Chapter 167: "They're from the Mock Heaven Sect?!" (Part 2)

Chapter 167: "They're from the Mock Heaven Sect?!" (Part 2)

At that moment, Chen Qiu secretly made a decision. Once his injuries healed, he would find some maidservants. It wasn't that he had an issue with the old man from Starlight, but he strongly objected to an old man stripping him naked to clean his body.

If they were maidservants, he could accept it.

Moreover, Fat Dragon had also reached the Golden Core stage, and the fifth-rank female demon's cultivation was no longer sufficient.

He needed to find a female demon with higher cultivation for Fat Dragon.

However, finding a female demon with higher cultivation meant the Mock Heaven Sect's "Prohibited Spirit Treasure" wasn't enough to restrain them. He needed to find a higher-grade treasure that could bind Nascent Soul cultivators.

So busy!

Sitting cross-legged on a peak at the back of the Mock Heaven Sect, Chen Qiu sighed helplessly. Why did he feel like he had so many things to do in a day? Couldn't he have three months of peace with nothing to do?

Couldn't he just sleep peacefully in the Mock Heaven Sect for three months?

Without the four Demonic Lotuses, the Mock Heaven Sect felt much more refreshing. Additionally, the sect's renovation was already complete in Daxia, and many plants had been transplanted within the sect, making it look well-established and vibrant.

It had to be said that although the brown bears had always lived in the desert, they were quite particular about planting. The transplanted greenery made the sect look lively and pleasant.

The only issue was the lack of people.

With just fifty or sixty people in the vast Mock Heaven Sect, they were hardly noticeable. The sect needed more people to boost its popularity.

Chen Qiu remembered that in Su City, he had heard the young master of the Su family mention a sect of female cultivators. He could capture them all and make them maidservants.

He forgot the name of the sect.

He needed to find out if it was the Harmony Sect. If it was, he would leave it alone. He had a bit of a cleanliness obsession and didn't want his personal maidservants to be unclean, even though he wouldn't use them.

But if he could avoid it, he wouldn't have them.

Oh, that woman whose Golden Core he had taken, she was from that sect, but he forgot her name. That woman hadn't even told him her name, had she?

Chen Qiu shook his head, clearing the mess of thoughts from his mind. He took a deep breath, his expression serious as he looked at the two Heavenly Dao Turning Wheels in his hands, and whispered, "I bet you won't directly give me 100 Nascent Soul Celestial Cultivation Pills, right?"

What he needed most was Nascent Soul Celestial Cultivation Pills!

His rapid cultivation progress was due to these pills, but they were extremely difficult to obtain. The higher the grade of the pill, the harder it was to acquire, especially for Nascent Soul pills.

The last time he mentioned this, he was given five Second Stage Nascent Soul bodies.

He wondered if the same would happen this time.

As the Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel was crushed, a cloud-covered panel appeared before him.

"Please make your choice within a hundred breaths. Choose two out of five."

1. Twenty First Stage Nascent Soul bodies.

2. One hundred Golden Core Celestial Cultivation Pills.

3. One First Stage Divine Transformation body.

4. One random Gray Entry with three options.

5: 4,000 Foundation Establishment Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills.

".

Chen Qiu couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. It seemed that his good luck might not always favor him, as he didn't receive the Primordial Soul Dao Cultivation Pill he desired. After a brief moment of contemplation, he made his choice.

He selected the first and fourth options.

The first option would allow all the remaining Peak Perfect Golden Core disciples of the Mock Heaven Sect to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

This time, the entire sect would be filled with Nascent Souls!

The Divine Transformation body was no longer useful, so there was no need to prepare for the scholars and others. By the time they reached the Nascent Soul stage, he would be slaughtering Divine Transformation cultivators like dogs. At that time, breaking through to the Divine Transformation stage would be a piece of cake.

However, the side-effect-free gray entry made him a little envious.

He remembered that gray entries often had extremely powerful effects, and many were rule-based, but they usually came with significant side effects.

For example—

"Entry Name": Yan Wang's Personal Edict.

"Entry Level": Gray.

"Entry Effect": You will definitely die in a year, but you will absolutely not die within that year.

This extremely useless gray entry! It forcibly shortens one's lifespan to just a year.

But if this gray entry had no side effects, then its effect would be a different story. Being absolutely immune to death for a year and having no side effects was indeed a bit scary.

During his Refining Qi stage, he often randomly obtained gray entries, but after reaching the Golden Core stage, he rarely encountered them.

After making his choices, Chen Qiu didn't immediately activate the three-choice gray entry. Instead, he held the last Middle-grade Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel in his hand, took a deep breath, and said in a low voice, "I bet you'll give me the Nascent Soul Dao Cultivation Pill, right?"

This time, he wasn't going to be indecisive.

He wanted it directly! Without hesitation, he crushed the last Middle-grade Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel in his hand.

Soon,

A panel shrouded in clouds appeared once again in mid-air.

"Please make your choice within a hundred breaths, choose two out of five."

1: Twenty Nascent Soul Dao Cultivation Pills.

2: A random low-grade Nascent Soul Divine Artifact.

3: A random low-grade Nascent Soul spell.

4: Random teleportation to a location on the Xuantian Continent.

5: Twenty Nascent Soul Dao Cultivation Pills.

"Hey?"

Chen Qiu was slightly startled, but then he couldn't help but smile. He was already satisfied with the first option, but he never expected the fifth option to also be the Nascent Soul Dao Cultivation Pill.

Could the same option appear twice?

A total of forty Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills.

He was satisfied, completely satisfied this time! These were great items, but he didn't know where to obtain more after using up these forty pills. He also wondered if other sects had them in their treasuries, as he hadn't seen any in the Chain Sect's treasure vault.

Not even Foundation Establishment Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills were there.

Speaking of which, the spirit artifacts from the Chain Sect should have been decrypted by now; it had been over ten days. He would check on them later.

With a thought,

The Nascent Soul floating above his Dantian suddenly appeared before him.

He looked at the entry engraved on the Nascent Soul's abdomen and couldn't help but smile again.

"Entry Name": Regular Recipient of Heavenly Edicts.

"Entry Level": Green.

"Entry Effect": All rewards obtained from the Heavenly Edicts will be doubled.

The effect of this entry was far beyond that of some yellow and blue entries.

Although it was just a green entry,

Its effect was truly remarkable.

The Heavenly Edicts either had no rewards or offered extremely valuable ones, like the Earth Prodigy Fortune and this Middle-grade Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel. With this reward-doubling effect, the value of the doubled rewards was unimaginable in terms of spirit stones.

Although he didn't have many spirit stones on his journey,

If he were to convert all the resources he had consumed into spirit stones, the combined foundation of the entire Daxia and Quzhou would likely pale in comparison. Not to mention, if he could sell that strand of Earth Prodigy Fortune, it would be enough to buy half of Quzhou, in his opinion.

This entry was absolute trash for most people.

It had no use at all.

At least so far, he hadn't seen anyone other than himself receive rewards from the Heavenly Edicts.

But if he could frequently appear on the Heavenly Edicts, this entry would truly shine.

"Middle-grade Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel" was only obtained upon completing a milestone task, making it extremely difficult to acquire. Without the Regular Recipient of Heavenly Edicts entry, his foundation would be much weaker.

"It's still a bit of a pity."

Chen Qiu looked at the broken pieces of the Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel on the ground with regret. There were only twelve milestone tasks on the Xuantian Continent, and no one had completed them for so many years, indicating their extreme difficulty.

Yet, the reward was just a Middle-grade Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel.

It wasn't that the Middle-grade Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel was bad.

It just felt like the milestone tasks should have more fitting rewards.

"Unless..."

He pondered, not speaking, unless the Middle-grade Heavenly Dao Turning Wheel wasn't the real reward but just a bonus, and the real reward was actually the two statues, which he hadn't found any use for yet.

He decided to visit the Celestial Palace again tomorrow to see if the person who had entered earlier left any traces.

After another deep breath, he cleared his mind of all distractions and prepared to choose the three entries he would randomly obtain after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

So,

Let the gamble begin!

"Dayuan City."

The sun was high in the sky, and the streets were bustling with activity, filled with the occasional shouts of vendors.

The busiest place in the city was undoubtedly the teahouses.

Almost every teahouse in Dayuan City was packed to the brim, not a single seat left empty. Even outside the teahouses, people were crowded in layers, three deep. Whenever the storyteller inside struck the sounding wood and ended with a dramatic pause, the crowd would react with a mixture of disbelief and awe.

This scene played out in every teahouse!

The teahouse storytellers usually lived off the 'Fate Meal', and there weren't many who came specifically to listen to them. Most of the time, they could only recount past events, such as the battle that nearly shattered Quzhou thousands of years ago, which was still being told.

Without new, fresh events to narrate, they had to resort to old tales, and the stories that endured were timeless. Although people had heard them countless times, they didn't mind listening again.

But once a legendary figure emerged, that person would become a permanent fixture in the storytellers' tales, until the audience grew tired of hearing about them.

At this moment, every storyteller in Dayuan City was talking about one person—the "Mock Heaven Sect's Sect Master," Chen Qiu!

"Hey, speaking of the Sect Master of the Mock Heaven Sect, Chen Qiu, I'll tell you something. It's said that this person is the reincarnation of the Virgin Saint of the Mystic Heavenly Sect from a hundred years ago!"

"It's precisely because he gained a thousand merits in his previous life that he could become an unparalleled genius in this life. You must have seen the thunder punishment that covered the Demon State a few days ago, right? If you go and look now, you'll still see the traces of the punishment left in the sky."

"According to some cultivators, this is because the punishment was so powerful that it left marks in the sky, and these marks will take at least a few hundred years to gradually fade."

"On that day—"

"After the Sect Master of the Mock Heaven Sect, Chen Qiu, single-handedly defeated all the Demon Race's geniuses with overwhelming strength, the three Divine Transformation experts of the Demon Race suddenly launched a despicable sneak attack on Chen Qiu, severely injuring him on the spot!"

"If it were an ordinary person, they might have retreated. As the saying goes, a gentleman's revenge is not too late after ten years. When a Golden Core genius faces the assassination of a Divine Transformation expert, surviving is already a blessing, and there's no point in expecting more."

"But—"

"Is Chen Qiu an ordinary person?!"

"At that time, Chen Qiu, despite his severe injuries, staggered alone in the midst of the storm and rain, walked up to the tens of thousands of Demon Race members, and looked at the three Divine Transformation experts, uttering only four words."

"Can you guess what those four words were?"

After stirring up the emotions of the crowd, the storyteller on stage suddenly struck the sounding wood, lifted his skirt, took a bold step forward, and roared with bulging eyes and an inflated neck.

"Ants!"

"The next moment—"

"That..."

"Tsk."

Fei Long, standing outside the teahouse, crossed his arms and gazed at the storyteller inside, unable to contain his admiration. "This Xuantian Continent is indeed stronger than Daxia. Look at this storyteller; he even includes scene reenactments and emotional performances. He's much more professional than the storytellers in Daxia."

"But..."

"At least seventy percent of what the storytellers in Daxia say is true."

"Seventy percent of what the storytellers here say is made up. Once they get a general idea, they fill in the rest with their own fabrications."

"Even the Virgin Saint's reincarnation is mentioned."

Standing behind Fei Long were eight Nascent Soul disciples of the Mock Heaven Sect, and at that moment, they exchanged glances, seeing the excitement in each other's eyes. This was their first time setting foot in the Xuantian Continent; they had been living in a small world before.

Everything seemed fresh and new to them.

The atmosphere was lively, but the density of spiritual energy in the air was not as rich as in the southern region of Daxia.

The eight disciples wore black robes, symbolizing their status as outer disciples of the Mock Heaven Sect, and each had a mask to conceal their divine perception. Fei Long and the scholar were dressed in brown-red robes, representing the Great Elder of the Mock Heaven Sect.

They all had one thing in common.

On the left side of their chest, the character "Mock" was embroidered in white thread.

At this moment, the crowd also noticed this group of people who stood out. When their gaze fell on the character "Mock" on their chests, they first paused, but soon remembered something.

"Mock Heaven Sect?"

"Are they from the Mock Heaven Sect?!"

Fei Long, standing at the front, coughed lightly and said in a hoarse, expressionless voice, "Within ten breaths, the current controller of Dayuan City must come out and see me!"

Before, they had to gather intelligence because they lacked strength, but now it was much simpler and more direct. They just needed to find someone qualified to communicate with the Mock Heaven Sect.

Planning?

When you possess absolute wisdom and absolute power, no matter the problem, your absolute wisdom will drive you to take action without hesitation!

As soon as Fei Long finished speaking, the eight Nascent Soul disciples behind him turned cold, their Nascent Soul cultivation instantly enveloping the entire Dayuan City.

"Nascent Soul, a Nascent Soul cultivator!"

"The Mock Heaven Sect's Nascent Soul Elder is here!"

Under the terrifying Nascent Soul cultivation, the crowd that had been listening to the storyteller scattered in panic. It was rare to see Nascent Soul cultivators in Dayuan City during the day, and today, they had seen eight of them at once!

The Mock Heaven Sect had been making a lot of noise lately, but that was because of their Sect Master, Chen Qiu.

Wasn't it said that the Mock Heaven Sect relied solely on their Sect Master? With eight Nascent Soul Elders, who would dare say that this sect depended only on their Sect Master?!

PS: There will be two more chapters later. These days, my sleep schedule has been off, so I'll publish first and fix any typos later. Please support with monthly votes~

I used to wake up early, write during the day, and schedule the chapters for the evening. Now, I'm waking up later, so I'm writing in the evening.

Apologies, my dear readers.

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