novelraw Chapter 1182 - 533: New Characters, New Quests
Chapter 1182 - 533: New Characters, New Quests
Immortal lit a stick of Concentration Incense, opened "Complete Collection of First Rank Talismans," trying to find a solution.
"I wonder if there's one for concealing appearances," she muttered to herself, her slender fingers flipping through the tome.
Although she had hurriedly skimmed it before, she hadn't memorized everything.
[Concealing appearances?] Li Changzhou was curious.
Immortal paused and said, "I'm too beautiful. Liu Yuanwai wants me to warm his feet, and Weng Liang also said he likes me. It's quite troublesome, and besides, if Nizi hears about it, who knows if she'd be upset or not."
[Xian'er, you can conceal your appearance, but what about your cultivation? They've been cultivating for over a decade, yet only reached the Qi Cultivation Fourth Layer, while you reached the Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer in three months. Are you going to stop and wait for them?]
[If you don't strive to cultivate, you will only end up dead in the future.]
[As for them, they will inevitably drift away from you over time, unrelated to appearance. Giving them the data panel was already giving them a chance, it's up to them to seize it.]
"Alright, I'll find a way to deal with the lavatory..."
Immortal suddenly turned her head, looking outside the cave.
She sensed someone watching.
At this moment, she suddenly realized she was alone in the underwater cave, and fear crept into her heart.
Is it a robbery cultivator?
She forced herself to stay calm, drew a Thunderbolt Talisman, and held a Golden Light Talisman, leaving her cave to enter the large cavern.
She slowly walked toward the water curtain of the cave, peeking outside through the light barrier of the formation.
There was nothing.
But when she turned her head, a pallid face was pressed against the light barrier of the formation, staring expressionlessly at her back.
Hair swirling in the water, her whole body was pitted and bloodied, without clothes, it was the previous female robbery cultivator.
The one who should have been blasted to bits by the Water Bomb Talisman appeared again!
She floated outside the light barrier, coldly staring at Immortal's back.
Gradually, that face started to distort, becoming hideously grim.
She actually penetrated the light barrier of the formation, stepping into the cave, closing in on Immortal.
Having just drawn the Thunderbolt Talisman, Immortal couldn't focus her mind, she hadn't returned to her private little cave, pondering life's big questions.
She walked all the way to the innermost part of the cave.
"I wonder if Xiaoyue Nizi has completed her task or not." She looked at the stele.
The female robbery cultivator hovered three feet above the ground, slowly floating toward her from behind.
[Task One: Kill a Fierce Ghost (Reward: 1 Point)]
[Task Two: Be the first to breakthrough the later stage of Qi Refinement (Reward: 1 Point)]
[Task Three: At the bedside, how can others snore, kill three Water Demons at the later stage of Qi Refinement (Reward: 1 Point)]
[Task Four: Open a new profit channel (Reward: 1 Point) (Recipient: Jiang Xiaoyue)]
[Task Five: Kill and loot once (Reward: 2 Points)]
"The tasks 'recruiting newcomers' and 'earn the first batch of Spirit Stones through fishing' have disappeared, Xiaoyue Nizi is doing well." Immortal examined the stele.
"Kill a Fierce Ghost? Lord God, is it the kind that was hanged?"
[Ghosts formed from ordinary people's death are ordinary ghosts; only those who die with cultivation are Fierce Ghosts.]
"Oh," Immortal nodded, "How exactly are ghosts formed then?"
[Who knows. If it were just resentment, vengefulness, or dissatisfaction, then the world would be full of ghosts, and Weng Liang would be a Fierce Ghost.]
"Weng Liang?"
At this point of reminder, Immortal finally reacted.
Yet she still hadn't realized that ghosts could penetrate the formation, or rather, when Jiang Xiaoyue bought the formation, she never considered ghost defense.
This formation right before her was utterly useless against ghosts.
So she subconsciously thought the Fierce Ghost would be outside the formation, and did not immediately use the Golden Light Talisman.
She had just turned around.
Whoosh!!
The smell of blood, mixed with the stench of lakebed silt, rushed toward her.
A hand she couldn't discern whether it was rotted or blasted grabbed Immortal's neck.
The touch was extremely cold, like two blocks of solid ice.
The Fierce Ghost opened its mouth, countless bits of flesh floated out, like vengeful spirits lunging toward Immortal's eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouth, all seven orifices.
Grasped by the Fierce Ghost's icy hands, a chill surged into her body, her Qi Sea seemed to freeze, unable to mobilize any Spiritual Energy.
An eerie wind swept through the cave, scraping against her skin like knives, frosty lines forming between her brows.
Seeing the pieces of flesh float to her nose, full of decayed, moldy stench, Immortal's fear surged to its peak.
In desperation and fury, her Spiritual Power finally loosened.
Snap!
The already brittle hands of the Fierce Ghost were crushed by her grip.
"Cough...cough..." Immortal couldn't suppress her coughing, while covering her mouth to prevent the ghost's flesh from entering.
With her other hand, she slapped the Golden Light Talisman down.
"Ah!!" The Fierce Ghost howled and flung itself at Immortal.
Golden light outlined around Immortal's body.
Bang!
The Fierce Ghost crashed into it, shattering entirely, filling the cave with shredded meat, the scene utterly disgusting.
The pieces suddenly reformed into the Fierce Ghost.
The Fierce Ghost nearly regained human shape, took one grim, venomous look at Immortal, then turned and rushed toward the cave exit, vanishing into the lake water.