CHAPTER 373: CHAPTER 235: STRENGTHENING THEIR POWER

After that voluntary clinic, Xia Wenxu saw the recruitment notice for Little Ci’en Hall by chance, and for the first time in his life as Ji Mo, he told a lie and entered Little Ci’en Hall.

His initial purpose was merely to investigate the concoction of Moon God’s Praise, but as time passed, he felt that his original intention had changed.

Just like today, after learning about Yun Sheng’s bold move, he should have immediately reported it to the Magic Temple.

But the thought that if the Magic Temple knew of Yun Sheng’s existence, they might send an Assassin, or even have him do it personally, made his heart twinge in pain.

There were also the villagers, whose earlier joy and the impending changes to the village would all come to an end.

Until the sky lightened in the east, Ji Mo ultimately couldn’t bring himself to release the Magic Crane that was supposed to send the message.

With a flick of his hand, the Magic Crane shattered in mid-air, and without a word, he walked into the thatched cottage.

Yun Sheng, who has always been impetuous, brought the village chief the very next day and told the villagers that they would be contracting the village to cultivate medicinal herbs.

When the villagers heard that they could plant herbs worth several silver coins per pound, they were ecstatic.

Every household was highly enthusiastic, and each received ten pounds of medicinal herb seeds.

Furthermore, Yun Sheng selected twenty children from the village; among these, ten children aged between four to ten years old, each possessed some degree of Magic Sensing Ability, and the other ten were physically robust. Yun Sheng planned to send them to Wuxuan Wuji Hall for Bone Marrow Cleansing, followed by basic Martial Artist training.

Once everything was ready, Yun Sheng took the children down the mountain with her.

The preparation for the first Magic Medicine Store went very smoothly.

Yun Sheng concocted dozens of bottles of Moon God’s Praise at the foot of the mountain and was surprised that, apart from one child’s failure, most of the children successfully became Magicians.

Among them, there was even a Dual Element Mage, and the remaining eight were mainly Fire, Earth, and Wind Mages.

Overjoyed, Yun Sheng immediately began teaching these children the most basic meditation and Basic Magic, and in just half a month, nine Magicians proficient in Basic Magic were formed.

If the Royal Magic Academy knew of such rapid success, they would probably cough up blood in shock.

Yun Sheng then had Zong Ren take the children back to the village, and the planting of Sea Buckthorn began smoothly as well.

Seeing the impressive effects of Moon God’s Praise, Yun Sheng also tried using the potion on the members of the Sky Hunting Corps, but the results were somewhat disappointing.

She used fifty bottles of Moon God’s Praise, yet among the adult foot soldiers of the Sky Hunting Corps, only five succeeded in becoming Magicians.

This left Yun Sheng somewhat disheartened; it seemed that the Moon God’s Praise, while mysterious, was still most effective on children under twelve.

Nevertheless, she decided to specially train these few individuals who were both Magicians and Martial Artists as Hunter Soldiers.

For their training, Yun Sheng directly grabbed Ye Beiming to train this group of unique soldiers.

"You want to train them in Dual Cultivation?" Ye Beiming raised an eyebrow. He never refused Yun Sheng’s requests.

Within Great Zhou, not many knew that Ye Beiming practiced Dual Cultivation of Magic and Martial Arts. If it were someone else, Ye Huli would probably have killed them on the spot, but since it was Yun Sheng, he found it impossible to refuse.

"I can train these people for you, but I want ten of them, and I have one condition: once they are entrusted to me, no matter what they become, you must not interfere," Ye Beiming’s words sent a chill down Yun Sheng’s spine.

Actually, ever since Yun Sheng’s inexplicable disappearance last time, Ye Beiming had already felt the necessity to train a group of private guards exclusively for her.

He couldn’t be by Yun Sheng’s side every moment.

Therefore, a batch of private guards belonging to her, who Ye Beiming could also trust, seemed particularly important.

"The number is not a problem, but what exactly are you planning to do?" Yun Sheng always felt that the longer she was with Ye Beiming, the less she understood him.

"I plan to train them as Demon Warriors," Ye Beiming said with a smile, unwilling to say more.

Yun Sheng did not inquire further, and after a few days, she gathered ten Martial Artists who were also Magicians, and handed them over to Ye Beiming.

These Demon Warriors then vanished without a trace. Yun Sheng had no information about them until later on, when Ye Beiming handed over the ten private guards to Yun Sheng, that’s when she understood what a Demon Warrior was.

At that time, Zhou Quan also came looking for Yun Sheng.

"Young Master Yun, we’ve searched the entire Yujing City and have been monitoring the Lotus Garden mentioned by Miss Xian Pei for quite a while, but we haven’t found any trace of the red-clad person," Zhou Quan and his team were still searching for the murderer who killed Xian Yu.

The government has already closed this case, defining it as murder, but the culprit remains elusive.

Zhou Quan didn’t understand why Young Master Yun was still so persistent in finding the murderer, especially since Tang Yu had already been exiled and had cleared his name.

Of course, Yun Sheng wouldn’t tell Zhou Quan that she suspected the so-called red-clad person was connected to Dihong City.

After all, the whole purpose of the incident was to disgrace the Yun Residence.

Earlier on, Xuan Meimei also mentioned that Xuan Wuji hadn’t returned to Dihong City but had instead come to Yujing.

Yun Sheng had already searched all the inns in Yujing City and found no trace of Xuan Wuji.

Thus, there were only two possible reasons.

One was that Xuan Wuji had already left Yujing, and the other was that Xuan Wuji might have a separate residence in Yujing, which is why the soldiers of the Sky Expedition Hunting Corps couldn’t find any clues about him.

It’s not unusual for Dihong City, with its vast wealth, to own separate residences in the capitals of various countries.

Emperor Hong City and some key figures in Great Zhou City must also have certain connections; since Xuan Wuji’s original plan was thwarted by Yun Sheng, it’s uncertain what action he might take next.

As time slipped away bit by bit, Yun Sheng’s unease only intensified; she sensed that something was about to happen, yet she couldn’t grasp a single clue. She vaguely felt a conspiracy brewing, but with the enemy hidden and herself exposed, she really had no way to ferret out Xuan Wuji.

The more it reached this point, the more Yun Sheng realized the importance of having her own private guards.

"Oh, by the way, Young Master Yun, I haven’t told you because you’ve been busy with the pharmacy matters," Zhou Quan remembered something.

He told Yun Sheng that after the collapse of the Purple Gold Mine, they discovered a special kind of ore while clearing the site.

Zhou Quan ordered someone to bring a piece of the ore.

This ore was from the exceptionally hard wall that Yun Sheng had blasted open with lightning—it was the material of that wall.