147 Fusion Time (2/2)
”Zhu Qiao?”
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During the 9 months that Cao Mao had spent practicing the Goose Tongue technique, skirmishes between the royal army and Wei Huang's demon army occurred once or twice a month. Most of the time, they sent weak soldiers to probe the other's strength while the 7th-stage experts avoided a direct confrontation with the other side's experts.
Both sides were buying time as they were negotiating with neutral organizations, who had yet to join the war. Many orthodox, unorthodox, and evil sects chose not to participate in this conflictsince they had nothing to gain.
Instead of worrying about the war between two superpowers, these neutral organizations' attention lied elsewhere.
Three major merchant organizations, the Yu Merchant Association, the Mi Clan Incorporate, and the Zhou Finance, were searching for a certain dead body. Had it been a normal corpse, nobody would have paid attention. However, these merchant firms said that the corpse belonged to someone with an ancient bloodline, and they would exchange essence cores for it.
The Yu Clan offered 500 cores and permanent discounts to the affiliated shops. The Mi Clan was willing to give 1000 cores if the corpse was intact while the Zhou Clan offered an element crystal instead.
The odd bidding of these organizations aroused suspicion. Many sects deployed inner disciples and experts to investigate this matter.
It didn't take long for the crown prince, Liu Bian, to make an announcement to the public, clearing the doubts of all powerhouses. The prince also offered the same bounty that he had offered Yu Shun and the merchant clans.
The land was thrown into chaos when 1,000 essence cores and a shadow element crystal was on the line. All sects disregarded the war and searched for clues of Xie Tian's last whereabouts. Even Wei Huang and the emperor had to stop their forces and investigate this treasure hunting mission.
Soon, they found clues. Everything led to the Myriad Cauldron's herbal plane.
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”This is annoying! WHY ME OF ALL PEOPLE!?”
Inside a private room in a flying ship, which was heading toward the Yeet City, Zhu Qiao buried her face in a pillow, screaming in frustration.
Zhu Huifang dispatched Zhu Qiao and many former Silver Phoenix Sect's disciples to search for Xie Tian's dead body as well.
The clan patriarch regretted letting Xie Tian go. Frustrated with her loss, she also joined this hunt, hoping to get some fortune from Xie Tian's dead body and score an element crystal from the crown prince.
But Zhu Huifang couldn't leave the Sky Duck City due to the conflict with the Xu Clan. She had to protect the front line against her former sect master.
The burden shifted to Zhu Qiao, who was the youngest daughter of Zhu Huifang. As someone who was born a succubus, she wasn't at risk of being violated by random men. Instead, she could kill any man with her lower mouth. Meanwhile, Zhu Yanyu was a normal virgin maiden, so Zhu Huifang kept the elder sister in the city.
”I'm a fucking virgin, too! I don't want to get fucked!”
While Zhu Qiao was throwing tantrum, another mature woman was leaning against the wall, closing her eyes, listening to her niece getting crazy on the bed.
Zhu Nuan was a peak 6th-stage succubus, who successfully mutated like her elder sister, Zhu Huifang. However, she lost her eyesight as a price for obtaining the demonic power. She closed her eyes, similar to Qi Hong and Qi Ning.
As a succubus, Zhu Nuan's 116-year-old body was the same as attractive women in their late 20s. She inherited the signature pink hair and the sharp nose of the Zhu Clan. Despite having a breast size over 100cm and a bountiful butt, her slim waist and her face didn't look fat. Her juicy body was the same as modern women who had beautification surgeries or fake boobs.
Zhu Nuan sighed, ”You're not even cultivating VY techniques. Why should you care about your virginity? Just pick a little boy and tear the hymen, so you won't be flustered when someone tries to violate you.”
”Aunty! Are you telling me to get fucked!?”
”You're wasting your gift. Do you know how many women died trying to become a succubus? Succubi like us can live forever with our youthful bodies. We can even increase our cultivation base rapidly by devouring men's semen.”
Zhu Qiao clicked her tongue in disgust, ”But mother promotes VY School of thought and teaches everyone to respect their virginity.”
”Those techniques are for humans. We're demons.”
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”If you can't discuss this topic with me, you can go ask everyone on the ship how their first time went. Everyone on board of this ship are practicing JY techniques.”
”Meh, I'm not talking to those sluts. Please leave me alone.”
”… Fine.”
Zhu Nuan shook her head and exited the room.
After Zhu Qiao was left alone, she summoned her system menu.
A quest panel was flashing before her.
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Campaign Quest, Unknown Difficulty, Friend or Foe Part 1,
Objective: Investigate the identity of Xie Tian's murderer.
Failure Condition: The murderer is dead.
Reward: A heaven-grade cultivation technique gacha ticket.
Failure Penalty: Zhu Huifang will marry you to a random fat ugly young master of a noble family.
Description
Someone has slain one of your love interests, Xie Tian. Now, everyone is hunting for Xie Tian's dead body. The last clue of Xie Tian's last whereabouts is the herb harvesting event, where alchemist pupils and many cultivators visited a lower plane to harvest rare herbs.
The rumor said that Xie Tian died inside the plane, but nobody knows who killed him. Use your abilities and everything you've learned from the tutorial quests to complete your first campaign questlines.
Hints and Tips
Your actions and your performance during this quest will determine how difficult the quest will be. It can be as easy as the tutorial quests or it can be as hard as a 10-star quest.
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Zhu Qiao gazed at her system menu and grumbled. Among the selectable campaign quests, this one had the potential to be the easiest quest since the difficulty was determined by her actions and decisions. As for the other quests, she didn't like it.
There were five quests. One was the current questline. The other three involved flirting with young masters from prominent clans, and the last one demanded her to marry one of the princes.
Zhu Qiao didn't want to marry any of them since local young masters were either douchebags or womanizers. She wanted a man whom she could manipulate. If possible, Zhu Qiao wanted to be like one of the immortals in novels, living free and aloof without a spouse. Then, she would find a way to return to the modern world.
'This freaking heaven-grade cultivation technique is better be worth it. I don't want anything to do with pussy-related techniques anymore.'