Everyone Is Undercover

Peach Blossom Spring Mountain Range.

This was a Spirit Vein blessed with nature's finest gifts, surrounded by immortal mountains that rose and fell into the distance.

On Vermilion Bird Peak.

In a courtyard residence, Chen Ning opened his door a crack and quietly surveyed the courtyard.

More than ten figures stood at the courtyard entrance.

Every one of them exuded a fierce, terrifying presence.

Stone-faced, they stood guard over the residence.

Everything about them proclaimed how strong they were.

Bang!

The door slammed shut.

"Good grief, that's one formidable lineup of bodyguards..."

With more than ten experts standing guard outside, there was probably no way a mere mortal like him could escape.

Still shaken, Chen Ning sat down.

Fragments of memory flashed through his mind from time to time.

Transmigration had become mainstream, so Chen Ning could accept that much.

But the guy whose body he had taken over...

His situation was just too damn unlucky!

Not only had he been entrusted with the sect master's position in a time of crisis, but someone had also secretly murdered him on his very first day in office.

That was how Chen Ning had come to transmigrate.

But the crisis was far from over.

When Chen Ning assimilated the original owner's memories, his jaw nearly hit the floor.

The sect he had inherited had quite a background.

It was one of the foremost cultivation sects in the Nine Provinces.

The Dragon-Seeking Sect.

But what surprised Chen Ning wasn't the sect's lofty standing. It was the series of revelations the old sect master had passed on to the original owner!

Every single one was explosive.

The sect appeared to be flourishing, but in truth, everyone was undercover.

"Grand Elder Cang Yue is an informant sent by the imperial dynasty to keep watch on the sect."

"The Second Elder is the holy maiden of the Heavenly Lake Holy Land. She infiltrated the sect when she was young and has been acting as an insider, ready at any time to coordinate an attack from within and without with the Heavenly Lake Holy Land."

"The head of the Law Enforcement Hall is a Devil Race spy. He has already passed on tens of thousands of pieces of intelligence about the sect's various secrets."

"The sect's strongest expert is a beast-eared girl, a nail the Beast Race planted in the sect. She has her eyes fixed on the sect master's position like a tiger watching its prey, ready to take his place at any time and revitalize her race."

"Even my own personal guard is the Thief God's granddaughter. Following the Thief God's orders, she covets the treasures hidden in the sect and has grand ambitions!"

And that was only the tip of the iceberg.

The old sect master had investigated for a long time before uncovering the identities of the undercover agents in the sect, one by one.

Chen Ning alone knew these secrets.

That was precisely why the old sect master had been forced to pass the position of sect master to the original owner, whose background was the cleanest.

The old sect master had also revealed that most of the undercover agents from the various factions had come for a secret treasure of the Dragon-Seeking Sect.

Rumor had it that this secret treasure could seize the fortune of heaven and earth.

It could overturn the universe, change life and death, and break the cycle of reincarnation.

The power the secret treasure possessed was far too great.

So great that countless titans of the present age flocked to it in a frenzy.

When Chen Ning reached this point in the memories, he had still been quite happy.

A secret treasure made things easy. Couldn't he just hand it over and keep himself safe?

But instead, the situation plunged into a bottomless abyss.

Before the old sect master departed this world, he had merely said, in a matter-of-fact tone:

"Those were all lies the Dragon-Seeking Sect masters of past generations made up to show off and fool people..."

There was no secret treasure at all.

There had only been generations of Dragon-Seeking Sect members striving to govern well and strengthen themselves without cease.

Who could have known that, after fermenting for hundreds or thousands of years, the lie would become a legend?

It had become a closely guarded secret.

Chen Ning could naturally guess what had happened next.

Presumably, one of the undercover agents had tried to get the secret treasure's whereabouts out of the original owner.

When the attempt failed, the agent killed the original owner in a rage.

But that person had been too skilled.

So skilled that there wasn't a single trace of that part of events in the original owner's memories.

"Sigh..."

"I started right off in hell mode..."

He couldn't escape, so what was he supposed to do?

"Ding!"

"The Peerless Good Sect Master System has been successfully bound!"

"Loading system..."

"Hm?"

Chen Ning was briefly stunned, and then he was overcome with joy.

See that? See that?

His cheat had arrived!

"Loading successful!"

A translucent character panel appeared before Chen Ning's eyes.

Host: Chen Ning

Cultivation: none

Title: Rookie Sect Leader (beginner exclusive)

Title effect: passively increases the chance of persuading others by fifty percent. (Note: even as a newly appointed sect leader, you must possess outstanding eloquence to govern the sect.)

Chen Ning: "???"

Good grief, he wouldn't have known how weak he was if he hadn't looked at his character panel.

He had finally gotten a title from the system, and its effect still depended on talking?

Come on!

This was a cultivation world!

Couldn't he get something martial instead of all this literary stuff?

Just then, the system's full introduction sounded at the right moment.

"Ding! This system aims to help the host become a peerless good sect master. It will randomly issue missions concerning sect members at irregular intervals. Completing missions will earn generous rewards."

"Ding! Random beginner mission triggered. Accept?"

"Accept!"

Chen Ning was full of fighting spirit. With the system arriving in such a desperate situation, he had to seize this chance to grow stronger and escape his current predicament.

Good grief, in his present situation, he was besieged on all sides.

Everyone was a villain.

"Mission accepted successfully!"

"Ding! Congratulations on accepting the beginner mission [Night Watch]"

"Mission description: find Su Ling'er and stand guard outside her room for one night to complete the mission.

Mission deadline: one day

Penalty for failure: explode on the spot, body and soul destroyed."

As Chen Ning listened to the mission description, his expression turned somewhat bitter.

The mission didn't sound difficult.

But did this system have no intelligence?

Couldn't it detect the identities and backgrounds of the sect members?

Su Ling'er was his personal guard.

A little loli.

She looked delicate and frail.

But that was only her protective coloring.

Her true identity was the Thief God's granddaughter.

She was very dangerous.

Besides, he still didn't know who had killed the original owner.

What if she was the murderer?

And he went over there to do the mission anyway?

Wouldn't that be a lamb walking into a tiger's jaws?

After struggling inwardly for a while, Chen Ning finally gritted his teeth and steeled himself.

"To hell with it!"

If he didn't do the mission, the only outcome awaiting Chen Ning was death anyway.

He might as well take a gamble.

Straightening his robes, Chen Ning stood up, his expression becoming calm.

He pushed open the door.

The dozen or so figures at the courtyard entrance immediately sensed him.

They were all the sect master's guards.

Although they were somewhat unwilling to protect this young sect master who still reeked of his mother's milk,

duty was duty.

They still asked respectfully, "What are your orders, Sect Master?"

"Go fetch Su Ling'er."

Chen Ning lowered his gaze and gave the order calmly.