Chapter 46: The Baiyao Cup (Part 4)

Su Xi looked blank, "What system world?"

【Er Miao, do you know?】

【Host, this is all locked information. But judging from their systems, Er Miao should belong to the System Civilization.】

"How did you bind your system?" Lu Jin continued to ask.

Su Xi replied: "The system found me itself; I didn't take the initiative to bind it."

Bing Li was surprised, "How is that possible? Doesn't it require strict screening and matching with a system to bind?"

Ouyang said: "The Thunder System is a very rare high-energy system. I have only seen one, and that was the Head of State."

"..." Su Xi didn't dare to say anything more. Er Miao wasn't even a Thunder System to begin with; she was just a Reversal System, and she didn't know anything else either.

Wen Jie said: "Regardless of how Su Xi's system came about, everyone is a team now and needs to trust each other to complete the mission."

"Right." Ouyang agreed very much.

"Thank you all for understanding." Su Xi raised her hand and gently cradled Xiao Mi on her back; the little girl was sleeping very soundly, and she didn't feel heavy at all.

Wen Jie activated the Task Scroll, and the next second, everyone arrived in a huge underground space.

Other teams that had received the same mission had already arrived here and were fighting against snot monsters.

Su Xi examined the snot monsters; they were greenish, soft-bodied creatures that looked like snails without shells, over a foot long, leaving a trail of transparent mucus wherever they crawled, which was likely toxic, as there were signs of corrosion everywhere they passed.

A heavy gravity hammer appeared in Ouyang's hand, and with a casual swing, two or three snot monsters turned into a pile of green paste.

Su Xi took out the Thunder Essence Mace, which shimmered with thunder light, immediately causing the snot monsters around her to retreat more than three meters away.

"Not bad! It even has a deterrent effect." Su Xi praised the Thunder Essence Mace.

"Boom—" The Thunder Essence Mace let out a thunderous roar, then automatically detached from Su Xi's hand and began to chase and strike the snot monsters.

For a moment, the snot monsters let out shrill, terrified screams.

Everyone looked toward her.

Not long after, she heard Wen Jie shout: "Mission complete."

Su Xi watched the Thunder Essence Mace still killing snot monsters and hurriedly recalled it to her Origin Spirit Mansion.

The group returned to the Official Safe Zone.

Su Xi said: "I'll go get the new Task Scroll."

Wen Jie smiled: "You went last time; let Bing Li go this time."

"Okay." Bing Li had no objections and immediately went to queue for the Task Scroll.

Su Xi said: "Wasn't it said that I'm the one who does the running around?"

Wen Jie replied: "In this mission, you killed the most snot monsters—730 of them."

"Ah? Are there that many?" Su Xi was also surprised; the lethality of the Thunder Essence Mace was truly great.

"That's an ancient weapon mace, right? Can I take a look?" Lin Xiangshu pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

Su Xi immediately took out the Thunder Essence Mace, "Sure."

Wen Jie wanted to say something, but seeing that Su Xi had already taken it out, he swallowed the words that had reached his lips.

Since finishing the mission, Gao Wei's attitude toward Su Xi had changed; at the very least, the disdain she had shown on the surface had been restrained.

Ouyang was also very interested in the Thunder Essence Mace, so while Lin Xiangshu was appraising it, he also leaned in, "Can you tell what civilization it's from?"

Lin Xiangshu pointed to a string of text-like patterns on it and said: "This seems to be 'Lei Gang' (Thunder Essence)."

Su Xi smiled: "Right, it's called the Thunder Essence Mace."

Lin Xiangshu looked at her, "Very ancient characters, which can be traced back to the ancient civilization period of the system world."

"Come to think of it, it really is an old antique." Su Xi didn't know when the Thunder Essence Mace had come into existence either.

Lu Jin said: "Can I take a look?"

Su Xi nodded, "Of course."

Lin Xiangshu handed the Thunder Essence Mace to Lu Jin.

Lu Jin felt it for a while, then said solemnly to Su Xi: "It is a very rare treasure; keep it safe."

Su Xi took back the Thunder Essence Mace, "Mm."

The Thunder Essence Mace returned to Su Xi's Origin Spirit Mansion, quietly suspended beneath her Golden Core, as several strands of Tribulation Lightning circled it, absorbing the Thunder Origin Power it emitted.

Among them, one strand of Tribulation Lightning was noticeably thicker; it was the Heart Demon Tribulation lightning from Yuan Yu's ascension tribulation. After circling the Thunder Essence Mace once, it suddenly released the power of the Tribulation Lightning to attack the Thunder Essence Mace.

Su Xi felt a "Boom—" thunderous roar in her head and almost fainted.

She hurriedly entered her Origin Spirit Mansion with her consciousness to check the situation.

She saw that after the Thunder Essence Mace was struck by the Tribulation Lightning, a wisp of pale cyan smoke drifted out, which was then purified and dissipated by the Golden Core.

Seeing this, Su Xi's heart couldn't help but sink.

Was the Thunder Essence Mace tampered with?

She looked at Lin Xiangshu, Ouyang, and Lu Jin; the three of them looked normal, checking official news on their systems.

【Er Miao, the Thunder Essence Mace just emitted a wisp of cyan smoke; someone must have tampered with it.】

【It was Gao Wei.】 Er Miao said to Su Xi, 【When Lu Jin returned the Thunder Essence Mace to the host, her system scanned the Thunder Essence Mace and left a spiderweb-like energy body on it.】

【... In the future, when we go on missions, help me keep an eye on her.】

【Yes, Host.】

Bing Li returned, holding a yellow Task Scroll, "The Dark Circus drew a black scroll and is recruiting cooperative teams to do the mission together."

Dark Circus? Su Xi remembered seeing messages from the Dark Circus in the official chat room.

"To draw a black-level one right at the start, I really don't know if it's luck or misfortune." Lin Xiangshu had also seen the recruitment message from the Dark Circus in the official chat room.

"Let's do our own first." Wen Jie opened the Task Scroll, "Kill one hundred magma beasts; completing the mission will earn 1000 points."

"That bounty mission looking for white mice, did you notice it?" Su Xi looked at the pinned bounty mission on the official platform.

Wen Jie said, "This kind depends on luck. In the previous session, there was a similar bounty task that asked to find a small black leopard, and in the end, during the awards ceremony, that little black leopard actually appeared. The official explanation was that it was a mascot. Quite a few contestants also received clue rewards. This session should be a similar situation; the little white mouse is the mascot."

"Is Su Xi interested in finding the little white mouse?" Lin Xiangshu asked.

Su Xi said, "The points are equivalent to completing a Purple-rank task."

Bing Li said, "The mouse clan is naturally fond of digging holes; perhaps when we encounter a mouse hole, we can explore it."

Su Xi nodded: "Mm."

Wen Jie activated the Task Scroll, and the group arrived at the magma lake.

Su Xi had defenses around her body, so she did not feel anything.

But the others were all swept by the heat waves of the magma lake. In particular, Gao Wei's long golden hair was singed into curls, and there was even the smell of scorched hair.

The magma beasts sensed their group and one by one poked their heads out from the magma lake.

With massive scaled bodies, they opened their giant maws filled with fangs and magma, emitting ear-piercing, awl-like screeches.