A Homeless Cultivator - 448

Zhu Yi shook his head and got in line to use the crystal pads. After 10 minutes, he was up.

He quickly found a fitting mission and set out, bringing the guilds loan bag and his weapon as usual.

Zhu Yi ran along the path and soon reached his destination.

The next day, he returned to White Palace city after finishing his mission.

As he saw it in the distance, he noticed a grand scene. Floating just outside White Palace City was a giant flying ship. The ship was in the shape of a sparrow.

"The sky sparrow sect has arrived." Zhu Yi mumbled.

As he got closer to the city and saw some buildings, he saw many decorations, as if a festival was taking place.

This was White Palace City, perhaps the greatest historical monument in the world. All sects wanted their disciples to visit it, and if any sect could send people to visit, White Palace City would constantly be filled with sect members.

However, in order to keep White Palace City as a true city and not just a landmark or monument, the top ten sects of the world had created a system of visitation.

This was all Zhu Yi knew. He did not know how the system worked, but he knew that it was the reason why White Palace City was not filled to the brim with sect members and was instead a gathering place of rogue cultivators.

All he knew was that one of the top ten sects of the world visited once a year. As for sects not in the top ten, they could only send their disciples in without using the name of their sect or going with them.

Zhu Yi walked towards the rogue cultivator guild. As he walked further and further into White Palace City, there were more and more decorations.

Although all of the decorations were spotlessly clean, Zhu Yi could still spot some signs of aging on a few. It seemed that they did not make new decorations for every visit.

Just as Zhu Yi was about to reach the rogue cultivator guild, he noticed a large number of people standing on the side of the road, looking in the same direction.

Zhu Yi made his way to the side and watched. After a few moments, a group of people a little older than Zhu Yi, but not yet adults, passed by while sitting on the top of a fancy carriage. As they passed by, many people clapped their hands. 

The atmosphere was truly like a festival.

As the carriage passed by, Zhu Yi made his way to the rogue cultivator guild to turn in his turtle claws.

He did not face any more issues and walked out of the rogue cultivator guild slightly richer.

Inside his room in the Inn, Zhu Yi spoke to Zhou Fan.

"Master. If you break a recovery threshold, how high will you be able to raise my talent?" Zhu Yi asked.

Zhou Fan answered. "I'm not sure. I'll have to find out when it happens."

Zhu Yi nodded, his curiosity satisfied, and soon fell asleep. 

Days passed normally until the Sky Sparrow Sect finally departed from White Palace City.

Zhu Yi sighed in relief and walked to the assassination guild. He had completed three missions since the assassination guild closed down, and he had made three fifths of what he could have made with three missions from the assassination guild.

Zhu Yi entered the assassination guild and everything seemed normal. He walked up to one of the crystal pads and found a similar mission to the one he had seen before, though this one paid three times as much. 

Male, no sect affiliation, Qi gathering three.

Zhu Yi accepted and received information on the mission. White Palace City, while merely a city, was actually huge. Zhu Yi stayed in one of the most popular areas as it held the rogue cultivator guild and the history records, but what he had seen was only a hundreth of the city.

More than tens of millions of people lived in the city. Zhu Yi's mission was to kill someone on the other side of the city, a less populated area with cheaper and lower quality everything.

Although White Palace city was huge, it was not difficult to traverse even for a mortal. A mortal could walk from end to end in around two days, even if they had to spend around 48 hours of nonstop walking to do so.

Zhu Yi jogged on an express path, a place reserved for only travel. Here, no shops lined the sides and instead there was a bit of nature.

The express path covered White Palace City like grid lines, and it was easy to reach almost any area from them.

They were not hard to traverse at all, and Zhu Yi soon reached the point where he got off. He walked past many buildings, taking many twists and turns, before stopping in an alleyway.

There was a group of homeless people here, and Zhu Yi's target was one of them. Zhu Yi did his best to remember the target's description.

"Mid length brown hair, scar diagonal to right eye, wears a heavy hood, no beard."

There were 20 homeless people, and Zhu Yi soon spotted his target.

He stood far back and stared at the man. A homeless cultivator? Unlikely.

Whatever reason the man was acting as a homeless man for, Zhu Yi had no intention of finding out.

The biggest difficulty of this mission was getting the man out of White Palace City. No matter where, killing was absolutely forbidden. 

This homeless man had stayed in White Palace City for many years without leaving.

In order to complete this mission, Zhu Yi would need to set up some sort of bait or trap.

"No wonder it paid triple. Are you even smart enough to complete this mission?" Zhou Fan asked.

Zhu Yi responded. "Master. There is no need to insult me." 

Zhu Yi sat and watched the target from afar while thinking about what sort of plan could possibly lure him out of the city.