Chapter 1 Settlement Rewards

[Item/Props acquired during reward settlement: Military Soul Facemask]

[Experience gained: 93%]

[Main quest settlement complete!]

[Ding! Character card reward activated, rewarding the item: Gale Gauntlets.]

[Settlement complete! Leaving Lingjing in three minutes]

"Hiss, 93% experience?"

Zhang Yuanqing was overjoyed. He never expected the experience reward to be so generous. Xiahou Aotian only got 18%.

This was almost enough to level up in one dungeon. What an excellent reward! It was simply...

Wait, I seem to always get this much.

Never mind then.

On second thought, it seemed understandable.

First of all, Xiahou Aotian's outstanding performance in the dungeon only happened twice: once when he blasted the ghost fleet and the second when he found the array core. After that, he was just playing a supporting role.

He hardly participated in the main quests that were truly suited for levels 5 and 6.

Secondly, Xiahou Aotian was level 5 in the late stages. His 18% would not be less valuable than 50% for a level 4, and that was a conservative estimate.

Finally, aside from the ghost fleet where he didn't contribute, he turned the tide at the bottom of the sea. Plus, he killed the boss, so rewarding 90% was not an overstatement.

It was reasonable for a level 4 Saint to complete a level 5 or 6 main quest and be rewarded so much.

As his thoughts raced, a familiar burning sensation came from his forehead, and a dreamlike nebula appeared.

Immediately, a vast amount of stellar energy surged from the mark, gently washing over his body, merging into each cell and bone.

His physique became stronger under the washing of stellar energy, and his temperament became mysterious and ethereal.

Since he didn't level up, he didn't learn any new skills. But after his experience increased from 5% to 98%, all aspects of his own qualities had improved by at least onefold.

The distance of Star Escape had been greatly increased and he could control the distance himself. The bewitching power of Star Illusion had also become stronger. Combined with the skills he had been painstakingly practicing from the *Bu Yin Lian Shen Pian* (Incomplete Yin Refining Scripture) recently, he could already create rudimentary illusions.

Except for special professions like Swordsman, or those who possessed items or skills that could counter illusions, anyone with lower experience than him would be affected by the illusion.

Zhang Yuanqing immediately checked his attribute panel.

[Name: Yuanshi Tianzun]

[Race: Human]

[Profession: Star Official]

[Level: 4]

[Skills: Night Wanderer - One Night Tour, Spirit Devour, Unyin Spirit, Howl at the Moon, Charm, Spirit Talisman]

[Star Official - Stellar Art, Star Illusion, Star Escape, Stellar Body]

[Experience: 98%]

[Morality: 2800]

[Reputation: 210]

After clearing the Massacre Dungeon and killing the Divine General minion, his reputation had risen to 240, but killing Wei Yuanzhou, who was also from the Lawful faction, cost him 30 reputation points.

However, after the Wei Yuanzhou case was classified, he gained 700 morality points.

"Reputation is still not enough. With 210 reputation, I can only kill seven or eight Lawful professionals at most, and they have to be the ones with low reputation. After leaving the dungeon, I should go hunt down Evil professionals."

Only by killing more Evil professionals could he kill Lawful professionals better.

* * *

Well, it's an item for Illusionists. Saint-stage Illusionists are also called Dream Masters. They can use it in dreams, which is not bad.

Zhang Yuanqing then took out the item he received from the character card reward.

A pair of light blue half-finger gloves, made of leather, looked pretty good.

[Name: Gale Gauntlets]

[Type: Gloves]

[Function: Wind Blade, Flight]

[Description: The Gale Gauntlets allow the wearer to fly by controlling the airflow, limited to five minutes. The released Wind Blades can cut through hard steel and stir up the airflow to create strong winds.]

[Note: Aren't you coming down? Do you want to stand shoulder to shoulder with Buyang?]

This should be an item often used by the Devil Monarch Saint, because it makes up for the weakness of most Saints who can't fly. The Wind Blade makes up for my lack of long-range output, and the strong wind can restrain Mist Lords. It has to be said that it is a very cost-effective item...

Zhang Yuanqing was happy and worried again.

The cost of the Gale Gauntlets was not high. The flight could not exceed five minutes, otherwise, he would keep flying towards Bukong and Buyang, which would definitely mean death for a Saint.

But as long as he controlled the time well, this cost could be ignored.

Whether it was Wind Blade, flight, or strong wind, they were all very cost-effective abilities. It should be an item of a foreign Wind Mage.

What worried him the most was not the cost of the item, but that the Devil Monarch probably used it often.

He wondered if a Dominator-level Scholar could fine-tune its appearance. He would not use this item for the time being, and would wait to contact Lian Sanyue to try it out again.

Zhang Yuanqing was extremely satisfied with both items. To a certain extent, they made up for the loss of the Subduing Demon Awl and made up for many of his weaknesses.

Adding the Yin-Yang Disc and the Holy Infant, this trip to the dungeon was a huge profit.

Finally, he took out the Xie family's rule-based item component: the baby's head.

[Name: Holy Infant (Damaged)]

[Type: ???]

[Function: Healing, Conception]

[Description: The Holy Infant is a failed work of a certain Supreme Being, and is the only one of its kind in the world, so it is not alone, and therefore often cries, trying to summon its companions with its cries.]

[Note 1: The infant's cry can sometimes give birth, and sometimes it can take lives.]

[Note 2: Please do not complete its body, otherwise it will cause unimaginable disasters.]

It was indeed very life-threatening. Not only was it life-threatening, it was also extremely horrifying.

"The quantity is very large." Zhang Yuanqing muttered in his heart.

Also, the property introduction of this item, the ellipsis in the information introduction, seemed to be deliberately omitted.

A failed work of a certain Supreme Being. The failed works are all rule-based items. What level was that being?

Also, the information that the Holy Infant's body could not be completed explained why the Xie family's direct descendants could bring a head into the dungeon, and why they only brought a head into the dungeon.

However, Zhang Yuanqing did not know the method to crack this rule-based item yet, and perhaps he could ask the Xie family.

He put away the Holy Infant's head, turned to Xia Shu and others and said:

"Time is almost up, everyone. Farewell, and keep in touch when you have time."

After saying that, the countdown ended perfectly, and the blue sky and sea quickly blurred.

* * *

Jiangnan Province, Leather City.

Leather City was also known as Bailu City in ancient times. It was located at the southernmost tip of Jiangnan Province, adjacent to Fu Province, and was the base camp of the Lingjing family, the Xiahou family.

Suburbs, Xiahou Villa District.

In a small manor covering an area of ​​four acres, the current head of the Xiahou family was 'cleaning' materials in the underground forging room, preparing to forge props.

Suddenly, the formation of the forging room was attacked. A series of runes full of Dao rhythm flickered, warning the owner.

Xiahou Qian frowned, opened an ancient mirror on the forging table, and the mirror reflected the scene outside the door of the forging room.

A handsome young man was standing at the door, chopping at the guardian formation with a short sword.

Why is this kid here?

Xiahou Qian frowned, feeling a little headache.

Xiahou Aotian was the grandson of his seventh brother and a direct descendant of the Xiahou family. This child had excellent talent and stood out among his peers in the family at a young age, and was not much more outstanding than the several boys from Xiahou Chi's lineage.

But this child was extremely rebellious and arrogant. The younger generation of the Xiahou family had Lingjing IDs starting with the character *Tian* (Heaven), but Xiahou Aotian felt that the original Lingjing ID was not high-class enough, so he took the liberty of changing it to 'Aotian' (Arrogant Heaven)... This was rebellion.

Xiahou Aotian often ridiculed his peers in the family, insulting them with words such as 'idiot', 'mediocre', 'waste', 'your parents might as well have raised a placenta'.

When the elders in the family couldn't stand it and reprimanded him, he would say, 'Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don't bully the young and poor'.

"Today you are deliberately making things difficult for me, but tomorrow you will bow down to me!"

In short, he was a troublesome, problem child who was getting on in years.

Xiahou Qian didn't want to pay attention to him, but the formation's warning was too distracting and he couldn't concentrate on refining weapons. Helplessly, he removed the formation and waved his sleeve to open the iron door.

"Aotian, why are you disturbing Uncle-Grandfather's weapon refining?" Dou Houqian took a deep breath and tried to be as kind as possible.

"Uncle-Grandfather, take a look at this sword." Xiahou Aotian handed over the bright long sword in his hand.

Xiahou Qian took it and took a closer look, and said in surprise: "Good sword, top quality for the Saint stage, where did it come from?"

Xiahou Aotian seemed to be waiting for this sentence, and immediately raised his chin: "This protagonist is not a person who likes to show off, but since Uncle-Grandfather is not ashamed to ask, it doesn't matter to tell you. I just came out of a dungeon..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xiahou Qian interrupted him: "You entered a dungeon? You didn't report it again, Xiahou Aotian, are you really not taking the family rules seriously?"

Xiahou Aotian said: "This protagonist does things in his own way, why should I report to anyone? Uncle-Grandfather, don't interrupt me."

Xiahou Qian's concentration was excellent, but when he faced this junior, he always couldn't help but get high blood pressure. He took another deep breath and asked gently: "What kind of dungeon did you enter?"

The quality of the props was directly proportional to the difficulty of the dungeon.

"S-level, Battle of Yamen." Xiahou Aotian couldn't wait to reply, and raised his chin, his face full of 'praise me'.

Battle of Yamen?!

Dou Houqian was really shocked. He was stunned for a few seconds, and then the gray-haired old family head narrowed his eyes and said, "Your level can't clear an S-level dungeon, tell me, who did you match with?"

Xiahou Aotian was furious when he heard this: "Uncle-Grandfather, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don't bully the young and poor."

"Did you use the energy pack?"

"Uncle-Grandfather is insightful, he is worthy of being the head of the family." Xiahou Aotian's momentum was vented.

As for the others, who were they? Xiahou Aotian had a meal after leaving the dungeon and forgot about them.

The protagonist was very busy, how could he remember the names of the minor characters.

Xiahou Qian pondered for a long time, sighed, and then said: "Did you get the two props from the Xie family and the Huaihai branch?"

"Why do I want them? I gave them to Yuanshi Tianzun." Xiahou Aotian said.

The head of the Xiahou family immediately understood and sighed again, "This child is extraordinary. Back then, out of consideration for the Songhai branch, I suppressed the voices of dissatisfaction in the family. It was not wrong."

After a pause, he asked: "What is your relationship with Yuanshi Tianzun? Was there any conflict?"

"Of course not, he admired me extremely. He said he wanted to follow me and be my little brother, and he also said that as long as I agreed, he would come to the Xiahou family to plead guilty with thorns on his back, but I said I would consider it." Xiahou Aotian stood with his hands behind his back.

Xiahou Qian smiled: "Not bad, the cost of the energy pack can be paid in installments!"

When Xiahou Aotian heard this, he was overjoyed and quickly grabbed his sword, "I originally wanted to sell the sword to the family to pay off my debts, hum, Uncle-Grandfather is blind and doesn't recognize good stuff."

Xiahou Qian, who was seventy years old, suddenly wanted to hit someone.

He pointed at the door and said: "Get out!"

Xiahou Aotian left contentedly. As soon as he walked out of the manor, he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to ask his uncle-grandfather to issue an announcement in the family's internal forum.

He pondered for a few seconds, stopped a passing shuttle bus and kicked the security guard down. He drove the shuttle bus away from the manor himself.

Then, he grabbed a loudspeaker from the item bar, pressed the record button and shouted: "Xiahou Aotian, cleared the S-level mission Battle of Yamen."

He pressed the single loop, threw it on the seat, and drove the shuttle bus to patrol the family community.

* * *

The scenery gradually became clear, and Zhang Yuanqing returned to the underground prison cell of the Fu family bay.

He went straight to the bed, picked up his cell phone and dialed Fu Qingyang's cell phone number.

The ringtone rang for a few seconds, and then Fu Qingyang's aloof tone came: "Did you clear it?"

"Yes!" Zhang Yuanqing smiled: "Boss, I got those two props."