PDLP Chapter 107 Beast Tide 9
Chapter 107 Beast Tide 9
Cheng Jiu came out of the Lefeng disciples. Since the situation on the Wilderness Battlefield had eased slightly, the Medicine Peak was relatively quiet, except for treating the injured disciples, and there were fewer tasks being issued.
In other words, the people of Medicine Peak who spend long hours refining pills also have short breaks, but these breaks are interspersed with healing tasks.
However, Cheng Jiu has now resolved all the issues concerning the disciples of Lefeng Peak. As for Tifeng Peak and Jianfeng Peak, the disciples of these peaks are mostly suffering from external injuries. As long as they do not suffer a backlash against their origin, there are plenty of ways to treat them in the cultivation world.
Medicine Peak has also returned to its former harmony, and most areas of Medicine Peak have regained their popularity.
Cheng Jiu had no intention of returning to the main hall to refine pills. These past few days had been tough on her. If she were to refine pills on her own, she could practice for several days, but this kind of pill-refining mission inevitably made her feel mentally exhausted!
Having a hobby and working are different things!
Moreover, her two apprentices have been extremely busy these past few days, and she felt she should give them some rest. She wasn't some kind of devil.
After happily sending a message about taking a break, Cheng Jiu seemed to have shed a huge burden and cheerfully headed towards the courtyard that Yao Feng had arranged for her.
It was the same courtyard as before, and as soon as I entered, I could hear lively sounds coming from inside.
Everyone inside is a familiar face!
Yingyue, Gongcheng and Gongyu, as well as Qin Che and Huo Yan, were clearly taking advantage of this free time to rest.
Yingyue and Gongcheng are playing Go. They don't know who made it for them, but when Cheng Jiu recommended it to them, they liked it very much.
It looks like they've been playing for quite a while now; the game is very close.
Cheng Jiu barely knows some of the rules, but her chess skills are just average. She only knows how to play Gomoku. She's clearly not interested in it, so why is she familiar with the rules?
Because her father loved playing Go! Cheng Jiu gradually learned some of it from a young age, and in a daze, Cheng Jiu found herself having traveled more than ten years into the past and now living her own life here.
Perhaps in the future, when her strength increases and she ascends, she can return to her original world. But for now, she only hopes that after so many years away, the old man won't miss her too much.
Sigh, I don't know why I've suddenly become so sentimental!
Cheng Jiu quickly adjusted his mindset and walked into the courtyard.
Meanwhile, Gong Yu was playing cards with Huo Yan and Qin Che, mainly with Gong Yu and Qin Che.
The two were clearly very focused on playing. Huo Yan, the "tool," saw her walk in and nodded at her.
Cheng Jiu didn't disturb them, but stood aside and watched.
Both of them were clearly card masters, with an incredible number of cards in their hands. Because they had so many cards, they had a wide range of choices, and by playing the corresponding cards and using skills, they could create effects such as attack, defense, and evasion.
The reason why the Song Immortal Card has been so popular for so long is that its underlying logic is not determined by the players; the Song Immortal Card itself determines the effect of the skill.
Moreover, there are many different ways to play; you could say that the more cards you have, the more fun the gameplay becomes.
Of course, in addition to this, the party that triggers the Song Immortal card must also know its legendary background, the character's name, and its basic effects, which also popularizes the legendary stories of those great powers.
If you say the wrong word when playing your card, the card will be considered a failure, wasting a chance to play a card.
Children in the cultivation world mostly learn about the legendary stories of their predecessors from several years, hundreds of years, or thousands of years ago through the Song Immortal Token!
After all, people easily forget things if too much time has passed, but history needs to be passed down.
It's intellectually stimulating, entertaining, and features intense battles, making it a hit in the world of cultivation.
"I won! Senior brother!" Gong Yu took out five cards and placed them on the table in a row: "The five heroes are gathered together, admit defeat, senior brother."
"How did you manage to collect all these cards!" Qin Che looked at the five cards on the table, his eyes filled with envy.
This is a one-time release of a deck of cards, telling the story of how, four thousand years ago, each of the five major sects produced a rare prodigy. These five prodigies were equally matched in strength and talent, and more importantly, they all appeared in the same year.
Therefore, those sect tournaments were incredibly exciting, especially when these five people clashed, making it impossible to determine who would win or lose.
It is said that those who opened betting odds on the five-person battle at the time basically lost badly, because they simply couldn't predict who would lose and who would win; the uncertainty was extremely high.
But high risk also comes with high reward, and the number of people betting on the five-person opening bet was the highest that year.
Although they are competitors, all five are members of the five major sects. Despite years of competition and killing, their relationship has not deteriorated; on the contrary, they regard each other as close friends.
During a training exercise, the five of them bumped into each other, and eventually became sworn brothers.
When the news of the five becoming sworn brothers spread, the entire cultivation world was stunned.
Especially after the last five people all ascended to heaven, their stories were also included in the Song Immortal Card and they were known as the Five Heroes!
Because of the five men's sworn brotherhood, this set of cards is called "Five Heroes Gather".
However, it was very difficult to collect all five cards. Only 1 cards were printed for each person.
Each of the five individuals also has their own admirers and suitors. However, unlike the five individuals themselves, these five small groups dislike each other intensely.
Therefore, once the Kasen card was released, the cards belonging to the person they admired were all sold out. Even those with a collecting obsession would only have a maximum of two different characters.
After that, no more Five Song Immortals cards were printed, and these Song Immortals cards became extinct.
For various reasons, being able to collect a complete set of SSR cards is definitely a must for the Song Fairy.
“I got it from my master!” Gong Yu replied.
"I didn't expect that Lord Qingyang also likes the Song Immortal card?" Qin Chejin noticed.
"My master said that when he was young, he was obsessed with it for a while and spent some spirit stones to collect all the Song Immortal tokens on the market," Gong Yu said.
"A little spirit stone?" Qin Che thought he must be hallucinating, otherwise how could he hear such an outrageous statement!
It's not surprising that the Song Immortal brand is still considered top-tier in the cultivation world, and its price has never been low.
At that moment, Qin Che had never felt so poor.
Once I stepped away from the game, I saw Cheng Jiu watching from the side.
"Junior Sister Cheng Jiu, you're back!" Qin Che said.
Cheng Jiu didn't press him. This guy liked calling his junior sister and grandmaster all at once, and what he called them depended entirely on his mood: "Senior brother, what brings you here?"
"Isn't the battle on the Wilderness Battlefield over over? Your Senior Brother Huo and I were just about to take a rest when we came back and saw Junior Brother Gong Yu from Gongcheng. Knowing they were looking for you, your Senior Brother Huo and I followed them without any particular destination," Qin Che said.
Got it. She wanted to rest and relax, but didn't have anywhere she wanted to go. Just then, she saw Gongcheng and Gongyu looking for her to play, so she followed them.
Meanwhile, the battle between Yingyue and Gongcheng also came to an end, with Gongcheng ultimately winning by a narrow margin.
They saw that Cheng Jiu and the other person had also stopped.
Since it was a rest day, the group didn't cultivate; instead, they simply gathered together to play.
A group of people were playing, and some of them started to worry. If they continued playing chess and card games like before, someone would inevitably fall behind, and that wouldn't be fun.
Cheng Jiu tried hard to recall the games played at large gatherings in his past life: Truth or Dare? Werewolf? Or drawing jokers?
Just as Cheng Jiu was struggling with which option to choose, Gong Yu pulled out an array plate from somewhere.
"This looks like... Senior Brother Feng's natal array plate! Where did you get it from?" Gong Cheng carefully examined it.
"Hehe! My senior brother lent it to me on his own initiative!" Gong Yu said.
"He really hasn't given up his wicked intentions!" Gong Cheng didn't need to guess; he immediately understood what the other party was thinking. This blatant flattery was too cunning of Senior Brother Feng.
“Senior Brother Feng is very skilled in illusion arrays. We can go inside the array plate and play around. The arrays inside are completely random. We can see who can come out first,” Gong Yu explained. “It’s a lot of fun.”
The group hadn't had any ideas to begin with, but upon hearing Gong Yu's suggestion, they immediately agreed.
The array is activated.
Cheng Jiu then realized that this was not some broken formation at all; it was a scripted murder mystery game from the cultivation world.
I never imagined the world of cultivation would be so fashionable!
Cheng Jiu could only say that the senior brother who set up this secret realm must have read a lot of storybooks, because his design was incredibly melodramatic.
First of all, when the protagonist, Cheng Jiu, wakes up, the village has been massacred, and the protagonist's parents are also dead.
To avenge his parents, the protagonist embarks on a path of revenge, enduring numerous hardships before finally confronting the ultimate villain.
He discovered that he was no match for the big boss. The big boss admired the boy who dared to come up to him. After a period of love and hate, he felt that the boy was someone he could entrust his life to.
The boss forces the young man to marry his daughter. The young man also feels that he has a very strange relationship with the boss. He could have taken the boss's life several times, but he always softens in the end.
The boy had no liking for the daughter that the big boss had forcibly given him, but the big boss was persistent and insisted on taking her.
His wife found out, and she disagreed.
The boy and the big boss's daughter, after spending a lot of time together, actually developed a subtle affection for each other.
The big boss's wife resolutely disagreed, which the big boss found very puzzling. He admired the young man, and under the big boss's questioning, the young man revealed that he was actually the big boss's illegitimate son.
That's right. Back then, the big boss had a one-night stand and had an illegitimate child. The woman even brought the boy to the big boss's family and demanded that they take responsibility.
The big boss's wife was furious, but she couldn't lay a hand on the widow and her child, so she drove the woman away, and the child was sold.
They're siblings, how can they be together?
The big boss claimed he had never had a one-night stand. Upon learning that the boy was from that village, the big boss immediately recognized him as his long-lost nephew.
Yes, the man who had that one-night stand with that woman wasn't the big boss, but his younger brother, and he even mentioned his name to her.
His younger brother's excessive indulgence damaged his health, rendering him unable to have children for the rest of his life. He immediately thought of the child that woman had given birth to.
So he asked his older brother to find the child. The big boss was very disappointed in his younger brother, but he couldn't bear to see him die like that, so he agreed.
As he continued his investigation, and because the woman was vague and didn't mention his wife, he assumed the child had been abducted. Following the leads, he found the place and concluded that they had kidnapped and killed the child.
Cheng Jiu fell silent at this point. Seriously, this family is crazy!
Aside from the terrible plot that followed, Cheng Jiu's leveling up in battle at the beginning was really satisfying!
Unlike the character in the story who suffered repeated defeats, Cheng Jiu won from the very beginning. Then he saw the person he had defeated laughing and mocking him, which made Cheng Jiu feel very disappointed.
But things changed after that. The enemy simulated by this array based on Cheng Jiu's strength was just right to try and suppress Cheng Jiu.
As the plot unfolds, the subtle sense of progression becomes incredibly addictive.
Cheng Jiu thought the drama was over, but it turned out there was something even more dramatic to come.
Seeing Qin Che and Gong Yu walk in dressed as women, it was clear that this young lady had also been switched.
Gong Yu is playing the "True Heiress Searching for Her Parents" scenario. In his story, he discovers that his parents are not his biological parents, and he must find them. On his journey, he encounters Qin Che.
Qin Che is playing the role of a sister-in-law seeking revenge. Because the big boss's wife always looks down on him, her brother-in-law, he wants to get revenge on the big boss's wife by switching the two children.
Now that his daughter has grown into a beautiful young woman, he wants to switch her back and get a daughter who is both beautiful and virtuous for free.
The big boss's wife scrutinized Gong Yu closely: "He looks just like him, so much like him!"
Cheng Jiu silently looked away. Actually, the two of them weren't ugly in women's clothing. However, with three players and three NPCs present, especially the NPC who was seriously talking to the players about their appearance, it was hard not to laugh when they actually looked like them.
It should have ended there, but Yingyue suddenly appeared out of nowhere and added fuel to the fire of this melodramatic plot.
She said she was a real young master too.
The scene became even more chaotic!
In particular, both NPCs were starting to lose their composure.
The scene became chaotic, and just as the story reached its dramatic climax, an arrow, seemingly out of nowhere, pierced the heart of the big boss.
Gong Yu tried to straighten his clothes, still not used to this so-called women's clothing!
Amidst the screams of the main boss's wife NPC: "Murder!"
Two masked men in black emerged from the shadows. It turned out they were hired by the big boss's younger brother to eliminate his older brother.
The big boss's brother never regarded him as an older brother, but as an enemy. Even after the big boss helped him find his son, he still hired someone to kill him when the big boss was most relaxed.
Gongcheng and Huoyan were the two hired thieves, a male and a female!
"Brother, why don't you have to wear this?" Gong Yu ran over to Gong Cheng as soon as he saw him and shook out his clothes.
"Brother?" The NPC wife of the big boss muttered these two words: "You really aren't my daughter!"
"Idiot! Your persona is ruined!" Miyagi scolded his younger brother.
"It's almost completely broken down! According to the plot, I should have made a comeback and finally got my revenge! Now even the last villain is gone," Cheng Jiu complained.
Seeing the big boss's wife crying and sobbing, the big boss's daughter stared blankly at the six people.