Chapter 631: The Invader Robs
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Lonemoon left a part of his divine perception focused on his position. Once he realized that Zuo Shuming was still somewhere in the back of the village, he stopped paying much attention to him. They were following him just to locate the invaders, anyway. They really didn't care about what Zuo Shuming went about doing.
It was four hours later when they realized that Zuo Shuming was headed for the entrance. He seemed to be on the way back, but inexplicably took a right turn to enter a dense forest.
"Eh?" Lonemoon paused.
Chef, who had been keeping the dishes and cutlery, seemed to sense something as well. He turned and exclaimed, "There's immortal Qi there!"
The two of them exchanged a meaningful glance. In a flash, they dashed out of the apartment and tried to locate the immortal Qi in the dense forest. Indeed, there they spotted Zuo Shuming's figure from afar.
He seemed to have found something. He was pushing a huge rock out of the way, and there was a hint of immortal Qi where he was standing, being emitted from something in the rock. As the rock rolled away, the immortal Qi felt stronger.
Lonemoon pursed his lips and recalled something. Could it be that the thing under the rock is...
The next moment, Zuo Shuming looked elated. He picked up something black from under the rock. It was filled with immortal Qi and looked to be in the shape of a heart... it was a scale!
It really was Little Biao's heart-protecting scale. This was no coincidence! So Zuo Shuming found the scale at this moment?
"There's someone there!" Chef called out, stiffening.
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Lonemoon jumped and turned around. Indeed, behind the tree on Zuo Shuming's left was a black figure. The man was dressed in black robes, and he was hiding some kind of aura in his hands. Lonemoon could hardly believe that this person managed to dodge his divine perception! It seemed that the person had been standing there for a long time. He stared at Zuo Shuming, who was still standing there admiring his newfound treasure. Was he planning to... rob him?
Just as Zuo Shuming was studying the scale closely, the person in the black robes rushed out and snatched it.
"Who are you!" Zuo Shuming shouted, starting to retaliate. The person slapped him, and Zuo Shuming did not dodge in time. The slap sent him flying through the air, unconscious.
"Get him!" Lonemoon shouted. The two of them flew out at once. Father Niu caught Zuo Shuming just before he hit the ground. Chef went after the man in the black robes. He was just about to deal a blow when the person in the black robes disappeared into thin air. Chef's sword Qi caught nothing. Faintly, they heard swooshing sounds. A white paper doll flew down toward them.
"Where's he? You didn't catch him!" Lonemoon carried the unconscious Zuo Shuming over to Chef. Chef actually did not manage to catch the person.
Yi Qing frowned and picked up the paper doll, not saying anything in response.
"What is that? A doll?"
"I have no idea. Let's go back and ask Master."
Lonemoon frowned, but flew back anyway, Zuo Shuming in tow.
Zuo Shuming was not severely injured. However, given his low cultivation, the blow broke several meridians of his. Since the injury was not grave, Lonemoon expected that he would recover after just a few days.
After helping him into the house, Lonemoon did not bother much about Zuo Shuming. Instead, he focused his attention on the person having supper at the table.
"Look at this. – what is it?" He placed the paper doll that Chef found earlier in front of Shen Ying.
"Mm?" Shen Ying, who had been gnawing on a duck's neck, paused. She looked closely at the paper doll in front of her. She reached out to touch it, then retracted her hand. She repeated this several times until her oily fingers were clean. "I don't know. I've never seen it!"
"Even you have no idea?" Lonemoon was shocked by her reply. He told her what happened in the forest. "That person managed to escape my divine perception and also escaped Chef's clutches. After stealing the scale, he turned into this paper doll and disappeared."
"It looks like some kind of puppet technique, but it also looks like a disguising technique. This does resemble the ordinary puppet technique – if that's the case, I think we can turn this doll into a physical body," Yi Qing said. The key thing was after the man disappeared, they could not trace even a hint of his aura.
"Have you really never seen something like that before?" Lonemoon confirmed once more.
Shen Ying shook her head.
"That's strange!" Lonemoon frowned even more deeply. "The man's aura did not feel like he belonged to other planes. Was this person who attacked Zuo Shuming an invader or a cultivator who just wanted to rob him?"
"An invader," Shen Ying said firmly.
Lonemoon paused and rolled his eyes at her. "Didn't you say you've never seen this before?"
"I haven't."
"Then how are you so sure?"
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"It's simple." Shen Ying pointed to the paper doll. "This is why!"
Lonemoon and Yi Qing both stared blankly at her. Awhile later, they took a step closer to the doll and studied it. On top of the white paper, apart from the oil stains from Shen Ying's fingers, there was nothing else that was different. She freaking used this doll as a paper towel, didn't she?
"What's wrong with this paper doll?" Lonemoon still didn't get it.
"The words on it."
"Words?" He still was not understanding her. It was normal for dolls like that to have talisman words on it, wasn't it?
Shen Ying raised her head and looked at them as if they were the strangest people in the world. Emphasizing each word, she said, "The words written on it are not words that are illegible to this world!"
Strange words = foreign world = invader!
Lonemoon: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
(⊙_⊙)
Shit! Why did they suddenly feel as if they were retarded?
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Zuo Shuming was not seriously injured. Lonemoon thought that just leaving him to rest for two days would do the trick. They didn't think that he would pass out for three whole days. It was really a mystery how he could be such a loser. How exactly did he make it to the immortal world?
The day of Gui Yi Sect's recruitment of disciples was drawing near. Lonemoon could not take it any longer. He healed his meridians and woke Zuo Shuming up.
"Thank you for saving me, Fellow Daoist." Zuo Shuming looked at him, filled with gratitude. "I-"
"Cut the nonsense. We have to hurry. Let's go!" Lonemoon did not wait for Zuo Shuming to lead the way. Instead, he helped him onto his sword and flew toward Ping Hua City directly. They made it just in time for the recruitment.
Since they arrived pretty late, there were not many cultivators left who had not been tested. Perhaps core cultivators were just not that picky. This time, the recruitment test was much simpler.
From past experience, Lonemoon knew better. He watched to ensure that Zuo Shuming passed all the recruitment tests and made it to become one of Gui Yi Sect's disciples before the three of them registered. Then, they followed the group of disciples who had been selected onto a spirit boat and headed toward Gui Yi Sect.
Zuo Shuming was obviously excited. He seemed to have completely forgotten about the fact that he had been robbed a few days ago. Maybe it was because he was not even sure what he had picked up in the first place that he did not feel such a great sense of loss. He was more upset at the fact that the other party hit him than the fact that he stole the treasure.
Lonemoon could not help but frown as he studied this silly Zuo Shuming closely.
The invader finally made himself known. They were right from the beginning – this person was targeting Zuo Shuming. The only thing was they could not figure out why. After stealing the scale, the invaders seemed to have disappeared. It confused them as to his motive. Was Little Biao's scale really that special? Or was Zuo Shuming the special one? What was the invader after?
Since they could not catch the invader directly, all they could do now was to remain passive. The good thing was Yi Qing had already calculated Zuo Shuming's fate and determined that Little Biao's scale was rightfully his. He had an invisible connection to that scale.
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In other words, he would likely come across that heart-protecting scale once again. Either that, or he would come across the man who stole the scale from him. That was why they decided to continue staying close to Zuo Shuming, in the hopes of finding the invader.
They thought that this entire process would take awhile. Little did they know, it would be so soon...
Chapter 632: Heading to Gui Yi
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Gui Yi Sect was not far away, after the spirit boat flew for less than an hour, they could already see numerous lush and green floating peaks in the distance. The spirit boat headed right towards the tallest one and stopped above the empty space before the hall. Many new disciples on the boat stirred, all walking to the edge of the boat to look around. Even Zuo Shuming couldn't help his curiosity and took glances of the outside.
There were already four to five disciples here to receive them standing outside the hall, both males and females present, dressed in unified long green robes, their cultivation level was all the Foundation Establishment phase. At present, they were looking up at the spirit boat that was gradually landing.
After it was stably parked, everyone was informed to alight. Lonemoon and gang was about to follow when he felt a gaze on him, he was faintly coupled with some killing intent.
Lonemoon's heart dropped as he instinctively stepped aside to dodge that gaze, Turning around, he saw that it came from the girl on the extreme right amongst the disciples receiving them, they were still some floating Spirit Qi around her, making it seem like she'd just arrived at the Foundation Establishment phase. But Lonemoon could tell that she was actually in the late stage, she'd merely used some methods to intentionally hide her cultivation.
Upon closer look, he found that her line of sight wasn't on them but on Zuo Shuming who was in front. It came with probing and pondering as if she was looking at a commodity that was waiting for its highest bid, only the killing intent from before had disappeared.
"Father Niu..." Yi Qing had very evidently discovered this person too. He said in a low voice through voice transmission. "She is the person in the woods."
Lonemoon was shocked. "Are you sure?" She just looks like an average cultivator.
"Sure." Yi Qing nodded.
"She'd seen us before in the woods." Lonemoon reacted quickly. "To avoid alerting the enemy, we need to hide."
With that said, he dragged the two others out of the crowd, then set up a concealing array formation around them. Three figures instantly disappeared from the spirit boat. Everyone was hurrying to get off the boat and no one realized that they'd disappeared.
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"Fellow Daoist Lonemoon, let us go down... huh? Where did he go!" Zuo Shuming turned around, wanting to get them to alight together, but found that it was empty behind him, the three people who were behind him a moment ago had disappeared. Looking anxious, he subconsciously began to search.
"Hey, what are you waiting for, we've arrived at the sect, it's time to alight." The disciple controlling the spirit boat saw that he had still yet to get off and spoke up to hasten him.
"No, Senior Brother, I still have three other friends with me."
"There is no one else on the boat." The disciple replied, "They've probably alighted long ago."
Zuo Shuming then alighted wearing a confused look, continuously searching in the crowd but couldn't find the few of them no matter what. Whereas that girl kept her gaze fixed in his direction.
"Chef, this was really the invader from that day?" Invisible Lonemoon took a close look at the girl on the right. "There doesn't seem to be anything different about her."
"I don't know either." Yi Qing's frown grew deeper. It was far more than different, as a manager, he could even sense that the soul in her body originated from the original source of this world, there was completely nowhere incompatible at all, yet this was indeed the invader who got away the other night. "Master, what do you..."
Both of them turned to look at Shen Ying who stood in the middle of them.
"Let's compare the data." She tapped open a lighted screen and a series of data flashed across, coming to a stop in the next moment. Shen Ying cocked her head to a side. "Hmm?"
"Why?" Lonemoon asked, "Found it?"
"She is indeed from this plane, but there is something else mixed in a body."
"Something else?" What did that mean?
Yi Qing faltered, as if struck with a sudden thought, he activated some power of the original source and looked over again. His eyes instantly widened. "Her soul..."
"What's wrong? What did you see?" Lonemoon asked. Yi Qing glanced at him, then shifted a trace of original source to move before his eyes.
"Damn it!" He almost exclaimed out loud.
The power of the original source allowed them to see through the flesh to observe the soul of the other party. For the girl opposite, in between her originally invisible soul, was a mix of a black layer, her entire soul looked like an expired bread where mold started to grow from the middle, it was especially strange.
"Possession!" This possibility instantly came to Lonemoon's mind, but he denied it a moment later. "No, this isn't possession." That layer of black soul was especially tightly mixed with the original soul, though it appeared disgusting, it was a complete specimen, possession was impossible, it seemed more like cohesion.
Hold on! Cohesion?
"Could it be... the true invader is that layer of soul in the middle. It stays in her body and has fused with the soul of this world?" He was instantly reminded of Mushroom who had her soul stolen.
"Mm." Shen Ying nodded.
"Damn it!" Why do all invaders like snatching other people's bodies? "What do we do now? Chef can you separate them?" Like how they saved Mushroom back then, tear them apart.
"No!" Yi Qing shook his head. "The invader has already fused with the primary soul, if we were to forcefully separate them, the original soul will disperse too."
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"Primary soul?" Lonemoon's eyes widened in slight surprise. "How was that possible, how could the primary soul fuse with another, unless she was willing!" He stopped midway. "F*ck no way! That soul was willing to be swallowed by the invader?"
Yi Qing's expression darkened too.
Before they could think further, the disciples at the front were leading everyone into the hall. That invader walked right at the front, but at the moment she turned, her gaze still vaguely swept across Zuo Shuming's direction.
Lonemoon and gang who had already concealed their figures and breathing also followed behind and entered the hall.
The hall was already fully occupied. Most were Nascent Soul cultivators, they seemed like the executive committee of Gui Yi Sect. The ones with the highest level of cultivation were the two seated right at the top. Both were at the Soul Formation stage, auras of elixirs came from their bodies, they were probably core cultivators.
After that invader led everyone in, she walked towards a Nascent Soul cultivator on the right, greeted him with a sweet "daddy", then obediently stood behind him.
"There are quite a lot of disciples joining Gui Yi Sect this time." The one sitting right in the middle was probably the Sect Master. He looked across the hundreds of new disciples in the hall then said to the others in the hall with a smile. "Elders, do you have anyone that caught your eye that you want to take under your wing?"
The Nascent Soul cultivators then stood up in succession and started selecting disciples, almost everyone chose a few. Though they were all disciples of Gui Yi Sect, but to be taken under the wing of the Nascent Soul cultivators and have a master to guide them, it was naturally better than practicing cultivation on their own. So everyone who was selected wore looks of surprise and stood behind the Nascent Soul cultivators after bowing.
In less than an hour, the amount of disciples in the hall lessened by a quarter. Lonemoon took a careful look and realized that the gaze of the invader had been occasionally fixed on Zuo Shuming. It was filled with probing. Seems like their previous guess was right, the motive of this invader had to do with Zuo Shuming.
But for some reason, she wasn't acting, as if she were waiting for something. On the other hand, Zuo Shuming was completely unaware, when he had time he would glance around the crowd beside him, anxiously looking like he was searching for someone.
Until everyone had done their selection, that invader did not make another sound too.
"Since the Elders are done with the selection, we shall end here today." The Sect Master stood up and looked at the remaining disciples as he ordered, "The remaining people will be our outer sect disciples, dismissed!"
The Sect Master was about to wave his hand when the Soul Formation cultivator on his left suddenly spoke up. "Wait!"
Chapter 633: Multiple Transmigrating System
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"Uncle-Master Tian Yi?" The Sect Master paused and respectfully cupped his fists.
"My Dan Xia Mountain needs a disciple to tend to the spirit herbs, I shall just pick one here." That Soul Formation cultivator said casually, his gaze swept across the new disciples in the hall and finally stopped on Zuo Shuming who was at level seven in Qi Refinement, his finger pointed at him. "He shall do!"
All the disciples were stunned and turned back to look at Zuo Shuming in envy. Though he was merely tending to spirit herbs and wasn't a formal disciple, but that was the Soul Formation Supremacy who had the highest level of cultivation in Gui Yi Sect. If he could just get a pointer from him, it would last him for a lifetime.
Lonemoon could not help but took time to glance at Zuo Shuming, he was just about to sigh, though this fellow was naive and innocent, he was really quite lucky, he'd proven himself to be someone who could ascend.
In the next moment, a peculiar robotic voice suddenly sounded.
[Ding! Mission: Wreck the male lead's chance of getting into Dan Xia Mountain! Prevent him from ascending! Fulfill host's aspiration of completing his revenge! All the best host! Multiple Transmigration System 001 has faith in you!]
[Rest assured 001, we transmigrated through so many worlds already, I know it! Such jerks like Zuo Shuming, even if there wasn't a mission, I would still get revenge for host!]
Shen Ying: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Lonemoon: "..."
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(⊙_⊙)
What the hell was that sudden voice? Had they... forgotten to turn off public broadcast?
They instantly had some understanding of Shen Ying's feelings when she met Feng Ying back then. This public broadcast... was really f*cking loud!
However, it seems like other than the three of them, no one else could hear it at all.
"Grandmaster Tian Yi... is there anything special about this disciple?" That invader suddenly spoke up, looking innocently up at the Soul Formation cultivator. "He actually made you speak personally to recruit him to Dan Xia Mountain."
"Little Yi, do not be rude in front of Uncle-Master!" With those words, the Nascent Soul cultivator beside her immediately chided her.
"It's alright." That Soul Formation cultivator known as Tian Yi glanced at her, instead of being angry, he was good-natured as he said, "It isn't that there's anything special about this disciple, I just need a disciple to tend to the spirit herbs, there are no demands with regards to cultivation, it could be anyone. He has the highest cultivation amongst this group of disciples who practice Qi Refinement, so I chose him."
"Grandmaster, that's not right of you to say that." The invader blinked, pouting her mouth to look even more innocent as she said, "You are the Soul Formation Supremacy of Gui Yi Sect. Which one of the Senior Brothers on Dan Xia Mountain aren't outstanding. Even if he's just being an attendant to spirit herbs, it's still a huge opportunity to disciples of the sect. I think Grandmaster should pick one with good qualifications, this way, you will continue to uplift the prestige of Dan Xia Mountain."
That Soul Formation cultivator's smile became even gentler, his gaze towards the girl was filled with some indulgence for a junior. "Then what kind of person does Little Yi think I should pick?"
"I think he's not bad!" She pointed to a disciple beside Zuo Shuming and said,
"I read the register earlier, he has two spirit roots of elemental earth and wood, he is most suitable for tending to spirit herbs."
Tian Yi took a look at that disciple and was not too bothered. Nodding, he said, "Alright, I'll change it to him."
That disciple was wild with joy and quickly stepped forward and said with cupped fists, "Thank you Supremacy!"
"Mm." Supremacy Tian Yi nodded in acknowledgment.
A hint of smugness instantly flashed through the invader's eyes.
In moments, the gazes from the other disciples to Zuo Shuming was filled with sympathy. Instead, his own expression remained usual, with no dejection of losing a huge opportunity, his eyes continued swept through the crowds around him from time to time, like he was searching for something.
Seeing that the selections were more or less done, the Sect Master then instructed the disciples to lead everyone to the outer hall.
The remaining people then walked out wearing looks of disappointment, they all seemed very dejected as they followed listlessly behind the Senior Brother leading the way. Except for Zuo Shuming! He seemed to be worried now, not long after walking out, he started to grab people around him and question.
"Fellow Daoist, have you seen my companions? The three who boarded the boat with me?"
"No!"
"Senior Brother, have you seen my friends? There are three of them, one called Lonemoon, another called Yi Qing and another lady with the surname Shen."
"Never heard of them."
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"Brother, three of my friends have gone missing, they boarded the boat with me earlier. They're Foundation Establishment cultivators, have you seen them?"
"No."
"This..."
Zuo Shuming became more anxious the more he went on, even the disciple leading the way at the front was alerted, he walked over from the front. "What's with the din behind?"
Once he saw that it was Zuo Shuming, a trace of sympathy instantly passed through his eyes. "What happened?"
"Senior Brother..." Zuo Shuming hurriedly went forward, looking even more panicky. "My friends are missing, they passed the test with me."
"That's impossible? We did a headcount when we alighted the boat earlier!" He frowned and asked for the names of the three and flipped all the way through the register. A while later, he looked up at him, his gaze even more sympathetic. "The three people that you speak of aren't on the register."
"How is that possible!" Zuo Shuming was stunned, they'd even chatted on the boat just now.
"Alright alright! Let's continue to move!" That disciple gave him another look of sympathy, could he have gone crazy from his sadness of not getting into Dan Xia Mountain? He sighed, then continued to lead the way. Sigh! He was a pitiful being too.
Zuo Shuming then followed with a dumbfounded look.
Shen Ying who had been following behind the whole time: "..."
Lonemoon who had wiped their names off the register: "..."
Yi Qing who maintained the array formation the whole way: "..."
Um... seems like they've accidentally done their friend in.
"Master..." Yi Qing could not help but suggest worriedly. "Do we need to wipe his memory?"
Shen Ying thought for a moment, before she replied, Lonemoon did so ahead of her. "Forget it! That invader's target is him, if we act recklessly, she might become aware of us, let's think of something else."
Yi Qing nodded.
Lonemoon recalled the special voice they'd heard earlier and turned to Shen Ying. "Shen Ying, do you know what exactly that system earlier was?" From what they heard from the two voices, this doesn't seem like the first world they'd invaded. "There was still some mission like fulfilling the host's aspirations, could it be that the so-called host, was the original soul of the body?"
"This might be the reason why the primary soul fused with the invader." The invader would help to fulfill her wishes so the primary soul automatically fused with her. Leading to them not seeing through her identity of an invader from the start.
"Her system isn't the same as Feng Ying's one, is it?"
"About the same." Shen Ying cocked her head to a side. "So-called systems are technological products of higher-level planes that has its own consciousness. But... I've never seen a system that can transmigrate through planes." Feng Ying's parenting system happened to fall to this plane because of a plane storm and this one evidently hadn't
"Then what do we do now?"
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"I've got to ask my sister." Shen Ying thought for a moment. "She should have the information on this aspect."
Chapter 634: The Truth Behind The Invasion
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"A system that can transmigrate?" Shen Jing's eyes darkened and she thought carefully for a while before replying, "I have seen systems with such functions but transmigration is more of an exaggeration. The most they can do is only project a part of their soul over."
"Project?" Lonemoon faltered. "What does that mean?"
"They actually do not have the ability to transmigrate in themselves." Shen Jing said in a low voice, "So they would search for some residual consciousness in the chaos that has yet to be completely absorbed. Then sense for the plane's original source that is similar to the host's from the chaos and project the part of the consciousness that they caught to that plane to steal the original source of other planes."
"Their target is the plane's original source?"
"You can put it that way." Shen Jing continued, "Only their power is way too insignificant, the amount of original source that can be stolen is very limited, it's even less than the amount for a complete soul. Besides, as this is an illegal invasion, this thing is very easily found by the authority, so it is highly difficult to bring away that small bit of original source, unless..."
"Unless the soul is willing!" Lonemoon blurted out, "What it wants to bring away is the primary soul of the person it is attached to!"
This also meant that there were actually three parts in that body right now. One was the soul that belonged to the body, one was the invading system and another was the residual consciousness that the system caught, used to fuse with the primary soul to make it easier to be brought away?
"That's right!" Shen Jing nodded. "This thing is like a parasite of the plane, though it is simply projecting a part of a foreign consciousness to the plane, but illegal invasion still causes a certain disorder to the plane and leaves behind a crack where they invaded. So the spot where they enter are always extremely hidden."
"It's the River of Forgetfulness!" Yi Qing suddenly recalled the hole that suddenly appeared in Heavenly Palace's River of Forgetfulness. "They entered through the original source of the River of Forgetfulness."
"Everything makes sense now!" Shen Jing said, "There are lots of souls in the original source, it is difficult to realize when there is one more or one less, what's more, the one that entered is just a similar part of a foreign consciousness."
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Both Lonemoon and Yi Qing's face darkened. If it wasn't because Roasted Chicken Gal suddenly fell and Little Shortie happened to be at Invincible Sect, such a small hole that even they did not sense would indeed be very hard to discover.
Besides, the reason why the system was able to trace back the time of the little world unnoticed, was because of the effect created when it broke through the plane. If it wasn't because Rabbit happened to go pick Zuo Shuming up, they never would have been aware of the incidents in the Lower realm.
"Then how do we resolve this?" Shen Ying suddenly asked.
"Of course you kill it before it fuses with the soul of the plane." Shen Jing answered like it was only natural and right. "If you don't kill such parasites, are you going to keep it around for the new year celebrations?"
All three of them: "..." Seems like it's too late.
"Don't tell me you three have already let it fuse with the living being that it is attached to?" A hint of surprise flashed across Shen Jing's face.
"Um... Sister Jing, we just that little little bit late." The corner of Lonemoon's mouth twitched as he let out an embarrassed smile. "Are there any other solutions?"
The disdain on Shen Jing's face grew even stronger as she sneered coldly. "You call yourselves managers? Is the plane's consciousness blind?"
Three of them: "..." No personal attacks please, not everyone is a cheat!
"There's no other way." She gave each of them a look that said 'you'll be done sooner or later' and went on, "It's either you kill it together with that soul to get rid of the parasite and that foreign consciousness or wait until it has completely attained the acceptance of the possessed soul then leaves the host together with its primary soul to head to the next plane."
"Leaves the host?" Shen Ying suddenly lifted her head, looking at the lighted screen before her. "Sister, you mean that when escaping from this plane, it will separate itself from the fused souls?"
Shen Jing turned back and glanced at her, the disdain in her eyes then eased a little. "That's right, since it has decided to separate, it would certainly be fully prepared, you all only have the chance in that single moment to catch it."
Lonemoon and Yi Qing were overjoyed and relief, it was great that it would separate. Actually, the troublesome thing was that they knew too little about that system, they totally didn't know what other tricks it had. As for that foreign consciousness that fused into the primary soul, they would somehow find a way to separate them.
"Thank you, Sister Jing." The three thanked her and received more nagging from Shen Jing before the call ended.
"Master, what should we do now?" Yi Qing turned to look at Shen Ying. "Wait till the moment when the invader leaves this plane?"
"Mm." Shen Ying nodded and said, "We can speed it up!"
"What do you mean?" Lonemoon chimed in, how do they speed it up?
"Doesn't that system have a mission?" She habitually pulled out a fruit and reminded.
Both of them paused for a moment, recalling the public broadcast of the system that they heard earlier. Seems like it sent a mission to exact revenge on Zuo Shuming to the consciousness.
"Wasn't this mission issued because the invader wanted to get the acceptance of the owner to make it easier to draw the primary soul away?" It had invaded illegally, only when the primary soul was willing would it be able to bring this shred of primary soul away, this mission was the trade. He thought of something else and frowned. "Are you thinking of helping the invader deal with Two-Bucks Zuo, then let it separate as soon as possible so that we can capture it?"
Yi Qing also frowned subconsciously, naturally unwilling to do so. Let's first put aside that Zuo Shuming wasn't any villain, from their standpoint, no one wanted to turn around to give the invader a boost.
Shen Ying bit her fruit and looked up at them before questioning, "Why must we help it, can't we wreak havoc?"
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"Rubbish!" Lonemoon subconsciously rebutted. "For each day it doesn't fulfill the owner's aspirations, the primary soul would definitely be unwilling to leave with it. The invader naturally wouldn't sep..." He stopped midway, as if struck with a sudden thought, his eyes widened. "You mean that we will obstruct it from completing the mission, cause internal conflict amongst them! The more the primary soul does not get what she wants..."
"The more it wouldn't be willing to leave with the invader!" Yi Qing had also come to a realization. "By then the primary soul would naturally resist against the foreign consciousness and system, perhaps without even needing us to act, they would be separated."
"That might not be." Lonemoon shook his head and said in a low voice, "If then system can seek such a loophole to come in, it proves that it is very clear that it cannot remain in this plane for long." In case it is discovered by the authority and manager. "So if it figures out that it wouldn't be able to get the acceptance of the primary soul no matter what..."
"It will choose to leave this plane in advance!" Yi Qing looked delighted.
Lonemoon also sighed in relief. "Great! We shall do just that!"
Compared to helping the invader complete its mission, fighting it head on was more satisfying!
"About that..." Something came to Lonemoon's mind. "What did Two-Bucks Zuo that naive fool do to her before he ascended? That it made the soul willing sell her primary soul to the invader to exact revenge on him. Logically, someone who could ascend into immortality and not be struck to death by thunder shouldn't even any great villain.
Yi Qing faltered and calculated using his fingers, enlightening everyone a while later. "She was killed by Zuo Shuming in her previous life!"
"What?" Damn, they really had a feud.
Lonemoon also calculated subconsciously and his face darkened moments after.
That person died in Zuo Shuming's hands in her previous life, but the number of lives that ended in her hands were countless, there were even her closest family, and that included, all the disciples in Gui Yi Sect.
Chapter 635: Re-entering Gui Yi
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The invader's mission was to exact revenge on Zuo Shuming, prevent him from ascending. It was very easy to ruin this mission, the better Zuo Shuming's life was, the more indignant she would be. The best scenario would be him ascending right before her, letting the invader experience the feeling of hating to see that but not being able to do anything. But right now, Zuo Shuming's golden finger and Scoop's scale had been snatched away. His initial chance to be taken under the wing of the Soul Formation Supremacy had been ruined too.
Though with his temperament, there wasn't any possibility of him ascending. Even if the invader doesn't act, it would take him a much longer time compared to his previous life to ascend. The best solution was to have them join Gui Yi Sect too and meddle in too, on the one hand they could keep an eye on the invader and on the other it would be easier to ruin its mission.
However, here comes the problem...
"That day in the woods, that invader has already seen Chef and me." Lonemoon said with a frown, "If we join Gui Yi Sect just like that, we might alert the enemy, it would be bad if we make the system more vigilant." They went over urgently that day and did not conceal themselves or what not, it was highly possible that they'd be recognized.
"That's not difficult." Yi Qing said with a low voice. "We can just morph into another person or change our appearance."
"No!" Lonemoon shook his head. "Though morphing and using spells are convenient, but we cannot say for sure that she wouldn't see through it, don't forget that he is an invader, who knows what other tricks it has." That day it was able to escape out of Chef's hands.
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Other than the two of us, there's only..." He turned over to look at a certain person who was lazily sprawled out on the table like a boneless person. "Forget it, it's still two of us!"
Shen Ying: "..." Son of a b*tch!
"I think we should just use the essence of Heavenly Tribulations to change our appearance." He suggested, "The essence of Heavenly Tribulations isn't a spell, the changes in appearance is eternal for cultivators, of course, that doesn't include us, it's enough to use it to baffle the invader. After this ends, we can just release the lightning spiritual power in our body and we can change back anytime."
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Yi Qing nodded, this was indeed the safest.
"But the three of us are too obvious." He thought for a moment and went on, "Though that invader is strange, we only need one person to watch over Two-Bucks Zuo. Let's discuss, who would be better... Hold on, why are you two suddenly hiding so far away?"
Before he could finish, the Master and disciple duo who was initially beside him instantly ran 10 meters away.
"Let us decide through voting! I vote Father Niu!"
"I vote Father Niu too!"
"Alright, Father Niu has more than half the votes, it has been happily decided!"
"All the best Father Niu, the essence is certainly no problem to you."
"Father Niu is amazingly professional at ranking up with another newbie!"
✿(๑◕▽◕๑)✿✿(๑◕▽◕๑)✿
Lonemoon: "..." Motherf*cker!
Was there meaning in such voting? Both of you just want to f*cking slack and push everything to me?
He instantly felt an urge to educate the rascals. Be clear! Whose plane was this! Hello?
"The, two, of, you..." He was about to explode when the sky darkened, storm clouds appeared at once as a rich authority settled above him. "Hold on! Chef what are you doing?" Chef directly lifted his hand to conjure seals.
In the next moment, a Heavenly Tribulation as thick and strong as a water bucket fell from the sky with a rumble and struck Lonemoon's head. A hint of burned yellow color surfaces on the edges of his robes.
"..."
Instant silence.
"Father Niu, the lightning spiritual power around you is about to dissipate, need me to strike another one?"
"Strike my foot!"
(╯‵□′)╯(┻━┻
You really did it!
Lonemoon was so enraged that his hair could stand, pulling out a spirit stone, he threw it over. "Get it straight whose plane this is. Also, with the essence, the Nascent Soul tribulation would suffice, why the heck did you use the ascension tribulation?" Manager, big deal?
"I see, then I'll change to another type!"
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"What did you say..."
Crash!
Following that, a Nascent Soul tribulation struck down precisely on Lonemoon's head once again.
Lonemoon who was struck by lightning a second time: "..."
A while later...
"Chef, Father Niu still looks the same, did you use the wrong one again?"
"Master, I have yet to see the tribulations of the lower realm for a long time, I am indeed having some trouble grasping it."
"Why don't... you try striking a few more times?"
"Yes Master, no problem Master!"
The fan in Lonemoon's hand instantly transformed into a long sword with a flip. "I'll slaughter you two little bastards!"
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Lonemoon successfully snuck into the new batch of outer sect disciples with his new appearance formed from the essence of Heavenly Tribulations and successfully became Two-Bucks Zuo.
As compared to the official disciples, the outer sect disciples evidently did not have teachings that targeted, not to mention the inner sect disciples with Masters. They basically relied on self studying and every five days, a Golden Core cultivator would come to Teaching Hall for a lesson. Other than that, they also had to complete some missions from the inner sect every month.
It could be said that outer sect disciples were basically left to their own accord. Of course if they work hard and studied diligently, they could become official disciples after completing their Foundation Establishment stage. Then according to their specialties, be distributed to different wings to practice the corresponding cultivation skills.
Simply put, outer sect disciples were disciples who did odd jobs, so the management over them was very slack too. Lonemoon had no choice but to suppress his cultivation to level six in Qi Refinement. Whereas Shen Ying and Yi Qing could only continue being invisible people, accurately speaking, it was Yi Qing who needed to conceal himself and with Shen Ying's presence, no one paid attention to her, anyway.
Today happened to be the day lesson being conducted at Teaching Hall. Lonemoon gave it some thought and decided that in order to ruin the invader's missions, it was better to get on good terms with Two-Bucks Zuo. Just as he was in thought, he saw Zuo Shuming approaching in the opposite direction.
Lonemoon's eyes narrowed and walked over. "This..."
He was about to greet him, yet Zuo Shuming's eyes lit up and spoke up before he could, "Fellow disciple, are you a disciple who just joined today too?"
"Um... yes." He subconsciously replied.
Zuo Shuming hurriedly brought out three pieces of paper and asked urgently, "Then may I ask Junior Brother, have you seen the three people in these drawings?" As he spoke, he handed the papers one by one to him.
Lonemoon looked down, on those three drawings were two males and one female, though there were some deviations, he could still recognize the familiar figures.
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This was... the drawings of them three, wasn't it familiar!
This naive fool was still looking for them.
(⊙_⊙)
The corner of Lonemoon's mouth twitched before he bit the bullet and replied. "I... have not."
"Oh..." Zuo Shuming's initially hopeful gaze instantly dimmed, his entire being listless. A while later, he replied, "Thank you Junior Brother." With that said, he sighed and turned to walk into Teaching Hall.
A disciple beside them saw his stupefied expression and could not help but voiced out, "Junior Brother, don't mind him."
He pointed to Zuo Shuming who was in front and said in a joking tone, "Speaking about this Senior Brother Zuo, he's a pitiful person too. I joined on the same day as him, three days earlier than you. On that day, he originally had the chance to be selected by the Soul Formation Supremacy to join Dan Xia Mountain, but the Supremacy suddenly changed his mind and chose another Senior Brother instead. Perhaps due to the ups and downs at the moment, he suffered an emotional blow. He kept insisting that there were three other Foundation Establishment stage friends who came to join the sect with him who had disappeared. These few days all the outer sect disciples had been questioned by him.
His gaze increasingly filled with pity as he spoke on and sighed. "Sigh, a normal person, just went crazy like this, how pitiful!"
Lonemoon: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Shen Ying: "..."
Lonemoon silently turned and exchanged gazes with the two invisible people beside him, feeling slightly complicated. He didn't expect that in the time they went back to video call Sister Jing, Zuo Shuming the naive fool had been rumored to be a madman with delusional disorder? He even looked for them for three whole days!