Chapter 61 : Chapter 61
Chapter 61: She Couldn’t Even Draw Her Blade. I Really Don’t Know Why the Demon Extermination Bureau Keeps Trash Like You Around.
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[ Congratulations, Host, on obtaining x1 Perfection Martial Art Limit-Breaking Card, x1 Nightmare Demon Peach spiritual plant. It has been detected that the Host received a high score for this mission, so an additional reward has been granted: special soil — 500 cubic meters of Middle-grade Spirit Soil ]
[ Ding! Congratulations, Host, on slaying a Third Level Demon Guard Realm Demon Beast. Reward: 6,000 Slaughter Points. Additional rewards obtained: Divine Origin Pill +2, Talent Fragment +3, Nightmare Fruit +1 ]
Lu Zhan silently stared at the system and suddenly asked, “System, are you trying to make me start farming?”
A Nightmare Demon Peach, Middle-grade Spirit Soil, and now even a Nightmare Fruit.
It was almost as if the system was afraid he would not plant that Nightmare Demon Peach.
Unfortunately, the system gave no response.
“Forget it. Once I plant it, I won’t have to manage it anyway. I’ll just treat it as a bit of leisure after all the killing.”
“I am, after all, a kind and decent man. It will be a good way to wash off some of the killing intent on me.”
Then Lu Zhan glanced at his Inventory, thoroughly satisfied. Not bad. The harvest had been plentiful.
[ Inventory: Four Symbols Mountain-Guarding Array, x1 Perfection Martial Art Limit-Breaking Card, x1 Nightmare Demon Peach, 60 Talent Fragments, 3 Clearheart Spirit Leaf Tea leaves, 5 Divine Origin Pills, 1 Nightmare Fruit, 500 cubic meters of Spirit Soil ]
“I still haven’t set up the Four Symbols Mountain-Guarding Array. Looks like I’ll have to find a good place for it.”
“Once I deal with the matters at hand, I’ll go take a look at that villa Wang Botao mentioned.”
After that, Lu Zhan checked the Clearheart Spirit Leaf Tea.
[ Spiritual Medicine: Clearheart Spirit Leaf Tea ]
[ Effect 1 — Purify the Mind: After drinking it, negative emotions such as irritability and anxiety can be dispelled, restoring the drinker to a state of mental clarity and calm. ]
[ Effect 2 — Temper the Soul and Stabilize Consciousness: The essence of the spirit leaf within the tea nourishes the Sea of Consciousness, strengthens and refines spiritual awareness, and provides a certain degree of enhancement to the soul. It also has a significant regulating effect on mild mental contamination and disorders of spiritual awareness. ]
[ Effect 3 — Meditation Aid: After drinking it, comprehension in martial art cultivation can be improved. It also helps stabilize one’s state of mind and reduces the risk of cultivation deviation. ]
Lu Zhan’s eyes lit up. As expected, it was a good thing. He had no idea which lucky fellow had dropped it.
But that was not the greatest surprise. What truly caught him off guard was that Nightmare Fruit.
[ Spiritual Medicine: Nightmare Fruit ]
[ Effect 1 — Cleanse Impurities: After consumption, it can cleanse toxins, stagnant foul qi, and other impurities accumulated within the organs, blood, and even the muscles and bones, expelling them from the body in the form of sweat and black grime. ]
[ Effect 2 — Improve Natural Endowment: Nightmare Fruit is the life essence of the Nightmare Demon Peach. After consumption, it can nourish one’s innate foundation to a certain degree. With long-term use, it can improve one’s aptitude and natural constitution. ]
Although he did not know where its upper limit lay, something this valuable would be highly sought after anywhere. Even if he no longer needed it himself, he could still trade it for resources.
No wonder that peach demon had sworn that sparing her life would have brought him enormous benefits.
Elsewhere, the Demon Extermination Bureau’s reinforcements finally arrived.
“Fuck***, this pisses me off. Lu Zhan is a lunatic. If he didn’t have the ability, why was he trying to play the hero? He made me waste a Divine Movement Talisman.”
On the way, they had received a notice from one of the Commandants.
Lu Zhan had apparently already entered the Demon Nest to rescue people, so they had been ordered to rush over at full speed and make sure to bring Lu Zhan back alive.
“Sister Qing, don’t say that. Maybe he was just desperate to save people.”
“To go that far for ordinary people... honestly, I kind of admire him for that. Everyone outside calls him the Asura Saber, but if you ask me, that title has to be wrong.”
The petite girl with the high ponytail skipped along as she chewed gum and blew bubbles.
With a crisp snap of her fingers, a glowing orb of yellow light appeared above the group’s heads.
Its gentle glow drove away the surrounding darkness.
The girl in the white T-shirt wore a look of disgust, and her tone was especially sharp when she spoke.
“Hmph. He gets to be the heroic savior, and what about us? We have to work ourselves to death cleaning up after him.”
“You all know it costs 20 Contribution Points for one Divine Movement Talisman.”
“There are seven of us. That’s 140 Contribution Points. I’m sorry, but is Lu Zhan’s life really worth that many Contribution Points?”
The silent young man dressed in black looked unusually mature for his age.
When he heard that, he frowned, clearly displeased.
“That’s enough, Ji Qing. Shut your mouth. When are you ever going to fix that foul mouth of yours?”
“You dare say things like that out loud? If Lu Zhan hears you, it’s only going to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.”
“I know you have feelings for Gao He, but we’re on a mission right now. If you keep letting your emotions get the better of you, then we should stop teaming up altogether.”
Wang Feng was secretly furious. Did this stupid woman not know how to watch her mouth behind people’s backs?
This was Lu Zhan’s territory.
And in his view, making enemies for yourself just because of a loose tongue was an unbelievably stupid thing to do.
He had understood long ago that disaster came from careless words.
Ji Qing let out a cold snort.
Ever since the night Lu Zhan had killed her Brother Gao He, the feud between them had been set in stone.
She had read the report regarding what happened that night, and in her view, Lu Zhan had been the one in the wrong from the start.
Why had he taken the Marrow Cleansing Pill out of the Demon Extermination Bureau in the first place?
The man was obviously up to no good.
Besides, Brother Gao He had not even managed to snatch it. So why had Lu Zhan insisted on killing him without mercy?
Wrong!
The one who had been wrong all along was Lu Zhan.
And yet the Demon Extermination Bureau had still taken Lu Zhan’s side. In her eyes, the members of the Commandant Corps were all a bunch of senile old fools, so she was deeply dissatisfied with the bureau itself.
“Hmph. So what if I have a foul mouth? And reimbursement... so what? I just can’t stand Lu Zhan. If you have the ability to charge into a Demon Nest, then have the ability not to call for reinforcements.”
“What I hate most are people who have no idea what they’re worth, yet think that just because they have a bit of talent, they can do whatever they want.”
“A genius? As if any one of us here isn’t a genius.”
“If you ask me, he’s nothing more than a man with an empty reputation. He’s just been lucky enough not to run into me, the Jade Rakshasa. Otherwise, I’d have taught him how to behave a long time ago.”
She was exceedingly confident in her own strength.
She had joined the Demon Extermination Bureau only a year and a half ago, and she had already reached Perfection in the Aperture Opening Realm.
And not long ago, she had even managed to withstand ten full exchanges against an expert in the Divine Sea Realm.
Lu Zhan might be strong, but could he even survive one exchange under a Divine Sea Realm expert?
“Sister Qing does have a point. I actually know a little about the Jurisdiction Head over here in Peach Blossom Alley.”
“If other places are called lands of outstanding people and natural beauty, then this place is more like a miserable backwater that produces nothing but trash.”
“Forget distant examples. Just look at Sun Xiang, Zhang Tao, and Li Yong. Those three pieces of trash couldn’t even beat a single rat.”
“And then there’s Chen Lin. That one’s even more ridiculous. He outright defected.”
“Lu Zhan may have a bit of a reputation, but judging by what happened today, he’s probably just another fame-chasing fraud.”
Another young man with permed hair waggled his brows at Ji Qing and shot her a flirtatious look.
She ignored him completely.
Then, from within the darkness, the sound of footsteps approached.
“Quiet! Something is coming toward us.”
Wang Feng raised a hand, signaling everyone to fall silent. The seven of them all tensed visibly.
Suddenly, several sharp sounds of air being split rang out one after another as something shot straight toward Ji Qing.
Ji Qing’s expression changed drastically.
She did not have time to draw her blade, so she raised it in front of her chest together with the scabbard to block.
Then came a bang, and the scabbard exploded apart.
A tremendous force surged through the blade, hurling her backward on the spot.
She flew a full seven or eight meters before finally crashing into a withered old tree and barely managing to steady herself.
“I’m the one with an empty reputation? Your Jade Rakshasa is nothing special either. You couldn’t even draw your blade. I really don’t know why the Demon Extermination Bureau keeps self-important trash like you around.”
“To waste food?”