The Illusionary Moon White Tiger collapsed to the ground, and the Nascent Soul stage of the artifact spirit was also finished.
Su Qing coldly gazed at the boundless snowfield, at which moment the spirit's voice rang out again.
"You are indeed quite good, so here you are." As he spoke, the corpse of the Illusionary Moon White Tiger vanished, leaving behind a tiger skin scroll on the ground.
Su Qing walked over, picked up the tiger-skin scroll, and saw that it was actually a map.
This is a map of the far north, and a small red dot on it clearly marks the snowy forest.
"This is an exploration map left behind by Ancestor Wanquan. If you have the chance, you can go and explore it. Ancestor Wanquan also left some things in Xueling City, which are all yours."
"What about the beast tide?"
"Phantom Moon White Tiger, Six-Clawed Nether Beast, Wind-Riding Roc, if you defeat these three demonic beasts, then you have won the defense of the city."
I see.
Su Qing turned back towards Xue Ling City. Xuan Qingye's armor was already shattered, but his opponent, the Six-Clawed Nether Beast, was in even worse shape. All six claws were gone, and it had become a pitiful beast, lying motionless on the ground.
The six-clawed Nether Beast, so badly injured, could no longer control the third and fourth-tier demonic beasts, and they all scattered like birds and beasts.
Su Qing and Xuan Qing arrived at Xueling City, only to find the area outside the city in complete disarray. It seemed that the Wind-Riding Roc had been killed, and the demonic beasts had naturally lost control.
"Junior Sister Su Qing!" Han Chen stood on the city wall and waved to Su Qing.
Back in Xueling City, the city lord Xue Bocheng and the young city lord Xue Zheng prepared a lavish victory celebration banquet.
At the celebration banquet, everyone ate and drank heartily, and in the end, they all passed out drunk.
When Su Qing and the others woke up, they found that there was no Xueling City at all.
The four of them were lying in the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons. What came into view was a ruined city, with the corpses of demon beasts scattered everywhere inside and outside the city.
Before me, in this dilapidated city, the three characters "Xueling City" can still be faintly seen on the plaque.
"Are we under an illusion?" Han Chen rubbed his aching head, looking completely bewildered.
"This is the 'Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains' painting, probably a trial for the spirit to control," Yu Kui said.
Su Qing walked step by step toward Xueling City. When she reached the city gate, she picked up a broken arrow from the ground.
The arrow has faintly visible runes, indicating that it is a rune arrow.
Xue Zheng's arrow.
Passing through the dilapidated city gate and entering Xueling City, one can see many human skeletons, which should all belong to the city guards. Of course, there are also a large number of monster skeletons.
Back then, Xueling City was breached by demonic beasts, and the entire city was almost completely slaughtered. If it weren't for the arrival of cultivators from the Xuanling Sect, Xueling City would have been utterly destroyed.
Within Xueling City, every street is littered with the remains of numerous demonic beasts.
Su Qing arrived at the city lord's mansion.
Outside the city lord's mansion, the skeleton of an enormous demon beast blocked the entrance; it was at least a fifth-tier demon beast.
At the entrance of the city lord's mansion, Su Qing saw a human skeleton. In his hand, he was still tightly gripping a black bow. Su Qing had seen this black bow before; it belonged to Xue Zheng. So, was this person Xue Zheng?
Su Qing thought of the spirited young man in the illusion, the genius young man with a single earth elemental root. He had perished here when he was in the Foundation Establishment stage.
Upon entering the City Lord's Mansion, Su Qing found it undamaged. She walked into the main hall, where the phantom of Ancestor Wan Quan, who was actually the spirit of the artifact, sat in the center.
"You have successfully passed the test. Now you can collect your prizes."
She couldn't help but find it a little funny to think that the spirit had previously been a child and was now pretending to be the Wanquan Ancestor.
"These are the demon crystals you handed over earlier. In addition, here are your rewards for defending Xueling City."
A pile of demon crystals appeared before them; they were the very demon crystals they had handed over earlier.
In addition, there are two demon crystals of fifth-tier demon beasts, one of the six-clawed Nether Beast and the other of the Wind-Riding Roc. As for the Illusionary Moon White Tiger, since it is the incarnation of a spirit artifact, it does not have a demon crystal.
In this way, each of the four of them would have a fifth-tier demon crystal.
"On the battlefield, I discovered that those demonic beasts didn't have any demonic crystals, and they even confiscated all our demonic crystals when they entered the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons. I was afraid we wouldn't be able to complete the mission. But unexpectedly, in the end, they let us complete the mission as a reward," Han Chen said excitedly.
"You performed exceptionally well in this mission to defend Xueling City. There is also a special reward, which is in this hall. Whether you can get it depends on your luck."
After saying that, the phantom of Ancestor Wanquan disappeared.
"There's a special reward too?" Han Chen was still immersed in excitement when he noticed that the other three had already jumped up and started searching the hall.
"Hey, are you guys all so quick to react?" Han Chen quickly joined the search team.
"You talk too much!"
Although the main hall of the city lord's mansion was large, it was also quite empty inside. Everything in the hall was on full display, so the four of them walked around and saw everything.
There's nothing there?
No way! We can't miss out on this special reward!
So the four of them searched again.
Han Chen even jumped onto the roof beam and searched for a long time, but still found nothing.
"Since we can't find it, let's take everything we can!" Su Qing said.
Su Qing has plenty of storage space, and she has already started packing things in.
What tables and benches, what bookshelves and flower stands...
The other three stared blankly as Su Qing swept everything out of the hall, leaving the now empty hall feeling somewhat cramped.
At this moment, all the Xuanling Sect disciples who saw this scene outside were in an uproar.
"Junior Sister Su Qing is so talented! She actually thought of taking them all with her! My idol, my idol."
"So, what exactly is the final special reward?"
"Who cares? We only care about the process."
...
The Xuanling Sect Master almost spat out his tea. Why was he finding this disciple, Su Qing, increasingly interesting?
Su Qing was still not satisfied; she had already started tearing down the floorboards...
There might be a tunnel that leads directly to a special reward.
The spirit was utterly speechless. Was this how you claim a reward? Is this how you claim rewards?
Oh well, the special reward was just in a corner of the bookshelf anyway, and Su Qing took it all, so the reward was successfully distributed.
As Su Qing pried off the last piece of floorboards, the artifact spirit, seeing that Su Qing seemed to want to demolish the house, could no longer tolerate it and directly teleported the four of them out of the Myriad Miles of Rivers and Mountains Map.
"Wow, Junior Sister Su Qing is out!"
Su Qing and her three companions were teleported to the Xuanling Sect's plaza, where they were immediately engulfed by the clamor of the Xuanling Sect disciples.
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