The King of Urban Mercenaries

"We..." Lin Fei thought for a bit. He actually didn’t know what to do anymore. He had no idea where he should go. After all, right now he needed to look for his family, but what was the result? He hadn’t found anything, and instead they’d gotten separated, with no news at all. What was he supposed to do?

"Let’s go to the Dragon Clan!" the ape Hou Qitian said.

Hearing that, Lin Fei and Little Dragon both fell silent.

"What’s wrong? Can’t we?" Hou Qitian asked. "Don’t forget what you promised me. You can’t go back on your word."

Lin Fei nodded. "My soul’s in your hands. How am I supposed to go back on my word?"

Hou Qitian nodded as well, but he could also see Lin Fei must have some difficulty. He asked, "If you’ve got trouble, just say it. I can help you think of something."

Lin Fei looked at Qitian, and only after a while did he speak. "Here’s the thing, I need to find my wife and my friends..."

Lin Fei told Qitian about his wife and about his friends, then said, "That’s about it."

Hou Qitian nodded. "I get it. But in that case, you have no information at all. How are you supposed to find them?"

Hearing that, Lin Fei shook his head. "That’s exactly what bothers me the most. I don’t even know where to look, so I’m completely stuck."

"I think there’s still one more way," Hou Qitian said.

"What way?" Lin Fei and Little Black both looked over. Hou Qitian glanced at the two of them and said, "Since we can’t find them, then we just let them come find us, doesn’t that solve it?"

Lin Fei nodded. "We thought of that long ago, but we have no idea how to do it! No idea what method to use."

Qitian grinned. "I’ll tell you a piece of good news and a piece of bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"Say the good news first. Save the bad for later," Lin Fei decided. At least being happy for a bit is better than getting depressed right off the bat.

Hou Qitian said, "Right before you came, I got some news: the once-in-a-century Central State Beast Fighting Tournament is about to begin. Want to join? As long as you manage to succeed, you can become famous. By then you’ll naturally rise with the tide, and your name will spread throughout the entire Upper Realm."

Little Black chuckled. "Monkey, I know what kind of shady scheme you’re cooking. You want to go to the Dragon Clan, right? That’s why you want to head to Central Continent?"

Hou Qitian laughed, scratched his furry head, and said, "Isn’t that perfect? Kill two birds with one stone. Once he becomes famous, he can go to your Dragon Clan together with you. By then it counts as him having one more identity. Don’t you think?"

If what Hou Qitian said earlier was just idle talk, then the latter part really made Lin Fei and Little Black both latch onto the issue. After all, they had to go to the Dragon Clan, but before that, with Lin Fei’s current status, who knew if the other side would just kill him on sight. So Lin Fei did indeed need a special identity.

In the end, Lin Fei nodded and looked at Little Black. "Let’s do it. Anyway, this doesn’t do us any harm."

Little Black nodded. "Since you put it that way, then let’s do it."

At this moment, Lin Fei looked at Hou Qitian and asked, "And the bad news? Didn’t you say there’s one good and one bad? What’s the bad news? Let’s hear it."

Hou Qitian smiled. "The bad news is, for this Beast Fighting Tournament, you have to pass the selection at Qianhuang Peak first. Only then will they send talent on to Central Continent. Otherwise, don’t even think about entering the Central State finals."

Hearing that, Lin Fei let out a sigh. "Really lives up to being bad news!"

"Heh heh, are you going to give up?" Hou Qitian asked.

Hearing that, Lin Fei shook his head. "Giving up isn’t quite it, it just feels like such a hassle, doesn’t it?"

"Of course it’s a hassle. Otherwise how could it count as bad news?" Hou Qitian replied.

"In that case, let’s go. But looking at you like this..." Lin Fei glanced at Hou Qitian. Right now Hou Qitian was a hundred zhang tall, several hundred meters in height, totally not something normal people could compare to. The moment he stepped out of this Myriad Mountains Ridge, he was basically a giant mountain. Who the hell would dare compete with you? Are you going to do construction work or to compete? No one would even know anymore."

At this moment, Hou Qitian suddenly grinned, then shook his body. His figure actually started shrinking, and in the blink of an eye he became a humanoid monkey the same size as Lin Fei.

He was about the same height as a human, only thinner. At first, when Hou Qitian said he was a monkey, Lin Fei hadn’t believed him. Turns out it was true. Once he shrank, he was a living, upright-walking monkey, an ape through and through.

"That’s pretty amazing. Since your name is Qitian, I’ll call you Hou Qitian then, Monkey Qitian. How’s that?" Lin Fei asked.

"Hou Qitian, huh? Not a bad name. Sure, no problem," Hou Qitian said.

Since Hou Qitian had already agreed, Lin Fei didn’t say anything more. Also, looking at the Dragon Ball that had shrunk along with him, Lin Fei felt like it wasn’t a Dragon Ball anymore, it was a Monkey Ball. Haha.

Now that everything was settled, "Let’s go," Lin Fei said, then took the lead and headed forward.

But just then, Little Black said, "Lin Fei, don’t you think if we just walk like this, it’s going to take forever to get where we want to go?"

"Yeah, it is kind of slow. So what do you suggest?" Lin Fei asked.

"Heh heh, did you forget those two wolves? I sure didn’t!" Little Black said with a sinister tone. If not for them, Lin Fei wouldn’t have lost his soul, so Little Black had been holding a grudge against those two and that old wolf the whole time.

"Of course I didn’t forget. Those two wolves need a proper lesson!" Lin Fei said, then went straight off with Qitian toward where the old wolf was.

Just then, a Double-winged Tiger blocked the three of them. But this was exactly when Hou Qitian came in handy. He reached out and tore it to pieces, then handed its Nascent Soul to Lin Fei.

Lin Fei was speechless. After putting away the Nascent Soul, he headed toward where the old wolf was.

The old bastard had screwed Lin Fei and Little Black over. The two of them might not be particularly vengeful, but they weren’t going to let someone deceive them like that either. So they went straight to the old wolf’s place— that huge cave— and in no time at all they’d entered the cave.

At the entrance, Lin Fei shouted, "Old Wolf! And you two little wolves, get out here right now!"

At this moment, the three of them walked into the cave the wolves had just dug. Once inside, they found there was only one old wolf. Had the two little ones gone out hunting again?