【Main Story Objective: Assassinate the Saintess. There are two ways to complete this.】
【Method One: Eliminate the Saintess.】
【Method Two: Each assassination attempt will earn you points. Accumulate ten thousand assassination points to complete the objective.】
【Hint: If the Saintess discovers and identifies the assassination attempt, the mission will immediately fail.】
【If the main story objective is not completed, the next stage “The Voice of the Nether Before Dusk” will commence.】
The previous main story objective was “Preserve the Demonic Fire Seed,” and now the main story objective is “Assassinate the Righteous Saintess.”
Is this game just trying to make things impossible?
“Tang Xin?”
Seeing her not respond, Elder Xuan Miao reminded her.
“Disciple.”
Tang Xin took a deep breath and gritted her teeth.
“I’ll do my best…”
In the territory of the Xuanling Sect, a team was moving steadily along the main road leading to the Xuanling Sect’s mountain gate.
The number of teams entering and leaving the Xuanling Sect daily is actually quite significant.
Such a large sect, with both inner and outer disciples, consumes a considerable amount of resources.
Some of which cannot be self-supplied and must be brought in from the outside.
But the team in front of them was clearly not here to deliver goods.
“Is that…”
A cultivator exclaimed.
“The Qilin Gilded Carriage?”
The large carriage in the middle of the team was particularly eye-catching.
In the cultivation world, using spirit beasts to pull carriages is not uncommon.
Usually, these are ordinary spirit beasts, even for high-end vehicles.
At most, they are faster and have better endurance.
However, the ones on the road were using Unicorn Beasts, which are said to have a trace of the divine beast Qilin’s bloodline.
Unicorn Beasts are high-grade spirit beasts with excellent growth attributes.
With careful nurturing, they can even evolve to the Nascent Soul stage.
When a cultivation sect acquires such a spirit beast, they usually keep it within the sect as a guardian spirit beast.
Using such high-level spirit beasts to pull a carriage can only be described with two words… extravagant!
Since the spirit beasts pulling the carriage are so valuable, the carriage itself naturally wouldn’t be anything less.
The body of the Qilin Gilded Carriage is a precious spiritual artifact, combining both offensive and defensive capabilities.
Ordinary Golden Core cultivators can’t even scratch its surface.
It can also shield against all external elements, including wind, rain, and even noise.
There are only a few of these high-end carriages in all of Qingzhou, and many cultivators were seeing one for the first time.
“Stop.”
The leader raised his arm, and the entire convoy slowly came to a halt.
There were more than a dozen cultivators guarding the Qilin Gilded Carriage, each looking highly skilled.
Their movements were uniform and orderly.
One of the cultivators knocked on the closed carriage body and respectfully said, “Lady Saintess, we have arrived at Xuanling Sect.”
Click—
A window slowly opened on the gilded carriage’s exterior, revealing a glimpse of a flawless, white face.
“The spiritual energy concentration is too low,” a clear, crisp voice came from within the carriage.
“Why are we always patrolling these remote places?”
“Xuanling Sect is built on a high-grade spiritual vein, but it can’t compare to the dragon veins of the Holy Domain,” the subordinate explained respectfully.
“Alright, there aren’t many left anyway,” the girl said, sounding somewhat disinterested.
“Let’s finish up quickly and return to the mountain.”
“Yes.”
Receiving the response from the Saintess, the team continued forward and soon arrived at the entrance of the Xuanling Sect.
The disciples of the Xuanling Sect, along with several elders, had been waiting for quite some time.
“The Saintess of Sacred Immortal Mountain has come to visit the Xuanling Sect.”
A long red carpet stretched from the entrance all the way to the gilded carriage, with disciples standing on both sides, their backs straight and expressions solemn.
Screech—
With a sound, the door of the gilded carriage slowly opened, and a unique spiritual pressure instantly swept across the area.
Spiritual pressure refers to the phenomenon where spiritual energy flows from a high concentration area to a low concentration area.
Clearly, the levels of spiritual energy inside and outside the carriage were on completely different scales.
The concentration of spiritual energy inside the carriage might even surpass that of some blessed lands within the sect.
The door automatically stopped at a certain height.
A maid dressed in a simple robe was the first to step out of the carriage, paying no attention to the Xuanling Sect disciples on either side of the red carpet.
Next, a young girl in luxurious attire, supported by the maid, slowly emerged.
The moment she appeared, everyone’s gaze was irresistibly drawn to her.
Her flawless skin, indescribably exquisite features, and deep eyes seemed to hold the truths of the universe within them.
The golden silk robe draped over her might have seemed ostentatious on anyone else, but on her, it was perfectly fitting.
Such a person seemed destined to be the center of attention, with every move exuding a unique aura.
“Welcome, Saintess!”
The Xuanling Sect disciples bowed their heads in unison and chanted.
“Mm.”
The Saintess merely nodded slightly and then stepped onto the red carpet, walking towards the entrance.
“Another boring welcoming ceremony,” she muttered to herself as she walked, “Can’t they come up with something new?”
Previously, the large sects she visited always had grand ceremonies, with red carpets stretching down to the foot of the mountain and disciples and elders lining both sides.
Did they think having more people made it grander?
Could they ever match the scale of the “Morning Sermon” at Sacred Immortal Mountain?
She had seen such scenes countless times.
And this?
If she had to describe it, it would be “rustic”…
Walking along the red carpet for a while, under the respectful or envious gazes of the Xuanling Sect disciples, Xu Lexian arrived at the towering stone monument engraved with “Xuanling Sect.”
Standing beside the monument was Yi Rou, who had come up with this “grand” welcoming ceremony.
She had been worried that Tang Xin might compete with her for the chance to welcome the Saintess, as first impressions are crucial in interactions.
Unexpectedly, Tang Xin had completely given up and didn’t show up at all.
Too arrogant!
Once she gained the Saintess’s favor, Tang Xin would surely regret it!
“Welcome, Saintess.”
Yi Rou bowed respectfully.
“Mm,” Xu Lexian glanced at her, seeing she was a disciple, and casually asked, “Are you the chief disciple of Xuanling Sect?”
“Uh…”
Senior Sister Yi was immediately embarrassed.
She didn’t know how to answer.
Technically, until Tang Xin was officially removed, she was still the chief disciple of Xuanling Sect, both internally and externally.
But since she had already been given a fair chance to compete with Tang Xin, she could be considered “half a chief disciple,” right?
“Sort of…”
She answered reluctantly.
“Sort of?”
Xu Lexian snorted, completely indifferent to her embarrassment, and said directly, “Either you are or you aren’t. What do you mean by ‘sort of’ a chief disciple?”
The maid beside her whispered a few words in her ear.
“The chief disciple of the Xuanling Sect is Tang Xin, right?”
The Saintess looked at her and said, “Are you Tang Xin?”
“Um,” Yi Rou tried hard to maintain a smile, “I’m not, my name is Yi Rou…”
“Oh?”
Xu Le Xian’s brows furrowed.
“The chief disciple of the Xuanling Sect didn’t come out to greet me? Is this a sign of disrespect?”
