Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 186 The Mysterious Mirror
Jun Chou has a great personality. While everyone was waiting for their teammates to rejoin them, he answered almost every question and even told them a secret.

"That fox demon actually still has a chance to be resurrected,"

Jun Chou pointed to the water and said, “My true form is a mirror, an ancient magic treasure called the ‘Douxuan Treasure Mirror,’ but it is now broken. The fox demon obtained two fragments by chance, sharing one with the python demon and hiding the other underwater. Her soul did not dissipate after her death; instead, it was contained within one of the mirror fragments. Because the two fragments are not far apart, I can vaguely sense them.”

Bai Chenxue pressed on, "What about the python demon?"

"The python demons are all dead. Back then, that little fox from the Crimson Plains Sect was chasing them. In order to escape, the python demon tricked several fox demons into his stomach, attempting to swallow those demon cores and forcibly break through his realm... In theory, it was feasible, but although his idea was good, his strength was insufficient, and he still couldn't escape the little fox's magic weapon."

Shen Yun asked, "Then what should we do? We can't just destroy the mirror, can we?"

"Hahaha, if you can destroy it, that'll be a real achievement!"

Jun Chou laughed and said, "As long as we break through this barrier and formation, and find the fragment that hides her soul, I can go in and force her out. Then, it's up to you whether you want to fight or kill her."

As soon as Jun Chou finished speaking, two glowing golden scroll quests appeared—

[Douxuan Treasure Mirror]: [Bring the Douxuan Treasure Mirror fragments back to the Taiyin Sect and give them to Baili Shuang. (Rewards: 10000 Exp, 500 Sect Contribution Points, Limited Mysterious Item)]

[Divine Mirror Fragment]: [Find the fragment of the Mysterious Mirror. (Rewards: 10000 Exp, 500 Sect Contribution Points, 500 Sect Prestige Points, Limited-Time Mysterious Item)]

"It's a hidden gold-tier quest!"

Bai Chenxue exclaimed in surprise.

The tasks in "Ten Continents Chronicle" are divided into many types. The most typical are the daily tasks with ordinary green scrolls and the extremely rare gold scrolls. Generally speaking, the gold scrolls that are shining are hidden tasks or serendipitous tasks.

There are two types of golden scrolls. One type represents ordinary golden quests with relatively generous rewards, which can sometimes be obtained by trying to woo NPCs. However, how to accept the glowing golden scroll quests depends entirely on luck. These quests not only offer very generous rewards but also often include special items, which is why players call them "hidden" quests.

In addition, there are sudden missions with blue scrolls and time-limited missions with red scrolls, but sometimes their colors do not necessarily match the mission requirements—players often receive time-limited sudden missions, and the rewards for these missions are far different from those for gold scroll missions, mainly consisting of experience.

The rewards for the glowing golden scroll quest are so generous, it's naturally very difficult to trigger. Many players have registered accounts and played for so many days without ever encountering it! So, the fact that two were triggered at once, and that every player in the entire team received one, is practically unprecedented. How could anyone not be excited!
In the group chat, the others who were on their way also started to speak, and even Jia Xiaoren's surprised scream could be heard—like a duck whose neck had been stepped on.

"Holy crap! I got them too! Two of them!"

"Wow! This is the first time I've ever seen a gold-tier quest! And I've seen two of them right away!"

"This is amazing! 1000 contribution points! That's almost enough to buy a new piece of equipment!"

"Really? I remember the cheapest shoes cost over three thousand contribution points!"

"But there are still rings! The mana-restoring spatial ring only costs a little over a thousand!"

"That thing is completely useless! You'd be better off saving it up and exchanging it for a defensive ring that can block damage!"

"I'm not a melee fighter, why would I need to defend?"

"Tsk, I wonder who was the one who got killed by Pig Chuang last time!"

"You talk like you've never been pricked to death by a pig!" "Nonsense, who hasn't been pricked by a pig!"

Being "killed by pigs" is one of the common ways new players die.

The main reason is that players have looted all kinds of rare and precious materials, spiritual herbs and plants near the teleportation arrays, and even the wild fruits growing on the trees have not been spared. As a result, Fang Xianyu has to secretly spend energy points every now and then to promote the growth of the plants around the area that have been damaged by the players. This has led to players being even more enthusiastic about taking advantage of the resources right at their doorsteps—the "refresh" speed in other places is much slower than at their doorsteps!
So, when later players entered the game and wanted to make money, besides grinding daily tasks and working for NPCs, the only other option was to go to the forest to kill wild boars—at least as long as you caught one, dismantled it, and sold it, you could make a lot of money!
However, the wild boars of Central Continent are not on the same level as the wild boars of Blue Star Realm. If a group of novice players who can't lift a finger or carry a heavy load were sent to kill the wild boars of Blue Star Realm, they would not be able to catch up with or kill them, let alone the wild boars of Central Continent.

Therefore, in the "Ten Continents Chronicle", anyone who has not been created by a pig cannot be said to have experienced the newbie stage!

Bai Chenxue proudly interjected, "I've never been killed by a pig!"

Jia Xiaoren retorted, "Nonsense! You rarely go out into the wild, even a pig would have to run into you!"

Shen Yun ignored the team that was getting excited about the two hidden gold quests and instead asked Jun Chou, "Senior Jun Chou, um, what are your plans after we help you break the seal?"

"Well... I don't really have any plans,"

Jun Chou glanced at Bai Chenxue and the others, whose faces were full of anticipation, and said, "You should be taking me back to the Taiyin Sect, right? Let me think... I should also try to find other fragments of the treasure mirror?"

Shen Yun gave an awkward laugh, and was about to say something to save face when he heard Bai Chenxue betray everyone without hesitation: "Senior, you're amazing! How did you know!"

Jun Chou smiled and said, "Do you know what's so special about the magic treasure, the Douxuan Treasure Mirror?"

Lin Muning whispered a guess: "Uh... a demon-revealing mirror?"

Bai Chenxue deliberately used a high-pitched, drawn-out voice to say, "Magic mirror, magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"

And Shen Yun...

Shen Yun just wanted to disappear into a crack in the ground.

"Hahaha, you guys are so funny!"

Jun Chou laughed again, and after he finished laughing, he said to Bai Chenxue, "I can't answer your question. There is no first place in literature, and there is no fixed standard for beauty, so how can I judge who is the most beautiful?"

Then, he turned to Lin Muning and said, "As for 'demon-revealing,' it's not impossible, but it's not the main use of the Douxuan Treasure Mirror."

At this point, he said seriously, "The Douxuan Treasure Mirror is an ancient divine mirror. It knows everything in the Guixu Realm—there is nothing it does not know about anything born in the Guixu Realm."

Lin Muning exclaimed in surprise, "So amazing!"

Shen Yun, however, asked in confusion, "It? Aren't you the Mysterious Mirror?"

Jun Chou nodded, then shook his head: "I am the spirit of the Douxuan Treasure Mirror, but the Douxuan Treasure Mirror is not me."

Bai Chenxue said blankly, "I...I don't understand..."

I fixed a bug in the previous chapters. It should have been 500 and 200 contribution points, but I accidentally wrote 5000 and 2000 instead (actually, I couldn't remember and was too lazy to check the logs, ugh!). Good grief, inflation increased tenfold… I've secretly corrected it; hopefully no one will notice, hehehe.
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