Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land

Yue Jinghua hesitated for a moment, then took out the Lianyun Great Sword. With her index finger and thumb, she gently pressed down along the abdomen of the Mountain Wall Salamander, roughly gauging the spot, and stabbed the sword into the lower abdomen of the Salamander King.

There were few occasions where she and the Gold Eater Worm had the same thought.

She didn’t plan on forming a contract with this Mountain Wall Salamander as its strengths were not clear.

Yue Jinghua was a typical pragmatist. For her, the Dark Beasts worthy of a contract were of two types: one type was like the Flash Mink Leopard or the Giant Winged Mosquito King, which, although not high in grade, were formidable among their peers. The other type was those with potential for growth, like the Snake-haired Gorgon, which would eventually reach the peak among Dark Beasts.

(A disgruntled Color Worm muttered, "Me, me," while a queen furiously said, "Shut up, you have been the biggest blunder of my life!")

The practical value of this Salamander King was merely its color-changing skin and the Seventh-level Dark Pill inside it.

What needed to be clarified now was exactly what was inside the stomach of the Salamander King.

The blade sliced open the thick skin of the Salamander King, but no blood flowed out; the spot Yue Jinghua struck was the stomach of the Salamander King.

The Seventh Rank Mountain Wall Salamander was huge, and so was its stomach, which took up nearly one-third of its body length. A viscous gastric juice flowed out, and soon, something inside the Salamander King was exposed.

"It’s a person," indeed, there was a person inside the stomach of the Salamander King.

Ye Zi and Yue Chen dragged the person out from the body of the Salamander King, a short-haired young girl, whose limbs had all been severely corroded by the strong acid of the Salamander’s gastric juice. Evidently, she had accidentally been swept off the cliff by fierce winds.

She simply did not have the same level of cultivation strength as Yue Jinghua, and had been swallowed whole by the Salamander King.

Luckily, her breath was still intact. Yue Jinghua fetched some water from the Desire Gourd to clean her, then administered an Elixir Pill to detoxify her.

For a while, the girl remained unconscious.

Yue Jinghua further dissected the corpse of the Salamander King and discovered within its belly the partially digested corpse of a large vulture, as well as the belongings of the unconscious girl.

The unconscious girl was indeed lucky; the Salamander King had just swallowed the vulture before consuming her. Because the vulture had not been completely digested yet, this spared the girl from complete erosion by the gastric juice.

When rescuing the girl, Yue Jinghua noticed that she was dressed in the typical attire of mercenaries, likely one from Five Saints Town.

After checking the girl’s belongings, Yue Jinghua was even more certain of this.

Opening the girl’s Mercenary Manual, it read, "Weiwei, directly affiliated with the ’Second Generation Mercenary Group.’"

It was her!

Yue Jinghua was overjoyed. Then, with a sense of doubt creeping into her heart, she thought, "Zong Shaoqing is being too mysterious. How did he know I was looking for Weiwei? But isn’t Weiwei just a Healing Soldier? Why would she come to this area?"

A night passed.

The unconscious short-haired girl, Weiwei, slowly regained consciousness. With a groan, she felt as though her limbs had been crushed, rendering her unable to move.

Had she been swallowed by the Mountain Wall Salamander King while perched on the cliff?!

The moment she regained consciousness, the One-star Mercenary Weiwei widened her eyes – she was dead!

What met her gaze was not the ugly maw of the Salamander King but an unexpectedly different face.

A beautifully crafted golden mask, beneath it, a honey-colored face, eyes brighter than the star Venus, and a beautifully contoured jawline—this was a stunningly handsome face that took Weiwei’s breath away in an instant.

He is...

Weiwei shockingly realized that she was lying in the arms of a stranger. At this moment, this charming young man, who made her heart flutter, was wiping her face with a wet cloth.

His movements were gentle, his eyes filled with concern.

Concern?

Weiwei’s nose tingled with emotion; since the captain had left, nobody had cared for her anymore.

"You’re awake?" The young man lowered his head, his cool hand touched her forehead.

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Last night, probably due to an infection from the stomach acid of the Salamander King, Weiwei developed a high fever. Yue Jinghua had no Elixir Pills to reduce the fever, so he recurred to wiping her repeatedly with plain water.

"Who are you? I don’t know you," Weiwei noticed that Yue Jinghua’s clothes were embroidered with a two-star Mercenary Branch insignia.

Weiwei had a good memory; she was sure she had never seen Yue Jinghua in Five Saints Town.

He’s also a mercenary? He looks even younger than me but is already a two-star mercenary?

"My name is Yue Jinghua, I came specifically to find you, acting captain for the Second Generation Mercenary Team," Yue Jinghua took out the Mercenary Manual and the Captain Badge previously left to her by Compass.

"You are the new captain?" Weiwei got excited, struggling to sit up.

After confirming Yue Jinghua’s identity, she first smiled joyfully, but soon began to sob, "You’re here, does that mean Captain Compass is dead? I knew it, no matter how hard I try, I couldn’t raise enough money to save him."

If anyone from the Second Generation still cared about the safety of that fat Compass, it was this female mercenary Weiwei.

Disasters last a thousand years; it was feared that inmate Compass in the prisons of Shang Kingdom had probably got even rounder.

Yue Jinghua coughed and held a moment of silence for Compass. Moved by Weiwei’s camaraderie, it seemed that the female mercenary Weiwei’s purpose of coming here was to make money.

Yue Jinghua smiled and said, "It’s not as you think, I will explain the details when we return to town. You are injured, let me bandage you first."

Upon hearing that Compass was not dead, Weiwei breathed a sigh of relief and felt her wounds ache more. She stole a glance at Yue Jinghua and, despite really wanting the new captain to bandage her, she finally said hesitantly, "I, I will do it myself."

She wants to do it herself?

Yue Jinghua knew that Weiwei was the only Healing Mercenary in the Mercenary Squad but wondered if she could still treat herself while injured.

Weiwei smiled at Yue Jinghua and the other two, her pretty face under her short hair sparkling with a hint of confidence. She opened her hands and chanted softly, "With the Power of Wood, essence of the earth, bless me, power of healing."

The ground shook slightly and a fresh earth and wood energy burst forth from the vegetation, forming a thin veil of Dark Energy that enveloped Weiwei’s hands and feet.

Under the influence of that mysterious Dark Energy, the wounds on Weiwei’s face and on her exposed hands and feet healed at an astonishing rate.

Faced with this sight, Yue Jinghua was hugely surprised, while Ye Zi and Yue Chen seemed to be very aware of Weiwei’s healing methods.