Zhen Dayu looked at the paper rubbing and smiled. "Mm, all done. I'll be off now. You'd better take good care of yourselves. With everything..."
"Hurry up and go. If you delay things, you'll have to bear the consequences too." I waved him off. Zhen Dayu gave a wry smile and hurried away. Bai Ruoqi was still very worried, so I consoled her. "Man proposes, Heaven disposes. We've made all the preparations. Now everything depends on Heaven."
"I hope this trip goes smoothly." After Bai Ruoqi finished speaking, she looked at me and asked, "Immortal Xia, since you're so formidable, what weapon did you use in the lower realm? For this mission, we can go to the nearby Armory Office to claim a weapon available for extraction under the mission's terms. Why don't we go together and pick one up?"
I thought about it. Wasn't I just missing a weapon? I'd still been trying to find a way to get one, and I hadn't expected an existing one to be available. Although competition in the Divine Court was brutal, and failure meant being sent into the God-Burying Coffin, they still fully armed everyone before sending them out. That counted as showing some humanity.
The woman going with us on this mission was named Lu Wan. She was one of Bai Ruoqi's most capable assistants and had ninth-grade cultivation. Even at the ninth grade, however, her orthodox lineage was so pure that she was incomparable to ordinary ninth-grade Dao Bodies.
The Divine Court was divided into many regions, each composed of countless minor realms. The Armory Office was much like a bank in the mortal world, so the three of us flew to the nearest one without spending too much time. After we presented the mission commission, the young man at