Luck taken away? It doesn't matter, I quietly become a god

Chapter 482: Executing the Mission

Rong Shu asked in a low voice, "Senior Sister Yun Duan, should we choose a mission within the city or a mission outside the city?"

Yun Duan: "Choose a city. This is your first time at the border, so choose an easy one."

"Huh?" Rong Shu blinked.

Are missions outside the city easier than those inside the city?

However, the city has a rotating sun and moon mirror that can monitor the actions of people entering and leaving the city in real time. The possibility of the Nightmare Clan escaping the monitoring to enter the city is extremely slim.

Moreover, there are 50,000 Zhenyan soldiers stationed in the city, which is a sufficient force. It seems safer and simpler than going out of the city for missions, right?

"Rong Shu, you've been in school the shortest time, so you'll choose your task first," Jiu Xiao began calling out names.

Although Rong Shu had doubts, she still chose as Yun Duan suggested, "Let's choose the mission outside the city."

"Alright, next one..."

Rong Shu's gaze suddenly fixed on Jiu Xiao, and he belatedly realized what was happening.

If the mission outside the city is more difficult, there's no reason why Chief Jiuxiao wouldn't choose to lead the team personally.

Soon after the tasks were assigned, the two groups immediately split up and began their work.

In the team, Rong Shufei was in the middle, with Yunduan in front, Xuanhe and Chenxin on either side, and Qingniao and Luori bringing up the rear.

The team of six maintained this formation.

Rong Shu and Chen Xin, who had the lowest cultivation level and the shortest study time, were placed in the middle position.

Rong Shu looked at the figure in the clouds ahead, hesitant to speak. She turned to Xuanhe: [Is it really alright? Should we let Senior Sister Yunduan fly at the very front?]

Xuanhe silently pointed to Xuanheng further ahead: [Don't worry, someone's leading the way.]

Rong Shu and Xuan He exchanged a glance, both of them breathed a sigh of relief, and then they tacitly suppressed their laughter.

Just then, Xuan Heng, who was at the forefront, spoke up: "The nearby map has been synchronized to your student tokens. To save time, form teams and split up. If there are any abnormalities, notify the others before taking action."

Upon hearing this, Rong Shu and Xuan He: ...

It seems I let out that sigh of relief too soon.

However, Xuanheng's arrangement is also quite reasonable.

A group of about a hundred Nascent Soul stage cultivators, any one of them could easily take on multiple Nightmare Servants and kill them.

The only thing to consider is that no one can escape, which is why teams are needed.

"Let's go to this village." Yun Duan casually tapped.

"Boss! Let me lead the way! Junior Sister Rong Shu and Chen Xin are doing a mission for the first time, and they need your encouragement and guidance!"

Chen Xin frowned: "I didn't..."

Behind him, the setting sun deftly covered its mouth, manually silencing the sound.

Yun Duan nodded: "Okay then."

So, it became Xuanhe holding the map, flying at the front of the group to lead the way.

Now that they were out of the city, Yun Duan explained to Rong Shu and Chen Xin, who had just arrived at the border, "The other group of people who stayed in the city also had the task of patrolling the area within a thousand miles outside the south gate."

Rong Shu was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized.

So it turns out we were supposed to enter Buzhou Domain. In comparison, going out of the city from the North Gate is obviously less dangerous.

Chen Xin replied, "Going to Buzhou Domain? As far as I know, although Buzhou Domain is a land devoid of spirits and unsuitable for human habitation, it is inhabited by inhuman and ghostly demons and remnant spirits, which are extremely ferocious and hate living beings for venturing in."

Externally, the three dynasties have been stationing three million troops on the border of Buzhou for many years, and they need to have a plausible reason for doing so.

Thus, within the Buzhou Domain, the existence of countless "fierce demons" and "remnant spirits" mutated from nightmare energy and remnant souls became an open and obvious reason.

The evil demons are cruel and manic, while the remnant spirits are strange and ethereal. They exist outside the six realms of existence and are a kind of "spiritual body" that cannot be called a species. They have no memory, no reason, and no consciousness, and only retain a sense of hatred for all living beings they see.

The remnant spirits are relatively easy to deal with. Most of them are like wandering souls, clinging to some faint remnants of their former consciousness, drifting through the world day after day, year after year, following a fixed trajectory.

As long as you don't actively provoke the remnant spirits or disrupt their usual drifting patterns, they won't attack you.

But the evil spirits are different. They crave the yang energy and blood energy of living beings and will attack any living being that can breathe within their field of vision without regard for anything else.

Normally, if the seal on Buzhou Domain is secure, the border troops will regularly enter the outer perimeter of Buzhou Domain to eliminate wave after wave of evil demons.

Because the extremely warlike and bloodthirsty demons have gathered together, they kill, devour, and merge with each other... It is very likely that a demon lord who can command all demons will emerge, triggering a demon tide that will attack the Great Wall defense line.

The strength of the Demon Lord is uncertain, but a newly born Demon Lord is at least equivalent to a human at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage or the early stage of the Divine Transformation stage.

If left unchecked, the Demon Lord will grow increasingly powerful, his strength potentially reaching the Refinement and Integration stages of the human race...

"Wouldn't it be extremely dangerous for cultivators to enter the Buzhou Domain?"

Rong Shu's heart tightened. Remembering that her senior brother Wu Hua had already entered the Buzhou Domain to investigate, she couldn't help but ask, "Not only should we be careful about the consumption of our own spiritual energy and guard against the possible escape of the Nightmare Clan's remnant souls, but there are also dangerous beings like the Fiend Demons and remnant spirits..."

Yun Duan saw through Rong Shu's little scheme and smiled: "Don't worry, the Academy has the Chief of the Nine Heavens in charge, and Wuqu Pass is one of the fourteen main cities. There are at least two Nascent Soul stage experts in the city. As long as they detect the birth of a new Demon Lord, the Nascent Soul stage experts will personally take action to kill the monster."

"As for your senior brother Wu Hua, he is even stronger than Yun Shu Xuan Heng on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking. As for whether he can defeat the chief of the Nine Heavens... I can't make a judgment since we've only met once."

As she spoke, Yun Duan couldn't help but sigh: "Junior Sister Rong, if your Senior Brother Wu Hua had chosen to study at Jixia Academy back then, perhaps the long-vacant top spot on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking, and the future seventh-generation chief disciple of the academy, would be Wu Hua."

Rong Shu felt honored to hear this, but still modestly helped his senior brother: "Actually, it's not that bad~ The strength of the chief of Jiuxiao is also unfathomable."

Yun Duan: "So, Junior Sister Rong, you can rest assured. Wu Hua, the third disciple of Zhanming Mountain, is actually very strong."

"We've arrived! Our first checkpoint is just a hundred feet ahead!"

……

"...This must be the place."

"The location where the fifth Nascent Soul patrol team last lost contact."

The sky above Buzhou Domain was a hazy gray, without a single ray of light.

Because it was constantly shrouded by the array, the nightmare energy could not dissipate. Over time, it condensed into a fog, and from a distance, it looked like dark clouds hanging in the sky, extremely oppressive.

A luminous mirror floated above Wu Hua's left palm, similar in function to the mirror on the south gate of Wuqu Pass, both being mirrors reflecting the rotation of the sun and moon.

However, the sun and moon rotating mirror on the city gate is larger and more suitable for inspection at the city gate.

As Wu Hua ventured deeper into the Buzhou Domain, he only encountered a few groups of evil demons along the way. Each group consisted of only a dozen or so, which he casually annihilated with a single sword strike.

Wu Hua also intentionally avoided those evil demons to preserve his spiritual energy.

He gazed intently ahead.

The area was shrouded in fog, limiting visibility.

Within the black mist, something seemed to be slowly wriggling.

Although there is currently no concrete intelligence from the Central Plains side confirming that any Nightmare Generals have escaped from the Buzhou Domain, but...

Several Nascent Soul patrol teams mysteriously disappeared or died; these were merely ordinary Nightmare Clan remnant souls or Nightmare servants, and could not possibly have caused such heavy casualties.

In the fog before my eyes—

There must be a ghost involved.