“Holy crap, the System can actually issue quests?!”
Li Hai looked at his personal interface, first with a face full of shock, then he couldn't help but complain:
“No, I’m a Void-Reality Grandmaster at the Perfection Rank, so how did I become a little brat in kindergarten, middle class?
Could it be that the Void-Reality Grandmaster Realm is so insignificant in the System’s eyes?” At this point, Li Hai suddenly fell silent.
Compared to this Heaven-Defying System, a Martial Dao Grandmaster does seem a bit insignificant.
“But, if a Void-Reality Grandmaster can only be considered a kindergarten middle-class child by the System, then what about the Eternal Overlord? And the strongest within the Eternal Overlord Realm?”
Li Hai rubbed his chin and said, “Could it be, kindergarten big class—Ninth-level Peak Great Perfection?”
After a short while of wild thoughts, he shook his head, shaking off these useless notions.
In short, according to the test questions issued by the System:
Li Hai only needed to find that Unknown existence named Disaster Lord who annihilated the Da Ggun Clan.
First, obtain information about him, then kill him.
He could then successfully pass the pre-school exam and become a so-called provisional elementary student of the Transcendent Elementary School.
“Transcendent, tsk tsk tsk, what a grand title.”
Li Hai grinned and said, “It’s just, when put together with the words ‘elementary school,’ why does it feel so awkward?”
Immediately, he thought of the three admission rewards written on that test paper.
First, 30 fragments.
This was indeed a lot, 6 more than the total number of all the strong fragments Li Hai currently possessed, which was truly enticing.
If he had so many fragments in hand, although Li Hai might not immediately upgrade on the spot, he might use one or two fragments to upgrade some of his favorite Cultivation Technique skills.
For example, the “Northern Du Reversal of Fate Profound Skill”; Li Hai was very curious about what kind of effect he would get if he upgraded it another Rank.
One must know that even skills of the same Rank can still have huge differences in effect.
Therefore, the importance of many powerful skills is no less than high-Rank entries.
Then, there was one chance for an absolute resurrection.
Absolute resurrection.
Li Hai didn't seem to need it at the moment, but who could say what the future held?
Think about it, to have a chance to return no matter what kind of death one experiences, this would ultimately make one reluctant to give up.
As for the last one, the chance to make all entry characteristics ascend together.
When Li Hai saw this reward and instantly understood its meaning, he even felt that it was more precious than the previous two rewards.
Because its true meaning was that one entry’s improvement would cause all entries to ascend.
That is, no matter which entry characteristic he chose to upgrade, and no matter how many Ranks it ascended in that one instance.
After the upgrade was complete, all other entries would synchronously ascend to the same Rank.
This was equivalent to magnifying the effect of one fragment many times over.
To be honest, Li Hai had so many entry characteristics; if he were to upgrade them one by one, the fragment consumption would be truly enormous.
But once he had this reward, he could maximize the effect of fragments and minimize consumption when upgrading entries.
Simply perfect.
However—all of this depended on whether Li Hai could find that 'examiner' named Disaster Lord.
“Disaster Lord—”
Li Hai, who had already left the ancient secret room, hovered in the high sky, gazing into the distance, looking at the boundless, infinite wasteland below that was very likely created by the Disaster Lord, and murmured in a low voice, “Where should I look for you?”
The next day.
Yu Continent, Central Capital, Young Military Supervisor's Mansion.
“You mean—”
Li Hai, seated in the Grand Tutor’s chair, looked at the Demon Slayer Commandant standing respectfully with bowed head before him, and said solemnly, “Gong Shuo Hong disappeared after going to Bao Lan Sheng (Azure Blue Province) to audit the accounts?”
“Yes, Young Military Supervisor.”
The reporting Commandant respectfully replied, “The Bao Lan Sheng (Azure Blue Province) Demon Slayer Division branch just reported to the headquarters’ communication office that when Lady Gong was alone in the archives checking and verifying various account books, the branch happened to encounter a Yao Beast tide invasion.
Because this once-in-a-century Yao Beast tide was too fierce, nearly half of the building area of the Bao Lan Sheng (Azure Blue Province) branch was destroyed, including the archives.
After repelling the Yao Beast tide, the Bao Lan Sheng (Azure Blue Province) branch, after statistics, found that five Commandants had died, twelve Commandants were seriously injured, and two Commandants were missing, and Lady Gong happened to be among the missing personnel.”
“Is that so.”
Li Hai pondered for a moment and said, “What about Gai Fu? Where did he go?”
Hearing the question, the Commandant respectfully replied:
“Reporting to the Young Military Supervisor, Lord Gai is inspecting local branches and various Station Discipline in other provinces, and a few days ago, he just caught a few ‘oil-stealing rats.’ These ‘rats’ are all direct old subordinates of the former Heavenly Rank Commandant Ming Yingjie. Several serious embezzlement issues may be related to them and those behind them. Lord Gai is still investigating.”
“I see.” Li Hai nodded, “Then don’t disturb him. You may withdraw.”
“Understood.” The Commandant cupped his hands in a salute and was about to leave.
But then Li Hai spoke again: “Wait a moment.”
The Commandant immediately stopped, puzzled: “Young Military Supervisor?”
“I want to know—”
Li Hai frowned slightly and said, “Is the commander of this Bao Lan Sheng (Azure Blue Province) branch also an old subordinate of Ming Yingjie?”
“This, your subordinate has not heard.”
The Commandant pondered, “However, that Commander Qiu Zheng Long of Bao Lan Sheng (Azure Blue Province) seems to be quite close to the former Heavenly Rank Commandant Luo Qianqiu.”
“I understand.” Li Hai said in a deep voice, “You may return to headquarters first.”
“Yes.” The Commandant cupped his hands in another salute, turned, and quickly departed.
For a moment, only Li Hai was left in the room.
“So—”
He leaned against the back of the chair, his thick eyebrows slightly raised as he muttered, “Could this be a fire dragon burning the granary?”
Although there wasn't much evidence, Li Hai just suspected that Qiu Zheng Long was up to something, and that Gong Shuo Hong's disappearance was related to him.
As soon as the audit began, a Yao Beast tide appeared, and the beast tide just happened to destroy the archives and cause the auditor, Gong Shuo Hong, to go missing.
How could there be such a coincidence?
Subsequently, Li Hai, whose suspicions were aroused, took the Bì Luò Tian Zhou (Azurefall Sky Ark) that afternoon and sped all the way to Bao Lan Sheng (Azure Blue Province), located on the southwestern frontier of the Jing Dynasty.
Although this province, like Yun Kang Province, is located on the southern border of Great Jing, which is commonly known as the Southern Frontier region.
However, the difference is that the foreign territory adjacent to Yun Kang is the Shilong Mountain area, which is extremely barren in terms of resources, population, and heaven and earth essence, and where numerous Dock lead large groups of uncivilized wild people, dividing and governing to barely survive.
Whereas the foreign territory adjacent to Bao Lan Sheng (Azure Blue Province) is the Xia Alliance Chaotic Land, which is more than ten times larger than Shilong Mountain, and whose various resources and heaven and earth essence are not inferior to Great Jing at all, but it is ruled jointly by many ancient sects.