Chapter 128: Returning a Mission
“I… How could I… Die by your hands…” Mo Chen haltingly said. His eyes were filled with unwillingness. This was a result that he had never imagined at the start of the battle.
But, no matter what, the final outcome was decided. Mo Chen’s eyes finally dimmed. His two hands no longer had strength. Then Lu Xuan put the Lovesick sword away and the body came cras.h.i.+ng down.
At this moment, there were a few footsteps. It was Xia Ye, Xing Feng, and Lin Xin Yi, who had returned.
The three had just returned here. They saw Lu Xuan take out his long sword from Mo Chen’s body. Their eyes were full of surprise, not understanding, and shock.
Previously, the flame striped tiger had charged over to here. Under Lu Xuan’s command, the three of them had already quickly run away, but they hadn’t gone too far, always waiting in the distance to check on Lu Xuan’s situation over here.
At the start, they could hear the continuous tiger roars. The three of them naturally were frightened and couldn’t help but worry for Lu Xuan. However thinking of how they wouldn’t be able to help, they could only wait from afar. Once the noises finally died down, Lu Xuan didn’t appear for a long time. They couldn’t wait any longer and wanted to come back and see what the results had been.
But this scene was completely out of their three’s expectations. They didn’t know when this group had come and why they would have a conflict, much less why Lu Xuan would be forced to kill these people
Seeing that the people who had come weren’t outsiders, Lu Xuan let out a breath of relief. After a pause he said: “They wanted to kill people and steal treasures. Among them was one of my enemies.”
“There’s no need to explain. We know what to do.” Xing Feng took the initiative to speak. Disciples killing one another was a sect taboo. If no one saw, it was fine, but if someone saw and it was reported, Lu Xuan would be in no small amount of trouble. Moreover, the people he had killed weren’t just ordinary disciples. Mo Chen was the fist faction’s third place.
Xia Ye didn’t say anything and stepped forward. He took a sword in his left and and unhesitatingly stabbed Mo Chen’s corpse twice. Seeing this, Xing Feng was surprised for a moment, understood, then similarly stabbed Mo Chen’s corpse twice. Even Lin Xin Yi, the beauty by Lu Xuan’s side, was no different and did the same.
Although the three definitely wouldn’t leak it out and Lu Xuan also believed them, with them doing it this, it made Lu Xuan even more relaxed. This represented that they were completely willing to stand on the same line as Lu Xuan.
Only the unlucky Mo Chen, the fist faction’s dignified third place, was unfortunate to have died in this back mountain, which was bad enough, but even after dying his corpse had been desecrated.
Lu Xuan walked up two steps and took off Mo Chen’s storage ring. For most body refining realm martial artists, storage rings could still be considered as a rare item. The other dead disciples didn’t have any. Probably all of their harvests were all on Mo Chen’s person.
Sending his divine sense into the storage ring, Lu Xuan discovered that other than the flame striped tiger’s corpse, there was also a few fourth and fifth level ferocious beast corpses. Most likely they were the harvest of Mo Chen and the others before. He didn’t touch any of those things. He only took the flame striped tiger corpse out.
(TN: This is the first time the author uses 神念 I’m pretty sure. So it’s not me being inconsistent with saying mental energy or whatever.)
“The ferocious beast that charged over just now just happened to be our goal, the seventh level ferocious beast flame striped tiger. It had been beaten to its last dying breath by me when Mo Chen had taken it away.”
After the flame striped tiger corpse appeared, Lu Xuan then explained to the other three.
Seeing the huge corpse, the three of them all had expressions of joy flash across their face. This was an unexpected happiness. The flame striped tiger was worth 10000 contribution points. Originally they weren’t sure if they could complete it. Who would have thought that it would send itself up. Of course, Lu Xuan had to be thanked, otherwise if them three had encountered it, let alone killing it, even escaping it would be difficult.
Mulling over Lu Xuan’s words, Xing Feng was suddenly startled. Pointing at the corpse below his feet he said: “You said, this guy is Mo Chen?”
For this past month, they hadn’t been like Lu Xuan, who was buried in bitter cultivation and had a decent understanding of the inner sect’s situation. This Mo Chen was the overall standings 31st place, but Lu Xuan could actually kill him and the others. Didn’t that mean that Lu Xuan’s true strength was far from just the overall standings 86th?
Discovering this, Xing Feng was undoubtedly shocked. Lu Xuan’s position in his heart once again increased. It was simply demonic!
In reality, while rus.h.i.+ng the Sword Forest, if it wasn’t for Lu Xuan underestimating how strong the body of an body refining eighth level martial artist was, indeed he still could move forward a bit further.
Nodding his head slightly, Lu Xuan placed the flame striped tiger corpse into his own storage ring. Then he once again placed the storage ring on Mo Chen’s hand, and only then said: “You guys go ahead first. I’m going to go attract some ferocious beasts over and dispose of the corpses first.
The three of them nodded and left. Lu Xuan then ran off to a nearby location. Not long after, he brought back three or four ferocious beasts back. It was a group of sixth level ferocious beasts savage wolves.
(TN: Savage wolves were the source of blood for Lu Xuan’s enchantment scrolls if the name seemed familiar)
Once he led them there, Lu Xuan moved away as fast as he could. Rus.h.i.+ng Thunder Flash flashed without stopping, immediately disappearing from the group of savage wolves’ lines of sight. No longer able to chase, these savage wolves gave up, and then discovered the corpses on the ground and began to feast…
The three of them hadn’t gone all that far and were waiting for Lu Xuan. Only then did they begin to go down the back mountain, once again heading towards the Missions Tower. Although this trip to the back mountains hadn’t been that long, everyone had great harvests, especially Xia Ye. Although he had received some superficial injuries and had to self-cultivate for a while, but his combat strength potential had improved greatly. In the future, if he encountered some threatening situation, his chances of living had increased by quite a bit.
On the way back, they were no longer trying to look for their goals and their traveling speed was much faster. They didn’t spend too much time and had almost arrived at the inner sect. Just at this moment, a person’s figure was headed towards Lu Xuan and the others. Lu Xuan glanced and didn’t look too closely. This path was the path to enter the back mountain. The number of disciples coming and going wasn’t small. This person was obviously also headed towards the back mountain.
Just as this person was about to pa.s.s by, he actually stopped and angrily shouted.
“Lu Xuan! It’s you!”
Startled, Lu Xuan then stopped to take a second look at this person. He looked somewhat similar to Long Zhang, and matched Long Hai whom he had just killed about 70%. It was the Long family’s eldest son, Long Tian!
Recognizing the incoming person, a cold smile appeared on Lu Xuan’s face, “What, is there a problem?”
“Don’t be unbridled. If you have the ability, just hide inside the inner sect your entire life, otherwise, sooner or later there will be a day when I will take your dog skull as a wine cup!” Long Tian grit his teeth and said. He regretted that he had come a bit late. Looking at Lu Xuan’s appearance, obviously he had just come back from the back mountain. If he had been just a step earlier, he could have called senior brother Mo Chen and hunted him down in the back mountains.
Long Tian had originally been with Mo Chen and the rest, but he had been delayed by some matters and hadn’t done them until now. Currently he was going back to the back mountain to search for and return to Mo Chen’s group, however, what he didn’t know was the senior brother Mo Chen which he had such high hopes in had long since became the meal of a group of savage wolves, and even his younger brother Long Hai was in the same boat.
Perhaps he should count himself lucky that he hadn’t been with Mo Chen, otherwise he wouldn’t even be here, angrily shouting at Lu Xuan right now.
“Any time.” Lu Xuan left behind this sentence and didn’t bother with him any longer, leaving straight away. This was a public area and wasn’t an opportunity to make a move, otherwise, he wouldn’t mind killing off the last remnant of the Long family.
Watching Lu Xuan’s back as he left, Long Tian clenched his fist tightly. Although he really wanted to go up and directly kill Lu Xuan, he knew that his current strength wasn’t necessarily as good as Lu Xuan’s. Previously when Lu Xuan had once again rushed the Sword Forest and the results came out, he was placed ahead of Long Tian.
Staring at Lu Xuan’s back for a few rests of time, Long Tian angrily turned around and continued to run towards the back mountain. He was going to find Mo Chen and Long Hai to discuss how to take care of Lu Xuan.
Encountering Long Tian was merely a small episode. Lu Xuan didn’t put him on his mind. With his current strength, Long Tian was already no longer able to move against him. At least when compared to Xu Wen Yang whom he had recently offended, Long Tian didn’t count for much.
Soon the group of four returned to the Missions Tower. The warm-hearted deacon who had been responsible for Lu Xuan and the other’s reception before was still there. Seeing them come back, this deacon was startled. He had a bit of an impression toward the group that had come and directly took a seven star mission on their first try. However, he hadn’t thought that they would come back so quickly. They had only been gone for about three hours.
(TN: Oh dang, that was fast)
Normally, a six star mission, even if a few days were spent, it wouldn’t be considered an unusual case. After all, in the huge back mountain, trying to find the sought after ferocious beast wasn’t a simple matter, not to mention they would encounter other fights.
“How have you come back so quickly? Are you returning a mission?” This deacon took the initiative to speak with Lu Xuan. From his point of view, since they had come back so quickly, most likely the mission difficulty had exceeded their estimates and wanted to exchange for a lower level mission.
Lu Xuan faintly smiled and didn’t explain, directly asking: “Can I trouble senior brother deacon do help check if there were any missions that needed bush wolves?”
Hearing this, the deacon couldn’t help but chuckle to himself. It seemed he hadn’t guessed wrong. These people should have run into a few low level ferocious beasts. They had come back to make some extra money, except the bush wolf was only a fourth level and corresponded to a four star mission. Compared to the seven star mission, it could be said to not have been only a single grade difference.
He slightly shook his head and didn’t say any more and picked up the jade medallion that had the four star missions recorded. After all, this was his job.
“Your luck’s pretty good. It just so happened there is a bush wolf mission, however, the mission rewards contribution points isn’t very much, only 400 points. Can you take out the bush wolf corpse.
Xia Ye walked up and took out the two bush wolf corpses out. He couldn’t help but pout a bit. This reward was really low. Only 400 contribution points. The lightning marten they had killed for the six star mission had a reward of a full 4000, a difference of ten times. Of course, the difficulty had similarly been about ten times.
However, it had come freely. There was no reason to reject a free gift. Even if a mosquito’s leg was smaller, it was still meat.