Chapter 24 – Division of evening and day

By the point they reached Tanye Temple, Aotian and Qingyue have been already ready there.

They’d turned into the tools that that they had simply acquired. Qingyue wore a pastel pink gown, coated with a white overcoat of sunshine muslin, making her look much more younger and beautiful. She had additionally spent the factors from her consecutive level-ups all on attractiveness, and now was a chic younger lady.

Aotian, alternatively, wore unremarkable gray workman’s garments, and his weapon had additionally modified from an ethereal-looking paper fan to a steel-spoked one. He now not regarded like a spirited younger grasp, however extra like a seasoned martial artist.

Black Cat regarded the identical, other than his fur being a lot glossier than earlier than. Even when he placed on tools, it wouldn’t present on his character, so they’d solely know what he had gotten when he took human kind at evening.

“Woah, your new garments look actually good,” Qingyue mentioned, hopping as much as Ye Zhou. “Not many individuals can pull off white.”

The lower-level equipments in 9 Heavens have been all copied from the identical templates and had the identical kinds, so solely higher-level tools would stand out. Nevertheless, upon beginning the sport, every participant may choose just a few of their favourite colours, which the sport would take care to offer whereas awarding garments to them. Whereas filling in his fundamental info, Ye Zhou had solely crammed within the colour white, so the sport would solely be gifting him white garments. If he needed a distinct colour sooner or later, he must spend cash on it.

“How come the supplies of your garments look method higher than mine?” mentioned Aotian, feeling the hem of Ye Zhou’s gown.

They have been each people, however Aotian’s garments created from cotton, whereas Dugu Zhuo and Ye Zhou’s seemed to be silk. The fabric was clean, shiny, and well-dyed, trying to be of a better degree than Qingyue and Aotian’s.

“They received fortunate and rolled higher supplies, I suppose,” Qingyue mentioned, additionally taking a look at their garments enviously.

Chatting idly, the group walked into Tanye Temple. Whereas passing the therapeutic sales space, they noticed that there have been now three cubicles, with a snow lotus, a ginseng, and an egg mendacity on the tables. The variety of sick NPCs had elevated as effectively.

“They actually will add extra cubicles based mostly on participant quantity,” Aotian mentioned, hiding a smile.

The best way all of the spirit gamers have been ready within the monk’s basket for his or her flip treating NPCs was simply too amusing.

“I do know the snow lotus and ginseng, however what’s that egg?” Black Cat requested curiously, extending a paw in direction of it.

Dugu Zhuo glanced at it. “That’s not an egg, it’s a qilin.”

“Do qilin lay eggs?” Qingyue requested. “They have to give dwell delivery, proper? They form of appear to be mammals.”

“They don’t lay eggs,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned. “It’s a defensive magic for younger qilin, which envelopes it in an outer layer of exhausting stone with a view to shield the new child qilin inside.”

“I believed it was dangerous sufficient to turn out to be a lingzhi or a ginseng, however I didn’t know you may additionally find yourself an egg,” Aotian mentioned sympathetically. “If it was me, I’d delete the account and make a brand new one.”

“These races are cooler, although,” mentioned Ye Zhou. “And after we have been preventing the veiled occasion, I seen that their innate skills have been actually robust, whereas the people don’t have anything going for them as compared. The one robust level about people is that they will play with out restrictions earlier than degree 20.”

“Is smart,” Qingyue mentioned. “I additionally heard that after a yao takes a human kind, they’re a hundred percent assured to be higher wanting than any human!” Qingyue gave Black Cat a once-over, as if she was contemplating what he may appear to be after reworking.

Black Cat’s hackles stood straight up underneath Qingyue’s gaze, and he shortly modified the topic. “The very best degree on the leaderboard proper now’s a degree 19 lingzhi. He’s so near degree 20, so how come immediately he may solely achieve three ranges?”

“Embodiment is akin to fully reconstructing one’s physique for yao or spirits,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned. “How can or not it’s that straightforward?”

“Is smart,” mentioned Ye Zhou. “There may even be some particular quest it’s a must to full with a view to attain embodiment.”

Since that they had a process, the group confronted no opposition strolling into the temple. The outdated monk was nonetheless tapping on the wood fish, precisely the identical method he had been final evening.

Dugu Zhuo introduced out two plates of tofu. Considered one of them was the protected one which Widow Yang had simply made, whereas the opposite was the one he had taken from the washerwoman. “Nice grasp, which one would you want?” he requested.

The outdated monk put down the wood fish and first ate the tofu from Widow Yang. After he set down the plate, he mentioned, “Such good tofu. What a disgrace. Chanyi?”

A younger monk who regarded like a fighter, with one arm uncovered and a employees in hand, emerged from who-knows-where and stood earlier than the outdated monk. “Grasp.”

“Widow Yang was lured astray by demons, and practically harmed the washerwoman and her son. Her crimes don’t warrant dying, however she must be punished. Carry this thousand-year-old lingzhi to deal with her son, so she has no lingering anxieties.” The outdated monk handed a plump lingzhi to Chanyi.

These watching thought this lingzhi regarded acquainted. Wasn’t it the holder of the primary spot on the leaderboard, the now degree 19 participant?

The lingzhi sat obediently in Chanyi’s hand, wanting round and saying proudly to the gamers surrounding him, “What’re you taking a look at? By no means seen such a high-level participant? After I full this process, I can turn out to be embodied!”

Everybody: “…”

It was extra like that they had by no means seen a lingzhi with such a fats cap. Had he been fed fertilizer?

After Chanyi took away the lingzhi, the mission involving Widow Yang might be thought-about completed, however the occasion didn’t obtain a notification that that they had accomplished the duty.

The outdated monk held up the plate of poisoned tofu and mentioned, “Amitabha. I’ve devoted all my efforts towards sustaining the stability of evening and day in Zhulong City, however nonetheless there have been underhanded events trying to hurt the Xuan Sword’s wielder. Younger heroes, because of your well timed actions, this duo of mom and son didn’t find yourself on probably the most tragic path.”

“Nice grasp, are you able to save him?” Dugu Zhuo requested.

The outdated monk shook his head. “I can save him for a time, however not his entire life. It is best to carry him again to the washerwoman. Simply inform her, ‘The time has come’, and the choice after that can be left to her.”

After talking, the outdated monk thrust a palm towards the plate of tofu. The tofu dissipated into smoke together with the yin power, as Buddha’s gentle bathed the inside of Tanye Temple.

The occasion acquired the immediate that that they had accomplished the “Purchase Tofu” mission, and acquired quite a lot of expertise and spirit stones, however the principle quest nonetheless wasn’t over.

A flash of inspiration struck Aotian. “Previous man, are you saying that Xiao Bao is the Xuan Sword wielder?”

The group considered it. Their fundamental quest hadn’t been to purchase tofu or discover Xiao Bao, however to seek out the fated wielder of the Xuan Sword, and provides him over to the Qingtian Sect.

“Amitabha.” At this crucial second, the outdated monk began taking part in deaf once more.

“‘The time has come’?” Dugu Zhuo muttered. “Let’s take Xiao Bao again to the washerwoman, then.”

Ye Zhou abruptly felt a pang in his coronary heart, although it didn’t appear to be a sense that belonged to him.

Suppressing this unusual emotion, Ye Zhou picked up Xiao Bao once more and the occasion returned to the washerwoman’s home.

The washerwoman hadn’t fallen unconscious like in Dugu Zhuo’s reminiscences, solely ready quietly at house to eat roast rooster along with Xiao Bao. The group recounted what Widow Yang had performed and the outdated monk’s phrases to her.

“What does he imply by ‘the time has come’?” the washerwoman mentioned, crying as she held Xiao Bao.

“Should you don’t know, we’re much more misplaced,” Aotian mentioned blankly.

The washerwoman gazed at her son’s face and abruptly wiped away her tears, as if she had remembered one thing. She dug round via her issues till, an extended whereas later, she discovered an beautiful and translucent jade talisman.

A reminiscent expression appeared on her face. “Again earlier than I knew I used to be pregnant with Xiao Bao, I had already organized a wedding together with his father, however a month earlier than the ceremony, he abruptly vanished. On the day of my wedding ceremony, I waited and waited, however my groom by no means confirmed up.

“My mom canceled the wedding and introduced me to a manor within the countryside, saying she would carry me again in two years after the controversy had died down, and look into marriage once more then.

“My private servant lady and moist nurse have been each again house, whereas on the manor there have been solely the year-round laborers and some unwed menial maids. When my stomach stored rising greater, I and the maids didn’t perceive what was occurring and simply assumed that I used to be in poor health.

“My dad and mom have been livid at me, so I didn’t dare to ship for a physician, and hid in my room with out letting anybody see me. By the point my mom came visiting, I had been pregnant for seven months.

“By that point, there was no option to eliminate the kid. I overheard my dad and mom saying that when the kid was born, they’d drown it, then marry me to a widower.

“I used to be terrified, and took my issues and fled that evening. I got here to this city, misplaced and confused, and determined to remain right here.”

Qingyue was engrossed within the story and couldn’t assist saying, “What sort of a father is that? He goes lacking identical to that, and we don’t even know if he’s alive or useless.”

The washerwoman appeared to haven’t heard, nonetheless absorbed in her reminiscences. “When the occasions have been harsh, I’ve regretted earlier than and puzzled, if I’d simply obeyed my mom and father again then, would I not must undergo like this?

“But when I had performed that, there could be no Xiao Bao. I’d be having nightmares for my complete life, unable to overlook this baby I had misplaced.”

The washerwoman gently stroked Xiao Bao’s head. In a burst of energy, she shattered the jade talisman, and a streak of purple gentle flew into the sky, heading towards an unknown vacation spot.

“About 5 years in the past, a cultivator confirmed up and requested me for Xiao Bao. He mentioned he may take Xiao Bao in, educate him cultivation, and produce him to see his father.

“I didn’t consider him, so the cultivator left this jade talisman behind, telling me that Xiao Bao would meet with an incredible trial at age ten, and at the moment I’d naturally give him over.

“The second I broke this talisman, Xiao Bao would belong to the cultivation sects and wish to interrupt all earthly attachments. He and I’ll don’t have any connection from right here on.”

As she spoke, her tears fell one after one other, and whilst she mentioned she needed to ship Xiao Bao off, her arms have been firmly wrapped across the baby with no intention of letting go.

Dugu Zhuo needed to inform her, ‘You don’t must ship him away. I’ll rescue him. I’ll educate him cultivation,’ but his hand handed proper via Xiao Bao’s physique.

He couldn’t contact Xiao Bao. That was his previous self, and Dugu Zhuo was incapable of coming into direct contact together with his personal previous.

Very quickly, a good-looking younger cultivator with a sword on his again arrived earlier than the straw hut. He prolonged his fingers to the washerwoman. “Give the kid to me.”

The washerwoman was crying. “Can you actually save him? Can you actually let him dwell life, with out struggling any extra?”

“He would be the chief disciple of Qingtian Sect, and sooner or later, a supreme elder, rating first or second within the cultivation world,” the sword cultivator answered.

“I don’t want for excellent riches and status for him. I simply need him to dwell effectively.” With shaking fingers, the washerwoman handed her baby over to the sword cultivator.

When the cultivator took Xiao Bao, Dugu Zhuo didn’t transfer an inch.

It wasn’t that he didn’t need to, however he couldn’t. The preparations of destiny have been taking part in out earlier than him, and he was incapable of fixing his personal destiny.

The remainder of the group, nevertheless, stood to 1 aspect discussing the sword cultivator, whereas snapping screenshots like mad.

“He’s so good-looking, so handsome! He’s simply barely beneath Dugu Zhuo!”

“He appears to be like actual badass. I ponder if I may be as spectacular as him sometime.”

“Mrow, he appears to be like full of significant essence. I want I may nonetheless steal folks’s essence.”

Because the three gamers blatantly spoke their very own needs, Ye Zhou couldn’t assist however take a look at Dugu Zhuo.

The swordsman exchanged just a few extra phrases with the washerwoman, then used a spell to dissipate the yin power inside Xiao Bao’s physique, upon which Xiao Bao’s complexion immediately improved. The washerwoman wrapped up the still-warm beggar’s rooster and gave it to the sword cultivator.

“There’s no want,” he mentioned. “I’ll naturally guarantee he eats and drinks effectively.”

“However…” The washerwoman frantically stuffed the rooster into Xiao Bao’s arms. Earlier than she may end saying her phrases, the cultivator took the kid and flew into the clouds, departing the little city.

The washerwoman stared into the sky in a daze. She mentioned in a lightweight voice, “I used to be pondering I may have meal along with Xiao Bao, and bid him a correct goodbye.”

Who knew whether or not Xiao Bao would get to eat that beggar’s rooster swiftly shoved into his arms.

After the sword cultivator departed, a system notification rang out throughout the server. “Dugu Zhuo, Yi Ye Pian Zhou, Lengthy @ Aotian, Qingyue love, and Jet Black have accomplished the primary fundamental storyline quest—Sending off a Baby—and undone the Torch Dragon’s curse. Tonight, the sport can be closed from hours 0 to five to bear upkeep. After upkeep, the Netherworld map can be formally opened, bordering the northern aspect of city. Day and evening can be as soon as once more divided, into the Everlasting Evening District and the Everlasting Day District, in order that people and spirits can degree up within the Everlasting Day District, whereas demons, ghosts, and a few yao can degree up within the Everlasting Evening District.

“After each districts have been open for one week, the sport will enter official launch. All gamers will have the ability to register for the sport by buying a VR helmet, and the forex alternate can be opened. We want every participant an satisfying xianxia journey inside 9 Heavens!”

“Wow!” gamers exclaimed one after one other. “What a recent mechanic!”

As the whole recreation was stirred into chaos by the server-wide announcement, Dugu Zhuo stared at his personal fingers.

The second the system had introduced the completion of the primary fundamental quest, that Earthly Soul he was lacking had been restored.