Second Choice

He looked closely, and the newcomer was none other than Ye Tian.

Lin Heng's heart first skipped a beat, then he was overjoyed!

He was here, he was here! He came stepping on a Five-Colored Auspicious Cloud!

Wasn't this settled, then? The two of them happened to make a pair. Once the mission was complete, they could just find somewhere to be lovey-dovey. Why should he go be a third wheel?

"Senior Sister, look! Senior Brother Ye is here. From the looks of it, Senior Brother has recovered pretty well." Lin Heng clicked his tongue with a beaming smile.

"With Senior Brother Ye and Senior Sister Xiao Yao taking action, won't the sect mission be as easy as stretching out a hand to grab it? I won't drag you two down!"

Yun Yao looked at him sidelong with an amused little gaze. Seeing him turn to slip away, she directly reached out and grabbed him by the neck.

She had the air of some dark, vicious thug bullying a good-family handsome man.

What is this guy being so cowardly for? He's always yelling that I'm throwing myself at him! If you don't go, how am I supposed to know what tricks Ye Tian will play!?

Lin Heng leaned backward, his head resting on her right shoulder. Before his eyes, aside from a suffocatingly beautiful smiling face, there was also a bright, dangling fist.

Yes!

As long as he dared say one more no, Yun Yao was going to manufacture a panda on the spot right in front of all the disciples.

"Junior Brother, don't be in such a hurry to leave! Senior Sister is kindly bringing you along to kill monsters, level up, and earn points rewards... Can you bear to let down Senior Sister's enthusiasm?"

"Besides, with Senior Sister here, I absolutely won't let you lose an arm or a leg. Senior Sister swears she'll protect you properly, all right?"

Yun Yao did not want to throw herself at him for free, and even less did she want to be sold to a Flower Pavilion. In her heart, she bore no ill will toward Lin Heng. If there was blame, then blame the fact that he kept yelling in his heart that she would throw herself at him, making her live in fear all day now.

Yun Yao also knew he was afraid of Ye Tian, afraid he would get hurt, so she would definitely protect him with all her heart.

With her there, Ye Tian would not dare do anything to Lin Heng.

What a sin! Why was the fiery Overbearing Flower so different from what I imagined!

You say with your mouth that you'll protect me, but who knows whether your brain will short-circuit once we're outside!

The key was that I don't know exactly how you end up throwing yourself at him either. Even if I wanted to save you, there's no way.

Hearing his bitter inner complaints, Yun Yao actually found it very interesting.

She wanted to see what exactly would happen during this sect mission.

Only by bringing Lin Heng with her would she have any chance of knowing what methods Ye Tian would use against her, and make an early warning in advance!

Forced by Yun Yao's tyrannical might, plus her repeated promises that she would protect him, Lin Heng's heart was thrown into complete chaos.

Senior Sister's enthusiasm could not be let down.

The two's actions and conversation all fell into the eyes of the surrounding disciples, petrifying everyone on the spot.

Who did not know Yun Yao? She was the cleverest and strangest one on Fairy Cloud Peak, a typical fiery Overbearing Flower.

As for her, the disciples of every peak all kept a respectful distance. No one dared give birth to the idea of taming her.

As for Lin Heng, he had recently just obtained the title of Waste Prince, so most people recognized him.

No, brothers.

This was a little hard to understand!

Was this the script where the noob did not want the big shot to carry him while lying down, but the big shot insisted on carrying the noob into the sky?

Putting aside what Yun Yao was like, she was at least a Golden Core Realm cultivator.

Teaming up with her for a mission was basically free points picked up from the ground, wasn't it?

Yet Lin Heng actually still had a face full of deathly reluctance.

The most heaven-defying part was that Yun Yao had used both fist threats and verbal pleading.

Never mind these outer-peak disciples, even Ye Tian, who was standing not far away, went dazed at this sight.

Lin Heng had only been on Fairy Cloud Peak for a few days, and he was already this familiar with Yun Yao?

Senior Sister was actually begging him to go.

Damn it!

He had been on Fairy Cloud Peak for five years, and he had never seen Yun Yao be this enthusiastic toward him.

Ye Tian had already been dazzled by jealousy and completely failed to notice that above the pleading, there was still a bright fist hanging there.

"Senior Sister! What are you two doing!"

Ye Tian charged forward and questioned them.

At this moment, Yun Yao's hand was still resting on Lin Heng's shoulder. It was a very normal scene, yet it made Ye Tian feel abnormally frenzied.

Because he felt this was somewhat intimate. He had long since regarded all five Senior Sisters as his own women.

Yun Yao withdrew her hand and pretended to be surprised. "Junior Brother, why are you here? Didn't Senior Sister Liu Xi say you needed to cultivate in seclusion?"

Ye Tian noticed the strange gazes of the surrounding people and immediately realized he had lost his composure.

He did not know why his emotions had suddenly surged up, so he could only blame it on his damaged soul being somewhat sensitive.

Taking a deep breath, he hurriedly said, "Senior Sister, my body is already fine. I also want to participate in the sect mission."

"Of course you can. Then it'll be the three of us! I chose one D-Class Mission and one B-Class Mission. Both locations are in Golden Horse City."

"No problem."

Ye Tian nodded.

When Lin Heng heard "Golden Horse City," he closed his eyes as if accepting his fate.

What should come would always come. If it was fortune, it was not disaster; if it was disaster, disaster could not be avoided.

Ding, Main Storyline begins:

(Positive) Main Mission: Tomorrow, you will set off for Golden Horse City, participate in your first sect mission, and push the plot forward so that Yun Yao throws herself at him, helping the original protagonist subdue the female lead. Reward index: high-tier.

(Reverse) Main Mission: Stop the original protagonist from subduing the female lead and avoid getting injured. Reward index: unknown.

Description: This is a crisis difficult to get through. Whether the original protagonist embraces the beauty and returns, or you avoid becoming a cripple, lies in your second choice.

The system more strongly recommends that the host choose the Reverse Mission. Only this can count as resisting fate. The more female leads the original protagonist subdues, the less room you have to survive!

"Second choice?"

Lin Heng caught a piece of information from the brief description.

Could there still be a Hidden Plot that had not been triggered?

Regardless of whether the system gave him advice this time, he definitely would not allow everything to develop in the positive direction.

Having one of his legs broken, a high-tier reward alone definitely would not be enough.

Moreover, this was, after all, a many-wives, many-blessings script. Even if he could not get the female lead, she should not be cheaply given to the original protagonist so easily.

In that case, more or less, there had been some problems with his previous way of thinking. At the same time, it also meant that the path of skulking and surviving was very hard to make work!

Forget it. For now, I'll take one step and see one step. I also want to see what tricks Ye Tian will play.

The next day.

Lin Heng and the other two set out together.

On the road, Yun Yao roughly explained this mission to him. Although he had known it long ago, he could only pretend to know nothing.

The Heavenly Profound Continent was, as a whole, divided into the Four Continents of east, west, south, and north.

In this immortal cultivation world, aside from immortal cultivation forces, there were also Dynasties that sheltered ordinary people.

A Dynasty was not the human emperor ruling all under heaven as commonly known in ancient history.

It was a product that gathered many things into one. The supreme rulers of a Dynasty were likewise immortal cultivators, and the Inner Court Three Departments were all composed of immortal cultivation clans.

It could be viewed as a comprehensive immortal cultivation force wearing the outer garment of a Dynasty, mainly managing secular lands.

For example, the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm had formerly been a small Dynasty.

The so-called sect missions were merely the batch of people represented by the Dynasty being unable to resolve trouble and having no choice but to cooperate with the great sects around them.

Secular lands were too vast, so it was unavoidable that some utterly vicious, evil-doing immortal cultivators would appear.

All the major immortal cultivation sects could cooperate with the Dynasty. The Dynasty would have helpers to resolve trouble, and sect disciples could gain opportunities for tempering. Naturally, it was perfect for both sides.

"There's something I don't quite understand. Immortal cultivators take attaining the Dao and ascending as their goal, so how could there still be people willing to establish Dynasties to shelter ordinary people?"

In Lin Heng's view, this did not make logical sense.

Shouldn't an immortal cultivation world be full of deception and scheming, with a little worldly human feeling mixed in now and then?

Combining the Dynasty system with the immortal cultivation system was inevitably too strange.

Yun Yao glanced at him, then tipped back her gourd and gulped down a mouthful.

"Don't think of them as so noble. They raise the banner of sheltering ordinary people, but in truth, it's still for themselves."

"The base number of ordinary people on the Heavenly Profound Continent is too large. Among them, how many can become immortal cultivators?"

"Don't forget, aside from us, there are also the bloodthirsty Demon Race and people of the Demonic Path who like slaughter."

"If they were allowed to massacre ordinary people as they pleased, not only would it cut off our inheritance, it would also make them become more and more powerful."

"You understand what I mean, right!"

"That makes some sense."

Lin Heng nodded.

When scum appeared among ordinary people, they were called utterly vicious, and they could still be controlled.

But if scum appeared among immortal cultivators, ordinary people could only become lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

The arts of corpse rearing and gu refinement required living people as sacrifices.

Some sinister and evil cultivation methods sought benefits through means such as harvesting yang to supplement yin, or harvesting yin to supplement yang.

If these immortal cultivation scum were allowed to run rampant, sooner or later they would destroy the Heavenly Profound Continent.

As for things on a deeper level, Lin Heng expressed that he was not interested yet.

This time, they had a total of two missions in Golden Horse City.

First, the D-Class Mission was to help the Dynasty investigate whether the City Lord's Mansion was cooperating with an evil sect. If the situation proved true, they could capture the mansion lord on the spot.

Second, the B-Class Mission was to investigate a case of prostitutes' clients dying in the city. They only needed to capture the murderer, so the difficulty was comparatively simple.