silently recited the martial scripture that Lin taught him.

It was miraculous.

Every time he recited this martial scripture, his understanding of it would increase a little bit more, together with his grasp of the world’s strength as well as his own.

To his swordsmanship, this was a good thing.

“You’re back?”

Lin’s voice sounded from behind.

“Hm, how are you feeling today?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“Today, one of my fingers regained a third of its strength”

Lin raised her hand to show her now-flexible middle finger.

“It’s a bit too slow” Gu Qing Shan replied.

Lin passed him a sheet of paper.

Gu Qing Shan received it and saw various herbs written on it.

“I need these things in order to allow my body to recover faster——- there’s a drug store at the corner on the left of the hotel where you can get all of them” Lin told him.

“Alright, I’ll go buy them now”

Gu Qing Shan put the list away and replied.

Lin nodded and began to stretch her body on the balcony.

While maintaining a calm expression, she formed a stance and began shadow boxing.

Because she was heavily wounded, her movements were extremely slow.

Gu Qing Shan observed her for a bit, silently praising her before turning to leave.

“Sir, are you going out?”

A pretty maidservant came up to him and asked.

“I am” Gu Qing Shan replied.

“The two Seascape Suites you’re staying in will expire later today, if you would like to extend your stay, please come and see me when you return” the maidservant smiled sweetly and informed him.

“I’ll deposit the extension fees right now—— just one day for now” Gu Qing Shan replied.

He took out a bit of money and handed it to the maidservant.

“Very well, I wish you a happy stay for the rest of the day”

The maidservant counted the coins and nodded.

Gu Qing Shan left the hotel and went into the main road.

He couldn’t help but take out the black bag of coins and checked it again.

It was empty.

Besides the coin that can turn into the fridge that he didn’t want to use, there was only a single #10 coin left.

Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

Who knew staying at a hotel would cost so much money?

——–although, Lin’s eyes truly are good, this hotel was easily the best one in the entire world.

Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight and quickly found several drug stores at the corner of the street.

He went straight to the store that Lin mentioned.

The signboard of the store read: [Treating traumatic injuries—– since 19,000 years ago]

So it is a well-established shop.

A cat jumped out of the store and sat in front of him: “Dear customer, would you like to purchase materials or require our help with a certain drug?”

“I need some materials” Gu Qing Shan gave it the list.

The cat received Gu Qing Shan’s list and spoke in awe: “Dear customer, are you buying this for yourself?”

“No, I’m buying it for a friend”

“Your friend is quite impressive then, many of the materials on this list are precious and hard to find”

Hearing that, Gu Qing Shan’s heart skipped a beat.

Just as he was about to respond, the cat bowed and told him: “Please come in, I will have the materials prepared”

The cat took the list with its mouth and turned back inside.

A few dozen seconds later.

The cat had returned with every material in Gu Qing Shan’s list.

“Please take a look” the cat told him.

Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight to check the materials.

All of these herbs contained so much energy that they were practically burning in his inner sight.

“How much are they all?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

The cat gave Gu Qing Shan a list of prices for each of the materials on his list.

After looking through the list of prices, Gu Qing Shan silently sighed.

Even if I sold myself, I wouldn’t have enough to pay for this astronomical amount.

“Thank you for preparing all of the materials for me so quickly”

Gu Qing Shan smiled at the cat.

“It is my duty” the cat replied.

Gu Qing Shan thought briefly before taking out the last #10 coin he had.

“Consider this your tip”

The cat’s eyes lit up.

It received the coin and respectfully bowed: “A #10 coin of the Strife Zones, this is quite a valuable thing, you really are generous”

Gu Qing Shan then followed up: “I have something that I need to do right now, so can I trouble you to wrap these materials up so I can pick them up later on?”

“Of course I can! But please know that our store closes at 5 PM, so I hope that you will return before then. Meow!” the cat replied.

“5 PM was it? Very well, thank you and see you later”

“Thank you for your patronage, sir”

After leaving the drug store, Gu Qing Shan walked aimlessly on the street.

It’s currently 3 PM.

Only 2 more hours until 5 PM.

There isn’t much time.

——-and Lin needs to recover a bit faster since there’s no telling when the Demon Dragon would catch up.

Even if she had lost her Abyssal form, Lin’s own martial arts expertise had already far surpassed the level of the Lords, so she is far stronger than any Combatant in this era.

Other than that, if I want to increase my Card grade, I also need to buy a few Cards to consume.

I went to that Infinite World Department Store yesterday to check the general price of Cards.

Cards are definitely the most expensive things of all, each of them were enough to buy an entire world at the lowest bid.

In the end, the issue is that I’m poor.

Gu Qing Shan fell into thought.

Where can I make enough money?

He released his inner sight and scanned this entire world.

Tourist spots, Cultivation Tutoring Center, Trading ports, Treasure Auction House, Bounty hunter Guild, an underground Casino, World Chefs’ Alliance——

Wait a minute, World Chefs’ alliance?

Gu Qing Shan focused his inner sight on this establishment but soon moved his attention away.

He sighed disappointedly.

A great chef needed great ingredients in order to create food that would drive living beings of the infinite worlds wild.

Although this world was prosperous, it wasn’t a gourmet world, so the chefs aren’t exactly top-tier, most ingredients weren’t high-grade and the pay wasn’t what Gu Qing Shan was looking for.

Trading ports… I don’t really know how to do business.

Cultivation Tutoring?

Payment for this is determined by the results, so it would take too long for money to flow in. Neither Lin nor the room money could wait that long.

Let’s give up on the Casino.

Bounty hunter Guild.

Hmm, bounty hunter?

Gu Qing Shan focused his inner sight in the Bounty hunter Guild and observed the inside.

He soon understood, there were several kinds of different bounty hunters with varying rewards and jobs.

Rather than this, how about——

Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight towards another building.

There you are.

Gu Qing Shan nodded with satisfaction.

He vanished from the street and reappeared in front of a building several thousand miles away.

The 900 million World Layers Hitman Guild.

Pulling the hood of the Silent Dusk Cloak over his head, Gu Qing Shan slowly went through the Hitman Guild’s door.

The lobby of the Hitman Guild was abnormally quiet.

Beside some employees, there wasn’t anyone else here.

“Welcome, esteemed fiend, sir. May I ask what business you have with us?” a blue-skinned girl came forward to greet him.

——what is an evil creature doing here?

Evil creatures have the worst reputation, always looking to tempt people into falling for their tricks, really irritating.

The girl silently thought.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t know what she was thinking, so he just smiled and replied: “I’m here to register as a hitman and make some money”

The girl replied: “If you simply want to make money, I suggest that you register as a bounty hunter instead, after all, a lot of the jobs in their Guild are the same as ours”

Gu Qing Shan sincerely replied: “Being a bounty hunter is too much trouble since I need a team to sign up. But a Hitman can register alone, so I’m here”

The girl opened her eyes wide.

This fiend is too out of the ordinary, who the hell decides on their job based on it being troublesome or not?

But because that black cloak over his body is obscuring his presence, I can’t tell how strong he is.

If this happens to be an Archfiend…

Alright, let’s be a bit cautious.

The girl had no choice but to be patient and tried to probe him: “Esteemed fiend, sir. There’s quite a strict requirement for registering as a hitman for us”

Her message was very clear.

Gu Qing Shan asked: “What’s the requirement?”

The girl answered: “You will need to accomplish one designated job in order to qualify as a primary-level Hitman”

Gu Qing Shan replied, a bit troubled: “But I have my own rules for killing people”

The girl happily told him: “Then sir, please go to the bounty hunter——”

“It’s ok, I think this place is better, in case I really can’t do it, I’ll leave” Gu Qing Shan replied.

The girl’s words froze in her throat.

A male voice suddenly entered into her ears:

[You can’t underestimate any evil creature, lead him to the stone horse]

The girl looked behind her at the counter.

A robust man slightly nodded.

The girl then led Gu Qing Shan to the left of the lobby in front of a stone horse statue.

“Sir, if you really want to become a Hitman, you will need to clearly state your reason in front of the stone horse”

“Why?”

The girl replied: “We don’t want a member of a competing Hitman Guild or someone with ill-will to enter our Guild. Please be assured, this isn’t discrimination towards fiends or devils, everyone must go through the same thing”

“So this is a kind of lie detector?”

“Indeed, sir, no one can hide anything from this stone horse” the girl proudly answered him.

Gu Qing Shan stared at the stone horse and went silent for a bit.

Every staff member in the lobby had turned their attention here.

Anyone who wanted to infiltrate their Guild from another Guild wouldn’t be able to make it past this stone horse.

Nor can a fiend or devil who wanted to join their Guild with ill ulterior motives.

And if either situation was confirmed, everyone here would take action at once to restrain or even kill this possible malicious individual.

Gu Qing Shan quickly noticed the change in atmosphere.

He shrugged and spoke to the horse: “I’m almost out of money, and I urgently need some, so I want to become a Hitman”

The girl took off her gaze from him and stared closely at the stone horse.

A moment of silence.

The horse statue suddenly became living.

It turned and stared at Gu Qing Shan.

Then smirked: [Penniless piece of shit]

After saying that, it turned back and returned to be a statue.

The girl practically jumped forward to hold Gu Qing Shan’s hand back from drawing his sword and tried to calm him down: “Sir, I’m really sorry, it just likes to run its mouth a bit, please don’t take offense”

“I already told the truth and it still reacted like that?” Gu Qing Shan questioned with an irritated expression.

“Ahaha, yes, it was always like that. It acts like that to all of us here, ha ha”

The girl hurriedly replied.

Gu Qing Shan could only stop.

The atmosphere in the Hitman Guild’s lobby calmed down.

But the gaze of the Guild’s staff members looking at Gu Qing Shan became curious.

No money.

It’s been years since we got someone with such a truthful and pure reason to join.

“Fine, then I assume I passed your test?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

The girl looked at the man behind the counter for help.

“Bring him here”

The man behind the counter told her.

He put his cigar down, pulled out a wanted poster from his drawer and slammed it on the table.

“There, kill this guy” the man told him.

Gu Qing Shan received the wanted poster.

The paper depicted a snake covered in glittering scales with the head of a human man, holding a dagger in its mouth while hiding under the sea.

This was a Man Snake, an extremely vicious wild creature that needs to personally kill and consume a prey every day, absorbing some sort of unique energy within the newly killed prey in order to survive.

For a normal world, the existence of such a creature was an ecological threat.

Gu Qing Shan lightly sighed.

If it was something like this, he was more than willing to kill.

“Do you have any information about this Man Snake? Or where it last appeared?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“I got nothing. You’ll have to try and obtain all of that yourself, after you finish the kill, you’ll get a primary-level Hitman medal” the robust man shrugged and told him

“Primary-level…” Gu Qing Shan muttered.

The robust man told him knowingly: “Since you’re lacking money—— and want to make money from this, you’ll need to complete a lot of primary-level jobs, after which you’ll be promoted to intermediate-level, and then advanced-level. The harder the targets of your jobs, the more money you’ll earn”

“Got it”

Saying to, Gu Qing Shan released his inner sight.

Under the shielding of the Silent Dusk Cloak, he fully unleashed his Three Thousand Worlds realm inner sight.

The sky, the earth, the ocean;

The underground structure beneath them;

Every entity, every creature in this world;

His vast inner sight scanned through the entire world at once.

Gu Qing Shan’s eyes abruptly glowed.

“Found you”

He muttered.

Instantly, a sword with an ancient design appeared from thin air.

Oong——-

The sword turned into a streak of light and vanished from the lobby.