Helping Xi Jingxuan regain her sight and see the colorful world was an act of kindness, so Jun Changxiao completed a hidden task.
In truth, he had never proclaimed himself a good person, but he had definitely done good deeds.
Why did it have to be completed at this particular moment?
The system explained: “Some hidden tasks don’t exist from the beginning, but are added as the system continuously upgrades itself.”
“I’m calling bullshit on that!”
Jun Changxiao muttered, then clicked on the item description.
The system collapsed: “Shouldn’t you be concerned about the girl who just regained her sight?”
Item: Planar Battlefield Portal.
Description: As living beings across all planes multiply endlessly, populations have become overwhelming and resources strained. Thus, the Planar Battlefield was created, where cultivators from various planes enter to fight and kill, thereby alleviating survival pressure.
Function: This item provides access to the outer realm battlefield to fight against various races—truly the best, most essential, most indispensable place for training.
Advantages: The battlefield contains hidden sanctuaries, martial technique manuals, and resources.
Disadvantages: Life and death are fated, wealth and honor are ordained by heaven.
Price: 50,000 contribution points.
Countdown: 59 minutes 10 seconds.
Upon seeing the price, Jun Changxiao’s eyes widened: “50,000 points? That’s way too expensive!”
His current limit was only 50,000—buying this would completely drain his contribution points!
“What’s the deal with the purchase countdown?”
“This is a limited-time item. Host must purchase it within the specified time, otherwise it will be permanently removed from the purchased items list and can never be refreshed in the shop again.”
“That kind of operation exists?”
Jun Changxiao was stunned.
The system said: “Expensive has its reasons. I recommend host purchase—”
Before it could finish, Jun Changxiao forcefully interrupted: “Even if the recommendation index is five hundred thousand stars, I’m not buying!”
Fifty thousand contribution points was simply too much.
Moreover, the Planar Battlefield was a place to go fight and kill—while it contained various resources, life and death were fated, wealth and honor ordained by heaven!
This clearly showed it.
That so-called Planar Battlefield must be extremely dangerous, definitely not child’s play.
Furthermore, he only needed to build up the sect to complete the main quest and live shamelessly with his disciples—what use was going to some Planar Battlefield?
“Every item in the shop is useful, like hair gel, face masks, vacuum cleaners.”
“This item is limited-time merchandise, so it must be even more useful. Host definitely won’t lose out, won’t get scammed by purchasing it!”
“Moreover.”
“The contribution points the disciples earned from clearing the Life-Death Secret Realm—I’m still holding those for host. Even if you clear out your current contribution points, there’s plenty more.”
The system was a qualified salesman.
But Jun Changxiao remained unmoved, sticking to his principles.
No choice.
The system’s brain opened up with a new angle: “Since the outer realm battlefield is used by various planes for fighting, there must be passages back. If host buys this, wouldn’t it mean you could use the battlefield as a transit point to go plunder other planes?”
“That makes sense!” Jun Changxiao’s eyes lit up.
The system continued: “The Soul Clan Continent is also a plane. If host breaks the seal to enter, they might invade first. Using the portal to transit to their world would be both safe and convenient!”
After following Sect Master Jun for so long, its imagination had improved considerably!
Indeed.
After hearing this, Jun Gou Sheng was tempted.
So he stroked his chin, muttering to himself: “Maybe… I should just buy it?”
He had no interest in going to the Planar Battlefield to fight, but if he could really use it to reach other planes, that would definitely have purchase value.
The main quest was to make the sect the strongest, and becoming stronger depended on resources. If the Xingyun Continent couldn’t satisfy future needs, going elsewhere—like plundering the Soul Clan territory—would be the fastest method of advancement!
“Buy, buy, buy!”
The system urged: “Opportunity knocks but once!”
If there were no time limit, Jun Changxiao might need to consider for a long time, but seeing the seconds decrease, he finally made up his mind: “I’ll trust you one more time!”
“Ding! Host spent 50,000 contribution points and obtained Planar Battlefield Portal ×1, delivered to spatial ring.”
“Ding! Contribution points 4,333/50,000.”
Having previously spent thousands or tens of thousands of points with great heartache, seeing over fifty thousand contribution points suddenly drop to just a few thousand, Sect Master Jun clutched his chest: “It hurts so much, Li Fei.”
The Planar Battlefield Portal was similar to the Life-Death Secret Realm, appearing as a vortex formation. Since he was outdoors, he didn’t take it out to examine it carefully.
“Palace Master Xi.”
Jun Changxiao said: “Let’s continue our journey.”
……
Having put on the glasses and completely regained her sight, Xi Jingxuan was extremely happy.
Walking along the road, she was like a child emerging from deep mountains, examining this unfamiliar world with curious eyes.
Of course.
They also sporadically encountered many martial artists. After gradually establishing her aesthetic sense, she would occasionally steal glances at Jun Changxiao, thinking: “He’s more pleasing to the eye than others.”
Definitely because she’d seen him so much.
Not because of that stunning first impression!
At this time, as a master of romance, he would definitely find opportunities to chat and wildly boost his favorability with the young lady.
However, Sect Master Jun’s spiritual sense was merged with his spatial ring, merged with the vacuum cleaner inside, currently spying on the constantly restless strange properties within.
“This unclean thing should be the culprit that caused Palace Master Xi to go berserk and even lose her sight, right?”
Initially the system said it was the Soul Clan, but after capturing it in the vacuum cleaner, Jun Changxiao denied this, because the Array Emperor had said the energy released by the Soul Clan was green, and this clearly wasn’t.
Moreover.
Although blackened Xi Jingxuan’s strength increased dramatically, she didn’t absorb others’ energy, so this was another factor ruling out the Soul Clan.
“Sigh.”
Sect Master Jun rubbed his temples, self-mockingly saying: “The Soul Clan could trigger the war of emperors in the ancient era, which shows they’re good at concealment. How could I find them so easily?”
The system said: “For now, focus your thoughts on those withered flowers and plants. As long as we find who did it, we might be able to find the Soul Clan.”
“Mm.”
Jun Changxiao thought so too.
Those patches of withered land in Donghao Province where energy had been absorbed were currently the only lead. Whether they could find the answer they wanted, he had no certainty in his heart.
“Sect Master Jun!”
After traveling for some distance and confirming the Palace Master’s eyes had completely recovered, Zhangsun Fanghua and Leng Xingyue seized a rest period to kneel in gratitude: “We’re truly so grateful!”
Previously they had quite disliked Jun Changxiao.
After experiencing the Nine Poisons Palace incident, especially seeing him resolutely jump into the poison abyss to rescue the Palace Master, their attitude underwent a complete transformation.
They even regretted their cold mockery toward him back then.
If Sect Master Jun gave Xi Jingxuan a wall-slam, then domineeringly lifted her chin with his finger saying “be my woman,” the two elders definitely wouldn’t object, because a man who risks his life to save someone in crisis is worth entrusting one’s life to.
However.
That was merely hypothetical.
Reality was, Sect Master Jun waved his hand, releasing powerful spiritual energy to prevent them from kneeling, saying: “This seat and Palace Master Xi are friends. When friends are in trouble, helping them is only natural. You two need not thank me.”
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