[Ding, your gift of a “Ginseng Fruit Tree” to disciple Lin Qingzhi has failed to yield a return reward from the Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator.]
[Ding, your gift of a “Ginseng Fruit Tree” to disciple Ji Xuan has failed to yield a return reward from the Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator.]
Hmm?
The Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator actually continuously indicated failure.
Could the Ginseng Fruit Tree really be the limit?
That’s not right.
Based on Lu Changsheng’s understanding of the system, this system is extremely heaven-defying, even rewarding twenty-first grade Talismans; an ordinary Ginseng Fruit Tree is merely a fifteenth-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, it doesn’t seem like it’s reached the upper limit.
Lu Changsheng always felt that gifting a Ginseng Fruit Tree should result in a supreme reward.
He was not content.
So, from then on, every now and then, Lu Changsheng would gift Lin Qingzhi and Ji Xuan with Ginseng Fruit Trees.
Although the Ginseng Fruit Tree is a fifteenth-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, it’s extremely rare. Gifting it to disciples at the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, the system would not provide any hint at all, only when it was gifted to a Quasi-Emperor Realm disciple would there be a system prompt.
Thus, Lu Changsheng judged that there would definitely be a return, but the probability was quite heart-wrenching.
Lu Changsheng could use the Ginseng Fruits yielded from the Ginseng Fruit Tree to gift his disciples, then gift the Ginseng Fruit Trees returned by the system to his disciples. Even if the return failed, the disciples received the Ginseng Fruit Trees, and Lu Changsheng would just lose some extra Ginseng Fruits; overall, it was still profitable.
Lin Qingzhi and Ji Xuan scratched their heads, wondering why their master kept giving them Ginseng Fruit Trees lately?
And, how come their master had so many Ginseng Fruit Trees?
The Ginseng Fruit Tree, rare in the Immortal Realm, how could it be as common as cabbage with their master?
After killing the Sect Leader of the Tianhuan Sect, Su Xiaoqi successfully broke through to the Quasi-Emperor Realm, collected all the treasures of the Tianhuan Sect, and returned to Eternal Night to collect his rewards.
In the Assassin Immortal Sect Eternal Night, shrouded in black mist, where the sun and moon are without light, at the forbidden mountain gate, an eight-hundred zhang tall rock bore the ancient seal characters “Eternal Night”.
Assassins frequently entered and exited.
Well-acquainted with the place, Su Xiaoqi came to one of the magnificent towers, handed over the token of the Tianhuan Sect Leader, and received ten billion Immortal Stones.
To assassinate a Quasi-Immortal Emperor for only ten billion Immortal Stones as a reward was indeed too little.
Su Xiaoqi had just lacked a bit of experience, which was why he had taken on this bounty task.
“Shen Qi, to think you haven’t been a Heavenly Level Assassin for long and you’ve already assassinated the Quasi-Emperor Tianhuan Old Immortal. With your talent, even becoming an Emperor Level Assassin would be easy. Would you be interested in becoming one of our Supporting Elders at Eternal Night?”
One of the Supreme Elders of Eternal Night took notice of Su Xiaoqi’s amazing potential and decided to recruit Su Xiaoqi into Eternal Night, making him a dedicated assassin of Eternal Night.
There wasn’t just one Assassin Sect in the Immortal Realm like Eternal Night; competition was fierce.
Furthermore, because Eternal Night gathered a group of assassins, a mixed bag of characters, as long as the price was right, it did not matter if the assassination target was a disciple of a Cultivator Clan or a Holy Land, the assassins of Eternal Night would dare to take the job, so Eternal Night had offended many Cultivator Clans and even Human Holy Lands.
If it weren’t for the fact that a group of Emperor Level Assassins were stationed in Eternal Night, it would have been wiped out long ago for offending these Cultivator Clans and Human Holy Lands.
Now, within a hundred thousand years, Su Xiaoqi had risen from a Yellow Grade Assassin to a Heavenly Level Assassin, even successfully killing the Quasi-Emperor Tianhuan Old Immortal, and was beginning to possess the qualifications of an Emperor Level Assassin.
To join Eternal Night and become a Supporting Elder meant access to more benefits.
Yellow Grade Assassins could only get thirty percent of the bounty for their missions.
Profound Level Assassins could claim forty percent.
Earth Level Assassins could take fifty percent.
Heavenly Level Assassins could take sixty percent.
Freelance Emperor Level Assassins could take seventy percent.
But as a Supporting Elder of Emperor Level in Eternal Night, one could take ninety percent!
And every ten thousand years, there was also a distribution of dividends.
Emperor Level Assassins sticking together meant that the major Cultivator Clans and Holy Lands had no way to deal with them.
After all, offending a large group of Emperor Level Assassins, being targeted by them collectively and living in constant anxiety, would the disciples of Cultivator Clans and Holy Lands dare to go out for experience anymore?
As the name implies, an Emperor Level Assassin, with a cultivation level of at least Quasi-Emperor Realm, was eligible to become an Emperor Level Assassin.
Additionally, Emperor Level Assassins possess a wealth of abilities in assassination, tracking, escaping, poisoning, and antidote administration, such that ordinary Immortal Emperors have no way against them, and can even be easily killed by them.
Becoming a Supporting Elder had the added benefit of utilizing Eternal Night’s information network to gather intelligence from all over the Three Realms.
As one of the top Assassin Immortal Sects in the Immortal Realm, Eternal Night’s operations were not confined to just the Immortal Realm; they had assassins active in both the Demon Realm and the Monster Realm.
It was rumored that once, Eternal Night produced an unparalleled assassin who single-handedly entered the Monster Realm and assassinated a Dragon King, then managed to retreat completely unscathed, becoming a legend in the world of assassins.
Of course, although there were various advantages to becoming a Supporting Elder in Eternal Night, there was also an inconvenience. Compared to the freelance assassins, Supporting Elders inevitably faced restrictions, and should Eternal Night issue an order, Supporting Elders could not disobey in secret. If discovered, they would face a united assault from the other Supporting Elders.
“If I can use Eternal Night’s intelligence network, perhaps I can help elder sister. After all, Eternal Night is still an assassination organization, even more loosely structured than other Sects. As a Supporting Elder, I can still practice under my Master’s tutelage, without being at a disadvantage,”
Having thought it over carefully, Su Xiaoqi decided to take on the role of Supporting Elder at Eternal Night in order to assist her elder sister.
The assassins of Eternal Night were spread throughout the Three Realms, and their intelligence network was pervasive, not as simple as it appeared on the surface.
As a junior Supporting Elder, Su Xiaoqi in fact did not have access to the core of Eternal Night.
It was only after spending tens of thousands of years within Eternal Night that Su Xiaoqi realized the terrifying nature of the Assassin Sect.
Eternal Night was a holy land of assassins formed by a group of desperados, operating independently from other human holy lands and establishing their own faction, which the other holy lands were also reluctant to deal with.
Perhaps some of the Elders from these holy lands had even once enlisted the services of Eternal Night’s assassins to eliminate their enemies.
“This is your Supporting Elder token, if the Sect has matters to attend to, we will contact you through this token. Normally, no one dares to provoke us at Eternal Night, so even a hundred thousand years might pass without us summoning you back to the Sect,”
This Supreme Elder extended his hand to produce a token and handed it to Su Xiaoqi, signifying her official status as a Supporting Elder, an Emperor Level assassin.
Su Xiaoqi took the token and then left.
“Why has her cultivation improved so rapidly? Could she be from some Cultivator Clan or Holy Land?”
The Supreme Elder of Eternal Night stroked his beard, pondering Su Xiaoqi’s background.
With all sorts in the Assassin Sect, unless one was part of the core leadership, no effort would be made to deliberately investigate an individual’s background.
In the Tai Hua Holy Land, Lu Changsheng was still gifting Ginseng Fruit Trees to his two Quasi-Emperor realm disciples.
After Su Xiaoqi returned to her practice, Lu Changsheng had yet one more person to whom he could gift Ginseng Fruit Trees.
Now Su Xiaoqi was also puzzled, why had Master suddenly taken a liking to gifting Ginseng Fruit Trees?
The Master’s eccentric hobbies as a mentor were indeed unique.
Compared to Tianhuan Old Immortal, who coveted others’ wives and daughters and liked to hear disciples flatter him, Lu Changsheng’s interests were considered particularly unusual.
And so, three thousand years passed.
[Ding, you have gifted your disciple Lin Qingzhi a “Ginseng Fruit Tree,” disciple gifting reward failed.]
[Ding, you have gifted your disciple Ji Xuan a “Ginseng Fruit Tree,” disciple gifting reward failed.]
[Ding, you have gifted your disciple Su Xiaoqi a “Ginseng Fruit Tree,” disciple gifting reward failed.]
Failure.
Failure.
Still a failure.
…
“What’s going on?”
After three thousand years, Lu Changsheng had gifted who knows how many Ginseng Fruit Trees to his disciples, but all attempts at a return reward had failed.
Lin Qingzhi, Ji Xuan, and Su Xiaoqi had enough Ginseng Fruit Trees to start an orchard.
Lu Changsheng felt numb to it all.
Could it be that Ginseng Fruit Trees truly couldn’t yield any return?
For the first time, Lu Changsheng’s faith wavered.
The problem was that the system hadn’t stated that gifting Ginseng Fruit Trees would preclude the return of other treasures.
It was maddeningly itchy for Lu Changsheng not to know if there would ever be a return or not.
If this continued, the first batch of Ginseng Fruit Trees he had gifted to Lin Qingzhi and Ji Xuan would soon bear fruit!
