novelraw Chapter 273: "Come with me.
Chapter 273: "Come with me.
Xu Su: ...
Sika: [Is that really true? He couldn’t find a girlfriend in college, so he’s hitting on high school girls? Susu, you better be careful. Don’t let him fool you.]
Xu Su didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: [Don’t worry, you guys. That’s not it.]
Liu Yun: [I’ve heard Susu’s boyfriend’s voice. It’s really nice. He doesn’t sound like someone who can’t find a date. Nanyang, stop making wild guesses.]
Sika: [Ah! Susu, is your boyfriend handsome?]
Xu Su: [Very handsome. Impossibly handsome.]
Her straightforward praise silenced the group chat for a moment.
Clearly, everyone thought she was just love-struck, that beauty was in the eye of the beholder.
Even the ever-active Sika went quiet.
Xu Su breathed a sigh of relief and switched back to the game screen, only to find herself enveloped in a thick black fog. She couldn’t see where Si Xuan was.
Through her headphones, she could hear sounds from his end, like he was in a fight.
Xu Su asked politely, "Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Did Nanyang teach you the Barrier-breaking Technique?"
Xu Su was taken aback. "I’ve learned that one."
’So there really is something I can help with?’
Si Xuan said, "Then try to see if you can break through the black fog in front of you. Fly to the bottom of the cliff and pick the twin lotus. A Demon formed from resentment is tying me up. It has no physical body, so I can’t kill it right away, but the mission timer has less than two hours left."
According to him, the situation was quite urgent, yet his voice remained steady, as if he wasn’t the least bit concerned.
Sect missions were the main quest line for guilds in the game Immortal World. Clearing each stage would drop a large amount of treasure. The Qingxuan Sect’s mission was already on stage sixteen, far ahead of the sects of the other two Emperors, making it the undisputed number one sect on the server. If this mission failed, there was no telling when the next one would spawn.
It wasn’t even certain if there would be a next mission.
Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Su immediately cast the Barrier-breaking Technique. On the game screen, the black fog before the Female Sword Immortal gradually faded, and her vision cleared.
Not far away, Si Xuan was battling a pitch-black, humanoid monster in mid-air. As expected of the resentment formed from a mighty Earth Immortal, even after being dead for countless years, it could still fight the Mahayana Realm Si Xuan to a standstill. Si Xuan seemed to have the upper hand, but being tied down like this made it incredibly difficult for him to get to the bottom of the cliff to pick the twin lotus.
Seeing the fog on Xu Su’s side disperse, the shadowy creature turned to look at her, shooting a black bolt of energy from its eyes. In an instant, Si Xuan shattered it with a single sword strike.
Si Xuan’s voice came through the headphones: "All the resentment on Tongxin Cliff has gathered to form this monster. I’ll make sure it doesn’t interfere with you. However, there might be a demon beast at the bottom of the cliff guarding the twin lotus. If there’s danger, retreat immediately. Be careful."
"Okay." Time was short, and Xu Su wasn’t one to dawdle. She cast the Sword Control Technique, cleanly mounting her Immortal Sword and flying toward the bottom of the cliff.
Another bolt of black energy shot toward her from behind, but Xu Su didn’t even turn her head. Although they didn’t know each other that well, she had complete faith in Si Xuan’s promise.
The chasm was immensely deep. Xu Su flew downward for a long time before her feet finally touched solid ground.
Si Xuan: "Are you there? Noticed anything unusual? Describe your surroundings to me."
"It’s just an ordinary landscape. There’s a mountain stream about two meters wide, with messy water-weeds on both sides and some towering trees. I don’t see any other creatures, nor do I see the twin lotus we’re looking for."
As she spoke, Xu Su controlled her character to hover in the air, her eyes carefully scanning every frame of the screen so as not to miss anything.
Si Xuan: "Send me a screenshot."
"Hmm... something’s a little strange." After taking the screenshot, Xu Su looked at the top of her screen in surprise. "My health bar is slowly decreasing."
It was full just a moment ago, and now it’s down by about a twentieth.
Si Xuan: "I can’t tell anything from the picture..."
"I know!" Xu Su interrupted him, exclaiming, "I remember you said the full name of the twin lotus is the Fiery Flame Double Lotus, right? So is it possible my health is being burned away by its flames? In other words, the closer I get to it, the faster my health will drop?"
Xu Su wasn’t really asking him. She had always been decisive, especially when it came to games. Even as she spoke, she was already decisively testing her theory.
Before she even finished speaking, she had found the direction where her health bar was dropping faster. "I don’t know if it’s because of the twin lotus, but my health drops faster when I move southeast."
Xu Su drank a few Recovery Potions and flew in that direction.
Si Xuan: "Put on that Immortal Robe I gave you. If there’s danger, retreat. You just advanced to the Golden Core. If you die, there’s no Little Mirror Realm to drop to, so you’ll fall straight back to the Foundation Establishment Realm."
His reminder made Xu Su remember the Immortal Grade Purple Illusion Gauze Robe she had just obtained. This was an armor that could withstand a full-powered attack from a Divinity Transformation Stage expert for half an hour.
She quickly changed into the new clothes, and the rate at which her health bar was depleting slowed down. Soon, a twin lotus surrounded by crimson flames finally appeared in her field of vision.
"I found it! Si Xuan, I found it!" Xu Su excitedly took a screenshot and sent it. "This is it, right?"
He hadn’t expected her to actually find it. Si Xuan grunted in acknowledgment and reminded her, "Be careful. Check if there are any demon beasts guarding it."
Xu Su searched carefully for a long time, then sent him a full-screen screenshot. "I don’t see any living creatures. Why don’t you take a look?"
The game was designed so that rare treasures and materials would be guarded by demon beasts. The rarer the Spirit Plant, the more powerful the demon beast guarding it until maturity. But surprisingly, there was nothing here.
Si Xuan: "The resentment on Tongxin Cliff is overwhelming, so it makes sense that no living things can survive here. It’s just that with your current strength, you won’t be able to pick the twin lotus."
"..." Looking at her dangerously low health bar, Xu Su couldn’t argue. She couldn’t even withstand getting close, let alone trying to pick it.
Si Xuan paused for a few seconds. "I have a Teleportation Talisman. Send me your coordinates now, and I’ll teleport directly to you."
Xu Su knew about Teleportation Talismans. In Immortal World, players had two ways to travel or change maps: Teleportation Arrays and Teleportation Talismans.
The Teleportation Array is a formation that every player can use. Friends can use it to lock onto each other’s locations and teleport. That’s what Si Xuan had used to come and save her just now. This method requires a certain amount of time to cast.
Teleportation Talismans, on the other hand, were rewards dropped from quests, and extremely rare ones at that. Their only function was to allow for instant teleportation to a designated location within a certain time frame. They were essential items for escaping powerful enemies, practically a second life.
The second after Xu Su sent her coordinates, the familiar White-clothed Cultivator appeared beside her. The speed was almost ridiculous.
Just as Si Xuan reached out and picked the flaming twin lotus, the formless black fog caught up to them. Its opponent had run away mid-fight, and the intangible monster was furious. A series of ghastly wails echoed through her headphones.
The sound gave Xu Su the creeps. She then saw the White-clothed Cultivator grab the Female Sword Immortal’s hand as Si Xuan’s voice came through her headphones: "Follow me."