In the middle of the swamp, on a wide clearing, In front of the tallest and thickest tree, Zhi Riu stood midair staring at the bottom roots.

Her subordinated followed her, still calm and composed but it only took a glance backward form Zhi Rui for them to pick up the pace.

Zun Xuying was the first arrive beside her, With Ren zu right behind.

"We'll make out base here!" Zhi Rui announced. "This will be the Disciplinary Division's headquarters!"

Her voice echoed together with the thunderous black clouds atop the swamp.

The flashes of lightning showed the astounded expression on the slaves clearly. there was poisoned lakes, beasts, and innumerable hidden dangers, and that's not even counting on the odd black clouds above the swamp showering blue lightning unceasingly.

But Since she said it, they could only follow blindly.

Zhi Rui's eyes widened eerily as she looked at Zhun Xuying, "Give me that shovel and pickaxe you prepared, we need to work fast."

Bewildered, Zhun Xuying handed it over in a swift motion, Zhi Rui grabbed it and threw herself down. Her speed broke the sound barrier. With laud boom, Zhi Rui landed. Gravels and chunks of soil were thrown about. a wide crate formed under her foot.The second she stood back up, she smashed down with her smaller hammer. She smashed down at least fifty times in a row, in less than three seconds.

The ground was softened Zhi Ru grabbed the pickaxe and dismantled the broken parts. She did it with precision and speed. Her subordinates watched stupified from up there.

Izaya looked at them with a tense gaze. "What are you doing standing while your master is working!? Wear your armor and do the job!"

He looked at Zhun Xuying, and she threw him a black shovel. The slaves picked their own as well, it was part of the kit Zhun Xuying made. In the book, there was a huge number of goods to be found and collected on the underworld. Zhun Xuying prepared tools for each and everyone in case they found such treasures, she just forgot to deliver the shovel to Zhi Rui and the others.

They jumped down, But Zhi Rui looked at them with her wide eyes. She had marked a square, right under a thick arched root, it was around five meters each side.

Zhi Rui left Zhun Xuying with five slaves and instructed them to dig downwards inside the square. She took the rest of them and divided five teams to five different locations of the swamp.

Zhi Rui alone went to the frontmost part, where anyone who came from the 'cleaned area' would see first.

The disciples saw the geniuses laying down ready-made large buildings, and building formations for protection, some of them took their time in sculping beautiful constructions, others were simple and just built what was necessary. but they were all, in some way. Doing what was expected. Then Zhi Rui appeared on the screen of the. sinking her pickaxe at the tough vermilion soil like a lunatic.

Some couldn't hold it in and laughed out loud. They were watching it from the position of the Dao protectors who went back inside. They would be the ones laying the main formation that'll cove the six divisions as whole.

They too were giggling at Zhi Rui's comical appearance.

Bain Bengwan laughed out loud from far away, so laud that Zhi Rui could hear him from where she was. But she gave him no reaction.

Xa Dayu, the dull-looking young woman, with a long black hair that reached her knees looked at Zhi Rui with emotionless eyes. She looked back a the alchemy pavilions she built and decide to make some adjusts.

"Made an underground garden, of at least twenty meters deep."

After ordering she took out a simple silver cauldron and some medicinal plants.

The small cauldron was filled with water, a grim green fire slowly heated the bottom of the cauldron, the exotic herbs inside the water started to sizzle and dissolve, soon the water was like a mirror, in it. Zhi Rui swinging her pickaxe appeared. Xa Dayu threw small black seeds inside, the water exploded into vapor, its color changed constantly, then, it settled in a bright pink color.

Xa Dayu opened her eyes in surprise. With a smile, she jumped up and crushed a pink pill midair. As the dust of the crushed pill became a soft pink cloud. Xa Dayu fell on it, with her inner energy, the cloud floated with grace towards Zhi Rui.

*Thuck! **Thuck!*

The pickaxe struck the ground and small pieaces spilled out at a speed that'd kill a mortal in the spot if it hit.

Suddenly a clear young woman with a fair skin, wearing a loose white robes softly fell in front of Zhi Rui.

She stopped for a second and squinted. 'Is this an illusion formed out f my craving? Do I really hate manual labor this much? ' Zhi Rui thought.

She eyed the girl from top to bottom. She seemed like a noble's daughter, her hair went down to her knees, her eyes were a common black, she was pretty in a common way.

The young woman chuckled a Zhi Rui's confused gaze.

Her laugh was sincere, Zhi Rui could feel it, and her body behavior was also normal, too normal. Zhi Rui thought.

She could feel the feeling was sincere and real, but the behavior of her body was a practiced act. Two different actions, one sincere, another fabricated. Zhi Rui tilted her head. 'Not fabricated... trained?'

The woman suddenly put a pal om her chest and spoke.

"I Xa Dayu, swears that I'll deliver only the product I promised to deliver, and won't give Zhi Rui any harmful product unless it is of her own will."

The already thundering clouds went wild. Bolts of Lightning, stronger than before, struck the ground violently. Zhi Rui felt the electricity coming up her leg. But her eyes hadn't left the woman in front of her. The young woman; Xa Dayu was still smiling. She extended her finger with a nail-sized drop of water on it, she raised to chin level in front of Zhi Rui.

"I did a revelation of this swamp on the way. It's a quite clear result since there was nothing trying to obstruct me, I put my memories of the results on this dew pill. Drink it."

Astounded by the woman's actions, and even more surprised by the fact that the woman wasn't lying. Zhi Rui extended her tongue and licked the tip of Xa Dayu's finger. An image passed by Zhi Rui's eyes, She was cross-legged above a pink cloud looking at a crystal ball in the first person.

In the Crystal ball. showed the whole of the swamp, hidden clusters of beasts, softest to toughest terrains, precious metals to mine. everything. Zhi Rui felt a chill crawl up on her back.

"Are you with Bianca?" She blurted out.

Xa Dayu tilted her head, and like lightning plucked out one of Zhi Rui's thin's black hair strand. Once out of her body, it turned into a bright blonde.

Xa Dayu saw it and chukled, but didn' comment.

In the Zhi Rui's astounded gaze, Xa Dayu put the hair on her mouth and munched away casually.

flashes of an extremely beautiful woman passed by her head, sometimes she was sitting in a throne, and in another, she was beating her up. there was no sound or context.

After three flashes the girl opened her eyes and looked a the cold looking Zhi Rui with the same smile. "No, I'm not Bianca. Actually, I think we can be friends." She said with a girly giggle. And crushed another pink pill.

"After our busy time's over, I"ll come and visit again. Oh, and I blocked the hope rock, so none of what we talked spread outside."

Her pink cloud went away with her on top.

Zhi Rui, in turn, chukled and went back to her work.to not show anything on the hope rock that could attract attention. They were going to be watched for a long while, so she had to take that time to act freely and laid her preparation inside the underworld. their base must be completed in less than a week.

As Zhi Rui thought this. new people crossed the gate. There were various people going in, so she didn't bother with it, but this time, a sudden pressure weighted down her shoulder. A creepy feeling overcame her core.

At the entrance, She locked eyes with a man, he had a long unkempt beard and disheveled hair that wasn't washed in years His eyes were lifeless and dull. He blinked, the walked away to meet with Bain Bengwan.

' A level five...' Zhi Rui thought. Soon another number of fourth level subordinates entered the underworld. The only Division that didn't receive any new subordinates was the alchemy plains.

Zhi Rui ignored everything else and dug away.