228 Shen Jing’s Ultimatum (1/2)

During their short exchange, Mo Wen had drained the low grade spiritual stone of a third of its spiritual energy. Hence, it was not a very difficult thing for an ancient martial art practitioner with the peak of the Qi Nucleation realm to completely drain a low grade spiritual stone of its spiritual energy.

However, Mo Wen's previous actions were to look for the puppet's weakness in order to hatch a plan to destroy it.

In the eyes of the masterminds, they naturally did not want Mo Wen destroying the puppet. If each person taking the Four stars assessment were to destroy a puppet each time, it would be too much of a waste of resources.

There was a world of a difference between the value of the assessment fee and the value of the puppet. They should not even be compared in the first place.

Hence, previously when there were changes to the puppet, and when it had fought back, it was not a passive reaction. Instead, it had happened under the masterminds' control. They used a deadly strategy, not with the intention of killing Mo Wen, but with the intention of defeating him and causing him to fail the assessment.

However, man proposes, God disposes. Nobody had expected that Mo Wen would have the Sacred Fire Sword with him. In the face of that frightening sacred sword, a simple iron puppet naturally did not stand a chance.

”Those young Executors in Huatian Palace are all rather interesting fellows. They are like the crouching tiger and hidden dragon, all hiding their talents. It's really very interesting.”

”However, that lad destroyed one of my puppets and even took away my spiritual stone. Next time, when he returns for another assessment, I will definitely make things difficult for him…”

The voices got softer and softer before they completely vanished into thin air, as though as they had never existed in the first place. That dilapidated puppet fell onto the ground with a slam, turning into a pile of scrap metal.

Mo Wen did not know that his actions had successfully triggered someone that he would not want to trigger. At the moment, he was within a white and blurry lighted atmosphere. He had returned to the outside of the stone pagoda. When the light had dispersed, he stood on the spot just as before.

As for Mo Qingtian, he was leaning on a slanted gray rock face on the stone pagoda. His gaze was downcast, and he did not move at all, as though he were deep in thought.

”Completed?”

A look of surprise flashed through Mo Qingtian's eyes. Mo Wen had seemingly only entered for a short while, but he had already completed the assessment so quickly?

He remembered back when he had taken the Four stars assessment. In order to deplete the puppet of its power, he had spent about half an hour. However, the total time that Mo Wen had spent after entering was only about 15 minutes.

Mo Wen waved his right hand. The silver Vermillion Bird ring was flashing with a pale blue light.

At a glance, Mo Qingtian knew that Mo Wen had passed the assessment. It was very easy to differentiate the rings owned by a Two stars Executor and a Four stars Executor. On Mo Wen's Vermillion Bird ring, there were suddenly four blue crystal stars.

Mo Qingtian gasped as he nodded. ”Not bad.” Mo Wen's abilities had actually exceeded his expectations by quite a lot. Otherwise, he would not have been able to pass the assessment within such a short amount of time.

If he had known that Mo Wen had not only passed the assessment, but also destroyed the puppet in the assessment, he would have been so shocked that his jaw would have dropped.

Afterwards, Mo Qingtian led Mo Wen on a walk around the headquarters of Huatian Palace. After he had understood the environment and rules a little, they then left the headquarters.

For the first time, Mo Wen managed to take up a Four stars mission as published by Huatian Palace, just as he had desired. He would have to head to the capital to investigate the secret activity and the motives of the evil power.

On the afternoon of the second day, Mo Wen returned to the capital. This time, although he had applied for ten days of leave for his journey to Huatian palace, he had only spent two days. That was because he had not met with any mishaps along the way.

Mo Qingtian had arranged for a car to send Mo Wen back directly to the Hua Xia University's gate. As for himself, there was no trace of him, and no one knew where he had gone off to.

Mo Wen stretched and looked at the flow of students at the Hua Xia University's gate. They were gathered in pairs or groups, dressed fashionably, and were chatting and laughing. It was as if he had just teleported between two different worlds.

In reality, the mysterious world of Immortal Cultivators and the normal world were still within the same world. It was just that some things were hidden from the average person.

He reached for his phone in his pocket and pressed the button to turn on his phone. Previously, on his journey to Huatian Palace, Mo Qingtian had requested he shut down his phone. Hence, his phone had not been on for two days.

The moment he turned on his phone, he received a few text messages and a couple of notifications for missed calls.

Indeed, that girl Qin Xiaoyou had called him every day. If not, she had sent a text message. There was no real purpose to it. It was just to ask whether he was doing well or not.

Surprisingly, he found that other than the calls from Qin Xiaoyou, there was also one from Shen Jing.

It was very rare for her to give him a call. Could something have happened? Mo Wen furrowed his brows.

He casually called Shen Jing's number, and she picked up immediately.

”What happened, have you missed me?”

Mo Wen's greeting was very explicit and direct. It was also very shameless.

It was silent on the other end for quite a while before she shot back, ”If you've got an issue, please remember to take your medication.”

Mo Wen laughed and asked, ”If you didn't miss me, then what did you call me for?” From Shen Jing's reply, it seemed as though it was nothing much.

”I pressed the wrong number…”

”You can even press my number accidentally when calling someone else? Just how much did you miss me?”

”If there's nothing, I'm hanging up now,” Shen Jing said coldly.