Chapter 26 - West Coast Guards Warn Beach Goers Not to Feed Flying Sharks
Name: Fu Tong (chapter 26)
Age: 18
Cultivation Base: Qi Condensation Level 6
Active Mods: 2
Current Mods:
- Mod Management Menu
- Infinite Gold Coins
Mission Objective: Travel to the Divine Cloud Sect and join the entrance examination event within a month. (22 days remaining)
Mission Rewards: Infinite Carrying Weight Mod
Failure Penalty: You lose one of the mods.
Penalty MissionObjectives:
- Kill Xiao Han Ce or ten of his 231 retainers, who have descended upon your land and threatened the local sea monsters and merfolk.
Mission Rewards: Clear of the causality and negative karma. Two Merit Coins.
Penalties: Your cultivation base will degrade by one level every midnight until the mission is completed. If the mission isn't completed within seven days, your dantian will be destroyed, and you can no longer accumulate or use Qi again. You cannot use Command Console until the causality and negative karma are cleared.
Fu Tong was stunned, not because of the sudden penalty mission but the information that came with it. The message was simple—Xiao Han Ce had arrived, and he might be near!
The annoying part was the penalties. He had to finish this mission within seven days. Otherwise, he would lose everything.
As Fu Tong could no longer ignore the incident, he rushed out. Leaping to the sky, he flew west, heading toward the battlefield.
Fu Tong landed in front of the west fortress walls, where local cultivators formed ranks like medieval soldiers, raising spears and shields.
A kilometer away, a 200-meter-tall squids stood on land, leading the army of merfolk in full plate armor. 5-meter-tall sea alligators with eight legs and two horns became the mounts of humanoid tortoises, who wielded harpoons and extra tortoise shells as shields. In the sky, flying sharks, snakes, and sirens formed a wall formation, ready to bombard the fortress with their spells.
Based on the enemy's number alone, at least a 100,000 creatures were in their ranks. Their lowest cultivation base was the nascent soul stage, while the top ranks were all quasi-immortals.
Fu Tong inwardly shook his head. This place was indeed the best grind spot during Chapter 2, but he had no business with the battle. Ignoring the confrontation between two armies, he kicked the ground and leaped again, flying directly toward the merfolk army.
"WAIT! DON'T GO THERE ALONE!"
The soldiers shouted to stop Fu Tong, but it was too late. He already arrived in front of sharks in the sky.
Some of the sirens, who resembled beautiful women with fish-gill skin, were baffled by his sudden approach. One of them muttered.
"What's this dumb human doing here?"
Looking down on Fu Tong, one of the sirens pointed her finger at him and fired a water beam, which was strong enough to cut through a steel plate.
The beam hit Fu Tong's forehead, but he didn't flinch. He held a karma coin in his finger and hovered in the sky in front of the army.
Being in a hurry, Fu Tong ignored the monsters. He shouted, searching for their leader.
"Where is your cowardly leader!? I know he's commanding you! Bring him here, or I'll slaughter you all!"
Fu Tong's voice echoed throughout the field and Sea Watcher Fortress, shocking cultivators and monsters.
The monster's march halted. Everybody, including the men from the fortress, observed Fu Tong. Ji Guoli, Ji Zixuan, and the people from the fortress gathered at the walls, gazing at him in astonishment. The cultivators and soldiers in front of the city walls lowered their jaws, stunned by his reckless bravery.
A few seconds later, Huli Jiubai and his people arrived by Fu Tong's side, guarding him from the monsters.
The fox elder wiped the sweat from his face and whispered to Fu Tong.
"What are you doing, my lord?! Why are you meddling with the mortals' affairs? Can't we just avoid this?"
Fu Tong remained determined. He explained.
"Starlight Taming Guild has descended, and Xiao Han Ce is commanding the sea monster army from somewhere. Go tell Jin Yanxiong to be prepared for war."
The cursed name of Xiao Han Ce changed everything. Huli Jiubai's expression turned dark, and he nodded in understanding. Killing intent erupted from the celestial foxes behind Huli Jiubai, as they were as angry.
"Do you know where they are?"
The elder's voice said calmly, but his heart was full of anger and the desire to slaughter Xiao Han Ce and his men.
Fu Tong thought of Xiao Han Ce's traits and behavior in the game. He recalled that the villain always traveled with his floating castle, and he had high-ranking immortals as bodyguards. If players wish to kill Xiao Han Ce, they have to cooperate with the protagonists and infiltrate his castle. They also had to go through endless armies of monsters that Xiao Han Ce had kept in his collection.
However, there were shortcuts. If players could destroy Xiao Han Ce's floating castle, the villain would flee to the immortal realm or his guild's headquarters. During this time, he was the most vulnerable to ambushes and assassination.
"Xiao Han Ce always hides in his Black Sow Castle and commands his troops from there. If we search for invisible flying objects with our cloud artifact, we can find them. Destroy the castle, and he will come out."
Huli Jiubai solemnly nodded. He looked back and ordered two of his men.
"Return and deliver words to the lord. The rest of thee, we protect the young lord!"
The seven remaining celestial foxes unleashed their Qi and vanished. The next second, seven large explosions consumed half of the sirens and flying sharks in the sky. When the dust settled, seven elders floated at the center of the flame, but their tails spread, revealing a part of their true appearances.
Huli Jiubai patted Fu Tong's shoulder and reminded him.
"Please allow this old man to do his job."
As soon as he finished his words, his head reverted to that of a brown fox. His closed eyes concealed his emotions, but a dangerous crimson gleam escaped from the gaps of his eyelids. His nine tails came out, and the air around him distorted as though he summoned everybody into another dimension.
Huli Jiubai clapped his hands. Instantly, he and all monsters within the distorted domain vanished, except Fu Tong.
Fu Tong wryly smiled as he knew of this ability. That was Huli Jiubai's signature technique, which teleported him and his targets to the immortal realm, where he could exert his full strength.
"RIP those monsters and sirens. What a waste."
Fu Tong turned to the remaining monsters on the field and in the sky.
As he was looking around, a human cultivator in black clothes appeared behind him. He exuded the air of an immortal.
"I see a little fox here." The immortal seized the back of Fu Tong's neck as though he were holding a kitten.
However, Fu Tong didn't flinch. He smiled and created 10 karma coins. When Fu Tong's Qi touched the coins, they turned white and melted into a short rod. As soon as he grabbed the rod, it transformed into a crimson energy halberd with a crescent blade.
"I also see dead people."