Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 261

Chapter 261 The system is broken?

[Special Mission: “Search for Fragments of the Immortal Ladder”]: Yu Feng, from Fenglin Village in Xuanji Country, Tonggu World, is an ordinary young man who aspires to cultivate to the Immortal stage. However, his path to the Immortal stage is extremely difficult. Please help him reach the Nascent Soul stage.]

[This mission cannot be completed with elixirs.]

[Mission Reward: Extract the fragment of the Immortal Ladder from Yu Feng’s body.]

[During the mission, you can teleport between Tonggu World and Jiuzhou World once for free.]

“It seems like a very simple mission.” Jiang Li stroked his chin. From the literal meaning, this mission shouldn’t be difficult to complete. The only problem might be whether this young man named Yu Feng is still alive.

If he died prematurely on his path to immortality, Jiang Li wouldn’t be able to complete the mission.

As for not being able to complete the mission with elixirs, that’s a joke. With Jiang Li here, even a pig could teach anyone to the Nascent Soul stage.

Jiang Li stretched his muscles and prepared to tell Commander Liu that he was searching for clues to the Immortal Ladder for the future of all Jiuzhou cultivators and that he shouldn’t be contacted with matters concerning the Human Emperor Palace for the time being.

“Take a leave. This time, I’ll go back to Tonggu World and relax!” Jiang Li made up his mind.

[This mission has been completed]

[Do you want to claim your reward?]

“Hmm?” Jiang Li was startled, then realized. It seemed that this cultivator named Yu Feng had already reached the Nascent Soul stage through his own efforts.

[This mission is not completed]

“…”

“This system is finally broken.” Jiang Li was speechless. Just now, it said the mission was completed, and now it says it’s not. Are you kidding me?

This rotten counterattack system has two sections for issuing and accepting completed missions. The section for issuing missions is stuck five hundred years ago, while the section for accepting completed missions is updated constantly.

Now, it seems that the section for accepting completed missions is also broken.

“Now the only part of the system that works is the store. Sad.” Jiang Li felt inexplicably sad, but he still wanted to go to Tonggu World first.

“Teleport to Tonggu World.”

…

The sun shone through the paper window onto the boy’s face. His eyelids fluttered, and with great effort, he opened his eyes.

“Who are you and what are you doing?”

“Get out! Strangers are not welcome here!”

He heard a heated argument outside, which grew louder and soon erupted into a fight.

He instantly regained consciousness, licked his fingers, quietly poked open a window, and peeked through the frame.

A group of knives-wielding bandits burst into the quiet village. The boy’s parents rushed to rebuke them, but were hacked to death by the bandits, their heads severed.

“Father, Mother…” The boy knew now was no time to cry. If he didn’t hide quickly, it would soon be his turn.

The bandits were murderous!

As the boy had expected, after killing his parents, they roared with laughter, brandishing bloody knives and charging into the village. They split into several groups, burning, killing, looting, and committing every kind of atrocity.

Those who hid in straw piles, wells, or rooftop beams… none escaped, all perished.

The boy rolled out of bed and found a place to hide.

The bandit entered the house to investigate, kicking open the wooden door and hacking at it with his knife, damaging the windows and the straw dolls.

“No one?” his instinct told him someone must be here.

He spotted a possible hiding spot and leaned forward, baring his white teeth.

“Found you!”

There was nothing under the bed save for a few copper coins.

“Tsk, boring!” the bandit snatched the coins and turned to leave.

Earlier, the young man had tiptoed to move the rice jar, revealing the family’s cellar. He hid in the cellar, then moved the rice jar back, escaping the disaster.

The sounds of looting and burning gradually faded, until they vanished, and the young man did not emerge.

He knew that the cessation of the sounds didn’t mean the bandits had left; the absence of the sounds simply meant they were no longer near their home, perhaps somewhere else in the village.

He had been hiding there for five days.

There was food in the cellar, but no water. The young man nearly died of thirst. If he had stayed another day, he wouldn’t have had the strength to climb out.

“Dead, everyone in the village is dead,” the young man crawled out, drank two sips of water, and muttered to himself, his eyes vacant.

Two bodies lay in the yard, a man and a woman, the young man’s parents.

He kowtowed to them, “Father, Mother, I, Yu Feng, am unfilial and cannot bury you. Please understand.”

Without hesitation, as if he had no attachment to anything, Yu Feng hurried away.

After he left, a bandit, having forgotten something, returned on horseback. Passing by Yu Feng’s house, he glanced, saw nothing unusual, and continued his search.

Yu Feng left the small village, dusty and dusty, and arrived in the small town.

This was the border of Xuanji Country, a land of war and chaos, the people in dire straits. Yu Feng, like a beggar, was nothing new. Passersby wouldn’t even glance at him, even avoiding his gaze, as if a glance would make him look like a scapegoat.

The village and the town were a half-day’s journey apart. When Yu Feng arrived, starving and dizzy, he collapsed to the ground, struggling to get up.

“Child, are you hungry? Would you like a bun?” A kind-hearted old woman saw Yu Feng’s miserable appearance and kindly took out a meat bun from the basket.

Yu Feng’s nose twitched, and when he smelled the aroma of meat, he looked at the old woman eagerly.

The old woman helped Yu Feng to the tree and said with a smile: “Don’t be afraid, kid, I run a bun shop, you see, that’s it.”

The old woman pointed to a delicious bun shop not far away.

Yu Feng shook his head gently: “Grandma, thank you, my mother told me not to eat food from strangers.”

The two of them shirked the offer for a while, and the old woman saw that Yu Feng was determined not to eat, so she had to give up.

But there was a little beggar next to him, who had been hungry for several days and drooled: “Grandma, can I have this bun?”

The old woman smiled kindly and handed the buns to the young beggar, who devoured them ravenously.

Someone came running back, breathless, covered in wounds, with half his arm bitten off. The guard rushed forward to inquire about the situation.

“What’s wrong? Why are you so badly injured?”

“A…a monster blocked the road, and many people died. Luckily I ran fast. If I had been a quarter of an hour later, even I wouldn’t have made it back.”

Someone cursed, angrily accusing the Xuanji Kingdom of inaction: “Damn it, they’re fighting wars every day, but they don’t try to solve the monster problem. Now a monster suddenly appears, who dares to leave the city?”

A black cat, attracted by the scent of the meat buns, took small, graceful steps. Yu Feng caught it off guard and grabbed it by the scruff of the neck, leaving it powerless to resist.

Yu Feng staggered to his feet and walked towards the town.

He passed an alley and paused, as if remembering something bad, his face darkening.

“Fuck, I forgot.”

A black shadow rushed out of the alley and covered Yu Feng’s mouth and nose with a cloth soaked in knockout drug. Yu Feng’s body collapsed and he was dragged into the alley.

Yu Feng loosened his grip, and the black cat jumped lightly and continued to walk gracefully without looking back.

“Hehe, we found another one. The internal organs can be sold for a lot of money.”

The trafficker took out a dagger and slashed it across Yu Feng’s neck. Blood spurted out.

Yu Feng died completely.

…

The sunlight shone through the paper window onto the boy’s face. His eyelids moved, and it took a lot of effort to open his eyes.

“Who are you and what do you want to do!”

“Get out, outsiders are not welcome here!”

The familiar conversation rang in Yu Feng’s ears.

(End of this chapter)