Chapter 124 Yuanshi Tianzun

These words seemed to snap the "Call Me Queen's" vocal cords, filling her bright face with astonishment as she sized up Zhang Yuanqing, seemingly in disbelief.

As an old sea dog who frequented the forums, she had heard plenty about this genius from the Songhai Branch and had actively participated in discussions about him.

Although he was only a Level 2 Night Watcher, he was already a celebrity.

But she never expected to be matched with this genius in the Spirit Realm.

"Yuanshi Tianzun, is it really you? Is it really you?" Queen's face was full of excitement as her eyes darted back and forth between Zhang Yuanqing and Guan Ya.

Guan Ya nodded slightly, "It's him."

"I actually got matched with you." Receiving confirmation from a colleague in the Songhai Branch, Queen became even more excited, "When we return to reality, I'm definitely going to show off on the forums and tell everyone that I matched with Yuanshi Tianzun."

"Yuanshi Tianzun?" Huode Xingjun's eyes lit up, and he asked with a slightly excited expression:

"Is it that Yuanshi Tianzun from the Songhai Branch?"

Unconsciously, I've become a leader among the Extraordinary realm, a big star...

Zhang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "I don't think there's a second Yuanshi Tianzun in the entire Spirit Realm, right?"

The slightly chubby, round-faced youth, Chi Ou, asked doubtfully:

"Yuanshi Tianzun, bro, are you famous?"

He was a wild rogue cultivator and couldn't access the Five Elements Alliance's official forum. Due to his low level, he also didn't have a well-developed intelligence network, so he hadn't heard of Yuanshi Tianzun's great name.

Queen immediately said, "He's a genius in our official organization. He cleared two S-rank instances in a row. At Level 1, he single-handedly killed a Level 3 Bewitching Demon. At Level 2, he single-handedly took down a Level 6 Witch Gu Master. And recently, he fought Li Xianzong alone and almost got killed, but he stubbornly survived."

No, there was no need to mention the last thing... Zhang Yuanqing, who was secretly pleased, froze slightly when he heard the last part.

The earth monster Chi Ou heard it in his ears and felt completely different. His mouth grew wider and wider, his expression became more and more exaggerated, and he looked at Zhang Yuanqing as if he were looking at an unattainable big shot.

This kind of person... is someone I can be matched with?

The melancholy and quiet "Lili Yuanshangcao" couldn't help but repeatedly size up Zhang Yuanqing.

He usually didn't care about unfamiliar things, but when he heard such terrifying achievements and rich experience, he couldn't ignore this peer who wasn't much older than him.

Clearing two S-rank Spirit Realm Night Watchers and killing evil professions above his level... Li Chunfeng immediately put away his negative and pessimistic attitude and said with surprise:

"So there's a great god like you hidden in the team. In that case, our chances of winning are greatly improved. This round is worth playing."

In fact, there was another big shot in the team. Guan Ya had been passively controlling her score, losing non-death-type Spirit Realms if she could. Her hidden score wouldn't be high, but her physical skills were ridiculously strong... Zhang Yuanqing said smoothly:

"Then I'll be the captain. Don't worry, everyone, I will definitely lead you through Yin-Yang Town."

"No problem!"

Everyone didn't object. Except for Huode Xingjun and Queen, the others thought that the existence of a captain was to improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary disputes. As for who was the captain, it didn't make much difference.

Since there was a "great god" in the team, it was best for him to be the captain, so he could convince the others.

Call Me Queen pursed her lips and hummed, "Then it depends on your performance. If you make a mistake in command, I'll seize power."

She didn't insist anymore.

I wonder to what extent I have to command to get the gang leader reward...

Zhang Yuanqing looked at the town behind him:

"Time is running out, let's go in."

The group walked through the archway and entered the ancient town.

At another entrance to the town, Li Xianzong looked down at the two companions lying on the ground and then at the four silent companions. He grinned and said:

"I'll be the captain, no objections, right!"

A bald man snorted, "If you had said earlier that you were Li Xianzong, who would have any objections?"

A skinny middle-aged man chuckled:

"But then again, we have two Level 3s here, one of whom is Li Xianzong. According to the matching mechanism, the Lawful faction probably has some strong players."

Li Xianzong said proudly, "Isn't that more interesting? It's best to match with a top ten Extraordinary in the official organization. Kill one in the Spirit Realm, and then kill Yuanshi Tianzun after returning. This trial mission will end early, and I'll prepare for the mid-year dungeon."

Huode Xingjun asked, not understanding, "How do we find Granny Wang? I saw a shepherd boy herding cattle outside just now, but how come there's no one after entering the town? This isn't an empty town, is it?"

The prompt they received was to find Granny Wang's house within ten minutes.

At this moment, they were walking on the silent streets of the ancient town. There were no birds singing or dogs barking. The doors of the houses on both sides were tightly closed. It seemed that they were the only ones in this ancient town.

Li Chunfeng pointed out Huode Xingjun's mistake in a serious manner: "If this is an empty town, how would they let us find Granny Wang?"

Huode Xingjun was too lazy to think and asked, "Where is that Granny Wang? The ancient town is so big, who knows where she's hiding? We only have ten minutes. What's up, Queen, right? Didn't you read the walkthrough?"

"Call Me Queen" looked around and said,

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, Yin-Yang Town is a constantly changing instance. The main theme is the conflict between the Lawful and Evil factions, which remains the same, but the process will change. In the few walkthroughs I've read, some involve finding Wang the Blacksmith, some involve solving a murder case in the town, some involve passing a maze, and the most terrifying is the Midnight Instance."

"Midnight Instance?" The round-faced youth Chi Ou asked curiously, "Why is it the most terrifying?"

"If you happen to match in when it's midnight, then the instance will make us stay in an inn, and someone will die every night. You have to find the murderer to leave the inn, and you can't use skills," Queen said eloquently.

"How long does that take? And they still haven't lost?" Li Chunfeng analyzed and was very surprised.

"The Evil faction probably encountered something even more troublesome that time," Queen said:

"But the core of this level remains the same, which is to solve the problem and get the corresponding item, then we can leave this area, otherwise, we will be trapped here forever. I don't know what we need to solve this time, we will probably only know after seeing Granny Wang."

She turned her head to look at Zhang Yuanqing, smiling charmingly:

"Tianzun, what's your opinion? We need to find Granny Wang in ten minutes, and we've already used four minutes."

Seeing his teammates looking over, Zhang Yuanqing seemed to have noticed it earlier and said:

"This is not difficult, I already have a way, I was just waiting for you to finish your nonsense."

With that, he took a deep breath and shouted, "Granny Wang, where are you?"

He shouted five or six times in a row, his voice getting further and further away.

His companions next to him looked at each other in astonishment, thinking he was crazy. Is this how you find people?

At this moment, an old woman with silver hair, wearing cloth clothes, and leaning on a cane, walked out of the alley on the left front.

Her face was full of wrinkles, her back was slightly hunched, and her voice was old:

"Who are you? What do you want from this old woman... This works?!" The teammates were stunned.

Huode Xingjun said, "How did you know that calling her would make her come out?"

Zhang Yuanqing chuckled:

"I don't know, I'm just trying. The ancient town is so big, looking aimlessly, it's impossible to find an old woman in ten minutes. The Spirit Realm won't give you an impossible problem at the beginning."

Huode Xingjun suddenly understood, "No wonder you are a strong player who has cleared two S-rank instances."

Zhang Yuanqing led the crowd to meet her. He waited for a few seconds, seeing that the Spirit Realm didn't give any prompts, he could only say, "Granny, we are strangers from out of town. We don't know if we can ask for a drink of water. We're also hungry, and we'll pay."

In this kind of situation where there are no prompts, the "players" usually need to trigger the plot themselves.

"Strangers from out of town..."

Granny Wang's slightly turbid eyes swept over everyone, and she said slowly, "It's good to have guests from afar, come with me, no need for money."

With that, she turned around tremblingly, leaning on her cane, and walked into the alley.

Zhang Yuanqing and the others immediately followed. The ground in the alley was paved with cobblestones, allowing only two people to pass side by side. It was often dark and humid, and moss covered the roadside.

There were many similar alleys in the ancient town, as dense as a spider web.

Guan Ya walked two steps quickly and whispered in Zhang Yuanqing's ear:

"Have you noticed that she's not wearing modern clothes? I don't know much about ancient history, I can't tell which dynasty it is."

Guan Ya grew up abroad.

"It's a bit like the Song Dynasty, but also a bit like the Tang Dynasty," Zhang Yuanqing said uncertainly.

Li Chunfeng behind him said:

"It's from the early Ming Dynasty. The clothes of the Ming Dynasty were completely different in the early, middle, and late periods. The commoners' clothes in the early Ming Dynasty imitated the Tang system, but there were some deviations from the Tang Dynasty, so it's easy to identify.

"In addition, the architectural style of this ancient town is also a more typical Ming Dynasty style, at least not like this in the Tang and Song Dynasties."

As expected of a scholar, he's very knowledgeable... Zhang Yuanqing quickly looked at Guan Ya and said, "I was just about to say it was the early Ming Dynasty."

Guan Ya gave him a roll of her eyes and whispered, "The background of Yin-Yang Sanren's activities is the early Ming Dynasty? This is consistent with the background of the Three Dao Mountain Niangniang."

Before Zhang Yuanqing could speak, Li Chunfeng said again:

"The background of the Spirit Realm encountered in the Extraordinary stage is either modern or Ming Dynasty, only these two, but as far as I know, the Song Dynasty will appear in the Sage stage instance. As for the reason, I'm not sure."

The background of the instance in the Extraordinary stage is only modern and Ming Dynasty, while the Song Dynasty will appear in the Sage stage... That's right, last time in the Three Dao Mountain Niangniang Temple, the temple host once said that he wanted to tell the owner of the manuscript a secret about the rise and fall of a thousand years...

I don't know if he's just fooling his disciples, or if it's true. Yin-Yang Sanren and the old hag are from the same era, I don't know if he has left any information here... I also have to pay attention to the hidden task mentioned by the Demon Lord, but I haven't found any clues yet...

While thinking, Granny Wang led the group to an old mansion.

The gate of the mansion was dilapidated, the door knocker was rusty, and it was hanging with a copper lock.

Granny Wang fumbled for a long time, took out the key, and opened the door of the mansion.

The architectural style of this mansion was a standard courtyard house, with houses on three sides and a space in the middle, with the eaves of the houses on the three sides piecing together a square courtyard. The biggest feeling this kind of house gives people is dimness and gloom.

In addition, due to its age, the pure wooden structure was covered with traces of decay, making it even more gloomy.

Granny Wang leaned on her cane, crossed the threshold, and looked back in the shadows:

"Come in..."

Zhang Yuanqing hesitated slightly, and Huode Xingjun strode across the threshold first.

The group entered the house and came to the courtyard. On the left side of the courtyard was a spacious living room, with a round table and a few round stools, covered with dust, as if it had been abandoned for many years.

"No guests have come to my house for many years. This old woman's legs and feet are not convenient, so I haven't taken care of it."

Granny Wang wiped the dust with her sleeve and said, "Please make do with it, I will pour you tea."

With that, she leaned on her cane, her back hunched, and entered the room on the right side of the courtyard.

At this moment, Guan Ya lowered her voice and said:

"Look overhead."

Overhead? Huode Xingjun subconsciously looked up and gasped.

Hanging on the beams above everyone's heads were skinned cats, like a forest of meat suspended high above, their cat eyes wide open, eerie and terrifying.

Why did Granny Wang hang so many cats here? To make cured meat? Zhang Yuanqing became vigilant in his heart.

Guan Ya continued:

"Did you guys see just now, the door of the house was locked."

"What's the problem?" the round-faced youth Chi Ou asked.

Guan Ya shook her head and said, "There's no problem with locking the door, but when I came just now, I visually measured the distance, it's only fifty or sixty meters from the main street to here, is there a need to lock the door?"

There is definitely no anti-theft consciousness in this kind of place. Granny Wang's legs and feet are not convenient, is it worth locking the door for such a short distance?

Call Me Queen understood and pondered:

"Is she afraid that someone will sneak in while she's not around, or is she afraid that something in the house will sneak out?"

ps: Regarding instances, I have always only had a general concept, without any detailed content, so every time I write an instance, I have to write and think at the same time, how the plot should go, and what the specific crises are.

I say this not as nonsense, but to explain why the updates are slow (laughs)