Chapter 303: Reincarnation Mission, Sun En's Change, Calamity-Luck Tower Ship

In Guanglingcheng, within the ordinary civilian residence where Miaokong and the old Daoist Tongshen had once stayed, a burst of fog inexplicably shrouded the inner chamber. When the fog dissipated, five strange figures suddenly appeared.

They appeared here abruptly, but there was no surprise; they just calmly looked left and right.

One was dressed in Daoist robes, in his thirties, with an ordinary face but a calm and composed bearing, looking like the leader of this group.

The most eye-catching one, however, was a woman. She held a large fan, her hands behind her back, dressed in gorgeous clothes, but in the attire of a dancer. Her features were charming but not demonic, and her figure was extremely hot.

There was also a person with a thief's eyebrows and rat's eyes, short in stature, his two small mung bean eyes turning, revealing a greasy slickness, as he quietly leaned toward the woman.

The remaining two: one was dressed as a scholar, in green robes, with delicate features and a gentle and indifferent temperament. The other was dressed as a wandering knight, carrying a long sword, extremely heroic.

The Daoist-robed man initially closed his eyes, letting the four look around at will. The woman kicked the short man away, bent down to pick up a jade arm ring, and saw several pieces of outer clothing with faint spiritual light on the bed nearby, gave a light "eh," and said: "The Lord of Reincarnation's place for dropping us off this time is a bit strange!"

"These garments obviously come from a noble family; judging by the size, it should be a young man. But..."

She raised her head to look at the ordinary furnishings in the civilian residence and shook her head: "It seems to be somewhat out of tune with the style here! These things shouldn't appear in such an ordinary civilian residence!"

"Du Xiuniang, just wait for the Lord of Reincarnation to issue the main mission! What's the use of these clues? Who knows if it's just a vacant place the Lord of Reincarnation found at random..." The wandering knight wiped the edge of the bed and spread his hands: "Look at this dust; this place hasn't been lived in for at least two years!"

The scholar laughed: "Not so, not so... Xiuniang is meticulous. The Lord of Reincarnation sending us into this realm is by no means a random act. These things are very likely the clues for us to complete the mission!"

The Daoist-robed man opened his eyes, and the crowd immediately hushed, listening to the man say: "This mission world might be the legendary Earth Immortal Realm. This realm is one of the heavens; even if it has declined, it is still full of experts, and it might involve immortals at the Nascent Soul level. We must be extremely careful in every move we make!"

At this moment, the bits of fine sunlight leaking from the roof suddenly wandered before their eyes, forming thumb-sized characters floating on the wall: "The Sima family, co-lords of Southern Jin, has changed. Their Nascent Soul ancestor Sima Yi has not appeared for decades. The Langya Wang family found that the life lamp in their ancestral temple is weak, suspected to be trapped in a dangerous place in the Void Realm Sea."

"For a time, the hearts of many clans in Southern Jin were agitated, and each family had its own plans."

"Sun En, the Zhang Tian Shi of the Zhengyi Sect, has been dissatisfied with the Sima family's rule for a long time, and there seems to be a secret plan. The Jin court secretly sent the Impartial Official Zhang Huaien, in the name of evaluating the grades of the children of the southern clans, to secretly investigate."

"Zhang Huaien found evidence of Sun En and the Wu clans plotting rebellion, but was discovered by the disciples of the Zhang Tian Shi Dao, and had to flee back to Jiankang. The experts of the Hezao Mountain under Zhang Tian Shi Sun En, as well as the southern Wu clans, sent people to pursue and kill him, and the northern Jin court also sent people to meet him."

"There are also the Wang and Xie families, leaders of the northern clans; what is their attitude?"

"The other two Heavenly Masters of the Zhengyi Sect are even harder to fathom."

"There is a Daoist riding a deer north, a knight promising to help, a scholar drawing a river with a stroke, and a princess whose beauty is known to the world..."

"Main Mission 1: Escort Zhang Huaien into Jiankang; success rewards five moralities!"

"Main Mission 2: Opens after Zhang Huaien enters the capital."

"Side Mission 1: Obtain Zhang Huaien's recognition and participate in his escort journey. Success rewards three hundred merits."

"Side Mission 2: Disrupt the interception of obstructors; each successful disruption rewards one morality."

"Side Mission 3: Reincarnators have descended into this world before, interfering with the fate of the mission target and leaving behind many relics. Find clues to the relevant relics and retrieve the missing relics. Rewards are issued based on the completion degree!"

The light spots slowly dissipated. The Daoist-robed man frowned slightly and said solemnly: "There are actually loose ends left by other reincarnators in this world?"

"It should be a layout..." Du Xiuniang played with the jade arm ring: "Using the first descent to lay out on the mission target to facilitate harvesting during the second descent. That reincarnator must have obtained the relevant props for entering this world a second time during the first mission."

"As expected of our predecessors, the handwriting is really big..."

The short man with a wretched expression laughed: "It's a pity that such sneaky behavior violates the will of the Lord of Reincarnation. Isn't this issuing a mission, calling us to clean up the loose ends for him?"

"But what does it mean that the reward is determined by the completion degree?" the wandering knight asked, puzzled.

The scholar laughed: "It should be that the things left by that reincarnator are our rewards..."

"Yuanhao?" Du Xiuniang turned to the Daoist-robed man before her and asked in a low voice: "What do you think?"

"The various oddities in this room might be the clues left by the Lord of Reincarnation for us about the previous reincarnators. Keep the jade ring in your hand well... but don't rush to do this mission; completing the main mission is the priority!"

The Daoist-robed man Yuanhao whispered: "The Zhang Tian Shi of the Zhengyi Sect is a great power at the Nascent Soul level. He could crush us with a little finger. Being involved in a mission related to several Nascent Soul True Immortals, we cannot help but be cautious!"

"The mission reward is morality; it's not that easy to get!"

The four nodded in conviction. Obviously, this Daoist-robed man Yuanhao had quite a lot of prestige among the few, with a status like a captain. The short man took out a talisman from his sleeve with a pained expression, lit it casually, and a spiritual light rose and hovered above everyone's heads.

He clicked his tongue: "This Immortal Pointing the Way Talisman cost me two hundred merits!"

Yuanhao said calmly: "Now, prioritize finding Zhang Huaien's trail. If it weren't for the convenience given by the Lord of Reincarnation's mission, do you think a mere Immortal Pointing the Way Talisman could find someone who has to flee from the pursuit of a group of Zhang Tian Shi disciples?"

"This talisman is used to offset the difficulty of the mission."

While they were talking, the spiritual light above their heads began to move, circled three times above them, and then drifted in one direction. Yuanhao greeted: "Follow!" and followed the spiritual light, heading outside Guanglingcheng.

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Qian Chen released the white deer back to the Yuntai Blessed Land world and boarded the river boat heading downstream to Jiankang. This boat was provided for low-grade cultivators, fifty zhang long and ten zhang wide. It was guarded by restrictions, as luxurious as a cruise ship from his previous life.

The great river separating north and south was extremely wide; just its width was five hundred li. Water beasts and great demons emerged one after another, especially the section of the waterway entering Shu, which was particularly steep, with undercurrents, reefs, and countless dangerous water eyes, known as the "Three Thousand Li Ghost's Worry."

But after leaving the Shu area, the river flow eased a lot. As long as one didn't go deep into the center of the river and traveled along the shore, a large boat could travel.

Qian Chen paid the boat fare, dressed only as a low-grade rogue cultivator, and booked a cabin. The cabin was on the second floor of the tower ship, and the room was not narrow. There were dozens of cultivators traveling together, mostly at the Qi Refinement level. Several Penetrating Law cultivators lived on the third floor, which was more spacious. If they weren't children of noble families, they would at least need some status to live there.

Qian Chen, whether riding a white deer or driving a Flying Cloud Pocket, would have been faster than this tower ship with its crude restrictions.

But when he passed over the river riding the deer, watching the great river, his own Qi-Watching Technique happened to see this tower ship a hundred li away, a five-colored light, like a snake and a turtle, about fifty zhang long, rising into the sky with the aura of calamity-luck.

This was what attracted Qian Chen's attention!

Qi forming a snake and turtle meant it had a connection with the Dao Sect.

Fifty zhang of five-colored Qi, although it could not compare with Qian Chen's Dao Sect inheritance spirit treasure body, which brought its own thousand li of purple Qi, was still a small person responding to calamity. Compared to Miaokong's two hundred zhang of gray Qi, it was only slightly inferior. How could it not make Qian Chen curious?

And he saw that the person's luck was directed toward Jiankang, so he simply followed the boat to see what excitement there was along the way.

"Young Master?" Someone knocked gently on the cabin door. Qian Chen stopped the Flying Cloud Pocket, ordering it not to release clear Qi anymore, and refined the last bit of clear Qi himself. Feeling that his magic power had not increased, just slightly more proficient, he knew his cultivation had reached a bottleneck and required his own unremitting hard work to make progress.

Sighing slightly, he was somewhat envious of his demonic body; he had never seen his demonic body have such troubles.

It was always advancing by leaps and bounds, as if it were in a high-speed growth period after breaking through a bottleneck every moment, smooth and terrifying.

"Perhaps, this is the true peerless natural talent! Compared to this, my cultivation of the Dao is indeed only of mediocre quality."

Qian Chen opened the cabin door and saw a maidservant bowing gracefully, holding a jade tray, laughing: "Fellow Daoist, the journey is tiring! Would you like to use some food? Here is the Green Jade Rice produced from the Dao Academy's spirit fields, plus overseas scallops, mother-of-pearl, yellow essence and red ganoderma from the mountains, and Eight Treasure Chicken fed with spirit medicine, stewed into porridge... Great for vitality. Fellow Daoist has been meditating in the cabin for a long time, just right for nourishing vitality and refining Qi to improve cultivation!"

Qian Chen felt as if he had returned to the train in his previous life, seeing the attendant pushing the dining cart to sell things. Although he was facing a beauty in ancient costume, not a train attendant auntie, and holding a jade tray of delicacies, not a boxed lunch from a dining cart, the commercial spirit was essentially the same.

Compared to the aristocratic style of the Jin clans, it made him miss it even more.

He couldn't help but touch his stomach and laugh: "If I were a noble family young master upstairs, I could afford such a bowl of porridge. But if I were a noble family young master, how could I condescend to eat your porridge?"

The maidservant covered her mouth and laughed: "That's true. My master just came back from overseas and learned this set from the flying ships and spirit warships on the islands overseas! But the social customs of Great Jin are different. The distinguished guests upstairs all make their own food, served by servants from their homes, unwilling to let us lowly women handle it."

"Except for a few rogue cultivator seniors, these spirit foods don't sell many portions!"

She changed the jade tray, only picked up a small bowl and asked: "Mixed grain porridge, the most ordinary yellow essence rice stewed with heavenly pepper beans and jade corn, one jade coin per bowl. There are also some home-style spirit foods; you can pay money to have the kitchen make them."

"Forget it!" Qian Chen was loyal to his role as a small rogue cultivator, touched his stomach and said: "The things on the boat are too expensive; I'll just use some dry rations myself!"

The maidservant sighed: "Even if you have already established your foundation! You should use less ordinary grain and water. There is also food for mortals sold downstairs, only accepting gold and silver. Or you can go to the fishing platform at the back of the boat to cast bait; maybe you can catch a few spirit fish and eat for a few meals!"

Although the maidservant was dressed as a servant, she was also at the Qi Refinement level. If Qian Chen were really a rogue cultivator, his true Qi might not even be as pure as hers, so she was not very reserved, holding the jade tray generously and going to ask the next house!

The next cabin was a cultivator wearing coarse Daoist robes, stepping on a pair of talisman leaf straw sandals—the woven talisman leaves—the straw leaves with talismans drawn on them were a bit tattered!

He looked at the jade tray held by the maidservant, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, touched his pocket, sighed helplessly, and finally, when the maidservant offered the small bowl, he was suddenly energized, carefully took out a jade coin, and handed it to the maidservant.

At this moment, someone in the cabin whispered something.

The young cultivator's face changed, and he turned back and shouted: "Listen... to save you, I have already spent a lot. Don't think that one favor can make me bleed heavily. If you want to eat something, buy it yourself!"

The person in the room said a few more words, and the young cultivator's face was angry: "Traveling abroad, where do you get so many blind requirements. Order another bowl of mixed grain porridge..."

Qian Chen saw a bit of spiritual light fall on the boat, and his heart suddenly jumped, secretly saying: "The good show is coming!"

That young cultivator was the one entangled in calamity-luck. Qian Chen specially asked for the cabin next to him. At this time, he could even hear a white and fat middle-aged official who had been pampered and well-fed sighing inside: "In this messy spirit grain, there is too much turbid Qi. Even if it can be refined, it will consume some true Qi."

The young cultivator shook his head: "Zhang Zhongzheng, you are fleeing, not out for an outing. What kind of delicacies do you want? Do you know how conspicuous that is?"

"Sigh!" Zhang Huaien sighed: "How did this evidence fall into my hands? There are so many Impartial Officials; I thought His Majesty was just joking!"

"Hurry up and get to Jiankang! These past few days, I haven't eaten well or slept well. I paid for it myself, and you wouldn't let me live upstairs!"

"Upstairs are all people who want status. Once your status is exposed, you're finished! And you don't have a single cent on you, and you still want to buy on credit. Where would I get credit for you?" The young cultivator was indignant: "I also owe the Lu family eight lifetimes of debt to protect you to Jiankang!"

"By the way! The money you promised me, not a single cent can be less."

"Five stones of spirit grain, not a peck less. Do you know what a great merit it is to send me back to the capital? A mere five stones of rice, what does that count as!" Zhang Huaien shook his head: "I can recommend you to the Yin-Yang Division..."

"Sigh, sigh! No need for that! I, Zhixia, roam the world, eat well, sleep well! Most importantly, I never do anything against my conscience!" The young cultivator took out a notebook from his body, recorded the food bill for Zhang Huaien, and said solemnly. ===== CHAPTER 304 =====