My Martial Arts Activated Easy Mode

Aside from the Cloth-Soaking Gang, the targets of the other two missions both had decent backgrounds, yet their bounties weren’t significantly higher. Before killing the three of them, he had investigated their backgrounds. The Cloth-Soaking Gang was similar to the Black Water Gang, except one was located in White Stone City and the other in a nearby town. Iron Armor Martial Arts Hall held a much higher status than the Black Water Gang, but it was still inferior to Hong Family Martial Arts Hall. The Medicine Gang, however, was a famous faction near White Stone City with connections to many powers in both the Outer City and Inner City. Fortunately, the client had only requested the assassination of a dispatched supervisor whose status wasn’t particularly high.

It was clear that Mist Rain Tower was highly selective in issuing missions. They only posted low-bounty tasks where the targets had mediocre backgrounds and strength. Presumably, this was to avoid offending any major powers. According to Su Chen’s estimation, the three targets had similar levels of strength. Sun Fan and Lu Tao had achieved minor mastery in Strength Training. Qian Huan was slightly stronger with major mastery, but he had likely only recently broken through.

Unfortunately for them, none were a match for Su Chen; he had effortlessly crushed them every time. Even so, Su Chen didn’t dare to be careless, as he never knew if these people possessed hidden trump cards. Luckily, the final result was pleasing. He had killed all three without any unexpected accidents occurring along the way.

After reflecting on his experiences, Su Chen fell asleep.

The night passed silently.

Mist Rain Tower.

Old Lin looked at the wooden token Su Chen handed over with a slightly strange expression, then glanced up at him.

”Wait a moment.” He didn’t give an immediate answer, instead telling Su Chen to hold on.

Su Chen waited for about fifteen minutes before Old Lin finally called him over. Handing him the payment, Old Lin said, ”Here is your bounty. Thirty taels in total.”

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Su Chen accepted the silver. He then glanced at the portraits on the wall, his expression suddenly freezing.

One of the notices read: ”Find the killer of Qian Huan, the Medicine Gang’s supervisor in Liu Family Town. Merely providing information will earn a reward of ten taels!”

He had already noticed that certain people in the room were secretly sizing him up with subtle glances.

”There aren’t many people who take assassination missions to begin with. Seeing me come to collect a reward, they’ve probably guessed that I’m the one who killed Qian Huan,” Su Chen thought, quickly figuring out why they were looking at him like that. ”Ten taels just for providing a tip. The Medicine Gang sure has deep pockets!”

With a cold sneer in his heart, Su Chen turned his gaze back to Old Lin and asked meaningfully, ”I’d like to know if Mist Rain Tower would ever leak the identity of its operatives?”

Old Lin was taken aback. Meeting Su Chen’s deep, piercing gaze, he replied with absolute certainty, ”No.”

Su Chen stared at Old Lin for a long while before pointing to one of the portraits. ”I’ll take this mission!”

His finger was aimed directly at the portrait of Liu Tong.

Old Lin nodded, took down the notice, and handed it to Su Chen. This bold move surprisingly caused the subtle, prying gazes in the room to diminish.

”Do you need to purchase intelligence?” Old Lin asked, looking up after finishing the registration.

”You have information on him? What’s the price?” Su Chen asked.

”One tael.”

”Then give me a copy,” Su Chen said after a moment’s thought.

Old Lin handed over a thumb-sized bamboo tube. Having accepted the mission, Su Chen stood up to leave. Right before stepping out, he flashed a bright, brilliant smile at everyone in the room.

Old Lin paused at the sight, though his hands didn’t stop working as he murmured, ”Tie Niu...”