Chapter 407 – Lone Shadow Without Trace

This night, Xue Mu did not rest, he worked overtime to write “Water Margin”.

Xue Mu’s “works” are few and far between, just because he has a lot of things to do. Once you start writing, the work never comes out fast, because he has a beautiful studio, as long as the detailed outline, handed over to the girls to write a few chapters each, the first draft of two days out, and then let him proofreading embellishments, naturally saving time and effort.

As once operated two large books of the pro guards are now more and more experienced and skillful, originally needed Xue Mu proofreading text style work are omitted a lot, need to do is just fill in the details and private goods, rich flesh and blood.

Of course, the gun draft is just a gun draft, the quality is really average, lost a lot of the original charm, even if Xue Mu himself to fill in the details can not fill in the details, because he can not remember how many details of the original, can only play according to their own understanding. The good thing is that Xue Mu himself is really good in this area, and his performance will not make the original work lose face too much. All in all, no matter how much worse than the original, in this world, it is still a superb story and a crushing level of presentation.

Literature and martial arts are on different paths, the cultural gap between the two worlds has not yet closed, and the literati of this world still have a long way to go.

Meng Lan stood to the side, silently watching him as he lowered his head to favor the manuscript. The Shi Dai pen has basically replaced the brush in the clan, and there is no longer a need for her to be a little maid to grind the ink on the side and add fragrance to the red sleeves …… Meng Lan knows that this is a good thing that is conducive to efficiency, but her heart is still inevitably a little frustrated.

“What are you sighing for.” Xue Mu seemed to have heard her sigh and didn’t look up, laughing softly, “If you really want to grind ink, it’s not our Qin Song Hall Master Fairy Qin’s turn to do it now.”

Meng Lan whispered, “Meng Lan will always be Gongzi’s little maid.”

Zhuo Qingqing skimmed her lips on the side, there are still outsiders around, this girl still doesn’t have any skin at all, I really don’t know if letting people watch this performance of Fairy Qin will collapse the three views.

Xue Mu asked while writing, “How’s the progress of the Thousand Mountain Twilight Snow album?”

“From the time it was recorded at the premiere in Spirit State, it took more than a month to produce more than 100,000 copies, compared to the early days our supply capacity has gotten much stronger, but compared to the popularity demand of the Thousand Mountain Twilight Snow Troupe, it’s still insufficient. There is a great demand in the capital city Spirit State Sword State, we feel that we need to at least double again to hit the bottom.” Meng Lan said, “Perhaps we also need to expand the production workshop?”

On the surface, they cooperated and shared with the Acacia Sect, but in reality, the Star Moon Sect also took up the horrifyingly large portion of album releases, and the Acacia Sect could not do anything about it, they didn’t even have Star Forgetting Stones, and couldn’t even do anything to follow suit if they wanted to.

“The workshop is taking its time, I think this current production capacity is already quite good.” Xue Mu stopped writing and thought for a while, and smiled, “One hundred thousand copies is quite a lot as a debut quantity, don’t be too hasty, one batch at a time.”

“Yes.” Meng Lan paused for a moment, then hesitated, “In addition, Meng Lan has always been a bit vain …… After all, the album is missing the dance, only the songs, the effect is much worse, will it be bad?”

“It’s fine. As the songs are appreciated, naturally there are people who listen to them, and ……” Xue Mu paused and smiled mysteriously, “In many cases, fans are willing to buy willing to listen in a loop, not at all because of the quality, just for you.”

Meng Lan and Zhuo Qingqing look also both a little strange, Xue Mu this if said to Shadow Wing and so on guys to listen, they most likely not too understand, but the demonesses listen to this is really understandable. In fact, it is almost the same as the demonesses in the jianghu to cheat the wrongdoers …… This one is still good, there are still real things to give you, more than the demonesses a wink on the empty glove like words.

Always feel that Gongzi’s approach, is the demonesses were originally doing things change soup but not change the medicine changed a little, made a beautiful packaging, bring people’s view on the perception is very different.

“Also, since the Spirit State Daily has become popular, we need to utilize it. Let’s first heat up the advertisements for Qianxue’s album for three days.” Xue Mu said, “Have An Sifang’s side hold it steady, we won’t release advertising space for sale to the public for the time being, lest there be pandemonium. On the contrary, we can leave some space for Zhang Bai Ling …… he will want to use, this matter you go to dock with him.”

Meng Lan understood: “Gongzi is really ……”

There was an outsider present, sitting quietly on the guest seat, listening to the conversation between Xue Mu and Meng Lan, listening in confusion.

It was none other than the woman from the Traceless Dao, who had come to wait to pick up the manuscript.

Xue Mu also now knew that her name was Ye Lanying, the only female Daolord initiator of the Traceless Dao, her strength within the Traceless Dao was around five or six up and down, and she was a quite influential senior. She is not very old, seems to be slightly younger than Xue Mu, but she has been doing eavesdropping and assassination since she was eight years old …… Basically, you can say that she has been hiding in the shadows all her life to survive, not to mention the fact that she and Xue Mu are not in the same world at all, even if she doesn’t have a lot of common language with the demonesses.

What the demon girls can understand, she is very difficult to understand, the difference between the two sides of the Dao is already quite large, and their words are even more bizarre to the point that people do not know what to say. Album was a new word this year and she was still very uncomfortable with it, which even if she had at least heard of it, what was that fan thing again? Isn’t it a kind of food? And what the hell is an advertisement?

Everyone is a magic door, where so many incomprehensible black cuts ah ……

If there was any common language, it was that the cooperation between Xue Mu and the Traceless Dao had made it obvious to her that the clan had had a better year than anything she had seen in this life for more than twenty years.

It was mainly reflected in the fact that the sect’s operation no longer relied entirely on assassination and intelligence business, and the Windstorm Building, which had originally existed only as a ground-based mission receiving point, had generated almost one-third of the total business revenue over the past year. With this bottom line in, the assassin business for the Traceless Road appears to be not a necessity for the functioning of the clan, can be very easy and leisurely as a hobby existed ……

Some obviously dangerous tasks do not need to die for the sake of the force to take, and the mission process encountered dangerous situations do not need to maintain the so-called hundred percent completion rate and change lives, and now the Traceless Road internal has begun to consider the abolition of some of the very inhumane rules of the door, the entire clan are very excited about this.

Ye Guying knew that the change started with Xue Mu.

It wasn’t without reason that Traceless Dao was now getting closer and closer to Star Moon Sect, to the extent that Shadow Wing would consider his safety and take the initiative to send someone to protect him.

Xue Mu dropped the last stroke, checked it slightly, looked up and rushed her, “The first five chapters of the manuscript are ready, take it back to Windstorm House, and choose a day for yourselves to start.”

Ye Guying stood up and respectfully made a bow, “Thank you again, Alliance Master.”

This respect was indeed sincere, the top assassins of the Traceless Dao would never salute because of who carried the name of the alliance master.

“This cooperation was originally a long-term mutual benefit between you and I. What is there to thank?” Xue Mu handed her the manuscript and leaned back in his chair and leisurely said, “You No Trace Dao takes protection missions, right? Going to Sword State to protect me isn’t a special case, right?”

Ye Orphan Shadow replied, “Our Traceless Dao is in the business of assassination, so naturally we are often hired to do some counter-assassination protection business, it’s not a special case. Of course in Going Down to the Sword Prefecture it is indeed a bit special because there is no charge, just allies helping each other, which is considered very rare for this sect.”

Xue Mu said, “Then is it feasible for me to hire you for another period of time and pay the same price?”

This proposal sounded normal, but Ye Guying somehow, perhaps out of a strong intuition? She always felt that Xue Mu was harboring a deep malice at that moment. ……

She hesitated slightly, “Star Moon Sect is as strong as a cloud, why would the Alliance Master need to hire someone else out?”

“You know it’s different, wouldn’t the Star Moon Sect be able to replace the use of your Traceless Dao?” Xue Mu said, “I know that you are quite powerful in the Traceless Dao and have clan affairs to attend to, so it’s inconvenient to protect anyone for a long period of time. How about this, if I’m going out, I’ll hire you temporarily according to the No Trace Dao price rules, is that okay?”

Ye Guying only nodded, “Yes.”

The particularities of each family’s Way were clearly reflected here. In general, cultivation to their level and being a senior member of the clan has its own pride. Protecting you as an ally was fine, but to say that you were employed would be a bit insulting. However, in the eyes of the Traceless Road is the opposite, allies to protect is the exception, the charge is employed is a natural and rightful thing to take for granted.

Anyway, how to think allies do not feel the need to harm her, that malice is mostly an illusion. Ye Guying didn’t care too much, listening to the conversation between Xue Mu and Fairy Qin just now, they have a lot of things to do, and they don’t know when they will go out.

At this point in time, including Xue Mu, they could not have imagined that this employment would actually come to fruition so quickly. Before dawn, the life that had just calmed down for a few days was lit up by the magic star that had entered the palace, and then the storm clouds started to rise.