77: Chapter 77 A New System Mission! Slay the Land Immortals with a Sword!

Upon hearing this, Xia Jin's eyes lit up immediately.

He hadn't expected that his casual inquiry would actually reveal that this fellow possessed information about the Earthly Immortals within the Great Qian Imperial Palace.

"Let's go," Xia Jin said, looking at Liu Tongtian with a smile. "Bring that information out for this prince."

"Understood, I will go immediately!!" Liu Tongtian endured the sharp pain in his knees, crawled up from the ground, and began to lead the way. "My lord, please follow me."

He limped along, leading Xia Jin out of the room, and soon they arrived at a woodshed in the backyard filled with firewood.

"Don't tell this prince that such important information is hidden in this place!?" Xia Jin looked at the woodshed before him with a strange expression.

Liu Tongtian could only offer two dry laughs. He moved to the corner of the woodshed and pushed aside two piles of dry firewood. Then, he stepped hard on a spot on the ground with his uninjured left foot and pressed a few times on the adjacent wall with his hand.

With a soft "click," a stone slab on the ground sank, popping up a palm-sized secret compartment.

Liu Tongtian crouched down, retrieved a black wooden box, and respectfully handed it to Xia Jin. "My lord, the item you require is right here."

"Are you sure," Xia Jin narrowed his eyes as he looked at the wooden box in his hand, "that what is contained inside is truly information about those Earthly Immortals within the Great Qian Imperial Palace?"

Liu Tongtian gave a wry smile and said hesitantly: "My lord, this one truly cannot be certain. This wooden box was passed down by my grandfather, who said that what is inside is the greatest secret of the Great Qian Dynasty. Unless it is a last resort, it must never be shown to anyone easily. Today... today, in order to save my life, I have no choice but to violate my ancestral teachings."

"Ancestral teachings, you say?" Xia Jin's gaze lingered on Liu Tongtian's face for a moment; he could confirm that the other party was not lying.

Since that was the case, he would open it and take a look. Xia Jin pressed down on the box lid, intending to open it.

"Wait! My lord, wait!" Liu Tongtian suddenly shouted again.

Xia Jin paused, looking at Liu Tongtian with an unfriendly gaze: "What is it now?"

Liu Tongtian swallowed his saliva. "My lord, once this wooden box is opened, the contents will automatically incinerate after ten breaths. So... if you wish to see it, my lord, you must memorize it as quickly as possible."

Xia Jin nodded and opened the wooden box. Inside was only a somewhat yellowed piece of parchment. He reached in, took out the parchment, and quickly scanned its contents.

The content was not extensive, consisting of only a few short paragraphs, but after reading it, Xia Jin's expression suddenly changed!

"The Great Qian Imperial Family actually harbors three old monsters of the Land Immortal Realm, and these three have actually been raising the entire Lu clan as livestock for blood food?"

Even the well-informed Xia Jin could not help but gasp in shock at this moment.

Just as Xia Jin was digesting this horrifying information, the long-absent notification sound of the System rang out in his mind:

[Ding! Detected key information 'Lu Tiancheng, Lu Lingfeng, Lu Lingxiao'... Information matching... Matching successful!]

[Triggered Choice Mission: Sword Slaying the Earthly Immortal!]

[Mission One: Slay the Great Qian Dynasty Earthly Immortal 'Lu Tiancheng'. Reward: Soul Weapon Forging Technique (Entry-Level), 600 years of cultivation!]

[Mission Two: Slay the Great Qian Dynasty Earthly Immortal brothers 'Lu Lingfeng, Lu Lingxiao'. Reward: Soul-Shocking Spike (Entry-Level), 1,000 years of cultivation!]

[The host may choose the order of completing the missions at will; upon completing one of the missions, the corresponding reward will be obtained.]

"What the... hell!!" Xia Jin came back to his senses when the System prompt sounded.

However, when he saw the two missions hanging on the System panel, he immediately wanted to curse out loud.

With his current cultivation at the sixth level of the Tongshen Realm, even relying on powerful Cultivation Techniques like the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, he could be considered unrivaled in offensive power within the Tongshen Realm. But that was, after all, the Land Immortal Realm. Let alone slaying the opponent, whether he could survive in their hands was perhaps a question.

Just as Xia Jin was silently complaining in his heart, the writing on the parchment in his hand quickly faded and vanished. Immediately afterward, the entire parchment began to burn without fire from the edges, turning into a small pile of ashes.

Liu Tongtian had been nervously observing Xia Jin's expression. Seeing the parchment self-destruct, he asked cautiously: "My... my lord, are... are you alright? The information on it should be useful to you, right..."

What he feared most was that Xia Jin would find the information useless and vent his anger on him, in which case his life would be lost right here.

"Liu Tongtian." Xia Jin clapped his hands and looked at Liu Tongtian calmly.

"This one is here!" Liu Tongtian hurriedly bowed and responded.

"From today on, you will work for this prince. Rest assured, this prince never mistreats his own people. The benefits you receive will only be more than what you get now by guarding this 'Qianjin Workshop'!!"

Liu Tongtian was stunned. Before he could react, he saw Xia Jin raise his right palm, and within his palm, lightning faintly flashed.

"My lord... I agree! I agree! Don't kill me!!" Liu Tongtian's heart suddenly missed a beat, and he instinctively wanted to retreat, but how could he escape?

Xia Jin's palm landed gently on top of Liu Tongtian's head.

In an instant, Liu Tongtian felt an incomparably pure force pouring in from the top of his head! It seemed to condense into a tiny seed at his Dantian.

Subsequently, that force continuously surged through his entire body's meridians. The Bottleneck that had been stuck at the Peak of the ninth level of the Great Grandmaster Realm for many years, which he had never been able to break through, actually shattered under the impact of that force!

"Xiaoyao Heavenly Realm! I've actually broken through to the Xiaoyao Heavenly Realm!"

Liu Tongtian clenched his fists, seemingly unable to believe it. After a brief moment of daze, he knelt directly on the ground before Xia Jin: "Thank you, my lord, for the grace of rebirth! Liu Tongtian is willing to serve you like a dog or a horse, and will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

Xia Jin withdrew his hand and looked at Liu Tongtian with a smile: "Alright, get up! From now on, continue operating 'Qianjin Workshop' as usual. Tomorrow, deliver all information related to the Great Qian Imperial Family to the inn in the west of the city!"

After speaking, Xia Jin tossed a token over.

"Rest assured, my lord, this one understands!!" Liu Tongtian caught the token and hurriedly responded. However, when he saw the character 'Xia' on the back of the token, he was suddenly stunned.

"This... this token is from the Great Xia Imperial Family..." He looked up, but Xia Jin's figure had already vanished from before him.

...Returning to the inn, Xia Jin looked out the window, his lips curling up slightly.

"Truly... unexpected."

These so-called three Old Ancestors of the Great Qian Imperial Family, the three Earthly Immortals! They were not actually members of the Lu clan. Instead, they were secretly keeping the entire Lu Imperial Clan as "blood food" in captivity!

If this news were to spread, the entire Great Qian, no, the entire Dongxuan Continent, would likely be stirred into a massive uproar.