Chapter 22: Dongqi Town

  As one of the three super sects in Lingyun World, Taisheng Sect has countless subordinate forces.

  These subordinates include small sects and immortal cultivation families. Every year, they will hand over a certain amount of spiritual stones or natural treasures to Taisheng Sect in order to seek protection from the sect.

  This sect mission comes from a small immortal cultivation family.

  The mission shows that the town where the Lan family is located has been seriously haunted recently. The clan leader has sent cultivators to investigate many times, but to no avail. The people in the town are panicking. In order to calm the incident as soon as possible, they have to report to the sect for help. The Lan family

  was glorious many years ago, but now it has long been in decline. Although they still hand over spiritual stones to the sect every year, the amount is very small. The reason is that there is a lack of successors in the clan and they are unable to do so.

  According to the rules of Taisheng Sect since ancient times, the amount of tribute handed over by the subordinate forces every year determines the level of the cultivators sent to help when they ask for help. In the case of the Lan family, they can only send Qi-refining cultivators.

  Although it sounds a bit inhumane, in a world where the strong prey on the weak, this is the law of survival.

  For this mission, the five people who accept it will each receive a protective teleportation talisman issued by the sect. If they encounter a life-threatening situation, the protective teleportation talisman will automatically activate and bring the person back to the sect.

  Of course, if there is no danger, the protective teleportation talisman must be returned to the sect after returning to hand over the mission. This talisman is a short-distance directional teleportation, and it will automatically become invalid if it leaves the specified range, so it is useless to keep it.

  After learning the content of the mission in detail, Shen Qingluo and Xia Jinxi briefly discussed it and finally decided to accept it.

  After they agreed, Meng Zirui, Wang Fang, and Zhao Yanran, who came to invite them, were obviously relieved.

  Speaking of which, when this mission was updated at the beginning of the month, they finally got it with great difficulty, just because the contribution points were very high, and each person could get 100 after completing it.

  Compared with other tasks with single-digit contribution points, it was too conspicuous.

  For Xia Jinxi, one hundred contribution points were not many. The reason why she chose to accept it was mainly because she simply regarded this mission as a small experience.

If she's not wrong, this mission not difficult, no, there's no difficult mission as long as she has protagonist thigh! It's in time she need to experience after breakthrough.

  After the five people discussed, they decided to set off at 9:00 tomorrow.

  At 9:00 on the second day, the five people gathered, led by Meng Zirui, who was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and went to the Lan family together.

  The town where the Lan family is located is called Dongqi, where immortal cultivators and mortals live together.

  A stream runs through the town and circles around the center. The Lan clan is located in a huge water circle surrounded by the stream.

  At the entrance of the Lan clan, there were two monks in light blue robes guarding. After Meng Zirui revealed his identity, one of them left and soon returned, followed by an old man with white hair and beard and several middle-aged people with obvious tiredness.

  "I am Lan He, respectfully welcoming the immortal master of the sect."

  He obviously has the foundation-building cultivation level, but he is very respectful to the five Qi-refining monks.

  Xia Jinxi knew very well that the Lan clan leader was not paying respect to the five of them, but to the Taisheng Sect behind them.

  It is said that it is good to lean against a big tree for shade. Although it is not quite appropriate to use it here, she still couldn't help but sigh that a strong background can really bring a lot of convenience.

  Facing the foundation-building cultivator, the five people did not act arrogantly, but turned sideways to avoid the full ceremony.

  Meng Zirui bowed to the old man, "Clan leader Lan, we are here to accept the mission of the sect. This trip is to solve the ghost problem in the town."

  "I understand that the five immortals have come a long way and have worked hard. You can go to the guest room to rest for a while. I will order someone to prepare some spiritual food."

  "You're welcome, Chief Lan. If the haunting is delayed for one more day, the town will not have peace. We are ready to start this matter immediately. Thank you, Chief Lan, for the details."

  Lan He sighed softly, "This is what happened. About three months ago, one day, a family surnamed Liu in the east of the town came to the clan for help, saying that their home was haunted. An elder was scared and went there on the spot. After hearing this, I sent a clan member to go there, but nothing unusual was found. There was no evil spirit there, not to mention the evil spirit. There was not even any Yin Qi.

  But who knew that not long after, people in the town began to come to ask for help one after another, saying that they had encountered evil spirits. I sent my clan members to investigate again, but still found nothing. Considering that no one was killed, I did not take this matter seriously. Until the past few days, people disappeared one after another in the town, and there were more and more rumors of haunting. I went to various places to check in person, but still found nothing, so I asked for help from the clan."

  Meng Zirui frowned after hearing this, "The mission did not mention the disappearance of anyone."

  "Forgive me, Immortal. Since I learned that someone in the town was missing, I have sent younger generations of my clan out to search day and night. When I asked for help from the upper sect, the clan members I sent out had not returned yet. I didn't know the result, so I skipped this matter."

  In fact, when Lan He asked for help from Taisheng Sect, he had expected that the person who came would be a Qi-refining cultivator, so he tried to make the task as simple as possible to prevent the visitor from being afraid and giving up halfway.

  Everyone present guessed his thoughts, but no one pointed it out.

  If he considered it from the perspective of the Lan family, Shen Qingluo could understand the other party's approach, but he did not agree.

  Hiding important information, if the disciples of the sect who came here got into trouble, the consequences would not be something they could afford.

  From their own perspective, they could say that they were disgusted with this approach.

  At this time, Meng Zirui turned his head and looked at the four fellow disciples, "My idea is to search the periphery of Dongqi Town first, from the outside to the inside. What do you think?"

  Wang Fang and Zhao Yanran did not say anything, but nodded to show their agreement with this proposal.

  Xie Jinxi had a different opinion, "Why don't we go to the house where the haunting first happened and check it out?"

  "I have the same idea as Senior Sister Xia." This time it was Shen Qingluo who spoke up.

  Meng Zirui simply suggested, "Why don't we split up and no matter which side discovers the situation, use the sound transmission talisman to contact each other as soon as possible. Dongqi Town is not big, and we can reunite soon."

  Yao Molian nodded, "Okay, I happened to bring the sound transmission talisman with me."

  Shen Qingluo was a little hesitant. The evil ghost was in red clothes, and it would be dangerous to act separately, but she couldn't say it directly, otherwise she wouldn't be able to explain how she knew. After thinking about it, she said euphemistically, "What if the evil ghost in Dongqi Town is of a higher level?"

  Meng Zirui waved his hand, "Whether there is an evil ghost or not is still a question, so let's do it this way, separate and save time. Anyway, we all have the protective transmission talisman given by the sect, so our lives will not be in danger."