Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 718 Hidden Mission 4

Yun Chu took out twenty low-grade spirit stones from her storage ring and handed them to the disciple in charge of registration.

The disciple took the spirit stone, carefully examined it, and then gave Yun Chu a registration certificate with her name and number engraved on it.

After registration closed, Yun Chu found a middleman and rented a place.

The next morning, Yun Chu left home early, ready to explore Yu Xiao City. She strolled along the streets, soaking in the city's prosperity and vibrancy.

Suddenly, her gaze was drawn to a materials store.

At the entrance of this materials store were some seemingly ordinary ores, but Yun Chu, with her keen senses and rich experience, noticed that one of the ores was emitting a faint but special spiritual energy fluctuation.

She walked into the store, pretending to casually browse the materials on the shelf, and then slowly approached the ore.

The shop owner was a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator with gray hair. Seeing that Yun Chu was interested in the ore, he came forward to introduce it to her.

"Senior, I found this ore by chance in a mine a few days ago. I'm not sure what it's made of, but it looks pretty good. If you like it, you can take it for a hundred low-grade spirit stones."

Yun Chu was secretly delighted, knowing that the value of this ore was far greater than it appeared, but on the surface she pretended to hesitate and said, "Shopkeeper, this ore looks quite special, but I'm not sure if it's actually useful. Could you give me a discount?"

The shopkeeper frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "Senior, seeing that you really want to buy, then let's make it eighty low-grade spirit stones. That's the lowest I can go."

Yun Chu bargained with the shop owner for a while and finally bought the ore for fifty low-grade spirit stones.

Back at her rented apartment, Yun Chu couldn't wait to test the ore.

After careful analysis, she was pleasantly surprised to discover that the ore was actually an extremely rare refining material called meteorite iron, which was of great help in refining high-level magical artifacts.

Time flies, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, the weapon-forging competition officially began.

Yun Chu arrived at the competition venue early and saw that it was packed with people, with experts from various sects gathered there.

In the center of the venue were rows of weapon-forging platforms, surrounded by stands for the audience.

Just as Yun Chu was waiting for the match to begin, a system notification suddenly sounded in her mind:

[Hidden Quest: Become a Daoist partner with True Monarch Yueze and raise his happiness level to 90%. Quest Rewards: Points, Special Quest x3, Specified Skill Card x3, System Upgrade Plugin x1.]

When Yun Chu heard about this task, she was stunned.

She never expected that the hidden quest would be this.

She originally thought the hidden quest would be to become a high-level weapon refiner, or to take on a few promising apprentices.

She had also heard of Yue Ze Zhenjun; he was a powerful and renowned Nascent Soul stage expert with a mysterious and unpredictable personality.

More importantly, this Yueze Zhenjun is a prominent figure in another book, "Zhang Er's Path to Immortality".

He possessed a single ice-type spiritual root, achieved Foundation Establishment at age thirteen, Core Formation at age twenty, and Nascent Soul Formation at age fifty-six.

He's only sixty years old, but his cultivation level is already in the mid-Nascent Soul stage.

However, this powerful person was ultimately killed by the male protagonist, Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu originally possessed four elemental spiritual roots, but later, through a fortuitous encounter, his spiritual roots transformed into chaotic spiritual roots.

My current cultivation level is at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

Later, in a newly discovered secret realm, Yue Ze was severely injured while trying to seize a celestial artifact.

Having finally escaped, they ran into Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu killed and stole treasures, effortlessly obtaining a celestial artifact and Yue Ze's fortune.

Because of this celestial artifact, Zhang Xiu later seized many opportunities, which enabled him to successfully transcend tribulations and ascend to immortality.

Yun Chu couldn't help but mutter to herself, this task is really difficult.

The main problem is that she didn't have many opportunities to interact with Yueze Zhenjun!

Based on the plot of the book, True Lord Yueze is a cultivation fanatic. He is either cultivating or undergoing trials.

I have absolutely no interest in romantic relationships.

It's not easy to get in touch with them.

However, now that we know the mission, we'll think about how to carry it out after the competition ends.

The competition began quickly. Yun Chu went to select refining materials and finished selecting them.

She began the refining process!

……

When she inscribed the final formation, she added a trace of ice-elemental spiritual power, enabling the artifact to automatically trigger a frost barrier to resist attacks.

After Yun Chu finished refining it, the magical artifact was taken away.

Once all the participating weapon refiners had finished crafting their artifacts, True Lords Yue Ze and Chong Mo began to examine them.

They quickly discovered the magical artifact that Yun Chu had crafted.

Lord Chongmo nodded slightly, acknowledging the practicality of the magical artifact.

Although True Monarch Yueze did not speak, his gaze lingered on the Heart-Protecting Mirror for a moment longer—the resonance of the ice-type magical artifact had caught his attention.

Yun Chu's Heart Protection Mirror was rated as "top-grade fourth rank," second only to an offensive flying sword crafted by a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

In addition to spirit stones, the reward also includes an opportunity to enter the Jade Flute Palace's scripture pavilion to select weapon-refining manuals.

After the competition, a steward from Yuxiao Palace came to ask Yun Chu if she was selling magical artifacts.

"This Heart-Protecting Mirror is valued at 800 mid-grade spirit stones. If you are willing to part with it, the Jade Flute Palace can add another 50 spirit stones as a reward."

She could have refused and paid for the materials (about 300 spirit stones) to take the artifact to the auction house and sell it for a high price (the market price could reach 1200 spirit stones).

However, in order to get closer to True Lord Yueze, she chose to sell herself to Yuxiao Palace, and pretended to be humble, saying, "It is an honor for this junior to serve Yuxiao Palace."

The steward was quite satisfied with her attitude and handed her a jade token: "With this, you can come to Jade Flute Palace at any time to accept weapon-refining commissions."

"Thank you."

Yun Chu accepted the jade token and returned to her rented room.

To complete her mission, Yun Chu bought a small courtyard in Yu Xiao City and settled down there.

Thinking back to the plot, Zhang Xiu managed to buy a Life Space Stone at the Shura Black Market a year later. This Life Space Stone could hide people, which is why he was able to ambush and kill Yue Ze Zhenjun.

Yun Chu planned to seize Zhang Xiu's opportunity first, which would reduce the threat to Yue Ze Zhenjun's life.

Yun Chu spent half a year in seclusion cultivating, and then took on some weapon-refining tasks from the Jade Flute Palace to earn spirit stones.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and Yun Chu has already arrived at the Shura Black Market ahead of schedule.

In order to steal Zhang Xiu's opportunity, Yun Chu also spent 50 points to buy an appraisal device that can appraise treasures.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and Yun Chu's figure has quietly appeared in the dark and eerie alleys of the Shura Black Market.

The air was thick with the mixed smells of dust, inferior medicine, and blood. The stalls on both sides glowed with an eerie light, and the stall owners, shrouded in cloaks, had eyes as sharp as hawks.

In order to cut off Zhang Xiu's destined opportunity, she did not hesitate to spend 50 precious points to exchange for an appraisal device from the system.

Yun Chu took a deep breath and blended into the bustling crowd. Zhang Xiu was still thousands of miles away and wouldn't arrive until tomorrow—this precious time difference was key to her plan.

With a slight thought, the detector began scanning, and an invisible ripple swept across a dusty gray ore on the stall.

In an instant, a semi-transparent, pale golden screen appeared before her eyes, and information about the ore flowed like a waterfall:

【Name】: Slightly Dust-Covered Star Iron

[Quality]: Grade 3 Refining Material

[Estimated Value]: Market price approximately 300 low-grade spirit stones, stall owner's asking price 30 spirit stones.

[Characteristic]: Can be forged into a flying sword core, increasing sharpness by 15%.

Yun Chu thought to herself: This is truly an extraordinary product from the system!