A rare level 4 ghost-faced spider venom gland was a small gift that Li Shiyin brought back for Qin Ran this time.
Qin Ran was very happy and treasured the venom gland like a treasure. Every time he took the toxin for research, he was very careful and reluctant to take too much.
And when Long Qiqi wanted to borrow some poison to take a look, he refused on the grounds that she had a bad cold.
On this day, when Qin Ran was studying the toxins of ghost-faced spiders in the research building, Tian Wenjin came to Danfeng and said that the Deacon Hall asked her and Li Shiyin to go to the main peak to collect the mission reward.
It had been five days since they handed over the task, and it would take about that much time for the Deacon Hall to arrange people to go to Dashanling to check the situation.
Li Shiyin was very happy to hear this, because this was the first real salary she had earned since she was a child, from a mortal to a cultivator... She tacitly agreed that the money she had earned from fighting in the arena before did not count.
"What will the reward be?" Li Shiyin asked Tian Wenjin excitedly on the way to the main peak.
"If it's calculated as a Level 4 mission..." Tian Wenjin actually cared about the money, but her ruthless sword intent had reached a new level. Her face was no longer emotional. She said calmly, "The reward should be 10,000 spirit stones."
"Ten thousand spirit stones..." Li Shiyin was already looking forward to it, "How many delicious foods can I buy with that?!"
But when they arrived at the Deacon Hall, they found that things were not quite what they imagined. Because the layout of the Deacon Hall did not seem to be to pay them for their tasks, but to interrogate them!
In the Deacon Hall, all the service windows had been closed long ago. But there were still many people in the hall. On both sides of the hall, they were all Daojianmen, elders or disciples, men or women, old or young. They all stood respectfully.
And in the middle, facing the door of the Deacon's Hall, there was a chair with a woman sitting on it.
Just one look at that woman and you'd know she wasn't someone to be trifled with.
Her appearance remains that of a woman in her thirties, with the graceful figure of a mature woman; but looking at her face, there is not a bit of the gentle charm of a mature woman, but rather a sense of dominance.
That face might have been pretty originally, but now, there was a vertical scar on the left side of her face, probably a sword wound, which ruined the beauty of the whole face; her eyes were always squinted, making her look fierce, causing her eyes to become triangular in shape.
This is a fierce and domineering woman.
"What is this?" Li Shiyin looked inside the hall and asked Tian Wenjin before she could react, "Did we go the wrong way?"
Before Tian Wenjin could answer, the woman on the seat asked first: "You, are Li Shiyin?"
It was clearly a woman's voice, but it was very deep and powerful, giving people an invisible pressure.
When her name was called, and looking at the layout, Li Shiyin realized that something was wrong. She looked at the woman sitting on the table and replied in a deep voice, "I am indeed Li Shiyin. May I ask who you are?"
The woman seemed to have heard something funny, and sneered, "You've been in Daojianmen for a year, and you don't even know me? No wonder you did something stupid!"
Upon hearing this, Li Shiyin went to see Tian Wenjin, but saw Tian Wenjin shaking her head calmly. It was obvious that she didn't know this woman who appeared out of nowhere.
Seeing the confusion on their faces, someone with good eyesight immediately flattered her and mocked her, "She is one of the new top ten geniuses! She doesn't even know Yao Qingke, the strongest female disciple of Daojian Sect and one of the top three geniuses. The world is really going downhill and people's hearts are not as good as they used to be. The disciples of Daojian Sect are getting worse with each generation."
Suddenly there was a commotion in the hall. These people said nice things to the woman sitting there and unpleasant things to Li Shiyin.
Li Shiyin listened carefully and understood the identity of the woman sitting on the table. She learned from Qin Ran's way of thinking and extracted the key points, which were: Qi Feng, disciple of He Daoguang, senior sister of Song Ze, third among the ten great geniuses, late Jindan cultivation, and domineering and perverse temperament.
So she knew why this drama had started... It was nothing more than to find a place for Qi Feng and to save face for Song Ze.
"So it's Senior Sister Yao in person!" Li Shiyin clasped her fists lightly, then asked, "May I ask what's the important matter, Senior Sister Yao?"
"I heard that you accepted a level one mission, the mission content is to kill a level one monster, the rat-catching spider." Yao Qingke asked softly with a slight smile on his ferocious face.
"Yes." Li Shiyin nodded. This was indeed the original task description.
"But when you handed over the task, you said that this level one task should have been a level four task."
"Yes!" Li Shiyin said, "Because the original first-level mouse-catching demon spider turned into a fourth-level ghost-faced spider!"
“Ha…hahahaha!” Yao Qingke suddenly smiled, and the scar became even more hideous. She said coldly, “Li Shiyin, you are such a sharp-tongued, daring, reckless, and inhumane person!”
Li Shiyin was stunned, not knowing how to explain these comments to herself.
While she was stunned, Yao Qingke said repeatedly: "You are a vicious bitch. In order to defraud the sect's reward, you went to the Hengduan Mountains to find a ghost-faced spider. You also brutally killed 132 villagers in Dashanling Village, including the elderly, women, and children! Your methods are cruel and outrageous!!"
She stared at Li Shiyin with her dangerous triangular eyes and shouted, "Yes or no?!"
Confusion of right and wrong, fabrication of facts, framing and slander! Li Shiyin understood what Yao Qingke said, and she felt wronged and angry in an instant.
“No!” She responded angrily despite the suppression of Yao Qingke’s late Jindan cultivation, “The villagers of Dashanling were killed by the ghost-faced spider!”
"Ghost-faced spider?" Yao Qingke laughed, "Still trying to quibble! Everyone knows that the ghost-faced spider is an ordinary poisonous insect, not a monster! How can it kill people? You are such a fool. You want to find the corpse of a fourth-level monster instead of other corpses, but you insist on saying it is a ghost-faced spider! How cruel and stupid!!"
"The ghost-faced spider has the ability to devour souls. It is a level-four demon beast that was transformed from living creatures killed by the Devouring Demon Willow. It is a level-four ghost-faced spider!" Li Shiyin, who seemed naive despite having some intelligence, tried to explain.
"I want you to be convinced!" Yao Qingke said, pointing at Li Shiyin from a distance.
As soon as she gestured, a man came up, opened his Qiankun bag, and placed the man-sized ghost-faced spider corpse in the middle of the hall.
Li Shiyin went to see the man, who was the deacon disciple who handed over the task that day.
The deacon disciple took out another object from the Qiankun bag, which was an ordinary ghost-faced spider the size of a palm.
Two ghost-faced spiders were placed side by side in the middle of the lobby, one was a huge creature and the other was a small poisonous insect.
Yao Qingke pointed to the two ghost-faced spiders and asked everyone in the hall, "Both ghost-faced spiders are adults. May I ask, are they the same species?!"
"No!" Everyone in the hall shook their heads.
"Are you blind?!" Li Shiyin was incredulous. "They look exactly the same, just one is bigger and the other is smaller!!"
"Still struggling to survive!" Yao Qingke said, "The ghost-faced spider preys with poison, but this unknown giant spider has no poison glands! Could it be that the ghost-faced spider will abandon the poison it relies on for survival after it grows bigger?"..
"It has poison glands!" Li Shiyin looked at the deacon disciple, "But..."
It was just cut off by her, but she knew she shouldn't say it.
"Just what?" Yao Qingke sneered.
"It's the ghost-faced spider!!" said Li Shiyin.
"The evidence is irrefutable. I don't want to hear your excuses anymore!" Yao Qingke shouted, "Come here, abolish the cultivation of this evil disciple who has a vicious heart and betrays his master and ancestors, and expel him from the mountain gate!!"
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