501 A Happy Encounter (2/2)
The storyteller took a deep breath and added, ”If you think about it, Demoness of Grand Luo probably reached the Exterior level overnight as well. Six top-notch masters on the Ranking List of Young Masters, Shapeless Sword, Demoness of Grand Luo, Ledgerkeeper of Lives, Fairy of the Extinctive Sword, Wolf King, and Killing Blade - except for Wolf King who died - had all reached the zenith overnight. This had never happened since the beginning of the Ranking List of Young Masters!”
”Could this be an omen that something bad is about to happen?”
”I sure hope not! We folks would rather be a dog during peaceful times than a man during chaos. Looking back in history, every time there's chaos, cities have been destroyed and millions have died! Even if we escaped the wrath of the Exterior level masters, we'd still die of hunger!”
In times of peace, by contrast, even if mother decided to take revenge upon us, we would just need to send out a few exterior-level experts and invoke the Force of Heaven and Earth. Then. things would settle. And each year we'd yield a good crop to feed our stomachs, but in chaos, which exterior level master would be willing to help others?
The man with the blade scar walked out of the restaurant during all the gossip.
”I must inform Master Luo at once about Killing Blade reaching the zenith overnight. After all, they are sworn enemies! I'm glad I could gather all this information on Killing Blade...” He sped up as he became more concerned.
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Over half of the Jade Forest Garden had been destroyed by the effect of the battle between exterior level masters. The lake had become bigger, with light gleaning off the ripples.
A single boat was floating on the lake with Meng Qi sitting on the bow. He watched as Su Ziyue made tea.
A shadow jumped up from the back of the boat. His movements were swift like an immortal, but then he suddenly changed directions.
But the sudden change of direction was clumsy, so much so that he fell right into the lake.
”Second brother, why didn't you catch Childe Gu...” Su Ziyue asked Meng Qi with confusion.
Meng Qi looked at Gu Changqing, then smiled, ”If you don't feel the pain of failure, how can you learn and improve your kung fu?”
Gu Changqing was dripping wet by now, but he did not show an ounce of pain and just muttered, ”So I made a mistake when conducting Qi, or could it be...”
A few days earlier, Meng Qi picked up Gu Changqing from Huan Duke's Mansion and personally taught him the ” Seven True Scripts”. Additionally, Gu made a Soul-pledging Oath that he would foster and enhance the ”Seven True Scripts”, then pass it on from generation to generation.
Being the only blood lineage of the Tang family, Su Ziyue was also taught the ”Seven True Scripts” by Meng Qi.
---Meng Qi truly thought that the ”Seven True Scripts” was far more superior to Su family's inheritances.
”Void Flight is much cooler that Kun Wu Steps...” Su Ziyue totally believed Meng Qi, not noticing Meng Qi's mischief.
Though she did not know where she had really come from, she felt that the person she called ”mother” was the legal wife's daughter of the Tang family. She knew that she had half of the blood lineage of the Tang family, so passing on the ”Seven True Scripts” to future generations was her responsibility too.
Gu Changqing kept falling into the lake as he practiced. Meanwhile, Meng Qi was happily enjoying his tea.
A day had gone past, but just as Meng Qi returned to the yard, darkness fell before his eyes and his Vital Spirit began spinning before he appeared at the Samsara Square.
Rays of light flashed, then Ruan Yushu, Qi Zhengyan, and Zhao Heng stepped out. It was, however, a young girl wearing yellow robes that caught Meng Qi's eyes.
Her eyes were sharper and she was more mature... we could no longer call her a young girl...
Jiang Zhiwei too looked at Meng Qi as a smile began to appear on her face, ”You've endured the four heavenly disasters, and the milky way spread across Luoyang, congratulations.”
Meng Qi casually laughed, ”Your sword light covered a hundred miles, slicing through three heavenly disasters yourself. Congratulations to you too.”
Their awkwardness completely disappeared with laughter!
Ruan Shu Yu was happy too, chatting away merrily with Jiang Zhiwei.
After catching up, they heard their grades were all ”average” in the tasks. Everyone had earned 200 karma points except for Jiang Zhiwei. Meng Qi stepped before the Central Light Pillar and placed in it his spoils from the battles.
”Destruction hand, Precious Weapons...could exchange 2000 Karma points.”
”Taiyi's Relief Sword, the Refined Weapon...could exchange sixty Karma points.”
Sixty? Meng Qi was initially shocked. Then he realized that he and Jiang Zhiwei had reached the exterior level, and Zhao Heng had only reached Half-step, thus his Refined Weapon had dropped in value.
This was to prevent a Samsara traveler from gathering Refined Weapons, which would attract too much attention.
Since Jiang Zhiwei did not participate in this task, they spread the points evenly between the four of them. They each earned 515 karma points, added to the 1700 karma points they had previously earned, each of them now has 2215 karma points.
”Why don't we exchange for some information about the next task?” Suggested Jiang Zhiwei. She had to complete a task by herself to make up for not participating in their task, but she could still utilize the unused time.
She still had 80 karma points left, which was just enough to chip in for some information about the next task.
”The next task is in 18 months time.”
”Since two of us have already reached the exterior level, there's too much of a gap in our strengths, so the task will be divided. It is hard to determine the strength of the other three, which is why we want to find some information beforehand.”
”Task background: 500 years after apotheosis, Saints are nowhere to be seen and people are suffering.”
500 years after apotheosis! Meng Qi's pupils contracted as he saw the information.