Cultivation: the Rise of a Live-In Son-In-Law-Chapter 255 - 253: Red Cloud Fairy: How Can You Take the Ten-Star Task?! Now I Have to Get Serious!

Chapter 255: Chapter 253: Red Cloud Fairy: How Can You Take the Ten-Star Task?! Now I Have to Get Serious!

Upon hearing these words, Lu Ye’s gaze immediately turned towards the task display array in the distance.

His eyes instantly locked onto a task floating at the top of the array...

[Ten-Star Task (Extremely Dangerous!): Track and kill the Blood-handed Butcher Pang Xiong, who has hunted and killed several Red Cloud Sect disciples!]

[Complete this task to earn: 150,000 points!]

Beside him, Su Wan watched as her junior brother stared intently at the Ten-Star Task with a helpless expression.

As expected, even after explaining the extreme difficulty of Ten-Star Tasks to him.

Within the sect, no disciple had ever been able to complete it before.

Yet, as soon as he entered, the first thing Junior Brother Lu Xuan looked at was still the Ten-Star Task.

"Junior Brother Lu Xuan, stop looking. This task is unattainable unless you’re at the Innate Eighth Layer."

Su Wan explained softly, "Pang Xiong previously hunted and killed many of our sect’s inner and outer disciples. His strength has reached the Innate Seventh Layer, and he’s extremely cunning!"

Innate... Seventh Layer?

Lu Ye felt a little nostalgic; ever since advancing to Martial Arts Grandmaster...

It had been a long time since he encountered an opponent at the Innate Realm.

"Is there any punishment for failing to complete the task?" Lu Ye asked, snapping back to reality.

Just now, he had glanced at the rest of the scrolling task list again.

The tasks ranged from a few points for a One-Star Task to tens of thousands for Eight or Nine-Star Tasks.

According to the Red Cloud Fairy, entering the sect’s important Secret Realm required 500,000 points!

Points were incredibly valuable within the sect; tens of thousands were enough to exchange for mid to upper-grade Profound Tier Cultivation and Martial Techniques.

And 500,000 points... Even for Su Wan, it would take several years of task completion to accumulate them.

Of course, aside from that, if one ranked highly in the annual sect trial, they could also enter the Secret Realm.

But Lu Ye did not have that much time, so he immediately dismissed this route.

If not doing the Ten-Star Task, it would take dozens of other tasks to accumulate enough points.

"There’s no punishment, but if you fail, it shows you’re not strong enough, and you can’t take the same task again for two months," Su Wan explained.

After a moment of hesitation, Su Wan couldn’t help but ask, "Junior Brother, I haven’t asked yet, what realm are you in?"

With a faint smile, Lu Ye replied, "About the same as Senior Sister Su, both at the Innate Realm."

Innate, huh...

At this age, reaching Innate would be decent within the sect.

However, considering Lu Xuan might have been a Loose Cultivator before.

Without the resources of a sect disciple, Su Wan felt that Junior Brother Lu Xuan’s talent was indeed impressive.

No wonder the sect master, who hadn’t accepted new disciples for years, chose to take him in.

"Are you going to take the Ten-Star Task?" Su Wan asked after pondering for a moment.

After a moment of thought, Lu Ye answered, "I’ll give it a try. Since this Blood-handed Butcher is such a menace, repeatedly targeting our Red Cloud Sect disciples, it would obviously be best to eliminate him."

Seeing Su Wan’s trace of worry, Lu Ye smiled faintly and said, "Don’t worry. If I can’t beat him, I have means to escape."

Since he put it this way, Su Wan didn’t say more, nodding, "Alright! If Junior Brother has such confidence, it would be inappropriate for me to dampen your spirits."

"Then I wish you a triumphant return, and may you defeat Pang Xiong with your sword!"

A moment later, under the stunned gaze of the Task Hall disciples, Lu Ye accepted the Ten-Star Task and, after obtaining some information about Pang Xiong...

When the array screen showed the eye-catching task now marked "Accepted," the bustling hall erupted!

Someone actually took the Ten-Star Task?!

...

About half an incense stick later.

Watching Junior Brother Lu Xuan, who had just arrived at the sect, leave again, Su Wan couldn’t help but feel a little worried and went to the Red Cloud Fairy’s cave abode atop the mountain.

"Master, this disciple requests an audience. There’s something I need to report."

"What’s the matter? Speak tomorrow," came the indifferent voice of the Red Cloud Fairy from within the cave.

She had just settled down to cultivate and did not feel like dealing with trivial matters.

After a brief thought, Su Wan whispered, "It’s about Junior Brother Lu Xuan... In that case, I’ll come to disturb Master tomorrow."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Wan turned to leave.

Suddenly, everything blurred before her eyes!

"What happened to him?"

Su Wan: "..."

She was dumbfounded, looking at her suddenly appearing master with a big question mark over her head.

Didn’t she say to talk about it tomorrow...

Not wasting time, Su Wan quickly recounted what had just happened, expressing some concern, "Junior Brother Lu Xuan’s actions seem a bit rash to me."

After hearing the story, the Red Cloud Fairy thought of only two words...

"It’s over!"

That brat is going to farm points like crazy!

A Ten-Star Task that no disciple of the Red Cloud Sect could complete was as easy as child’s play to him!

"Sigh, it’s over..." The Red Cloud Fairy sighed softly, shaking her head.

It seems keeping him in the Red Cloud Sect for long might not be possible.

After completing the Ten-Star Task, a new one would appear within a week.

With his capability, completing three or four tasks would be more than enough to gather the 500,000 points.

"Master, do you also think Junior Brother is being a bit reckless?" Su Wan said, "Should we... send him a message, advising him to abandon this task?"

After a moment of silence, the Red Cloud Fairy replied somewhat helplessly, "I meant... the Blood-handed Butcher is done for!"

Su Wan: "???"

...

On the other side, Lu Ye had already left the Red Cloud Sect.

He took out the Memory Stone given by the Task Hall disciple, which contained the likeness of Blood-handed Butcher Pang Xiong.

After studying it for a moment, Lu Ye noted that he was a square-faced man with a fierce aura emanating from him, even through the Memory Stone.

Remembering his facial features, Lu Ye glanced around and headed towards Northern Border Shuanghe County, where the Blood-handed Butcher had last been reported.

After traveling several hundred miles, his Communication Jade Token reacted.

Lu Ye took it out and nearly laughed.

Red Cloud Fairy: [...How can you accept the Ten-Star Task? It’s a high-risk mission intended to suppress other disciples’ arrogance... Please don’t take it, okay.]

Lu Ye replied: [Alright, I won’t take any more after I save up 500,000 points.]

In her cave, the Red Cloud Fairy gritted her teeth; not taking any more after getting 500,000 points... By then, you’d be leaving, wouldn’t you!

Does he think the Red Cloud Sect is a place to farm points? Infuriating!

If that’s the case, she decided to exercise some authority!

After considering seriously for a moment, Red Cloud Fairy had a plan.

Even among Ten-Star Tasks, there were varying levels of difficulty.

Eliminating Blood-handed Butcher Pang Xiong was just one of the simpler ones.

If he intended to leave early...

The Red Cloud Fairy made up her mind, "I’ll get serious now!"