Chapter 321 – Trial Mission (2/2)

Bedding Gu Yanying could be regarded as half a dream. Although he was so serious about it, he had almost made a certain person collapse from laughter. Hmph, when lower people hear of the Dao, they’ll laugh aloud. If they don’t laugh aloud, it’s not the Dao2.

Who the fuck cares about what others think? I, Li Qingshan, will become the strongest, most famous man, or should I say daemon, across the nine provinces.

All of his down-to-earth hard work was for reaching this fantasy. Novels were just the first step to his grand plan, so why did he have to think so much about coming up with a fake name?

“The great novelist, Li Qingshan. Now I like this name! Get Fubai to broadcast it properly for me. I’ll personally shell out ten million taels of silver for this. Get everyone in the Clear River province to know my great name!”

“What great name?”

Just as Li Qingshan’s thoughts flowed in high spirits, Hua Chengzan rode the wind and arrived on the island.

Li Qingshan went to receive him. “What brought you here?”

Hua Chengzan heard about how Li Qingshan had actually written a novel. After hesitating, he hesitated some more before asking, “Don’t tell me it’s those, right? Old Wang hasn’t been in a good mood recently!”

Li Qingshan said, “Am I that kind of person?” It turned Liu Chuanfeng bright red, fuming.

“I wouldn’t think so. I heard you spent all afternoon on Benevolence island?” Hua Chengzan hinted with a smile. He had befriended the greatest female primary disciple in the entire academy in such a neat and quick fashion, and he had even managed to capture the tomboy Han Qiongzhi’s heart. His charm was so impressive that it was truly beyond anything Liu Chuanfeng possessed.

“Don’t misunderstand. I was just learning alchemy from her,” Li Qingshan explained in a hurry. Ru Xin could be a very good partner, but clearly, she was not interested in him. He did not want to damage his reputation either, nor could he bothered to use this opportunity to pursue her.

“Pursuit” always came with an element of “begging”. He just happened to utterly hate begging others. He was not born into this world to serve a woman. Even if it were Gu Yanying, this aspect would remain unchanged.

“Whatever. Let’s not talk about that. Do you have any spare time lately?” However, Hua Chengzan did not believe him. He too had a lot of first hand experience with that woman’s personality. She definitely was not someone who would spend time teaching Li Qingshan alchemy for no reason.

“Why?”

“A trial mission.”

This was a tradition that had always existed within the Hawkwolf Guard. Whether it were new Hawkwolf guards or promoted Hawkwolf guards, they all had to complete a trial mission to demonstrate that they had the ability to hold their post. Although it was more symbolic than practical now, it was still necessary. Having been promoted to Scarlet Wolf guard, Li Qingshan could not avoid this either.

“What’s the mission?” Li Qingshan only felt that receiving private lessons from Ru Xin was even more correct of a decision. Otherwise, who knew when he would be able to learn alchemy in its entirety and refine True Spirit pills with all these interruptions.

“One of our Nighthawks has been killed. It might be connected to the White Lotus cult. Don’t worry, it’s just an investigation mission. If you can find the murderer, then feel free to avenge our people, but if you can’t, just report back.”

Li Qingshan said, “My previous trial mission was also an investigation mission.” And, in the end, the entire Qian family was annihilated.

Hua Chengzan said, “As long as Altar Lord level figures don’t appear, regular Qi Practitioners probably won’t even be able to touch a hair on you. Through her various encirclements, commander Gu has just about killed off most of the Altar Lords from various regions. The remaining that managed to slip away are too afraid to show themselves too. And, there’ll be an additional reward for completing this mission.”

“What reward?”

Hua Chengzan smiled. “It’s what you’ve been looking forward to all this time, which is going to the Ruyi commandery and meeting commander Gu!” This was also an ancient tradition of the Hawkwolf Guard. Newcomers had the right to see their commanding officer’s commander. If they were lucky and became chosen, there would be a lot of benefits.

“That’s not bad at all.” Li Qingshan smiled too. He also wanted to verify some thoughts of his and approach that half-a-dream of his.

1. Jin Long can be translated as Golden Dragon. The two authors Li Qingshan is thinking of are most likely Jin Yong and Gu Long. They are both highly reputed wuxia authors from the 20th century. They also form two legs of the Tripod of Wuxia (Basically they’re two of the three most reputed wuxia novel authors).