Chapter 433 - Chapter 433: 433, [The Gentleman’s Call] (1/2)
Chapter 433: 433, [The Gentleman’s Call]
Deep within the dense forest far away from Blooming City,
Lu Xun glanced at a prompt before him and was slightly taken aback.
“[Fury from the Supreme Lord]?” Lu Xun didn’t expect the quest to be triggered so quickly.
Clearly, this foreign race’s Supreme Lord already knew that his adopted son, Yi Xuan, was killed by Lu Xun.
“I didn’t anticipate, Yi Xuan must have held some status in the Supreme Lord’s heart,” Lu Xun pondered, “I wonder if the quest was activated due to Yi Xuan’s death or … because I killed Yi Xuan.”
He felt that the Supreme Lord was angered, perhaps because he, Lu Xun, was the one who killed Yi Xuan.
Lu Xun thought for a moment, then opened his mission interface. After he glanced over the details of the mission, his face turned serious.
The mission stated clearly that because he had slain Yi Xuan, he was now marked.
The Supreme Lord can track this mark through certain special means.
The mark would persist for 7 days, after which it would dissipate automatically.
During these seven days, he would be ambushed by forces sent by the Supreme Lord!
If he survived, he would be rewarded with five million Experience Points and a Purple Level Equipment Repair Coupon.
“The rewards are indeed substantial. Purple Level Equipment Repair Coupons are quite valuable. Even the Contribution Points Mall hasn’t released such a high-level item yet; it hasn’t fully opened its authority.” Lu Xun couldn’t help but feel enticed as he looked at the Purple Level Equipment Repair Coupon.
However, the mission’s risk level was extraordinary high!
From what he understood, the Supreme Lord would not take action in person. Perhaps there was no need, or maybe he had other pressing matters.
But who the Supreme Lord would send to ambush him was unknown.
However, am I, Lu Xun, a coward?
What’s there to fear!? I accepted this mission!
It’s as if I wouldn’t get ambushed if I didn’t accept…
Luckily, his Second Senior Sister and Mao Nanbei were by his side. This gave Lu Xun a great sense of security.
As Second Senior Sister even killed Second Priest, so unless it’s the High Priest himself or a swarm of foreign race elites, there shouldn’t be any major issues.
“Speaking of which, why hasn’t [The Sword Qi is Near] escape his predicament? Isn’t he the fastest sword under the sky?” Lu Xun mumbled to himself.
If [The Sword Qi is Near] was here, that would make things even safer.
After accepting the mission, Lu Xun felt that he should give Second Senior Sister and Mao Nanbei a heads up.
It took only him 3 seconds to come up with an excuse, using the same “Corpse Whip” excuse he had used previously.
He could casually fabricate the words of the deceased.
Yi Xuan was such a good-looking corpse, it would be a waste if it were not whipped.
“Second Senior Sister, I fought with Yi Xuan outside Blooming City. Before he died, he boasted that I was tainted with some form of mark. The mark will persist for 7 days and he said I would face the retribution from the foreign race.” Lu Xun looked at the thin Taoist nun and spoke.
Upon hearing this, Gu Xiaoman lifted her head to look at Lu Xun.
She spoke in her cold tone: “Close… close your eyes, quiet… quiet your heart.”
Lu Xun did as instructed by Gu Xiaoman and closed his eyes.
Soon, he felt a slightly cool touch on his forehead.
It was Gu Xiaoman’s fingertips.
After pressing her slender jade finger to Lu Xun’s forehead, she began to examine Lu Xun’s condition, searching for the said mark.
Who’d have thought that she would indeed find it.
Gu Xiaoman activated her spirit force, intending to remove the mark, but discovered that under such gentle circumstance, she couldn’t remove the mark.
She could use brute force to destroy it, but it would cause immense harm to Lu Xun’s body. If she wasn’t careful, he might face backlash, and death could be immediate!
Luckily, the mark seemed to align with what Lu Xun described, it would disappear over time.
That’s not to say the mark itself had a countdown, but rather, this world of the Heavenly Dust Continent didn’t accept this force. Thus, with time passing, the force that held the mark would be erased.
Gu Xiaoman put her finger down and her right hand was covered by the loose sleeves of her Daoist robe as she said, “It… it’s done.”
Mao Nanbei blinked her large eyes, the cat ears on her head twitched while she asked, “Second Senior Sister, how is it? Is the mark removed?”
Gu Xiaoman shook her head, indicating that she was helpless.
Upon hearing this, Mao Nanbei immediately stood up, gave a joyous jump, and mumbled to herself, “That’s great, we are going to have fun again!”
Lu Xun couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his mouth, “? ? ?”
Does my impending ambush seem fun to you!?
Talk about adding fuel to the fire!
Of course, Mao Nanbei’s reaction could only stem from her absolute trust in Second Senior Sister, she felt no sense of crisis at all.
Such trust could only be formed over time.