Chapter 14: Encounter Event

"Yaomo Chanyuan?"

Under the night sky, Li Xiang looked toward the distance in surprise.

Following the fading of the system prompt, some marvelous things were rapidly changing.

Raising his head, he saw.

In Heifeng Mountain to the northwest, in a corner located on the mountainside, an anomaly suddenly occurred in his eyes at this moment.

On the mountainside, a point of dense black Qi suddenly appeared, and rolling demonic Qi surged into the sky.

Within the thick smoke, three hideous phantom images of Demon emerged.

He could vaguely recognize them as the shapes of a black bear, a gray wolf, and a white snake.

If nothing went wrong, that was likely the location of the Yaomo Chanyuan.

The system had actually marked the location of the Yaomo Chanyuan for him directly?!

Interesting.

But what made Li Xiang feel even more surprised.

Was that he felt something else from that dense aura of Demon.

Those were three very unique powers that fundamentally should not have appeared within demonic Qi.

Haoran Righteous Qi, Immortal Light of the Clear Micro, and a bit of the profound and mysterious Fo Men Ci Bei Qi Xi.

Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism? Why did the three great inheritance paths of the Human Race appear inside a Demon cave?

This was simply inconceivable and shocking.

The dense aura of Demon was entangled with these three extraordinary powers, constantly shifting; it looked both like the secluded residence of a master who had attained the Dao and like a cave of bloodthirsty Demon.

It was puzzling.

Hmm?

Before Li Xiang could continue to think deeply, the system's prompt suddenly sounded again.

【Map option enabled, please view it yourself】

Locking his mind, he closed his eyes.

Li Xiang suddenly saw a flat map emerge in his mind.

The map was large, and it seemed to have marked the entire Shihe Village and some surrounding areas on it.

On this map, only the distribution near Shihe Village and the back mountain cliff was marked in great detail.

But apart from this, the vast majority of the entire map was in black fog, making it impossible to see clearly.

It was just like the fog of war in a game; only the explored map was unlocked, while other places were still waiting for the player to explore.

In the northwest direction of the map, a bronze-cast Demon beast head appeared on Heifeng Mountain; although it was a beast head, it did not appear fierce, but instead revealed a look of confusion and bewilderment, which was quite puzzling.

Looking closely, there was also a pale yellow mark near the beast head.

【Grade C Encounter: Yaomo Chanyuan】

"Grade C Encounter."

"Encounter!"

"Encounter event."

Li Xiang's tightly furrowed brows suddenly relaxed a lot.

This familiar term stirred up some memories for him.

In this little game of Simulated Immortal Cultivation, the tasks that players could trigger were divided into three categories.

【Conventional Tasks】 where risk and reward were proportional, and the gains depended entirely on the completion of the task.

【Exploration Tasks】 with unknown risks and unknown rewards.

And then there were 【Encounters】, which had low risk and high rewards, and would not cause too much loss even if they failed.

Just like the Great River Sword Technique inheritance that Li Xiang encountered at the cliff behind the mountain half a month ago, it was an encounter event.

The danger level of this kind of event was very low, even close to 0; it was more like some strange tales of immortals and monsters. If one could encounter it in the game, one would randomly obtain some things, either attribute points or some inheritances.

Sometimes one would even encounter some strange things.

When Li Xiang played the game before, he had encountered it twice; one time it was the Taohua Yuan he was very familiar with, entering the legendary Taohua Yuan.

He thought it was an immortal fate, but he did not expect that the entire Taohua Yuan was actually a tomb!

The entire Taohua Yuan was a thousand-year-old tomb of wild ghosts!

The peach blossoms were there to suppress evil!

That stream path and the Taohua Yuan were planted with peach blossoms for the purpose of suppressing this group of evil spirits.

Every household slept in hanging coffins, and at midnight, a hundred ghosts walked at night; the protagonist fled in a panic, returned and fell seriously ill, and lay in bed for half a year.

Although he was seriously ill, there was no danger to his life, and it did not affect his continued playing of the game.

This was an encounter event, containing some rewards within strange tales, waiting for the player to explore.

Unexpectedly, this Yaomo Chanyuan could actually be an encounter.

"Since it is judged as an encounter, it means that the system believes the danger level of this task is not high."

"Then in that case, this Yaomo Chanyuan does not seem as dangerous as I imagined?"

"Then my father should still be alive now?"

In front of the school, Li Xiang analyzed the current situation.

Encounter events generally do not endanger life; as long as one does not court death, one will not die.

Now that the people from the Demon Slaying Division could not be relied upon, and Su Qin was not at home, it seemed that the only one left who could bring his father back was himself.

Li Xiang frowned, analyzing his own strength.

First of all, this was an encounter task, so the danger difficulty should be much lower.

Although Li Xiang is young now, he has tempered his physical body over these past few days, becoming much stronger, and has even stepped into the Martial Dao Ninth Grade in one go.

Although he still looks small, if he were to truly engage in a life-or-death struggle, four or five grown men might not necessarily be his match.

Ninth Grade, Ninth Grade; once one enters the grades, they are no longer comparable to ordinary mortals, even if it is a three-year-old Ninth Grade!

At Martial Dao Ninth Grade, Essence Blood is condensed; even if he truly encounters danger, he might not be able to defeat the enemy, but running away would definitely be no problem.

Furthermore, he is small and his body is agile; if danger arises, he can just run toward Chiyang County. Chiyang County has the Demon Slaying Division as Town Guardian, and Li Xiang does not believe those three Demons would dare to chase him into Chiyang County.

Moreover, he does not possess only the strength of the Martial Dao Ninth Grade.

As his thoughts settled, a strand of pale golden Haoran Righteous Qi circled his body.

Haoran Righteous Qi, evil spirits retreat!

This is a power recognized by heaven and earth, a power inherited from the Saint; the Confucian Dao naturally possesses terrifying suppression over Demons.

A Confucian Scholar of the Confucian Dao Ninth Grade, even when walking on night roads or in places where humans and Demons live together, can pass through unimpeded; Demons would never dare to block the way.

A single breath of Haoran Qi, and heaven, earth, gods, and ghosts tremble; if a Demon slays a Confucian Scholar, not only will they be naturally suppressed, but they will also be punished by heaven and earth, with karmic debt added to their body, making future cultivation difficult upon difficulty.

Confucian Dao? Overbearing!

The protagonists of heaven and earth, the leaders of all living things; when the Human Race's Confucian Dao emerges, all living beings must retreat.

Besides being a Martial Dao cultivator, he is also a Confucian Scholar of the Confucian Dao Ninth Grade; unless the three monsters of the Yaomo Chanyuan are Seventh Grade Demons, it is absolutely impossible for them to pose a threat to him.

This is also the reason why Su Qin, at a young age, could travel across mountains and rivers alone, walking through deep mountains and great marshes.

Haoran Righteous Qi, evil spirits retreat, is truly not a joke; this was something carved into the laws of heaven and earth by three Confucian Saints who shattered the firmament...

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Li Xiang opened his eyes and looked up at the bright, clear moon in the sky.

"Off I go!"

"I do not know if this world truly exists, or if it is just a yellow millet dream of mine."

"But I know that the old farmer is my father!"

The moonlight was like water, spilling down.

In Shihe Village, a swift shadow twisted and disappeared, galloping toward the direction of Heifeng Mountain.

However...

Not long after, this shadow was seen running back in a hurry, heading toward the direction of the blacksmith shop in the village.

"Damn, I forgot to grab the tool for reasoning with them."

(End of this chapter)