The Second Mission (Seeking Reads, Monthly Votes)

"If it's a blessing, it's not a curse; if it's a curse, there's no escaping it! Let's go! Let's meet this Senior Brother Ye!"

Li Yunjing sighed softly. Far from being agitated, he simply spoke and took the lead, heading toward the main hall of the peak.

"Brother Li, what composure!"

Seeing Li Yunjing's demeanor, Hou Boyan secretly marveled. This was the true style of a big shot!

In truth, he had no idea of Li Yunjing's helplessness; he truly had no background to rely on.

At this moment, he could only rely on himself, taking it one step at a time.

Before long, the two arrived at the Qiongze Peak main hall.

What met Li Yunjing's eyes was a man in green robes. The man was thin and stood in the center of the hall with his hands behind his back. On the table beside him sat spiritual fruits and tea, yet neither had been touched.

Clearly, this inner sect disciple looked down upon the hospitality of Qiongze Peak.

"Li Yunjing greets Senior Brother Ye!"

Li Yunjing took a deep breath, walked behind Ye Long, and bowed in salute.

"Hmm! So you are Li Yunjing?"

Hearing the voice, Ye Long slowly turned around. He looked at Li Yunjing with an expressionless face, a cold glint flashing through his eyes and vanishing just as quickly.

"I am!"

Li Yunjing replied. He saw no need to say much to this man; after all, they were already enemies.

If not for the sect's rules, he wouldn't even have bothered to greet him.

"Heh!"

Ye Long seemed to notice Li Yunjing's impatience. He sneered, but didn't mind; in his eyes, Li Yunjing was already a dead man.

He was incredibly tolerant toward the dead.

"By order of Senior Brother Wei!"

Since there was nothing left to say, Ye Long produced a written mandate and shouted, "You are hereby summoned to participate in a sect mission: responsible for escorting sect provisions to Red Sun Valley, a thousand miles away. You must deliver them within seven days, without error!"

"Understood! Here is my identity token!"

Li Yunjing sneered. At this point, he stopped pretending and tossed his identity token toward Ye Long.

"Kid! You're quite arrogant!"

Ye Long scoffed. He lowered his head, took out his own token, and input the mission into Li Yunjing's.

Once the operation was complete, Ye Long flicked his wrist and tossed the token back to Li Yunjing.

The inner sect disciple didn't say another word and turned to leave the hall.

He didn't want to spend even a minute longer in such a lowly place, and he didn't want to lay eyes on a lowly person like Li Yunjing for a second longer.

"Tsk, tsk..."

Li Yunjing looked down at his identity token.

He saw a new line of text on it.

[Menial Disciple: Li Yunjing.]
[Outer Sect Mission: Escort provisions to Red Sun Valley.]
[Time Limit: Seven days.]
[Maximum time allowed outside: Fifteen days.]
[Reward: 10 Contribution Points, 5 Low-grade Spirit Stones, 1 Qi Refining Pill.]

That bastard Wei Henian was truly ruthless!

He had issued him an outer sect disciple's mission directly!

He was clearly terrified that Li Yunjing might not die!

"Good! Good! Good! Wei Henian! Sooner or later, I will settle this karma with you!"

Li Yunjing's face was extremely grim, and his entire body radiated killing intent, with no intention of hiding it at all.

"This... this is an outer sect disciple's mission... how... how could he dare to do this?"

Hou Boyan, standing to the side, was drenched in a cold sweat, his voice trembling.

It was too dark!

Did Wei Henian have any shred of dignity left as a true disciple?

How could he stoop to such things?

"Brother Li, if it's not working out, why not go find Young Master Fu? Perhaps Young Master Fu can resolve this trouble for you."

Hou Boyan gritted his teeth and suggested.

"No need! I will resolve this matter myself!"

Li Yunjing waved his hand, his tone resolute.

After saying this, he didn't bother with any more nonsense with Hou Boyan, strode out of the main hall, and returned to his own living quarters.

With only one day left, his task of tending to the Piebald Horse would conclude, which was just in time for him to take on the mission of escorting provisions.

Li Yunjing simply refused to believe it.

In essence, Li Yunjing was a man driven by madness.

He had spent three years in the secular martial arts world climbing to the very top; when had he ever been bullied like this?

The more Wei Henian targeted him, the more reckless he became—he would fight him to the end!

Li Yunjing didn't believe that for a mere outer disciple mission, Wei Henian would be shameless enough to enlist an inner disciple to intercept and kill him.

As for other outer disciples, at most they would be at the sixth level of the Qi Refining stage. With two top-grade magical artifacts on his person, he might not necessarily fail to resolve this crisis!

As the saying goes, wealth is sought in danger; it wasn't certain who would kill whom!

The next day, Li Yunjing did not go out, instead adjusting his state to the best it could be. He refined his Mystic Jade Inner Armor, Gale Boots, Cold Star Sword, and Servant Robe once more.

As for the five talismans in his hand, he could now activate them skillfully, allowing him to launch an attack at a moment's notice!

These were his trump cards!

On the final day of the thirty-day period, Li Yunjing found Hou Boyan. The two completed the handover of the task, and Li Yunjing's identity token gained 4 contribution points and two low-grade spirit stones.

Even a mosquito's leg is meat!

Shaking his head slightly, Li Yunjing ignored Hou Boyan's attempts to persuade him otherwise and left Qiongze Peak, heading toward Feixia Peak.

Feixia Peak was also one of the seventy-two peaks in the west.

This was the primary peak where outer disciples went to carry out missions outside the sect.

This time, Li Yunjing was heading to Feixia Peak to assemble and depart with several fellow disciples.

The sun was scorching, hanging high in the sky.

By noon, Li Yunjing arrived at Feixia Peak in a leisurely manner.

When Li Yunjing presented his identity token for the Feixia Peak disciples to check, all the outer disciples were dumbfounded.

What was going on?

Could a servant disciple take on an outer disciple's mission?

However, the name of Wei Henian suppressed everyone's questions.

Such an unreasonable matter suddenly seemed perfectly reasonable, and no one dared to raise any objections.

After making a few inquiries, Li Yunjing found his teammates.

On the distant mountain path, four outer disciples in blue robes were chatting idly, though their eyes kept scanning in all directions.

The team was missing one person, which made the four of them quite irritable.

"Damn it! Why hasn't that servant brat arrived yet? We've been waiting for ages!"

One of the outer disciples, who had a tall, muscular build full of explosive power, wore a ferocious expression and couldn't help but curse.

"Old Wu, what's the rush? He can't run away, can he?"

A short, stout Taoist said coldly.

"Once we're out of the sect, let's just kill him..."

Old Wu continued to grumble incessantly.

"Shut up!"

The middle-aged man who had been silent all along glared at him coldly.

Was this something to be said inside the sect?

If word of this leaked out, the four of them would be dead!

Once it was confirmed that they had murdered a fellow disciple, the Law Enforcement Hall would surely execute them—there would be no exceptions!