Chapter 60
Chapter Sixty
Perhaps Xiao Liunian's jokes were too sophisticated, because no one found them funny. These were a group of experts who didn't even understand jokes.
"General Cen, please announce the arrangements for this conference," Xiao Liunian said to Cen Mo.
“Yes!” Cen Mo replied.
Cen Mo began reading out the arrangements for the conference, and the attendees picked up the booklets placed on the table.
While listening to Cen Mo's reading, she began to look up the details in the booklet.
When they saw the prize list in the booklet, everyone was surprised. Judging from these prizes, Xiao Liunian was not poor at all, but rather quite wealthy.
The prizes include gold, silver, weapons, medicine, secret manuals, rare books, calligraphy and paintings, and all sorts of other things. The reward for the hidden mission is even to join a special department of the imperial court—a newly established department that is entirely under the emperor's command.
The martial arts exchange conference began, but only lasted one day.
The incident occurred on the first night.
Late at night, the people sleeping soundly in the room were awakened by several loud noises.
What was that sound?
"Let's go out and take a look!"
Awakened by the noise, the crowd quickly gathered at the edge of the spring. Looking up, they saw that the spring was brightly lit, and Cen Mo had already led his men to line up at the edge.
Xiao Liunian stood on the high platform by the Heavenly Spring, clearly having been waiting there for some time.
Some of the people who came to participate in the martial arts exchange conference finally realized Xiao Liunian's true purpose in holding the conference.
Several people came up to the high platform to confirm whether their thoughts were correct.
"Your Majesty!" Huyan Shun stepped forward, cupped his hands in greeting, and was about to ask a question.
"Hero Huyan, a hidden quest has arrived." Xiao Liunian named the hidden quest: Protect Tianji Star.
"You should all have heard about this, so I won't explain further. I ask that you all lend me a hand!" Xiao Liunian cupped his hands towards the group.
"We dare not accept such praise!" everyone quickly replied.
"As a member of Tianji Star, it is only right that I do my part at this time," Suo Jun said.
"I will do my best!"
"I will do my best!"
Then several more loud noises came from the Heavenly Spring, accompanied by huge waves that surged up from within it.
Dozens of people leaped out of the spring, the leader holding a giant axe. Despite her slender and graceful figure, her weapon was a giant axe.
Looking at the leader, Xiao Liunian felt that the other party was different in some ways this time.
"Lin Mu, there's a similar aura!" Xiao Er suddenly spoke up, and before the other system could detect it, it blocked the fluctuations of itself and Thirteen, disguising itself as the real Blue Cat and White Tiger.
"What?" Xiao Liunian was greatly shocked, but his face remained expressionless.
"What is their mission?" Xiao Liunian asked.
This universe where anyone can grab a bite of food! This product, created by 'connections,' is riddled with flaws!
"I don't know, but we can try to find out more by asking around," the waiter said.
This inquiry is unlikely to be a simple question.
"How do we catch them?" Xiao Liunian asked. Catching people is easy, but Xiao Liunian had no idea how the system should catch them.
"You're in charge of capturing the host of the other system; leave the rest to me." Xiao Er was quite confident in his abilities.
"Does the host want to capture it alive or dead?" To avoid failing to capture the system due to a lack of communication and bringing back a dead one.
"Alive or dead is fine, but you must hand it over to me within seven minutes," the waiter said.
"Then let's capture them alive," Xiao Liunian said.
While Xiao Liunian and Xiao Er were communicating through their consciousness, Xiao Liunian did not forget to greet the newcomer.
"You have come from afar, and I have failed to greet you properly!" Xiao Liunian thought this was a very polite greeting.
"It was clearly intentional, fine!" Blue Cat looked at Xiao Liunian speechlessly, suspecting that Xiao Liunian didn't distinguish between friend and foe and wanted to make everyone present feel embarrassed to death.
However, after Xiao Liunian's words of greeting, the tension among those present lessened considerably, which could be considered a lucky accident.
On the other side.
"System, scan the other party's cultivation level," the leader said.
"Delay the time," the system in your mind said.
"My name is Sima. I apologize for keeping you waiting! May I ask your name?" Sima asked.
“Xiao Liunian,” Xiao Liunian replied.
"Mumu, the other party is scanning your cultivation level," Blue Cat reminded him.
"Unable to scan the other party's level," Sima's system told him.
"Why?" Sima asked.
"There is a force on the other party that can block the system's detection," the system guessed.
"This game is getting more and more interesting!" Sima exclaimed.
The main reason why Xiao Liunian was able to block the other party's system from detecting him was because of the 'mysterious power' he absorbed.
Sima directly attacked Xiao Liunian with his giant axe.
"I've heard that your cultivation is astonishing. Would you be willing to test your skills?"
Sima's words, though polite, could not hide his contempt. Sima was full of confidence in his own strength; how many masters had died at his hands over the years?
Xiao Liunian drew his spear and charged forward. It was a good opportunity, a good chance to test the strength of his newfound power.
Following Sima, the group of people who arrived also launched an attack on the Tianji Star group after Sima made his move.
These outsiders completely disregarded the people from Tianji Star present, their eyes filled with contempt and disdain.
The Tianji Star team is fighting back; this hidden mission is going to be tough!
The two sides are vastly different in strength, but Tianji Star has the advantage of having more people this time, and its weapons research department has even invented a new type of weapon - the fireball gun.
This once again proves that this universe is a hodgepodge—a world where technology and martial arts coexist.
With the help of superior numbers and weaponry, the two sides were able to fight back and forth. However, this situation did not last long, because our protagonist, Xiao Liunian, descended from the sky and struck down all the outsiders with a single blow, leaving them unable to get up.
At this moment, Xiao Liunian was still holding Sima in his hand, and he could kill dozens of people with one hand.
"It seems I need to think carefully about where the rest of the 'mysterious power' is stored. It would be even better if I could access it and use it," Xiao Liunian thought to himself.
"This power is indeed formidable!" Although Xiao Liunian had killed Sima before, he had also lost his own life in the process.
This time, however, Sima couldn't even withstand a single move from Xiao Liunian.
"Mumu! Mumu! Mumu!" Blue Cat burst out with a series of screams. The host is too amazing.
"But why is there no reaction in the system points section?" Xiao Er asked, puzzled.
"Perhaps it's because the system calculates the vertical development of cultivation, while my cultivation this time is due to a super-doubled horizontal increase?" Xiao Liunian guessed.
"What do you mean?" Blue Cat was a little confused. Was there such a thing as horizontal and vertical increases in cultivation?
"That means it will be more difficult for Lin Mu to upgrade his cultivation level in the future," the waiter explained.
While the power is doubled, it also means that upgrading will become more difficult unless another 'mysterious power' comes to the rescue.
"Cen Mo, find a place to lock them all up!" Xiao Liunian ordered.
"Send more guards on the surface, and also prepare weapons in secret. If anyone tries to escape, give them a warning, and kill them if they don't listen!" Xiao Liunian transmitted his voice.
Although Xiao Liunian crippled these people's cultivation before stunning them, the lack of cultivation did not mean they could not escape from prison.
"Yes!" Cen Mo arranged for people to take all these outsiders away.
After quickly arranging everything, Xiao Liunian carried Sima back to his room.
"Waiter, get ready," Xiao Liunian said.
"Don't worry, the area is sealed off; no system can escape," the waiter said confidently.
"Brother Si, aren't you going to wake up yet?" Xiao Liunian asked casually.
"How should I address you, Your Excellency?" Upon hearing Xiao Liunian's voice, Sima slowly prepared to stand up.
However, it ended in failure.
"Isn't this gentleman's way of treating guests a bit impolite?" If you can't stand up, then don't stand up.
"Your reliance is on the system, isn't it?" Xiao Liunian asked bluntly.
"What!" Sima's expression changed from relaxed to shocked, and then to curious. He seemed to be a very simple person, completely different from the ones Xiao Liunian had encountered before.
"Waiter, can we start now?" Xiao Liunian asked.
"We can begin!" A small fluctuation of power emanated from Xiao Er and rushed towards Sima's brain.
Soon, a small cube detached from Sima's body.
"How does the system interrogate?" Xiao Liunian asked.
"It's very simple, just scan!" The waiter began scanning the extracted system.
"Impossible, almost no one can do it, unless it is!" If the system had eyes, it would surely be wide-eyed when it was separated from the system.
"Unless he's a big shot! The only big shot in the system world! Xiao Er is that big shot!" Blue Cat said proudly and smugly from the side.
"Our Xiao Er is really amazing!" Xiao Liunian also showered him with praise.
Amidst Lan Maomao and Xiao Liunian's smugness, Xiao Er had already finished scanning the third system present.
After the system was stripped away, Xiao Liunian sealed Sima's entire power, then summoned Cen Mo and ordered him to imprison Sima and keep a close watch on him.
"Aren't you guys feeling a little excited?" Blue Cat was full of energy.
"It's alright," Xiao Liunian replied.
"Maybe a little?" the waiter asked, unsure.
"Let's see what the scan results contain." Xiao Liunian turned on the screen and began to examine the scan results.
System mission: Accelerate the process of world destruction.
Host selection: A highly intelligent, abnormal life form.
Mission location: Harmonious Universe.
Task progress: 90%.
Task remaining time: 61 days.
"Does your main system want to destroy the world or protect world peace?" Xiao Liunian asked, looking at the system's mission.
Protecting while destroying—how come the main system also has dual consciousness? Dual personality?
"To safeguard world peace."
"This system was sent by hostile forces," the waiter explained.
"I didn't expect that you in the system world also have power struggles and profiteering. It seems that it's the same everywhere," Xiao Liunian said.
"Everything in the universe is constantly in a state of struggle, some more civilized, some more brutal, some openly robbing, some secretly seizing. Although the methods are similar, the essence is the same," the waiter said.
“So this is the main universe, right?” Xiao Liunian said with certainty.
Both systems from different factions have emerged, and this is undoubtedly the main universe that determines everything.
"That seems to be the case at the moment," the waiter said.
"Why is the mission time 61 days?" Xiao Liunian looked at the number 61. Two months?
It seems that each time the universe was completely annihilated before, it was two years later, not this fast. Did Sima in the previous universe replicas have a system?
"It must be a very important day," Blue Cat said intuitively.
"But it could also just be a regular mission countdown." Blue Cat fiddled with the screen with its paw.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Let's go to sleep early. There are new plans for tomorrow," Xiao Liunian said.
If this continues, the moon will almost be off duty.
"What's the arrangement?" Blue Cat yawned, belatedly realizing that drowsiness was creeping in.
“Let’s try to see if we can go to another planet,” Xiao Liunian said.
If the other party can come, she should be able to manage, right?
"Huh?" Blue Cat's drowsiness was chased away a little more.
Is this even possible? Is the host trying to conquer the stars?
"Why don't we give it a try now?" Blue Cat suggested.
"No, I'm going to sleep first." Xiao Liunian refused. Why work overtime so late at night!
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