Chapter 1387 Don’t Be the Leader of the Mercenary Alliance

"If you ask me, the place that is more suitable for you is the Lingyu Feimeng, where a hundred talents gather. Because of the spiritual energy tides that nourish it all year round, a large amount of high-level spiritual ores are generated there. It is a place that high-level weapon forgers dream of. But I advise you not to go to the Mercenary Alliance."

"Why?" Zhang Xuan asked curiously.

"If a high-level weaponsmith like you joins, the entire mercenary alliance may recognize you as the leader, and then you will be in trouble."

"How is it possible? The Mercenary Alliance occupies an entire floating continent, and there are probably quite a few Void-Refining Monks in it. Just because I can refine a weapon of pseudo-Tiantian Lingbao level, will the Mercenary Alliance recognize me as their leader? What kind of trouble could there be?" Zhang Xuan asked in disbelief.

Black Loach chuckled and said, "Do you think it's so easy to be the leader of the Mercenary Alliance? I don't want it even if it's given to me for free."

"How do you say that? If you can control a mercenary alliance, you can mobilize a lot of resources and do a lot of things." Zhang Xuan said.

"What Brother Zhang said is true, but the problem is that the floating continent where the Mercenary Alliance is located is poor in resources and it is difficult to be self-sufficient. Even if it is a sporadic employment, it is difficult to meet their daily training needs. If you want to be the leader of the Mercenary Alliance, you need to pay salaries to these people in the Mercenary Alliance every year." Black Loach explained.

"Pay them salaries? How much?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"How much is the annual salary of the entire mercenary alliance? This needs to be calculated carefully. There are nearly fifty Void Refining monks in the mercenary alliance. The annual salary of these fifty Void Refining monks should not be less than twenty Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones. Just for these, one thousand Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones will be paid out every year. In addition, there are many God Transformation and Nascent Soul monks below. The total salary of these people will not be less than the salary of fifty Void Refining monks. It is estimated that the annual salary expenditure alone reaches more than two thousand Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones." Black Loach analyzed seriously.

"Spending two thousand Yuanshi every year to support such a large force is something that can be considered," said Zhang Xuan.

"Brother Zhang, think about it. This is only one year. If it were ten years, that would be 20,000 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones. If it were a hundred years, that would be 200,000. Where would we get so many Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones to give them? Even if your family is very wealthy, you can't afford to pay them so much."

"The leader of the first generation of the Mercenary Alliance, because his storage bag was completely emptied by these people, he tragically discovered that the existence of this Mercenary Alliance not only could not provide any help to his cultivation, but also ate and drank from him."

"He wanted to disband the Mercenary Alliance, but the Refined Voids who followed him in the Mercenary Alliance refused to do so. He alone couldn't defeat fifty Refined Voids, so he had no choice but to give up. He later planned to auction off the Mercenary Alliance."

"At that time, he set the price at 50,000 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones. After all, he had been raising this mercenary alliance for thousands of years and had invested a lot, but in the end, no one bought it."

"Afterwards, there were several auctions, and the price dropped from 50,000 to 30,000, and then from 30,000 to 10,000, but still no one bought it."

"Everyone knows that this is a losing business, and no one wants to get involved."

"At that time, the leader of the first generation of the Mercenary Alliance was already in a desperate situation. If he did not pay the salaries of the Void Refining Monks below, these Void Refining Monks would immediately launch a mutiny and eat up the leader of the Mercenary Alliance."

"If the leader of the Mercenary Alliance wants to leave this position safely, he must find the next generation of leaders of the Mercenary Alliance and pay the people in the Mercenary Alliance."

"Seeing that even 10,000 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones could not be auctioned off, the leader of the mercenary alliance actually directly set the mercenary alliance as a Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stone."

"What's funny is that no cultivator is willing to buy even a Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stone."

"The leader of the first generation of the Mercenary Alliance was emaciated by these mercenaries, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't get rid of them at all."

"In the end, he gave the Ye family 10,000 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones, and the Ye family agreed to take over the Mercenary Alliance. The first generation of the Mercenary Alliance leader was finally freed from this."

Black Loach vividly recounts the tragic experience of the first generation leader of the Mercenary Alliance.

Zhang Xuan felt both amused and helpless when he heard this.

Unexpectedly, the leader of the mercenary alliance wanted to sell the mercenary alliance, but couldn't, and finally had to spend his own money to give it to others.

Zhang Xuan listened and became more and more interested in the Mercenary Alliance. He asked, "What happened to the Ye family becoming the leader of the Mercenary Alliance?"

"Hehe... The Ye family finally discovered that the mercenary alliance was too expensive. It was simply a bottomless pit. The Ye family didn't have many places to explore or start wars to expand their power, so they wanted to sell the mercenary alliance."

“But no one is willing to take it over. Even if the Ye family offers 10,000 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones to others at this time, no force is willing to take it over.”

Zhang Xuan was surprised to hear this and said, "Then why not just let someone who can take the blame take over the Mercenary Alliance and become the leader of the Mercenary Alliance?"

Black Loach smiled and said, "Do you think the people in the Mercenary Alliance are stupid? Just find a cultivator to replace the Ye family as the leader of the Mercenary Alliance. That person can't afford the annual salary, so these mercenaries will naturally not do it."

"So what happened to the Ye family and the Mercenary Alliance later?" Zhang Xuan continued to ask.

“Later, the Ye family and the Mercenary Alliance had a great battle, and both sides suffered losses. Several Void Refining cultivators from the Ye family died, but they finally managed to dismiss the leader of the Mercenary Alliance.” said Black Loach.

"Who will be the next leader of the Mercenary Alliance?"

"Who dares to be the next leader of the Mercenary Alliance? Right now, the Mercenary Alliance has no leader at all. However, the Mercenary Alliance is still gathered together and implemented militarized management. In the floating continent, they usually take on some small businesses to barely make a living."

After hearing this, Henry Zhang couldn't help but sigh and said, "It seems that this mercenary alliance should not be easily touched."

Suddenly, Zhang Xuan thought of something and said, "Now the Dragon Ridge Palace is launching a pioneering war and needs a large number of manpower. Why not hire this mercenary alliance to go to the front line to fight against the Eight Star Palaces?"

"Hehe, do you think the people in the Mercenary Alliance are stupid? Their rule is to only fight battles that they can win. If they encounter a force with more Void Refinement cultivators than their own, or even a force in the Fusion Stage, according to the rules of the Mercenary Alliance, they have the right to withdraw directly." Black Loach explained with a smile.

"So, this means that the Mercenary Alliance can only play that kind of crushing game?"