Chapter 40: The Goddess Peak
Shen Mu swept the task in the jade card, and was immediately attracted by the reward of the task of "Clearing the Corpse", a yellow-level superb flying sword.
"I can save a lot of money now, but with such a rewarding task, why hasn't anyone claimed it after so many days?"
According to the information displayed on the jade tablet, the quest was issued seven days ago by an elder named Huang Tingtian, and no one has claimed it so far.
And when Shen Mu just browsed the taskbar, he found that many tasks were picked up by people with fast hands as soon as he saw them, and he had been in a situation where there were more monks and less porridge.
"No matter, let's go check it out first."
The mission location is in the Goddess Peak of Qinglingmen, Shen Mu opened the map and investigated, only to find that the location of this Goddess Peak is extremely remote, located in the corner of the map of Qinglingmen, and according to the information displayed on the map, there is no teleportation array to reach the Goddess Peak.
"It's a trouble, do you want me to rush over by myself?"
At this time, Shen Mu had already come to the square where the teleportation array was located, and when he was in distress, his eyes were suddenly attracted by several big birds combing their feathers in the corner of the square.
Shen Mu walked towards the big birds, and when a person on the side saw this, he hurriedly greeted him, looking at what he was wearing, he should also be an inner disciple.
"This fellow is in a hurry? I'm rushing in the clouds, and I'm very fast. ”
It seems that as Shen Mu guessed, he is really a ferryman.
Shen Mu looked at a few giant birds called Yun Li Chong, nodded, and then asked the inner disciple, "I don't know how Senior Brother collects the price?" ”
That person looked much older than Shen Mu, and it was reasonable to call Senior Brother Sheng.
"Within the Qingling Gate, anywhere, six spirit stones will be accepted, how about it, it's cheap."
He stretched out his right hand and made a six.
"Well, that's reasonable!"
Shen Mu nodded, compared to the teleportation fee of ten spirit stones, his price was reasonable, but was it really good for this senior brother to blatantly steal business with the sect like this?
"In this way, without further ado, junior brother tell me where you want to go, so I can take you there, come back and continue to guard my stall."
The inner disciple walked over to a large bird and stroked its feathers.
"Goddess Peak!"
Shen Mu took out six spirit stones and handed them to the inner disciple who was making preparations.
"Goddess Peak? What did the junior brother do in that ghost place? ”
After hearing the location reported by Shen Mu, the inner disciple withdrew the hand that was about to take the spirit stone.
"But you can't go?"
Shen Mu didn't tell him his purpose, and there was no need to tell him.
"You can go, you have to add money, fifteen spirit stones."
The inner disciple hesitated for a moment, and then quoted a new price.
"You, how can you not talk about words, didn't you say six spirit stones?"
Shen Mu was a little angry, didn't this person think he was good at discussing?
"Senior brother, listen to me. This goddess peak is very evil, it is said that there are ghosts and things haunted, there are often strange sounds in the mountains, disturbing people's minds, so far no one dares to open a cave there. If I hadn't opened it today, I wouldn't have agreed to take you there. ”
"Oh?"
Shen Mu looked at this inner disciple, and he didn't look like he was coaxing himself, thinking that no one had taken this task for such a day, and the content of the task was to clean up the corpses, and he began to feel that this goddess peak was weird.
"That's it, fifteen is fifteen!"
After thinking for a while, Shen Mu still agreed, let's spend money for convenience.
The inner disciple happily accepted the spirit stone, then took Shen Mu, and the two of them left the square together on a big bird, flying towards the depths of the sea of clouds.
I don't know how long it took, but the two finally approached their destination.
"Senior brother, look, there is the Goddess Peak, it's not good, I already feel ominous."
Shen Mu looked in the direction he was pointing, it was a mountain peak towering among the clouds, on the whole, it really looked like a woman looking forward to it, but this green eyes looked no different from ordinary peaks.
But the closer he got, the more Shen Mu keenly noticed its difference.
This goddess peak is filled with evil aura, no wonder it breeds ghosts, and no one dares to approach.
A moment later, the two stopped on the stone steps on the mountainside of the Goddess Peak, and at this moment, a loud noise came from the top of the mountain, and the whole mountain seemed to shake.
"Senior brother, then you should be careful, I'll go first."
"Wait, ...... return"
Shen Mugang wanted to ask about the return trip, but after the man heard this loud noise, he rode directly on the big bird and left without looking back.
"Is it necessary to be so afraid?"
Shen Mu stepped on the stone steps and walked towards the mountain, the place agreed on the mission was at the head of the Goddess Peak, and he began to become cautious due to the atmosphere.
During this time, Shen Mu heard the strange loud noise again, and the more he climbed up, the louder and denser the sound he heard, and finally it was like a continuous raindrop.
With doubts in his mind, Shen Mu finally stepped on the last step of the stairs, where a small courtyard appeared in front of him, and the mystery of the loud noise was revealed.
It turned out to be a white-haired old man, who was by the fire in the courtyard at the moment, with his back to Shen Mu striking iron.
The temperature was very high, he was naked, revealing his bronze upper body, looking stronger than any young man, holding a sledgehammer, according to the characteristic melody, and smashed the unformed iron embryo on the anvil at once, making a sound sometimes like a drop of water, sometimes like a thunderclap on the ground.
"Dare to ask! Is it Elder Huang! ”
Shen Muyun had enough aura and shouted loudly, but the sound was still drowned out in the sound of striking iron.
But the sturdy white-haired old man seemed to hear Shen Mu's shout, and he stopped in mid-air with his next hammer, then turned to Shen Mu with his hammer, looked at him, and opened his mouth full of thick white whiskers, "Are you here to do a mission?" ”
"It's the junior, but I don't know where this corpse is?"
Although Shen Mu felt a strong evil aura, he didn't find the existence of corpses along the way.
"I've been waiting for seven days, and here comes a kid like you, do you think you can do it?"
The white-haired old man, that is, Huang Tingtian, did not directly answer Shen Mu's words, but questioned Shen Mu's strength first.
"Since the juniors dare to take it, of course they have ten layers of certainty."
Of course, Shen Mu also understood the other party's doubts, because the task required foundation building strength, but now he only had to refine his qi to perfection.
"Okay, but I want to remind you that the place where the corpse is located is haunted by evil qi, and accidentally entering the body may hurt the origin of life, by the way, you kid is afraid that you don't even know what evil qi is."
Huang Tingtian's eyes narrowed.
"Although the junior is not strong enough, he still knows this evil qi, and besides, I practice a spell that can temporarily immune to the influence of evil qi."
Shen Mu himself can turn into a bone demon, of course he is not afraid of evil spirits, but he can't tell this secret to this old man, he just comes up with a spell.
"Since you are not afraid of death, then I will not stop you, but this matter is very important to me, and I have to test you first. Ling'er! ”
Immediately, Huang Tingtian shouted towards a certain thatched hut behind him.
"Grandpa, what's the matter with Ling'er?"
Under the hut, a girl with long braids walked out.
She was wearing a green floral dress, her figure was well-proportioned, her face was as beautiful as a white pear blossom stained with dew, and her eyes were surprisingly bright, as soon as she left the room, her sparkling eyes looked at Shen Mu curiously, because on weekdays, there would be no one else in this goddess peak.
What's more, someone who looks so strange, after the girl saw it, she unconsciously covered her mouth and snickered. And Shen Mu didn't know that the girl was laughing at herself, so she just nodded politely at the other party.
"You take this kid to the Heartless Cave, supervise him, and see if he has the strength to kill the corpse?"
Huang Tingtian pointed at Shen Mu at the girl.
"Grandpa, why bother outsiders, Ling'er alone is enough."
The girl came to Huang Tingtian's side and compared her fist.
"Grandpa knows that you are very strong, but there is one more person and more protection, so you can lead him to have a look, if the situation is not right, you can help him."
"Okay."
The girl replied reluctantly, but still came to Shen Mu's side, looking curiously with a pair of big eyes.
"In Xia Shenmu, it's time to work again."
Shen Mu bowed to the girl.
"Shen Mu, my name is Huang Mengling, you come with me."
Huang Mengling beckoned to Shen Mu, motioning for him to follow her, and then walked in the direction of a certain place in the mountain, while Shen Mu said goodbye to Huang Tingtian and followed the girl's steps.
Huang Mengling seemed to have few opportunities to contact people outside, so she asked Shen Mu a lot of questions along the way, and Shen Mu patiently answered her one by one, and through the conversation, she knocked on the side and pulled out a lot of information.
It turned out that although the Goddess Peak was haunted, the refiner was killed, and the evil qi helped the refiner to refine a better-quality magic weapon, so Huang Tingtian became the peak master of this Goddess Peak.
And the reason why he asked someone to clean up the corpse was because a few days later, the divine soldier he had been training for several months was about to complete the last process, and then the fear of the divine soldier would have a vision before he was born, which would attract the corpse demon and disturb him, so he issued the task of cleaning up the corpse demon, and asked people to kill those corpse demons for him while he concentrated on refining.
"Grandpa comes here almost every month, but no one takes the task, and no magic soldiers are born, so he is busy in vain."
Huang Mengling spread her hands, feeling that her grandfather was making a bit of a fuss, and even if she really attracted some corpses, her strength was enough to deal with it.
"Hahaha, so it's a loophole for me to pick up this big bargain."
Shen Mu laughed a few times, if he just watched and could get the Yellow Rank Superb Flying Sword without using his hands, it would indeed be a great bargain for himself.
"By the way, you know what? Legend has it that this goddess peak was incarnated by the corpse of a goddess who had lost her heart, so the mountain was full of anger. And this heartless hole is her heartless heart, which often breeds corpses. ”
Huang Mengling talked a lot, and after entering the Heartless Cave, she told Shen Mu this allusion, and at the same time laughed strangely and made a strange expression, as if asking, "How is it, are you afraid?"
"Oh?"
Shen Mu felt the evil aura inside, but his face became serious, and his intuition told him that this place was not simple.
"Haha, no, you really believe it, this is just what my grandfather used to scare me when I was a child."
Huang Mengling saw Shen Mu's serious look, but she burst into laughter.