2000 points?
What's going on?!
Jiang Fan was shocked and stared blankly at the Crazy Old Man in front of him. He saw that the old man's wrinkled eyes seemed to be about to burst into tears.
This scene made him instinctively take a step back, feeling a chill run down his spine.
He simply asked the Crazy Old Man to come to Fortress No. 1 so he could easily farm points every day, and the Crazy Old Man actually showed this incredibly touched expression.
"Cough cough cough!" The Crazy Old Man cleared his throat, turned his back, and secretly wiped away the tears that were about to fall.
He wondered if God took pity on him, a lonely old man, and that's why He sent a little angel like Jiang Fan to his side?
This kid is usually quite annoying, I never expected him to care about me so much.
Jiang Fan stared at the Crazy Old Man's retreating figure, utterly bewildered.
It took the Crazy Old Man a long time to compose himself. He turned around and looked at Jiang Fan with the most kind and gentle gaze imaginable.
That look made Jiang Fan even more uneasy.
Everyone wants to run away.
The Crazy Old Man took out a wooden box from under the bed, which contained alloy weight rings of various grades.
"I won't be going with you to Fortress No. 1 this time. Take all these things with you. Remember, be sure to do what you can, and don't try to lift weights you can't handle, so as not to injure your body."
"Oh, okay." Jiang Fan took it and put it into his spatial ring.
The Crazy Old Man pointed under the bed, "There's another wooden box underneath, go get it."
Jiang Fan nodded and walked over, quickly taking out another wooden box.
Upon opening it, my eyes lit up.
Like the alloy load-bearing rings of various grades I've seen before, this wooden box contains alloy weapons of various grades.
A row of conspicuous broadswords.
Why didn't you take it out before?
"I was going to give it to you, but didn't you get an F-grade alloy greatsword from that bastard of the Church of Justice? So I just couldn't be bothered to take it out."
The Crazy Old Man said this, but in his heart he thought, "I never knew you cared so much about this old geezer."
"Oh."
Jiang Fan had only asked casually, so he didn't care much about the Crazy Old Man's answer. His attention was entirely focused on the alloy weapons.
"Huh?" He noticed that there was a smaller wooden box inside the long wooden box.
"What's this?"
Seeing that Jiang Fan had noticed the small wooden box, the Crazy Old Man raised his eyebrows a few times, his smile mysterious.
"Hehe! This is a real treasure, you'll see once you open it."
Jiang Fan immediately opened the box, his face full of doubt.
"This is... a silver needle? No, upon closer inspection, it doesn't quite look like one."
Jiang Fan held the silver needle between his fingers and examined it carefully. The fine silver needle seemed to be surrounded by wisps of silver frost.
No! Not only was there silver frost, but also blue flames intertwined and coiled among it.
Seeing this, Jiang Fan's doubts deepened.
"What exactly is this thing?"
"Years ago, when I was hunting in the Outer Wilderness Zone, I encountered a Four Star Ice Flame Hedgehog."
" Ice Flame Hedgehog?!"
Jiang Fan raised his voice, "You mean the rare monster that possesses both ice and fire attributes, the Ice Flame Hedgehog?!"
He was so shocked because he had seen it in a book before.
The Ice Flame Hedgehog is extremely rare. Its rarity stems not only from the fact that it is born as Four Star monster, but also from the fact that it possesses both ice and fire attributes.
"So, these things that look like silver needles are actually the quills of the Ice Flame Hedgehog?" Jiang Fan asked.
"Brilliant! This is indeed a thorn I pulled from it. It's not of high grade, but with your current Psychic Power, it's just right for you. Most importantly, its thorns are as fine as cow hair, indestructible, and also possess both ice and fire attributes. This is practically an essential item for us Spirit Master, whether at home or traveling, you know what I mean?" The Crazy Old Man's white eyebrows danced up and down as he said this.
As a fellow Spirit Master, Jiang Fan naturally understood what the Crazy Old Man was saying, so he gave him a thumbs up.
"How insidious!"
With these extremely strong and incredibly sharp spikes, they could easily launch a surprise attack when the enemy was off guard.
The Crazy Old Man slapped Jiang Fan on the head, "You rebellious brat, who are you calling treacherous?"
"Hiss--"
Jiang Fan winced in pain and quickly moved away from the Crazy Old Man.
"If you add a little more poison to this thing, the effect will be even better."
"Hey! You just called me a cunning old man, but I think you're the real cunning one. You have such a pale face, but your heart is so black. What a waste of such a handsome face."
Jiang Fan smiled, "What? Jealous? Well, you're so ugly, of course you'd be jealous of a stunningly handsome guy like me."
"I'm not jealous at all!"
The Crazy Old Man practically spat in Jiang Fan's face, "You are handsome, that's true, but there are plenty of people more handsome than you, like that former Holy Lord. If you ever see him, you'll know what it means to be peerless in beauty, like a god!"
Jiang Fan scoffed, "I've never even seen him. It's not up to you to decide what he looks like."
The Crazy Old Man was too lazy to say anything more and was about to turn around and drink his wine when he suddenly realized something.
"Speaking of the Holy Lord, Xiao Yan called me today, saying that the Zhou Family Cultivation Secret Realm will open in three months, and he wants you to go in and help investigate whether the Holy Son who emerged from the Church of Justice is indeed the reincarnation of the former Holy Lord, as rumored."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Fan looked surprised.
"You mean the reincarnation of the Holy Lord? That Holy Lord you always talk about, the one who is so charismatic and godlike? Is that Holy Son really his reincarnation?"
Jiang Fan asked three questions in a row, which showed that he was genuinely interested.
What interested him wasn't that the Crazy Old Man often mentioned it, but rather that he learned from the Crazy Old Man that the Holy Lord did things differently, and that the doctrine of the Church of Justice he founded was precisely about doing good deeds and creating a better future.
This made him suspect that the Holy Lord might possess the same system as him.
He had asked the system about this, but the system denied it, saying that it was the only one of its kind in the entire universe.
"I just don't know if he's truly the reincarnation of the Holy Son, which is why I asked you, Spirit Master, to investigate," the Crazy Old Man said.
Jiang Fan raised his question again, "What exactly is going on with the Zhou Family? Why would the Church of Justice send its Holy Son to their family's cultivation secret realm?"
"You've hit the nail on the head."
The Crazy Old Man took a sip of wine and continued, "The head of the Zhou Family once helped the Holy Lord of the Church of Justice, and was therefore given an S-Rank Spirit Weapon."
The Church of Justice somehow learned of this and sent their so-called Holy Son to secretly steal it back. The Church of Justice had many experts; rather than secretly guarding against it, they decided to announce the matter publicly and catch it like a turtle in a jar. At that time, any Martial Artist below the Fourth Rank could enter.