Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 544: Jiang Dad and Mrs. Jiang have been tricked
Jiang Ruolin hadn’t expected to sense the trend of breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage in such a short amount of time.
This had to be credited to the powerfulness of the "Emperor Jun Technique", a good secret technique is exactly like this, allowing you to break through bottlenecks smoothly without the use of Breakthrough Pills.
To break through to the Nascent Soul, Jiang Ruolin had no choice but to give up the upcoming several National Wars, going all in on her retreat for closed-door cultivation.
Meanwhile, Gu Feng stayed in the love nest they shared, acting as her protector.
He brewed tea every day, occasionally using his Divine Sense to switch and keep an eye on the dynamics of the cultivation world.
The later generation of the Gu Family, having obtained the secret technique, were all entering the intensive and orderly stage of retreats to improve their cultivation levels, keeping the tumultuous outside world completely at bay.
Zhang Ruokai, who had received a fragment gifted by Gu Feng to unlock the Sixth Plate of the Original World, set out with his allies, all of whom were experts above the Twenty-Five Layers of Heaven, to explore a cave mansion left by a cultivator from the Thirty Layers of Heaven; they worked together to probe it.
However, they encountered an attack from an Immortal Beast guarding the cave mansion of the Thirty Layered Heaven Realm and were forced to retreat with a loss.
His archenemy also formed a team to go to the Sixth Plate, and similarly, after an unfavorable start, they beat a hasty retreat from the cave mansion world they had discovered there.
Fortunately, they retreated quickly; otherwise, dying inside wouldn’t have been a problem for them, but their magical treasures would have been lost.
At their level, the magical treasures were all high-tier and precious, and losing them would mean a significant reduction in combat power.
Apart from these two camps, other families with cultivators above the 24 Layers of Heaven who were also aiming to be Emperors, all set off to explore the Sixth Plate as well.
But alas, not a single party made any gains.
After all, the cave mansions left in the Sixth Plate World were those of cultivators from the 29th to the 33rd Layer, and those cultivators were once Immortal Lords!
They had cultivated secret techniques of Immortal Level.
These were exactly the advanced secret techniques needed by cultivators above the 25th Layer Heaven.
Even the secret technique currently cultivated by Zhang Ruokai was merely of Emperor Level, and he was the only one among many cultivators who had reached the pinnacle of Emperor-Sealing, the 28th Layer Heaven.
To advance further to the realm of Immortal Lord, he would need an Immortal Level secret technique.
Or, he could improve and comprehend the Dao to advance his current Emperor Level secret technique into an Immortal Level secret technique.
But that was too difficult, akin to evolving and forging a new Dao.
He hadn’t seen any signs of advancement in his cultivation for over two thousand years, and it felt like he had reached the limit of his secret technique.
Thus, he planned to enter the Sixth Plate World in search of a new breakthrough opportunity.
The mounts of those fallen Immortal Lords from the Sixth Plate World, albeit having only about the strength of the 20 Layers of Heaven in the past,
But nearly 20,000 years had passed, and these juvenile beasts that had guarded the cave mansions had since grown, bred, and multiplied in great numbers.
Even if they hadn’t reached the strength levels of their master cultivators, they were averaging around the 28th to 30th Layers of Heaven.
Some even reached the strength of lord-level Immortal Beasts, soaring to the 32nd Layer Heaven Realm!
Considering a single Layer Heaven as a significant gap, a high-level cultivator like Zhang Ruokai at the 28th Layer Heaven would find it challenging to enter even the lowest level, the 29th Layer Heaven Immortal Lord’s cave mansion.
So their failure was inevitable.
Fortunately, the mechanism in the Original World where death does not lead directly to falling gave many cultivators a margin for error.
Therefore, high-level cultivators from the major families decided to collaborate on a large scale, planning to jointly subdue a cave mansion first and then obtain Immortal Level secret techniques.
However, due to each harboring their own schemes and mutual calculations, along with uneven contributions, this cooperative effort ended in failure.
This exploration also resulted in several high-tier Emperor-Level cultivators losing quite a few of their life-bound magical treasures within the cave mansion, leading to arguments and parting on bad terms.
This, in fact, is just the usual deceitful state of the cultivation world.
Everyone wants to be the first to obtain the Immortal Level secret technique, though they all talk of cooperation, they each calculate to ensure the other side doesn’t succeed.
Don’t be fooled by the high-level cultivators’ spectacular entrance into the Sixth Plate World—once they come out, if you ask them about their outcomes, each of them stays silent.
All of them are deeply afraid that a thorough investigation might reveal that they left their magical treasures behind in the cave mansions, which would lead to a diminishment of their strength and possibly provoke attacks from enemies.
Gu Feng’s gaze shifted from these high-tier cultivators to Jiang Dad and Jiang Mom, who had recently started their own business.
It was because during Jiang Ruolin’s cultivation retreat, her parents made numerous calls, but Jiang Ruolin didn’t answer.
Only after Gu Feng answered the phone did he learn that they seemed to have encountered some trouble.
Initially, they thought that this agency work was not difficult—just help accept some bounty tasks and sit back and collect the dividends.
Little did they know that they had been set up.
The company called "Star Alliance" that Jiang Dad and Jiang Mom were acting for is one of the top ten in the entire cultivation world.
In it, the number of top-tier cultivators had reached the Fifteen Layer Heaven.
Normally, only when accepting tasks from the Third Plate World would the group’s high-tier cultivators be deployed, and such high-level bounty tasks are plentiful. There’s no way these would fall into the hands of small agents like Jiang Dad and Jiang Mom.
So, they could only accept missions for instances from the Second Plate World.
The power levels in the Second Plate are divided from Fourth Layer Heaven to Ten Layers Heaven.
This plate is currently the most competitive in the whole world.
You must realize that among hundreds of billions of cultivators, the majority are at this level.
For over ten thousand years, those valuable cave mansions, magical treasures, and resources in the Second Plate have been nearly exhausted.
Apart from some special secret places that have yet to be cracked by current Array Masters, most of the resources are sparse.
Consequently, many fraudulently leaked treasure maps appeared on the market.
Some people deliberately set up traps and ambushes in certain cave mansions to lure those cultivators with ’treasure maps’ inside and then kill these cultivators to steal their magical treasures and valuable items!
And this was precisely the kind of event that Jiang Dad and Jiang Mom had encountered.
The two were novices at this kind of work and couldn’t discern the validity of these bounty tasks.
As a result, they posted these tasks on the platform, and the loose cultivator mercenaries contracted by the group would trust the tasks issued by the platform and take them on.
But then the platform-contracted cultivators who followed the bounty seekers into the cave mansions would get killed in a trap, and all their possessions would be looted.
The platform-contracted cultivators would naturally first confront the main person responsible for issuing the tasks.
That is, Jiang Dad and Jiang Mom.
Since the two of them couldn’t discern these ’Anti-Killing’ bounty tasks, they were to blame.
And of the last ten tasks they had taken on recently, the first four turned out to be ’Killing Trap’ missions, which meant they were liable for compensations and also led to a situation where their agency account’s issued bounties were not taken by the group’s mercenaries.
There was also an accompanying mandatory clause.
That is, the agency company could review and discern the task issued by the bounty seeker, but once you accept it, if your ’mercenaries’ fail to meet the deadline, you are required to pay a breach of contract compensation.
In other words, if the ’Star Alliance’ contracted mercenary cultivators choose to boycott Jiang Dad and Jiang Mom’s posts, they would also have to pay a breach of contract fee to the bounty seekers!
Jiang Dad sounded very exhausted over the phone, "We thought it was easy at first, but who knew the waters were so deep here. It’s our first time encountering such a situation, and we really have no options left."
After listening to all this, Gu Feng asked, "How much is the compensation?"
Jiang Dad sighed, "We have already paid out our savings to the group for compensating the mercenaries who were killed in the traps, and now the problem is with the next six tasks, which are a bit tricky because the level of the cave mansions specified by these tasks is around the Ten Layers of Heaven, and the group’s high-tier cultivators are afraid of the killing traps, so they dare not take them, asking us to pay breach of contract fees to cancel them."
Jiang Dad was obviously crying out of urgency, "But the bounty offered by these few big tasks is very high. If we were to compensate at 10% of the reward as breach of contract, the six tasks amount to nearly tens of millions of spirit stones. Where can we find that amount of money?"
Gu Feng had no choice but to comfort them, "Don’t worry; I’ll handle it. I’ll take on the remaining tasks."
