Chapter 170 Plan Failed

"In Tongyang Prefecture, Hanbei Country, there is a fish demon occupying the Tongyang River, calling himself the Lord of Tongyang River, fooling the people near the Tongyang River and offering sacrifices to him with living people. This demon should be killed.

Note: This fish demon is in the initial stage of foundation building, and is at home in the water. Its combat power is not inferior to that of a real person in the middle stage of foundation building. It is good at water-based Taoism and is proficient in water escape.

Reward: 8,000 merits."

This is the easiest demon-eliminating task in the jade slip, and the target is a fish demon in the initial stage of foundation building.

Its combat power in the water has reached the middle stage of foundation building.

In addition, the targets of other demon-eliminating tasks are all some demon cultivators with more powerful cultivation than each other, or powerful demons, such as the demon-eliminating task targeting the two great demons in the demon nest.

Chu Chen did not even look at it. If the two great demons in the demon nest were easy to deal with, the demon nest would not have existed in the Hengduan Mountains and stood firm.

Correspondingly, most of these real-level demon-eliminating missions have very high rewards, and many of them have rewards of eight or nine thousand merits, or even tens of thousands of merits.

As long as you complete two or three, you can accumulate enough merits to exchange for the Soul-stealing Sutra and other skills.

But the difficulty of real-level demon-eliminating missions is far beyond ordinary demon-eliminating missions.

With his current strength, he may not be able to complete the simplest real-level demon-eliminating mission.

The fish monster is not simple, and is proficient in water escape. A real person from the Yunshui Sect once accepted the task and invited several foundation-building real people to join forces to deal with the fish monster.

In the end, the fish monster still escaped.

It is conceivable how difficult other real-level demon-eliminating missions are.

Some simpler real-level demon-eliminating missions may have been accepted by other real people from the Yunshui Sect.

"Brother Han, can't I accept some more demon-eliminating missions?"

Chu Chen looked at the other jade slip in Han Yuanhao's hand and asked unwillingly.

After these words came out, Han Yuanhao's eyes were filled with contempt, but Chu Chen seemed to be unaware.

"I am not trying to embarrass you, my junior brother. These demon-eliminating missions are mainly aimed at the demon cultivators and monster clan strongmen in the Qi training period. With your cultivation level, it is a bit of bullying the weak to attack the demons in the Qi training period."

Han Yuanhao could only explain: "The real person can kill the demons in the Qi training period, and the big monster can also kill the cultivators in the Qi training period. Under normal circumstances, the two paths of good and evil, and the two races of human and monster maintain a tacit understanding and will not be easily broken."

Chu Chen was a little embarrassed when he heard this.

But he thought about it again, he did not do it himself, but asked the disciples of Yunshui Sect in the market to do it, and he immediately felt justified.

This move did not destroy the tacit understanding between the two paths of good and evil, and it also allowed the disciples of Yunshui Sect to be trained.

"Junior brother, do you know Senior Brother Lingkong?"

Han Yuanhao seemed to see what Chu Chen was thinking and suddenly spoke.

"I have heard a little bit."

Chu Chen was stunned and answered.

He has been in Yunshui Sect for a year and has collected information from all sides. He has a certain understanding of the foundation-building masters in Yunshui Sect, including those who died not long ago.

Lingkong Master is a foundation-building master who joined Yunshui Sect as a casual cultivator. He has been in Yunshui Sect for more than a hundred years and served as the guardian elder of the Danqi Hall. He died forty years ago.

"After Brother Lingkong joined the sect, he induced the disciples of the sect to accept and complete meritorious tasks for him, disrupting the order of the sect, which angered the master and punished him to stay in the Hanyuan Secret Realm for twenty years."

Han Yuanhao said meaningfully: "The master did this to shock people, so he severely punished Brother Lingkong."

"It's a pity that Brother Lingkong was able to fight out of countless casual cultivators and become a foundation-building master. He has good talent, but in the end he was trapped in the middle stage of foundation building. It may not be unrelated to his being punished to stay in the Hanyuan Secret Realm for twenty years."

Han Yuanhao seemed to feel sorry for Master Lingkong, but he was actually hitting Chu Chen.

"So there are such things. Brother Lingkong's affairs should be a warning to us."

Chu Chen's eyes were stern. If Han Yuanhao hadn't mentioned such a secret from hundreds of years ago, he would not have found it before.

He didn't care about going to Hanyuan Secret Realm to be punished, but at this moment, Lin Fan, the freshman trouble, was in Hanyuan Secret Realm. If he really entered Hanyuan Secret Realm, he would inevitably have something to do with it.

"The Yunshui Sect really won't let the casual cultivators take advantage of it."

Chu Chen sighed in his heart. The means of the Yunshui Sect were far more sophisticated than Chu Chen imagined, limiting other ways for the guest cultivators to brush merits.

There were only two ways for the guest cultivators to gain merits. Either they completed the demon-slaying duties of the real person level, or they guarded the market, spiritual mines and other garrison tasks.

"No wonder Yunshui Sect recruited casual cultivators without deliberately checking their identities. They were a group of free laborers, so why bother to find out their identities?"

After a hundred years, Yunshui Sect had basically found out the details of the casual cultivators, and they were likely to have been assimilated by Yunshui Sect.

For example, after a hundred years, which of Qingyun Zhenren and Lingkong Zhenren did not regard themselves as part of Yunshui Sect and dedicate their lives to Yunshui Sect?

As for the profit chain of Yunshui Sect's private sale of merits, most of them were transactions between Qi training cultivators, and there were not many merits involved, so Yunshui Sect turned a blind eye to it.

But if a foundation-building Zhenren wanted to exchange for foundation-building-level skills and Taoism, thousands of merits would be easily attracted the attention of Yunshui Sect's high-level officials.

"If you want to accumulate merits, you should take on some Zhenren-level demon-killing tasks, such as this task of killing the fish monster. If you are careful and invite a few fellow Taoists to help, the possibility of completion is very high."

Han Yuanhao was very satisfied to see Chu Chen so sensible.

"Thank you for your guidance, Senior Brother. I feel that my cultivation is shallow and I have just entered the foundation-building stage. I will accept the real-life demon-slaying mission after my cultivation is more advanced."

Chu Chen said with a bow.

Completing a real-level demon-killing mission can get at least 8,000 merit points, which is equivalent to 40 to 50 Qi-training-level demon-killing missions.

If the Qingzhou cultivation world is really going to be turbulent, it may not be impossible to accept real-level demon-killing missions and quickly accumulate merit points to exchange for the Soul-Snatching Sutra and other skills.

However, the premise is that his cultivation has another breakthrough and he is fully prepared.

"Junior brother, I understand."

Han Yuanhao said with a smile, and withdrew several demon-killing missions that Chu Chen had accepted.

The reason why Han Yuanhao agreed to Chu Chen accepting these tasks was probably because the Qi-training demons targeted by these demon-killing missions had no identity background.

Without identity background, it would not be considered to have destroyed the tacit understanding between the righteous and the evil.

But it can't be too much. Once or twice occasionally, everyone can understand.

"This time I acted a little rashly. Next time I must find out all the news."

Standing outside the Foreign Affairs Hall, Chu Chen was alert.

He did not find out the details about Lingkong Zhenren, which almost put him in a dangerous situation.

If he was really punished to enter the Hanyuan Secret Realm, he might be dragged into greater trouble by Lin Fan.

"I have been too relaxed after breaking through the foundation-building stage and refining the body to build the foundation. There must not be a next time."

Chu Chen summed up the gains and losses and understood his heart.

Then, he returned to Canglan Market and asked the disciples of Yunshui Sect in the market to help him complete the demon-killing tasks.

The merit rewards for these demon-killing tasks were not high, but after all, mosquito legs are meat, and he did not despise them.