Chapter 118: Assassinated

Chapter 118: Being backstabbed
Xu Chuniang thought, water, earth and wood three systems of aura in the fingertips born, mixed together, not long after the birth of gold and fire two systems of aura, successfully polymerized into five elements of aura.

She held her breath and began to convert the ice aura from it.

At first, the ice aura was only a faint wisp, but as time passed, the ice aura grew more and more, and the conversion speed became faster and faster.

In the end, all of the aura, all of it, was smoothly converted into an exceptionally pure, ice aura that did not contain any impurities.

Xu Chuniang no longer hesitated, and used the Ice Spiritual Qi to condense the Ice Explosion Technique, sending it into the runes that had already been prepared.

The aura traveled through the cold blue runes before finally returning to silence.

Success!
Xu Chuniang’s spirit burst, it seemed that this method taught by the Rune Seal Master was indeed effective.

With a burst of energy, she continued to refine the Ice Burst Talisman, refining a full twenty in one breath before she managed to stop.

Of the twenty Ice Explosion Talismans, a total of six had been successfully refined, a success rate of a staggering thirty percent.

Looking at the six Ice Explosion Talismans in front of her, Xu Chuniang couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.

Senior Uncle Zhu Jiancai truly lived up to his name as a grandmaster, only casually uttering some techniques and know-how for refining talismans, he was able to give one such a huge boost.

If she were to rely on her own fumbling, she would have to practice for at least a month before she could increase her success rate by this 10%.

Since there were still a hundred points left in the sect’s contribution, Xu Chuniang didn’t have to take on any more commissions or tasks, and could focus on practicing.

In the days to come, she would cultivate in her cave at ease, and in the meantime, she would study the art of talismanic seals, striving to successfully refine top-grade talismans after mastering most of the middle-grade talismanic seals.

Cultivation has no age, and in a flash, seven and a half years had passed.

Seven years of time had allowed Xu Chuniang to shed her youthfulness and tenderness from a young cultivator and become much more calm and relaxed.

Xu Chuniang stepped out of the cave, her heart was filled with emotion. Since she left home at the age of eight and joined the Easy Sect, she had been cultivating for sixteen years now.

She started as a mortal girl, from literacy to drawing qi into her body, to her current cultivation at the late eighth level of qi cultivation, just a hair’s breadth away from breaking through to the ninth level of qi cultivation, and the journey has been quite difficult.

But every step, all of them were down-to-earth, walking exceptionally steadily.

After Xu Chuniang left the cave, she walked in the direction of the Hall of Miscellaneous Affairs.

It was once again the day of the annual contribution point payment.

After paying her contribution points last year, she was left with only fourteen contribution points, and when she deducted this year’s share, she would be left with only the last two points.

Starting tomorrow, Xu Chuniang would have to take on commissions and earn contribution points.

When she arrived at the Hall of Miscellaneous Affairs, she was at the end of the line.

When it was Xu Chunniang’s turn to pay her contribution points, Zhang Donglai took her disciple token and a somber look flashed in his eyes.

Obviously, nine years ago, this ugly girl was only at the fifth level of Qi Practicing cultivation, but after only nine years, she had already reached the mid-sixth level of Qi Practicing.

This ugly girl’s eyes have a fierce energy, I think it won’t take too long to break through to the seventh level of qi cultivation.

The further she goes, the higher her cultivation will only get.

Since the two of them have already formed a grudge, they can’t easily settle it.

Taking advantage of her low level of cultivation and unfruitful wings to finish her off would also be considered to understand a piece of his heart.

Zhang Donglai’s brows slightly relaxed as a sinister color appeared in his eyes.

He happened to have two recommendation slots on hand for this outbound mission to the Mortal World, and he could give one to this ugly girl.

When she left the confines of this Easy Sect, he would arrange for two people to make a move to do away with her.

With this in mind, Zhang Donglai did not hesitate any longer and took Xu Chuniang’s token and manipulated it before throwing it back over the counter.

Xu Chuniang put away the token and walked towards the outside, she felt that Zhang Donglai was looking at her with great malice in his eyes, as if he had done something.

Just what exactly he had done, she was not sure.

After thinking for a while and not being able to understand, Xu Chuniang put this question aside, soldiers come to block the water to cover the earth, no matter what tricks he has, then it is. She gathered her thoughts and stepped into the commissioning hall.

The hall of commissions has changed its steward some years ago, the previous black-faced steward, after losing in the outer door competition, closed the door for breaking through the foundation, and fell soon after.

The current administrator is a female cultivator surnamed Huang at the ninth level of qi cultivation.

Xu Chuniang swept a glance at the commission hall and walked directly towards the center area, checking out the commissions.

The commissions in the middle area were aimed at disciples at the late Qi cultivation stage, so they were much more difficult, and relatively speaking, the returns had increased by several times.

She scanned through the screen in front of her, most of the commissions were long term, taking at least five years, and some were even as long as ten years.

However, there was also a sector of commissions that were short-term, only needing to complete the corresponding requirements to gain contribution points.

Seeing the ten-year “Outbound Mission”, Xu Chuniang’s gaze slightly condensed.

The sect’s rules were strict, and leaving the sect by accepting a foreign mission was the only chance for Qi Practitioner disciples to leave the sect openly and honestly.

Sixteen years of cultivation, and sixteen years away from home.

She hadn’t seen her parents and them for a long time, and it was impossible to say that she didn’t miss them.

It was just that after embarking on the path of cultivation, she could not do everything as she wished, and could only suppress the misses for her family in the bottom of her heart.

However, the requirements of the “Outbound Mission”, must have the cultivation of the seventh level of qi cultivation in order to take, with her current revealed cultivation, but it is not enough.

Xu Chuniang shook her head, it seemed that she could only wait for the opportunity in the future, and then take the mission.

She moved her gaze downwards, landing on the commission of “strangling demons”.

“Strangling Demonic Creatures: Disciples need to go to the Black Moon Demon Cave to strangle demonic creatures. Every time you kill a demonic creature, you will be able to obtain the corresponding contribution points. This mission has a high degree of danger, so please take it with caution.”

She took a closer look at it, strangling a demonic creature at the fourth level of Qi Practicing would earn her 5 contribution points.

The higher the cultivation level of the demonic creature that was strangled, the more contribution points would be gained.

Xu Chuniang thought about it and prepared to take on this commission.

For one thing, this she could practice with these demons, test the power of the top-grade talisman seals, and by the way, see if the techniques were raw after not having moved her hands for so long.

Secondly, she could earn some contribution points along the way.

With luck, it would only take a few months to earn contribution points for the next ten years.

After making up her mind, Xu Chuniang withdrew her gaze and turned around to go to Steward Huang’s office, ready to take on the commission of “strangling demons”.

Steward Huang sized Xu Chuniang up and didn’t say anything.

Many disciples at the sixth level of qi cultivation would also take on commissions to kill magical creatures in order to earn more contribution points so that they could spend more time cultivating.

It was just that most of such disciples had fallen in the Black Moon Demon Cave, becoming blood food for the demons.

For those who were lucky enough to regain their lives, it was not unusual for them to be missing an arm or a leg.

She received the disciple token and was about to operate it when her gaze slightly condensed, “You have already received a commissioned mission, you can’t continue to receive it.”

Xu Chuniang froze, “What?”

Steward Huang returned the token to her and spoke indifferently, “You have already received the sect’s external commission, and you will be assigned by the sect in a matter of days to head to the mundane realm to be stationed there. Come back in three days, the sect will unify your destination.”

After saying that, she closed her mouth with a look of not wanting to say more.

Xu Chuniang put away the token, her eyes showing a thoughtful expression.

She clearly hadn’t taken on any commissions, so why would this Steward Huang, say that she had taken on an external commission?

(End of chapter)