VAP - Chapter 162

Chapter 162: Xuan Yin (1)

According to the usual process, every small world had an ultimate mission.

This mission would be the most difficult, and only by fulfilling its requirements could the entire mission chain be brought to a perfect conclusion, bringing the journey in that world to an end.

But this time, the Main System didn't follow the process.

For five years, it had remained as quiet as if its data had been wiped. Just when Yue Du had all but forgotten about the mission, it stopped playing dead.

"Ding—Detected that all main quests have been completed. The world mission does not constitute a complete mission chain; therefore, there will be no bonus point reward. Please be advised, 0996."

"The System will be forcibly returned to the Main God's space within twenty-four hours. Please prepare."

Yue Du was a little surprised, but not so much that she was caught off guard. After all, this wasn't the first time the Main System had pulled some strange stunt.

"I was thinking it would put its efforts elsewhere," Yue Du said. "Remember what I said? Besides issuing missions related to the original world's timeline, the Main System is dedicated to all sorts of small, annoying tasks, as if it can't wait for you to have a meltdown."

If it operated along those lines, the most convenient and quickest way to anger the host would be to target Yue Du. Coupled with Ji You's "Jealousy" trait, it was a perfect recipe for stirring up trouble.

But the Main System hadn't.

Gluttony was the one in control of the body. When she first heard the mechanical voice, her expression turned so cold it looked like she wanted to drag the Main System out of the Main God's space and bite it to death. Now, hearing her sister's analysis, she couldn't help but slowly grind her teeth.

Jealousy snorted in the mental space, "It wouldn't dare."

Gluttony asked, "You know it?"

"I don't remember, just a vague feeling," Jealousy replied. "What's with that tone? If I know that troublemaker, is there any difference from you knowing it?"

Obviously, there was no difference.

Gluttony fell silent, resentfully.

Regardless of how wary the Main System and its boss were of the host, the teleportation of the System back to the Main God's space was carried out without the slightest hesitation.

After being given ample time for goodbyes and tenderness, Yue Du was teleported back to the Main God's space as soon as the twenty-four hours were up.

Separated from her sister for the first time in over a decade, Ji You seemed a bit lost. She stood there in a daze for a while, looking at the few bulging little bags beside her and the packaged food piled on the table, all with long shelf lives.

Before leaving, Yue Du had used points to buy these things for Ji You, enough to last her for a while. It wasn't that Ji You had nothing to eat here—Wen Yilan was still living across the hall. Yue Du had told her she was going on a long trip with an uncertain return date and asked the young private chef to please continue handling the host's breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The small bags were filled with seeds, which might not be affected by the Scarlet Beasts' mental influence in the short term and could still grow normally.

Unfortunately, Ji You wasn't the farming type. Planting them was out of the question, and she didn't want to share them with others, so she could only hold them and think of her sister from time to time.

Ji You opened a bag of potato chips and sighed deeply.

Her sister was gone, and Jealousy didn't feel like talking. The two consciousnesses fell into an unprecedented silence.

After a long while, Jealousy spoke up. "I have a feeling. Maybe before all this food is gone, I'll be able to see Sister again."

Gluttony's hopes rose. "Are you sure?"

"I said 'maybe'."

Gluttony: "..."

The two consciousnesses sighed deeply once more.

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Meanwhile, Yue Du crossed the world barrier, stepping out of a silvery-white pool and onto the shore.

The bright silver water formed round droplets that slid down her black-and-white uniform and flowed back into the pool, leaving not a single trace behind.

Having just parted with Ah Jiu, Yue Du was still feeling a bit down. She started walking toward the System rest area when, halfway there, she saw the black heptagram on her wrist light up.

She opened it to find a notification from the Main God, requiring her to go to meeting room A1—where she had met him last time—as soon as possible.

Yue Du raised an eyebrow.

The Main God was actually requesting a meeting of his own accord. Thinking about how hastily the last mission world had ended, she had reason to suspect the Main God had run into some trouble related to her. Otherwise, he wouldn't have acted so urgently, to the point that she could see something was amiss.

Sure enough, when the Main God, whose face was obscured, saw her, his first words were, "You have an emergency mission."

"An emergency mission?" Yue Du asked in return.

"Yes." The Main God's tone sounded even more dispirited than during their last meeting, filled with a world-weariness and an indescribable fatigue, much like a programmer who'd found a bug and had to work all night to fix it. "Situations like this happen occasionally. Considering 0996's excellent performance, I decided to entrust this emergency mission to you."

That was a blatant lie. Although Yue Du's mission completion rate wasn't low, she sometimes abandoned missions outright if the uncertain factors were too high. Her System level was still just A.

Besides, as far as she knew, there were many Systems above A-rank—Turasu and Jian Mingtian, for instance. Why would he ignore the more outstanding employees ahead of her and choose her?

Yue Du feigned regret. "I'm very happy to have this opportunity. However, I've just returned from completing a mission in a small world. It might not be suitable for me to cross the world barrier again so soon, lest I damage my spirit."

The Main God said, "That's not a problem. I can provide a tool that grants immunity to the spiritual damage a System suffers from traversing small worlds."

It seemed he was indeed in a hurry.

Yue Du knew she had no choice but to go. "I assume I can know the location and requirements of this mission in advance?"

The Main God was shrouded in a misty light, his expression invisible, but Yue Du felt as if he had frozen for a moment. "Mm... of course you can. The mission location is one you've inquired about before: the upper world of the Qianhong small world."

Yue Du froze.

The Qianhong small world—she couldn't be more familiar with that name. It was the world where Yun Yijiu had been before her ascension.

And Qianhong's upper world was naturally the place where its cultivators ascended—the world where Yun Yijiu now lived. Yue Du had once applied to enter this small world but had received no reply. Who would have thought that the Main God himself would now be asking her to go there for a mission?

For a moment, Yue Du's expression was complicated.

But she was only lost in thought for an instant before quickly schooling her features and retracting the complex look. "Then what are the mission requirements?"

The Main God said, "There is only one mission, and it is mandatory. You must stop Yun Yijiu, the villain from the original Qianhong small world and one of the hosts, from destroying the world."

Yue Du: "..."

Yue Du said, "I'm sorry, I must have misheard. Who did you say is going to destroy the world?"

The Main God actually repeated it: "Yun Yijiu."

If it had been Qi Jiu, Nai Yin, or Sheng Xuejiu who was going to destroy the world—or even Ji You, whom she had just left—Yue Du wouldn't have been so surprised.

Wushuang Sword Venerable Yun Yijiu possessed the trait of "Pride." Her pride wasn't the arrogant, domineering, or imperious kind, but rather a disregard for all things in the world, as if they didn't even register in her eyes.

Because of this trait, she actually seemed more harmless than the host's other facets. After all, the others might destroy a world out of revenge after Yue Du left, but Yun Yijiu would disdain such an act.

Would you take out your anger on the air, something you normally pay no mind to?

You wouldn't.

The same applied to Yun Yijiu.

On the other hand, Yun Yijiu was indeed the most powerful of the host's fragments, but also the most innocent. Her psyche leaned toward the "good" side—at least, more so than the parts that leaned toward "evil."

Taking all these factors into account, the act of destroying the world was truly out of character.

The Main God showed no intention of explaining this, only asking, "So, are you willing to accept the mission?"

Yue Du answered crisply, "I accept."

"Good. The tool for immunity to spiritual damage from world traversal has been sent to your System space. In addition, I will transmit the basic data for the mission world to you. The teleportation is set for one hour from now. I wish you success."

Before his voice had even faded, the Main God suddenly waved his sleeve, sending Yue Du to the teleportation point—the very same small, silvery-white pool she had just emerged from.

Having just left, she was back again. Yue Du shook her head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and sat by the edge of the pool to wait for the scheduled teleportation time.

Compared to previous missions, this emergency mission seemed extremely unusual.

Yue Du had originally thought the Main God and the various small worlds were in an adversarial relationship. After all, the first ultimate mission the Main System had ever issued her was to destroy a world.

After Yue Du chose to abandon it, the system had never made such a blatant proposal again. But many of the Main System's strange little missions seemed to be related to the survival of the small worlds, as if it would be happy to see them destroyed.

This time was different. It had come running to her in a panic with an emergency mission just to stop Ah Jiu from destroying a world. The huge contrast made one wonder: Did worlds also get treated like favored sons versus stepsons?

While she was pondering, the black heptagram flashed. This time, it was the basic information for the small world.

Yue Du opened the file and skimmed through it.

The upper world of the Qianhong small world was called the Xuan Yin Realm. This world could be seen as a collection of elites from the subordinate worlds; powerful cultivators who ascended from their native cultivation worlds would generally arrive here.

So far, the small world with the highest power ceiling Yue Du had been to was Qianhong. As the "map" one entered after ascension, one could imagine that the Xuan Yin Realm would have even more powerful individuals, and its power ceiling would be raised accordingly.

Compared to an ordinary cultivation world, the Xuan Yin Realm was more like a mythological world. Everyone in it was either an accomplished immortal or a god monarch, or a demigod descendant of an immortal.

Yue Du had no doubt that with her current strength, she would be nothing but cannon fodder in this world.

She scanned the data, reading ten lines at a glance, and couldn't help but marvel at how fond the Main God must be of this world. The sheer completeness of the information was astounding.

The divisions of power and information on various god monarchs and true immortals were all fully recorded. The file packet even contained an encyclopedia of immortal beasts, immortal plants, spirit treasures, and divine objects—an illustrated version, no less.

Compared to the data packet for the Xuan Yin Realm, the files for the previous mission worlds really seemed like they'd been prepared by a stepmother, each one more perfunctory than the last.

It was worth noting that the data packet for the Xuan Yin Realm didn't include things like a script or protagonist information. Naturally, there was no introduction for the final villain either.

But since the mission was to stop the host from destroying the world, then the villain this time should still be Yun Yijiu, right?

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