Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 358 Senior Sister's Mission
"Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment. I will open a door to a five-colored array here."

These words were spoken to Baili Shuang.

With a long roar, Yinglong King's fingers almost transformed into sharp claws, tearing a strange "wound" in mid-air—a "wound" that seemed to appear out of thin air.

The "wound" grew larger and larger until it was big enough for one person to pass through. Only then did she pull out a hairpin and throw it aside.

The hairpin transformed into a golden-winged Yinglong, much larger than the crystal dragon, as thick as Baili Shuang's arm.

This must be the incarnation of the Dragon King.

Just as Baili Shuang was thinking this, she saw Yinglong King lift his leg and step into the wound, then disappear.

“Fellow Daoist Baili, we are both ready.”

The voice of Yinglong King came from the mouth of the golden-winged Yinglong, and it sounded exactly like Yinglong King's own voice.

Baili Shuang nodded, closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she was back in Chang'an City in Zhongzhou.

"Second Senior Sister, when does your temporary mission start? Are you still going to drink milk tea?"

As soon as she got to Zhao Qing's puppet, Baili Shuang heard Wang Ergou's mutterings.

She shook her head and said succinctly, "She's in the past."

"She, she, she, she..." Wang Ergou was startled and stammered several times before finding his tongue. He tentatively asked, "Then, then, then you are... Senior Sister!?"

Baili Shuang nodded in response, then closed her eyes, focusing on seeing the perspective of Zhao Qing, the player currently using the alias "Baili Shuang," through the "cross-border network."

That's right, this is what Baili Shuang called the "secret method".

While players of the Taiyin Sect can freely descend into the Rift Valley without fear of soul damage, she cannot. Therefore, the only way for her to remotely monitor the situation is to have players escort the Yinglong King into the Rift Valley.

As for the player temporarily using the pseudonym Baili Shuang, besides being relatively reliable, they also need to know a lot about magic and cultivation common sense in order to deal with some unexpected situations at the bottom of the rift. Therefore, the best candidate naturally became the famous "insider" [Pig Charge], also known as Zhao Qing.

Although Zhao Qing and the others already knew about the cooperation between the Chinese nation and Fang Xianyu, the sect leader of the Taiyin Sect in the Guixu Realm, some pretense was still necessary. Therefore, Baili Shuang temporarily issued a task to Zhao Qing through the system: to swap bodies with her and go down the Soul Devouring Rift with Yinglong King to explore the secrets of the Sword Sect's past.

Seeing that his senior sister, who had the ID "[Pig Charges Forward]", was ignoring him, Wang Ergou could only lower his head, keeping his eyes down and his mouth shut. He organized the content of the class he had taken on Blue Star that morning and even recited the words "abandon" repeatedly. Even if he joined the secret project team of China, he couldn't escape the torment of the CET-4 and CET-6 exams!
On the other side, as soon as Baili Shuang changed her persona, Yinglong King, who was merely an avatar, immediately noticed.

She looked at Baili Shuang warily and asked, "You're not Fellow Daoist Baili, are you?" "Ah, yes, um, greetings to King Yinglong and Prince Taishui Dragon King, my name is Zhu Tu Mengjin. Baili Shuang is my senior sister. Her condition isn't suitable for going down into the Rift Valley, so she asked me to take over and lead the way for you," Zhao Qing greeted them very politely, and then quickly explained, "But don't worry, my senior sister is also keeping an eye on the three of us, and she can help immediately if anything goes wrong!"

Zhao Qing didn't understand that Yinglong Wang's cultivation level far surpassed Baili Shuang's, hence the "joke," but Yinglong Wang didn't take it to heart—in terms of seniority, Zhao Qing would have to add dozens more "Tai"s to address her as Great-Grandmother, so why would Yinglong Wang care about such a thing? She simply nodded, acknowledging the matter, and said nothing more. However, Huai Ren, flying beside Zhao Qing in the form of a crystal dragon, couldn't help but ask, "What does 'Crown Prince' mean?"

Over thousands of years, the myths and legends of the Chinese people on Earth have evolved, and the ancient mythological figures have acquired various additional titles. In the Chinese people's concept, the son of the Dragon King is the Dragon King's Crown Prince. However, this concept does not exist in the Realm of Return to Nothingness, which is why Huai Ren asked this question.

Zhao Qing paused for a moment, then said somewhat shyly in a low voice, "Where we're from, the Dragon King's children are all called Crown Prince and Princess? The boys are Crown Princes, and the girls are Princesses? Isn't that the case here?"

Crystal Dragon shook his head: "The Dragon Clan doesn't seem to have such a saying. Fellow Daoist, please just call me Huai Ren."

"Good... good!"

"Alright, let's get down to business and stop the idle chatter. Stand still, I'll escort you down!"

As Yinglongwang spoke, he slammed his tail heavily onto the snow. Then, the ground shook violently, and the frozen, reddish-brown soil was turned up, breaking into pieces mixed with the white snow, and gradually collapsed.

Then, Zhao Qing felt her vision go black, and her body seemed to be falling continuously, but her feet were still on the ground. It felt like she was riding a broken elevator, falling straight down, which scared her so much that she subconsciously screamed "Ah!"

She didn't know if it was because of the scream, but she felt that her descent suddenly slowed down a lot, and her rapidly beating heart stabilized a bit.

A gradually rising smell of earth and decay filled the air, along with a faint, nauseating odor of blood. Zhao Qing tried to open the game system to clear her senses, only to find the interface grayed out and unable to log off—she then realized just how important the task Baili Shuang had given her truly was.

About ten minutes later, the darkness was gone, and she could vaguely see some shadows. When she received the mission, she had already watched part of the Soul Devouring Rift recording in the internal database of the China National Nuclear Corporation project team. She knew what she was about to face, but when she actually encountered these figures, she was still so frightened that her hair stood on end and she was trembling with fear.

"Don't be afraid, these are just lingering obsessions, they won't cause any harm."

The Dragon King, who was not very close at first, transformed into human form and patted Zhao Qing's shoulder. His warm body temperature reassured Zhao Qing.

Fang Xianyu was astonished to see this—the Dragon King's avatars could transform freely! Such cultivation was truly unheard of and unseen!

"My senior sister said I should take you to find that request... Hmm, let me check the location first..."

Having only a superficial understanding of magic and supernatural powers, and completely unaware of the true significance of Yinglong King's actions, Zhao Qing was preoccupied with the task given to her by her senior sister. So, she turned around the game map several times before finally finding the right location—

"It's over here! Not far!"