As expected, the final winner of this new demon hunting team competition was the No. 1 demon hunting team where Xingyuan belonged.

During the three-month team competition, Xingyuan and his team earned a total of 17,600 merits by killing demons, repairing city walls, rescuing wounded soldiers, fighting outside the city, and selling various elixirs including the Shengling Pill among their colleagues.

Add to that the 6,000 merits awarded by the Demon Hunting Group Headquarters for their team's championship, and the 5,000 merits compensated by the Exorcist Pass military for Xingyuan being injured by a demon god-level strongman during the team competition.

After receiving the award, the Sergeant-1 returned to their barracks dormitory to pack their luggage. They gathered around the table to do the math and suddenly realized that they had accumulated nearly 30,000 merit points in these three months.

Although the rewards from the team competition and the compensation from the Exorcist Pass military accounted for the bulk of the total, the result was good overall and everyone was able to return to the Holy City safely.

Now that he has so many merits, those who previously could not even get dozens of merits have a feeling that it is not real.

"Xingyuan, are we getting rich?"

Chen Ying'er looked at the merit gem on the table that showed the number 28,600 and could hardly believe her eyes.

"After deducting the 10,000 merit points required to advance the team to the general level, the remaining points should be enough to buy two decent pieces of brilliant-level equipment."

To be honest, Xingyuan was not very satisfied with their harvest in the past three months.

He felt that what was more important was the tacit understanding and cultivation that their team had gained through the fighting and training during this period.

The most worthy of celebration are naturally Li Xin and Yue Mingnan. During the team competition, with the strong support of resources from Xingyuan, they broke through the bottleneck of the fifth level one after another.

At this moment, Li Xin and Yue Mingnan's spiritual power cultivation levels were level five, level one and level five, respectively.

"Why, when you said that, I suddenly felt that this merit wasn't that much..."

After all, Chen Ying'er's grandparents were the top leaders of the Soul Temple. She had seen all kinds of good things there, so her vision was naturally much higher than that of other people.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning."

Xingyuan commanded the two stone men to restore the dormitory to its original state, while packing up the alchemical equipment he had placed in a corner of the dormitory. "When our demon hunting team's level is higher, we can accept tasks with richer rewards in the mission tower, kill higher-level demons, and I will have better alchemy materials..."

"That's right."

……

After packing their luggage, Xingyuan and his ten newly recruited demon hunting teams boarded the carriages heading back to the Holy City amid the farewells of all the Exorcist soldiers.

"Boy, have you forgotten something?"

Gao Yingjie, riding a tall horse, came to Xingyuan and his carriage and called out Xingyuan's name.

"Hey, leader."

Xingyuan leaned out of the window and greeted Gao Yingjie, "Long time no see."

"You still remember we haven't seen each other for a long time? You are really capable. You stayed in the dormitory all day and earned merits. And they were from other competitors."

Gao Yingjie laughed and scolded, "It made me do nothing for the remaining two months. I watched other comrades and the teams under me go out to perform missions all day long. I almost got moldy."

"Like This."

Xingyuan thought for a while and said, "Then leader, please tell me where I can contact you. Our team will go out on a mission soon. If you come to guard us, I promise to make up for the month you owe me..."

"You're not being polite to me at all. And how can a demon hunter group bring bodyguards when carrying out a mission?" Gao Yingjie obviously didn't realize that Xingyuan was joking with him, and said seriously: "Besides, I have other tasks to do later, and I don't know where you can find me."

"Then leader, are you here specially to say goodbye to us?"

Chen Ying'er also squeezed to the window. Seeing this, Xingyuan calmly made way for half of the seat and pressed his body against Cai'er next to him.

"I guess so. After all, you are the team I have led before, and the one that gives me the least worry."

Gao Yingjie nodded, then looked at Xingyuan again, "And you still have several hundred merits left with me. What? Now that you are rich, you don't care about these merits anymore?"

"how is this possible?"

You have to know that merit is not like gold coins.

Not to mention a gold coin dropped on the ground, even if the gold coins were piled in front of Xingyuan and he was asked to pick them up, he would find it too much trouble to bend down. But if it was a merit, the meaning would be completely different.

"See you later."

After transferring his merits, Gao Yingjie also rode his warhorse to the side and performed a knight's salute to Xingyuan and others.

"I hope that next time we meet, you will still be a member of the Demon Hunting Group, rather than representing the Magic Temple."

Gao Yingjie said this to Xingyuan.

But Xingyuan couldn’t quite understand what the other party meant.

Gao Yingjie hopes that their team will not disintegrate due to casualties.

Or do you hope that he doesn't come to the Demon Hunting Group to gain experience, but instead returns to the Magic Temple after becoming a demon hunter, and next time he represents the Magic Temple to fight against the Knights Templar?

Or maybe it's both, who knows?

The carriage continued to move forward, passing through the urban area of ​​​​Exorcist City and the house where Xingyuan and Caier lived when they were children.

Cai'er finally looked out the window. The old butler with white hair and beard stopped his work, and together with the maid who was cleaning the house and the neighbors, they watched these human heroes who were praised by everyone leave.

Xingyuan and Cai'er have changed dramatically in the past few years. These people simply couldn't recognize that the talented man and beautiful woman sitting by the window in the carriage were actually the children of their master whom they served.

These are ordinary people without any cultivation. They don’t even know that Xingyuan and Caier have become professionals.

But before the carriage passed the most familiar area in her memory, Cai'er withdrew her gaze and looked sideways to the Xingyuan next to her.

"Xingyuan, when the war is over, we will go and build a home of our own."

Xingyuan: “…”

Cai'er, why do you like to set a flag when you are moved by the scene? Do you know how flustered I was when you said this?
And why does it belong to 'us' instead of 'the two of us'? You wouldn't have included Chen Ying'er and the others, right?

"Well, I will listen to you."

Xingyuan looked at Cai'er's bright purple eyes that sparkled in the sunlight, and he couldn't say anything that he thought might hurt her. (End of this chapter)