The man with the gloomy expression had now regained his composure and sat back at the table. His face still carried an expression of disbelief.
He frowned, sneering, "Paying fifty billion to assassinate someone at most in the early Master level, asking for a high-level expert to act. I don't know if you're foolish or I am?"
"I have all the information about Chu Feng here. Five million, and the client will know everything!" The middle-aged man remained unmoved.
The man's face showed a tinge of pain, but his deep-seated enmity with Chu Feng drove him to directly pay for the information.
"Chu Feng, seventeen years old! The top talent in Qingzhou, extraordinary talent, suspected to be close to the star-level talent. Uncertain strength, predicted to be at least in the early Master level, possibly mid-level..."
"Chu Feng has joined the Shura Martial Institute, highly regarded by Wu Yuanlang..."
"Chu Feng is rumored to have a high-level Master or even a Grandmaster behind him. It could be Wu Yuanlang himself..."
The man's complexion became increasingly unsightly as he read through the information. Finally, he sat silently by the table.
The Blood Kill Club middle-aged man calmly said, "If there is indeed a high-level Master or a Grandmaster secretly protecting him, only the Town Master can ensure a guaranteed kill."
"This doesn't include the worst-case scenario: if the person secretly protecting him is Wu Yuanlang. Hehe, even with the Town Master taking action, success is not guaranteed. Wu Yuanlang himself has the cultivation of the Town Master."
After a pause, he continued, "Killing Chu Feng is easy. The key is who will bear the wrath of the Shura Martial Institute? So, fifty billion is fair and just, not an exaggeration!"
The Shura Martial Institute was a colossal force in the Dragon Country, and even the Blood Kill Club didn't dare to provoke them easily.
The man's face turned paler, as if he had aged a lot in an instant. He closed his eyes as if he hadn't expected that the seemingly insignificant Chu Feng would be so difficult to kill.
Unfortunately, he was one step too late. His sister should have already moved into the villa area of the Shura Martial Institute.
But with all his assets totaling only a few billion, he couldn't come up with fifty billion.
After a long silence, the man said, "What if I hire a Grandmaster?"
"Three billion for a Grandmaster, two billion for a high-level Master. No guarantee of a kill; if the mission fails, seventy percent of the funds will be refunded," the middle-aged man said indifferently.
The man's expression changed several times, and in the end, he made up his mind, "Three billion, hire a Grandmaster!"
After the gloomy-faced man paid and left, the middle-aged man fell into deep thought, murmuring in a low voice, "Is this person Lin Yu from the Lin family?"
The next morning, after Chu Feng had a carefully prepared breakfast from the steward, he told his sister Chu Ruolan that he was preparing for the college entrance examination and needed to attend the school's collective training, which might take many days.
He also called Tian Qingzhu, asking her to come often to accompany Chu Ruolan.
Then he silently left Qingzhou City and headed towards the Five Elements Mountain.
However, as he walked, Chu Feng felt something was amiss. It seemed like there was a tail behind him, watching him from the shadows.
But his strong spiritual power could only sense a rough idea and couldn't accurately identify the person tracking him.
Chu Feng raised an eyebrow, pretending not to notice anything, and continued following the Qingyun River, going against the current.
The Five Elements Mountain stretched for thousands of miles, divided into the outer, inner, and central areas.
The last trial of the Five Elements took place in the outer Five Elements Valley. Chu Feng's destination this time was the inner area of the Five Elements Mountain, where he planned to hunt Master-level beasts, acquire resources, and step into higher realms.
As Qingyun River flowed upstream, the water became more turbulent. The vast mountains and forests around him seemed boundless, occasionally echoing with the roars of tigers and the cries of monkeys.
It made this wilderness even more eerie and terrifying.