Chapter 635: Ascension, As All Know

"Mm."

Zhang Yunlu gave a soft reply.

Really though!

But for no apparent reason, why would Master prepare a wheelchair for her?

Could it be that he plans to, later on…

Hiss~

Chi Jiuyu sucked in a sharp breath.

"Let's talk about something else."

Don't want to think about it, don't want to think about it!

Master preparing a wheelchair for her and all that—just imagining it makes Yu scared…

"Okay."

Zhang Yunlu took out some fish food and tossed a handful into the pool beside her.

Water splashed upward as the spirit fish swimming within began scrambling fiercely for the feed.

After watching for a while, Zhang Yunlu turned her head to look at Chi Jiuyu.

"Ye Shijie, didn't you used to keep saying you wanted to eat these spirit fish? Why haven't I heard you mention it lately?"

In the past, whenever she got the chance, Chi Jiuyu would say—'Let's eat a fish to celebrate!'

But over the past year or so, she hadn't brought it up again.

"Even if I mentioned it, you wouldn't agree." Chi Jiuyu pouted.

Little Yunlu is just too rigid—Master already said these fish were given to her, so they're meant for her to eat!

What's the point of raising fish if you don't eat them?

"Besides, the way you've been raising them, they've already lost their original flavor."

The right way is like how Master does it—feed them once every month or two, or even once every half a year or a whole year.

"Oh right! How long will you need to recover from this injury?" Chi Jiuyu asked offhandedly.

This was pure idle chatter—she said whatever came to mind.

"Judging by how it's been before…" Zhang Yunlu thought for a moment, "probably a little over a week."

Thanks to her constitution, her recovery speed was a bit faster than that of an ordinary cultivator.

Simply put, the heavier the injury, the faster she recovered.

"After you recover, are you planning to keep taking missions?"

"Probably."

"Then you must have heard too, right? The Ascension mission we carried out before seems to be getting posted as an ordinary mission."

It's been almost half a year now, and the Xiang Jianzong Battle Net has been spreading this the whole time.

Later, after asking Ye Zhiwei and Zhao Ruohan, she got the same answer.

With her boundless wisdom, she keenly noticed something off about it.

"Does Ye Shijie think those rumors are credible?"

"Can't be taken entirely at face value, but the fact that the Ascension mission is being posted as an ordinary mission should be real."

After a pause, Chi Jiuyu said with certainty:

"And it should be within the next few days!"

Zhang Yunlu paused. "Master said so?"

"No."

She had indeed tried to pry the information out of Master on the side, but all she got was that line she'd heard many times before and hated the most—

'That's not something you should know.'

"Martial Uncle, then?"

"Ah, no, not that either."

Martial Uncle is always vanishing and popping up out of nowhere—she'd only seen him once in the past few months.

"Why do you keep thinking about Master and Martial Uncle? We're so smart—can't it be that I figured it out myself!"

"…"

So it was still just a guess…

Chi Jiuyu seemed to read her mind: "If you don't believe me, just wait and see. Within this week at the latest, an Ascension mission will definitely be posted!"

"I trust Ye Shijie."

Even though it was still a guess, Ye Shijie's intuition had always been pretty sharp.

And besides…

If there really weren't anything to it, the Xiang Jianzong Battle Net wouldn't have spent half a year spreading all sorts of speculation about 'Ascension.'

……

……

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, five days had passed.

Zhang Yunlu's injuries were mostly healed. She had just come out of the Scripture Transmission Hall when Chi Jiuyu, who had appeared out of nowhere, grabbed her.

They raced along at top speed and arrived at the Xiang Jianzong mission posting area—

A specially opened grotto-heaven that did not exist in the real world.

Each person who entered would be assigned to a different area based on their realm.

Of course, for some special missions that required forming a team—

It assigns them to the corresponding area based on the squad leader's realm.

Although the "Mission-Accepting Grotto-Heaven" is quite intelligent, not many people usually come here.

After all, long ago, the Gedaxian Sect had already built a complete online platform.

Disciples of the Xian Sect only need to use the internal network to accept missions, without needing to come in person at all.

Even some missions that require special tokens can be delivered to one's home through specialized Dharma artifacts.

But today was different.

The mission-accepting area was quite lively.

Within the vast grotto-heaven, almost every area had clusters of figures moving about.

Soul Transformation-grade · Mission-Accepting Area.

The whole place was a secluded valley; at the very front, on a towering pure-white jade wall, rows of golden text kept shifting.

At this moment, at the very top of the jade wall, several lines of dazzling golden text shone brilliantly, exceptionally bright.

【Ascension Mission · Soul Transformation】

【Mission Content: Eradicate the method of "Human Pills," and eliminate cultivators within the world whose Evil deeds exceed 9 points】

【Mission Location: Unnamed World 83 (Routine)】

【Mission Deadline: 3 years / 3 months】

【Mission Reward: Relevant information can be obtained upon acceptance】

【Mission Difficulty: Extremely High】

【Accepter Requirements: Spirit Transformation Stage sword cultivator, passed one True Dharma inheritance trial, top 10 on the Sword Rankings】

"Look!"

Chi Jiuyu dragged Zhang Yunlu to a position relatively further back, her expression full of smugness.

"I told you it would be within these few days, but you didn't believe me. Now you believe it, right!"

Zhang Yunlu: "..."

What she had said earlier seemed to be "believe it," right?

"Ye Shijie is truly prescient."

Forget it.

A compliment wouldn't cost her a piece of flesh, and it could make Ye Shijie happy—why not?

"Of course!" Chi Jiuyu looked at the jade wall, "Just look at who we are. We are the number one in all the myriad worlds..."

Having finally gotten the chance, she naturally seized the opportunity to show off to the fullest.

But perhaps her endless chatter disturbed the person in front of her—a sword cultivator who was looking at the jade wall suddenly turned around angrily.

However, after seeing clearly who was speaking, he froze for a moment, then silently turned back.

Chi Jiuyu felt a bit embarrassed seeing this scene, so she could only stop reluctantly, without continuing to boast.

Zhang Yunlu smiled and said in a lowered voice:

"But the requirements for this Ascension Mission are really not just ordinarily high."

Those requirements could be said to be harder than the last.

A Spirit Transformation Stage sword cultivator was still manageable—although it hadn't yet reached the point of being 'as common as dogs,' in the Xiang Jianzong one could say they were 'everywhere.'

But the subsequent requirement of passing a True Dharma inheritance trial was really not easy.

As for the Sword Rankings...

It referred to those seven Divine Radiance Rankings.

Only true heaven's proud could be listed among them.

Let alone the mission's requirement of the top ten...

"It's alright. The mission's requirement probably doesn't only refer to the current top ten, but rather anyone who has previously made the rankings and entered the top ten positions can accept it," Chi Jiuyu also said in a lowered voice.

Otherwise, wouldn't those sword cultivators who had just broken through to a major realm have no chance?