Chapter 160: The Horror of Seeking Immortals at Midnight

Chapter 160: The Horror of Seeking Immortals at Midnight

Chapter 160: The Horror of Seeking Immortals at Midnight

When Xiao Jie walked out of the hall, I, Yu Chengxian, had already changed into the brown coarse cloth clothes of a menial worker and was being assigned work by a Taoist boy.

Seeing Xiao Jie coming out, I hurried to greet him.

"Brother Feng, how about it, can you stay?"

"No, it's not surprising that the Taoist priest refused to accept me. There is only one magic talisman, so naturally only one person can enjoy this opportunity."

"Ah, what should I do?"

Xiao Jie said calmly: "Don't worry, this is not an emergency. We have already made it clear before. It is highly likely that Xuanxu Palace will not accept me."

Xiao Jie hadn't done anything yet, but I was anxious, "But...but, then won't we be separated?"

"Haha, all good things must come to an end. Sooner or later, we will have to separate. Don't worry. When you finish your studies and come down the mountain, there will naturally be another opportunity to form a team."

"But...but...how about I go with you?"

Xiao Jie was speechless, "Damn, do you have any ambition? Don't you want to revive your brother?"

Now I was speechless about my desire to become an immortal.

After hesitating for a while, he whispered, "It's mainly because I've been with you for so long that I feel a little nervous working alone."

Xiao Jie thought to himself, who says it isn't true? After all, you haven't experienced much of the harshness of society, and you're stupid in your behavior. To be honest, I'm a little worried about you.

He sighed and said, "If you don't even have this little courage, why are you seeking help from the gods or asking for advice? Just stay with me and live your life honestly. Forget about resurrecting your brother, you don't have the ability to do so.

But if you really want to revive your brother, then cheer up. This Xuanxu Palace is the largest sect in Fengyin Province. It is probably ranked among the best in the entire game. Even though you are just a clerk, it is a rare opportunity. Don’t you see that there are so many people outside who want to come in but have no chance? "

I gritted my teeth and said, "I understand, Brother Feng. Don't worry. I will be fine."

"If you don't worry, something will happen. By the way, have you ever been to work?"

"No, I haven't even graduated from college yet."

"So you've never worked in a company before? That's a bit troublesome. As someone who's been through it, I don't have much to teach you except one thing - you must learn to act like a grandson. You're now a handyman in Xuanxu Palace, which can be said to be the lowest level of this unit, so you must know how to be patient, learn how to please others, learn how to flatter, or to put it nicely, you can also call it 'building good interpersonal relationships'..."

Xiao Jie's instructions sounded a bit like those of parents sending their children to college.

I want to become an immortal and listened carefully. At the end, I said seriously, "I will try my best."

"It's not about trying your best, but you have to do it. Don't think that there will be no danger if you don't fight monsters in the sect. You should have read the fairy tales and fantasy novels, right? There are also open and secret struggles in the sects in those stories. If you want to make a name for yourself, you will inevitably get involved."

I wanted to become an immortal, but I was embarrassed. "But how can I, a simple servant, make it?"

"How should I know? I have never been to Xuanxu Palace. But, there is always a way. It depends on your ability. In my opinion, there are opportunities everywhere. Who is the strongest person in Shaolin Temple in Jin Yong's novels?"

"Sweeping monk?"

"That's right. You are a chorman, and you can be considered a sweeping monk. You may not be unable to make a name for yourself. So work hard, young man. When you become an immortal, I may need you to help me level up."

These words made my blood boil with the desire to become an immortal.

"Okay, I will definitely work hard. Thank you, Brother Feng. If it weren't for you, I would never have been able to enter the Xuanxu Palace. Actually, the magic talisman back then..."

"Okay, stop being so fussy, let's just say goodbye. You should quickly familiarize yourself with the environment and prepare to go to work. After all, it's just a chore, so you still have to work hard for others.

I still have time to explore. I only have one night to stay, so I can't waste it. Let's contact each other later."

After saying goodbye, I followed the Taoist boy and left with the intention of becoming an immortal.

There was also a Taoist boy to guide Xiao Jie.

"This way, my brave man, please. I will take you to your residence tonight."

Xiao Jie followed the Taoist boy all the way to a guest room in a side hall.

Although the room is simple, it is clean and tidy, and it has an antique style and is very tasteful.

"The warriors will rest here tonight. Someone will come to deliver food soon. The warriors should try not to move around casually to avoid causing trouble."

Xiao Jie thought to himself that he should "try not" to move around casually, which meant that he could move around now.

After a while, at five o'clock, someone brought dinner.

A bowl of rice, satiety +10, a plate of vegetables, satiety +8, a chicken drumstick, satiety +12.

After eating, my satiety increased by 30%. It's really thoughtful and considerate.

After dinner, Xiao Jie walked out of the guest room and strolled around Xuanxu Palace.

It was evening at this time, and the setting sun made the clouds in the sky blood-red. The dim light shone between the palaces and pavilions of Xuanxu Palace, bringing a unique beauty.

You can just take a screenshot and use it as your desktop.

Xiao Jie opened the system interface and took a look. He actually found a screenshot function. He just clicked and took a few pictures.

Xiao Jie first walked around the side hall carefully, but the Taoist children and Taoist priests passing by ignored him.

It seems that he can indeed move around, so Xiao Jie felt relieved and walked towards Tongxuan Hall.

According to previous observations, there are the most skill trainers here, and this should be the place where Taoists learn professional Taoist skills.

Xiao Jie walked into the hall and his eyes immediately locked on the Taoist magic trainer!

Xuanying Zhenren (Taoism trainer), level 42, health 2400.

"Master, I am honored to meet you."

"Hmm? Who are you? You don't seem to be from Xuanxu Palace. What do you want from me?"

"I am a temporary guest here. I came here accidentally. I have always wanted to seek immortality and ask for the way. I wonder if you can give me some advice?"

"Hmph, the Taoism cannot be passed on lightly. You'd better not make such jokes." Master Xuanying said unhappily.

Xiao Jie thought to himself that it wasn’t that simple.

But it doesn’t matter. After leaving Tongxuan Hall, I found a place where there was no one around. Seeing that there was no one around, I transformed into a human form.

A puff of white mist flashed by, and Xiao Jie turned into a Taoist boy. He was wearing a dark green short robe and had two pigtails on his head. He looked very young.

(No, no, the status of a Taoist child is too low, it would be better if he is a Taoist priest.)
Xiao Jie had just observed the identities and levels of the various NPCs in the Xuanxu Palace. The most common ones were the Taoist boys wearing dark blue short robes and the servants wearing brown coarse cloth clothes.

In addition, there is another type who should be a formal Taoist priest, who usually wears moon-white Taoist robes.

Going up further are the high-level Taoist priests with the suffix "真人" (real person). These professional trainers are basically of this type.

Of course the highest one must be Qingfeng Zhenren. According to Xiao Jie's understanding, this Xuanxu Palace has two hosts, Qingfeng Zhenren and Mingyue Zhenren.

They are both real people, but their status is higher.

After waiting for ten minutes, Xiao Jie used the human form transformation again.

With a puff, this time he turned into a servant.

This is not okay...

Come again! Another ten minutes passed—transformed into human form!
This time he finally turned into a formal Taoist priest, wearing a moon-white robe, a Taoist crown on his head, looking handsome and elegant, and a long sword on his back. In one word, handsome!

Xiao Jie felt somewhat uneasy. Although the effect of the Phantom Pearl was not a spell and could not be dispelled or seen through, he was still inevitably nervous when doing such a thing in the Death Game.

It's not a big problem. Games have their own rules. Even if someone sees through it, it should be fine. As long as you don't do anything that provokes hostility, there shouldn't be a problem.

Xiao Jie thought about it and walked towards Tongxuan Hall again.

After entering, go straight to the Taoist trainer.

"Master Xuanying, I want to learn Taoism. I wonder if it is possible."

"Of course you can. I wonder what you would like to learn, fellow Taoist." As Xuanying Zhenren said this, a list of skills that could be learned immediately popped up in front of Xiao Jie's eyes.

Spirit Fire Technique (Taoism). Learning requirements: 100 points of contribution to the master, 30 spirituality, and entry level of Taoism.

Spell introduction: Release a ball of fire containing spiritual power to attack the enemy, causing 10 points of fire damage and 20 points of spiritual power damage to the enemy.

Flying Stone Technique (Taoism). Learning requirements: 100 points of contribution to the master, 30 spirituality, and entry level of Taoism.

Spell introduction: Use magic to create several flying stones to attack the enemy. Each flying stone causes 10 points of physical damage.

Spirit Armor (Taoism). Learning requirements: 200 points of contribution to the master, 30 spirituality, and entry level of Taoism.

Spell introduction: Use spiritual power to create invisible armor to protect yourself, increase defense by 50 points, and last for 30 minutes.

Palm Thunder (Thunder Method). Learning requirements: 200 points of contribution to the master, 40 spirituality, and entry level of Taoism.

Spell description: Release a bolt of lightning to attack enemies at close range, causing 30 points of lightning damage and knocking back the target. Rejuvenation (Taoism). Learning requirements: 300 points of contribution from the master, 40 spirituality, and entry level of Taoism.

Spell description: Heal a wounded unit with spiritual power, restoring 10 health points within 60 seconds.

The Art of Clairvoyance (supernatural power). Learning requirements: 300 points of contribution to the master, 40 spirituality, and entry into Taoism.

Spell description: Displays a target's level, health, and related attributes, and can detect surrounding invisible units
Cloud Summoning Technique (Thunder Method). Learning requirements: 500 points of contribution to the master, 40 spirituality, and mastery of Taoism.

Spell introduction: Summons a dark cloud to cover the sky. In the area covered by the dark cloud, the power of thunder magic increases by 20%.

Summon Heavenly Soldiers (Supernatural Power). Learning requirements: 500 points of contribution to the master, 50 spirituality, and mastery of Taoism.

Spell introduction: Summon a heavenly soldier to fight for you, lasting 60 seconds.

Immortal Spiritual Fruit (Immortal Art). Learning requirements: 500 points of contribution to the master, 50 spirituality, and mastery of Taoism.

Spell introduction: Use magic to conjure up a fairy fruit. After eating it, you will recover 10 health points and 80 mana points within 80 seconds.

Heavenly Thunder Curse (Thunder Method). Learning requirements: 1000 points of contribution to the sect, 60 spirituality, and mastery of Taoism.

Spell introduction: Summon a thunderbolt to attack the enemy, causing 75 points of lightning damage, and applying evil-breaking and paralysis effects to the target.

Shrinking the Earth into an Inch (Taoism). Learning requirements: 1000 points of contribution to the master, 60 spirituality, and mastery of Taoism.

Spell description: Instantly move to another place, casting distance is 30 steps.

Invisibility (Taoism). Learning requirements: 1000 points of contribution to the master, 60 spirituality, and mastery of Taoism.

Spell description: Use magic to hide your body, making the caster invisible for 30 seconds. Any action will break this state...

(In order to avoid the suspicion of too many words in the introduction of spells, this chapter has 400 more words).

Xiao Jie was drooling at the sight of these spells. It would be so awesome if he could learn these spells and use them in real life.

However, when I saw the study conditions, I sighed.

His spirituality was enough to learn the lowest-level spells, but he had no [Taoism] skills, let alone any contribution from his master.

"What's wrong, fellow Taoist? Do you want to learn anything? These are all basic spells. If you want to learn advanced spells, you need to complete special trials."

This is just a basic spell? Xiao Jie was even more envious after hearing this. Damn, the magic profession is really cool.

Become an immortal, oh, become an immortal. I have spent all my efforts to get you the opportunity to enter the university, you must not waste it.

"No need, Taoist priest. My contribution to the sect is not enough. I will come back to learn later."

Xiao Jie looked at the other skill trainers but did not go up to talk to them. There was no need to ask, they all required prerequisite skills and contributions from a master.

This contribution to the master should be equivalent to the internal currency of Xuanxu Palace, similar to the honor points and conquest points in World of Warcraft.

It is estimated that you need to complete the work and tasks within the sect to obtain it.

I don't know if doing menial work counts as a contribution to my desire to become an immortal.

But this is a bit troublesome. I have no chance to earn contribution points. Doesn't that mean all NPCs won't be able to gain any benefits? Xiao Jie frowned and looked at the screen.

After careful consideration, it seems that the idea of ​​relying on the disciple's status to get some internal benefits is out of the question. Without contribution to the master, I probably won't be able to even buy talismans and elixirs.

Besides, even if I could buy myself, I wouldn’t have much money.

So what if you want to improve the NPC's favor?

It's not realistic either. These NPCs are all great masters. They probably wouldn't look down on the junks in my bag and simply can't give them away. After all, NPCs like Bai Yuan who own rare daily necessities are a minority.

Besides, the favorability level must be maxed out before you can get any reward, so there’s no need to even think about spending an entire night on it.

Or start with animals? I have the talent to learn from animals. The animals in this Xuanxu Palace are probably not ordinary animals. Maybe I can learn some magic skills?

After much thought, this is the only way out.

Xiao Jie left Tongxuan Hall and walked towards the garden of Xuanxu Palace.

A crane playing in the lotus pond caught Xiao Jie's attention.

Beast Identification!

System prompt: Identification failed.

Huh? How could this happen?
Never mind, just go for it.

"Brother Xianhe, can we chat?"

The crane looked at him with pride and said, "You are really rude, Taoist priest. I am the mount of Master Mingyue. I followed him to exorcise demons three hundred years ago. I am much older than you in terms of seniority. You are so ignorant, Taoist priest. Don't you know how to respect your teacher?"

Xiao Jie was stunned for a moment, thinking, no way, even the setting of a bird is so awesome?
"Um, what about Senior Crane? Aren't you surprised why I would say what you said?"

"Haha, that's hilarious. You're a human, how can you speak animal language instead of human language?"

Human language? Xiao Jie just realized that the crane was actually speaking human language?

He suddenly understood that this crane should be a [Fairy Beast]!

There are special categories in beast knowledge, such as the fairy beast chapter and the demon beast chapter.

No wonder I couldn’t use the beast identification function to get information just now.

This is a problem. Ordinary wild beasts can be fooled by using animal language, but this fairy beast can speak human language and seems to be knowledgeable. It seems that it is not so easy to fool.

Now he only has one last trick left.

Feed!

"Senior Xianhe, have you had dinner? I have something delicious here, would you like to try it?"

As he said this, he threw out a secret dog food - Tempting the Beast!
The crane didn't even look at the meatballs on the ground, as if it was too lazy to argue with Xiao Jie. It snorted coldly and flew away.

Looking at the figure of the crane flying away, Xiao Jie felt helpless. The Xuanxu Palace was indeed a top-level sect, but even a crane was so difficult to serve.

The animal taming skills that I was so proud of were completely useless.

Is this evening's exploration trip doomed to fail?
He was just about to pick up the secret dog food and run away, but when he looked down, he saw a mouse holding a meatball and chewing it madly.

"Squeak, squeak, it's so delicious. It's so delicious. Have another bite. Have another bite."

Hey, there are rats in Xuanxu Palace?

Xiao Jie was a little surprised and delighted. He thought that they could finally communicate normally this time. It couldn't be that even mice were ignorant of the situation, right?
"Little guy? Is it delicious?"

"Little guy, hehe, don't look at my small size, I may be older than you. Boy, how did you make these meatballs? They are so delicious?"

Damn, what I thought was what I expected. This little mouse looks so cute, but when it opens its mouth it has a smoky voice of a middle-aged man.

"Are you a monster?"

"What the hell, if there was even a hint of demonic energy in me, I would have been discovered by those stinky Taoists and captured to make elixirs."

"Then how did you..."

"Hehe, I'm getting older, so I have to grow up anyway." The little mouse had eaten the whole meatball while speaking, but its body was still so small. It was really magical.

"If you want to get close to someone, it's no use looking for those stinking Taoist priests. Everyone in this damn place looks down on others. Even the birds and beasts have become snobbish."

"Oh, what do you think, Brother Rat?"

"Zhizhi, for the sake of your meatball, I will show you a way. There is a side hall without doors and windows on the east side near the mountain wall. Many Taoists live there. Although those Taoists are a bit weird, they are rare and easy to get along with. Last time I went there, someone even fed me steamed buns. I won't say more. I have to escape first to avoid being discovered."

As he spoke, he slipped into a crack in the ground and disappeared.

Xiao Jie felt a little hope in his heart. Whether he could get something good tonight depended on this.

He walked towards the east according to the mouse's instructions, and sure enough he saw a gable. He searched up and down the gable and found an inconspicuous side hall. The side hall had no windows, and was surrounded by walls on all sides. There was only one door, which looked very strange.

There were two golden-armored heavenly soldiers standing at the door.

Guardian: Level 30 summoned creature with 1200 HP.

Could it be a treasure trove?
Xiao Jie couldn't help but feel a little curious.

He walked over tentatively, but the guardian heavenly soldiers showed no intention of stopping him. Xiao Jie gritted his teeth, pushed the door open and walked in.

Inside was an empty room with candles lit in the four corners and a staircase leading down.

The more Xiao Jie looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. Damn, this should be a dungeon, right?

(End of this chapter)