"Master, don't worry. I'll have everyone wait outside."

Li Xin, who originally thought that Xingyuan and Cai'er were hiding in the room to discuss important matters, was completely led astray by Yue Mingnan, and she was about to drive the people outside the door to the living room.

"No one is allowed to leave!"

At this moment, Xingyuan can be said to have truly lived up to the old saying that a dumb person eating Coptis chinensis cannot express his pain.

If I explain the reason to everyone, it would undoubtedly be exposing Caier's scars in public.

If he didn't explain, it would be equivalent to confirming Yue Mingnan's guess that he and Cai'er were indeed unable to control themselves in the room just now...

"Let's go."

Xingyuan grabbed Cai'er's hand and said, "Let's go to the Demon Hunting Group Center."

"Then your business..."

"You're the one."

……

Xingyuan and the others had just walked out of their demon hunting hut not long ago when the leader of the No. 3 Sergeant Demon Hunting Group, Long Haochen, and his teammate Lin Xin came to visit them.

They are here to borrow merit.

Although they were not aware of the fact that Xingyuan was attacked by the demon at the Exorcist Pass, the military at the Exorcist Pass compensated him with a full 5,000 merit points.

But after all, all the Spirit-Enhancing Pills sold by Xingyuan during the mission at Exorcism Pass passed through Lin Xin's hands. Lin Xin naturally knew how wealthy their team was now.

What's more, considering the friendship between him and Long Haochen and Xingyuan, borrowing this little merit from Xingyuan was obviously no problem in their opinion.

It’s a pity that Lin Xin knocked on the door for a long time, but no one responded from inside.

"Could it be that he guessed that we were coming to borrow his merits and was avoiding us on purpose?" Lin Xin said thoughtfully.

"How could Brother Xingyuan be such a person?"

Long Haochen shook his head, closed his eyes and released his spiritual perception to explore the room. After a moment, he opened his eyes and said, "There is no one in the room. Brother Xingyuan and the others should be going to the Demon Hunting Group Center to certify their promotion to the general level."

"Then let's hurry over there."

Lin Xin reminded: "If they are about to advance to the next level and are so happy that they spend all the remaining merits, it will not be easy for us to find other teams to borrow these merits."

After all, the little merits that the demon hunting teams had on hand had already been almost completely drained away by the soul-enhancing pills that Xingyuan had refined during his mission at the Exorcist Pass.

Based on this, Long Haochen and Lin Xin hurried towards the center of the demon hunting group, fearing that they would delay things.

……

At the Demon Hunting Group's center, Xingyuan and the others, after paying the staff the 10,000 merits required for promotion and passing the spiritual power test, replaced their wooden soldier-level Demon Hunting Group tokens with silver tokens symbolizing the general level as promised.

"Xingyuan, do you think we will be the fastest new demon hunting group to be promoted to the general level in the history of the demon hunting group?"

Chen Ying'er has been taking the initiative to chat with Xingyuan more and more frequently recently, and she behaves very naturally and appropriately, as if it were just an ordinary conversation between team members.

"Maybe so."

Xingyuan glanced at Chen Ying'er who came closer, and also put the Demon Hunting Group token in her hand, and then asked the staff of the Demon Hunting Group Center. Since the Demon Hunting Group has a history of more than 5,000 years, it can be said that it was established at the beginning of the establishment of the Temple Alliance, when humans initially established a defense line and stabilized the situation.

Xingyuan and his team are certainly not the fastest team to advance to the general level in the history of the Demon Hunting Group, but according to the staff, they are the first team in nearly five hundred years to advance to the general level immediately after the team competition.

The last group to achieve this feat was the Demon God's Falling Demon Hunters, who they had met once before at the Exorcist Pass battlefield...

Faced with the staff's blessings, Xingyuan agreed somewhat awkwardly, saying that he would also strive to make his team a title-level demon hunting group like the Fall of the Demon God.

If they knew I was just using the Witchers as a springboard...

After completing the formalities, Xingyuan led everyone out of the Demon Hunting Center. Just when he was considering whether to go to the trading center to buy some new equipment for the team.

Long Haochen and Lin Xin, who had been waiting outside for quite some time, came over.

"Haochen, Lin Xin?"

Xingyuan was a little surprised, and then he also keenly noticed something, "Are you also here to handle the procedures for promotion to the general-level demon hunting group?"

It shouldn't be.

Clearly according to Xingyuan's calculations, even if Long Haochen's team added the merit points from the consolation prize for third place in the team competition, it would still not be enough to get the 10,000 merit points required to advance to the general level.

"You are worthy of being my good brother. You are really as good as a god!"

Lin Xin didn't expect that his casual compliment would reveal Xing Yuan's biggest secret, which made his face slightly stiff.

"Really?"

Seeing this, Xingyuan also acted surprised, as if he was saying one thing and thinking another.

"That's not entirely true."

When Lin Xin saw Xingyuan's surprised expression, he couldn't help scratching his head in embarrassment, "But you guessed half right."

Long Haochen couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Brother Xingyuan, can you please spare me a moment to talk?"

Seeing that all the members of Class One were present, Long Haochen and Lin Xin, who were rather thin-skinned and had a bad reputation in Li Xin's eyes and were called profiteers by her, could not bring themselves to ask for this, so they could only ask to talk to Xing Yuan alone.

Are these two here to borrow money... Oh no, to borrow merits?

Xingyuan began to use the ability of future vision in order to avoid being at a disadvantage in the subsequent negotiations.

"It is convenient."

Xingyuan naturally didn't want to take advantage of Long Haochen and the others' achievements, but after all, the other party hasn't said anything clear yet, so he has to give them a chance to speak, right?
"But I'll keep this short. I still have to go to the trading center with my teammates."

As expected, after Xing Yuan said this, both Long Haochen and Lin Xin showed some unnatural expressions on their faces.

It wasn't that Xing Yuan was reluctant to give up a few thousand merits and not help others, but he was worried that after Long Haochen and his team were promoted to general level, they would come to snatch the mission from him...

After all, if the mission that involves exploring the demon territory and discovering the Tower of Eternity is accepted by Long Haochen's team, wouldn't Cai'er lose her last way to break free from the curse of the Reincarnation Furnace?

But is this really the case?
While Xingyuan was thinking, he walked to a secluded place to talk with Long Haochen and Lin Xin.

"What's wrong? Is there something that my teammates can't hear?" Xingyuan chose to take the initiative. (End of this chapter)