Playing chess
The doors and windows inside were tightly closed, and the light was dim.
Wen Zheng sat behind the door, with many books scattered around her feet, all of which she had already read.
At this moment, her gaze was drawn to the ghost clan's medical book in her hand, which recorded a unique method for repairing meridians.
Legend has it that among the ghost race, there is a lineage called the War Ghost Clan, who are brave and skilled in battle, but also have a violent temper and are often involved in fights. When they fight, their bodies are inevitably injured, and they will go to the War Ghost Clan's corpse-stitching craftsmen to repair their bodies. It is said that skilled corpse-stitching craftsmen can mend damaged meridians.
However, the book only mentioned that this was possible, without specifying a repair method.
Wen Zheng put down her book and sat on the ground, lost in thought.
When the sect leader and elders said that there was no way to repair meridians in the cultivation world, she had already decided to look for solutions in other races.
There is never just one way to succeed in the world; it's just that some methods are too radical and are rejected by people, and are called heretical or unorthodox.
The Ghost Clan is not far from the Immortal Pursuit Sect, so it is easy for them to go there. However, Wen Zheng is now a disciple of the Immortal Pursuit Sect and cannot leave without a valid reason. Moreover, she is still in the Foundation Establishment stage and has no ability to protect herself.
Wen Zheng pondered for a moment, and the long-dormant system went online.
[Host, why don't you go ask the Immortal Venerable?]
Its strategy mission has made no progress at all, and Mu Qing's favorability towards the host is even negative.
The system is getting increasingly frustrated by the red exclamation marks that float across its system space every day.
"I'm not going," Wen Zheng refused.
She could sense Mu Qing's rejection of her, and since she didn't like him either, she planned to run away once she reached the Nascent Soul stage and had the power to fight against those assassins.
The only trouble is binding her to the strategy system; I'll just have to trick the system into unbinding her later.
Wen Zheng had many thoughts on her mind, but she didn't show them on her face.
Upon hearing her refusal, the system said, "[The Ghost Clan and the Demon Clan are on good terms. Immortal Venerable Mu Qing has fought against the Demon Clan on the front lines and has some understanding of the Ghost Clan.]"
The system's words were tempting, but Wen Zheng remained unmoved and got up to tidy up the medical books scattered on the ground.
After she left the house, she went to the well to fetch water and clean the dust off her body.
Elder Yun Ge had warned her not to go, otherwise things would be bad if she found out.
After cleaning the dust off her body, Wen Zheng went to organize the medicinal herbs. Her hands never stopped moving, and her mind was still on the contents of the ghost clan's medical book.
When Elder Yun Ge returned from Sword Peak, she saw Wen Zheng arranging herbs with a blank look in her eyes, clearly not focused on the herbs.
She walked over, and the jade pendant hanging from her waist made a crisp clinking sound, startling Wen Zheng out of her reverie.
“Elder Yun Ge.” Wen Zheng stood up and nodded.
Elder Yun Ge: "You must be tired after tidying up all morning. Go back and rest after you finish what you're doing."
"I'm not tired, I can still do it."
Elder Yun Ge interrupted her: "You are now a disciple of Daoist Qingling. You should focus on cultivation. Just pretend to do these chores."
Wen Zheng was taken aback by the obvious backdoor admission. Elder Yun Ge had never seen her like this before, and she smiled and reached out to pat her shoulder.
His hand paused in mid-air for a moment before landing on Wen Zheng's head. "You must remember that you have received the inheritance of the world's number one talisman cultivator. If you don't practice diligently, the sect leader will not let you off the hook, nor will Immortal Venerable Mu."
Elder Yun Ge spoke earnestly, and Wen Zheng nodded, quickly finished sorting the medicinal herbs, and left.
Elder Yun Ge watched her departing figure, the dusty spider silk in her hand falling to the ground.
The child still went to look at those books, and he cleaned the dust off his body very well, but there was still a small clue left on his head.
Too careless.
Elder Yun Ge stepped onto the spider silk and said to her disciple, "Lock up the room next to the library."
"Master, don't we need to air out the books anymore?"
"No need, they're all foreign medical books. They're just rotten, so what? We won't need them anyway." Yun Ge said and left.
The disciple, completely bewildered, locked the door that had only been opened a short time ago.
That's strange. Master said this morning that he wanted to air out the books, but after coming back from Jianfeng, he said he wouldn't.
No one could answer his question.
Wen Zheng left Medicine Peak early and walked along the quiet path, pondering the possibility of going to the Ghost Clan.
Suddenly she remembered Qu Hong mentioning the Mission Pavilion, and wondered if she should go take a look, as there might be missions to the Ghost Clan inside.
Without hesitation, Wen Zheng turned around and headed towards the mission pavilion.
The mission hall was bustling with people.
The manager of the mission hall displayed the latest missions on the wall, and the disciples passing by stopped to choose their favorite missions.
Wen Zheng squeezed into the crowd, her eyes scanning the walls.
Cleaning up spirit beast droppings, not this.
It's not about tending to the medicinal plants in the field.
Cleaning the temple grounds. That's not right either.
Wen Zheng scanned the area from top to bottom and found that all the tasks were from within the sect, with none from outside.
She stood in front for a long time, until someone behind her couldn't help but push her: "If you're not going to answer, don't block the way."
Wen Zheng stepped aside to let the person come forward and asked, "Why are all the missions here internal to the sect? Aren't there any missions outside?"
The man glanced at Wen Zheng and said, "You, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, want to go outside? Those are missions that only Golden Core cultivators can take on."
Following the man's instructions, Wen Zheng walked to the wall on the right and looked up.
The tasks on this wall were fewer than those on the previous one, but they were all clearly not simple. For example, there were tasks like exorcising demons in the village, collecting certain rare herbs, and catching ghosts.
Among the many tasks, Wen Zheng immediately spotted one on the far side: a task to investigate strange tales about the Ghost Clan.
Wen Zheng was about to go closer to take a look when the person standing next to her stopped her: "Foundation Establishment stage? Go over there to get the mission."
He pointed to the wall that Wen Zheng had first looked at, his eyes filled with disdain.
Wen Zheng wasn't angry when she was stopped, and said, "Can't a Foundation Establishment cultivator accept this?"
Even in a team, there are always people who slack off. So what if a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator appears in a mission?
The man didn't speak, but stood in front of Wen Zheng, his meaning clear.
cannot.
Wen Zheng clicked her tongue, pondering how to accept a mission, when a voice came from behind her: "Isn't this Wen Zheng, the menial disciple of the library? How dare you come here to accept a mission?"
The person who arrived was Xiang Hutian, who had almost gotten into a fight in the library that day; the scar on his brow bone was still there.
The person who was stopping Wen Zheng, upon hearing that she was just a menial disciple, impatiently pushed her, "Go over there to accept the mission. Only Golden Core cultivators can accept missions here."
Seeing Wen Zheng being harassed, Xiang Hutian was in a good mood and was very polite to the person: "Senior brother, I'll take over the mission."
The man nodded and let Hu Tian in.
Wen Zheng narrowed her eyes and asked, "Isn't Xiang Hutian in the late Foundation Establishment stage? Can he handle this?"
"Of course, those in the late Foundation Establishment stage are about to reach the Golden Core stage, and taking on some high-difficulty tasks will be more conducive to breakthroughs. You, who are only in the early Foundation Establishment stage, shouldn't even think about it."
After saying so much, the man thought Wen Zheng would back down.
Wen Zheng stood there, pondering his words.
The late Foundation Establishment stage is roughly equivalent to the Golden Core stage, meaning that she can accept missions as long as she reaches the late Foundation Establishment stage.
She is currently in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and the mission deadline is one month away. She needs to advance two levels within that month.
Wen Zheng was not clear about the cultivation level system in the cultivation world, and had no concept of jumping two levels in a row, but she still had friends.
Wen Zheng looked up at the mission to the Ghost Clan, then turned to find Qu Hong.
After she left, she gave Hu Tian a cold snort and took over the Ghost Clan's mission.
He had long suspected that Wen Zheng's goal was to take on a mission to the Ghost Clan, and now that he had accepted it, Wen Zheng would no longer be able to.
Want to go to the Oni tribe? Dream on.
On Danfeng Peak.
Qu Hong came out of the alchemy room covered in dust and dirt, still wearing her clothes, when Wen Zheng pulled her to a corner.
Do you have any pills here that can instantly advance someone to the late Foundation Establishment stage?
Qu Hong glanced at Wen Zheng: "You're using it?"
Wen Zheng nodded shyly.
The cultivation world does not advocate using pills to increase cultivation level, and many cultivators even look down on those who use pills to increase their cultivation level.
Qu Hong thought that Wen Zheng was trying to boost her cultivation with pills because her meridians were damaged, so she quickly advised her: "There are pills, but using them is just forcing growth and will not help your cultivation."
Wen Zheng understood this principle, but she had to accept the mission from the Ghost Clan.
She explained her desire to take on a mission to the Ghost Clan, and then said, "I only have one month. Do you think I can reach the late Foundation Establishment stage in a month?"
Qu Hong: "..."
Even geniuses don't skip two grades in a month.
Seeing Qu Hong's expression, Wen Zheng understood and said, "You should still give me the medicine."
Qu Hong paused for a moment, then said, "I have medicine to improve cultivation, but I don't."
Wen Zheng: "..."
My friend, you can still joke with me at a time like this.
The two looked at each other blankly, the cold wind making them look like dumb geese.
After a long silence, Qu Hong said, "Why don't you go find the Immortal Venerable? After all, he's your senior brother now."
As a newly initiated disciple, she had no money to buy herbs to refine elixirs.
Wen Zheng remembered what the system had said, and her expression twisted for a moment: "I'll go to the quest pavilion to accept a quest to buy herbs. Just give me the list."
Qu Hong glanced at her sympathetically, "The time you spend earning money to buy herbs is enough for you to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment."
grass.
Wen Zheng cursed aloud, no wonder Dan Xiu was rich.
Qu Hong shook her head and put it another way: "Go and look for Aoxue Peak, see if Daoist Qingling left behind any rare and precious treasures?"
Wen Zheng could accept this method. She nodded and said, "Okay, if we can find it, we'll split it 30/70, and you can take 30% and sell it."
Qu Hong nodded in agreement.
Wen Zheng immediately ran towards Aoxue Peak.
She ran around to many places in one day. When she climbed to the outside of Muqing Palace, she was panting heavily and kept muttering, "I'm so tired. Tomorrow I'll learn to fly on a sword."
She's been so busy these past few days that she hasn't learned anything she should have; she's become decadent.
Mu Qing was playing chess in the pavilion outside the palace, wearing a familiar fox fur cloak, and the teacup on the table was still steaming in the swirling snow.
Wen Zheng ignored her and went to the place where Aoxue Peak used to have a warehouse, which was now a ruin with nothing left.
All around was a blanket of white snow. Wen Zheng looked down the mountain and saw only broken walls and ruins.
I almost forgot, apart from Mu Qing's house, everything else on Aoxue Peak is gone.
Forget about the warehouse, even the outhouse is gone.
Helpless, Wen Zheng had no choice but to go to Mu Qing.
On the way there, the system couldn't help but play "Good Luck," and the soaring vocals, paired with Wen Zheng's strutting steps, looked incredibly intimidating.
Mu Qing was playing chess when she heard strange singing from afar. She turned around and saw Wen Zheng walking over with an unfriendly expression.
He paused for a moment, summoned his natal spirit sword, and then looked up at Wen Zheng.
Wen Zheng was furious about Mu Qing's misappropriation of Qingling Daoist's inheritance, but when she saw Mu Qing take out his sword, she regained her senses.
She coughed lightly, sat down opposite Mu Qing, and said sweetly, "Senior Brother."
The word "senior brother" startled Mu Qing so much that she dropped the chess piece from her hand onto the chessboard, and Mu Qing looked at her with disdain.
Wen Zheng was also disgusted by her own voice. After a moment of mental preparation, she said, "Didn't Master leave anything for me?"
Upon hearing this, Mu Qing knew that Wen Zheng had come to ask for something, but he was curious about how Wen Zheng had become so bold as to dare to ask him for something.
"Yes." Mu Qing picked up the chess pieces and continued playing. "The cave next to your house is full of your master's insights on talisman cultivation. Study them carefully and break through to the Nascent Soul stage as soon as possible."
There are no things, but there are a lot of books.
Wen Zheng's smile froze for a moment, then she hinted, "Isn't there anything more practical? His young disciple desperately needs his help."
Upon hearing this, Mu Qing became even more curious. What had gotten into Wen Zheng that she so brazenly asked him for her master's things?
His master had indeed left behind many things, which were useless to him, but he didn't want to give them to Wen Zheng easily.
Mu Qing's eyes flickered slightly, and with a gentle wave of her sleeve, the chess pieces on the chessboard returned to the chess jar.
"Play chess with me, and if you win, I'll give it to you."
Wen Zheng stared blankly at the black and white chess pieces, and asked in a daze, "Go?"
Mu Qing nodded, "Master left behind quite a few spirit stones and some pills, which are not very useful to me, but you should be able to use them."
Wen Zheng was thrilled to hear about the spirit stones and elixirs, and her fingers involuntarily touched the chess pieces.
She had to win for the spirit stones and pills. Although she didn't understand Go, didn't she have a cheat code?
It's your turn to appear.
"System, give me cheat codes."
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