The last time Yuan Qing came here, he just hurriedly received the merits and left without taking a closer look. He only remembered that the deacon of this hall was a senior brother named Zhao Heng.
Now entering the hall again, I saw a huge jade wall hanging on the east and west sides of the hall, covered with small seal and gold characters. Under it, there were three or two monks with their hands folded in meditation. Occasionally, acquaintances exchanged words and whispered a few words.
Yuan Qing glanced around, then walked towards the jade on the east side.
When I came closer, I took a closer look and found that the tasks on the list can be roughly divided into four categories: refining alchemy, making tools, purchasing, and asking for help. Among them, the content of asking for help is complicated, including capturing spiritual pets and looking for helpers, discovering that the great demon is unable to cope alone, inviting formation masters to explore the ruins of the immortal mansion, and even one saying that they need to find a Taoist companion to practice together. Avenue.
Yuan Qing was very self-aware and ignored the two categories of alchemy and tool making, and only looked for suitable tasks in the two categories of purchasing and asking for help. However, purchasing the treasures and herbs marked in the first category was something he had never heard of, and he was helpless. I had to read the column for help one by one.
"I'm looking for a disciple to guard the medicine garden. Anyone who is in the foundation building period or above can achieve thirty merit points every month."
"Looking for people who are proficient in formations to explore the Immortal Mansion together. Those who have reached the late stage of pill formation and above, and two thousand meritorious deeds, will discuss in detail."
"Looking for a comrade to kill the six-level monsters together, the merits will be shared equally."
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Looking at the column, it was either because my cultivation level was too low or because I had no other talents except for swordsmanship, and there was no task suitable for me.
Yuan Qing gave a bitter smile, turned around and walked towards the west jade. After a while of burning incense, he let out a long sigh, but the result was no different.
Just when he was thinking about whether to exchange some of the unknown ores in the storage bag given to him by his grandfather for some achievements to solve his urgent need, an eager voice came into his ears.
"Isn't this Junior Brother Yuan? Why are you here today free but have to take on a mission?" I saw a monk wearing a light yellow robe walking quickly. This man was five feet tall, thin and slightly hunched. He stepped forward while walking. He swayed back, with an extremely hypocritical smile on his face.
Yuan Qing's face twitched, then he cupped his hands and said, "I've met Senior Brother Zhao."
Zhao Heng returned the gift and asked, "Can you find a suitable mission?"
Yuan Qing smiled bitterly and said, "There are quite a few tasks suitable for monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage, but I'm just frustrated that I have nothing to do next."
Zhao Heng laughed and said: "Junior brother is too humble. Under a sword, a monk in the middle stage of foundation construction has almost no power to fight back. How can such swordsmanship be said to be useless?"
Yuan Qing's heart tightened, and he asked calmly on the surface: "Senior brother, are you talking about me? When did I have such authority?"
Zhao Heng smiled slightly, then opened his lips and teeth slightly, and a subtle but clear voice sounded in Yuan Qing's ears: "Brother, there is no need to hide it. During the battle that day, Li Yang already told me with the transmission note. To be honest, junior brother, we will be subject to Su." My family has been oppressed for a long time, and my junior brother really vented his anger for me."
Yuan Qing was slightly surprised at the method of transmitting sounds into secrets. After hearing the words, a cold look flashed in his eyes. Before he could say anything, Zhao Heng continued: "Junior brother, follow me." After he finished speaking, he took the lead. Walk towards the back hall.
Yuan Qing hesitated for a moment, but finally followed.
When we arrived at the back hall, we saw that there was another jade on the wall, but it was much smaller than the one in front. All the tasks on it were written in cinnabar. Zhao Heng explained loudly at this time:
"This is the killing list. The people on the list are either treacherous and evil, and have heinous crimes. They are the remnants of monsters and beasts. They are bringing disaster to one side. I want to use my junior brother's sword skills to take over this list. It's just that this list is not There are limitations on cultivation, so junior disciples still have to choose carefully, otherwise, if they make mistakes, they will inevitably end up in disaster."
Yuan Qing looked at the first item on the list: "Intercepting and killing Huangquanzong Zeng Hai has achieved a hundred thousand merits."
Out of curiosity, he probed his spiritual mind into it, and suddenly there was a brutal portrait with a sinister face and a sinister look in his mind. There was also a short introduction below: "Zeng Hai, a monk of the Huangquan Sect, in the late stage of pill formation." Frightened. De Yuanqing quickly retracted his spiritual thoughts.
Looking at the next one, "Killing Niu Gang of the Blood Flame Sect, he has achieved a hundred thousand merits." His spiritual mind penetrated, and a vicious portrait with bull's eyes and a pig's nose, covered in blood, appeared in his mind, with the small words "Niu Gang, bloody Monk Yanshan, late stage of pill formation."
Yuan Qing put away his spiritual thoughts, turned to Zhao Heng and said: "Senior Brother Zhao, aren't the people on this list all monks in the Dan-formation stage? In this case, Senior Brother must think too highly of Yuan." He said the last tone. Even a deaf person can hear the ridicule and irony in it.
Zhao Heng turned a blind eye to this, smiled slightly and said: "Junior brother, don't be impatient, just look back."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Qing looked directly at the last line, "Intercepting and killing the scattered cultivators of the Liang Dynasty, a hundred meritorious deeds."
When his spiritual mind penetrated, a figure with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks and a face full of evil appeared in his mind, with small words attached below: "Liang Dynasty, casual cultivator, early stage of foundation building."
Seeing Yuan Qing's thoughtful expression, Zhao Heng said from the side: "Junior brother, you might as well take a look at the top."
Yuan Qing followed his words and looked up at another line. It turned out to be a rescue mission: There seemed to be an enemy attack on the Han family's spiritual veins. Two Qi Refining Stage disciples responsible for guarding were missing and their whereabouts are still unknown. Two Foundation Establishment Stage brothers were specially invited to investigate. Afterwards, each person received fifty meritorious services and received one hundred spiritual stones as a thank you gift.
Yuan Qing withdrew from his spiritual thoughts, his eyes flickering.
Seeing Yuan Qing's hesitation, Zhao Heng persuaded him: "Junior brother, you might as well take over the matter. Exploration is generally relatively simple. Even if there is an enemy attack, they are still in the realm of Qi training, and at most they are only at the beginning of foundation building." , with my junior brother’s swordsmanship, it’s not easy to catch him; in addition, there is a senior brother accompanying me, so the two of them are even more foolproof; besides, after this incident, no matter what, the Han family will accept my junior brother’s favor, which is really killing two birds with one stone.”
Yuan Qing raised his eyebrows when he heard this and asked with a smile: "Senior brother, are you on good terms with the Han family?"
Zhao Heng grinned and said: "To be honest with my junior brother, I have a very good personal relationship with the young master of the Han family. If it weren't for my duties, I would have left long ago to relieve his worries. This matter has been on the list for several days, but no one has taken it. . Ever since Junior Brother Li Yang sent a message to me, I felt that it would be most appropriate for Junior Brother to take over this matter. I have been looking forward to Junior Brother’s arrival these days.”
The more Yuan Qing listened, the smile on his face became thicker. Instead of talking about the mission, he asked a question: "Excuse me, Senior Brother, why don't you see Senior Brother Jiedanqi coming? Isn't such a small thing easy for him?"
Zhao Heng was stunned when he heard this, and then said: "The monks in the alchemy stage are mostly assigned by the sect to practice outside. Naturally, few people come here to accept meritorious tasks, let alone such extremely dangerous tasks as fighting against the same level; besides, whether it is alchemy making or You can get a lot of achievements by using weapons or exchanging magic weapon materials, so you don't value such small tasks very much."
Yuan Qing nodded thoughtfully, and then said: "Junior brother, I have one more question. I dare to ask, senior brother, have you seen a female cultivator named Zhu Ling'er in the past two years?"
"Zhu Ling'er?" Zhao Heng frowned when he heard this, and then replied after a while: "Maybe I was young when I was the deacon of this temple, and I have never heard of my junior brother and this person..."
The disappointment in Yuan Qing's eyes flashed away. Hearing Zhao Heng's question, he said with a calm expression on his face: "This person has quite a grudge against me."
Seeing Zhao Heng's expression flickering, Yuan Qing changed the subject and said with a carefree smile: "It's just some personal grudges, nothing to worry about, but this mission. Senior brother has analyzed the pros and cons so far. Yuan Qing is naturally not an ignorant person. I will accept this mission." Got off."
After saying that, he took out his identity token, locked his mind on the Han family's mission, and scanned the jade, and then a white jade tube slowly appeared in front of the jade.
He took it and put it on his forehead, and a small text appeared in his mind. The content was roughly the same as what was said on the jade biscuit, except for the addition of "three days later, we will meet at Yanlai Peak at Chenshi".
Yuan Qing put away the token jade tube, bowed his hand to Zhao Henglue and left.
Zhao Heng returned the favor with a smile on his face. After Yuan Qing left, he took out a transmission talisman and whispered a few words to his mouth. The talisman turned into a ray of fire and flew through the air.
At the same time, in a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters inside Xuanyuan Gate, a middle-aged man was putting away his identity token. Suddenly he saw a ray of fire coming through the sky. He grabbed it with his empty hand, and the fire turned into a talisman and fell into his palm.
With a shake of his hand, the talisman turned into a ball of fire, and Zhao Heng's faint voice came from inside. After speaking, the fireball dissipated into nothingness, and the man had a look of satisfaction on his face.
After Yuan Qing returned to Qingyuan Residence, he did not enter the secret room. Instead, he sat cross-legged in the house and carefully recalled all the details from the first day he met Li Yang to the present.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration occurred, and he remembered that during the next competition, a woman named Li Yu took the initiative to admit defeat when she saw Su Ziyi.
"The Li family must have a close relationship with the Su family," Yuan Qing murmured, "Is Li Yang a member of the Li family?"
Then he frowned and said, "No, Senior Brother Xu made it clear that day. Li Yang and I came from the same country. Senior Brother Xu has no reason to lie. That means Zhao Heng is lying. I rarely have contact with outsiders. The only thing I have is The one who is celebrating the festival is Su Ziyi. However, Su Tianqi seems to be trying his best to befriend me. The purpose is not just to resolve the feud. Most likely, he knows that I defeated Su Yaze with a sword and wants to invite me to the Su family as a guest. Good luck in the future. For his use. Thinking about it this way, there is no doubt that the old man Li in Ling Mansion is a member of the Li family. He is probably the one who transmitted the message to Zhao Heng. Zhao Heng...Zhao Feiyan! Could it be that Zhao Heng is a member of the Zhao family? In this way, Su , Li, Zhao, and Han all work together, why are you so interested in me?"
Yuan Qing couldn't help frowning more and more, and suddenly a neglected detail appeared in his mind: "Junior brother's spiritual land is remote and his spiritual veins are thin..."
"Wang Hao! He is also involved in this matter! Su Tianqi, what does this person want to do?"
Yuan Qing thought of this, sighed softly, and then stood up and went out. Looking at the lake and mountains, his brows gradually relaxed, he called out the Broken Water Sword, gently stroked the sword body with his palm, and then slashed forward hard, and suddenly the sword energy surged into the sky. , the lake is two points.
"No matter what his conspiracy is, just kill him with one sword!"
Then he put away the Water-Breaking Sword, turned around and entered the secret room, sinking into concentration.
Three days later, on the top of a hill to the east of Xuanyuan, a person wearing a black gold robe looked quietly at the horizon, as if waiting for something.
A moment later, a middle-aged man in blue brocade came up from the sky on a green banana leaf. After landing, he raised his hands and said, "But Junior Brother Feng?"
"Feng Xifeng, I have met senior brother Han Dongxing." Feng Xifeng, still as cold as an iceberg, returned the greeting with his hands raised.
Han Dongxing smiled slightly and asked, "Junior Brother Su, can I explain this trip clearly to you?"
Feng Xifeng said in a deep voice: "Senior Brother Han, don't worry. Since you are a guest of the Su family, you should do your best for the young master."
Han Dongxing nodded with satisfaction, and just as he was about to say something else, he heard a Qingyue sword chant, and then saw a sword light coming from the horizon from far to near, and fell in front of him in an instant.
The sword light dissipated, and a handsome young man in plain robes emerged, it was Yuan Qing.
Yuan Qing glanced at Feng Xifeng and saw that Feng Xifeng's face was calm, and a strange color flashed in his eyes. Then he held his hands to Han Dongxing and said, "But Senior Brother Han in person?"
Han Dongxing looked at the young man in front of him carefully and felt that his sword energy was full of energy, which was indeed extraordinary. Seeing him being polite and asking questions, he raised his hands and replied: "Exactly. You must be Junior Brother Yuan Qing. Let me introduce to you, this..."
"No need to introduce, Senior Brother Feng and I are old acquaintances." Yuan Qing interrupted with a smile before he could finish speaking, while looking at Feng Xifeng.
When Feng Xifeng saw both of them looking at him, he just nodded slightly, acquiescing.
Han Dongxing laughed and said: "Since we are old acquaintances, it will be much more convenient." He took out two jade tubes and handed them to the two of them respectively, "In the jade tubes are the map of this trip and specific related matters. You two have arrived. There will be people at Hanjiabao to receive them, and I have important things to attend to, so I will go ahead." After saying that, he cupped his hands towards the two of them, released his magic weapon and left in the air.
Yuan Qing took the jade tube, looked at Feng Xifeng with his spiritual sense, and happened to be looking over. Just when he was about to speak, he heard Feng Xifeng say: "Let's go." After saying that, he directly released a spiritual boat and broke through the air. And go.
Yuan Qing smiled helplessly and thought: This senior brother Feng has not changed at all. Then he summoned the magic sword and Yu Jian followed.
Pingdingfang City, Su Garden, Su Tianqi received a transmission note. After the firelight dissipated, he poured himself a cup of tea and drank it leisurely. Then he gently shook the folding fan, his eyes filled with smiles of complete control.
