Chapter 14 - Sect Tasks (2/2)

“Spiritual Stone tasks?”

“Yes, as its name implies. The reward of Spiritual Stone tasks is Spiritual Stones, which are usually given to inner disciples. But inner disciples are often shorthanded, so some extra spiritual stone tasks are left for outer disciples.”

“Let me have a look.”

Ling Yun became much interested in the unexpected spiritual stone tasks.

“Spiritual Stone Task: to kill three evil beast Ink-flame Tigers. Once the task is accomplished, 200 low-grade spiritual stones will be rewarded. To kill evil beasts? Only this will scare most people away.”

“Spiritual Stone Task: to collect ten Blood Lilies. The mission location is Flowers Valley, in the deep Hengyun Mountains.”

“Spiritual Stone Task: to kill robber Kuang Yan with a reward of 500 spiritual stones. Kuang Yan is nearly at the seventh level of Martial Practice. He runs amuck in Skywater Kingdom and kills people like flies. Every Sect wanted to eliminate this man as soon as possible.”

…

In Lin Yun’s view, all spiritual stone tasks were not simple, and extremely dangerous; meanwhile, the reward was really tempting.

After carefully calculating the time and weighing the pros and cons, Lin Yun chose three spiritual stone tasks.

“The mid-year assessment will start in two months. If you can’t come back in time, it’ll be taken as voluntary abstention,” after handing the tasks to Lin Yun, Administrator Yang said cautiously.

Lin Yun knew the rules on the mid-year assessment, so he nodded his head and said, “Thank you for reminding me.”

When Lin Yun was about to leave, Administrator Yang asked him in a low voice, “Have you really mastered Flowing Wind Swordplay?”

“Just Slight Achievement, I haven’t fully mastered it.”

After a short answer, Lin Yun quickly left the hall, leaving Administrator Yang dumbfounded there.

At the beginning, he firmly believed that Lin Yun could never master Flowing Wind Swordplay, but now Lin Yun had mastered it, and even made it to the Slight Achievement. It seemed that Lin Yun was ready to make the Big Achievement of Flowing Wind Swordplay.

“Fortunately, Head Wang showed up in time and I didn’t completely fall out with that guy that day,” Administrator Yang shook his head and sighed after a while.

Not long after Lin Yun left, in Lin Yun’s cabin at the hillside, a bunch of people rummaged around in a violent way, trying to look for something.

“Senior Chen, no Body Refining Elixir was found. That guy must have known we would come, so he took it away.”

“There’s nothing valuable, just a bunch of wastes for maintaining swords.”

It was Chen Xiao, who wanted to take revenge immediately after he recovered.

He didn’t expect Lin Yun had left before he came.

“Damn it, my Cloud Strip Sword, my three Body Refining Elixirs!”

Chen Xiao felt his heart aching and cried, “Burn his house! Lin Yun, you can’t avoid me. I don’t believe you won’t come back for the mid-year assessment!”

…

After two days’ riding on a fine horse, Lin Yun had gone deep in Hengyun Mountains.

He was far away from the Qingyun Sect; meanwhile, he was going to face another kind of danger.

Having practiced in here once, Lin Yun clearly knew what was there deep in the mountains.

Evil beasts!

Unlike the periphery of the mountains, deep in the mountains reigned the evil beasts, all of which at least had the fifth level of Martial Practice.

The more terrible thing was that all evil beasts possessed evil spirit. So it was extremely difficult for those practitioners of the same level to defeat them.

But Lin took the task of collecting Blood Lilies, so he had to venture here.

If he wanted to defeat Zhou Yun and pay back what he owed Su Ziyao, he had no way back.

Compared with the pressure Zhou Yun gave him, Su Ziyao’s “kindness” was more unacceptable.

He hated owing a debt of gratitude to others. And on thinking Su Ziyao’s arrogant look, he wanted to pay it back immediately.

The map showed that the Flowers Valley was nearby.

But the terrain was complex in the deep Hengyun Mountain. The jungle was dense, and the human seldom trod. It was not easy for him to find the entrance to Flowers Valley.

In addition, he needed to beware of evil beasts, which made things more difficult.

It took Lin Yun three days to walk through a jungle and then the view completely changed.

In front of him was a wide field.

A huge valley appeared in the mountains. Flowers of all kinds in bright colors, covering the ground, were in full bloom, and Lin Yun could not see the end at a glance.

When the breeze came, the fragrance of flowers was smelled.

Here was the Flowers Valley!