Chapter Twenty-Four: First Acquaintance with the East Temple
"What are you arguing about! This is a place to take on tasks, not a place to watch a play, those who want to take tasks will take them, and those who don't take tasks will get out!" Suddenly, a deafening voice came, and all the disciples stopped whispering, and then they all went their own ways.
Su Fan followed the sound and looked over, and saw an old man wearing a Taoist robe, he was different from the fairy wind and bones of the Ziyang Daoist and others he had seen, but he was a tiger with a bear waist, and there were two or three scars on his face, and the Taoist robe was not easy to wear, his chest was exposed, and even there were several long scars on his chest, and Su Fan could feel a bad aura from a distance.
"Elder Lie, this Su Fan is ......" The boy was about to sue with a face full of grievances after seeing Elder Lie.
"It turned out to be Elder Lie, disciple Su Fan, who had seen the elder. Seeing this, Su Fan also immediately saluted Elder Lie.
"Okay, okay, needless to say, I know everything, it's noisy all day, Su Fan, right...... Well...... The three realms of flesh and blood, the strength cultivation is not bad, you want to take on the task?" Elder Lie waved his hand to signal the boy to go down, and he came to Su Fan with his huge body.
At this time, Su Fan felt that there was a mountain of meat in front of him, and this fierce face made Su Fan's heart rise to his throat, and he felt that this big man could slap himself into meat puree.
"Yes, the disciple wants to take on some tasks with high contribution value. Su Fan also paused, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"Good boy, I have a bit of courage, other little guys can't wait to run away when they see me, you can still be so calm, great, great!" Elder Nalie smiled angrily, "I have a task here, but I don't know if you dare to take it." β
"I don't know what the task is?" asked Su Fan with his fists clenched.
"You come with me. Elder Lie turned around and walked towards a corner of the main hall, there was a cabinet there, it looked like it had been a few years, most of the vermilion lacquer on it had fallen off, but it still exuded a faint woody fragrance, Elder Lie tiptoed to take out a roll of bamboo slips, that cautious appearance was really a bit funny.
Elder Lie blew the dust on the bamboo slip, then handed it to Su Fan and said, "You take a look first, and it's up to you whether you take it or not." β
"Good. Su Fan took the bamboo and opened it to look at it, the more he looked at it, the more doubts he became, and his brows tightened, "This task seems simple, but why is the bounty contribution value so high?"
This is a quest to find objects, and the content of the task is very simple, only seven words: there is a pearl in the well, take it. Moreover, the bounty contribution value of this task reached an astonishing ten thousand, and when he saw this bounty, Su Fan couldn't help but gasp.
"And ......," Su Fan looked at it carefully, "Why did the publisher of this task specify a Flesh Realm disciple to pick it up?" At the end of the bamboo slip, the person who issued the task marked that it could only be completed by a disciple of the Flesh Realm.
"Actually, I don't want to take out this task, but now in the entire sect, the only disciple of the Flesh and Blood Realm who can make me look at it is you. The expression on Elder Lie's face was both worried and expectant.
"Why? Is there anything wrong with this mission?" Su Fan asked, in fact, he could also feel that there was something wrong with this task, otherwise he would not have taken it from the bulletin board and hid it in this cabinet, the most strange thing was that the content of the task did not match the bounty.
Moreover, it is not difficult to simply take out a bead from the well, ordinary ordinary people can take it out as long as they have auxiliary supplies such as ropes, why do they have to use the cultivators of the flesh and blood realm, and the disciples of the non-flesh realm do not use it.
"To say that this task is strange, from the beginning of the risk of something wrong, first say this person who issued the task, the first time I came there was a cold energy, to Lao Tzu's diaphragm should be broken, but because of the rules of the sect I still took this commission, at that time I didn't pay attention to it, so I asked the boy to help me hang up, but I came back to my senses and looked at my obedient, this bounty to Lao Tzu were frightened, at the time I thought he wrote the wrong bounty, so I wanted to find him to confirm first, so I chased out, but he was gone, how to find it can not be foundγ The more Elder Lie spoke, the more excited he became, and the stars flew with spittle.
"And then?" Su Fan felt that the latter was the key.
"Then the weirdest thing came, you also know that the task at this level is chaotic and the bounty is low, and as a result, there is such a task, and the disciples are all rushing to take it, and then there are eight disciples who have taken over this task, and the result is ......" Elder Lie said here and suddenly paused.
"The result?" Su Fan hurriedly asked.
"As a result, none of them came back, and all the disciples who went out to carry out this task never came back, and I thought something was wrong at that time, and then I went to investigate myself, but I found nothing, and then I sealed this mission, and I didn't take it out once in five years. Elder Lie said.
"Elder Lie went to see it in person but didn't find anything strange, didn't the disciple find it either?" Su Fan's heart jumped, and he felt that this matter was not simple.
"Yes, those disciples seem to have disappeared out of thin air, and there is no trace of the person who issued the commission in the first place, I guess that that person will only appear after finding the bead......" Elder Lie said with a frown, and he was extremely puzzled by this.
"There are so many disciples missing, haven't the sects gone to investigate?" Su Fan asked, the average sect has disappeared so many disciples, and they will definitely send someone to search it.
"There are no clues, such a big wilderness is simply a needle in the bottom of the sea, even the head of the sect has no way to find eight people in this vast wilderness, and then this matter is put on hold. Elder Lie said.
"Have you ever tried to ask a disciple with a high cultivation to disguise himself as a Flesh and Blood Realm disciple to do the commission and find out the clues?" Su Fan asked, since the disciples of the Flesh and Blood Realm can't handle this kind of thing, why don't you shoot a disciple of the Cave Heaven Realm and try it? Maybe you can find a big fish.
"I tried, but those disciples didn't find anything after they went, even Lu Haixue's girl went once, and then they didn't find anything. Elder Lie said.
"Senior sister has been there once?" What is the ability of the senior sister, Su Fan knows, that is a ruthless person who can cross the border and kill Jin Dan in seconds, and even the senior sister can't find anything, this matter is afraid that it is very mysterious.
"I'm also hesitant to give you this task, but if I want to find the whereabouts of those eight disciples, I can only pin my hopes on you. Elder Lie stretched out his hand and patted Su Fan's shoulder and said.
"Can I skip this assignment?" Su Fan actually knew that he was going to take it, and he was afraid that it would be dangerous to go, and the most dangerous thing might be that he disappeared like those eight disciples, and he didn't see anyone alive or dead.
"Yes, but if you take it, I will entrust you with one more thing in my personal name, that is, to retrieve the missing disciple, and the bounty will be the same as 10,000 contribution points!" Elder Lie said.
The eight missing disciples had always been a problem for Elder Lie, and he felt that he was quite sorry for those eight disciples, and that the eight disciples had not been heard from so far was also irresponsible.
After listening to Elder Lie's words, Su Fan was not calm here, this is a naked temptation, if it can be completed, 20,000 contribution points, it can be exchanged for 100,000 spirit stones, not to mention the prospect of promotion to the four realms, even the five realms are not impossible!
But it also comes with a certain amount of danger, and this task is definitely strange, and you may even end up in life and death if you are not careful.
But with Ming Huanghuang's 20,000 contribution points in front of him, Su Fan was in a dilemma.
"It's okay, I won't force you, you can go back and think about it before deciding whether to accept it. Elder Lie took back the task from Su Fan's hand, put the bamboo slip in the cabinet, and said.
"Okay, I'll go back and think about it, and I'll give you an answer tomorrow. Su Fan nodded, feeling that it was best to think about this matter and prepare thoroughly.
Su Fan went out and returned to his cave, he suddenly remembered something, and then exhaled out of the scripture building, and flipped through the information inside, all the clues he currently had were lifeless people, and the pearl in the well.
First of all, according to the clue of 'lifeless person', first guessed the most likely identity of the person who issued the task, in the classic records of the Tibetan Scripture Building, there are seven or eight different versions of people with this characteristic, Su Fan turned over and over, and then screened out the two most likely statements.
The first is the living dead, as the name suggests, this kind of person is neither alive nor dead, and I don't even know if I can call it a human, and usually the living dead are slow, dull eyes, sharp teeth, and even more deadly is that there is a deadly evil qi in the teeth, and the person or animal bitten by it will become a creature like it, how this creature came into being so far no practitioner can have a conclusion, and its distribution is extremely wide and appears on the four continents, and this kind of person does not have independent thinking, but acts by instinct.
The second type of puppet person has a certain consciousness, but the body is controlled by others, and the person who controls it is using the power of the immortal cultivator's talisman to manipulate the puppet person to do something that is inconvenient for them to show their face.
According to the information recorded in the classics, Su Fan personally prefers the latter possibility, but he can't be absolutely sure, there are no surprises in the world, and nothing is absolute, so he must not be preconceived, Su Fan always reminded himself.
After reading it, the yin and aura man made Su Fan's back straight.
But there was no way, Su Fan had to start looking for the relevant information of the pearl at the bottom of the well, but he searched and searched, and there was no description of this thing in any classics, as if it had been made up out of thin air.
But suddenly, a few lines of text attracted Su Fan's attention: in the eighty-fifth year of Qizhen, the Nanlu Kunqi country was in drought for three years, the people were not able to make a living, more than 700,000 people died in the drought, the sky was fine, and the sky had immortals descending, so that a pearl, the rain fell for three days in an instant, and the drought dissipated.
"Pearl?" Su Fan touched his chin.