Mysterious Master 017

  "Within three days of using the Xianzun Jade Pendant, teleport to the main peak of Wuyue, meet the defeated Xianzun, reward: unknown, failure: expelled from the instance."

  Guan Yu looked at the task and pondered for a moment before looking down at the jade pendant in his hand. In an instant, the pendant's properties popped out:

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  Xianzun Jade Pendant

  Spiritual object

  Internally stores a small amount of immortal energy, can be transmitted to the legendary Five Peaks, but the immortal energy will continue to leak out and will completely lose its effectiveness after three days.

  Time limit: 71 hours: 59 minutes: 22 seconds

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  "It seems this task is related to that old man."

  Guan Yu put the jade pendant into his backpack and immediately turned around to leave the basement.

  In an instant, he appeared on the stone platform at the mountain peak, and in front of him was Lin Yiyi, who was now meditating to heal her wounds, emitting a sacred aura.

  Lin Yiyi actually belongs to a sect called Yúnǚ Mén, and Héng Shān Pài is just an approximate name because the sect is located on Mount Heng.

  The disciples of the Jade Maiden Sect are all women, each one as chaste as jade, with beautiful figures and noble characters. Most male cultivators in the cultivation world want to marry a female cultivator from the Jade Maiden Sect as their Dao companion, but the disciples of the Jade Maiden Sect rarely fall in love, so it is extremely rare for a cultivator to actually marry a Jade Maiden Sect female cultivator as his Dao companion.

  At this time, Lin Yiyi felt that someone had appeared. She slowly opened her eyes and when she saw Guan Yu, she immediately showed a surprised expression. Her hard-won stable mood was shattered once again.

  Lin Yiyi was raised by Hengshan Sect since she was a child, but at the age of 12, she also entered the illusion array to take the test, so she is very clear about the difficulties of this illusion array.

  Ordinary people might still be stumped, but Guan Yu's strength was something she had witnessed with her own eyes, and she felt that Guan Yu wasn't the kind of person who would cheat or resort to trickery, so there was no reason for her not to pass the test.

  So she was so surprised when Guan Yu came out, it can be said that Guan Yu is the most unexpected man in her heart.

  "How did you get out?"

  Lin Yiyi couldn't help but ask, even if they were cultivators, after all, they were still human, and humans have curiosity.

  Guan Yu glanced at her and said calmly: "If you can't pass the test, then you'll naturally come out."

  "Sorry, I didn't mean it that way. It's just that I didn't expect you to... No, what are your plans now?" Lin Yiyi suddenly felt that her previous sentence was simply a blow to Guan Yu, who had already failed and was pitiful enough, and yet she still asked him why he came out, wasn't the answer obvious?

  She lost her composure, spoke impulsively, and a faint blush appeared on her pale face.

  Guan Yu glanced at her and said half-jokingly, "Since we can't become immortals, let's just be ordinary people. We can't die just because we can't enter the immortal realm."

  The first half sentence is a lie, because he's not clear about the old man's identity, so he won't talk nonsense. The latter sentence is true, he doesn't have any idea of becoming an immortal ancestor, and wanting to live forever doesn't need to rely on cultivating immortality, it's better to do tasks and earn gold coins, buying a high-ranking vampire bloodline is simpler than cultivating immortality.

  “……”

  Lin Yiyi was speechless, but felt that Guan Yu had such a great talent, it would be a pity if he didn't cultivate immortality. If Guan Yu could cultivate immortality, perhaps in the future there would be another general to fight against the evil demons and heretics.

  Unfortunately, although she was a somewhat influential disciple in the sect, she wasn't powerful enough to change the sect's rules, so she couldn't make the sect leader set a precedent and accept Guan Yu.

  "After a while, she said: 'Then I'll see you off.'"

  In fact, Guan Yu gave Lin Yiyi a very special feeling. His demeanor was completely unlike that of an ordinary person. She had seen many big shots before, but none of them could compare to Guan Yu's demeanor.

  But from Guan Yu's body, she couldn't feel any spiritual energy, and he himself also admitted that he wasn't a cultivator. This created a strange sense of discord, making Guan Yu become a unique existence in her heart.

  The plane flew quickly, and neither of them spoke. Neither Lin Yiyi nor Guan Yu were the type to talk much, but this feeling was quite harmonious and not awkward at all.

  About an hour later, the platform landed on the ground. As soon as Guan Yu stepped down from the platform, Lin Yiyi spoke up: "What you saw today is not to be mentioned to outsiders. Otherwise, even if Wuyue Xianmen exhausts all its resources, it will definitely kill you and there will be no chance of meeting again."

  As soon as she finished speaking, she put away the platform and stepped on the flying sword to leave quickly. In fact, what she just said was a perfunctory phrase that every mortal who was sent away would hear once, and it did not represent her own meaning.

  As for why she didn't say a few more words, it was because she found herself in an unstable state of mind. If she continued, she might make a big mistake, and the root of everything was Guan Yu, so she hastily escaped from him.

  Guan Yu looked up and gazed in the direction Lin Yiyi flew away, then glanced around. Lin Yiyi was still quite kind and hadn't randomly dropped him off at some desolate mountain or wild ridge, but had instead placed him in a forest on the outskirts of Feima City.

  Entering Flying Horse City, Guan Yu found an inn and ordered a few small dishes, then slowly started eating.

  Now he needs to think carefully about whether to go see that old man.

  This is a mandatory task. Failure will result in being sent out of the instance, but for him, leaving the instance isn't a bad thing either, so it's entirely up to whether he wants to stay or not.

  At this time, the system transmitted a secret request from Feng Wu. After connecting, Feng Wu informed him of the news of Bai Di's death and made an assessment of the high-end powers in this world.

  Feng Wu thought that this time they wouldn't be the main force, because he had already witnessed the strength of Yue Doupeng, the leader of Huashan Sect. Even if everyone worked together, their chances of winning would still be zero!

  I'm afraid the final task will be to assist a certain NPC in killing the boss, after all, cultivating immortality takes too long, and players won't have much breakthrough in the short term.

  Feng Wu didn't know that Gu Yu's task had changed, and suggested that Gu Yu go into contact with the old man, perhaps this was a hidden task, or maybe not.

  After hanging up the phone, Guan Yu weighed the pros and cons, and finally decided to go see that old man, maybe he could gain something unexpected.

  He took out the jade pendant from his backpack and immediately activated it with his mind. In an instant, he vanished into thin air and reappeared in front of a long white stone staircase. He turned back to look, and surprisingly, there was a railing, and outside the railing were floating white clouds.

  This was a gigantic mountain peak floating in mid-air, several hundred times larger than the one Lin Yixiao had taken him to for his trial.

  "Are all cultivators in this world capable of creating such a mountain peak?"

  A thought flashed through Guan Yu's mind, but he couldn't seek an answer now and could only put the doubt in his heart, then turned to go up the stairs.

  This staircase is extremely long, if it were an ordinary person, they would probably find it difficult to reach the top in a day. However, Guan Yu was a player, and his physical strength far surpassed that of an ordinary person. In just half an hour, he reached the summit, where there was a large gate with a sign that read: "Six Paths Heavenly Gate!"

  These four words gave off a strange magical aura, Guan Yu only took one glance and felt dizzy, as if he saw countless people practicing various sword moves in an instant, it took him a good while to recover, but he definitely didn't want to experience that again.

  He walked directly through the gate and was stunned for a moment, because this place had formed its own space, and the scenery outside and inside the gate were completely different.

  At this moment, his eyes were filled with flying swords, these flying swords formed a huge circle, slowly rotating, just like a tornado reaching the sky.

  Moreover, the aura emitted by these swords made him quite apprehensive, for these swords seemed to have sword spirits, and each one was different. Some were violent, some gentle, some gave a warm and elegant feeling, while others carried a maiden's first love sentiment. As he looked at the swords in front of him, it was as if he was facing individual strangers.

  Suddenly, the sound of a zither and singing came from within the sword formation, directly interrupting Guan Yu's thoughts.

  "The blue ocean laughs, with waves crashing on both shores, remembering the present in the ebb and flow. The vast sky laughs, with worldly affairs surging, who loses or wins is known to heaven. The rivers and mountains laugh, with distant misty rain, how much of the mundane world has been washed away by the turbulent waves? The clear wind laughs, disturbing the quiet, leaving behind a lingering heroic spirit in the evening glow. The vast creation laughs, no longer quiet, the heroic spirit still foolishly smiling..."

  This is a man's voice, very calm and peaceful, but it gives people a strange feeling. This song is clearly a very free-spirited song, but he sings with a sense of abandon, which contradicts his calm temperament, making the whole song sound out of place.

  Guan Yu furrowed his brow, feeling that this voice was too young and completely inconsistent with the image of the old man in his mind.

  At this moment, the jade pendant in his hand suddenly emitted a scorching aura, and in an instant, the jade pendant burst out with a blue aura that wrapped around his body, instantly carrying his body flying towards the sword array.

  The swords parted to make way for him, and he flew directly into the sword formation. The scene changed once again, and he landed on the grassy ground. He looked up towards the front, and the scene before him left him stunned.

  A peach tree, a thatched cottage, under the peach tree a white-clad man sits cross-legged in front of a guqin, his eyes closed as he plays the instrument.

  The man in white clothes was quite handsome, with long hair like silk. What caught people's attention most was his pair of slender and pale hands, which gave a hard-to-describe sense of beauty when playing the piano.

  "A thousand years in an instant, I didn't think this humble abode would have a new visitor." The man slowly opened his eyes and looked at Guan Yu, smiling as he spoke, giving off an indescribably elegant feeling.

  His eyes were like a deep and bottomless lake, yet also like a clear spring, making one feel extremely comfortable, just like soaking in a hot spring on a cold winter's day.

  Guan Yu's face turned slightly red, and even he himself didn't know why his face was red. He quickly took out the jade pendant and explained: "I was brought here by this jade pendant."

  The man stretched out his hand, and the next moment the jade pendant automatically flew towards him, finally landing in his palm.

  He gazed at the jade pendant for a while, and then a warm smile appeared on his face.

  "I really didn't expect that after three thousand years, this jade pendant would still be effective." He said with a smile, and the next moment he returned the jade pendant to Guan Yu.

  "Who is the owner of this jade pendant?" Guan Yu asked, "He told me to find him, where is he?"

  "This jade pendant was a hidden level I designed with a playful heart when I created the illusionary array, I didn't think you'd actually break it." The man said with a smile.

  Guan Yu was taken aback and exclaimed: "You're that old man?"

  To be honest, he couldn't associate the man in front of him with that lecherous old man at all, but surprisingly, the man himself admitted to being that old man, leaving Guan Yu utterly shocked.

  "Old man?" The man was taken aback, and then smiled elegantly.

  Guan Yu nodded and said: "At that time, I indeed saw an old man!"

  He originally wanted to say that the old man was very lewd, but subconsciously he skipped over this sentence.

  "Hehe, back then I was indeed an old man. At that time, I hadn't yet grasped the subtleties of creation and transformation, so physical decline was unavoidable." The man smiled as he explained, and suddenly his hand quickly developed wrinkles, actually aging, but in the next moment it rapidly returned to normal.

  This is the mystery of life and death, after enlightenment, the body is completely controlled by the soul, and it can become whatever shape it wants.

  Don't look at the young man, he is as old as Dongfang Bai, and they are actually extremely old.

  "Alright, now let's get down to business. When I set up this checkpoint back then, the truth is that I wanted to use it to recruit disciples. But for thousands of years, no one has ever successfully broken through until you appeared. Now you can choose to acknowledge me as your master or have me send you away. However, let me make one thing clear: if you do acknowledge me as your master, you must be sincere, and I will also treat you with sincerity." The man stood up at this point, looking at Guan Yu and speaking slowly.

  Guan Yu looked at him for over ten minutes, then slowly knelt down and kowtowed three times to the man, saying: "Master, please accept your disciple's bow."

  I started modifying from noon and have been working on it until now, I hope everyone is still satisfied with Guan Yu's image, I've done my best to create his character.