121: Task

Just as he regained his senses, the young man's voice came from beside his ear.

"I have detected that the restraints on my body are gradually diminishing. I will go into seclusion first. You are free to move around in the Parasol Tree Realm and take any fortuitous encounters or spiritual items you acquire. If you wish to form a contract with a spirit beast in the Parasol Tree Realm, you need to gain the approval of both the spirit beast and its guardian.

If you encounter any problems, you can go to the Vermilion Bird Clan. I have already spoken with them and told them to treat you as they would me. As long as your requests are not overly excessive, they will do their best to fulfill them for you."

After hearing the young man's words, Xu Yan no longer tried to find his figure, but instead carefully perceived the changes in himself.

Compared to before, the strength of his body and spiritual power had not increased due to this acquired power. However, Xu Yan had a feeling that his existence in this world seemed to have become much more free and comfortable.

Regarding his Innate Talent, Xu Yan's Heavens Mandate Guidance was already a versatile talent. The power Xu Yan received did not grant him any other flashy additional abilities; all enhancements were applied to the numerical values.

The original three daily uses accumulated directly increased to nine, and the difficulty of communicating with Heaven's Mandate decreased, consumption was reduced, and the duration after the golden threads burned was extended.

This improvement might seem simple, but in reality, it was incredibly powerful.

Xu Yan had a feeling that, with enough accumulated uses, he could even directly ask questions to Heaven and Earth and receive the answers he desired.

To put it simply and crudely, as long as Xu Yan could pay the price, and as long as the questions didn't involve the fundamental principles of Heaven and Earth, Xu Yan could even achieve a certain degree of omniscience and omnipotence.

After sensing the improvements in his Innate Talent, Xu Yan began to check the "Mission Platform" that the Vermilion Bird had mentioned earlier.

This "Mission Platform," in addition to issuing tasks and acquiring rewards, could also serve as an early warning radar, detecting potential threats in advance.

After all, these beings that wish to destroy or invade worlds are not only a threat to this world but also pose an immense threat to the people of Huaguo living in this world.

Even though Huaguo's surveillance and cleansing of X-cults, sacrifices, and negative energy are very strict, they still cannot completely eradicate them, let alone those countries outside of Huaguo.

In the face of this situation, Huaguo could only choose to intensify surveillance, take preventive measures, and be ready to confront these shadows lurking and accumulating power.

Now, with the existence of such a "Mission Platform," it might not be able to meticulously clear out all those shadows, but it can at least detect and eliminate in advance those existences that truly pose a threat to this world and could cause significant destruction to Huaguo.

Although directly integrating it into his body, relying on the "Mission Platform's" special nature and the rewards obtainable after completing tasks, would allow Xu Yan to gain significant attention within Huaguo and receive more resource allocation, Xu Yan did not choose to do so when absorbing the Vermilion Bird's gift.

If he were to integrate this power into himself, Xu Yan, having obtained this power, would naturally stand in opposition to those existences, and how many of those truly capable of threatening or even devastating the world are weaklings?

To prevent Xu Yan from being eliminated by these entities, Huaguo, while providing protection to Xu Yan, would also impose certain restrictions on his potentially dangerous actions for his safety.

This is still when he hasn't been exposed. If Xu Yan's uniqueness were exposed, what he would face would not only be the assassinations from those entities that might appear on the mission platform, but also some entities that do not wish for Huaguo to continue developing so rapidly might also make a move against Xu Yan.

In this situation, the protection and restrictions Xu Yan receives will become even stricter.

Even though these protections and restrictions were well-intentioned, Xu Yan still disliked this kind of life.

Furthermore, while having a golden exclamation mark above his head might seem exciting, if Xu Yan were to truly act like an NPC, issuing quests to one person after another, it might feel fresh at first, but over time, feelings of boredom and rebellion would definitely emerge.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Xu Yan ultimately chose not to integrate it into himself. Instead, he chose to give up a portion of the power, along with this mission system, to form a special wondrous item: the Mission Scroll.

Tasks issued by the world will be directly displayed on the Mission Scroll. Any being whose stance is not aligned with world destruction or that of invaders from outside the world can see the tasks it issues through this scroll.

After completing a task, Xu Yan, as the direct associate, receives one share, and the remaining shares are distributed according to the effort and contribution of the task participants. Task completers can also choose to gift their share of the reward to others.

Although doing so would also leave a target for those entities, protecting a wondrous item is always much simpler than protecting a thinking, constantly moving living person like Xu Yan, and the safety would also be considerably higher.

Looking at the scroll in his hand, Xu Yan slowly unfurled it.

Then, on the previously blank Mission Scroll, the information of the first mission that appeared after Xu Yan took over this mission platform abruptly appeared in Xu Yan's eyes.

Because it was formed in Xu Yan's hands, the text and information on the scroll at this time were more inclined to Xu Yan's impression of a quest log.

Mission Description: The XX cult of Country X has obscured the Heavenly Secrets, sealed off all contact between that country and the outside world, sacrificed the lives of an entire nation, and connected an extraterrestrial passage. Extraterrestrial invaders are gathering and are about to launch a large-scale invasion of Blue Star.

Mission Objective: Go and kill all relevant persons of the XX cult (Overlord), kill extraterrestrial invaders (Overlord ~ Saint Spirit), destroy the extraterrestrial passage (Saint Spirit) / counter-invade the extraterrestrial realm, seize the heart of the outer world (Mythical).

Rewards: World Blessing, materials, ruins, outer world development rights, world essence, Law Stones... Looking at the information on the scroll, Xu Yan exclaimed, "Good heavens, it just changed 'owners', and you're already throwing such a big event at me?"

Seeing the information on the scroll, which clearly indicated a major incident, and the pile of rewards, some he'd heard of and some he hadn't, Xu Yan immediately abandoned his previous idea of leisurely exploring the Parasol Tree Realm and perhaps bringing back a small phoenix.

Xu Yan didn't even choose to have Yan Yu or Uncle Qing send him back. Instead, he directly contacted his mentor, and after receiving authorization, a beam of guiding light descended into the Parasol Tree Realm.