Yu Xiaogang's Mission Finally Appears

"What the heck!"

Xiao Wu stopped flailing about and glared at You Chen with an angry pout. "A'Chen, don't go around scaring people for no reason, okay?!"

"Scaring people?"

Even You Chen could not quite keep up with Xiao Wu's train of thought, and a question mark seemed to pop up over his head.

After a pause, he looked at Xiao Wu speechlessly. "Who knows where that foolish little brain of yours wandered off to, to make you think I was only going to harm you now?! And who said you could call me A'Chen? Call me Uncle! If you really can't manage that, Uncle is fine too! From now on, in front of outsiders, you'll be my niece in name. Remember that, and don't blow our cover!"

"Ugh, I don't want to."

Xiao Wu pursed her lips. "Doesn't that make me a whole generation younger than you?"

You Chen pushed up his glasses. "In most people's eyes, with the age gap between us, being a generation apart is what makes sense."

Xiao Wu snorted unhappily. Then, seemingly thinking of something, a wise gleam lit up in her eyes. "Right! A'Chen, with those glasses on, it's actually hard to tell how old you are! Why not just say you're my big brother?"

Big brother?

Hearing that title, You Chen could not help twitching at the corner of his mouth. What, were you planning to switch sacrifice targets in this life?

"I'm thirty-five this year. How old are you?"

"I—" Xiao Wu's eyes rolled around. After a long pause, she finally pouted in dissatisfaction. "Six."

Hearing that, You Chen spoke in a flat tone, as if reading aloud. "Wow, that's a twenty-nine-year gap. Looks like our parents were quite vigorous in their old age."

Xiao Wu's braid immediately drooped. "Fine, Uncle it is."

"Very good."

You Chen nodded, his words carrying a double meaning. Then he picked up a grilled fish from the rack and tore into it with a bite.

The wafting aroma and crisp crunch instantly made Xiao Wu's eyes go wide.

You Chen's lips curled up. Blowing on the grilled fish that looked slightly charred on the surface, he said blandly, "I told you, this is when it's at its most perfect!"

That smug posture made Xiao Wu's teeth itch with anger.

"Enough. There aren't any extra grilled fish. I'm eating this one myself. I'll reward you with a few candies instead."

"Hmph, candy again? Do you really think you're entertaining a child?"

Xiao Wu talked tough, but she expertly caught the exquisitely packaged candies You Chen tossed her.

Over the past few days, You Chen had fed her from time to time. By now, nearly an entire box of "Friendly Advanced Candy" had gone into Xiao Wu's stomach.

The night passed without incident.

After Xiao Wu fell asleep in the tent, You Chen remained outside by the campfire, gazing up at the stars.

Soon, it was the early hours of the morning—the time when missions refreshed.

Ding.

The moment he saw the first few words of the mission, You Chen broke into a delighted smile.

As expected, Yu Xiaogang. I finally got you!

Mission: The theoretical scholar Yu Xiaogang of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan bears a grudge because you publicly refuted his theory of the "Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul." He intends to use the power of Spirit Hall's Saintess, Bibi Dong, against you. How could one tolerate such a thing? Faced with someone who relies on power and influence, how could you sit still and wait for death?!

You have two ways to complete this mission.

First, those who flaunt their power and influence must be made to experience the oppression of even greater power and influence!

Second, once you publish research results with true weight, learned scholars will naturally debate the scriptures for you! Completely crush Yu Xiaogang in theory, prove your own theory to him, and make him admit defeat!

Complete the mission through the first method to receive the basic reward. Complete it through the second method to receive an additional reward. Complete both methods to receive the ultimate reward on top of that!

Basic Reward: Ten Intermediate Nourishment Pills, Intermediate Soul Power Pills, Intermediate Strength Pills, Intermediate Speed Pills, Intermediate Soul Power Amplification Pills, and two uses of "Flash of Inspiration"

Additional Reward: One Intermediate Experience Pill, Soul Ring Age Increase Card (Thousand-Year), and one use of "Glimpse of Origin"

Ultimate Reward: Adaptive Best Age Second Soul Ring, ...

Before You Chen could finish reading the description of the ultimate reward, the final line of text suddenly twisted and blurred violently.

Ultimate Reward: Adaptive Best (&*(%￥))

After more than ten seconds of distorted text, it finally stabilized.

Ultimate Reward: Adaptive Best Age Soul Bone (Hundred-Thousand-Year Age Limit)

"..."

You Chen fell silent for a moment before muttering inwardly, As expected, was that previous situation a system bug?

There had clearly been no issue with the timeline, yet the system had become clever about this instead.

Well... perhaps it was not cleverness. Perhaps directly confronting the rules of the world had truly made the system suffer, so it had learned its lesson?

Still, You Chen had never expected the same good fortune to happen again.

He had long prepared himself for the possibility that Soul Ring rewards would no longer appear in the future.

What he cared about more was whether the path he had envisioned could proceed smoothly.

Yu Xiaogang's appearance in the mission was not an accident like Kendall's. It was an expected development, and You Chen was clearly quite pleased with it.

The value of a mission's rewards fundamentally depended on the difficulty level assigned to it by the system.

For example, although Ye Han had a Purple Robe Bishop behind him, childish squabbles between students would never draw that bishop into the matter. Therefore, the mission itself was not particularly difficult, nor did it carry much hidden risk.

If it had not been a Newbie Mission, its rewards would have been utterly ordinary.

If the bishop behind him had been the sort to fiercely protect his own, the mission rewards would have been raised to a certain extent. You Chen had already confirmed this from the information provided by so many previous missions.

Yu Xiaogang, on the other hand, might have been weak, but at that time, the one standing behind him was Saintess Bibi Dong! Her family, especially her father, actually still cared about his child.

That meant Yu Xiaogang's mission rating in the system could not be too low.

And what about You Chen at that time?

He had been a twelve-year-old brat with absolutely nothing!

Based on his own deductions, You Chen had already guessed that any mission related to Yu Xiaogang would not have poor rewards.

But...

Even so, aren't these rewards a little too generous?

You Chen shook his head and stopped dwelling on the rewards being somewhat beyond his expectations.

Objectively speaking, this mission really was difficult.

The system would not assume a future in order to judge a mission's difficulty.

For instance, in the future, Qian Xunji would worry that Bibi Dong might be swept away by Yu Xiaogang, and would thus obstruct their relationship.

The system would not factor such future conditions favorable to You Chen into the current mission, lowering its difficulty rating and skimping on rewards.

With You Chen, a transmigrator, having arrived, the entire future had to be reshuffled. Things that had not yet happened could not be treated as absolute conditions for setting mission difficulty.

The system would only determine mission difficulty and rewards based on the current situation, the target's overall capabilities, the overall gap in strength between both sides, and the conditions for completing the mission.

So it was only reasonable for the rewards to be a little better. Mm.

This mission's rewards also contained another entirely new term, which naturally drew even more of You Chen's attention.

"Glimpse of Origin." Its description was no less impressive than that of "Flash of Inspiration."

This was undoubtedly another reward in the "special" category.

Its effect was rather complicated to explain. It allowed a soul master to more deeply sense the origin of their martial soul... To put it simply, it was a reward that could greatly improve a soul master's understanding of their own martial soul, thereby increasing their control over its origin.

This is an absolutely fantastic item!

Perhaps because the contract had been signed early, the novel somehow dropped off the new-book recommendation list. What a pain...