Di Jun rubbed his nose.
Just as he was about to resume meditating, a lecherous voice suddenly rang out in his mind:
"Host, do you want a wife?"
Di Jun: "...?"
"What do you mean?" He was a little baffled. Wasn't he supposed to be following the cautious cultivation route?
Before Di Jun could figure it out, the Survival System spoke again:
"Emergency mandatory mission issued!"
"Xi He and Chang Xi of the Lunar Star have encountered a mortal crisis. Host must immediately go to their rescue!"
"Mission failure penalty:"
"Revoke the supply of 'Unlimited Iced Tea'; permanently uninstall 'Smartphone' and all related entertainment functions.
"Host will also be forced into Hell-level Prehistoric World difficulty for one hundred epochs."
What the hell?!
This wasn't right!
"Wait! System!"
Di Jun roared in his mind.
"Have you caught a virus? Or did some damned Transmigrator take over your body?"
"I'm on the cautious cultivation route! Not the hero-saves-beauty route! And definitely not the harem route!"
"According to Chapter 7, Clause 3 of the supplementary terms of the core agreement,"
the system said without a hint of emotion,
"when an event causes serious damage to the host's long-term benefits, the system has the right to issue a mandatory intervention mission."
Di Jun: "..."
He suddenly remembered that, maybe, possibly...
when he first bound himself to the system, there really had been a massive agreement full of fine print.
He just hadn't bothered to read it.
"Come on, East Prince Gong has the Immortal Trapping Array and over a hundred Great Luo Immortal generals!"
“Am I supposed to go there and get myself killed? I'm just a cautious Quasi-Saint!”
Di Jun was beside himself.
"Ahem." The Survival System spoke up. "Host, the Lunar Star sisters are your destined partners, after all."
"You don't want East Prince Gong to cuckold you, do you?"
Di Jun: "..."
He hadn't even met Xi He and Chang Xi! What did cuckolding have to do with anything?
And if anyone was getting cuckolded, it'd be Tai Yi.
"Mission forcibly accepted. Countdown begins: ten, nine, eight..."
Di Jun's face turned green.
This lousy system acted like a coward most of the time. How could it be so tough when it mattered?
"Seven, six..."
"Fine, fine! I'll go! I'll go, all right?" Di Jun gritted his teeth and sprang up from the Fusang Tree.
"But we're agreed: I'll just take a look. If I can save them, I will. If I can't, I'll immediately retreat and lie low again! Also, what's the reward? There's no reward for a mandatory mission?"
"Mission success reward: a significant increase in the affection of the two Lunar Star women, plus one Fire Law."
"The mission failure penalty has already been stated."
As he hurriedly put away his iced-tea cooler and phone, Di Jun grumbled furiously:
"That reward is so stingy, but the penalty is brutal! This is an exploitative contract!"
"Five, four..."
"I get it, I get it! Stop counting!"
Di Jun drew in his Solar True Fire, and his aura instantly grew ethereal and indistinct, as if he had merged with the entire Solar Star.
This was the "cautious cultivation technique" he had painstakingly cultivated for years.
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Combined with the River Diagram and Luo Book's ability to deduce and conceal the secrets of heaven, it would be extremely difficult to detect him unless a Sage deliberately searched for him.
He cast a wistful glance at his warm, safe nest in the Fusang Tree and sighed.
"I, Di Jun, have lived cautiously all my life. I never thought I'd be forced to play the hero and save the beauty today..."
"I hope that kid Tai Yi appreciates what I'm doing and bothers me less from now on..."
Di Jun's figure turned into a nearly imperceptible streak of light and silently slipped out of the Solar Star, speeding toward the Lunar Star.
As he flew, he frantically plotted in his mind:
"East Prince Gong has the Immortal Trapping Array. A head-on fight would be unwise..."
"Best to create a disturbance, snatch the sisters amid the chaos, and run..."
"Where should I run once I've got them? I can't go back to the Solar Star; that might expose my hideout... And I can't go to Buzhou Mountain either—the Witch Clan is in a foul mood..."
"That's it! West Kunlun! Queen Mother of the West! She and East Prince Gong don't get along, and she has the Plain Colored Cloud Realm Banner. It should be safe to hide there for a while..."
While Di Jun plotted and raced toward his destination,
the situation on the Lunar Star had already reached a critical point.
East Prince Gong had one hand around Chang Xi's throat. With ninety percent of her magical power sealed, her little face had flushed red, and her eyes were full of humiliation and fury.
Moonlight surged around Xi He as she tried to break the immortal chains wrapped around her, but she feared hurting Chang Xi and didn't dare unleash her full power.
"East Prince Gong! Let my sister go!"
Xi He's voice was icy, her fury suppressed to the very limit.
"If you dare hurt even a hair on her head, I, Xi He, swear that I'll scour the heavens and earth and reduce you to body and soul alike!"
East Prince Gong laughed and lightly traced a finger across Chang Xi's cheek.
"Why get so angry, fellow Daoist Xi He? I'm merely inviting you both to be my guests."
"Chang Xi is so adorable. I cherish her too much to hurt her."
His voice abruptly turned cold. "But if you still refuse to cooperate, don't blame me for forgetting to treat a beauty with tenderness!"
As he spoke, his hand tightened around Chang Xi's throat.
Chang Xi struggled to breathe, yet a note of resolve flashed in her eyes. She sent a mental message to Xi He: "Sister... don't worry about me... Detonate the Lunar Star's source... We can't let him succeed..."
"Be quiet!" Xi He shot back in a fierce mental message, her heart already burning with anxiety.
Detonate the Lunar Star's source?
That was the very last resort, one that would take them both down! They couldn't use it unless absolutely necessary!
Tears streamed down Chang Xi's face. Her feelings for Xi He were far too complicated.
"Sister, actually, I..."
Just as Chang Xi was about to confess her feelings for Xi He,
at the edge of the Lunar Star, a crucial, deeply concealed node in the violently fluctuating Immortal Trapping Array diagram—one responsible for drawing in the power of the stars and resonating with the Lunar Star's energy—
suddenly gave a faint twitch without warning.
The fluctuation was so slight it was almost impossible to notice.
Even the hundred-plus Great Luo Immortal generals maintaining the formation and East Prince Gong, a mid-stage Quasi-Saint, failed to notice it at first.
Yet that tiny, almost imperceptible fluctuation was like the first domino falling.
The precise and fragile balance of the Immortal Trapping Array diagram was broken!
Boom—!!!
The immortal light, which had been steadily flowing and sealing heaven and earth, abruptly fell into chaos!
Countless immortal chains lost control, collided with one another, and shattered!
Several screams rang out from within the formation. Caught off guard, several Great Luo Immortal generals positioned at crucial nodes were blasted backward, coughing blood as the formation's power rebounded on them!
The entire Immortal Trapping Array shook violently. Its light flickered, and its sealing power weakened dramatically!
"What's going on?!"
East Prince Gong's expression changed drastically. He whipped around to look toward the formation.
To set up this array, he had spent a huge amount of the system's points and used his own blood essence as a catalyst to channel the power of more than a hundred Great Luo Immortal generals.
By all rights,
it would take a Great Power at the late Hun Yuan Golden Immortal stage or above unleashing its full strength to attack the array head-on,
or a Quasi-Saint skilled in formations spending time to decipher it. Otherwise, there was no way it could be shaken from the outside!
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