Chapter 60 – Mission Hall
Translator: Seventh Peril Editor: Anuvrat
After her bright eyes swept across the Mission Hall, Su Yu chuckled and said, “Come, let’s go and report the mission. After that, I’ll have to bring you to greet the Sect Elders in the Assembly Hall.”
Right after she finished speaking, Su Yu slowly walked forward in a graceful manner, bringing Ye Zhong towards the centre of the Mission Hall.
In the centre of the Mission Hall, there were many wooden counters. Behind these counters, there were quite a few old men. At the moment, several disciples of the Xingxiang Sect went to them to report the completion of their missions.
Obviously, most of the disciples had completed the low-rank missions. Although some of them had completed mid-rank missions, their number was extremely few. As for the high-rank mission exchange area, it was empty. There was no one there.
Ye Zhong slowly followed Su Yu towards the high-rank mission counter. He had immediately attracted the attention of countless gazes in the Mission Hall.
“Eh? Wasn’t that the Inner Disciple, Senior Sister Su Yu? It’s been said that she went out on two mid-rank missions. I didn’t expect her to return so soon.”
“But why is Senior Sister Su Yu heading towards the high-rank mission area? Could it be that she had taken a high-rank mission as well?”
“Accepting the missions is nothing because there are many disciples who have accepted a bunch of high-rank missions to try their luck, hoping to complete them one day. Furthermore, looking at Senior Sister Su Yu’s gesture, could she have completed some high-rank mission?”
“It can’t be, right? Although Senior Sister Su Yu is powerful, she’s only at the Fourth Layer of Body Tempering. The difficulty of the high-rank missions should be far beyond her ability to accomplish such a task!”
“Speaking of high-rank missions, do you know about the recent mission to explore the Innate Temple’s Ruins? It is said that the Inner Disciples, Senior Brother Rong Tian, Senior Brother Song Shaochen, Senior Brother Su Xuan all went on this mission. “
“It can’t be that the mission Senior Sister Su Yu completed is this mission?”
In the middle of their discussion, many people’s eyes became a bit strange. As the number one sect in the Great Zhou Dynasty, all kinds of activities within the Great Zhou Dynasty were basically immediately transmitted back, even the slightest changes. Therefore, the speculations of these disciples weren’t too far off from each other.
“Eh? Just who is that person beside Senior Sister Su Yu? Didn’t they say that Senior Sister Su Yu never worked with others easily? Even for characters like Rong Tian and Song Shaochen, she would not company with!”
“Since that person was able to enter Mount Xiang, he should be a disciple of our Xingxiang Sect. However, does our Xingxiang Sect have someone so close to Senior Su Yu?”
After their gazes rested on Su Yu for a moment, all of them turned towards Ye Zhong at the same time, and their gazes became somewhat strange.
That was because many people knew Su Yu’s personality. Although Su Yu looked extremely amiable, she was able to chat with anyone. However, deep down inside her, there was a kind of coldness that could keep others at a thousand miles. Thus, even there were many people stubbornly pursuing her within the Xingxiang Sect. However, to date, none of them had managed to get close to her. But now, a fellow had appeared beside her out of nowhere. How could it not be surprising?
Ye Zhong indifferently swept his gaze across the area, but he didn’t feel anything from the gazes of the other disciples. He only glanced at Su Yu and smiled, “I didn’t expect that Senior Sister Su Yu would attract so much attention in the Xingxiang Sect.”
Su Yu shook her head and did not say anything further. She brought Ye Zhong to a counter in the high-rank mission area.
An old man with a head full of white hair was dozing off behind the counter. When Su Yu saw him in this state, she helplessly sighed. Then, she stretched out her finger and tapped it on the old man’s head.
“You basta—”
The old man woke up from his sleep and was about to curse angrily, but when he saw the smiling Su Yu, he swallowed his words back and groaned, “So it’s you, little girl, how many times have I told you this before? Just directly go to that queue to report your completed mid-rank mission, don’t come here and disturb this old man’s sweet dream.”
“Elder Wu, however this time, I’ve actually managed to complete the high-rank mission.” Su Yu revealed a sweet smile.
Even though Elder Wu kept burying half of his head in the sand [1], he was still stunned by such a claim. After a moment, he opened his mouth awkwardly, “So it’s like that, little girl, you’ve also accepted quite a few high-rank missions, which one did you finish? Hm? Who is this little kid? Thirteen or fourteen years old and he already had the strength of the Fourth Layer of Body Tempering? Oh, not bad, not bad. But this little kid shouldn’t be a spoil of the mission, right? Or could it be that you, as a little girl, have finally fallen in love?”
“Hey, little kid, this is not good. It’s said that beauties bring disaster upon you. Not to mention that this little girl is a few years older than you, just knowing that you’re together with her won’t be good for you in the future…” Elder Wu obviously had something to say as he glanced at the two of them oddly before he leaned close to Ye Zhong and whispered in his ear.
“Old bast*rd, if you keep spouting nonsense, don’t blame me for being impolite!” Su Yu didn’t deny anything and said with a faint smile.
Seeing Su Yu’s sweetly smiling face, Elder Wu suddenly shivered and shook his head, “Forget it, forget it, little girl, your way of thinking is too serious, this old man can’t afford to offend you, yet can’t help not to offend you either? Well, tell me, which mission did you complete?”
“Well, it’s the mission about the Innate Temple, and also the most perfect Level of Achievement.” Su Yu pointed to a crystal screen floating above her head and said.
“High-rank Mission: Search for the Innate Temple’s Ruins.
Level of Achievement: [Highest] Obtain the Inheritance of the Innate Temple.
Mission Reward: 50,000 Spirit Value Points.”
“What!?” Elder Wu’s gaze swept over and the corner of his eyes twitched, “You completed this mission? And it was also the highest Level of Achievement? That is to say, you have obtained the Inheritance of the Innate Temple?”
“To be exact, this mission should have been completed by Ye Zhong.” Su Yu looked at Ye Zhong strangely. From a certain point of view, if Ye Zhong was not present this time, she really would not be able to complete the mission.
“You’re that Ye Zhong?” Hearing this, Elder Wu’s eyes flashed with a strange light. He squinted his eyes and stared at Ye Zhong for a moment before chuckling, “Not bad, it seems like the news from that day was true. Our Xingxiang Sect has picked up a gem this time around.”
“Alright, let’s cut the crap for now. According to the rules, if you want to determine whether or not you have completed the mission, you must hand over the items from the mission, right?” Elder Wu stretched out his hand towards Ye Zhong with a facial expression that Ye Zhong was familiar with, and chuckled.
Ye Zhong was speechless at his expression of ‘seizing any opportunity to make a profit’. He glanced at Su Yu and saw the latter nodding. He then flipped his hand and took out the Inheritance Golden Book before throwing it to the old man.
“Little brat, this is the Inherited Golden Book of the Innate Temple. What if it breaks!?” The old man took the Inherited Golden Book with a nervous face. After opening it for a moment, he looked up, his eyes filled with admiration, “The legendary Innate Temple’s, mid-grade Spirit-rank, Secret Art of Body Tempering — Innate Marrow Washing, what a good thing!”
Moments later, the old man smacked his lips, reluctantly handing the Inherited Golden Book back to Ye Zhong. Elder Wu seemed to have roughly understood the difficulty of fighting for the book, and Ye Zhong taking it back was truly surprising to him.
“What? Su Yu and that brat completed the Innate Temple mission together? “
“And they even successfully retrieved the Inheritance of the Innate Temple?”
Both Su Yu and Ye Zhong attracted almost everyone’s attention, to begin with. At the moment, many of them were standing nearby, stunned by Elder Wu’s words!
Had Su Yu really completed a high-rank mission? And from the looks of it, that kid who came out of nowhere was involved in that mission?
“Alright, since you’ve completed this high-rank mission, the reward is 50,000 Spirit Value Points. Who should I give it to?” Elder Wu sighed for a moment before speaking to the two of them.
“Elder Wu, give Ye Zhong 40,000 points. He was the one who contributed the most to this mission, and he even helped me with other missions.” Su Yu thought for a moment and said softly.
“It’s better if we each take half.” Hearing that, Ye Zhong frowned. He did not want to take advantage of Su Yu in this matter.
“I don’t need your Spirit Value. As long as you remember what you said, if you lend me this Inherited Golden Book to study for a period of time, I don’t mind giving you all the Spirit Value. Moreover, you’ve just arrived at our Xingxiang Sect, so you need a lot of Spirit Value. You don’t have to be so polite.” Su Yu snorted.
Ye Zhong nodded in agreement. Since Su Yu said so, he didn’t want to say anything else. Moreover, in order to reach the Fifth Layer of Body Tempering, he would need some cultivation resources and they would indeed take a large amount of Spirit Value Points.
“Then, thank you, Senior Sister Su Yu.” As he spoke, Ye Zhong took out his own Spirit Value Token and passed it to Elder Wu.
“That’s Golden Spirit Value Token!?”
“He is an Inner Disciple!?”
The surrounding disciples of the Xingxiang Sect who were watching the scene were all shocked. Their eyes were fixed on Ye Zhong with a strange look.
The number of Inner Disciples was very few. It could be said that for each of the Inner Disciple, these Outer Disciples were quite familiar with them. Although they didn’t know all about each of them thoroughly, they would at least recognize their names and faces.
However, no one would have thought that this fellow who came out of nowhere was actually an Inner Disciple!?
In an instant, a strange atmosphere appeared within the Mission Hall.
TL note(s):
[1] “burying one’s head in the sand” means “refusing to deal with unpleasant realities, possible dangers, etc.”