Shen Zhaozhao lowered her eyes, grabbed Yan Qiubai who was still trembling with anger and had red eyes, and took a few more steps to a secluded place to make sure that no one was listening. Suddenly, she asked a question out of the blue.
“Junior Uncle, your master, True Person Xuanji… died before he could ascend to immortality because his lifespan had run out, so it can be considered that he died of old age, right?”
At this moment, Yan Qiubai's mind was filled with images of the cold water prison and his senior brother Qingxuan's dying breath. He was so worried that his brows were almost knotted together. Upon hearing this, he didn't think too much about it and subconsciously replied in a hoarse voice, "That's right, Master passed away peacefully."
“Apart from the founding ancestor, none of the subsequent sect leaders of Tianyan Sect have been able to take that final step.”
"Tsk, speaking of which, Ling Xiao, that old bastard... is actually the one in the sect with the best chance of attaining immortality and ascending to heaven in the last few hundred years."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Yan Qiubai was stunned for a moment, then a disgusted expression, as if he had swallowed a fly, appeared on his face, and he spat out a mouthful of saliva: "Heaven's will is truly blind!"
Shen Zhaozhao ignored his resentment, only curled the corners of her lips, and muttered to herself, "Then it's settled."
Immediately, his expression turned serious: "Junior Uncle, you should set off immediately to find Senior Sister Qingyi and bring her to Canglan City to settle her in."
"Then, go to the back mountain of Tianyan Sect and wait for me. We'll try to get Elder Qingxuan out of the water dungeon before the Flower Prayer Festival starts today."
"You have a plan? But what about the Flower Festival?"
Yan Qiubai was even more confused, "Why does it have to be before the Flower Prayer Festival starts?"
Is there some deeper meaning behind this?
Shen Zhaozhao was taken aback by the question, her eyes darting around for a moment before she raised her hand to cover her mouth and coughed lightly, "Cough, it's nothing, I have to get back to feed the peacocks before the Flower Festival starts."
Yan Qiubai: "???"
no? !
What are you feeding me?!
When did you start keeping those weird things as pets?!
However, before Yan Qiubai could ask anything else, Shen Zhaozhao didn't give him a chance to speak. With a flick of her wrist, she forcibly pulled Zixiao out.
"I'm leaving. Remember to meet me at the back of the mountain—"
Before he finished speaking, he had already leaped onto the sword, transformed into a streak of light, and sped off towards the west of Canglan City without looking back.
...
Deep in a desolate mountain range on the western outskirts of Canglan City, where few people venture.
Shen Zhaozhao lowered the tip of her sword and stopped in front of a huge mountain ravine.
The valley entrance was shrouded in a gray-black miasma, which made it difficult for sunlight to penetrate even during the day, resulting in dim lighting inside the valley.
In the thickest part of the miasma, a bizarre giant gate with countless pale animal bones hanging in front of it appeared and disappeared.
Above the door, two huge, blood-stained ancient seal characters can be faintly seen: Yellow Springs.
Just by getting close, a chilling, bone-chilling cold that seemed to freeze the soul rushed over. The surroundings were eerily silent; even the chirping of insects and birds had completely disappeared. Only the faint, wailing of countless wronged souls seemed to emanate from within the door, sending chills down one's spine.
This is one of the borders between the human world and the underworld, the sealed entrance to the Netherworld Path.
Shen Zhaozhao took a deep breath of the uncomfortable air, suppressing the instinctive throbbing in her heart, and silently recited in her mind: "Master."
[...Host?] The system's electronic voice sounded a little uneasy. [What are you doing in this eerie place? This place gives me the creeps...]
"Of course there is something."
Shen Zhaozhao cut to the chase, "I'm asking you, if you're not a ghost messenger from the Yellow Springs, and you want to forcibly break through this seal to enter the Ghost Realm, don't you need at least the cultivation level of the Nascent Soul stage?"
【yes! 】
[The Underworld has its own barriers, and only ghosts and spirits can forcibly enter. Those who attempt to force their way in will suffer a backlash from the rules. If their cultivation is insufficient to reach the Nascent Soul stage, their souls will be instantly crushed by this sealing power, leaving them utterly dead! Host, please don't act recklessly!]
"really."
Shen Zhaozhao clicked her tongue, "Then can you lend me some cultivation points first? Not much, just enough to temporarily reach the Nascent Soul stage, I'll pay you back when I'm done."
system:【? ? ? 】
[On credit?!]
[Host, what kind of person do you take me for?! Do you think I'm some kind of microloan shark?!]
[And how could you even bring yourself to ask a laborer for credit?!]
"Why can't you speak?"
Shen Zhaozhao was very frank, "Besides, isn't it easy to improve your cultivation level? Don't be so rigid, System."
"Let's not even talk about the 20,000 'morality points' I painstakingly accumulated that I haven't touched yet. As for the remaining amount, I can just scoop up a few more from my underhanded tricks pool later. Are you worried about not having enough 'morality points' to pay you back?"
“Besides,” Shen Zhaozhao paused, speaking with an air of self-righteousness and shamelessness, “at the very least, I could just go directly to your boss and have two rounds of dual cultivation, saving me from even having any moral failings—”
However.
Before Shen Zhaozhao could finish speaking, the system suddenly fell into a deathly silence for some reason.
[...]
【…………】
After a long while, the system finally roared in Shen Zhaozhao's mind in a voice that was almost collapsing and trembling with tears—
[That dog's love-struck brain!!!]
Immediately afterwards, Shen Zhaozhao saw the numbers on the light screen representing her remaining "morality points" in her sea of consciousness begin to skyrocket inexplicably!
Finally, the place on the screen that originally displayed "[Moral Value:]" was replaced by a simple yet terrifying symbol—∞.
Shen Zhaozhao: "..."
system:【……】
After a brief silence, the system spoke in a voice that seemed to have been drained of all its energy and had lost all will to live, saying in a defiant tone, "What's the use of trying?"
Let me explain.
[Just now, that damn love-struck idiot probably heard your earth-shattering "repayment plan."]
As you know, I'm just a personification of my boss's favoritism, so he seems extremely "satisfied" and eagerly "anticipating" your repayment plan.
[Then his romantic fantasies overloaded, overheated, and led to this situation.]
Shen Zhaozhao: "..."
system:"……"
"Hey, what do you think? Should I back out now?"
After each person had been pondering Xie Linyuan's words in their minds for a while, Shen Zhaozhao suddenly spoke up, "Anyway, I've already got these 'moral points,' he's not going to change them back for me, is he?"
【Heh.】
The system's voice sounded unusually calm, even carrying a numbness as if it had seen through the world's illusions. It felt like a poor, unfortunate worker watching his boss do something stupid again, but being powerless to do anything because "he is the boss."
In short, it means, "Even though he's an idiot, I still have to clean up his mess."
【Host, I urge you to be kind.】
Even if my boss is an idiot, he's the best idiot in the world.
I will never allow you to bully this idiot like this.
[You broke your promise; this is fraud!]
Be careful, or I'll report you to the authorities and have you arrested!
Shen Zhaozhao: "..."
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