Task Failed

The Liu Ying retreated, disappearing about a mile from the village. The five villagers stopped their Pursuit and returned to the Courtney.

Time seemed to have rewound to the moment when the Liu Ying had just descended the mountain; everything was so quiet, eerie, and cold.

Looking towards the village, the Liu Ying watched the five villagers around the Courtney, lost in thought. Clearly, she too had noticed some strange phenomena.

"It seems this spirit sword is not meant for her," Ma Feifei sighed and shook her head.

If his speculation is correct, then the only way for Liu Ying to get through here is to successfully contact the villagers; otherwise, it's simply impossible for her with Liu Ying abilities.

And responding to the villagers' words is even more difficult. Who the hell knows what the villagers mean by what they say? Even Ma Feifei guessed that the current plot was a side story, but he still couldn't figure out how to respond to the villagers' words.

This mistake led to a fierce attack from five villagers.

"But since it's a scene from <The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain>, then the storyline should be related to the plot of that book," Ma Feifei thought, stroking his chin.

"Huh?" Suddenly, Ma Feifei noticed something extra in the line of text next to him.

While Ma Feifei was discovering this suddenly appearing 1/3, some practitioners in the Bookstore also noticed the 1/3 mentioned in the narration.

"Look, there seems to be an extra string of numbers over there?" one of the cultivators said, pointing to the lower third of the area.

"13? What does this mean?" Some cultivators were puzzled and looked completely bewildered.

"1 and 3 are 'knowledge,' but what does that vertical line in between mean?" Advanced mathematics from a technologically advanced world left a group of cultivators from another world completely baffled.

A group of people stared at one-third of the narration, lost in thought.

"One-third... does that represent the number of times?" Ma Feifei recalled the plot just now: Liu Ying was talking to the villagers, then didn't respond, was Beat Up the villagers, and was eventually forced back by them.

"That's right! This story mission should give you three chances. Just now, Liu Ying was forced back and the villagers returned to the Courtney, which means she has already failed once. So she should have two more chances. If she fails to help the villagers in both attempts, the mission will be judged as a failure by the system." Ma Feifei clapped his hands, somewhat looking forward to the next part of the story.

"This is interesting! I wonder if I can go in and give it a try." Thinking this, Ma Feifei quickly ran into the system to inquire.

"Unless under specific circumstances, it is not possible," the system replied.

Ma Feifei left looking dejected.

"An eighth-tier spirit sword! It's within my grasp." Ma Feifei sighed, looking up at the sky.

In the story, Liu Ying once again walks towards the village.

There was no other way; this was the only route to the Xiao Shen Hall. To obtain the Purple Ying Sword, one had to pass through this small village of three or five thatched huts. There was no other choice.

"Where does the young lady wish to go?"

The same plot, the same opening lines: five villagers sit expressionless around Courtney, and when they all open their mouths at the same time, it sounds as if only one person is making a sound.

Liu Ying hesitated for a moment, then said, "Let's go to the Xiao Shen Hall to retrieve the Purple Ying Sword."

After saying this, Liu Ying's Spiritual Power surged throughout her body, and she held her sixth-tier spiritual sword horizontally in front of her chest, ready to defend herself.

However, this time, the villagers did not launch an attack immediately.

"As expected, the problem lies in the dialogue!" The cultivators in the Bookstore, seeing this scene, all wore expressions of "I knew it!" and looked on expectantly as they watched the plot unfold.

"What is your name, young lady?" the five villagers asked again.

Liu Ying was taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to say her name, but then she held back.

"No, there's definitely something wrong here. It shouldn't be asking for my name." Liu Ying frowned slightly, her face showing some anxiety.

The cultivators outside clearly knew there was something wrong with that statement, and they all looked at Liu Ying with tense expressions.

Only Chang Kong's expression suddenly changed drastically, and he shouted at Liu Ying in the projection, "Li Yingqiong, you are Li Yingqiong!"

"Who is Li Yingqiong?" a cultivator asked in confusion.

"Wasn't the person who was reading 'The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain' just now Elder Chang Kong?" someone asked.

"That's right, it was him. But later, for some reason, Elder Chang Kong handed the book 'The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain' to Miss Liu Ying, and then Miss Liu Ying entered the Book World," said a cultivator who had been paying attention to Liu Ying.

"Do you think Li Yingqiong might be a character from 'The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain'?" someone speculated.

"Very likely!" another cultivator Analytic. "Think about it carefully. Since this is the world of <The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain>, then this plot mission should also be related to the story in <The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain>. It's possible that this plot is a certain scene in <The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain>, and this person named Li Yingqiong has been here before."

"That's right. The reason Elder Chang Kong was able to call out the name Li Yingqiong must be because he had seen this passage when he was reading the book just now!" the cultivator said definitively.

"That makes sense!"

"That's how it should be."

Everyone agreed with this statement.

"In that case, wouldn't Miss Liu Ying be unable to answer?" someone said worriedly.

If everything is true, then it would be impossible for Liu Ying, who has never read "The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain," to answer this question.

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent. There are so many names; if you don't know them, you can't possibly guess them correctly.

"May I ask your name, young lady?" the villager asked again in the story, this time with a hint of murderous intent in his tone.

"I..." Liu Ying was a little nervous, her mind a complete mess. She now understood that whether she could get through here depended not on her strength, but on her ability to respond to what the other party said.

Liu Ying wasn't stupid. From the other person's two sentences, she could roughly guess that the content of these conversations must be traceable. So, if there was a traceable clue, where should she look? Naturally, it was the book "The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain." But the problem was that she hadn't even had a chance to read that book before she was brought in.

Not only could she not answer with that honorable name, she didn't even know what the novel "The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain" was about.

So, Liu Ying was embarrassed and was chased by the villagers of Wumin once again, only returning to the Courtney a mile away.

The third time Liu Ying tried to say her name, the outcome was the same; she was ultimately teleported out of the world of <The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain> by the system.

At the same time, the narrator announced that Liu Ying's story mission challenge had failed.

"What a pity, an eighth-tier spirit sword!" As the projection disappeared, the cultivators inside and outside the Bookstore shook their heads and sighed.

The ninth tier of spiritual artifacts is divided into three tiers: lower, middle, and higher. An eighth-tier spiritual sword is already considered a high-tier third-tier spiritual artifact, and only divine artifacts and ninth-tier spiritual artifacts can surpass it.

Throughout the entire Azure Dragon Continent, those who possess eighth-order spiritual artifacts are mostly cultivators at the Spirit Emperor level or above, with a few cultivators at the late Spirit Venerable as well.

Cultivators below the Spirit Venerable can only dream about eighth-tier spiritual artifacts.

"Master." Liu Ying, who had just emerged, looked at Chang Kong, lowered her head, and looked somewhat aggrieved.

"Alas, it's my fault for being too hasty. I should have read the book first." Chang Kong sighed, feeling a little guilty.

An eighth-tier spirit sword! Don't let his status as Spirit Emperor fool you; he's extremely envious of this eighth-tier spirit sword.

"Master, why didn't you go in just now?" Liu Ying asked, somewhat puzzled.

Chang Kong shook his head, pointed to <The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain>, and said, "It's not that I don't want to go in, it's just that it requires women to enter."

"Why?" Liu Ying asked, puzzled.

"Because the character you just Role Play was a woman, and her name was Li Yingqiong."