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Chapter 210 Focusing on Mount Shu [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

[One of our team members has been killed, bringing the Celestial Team's total to -3 points. Their current reward points are -6,000. Those with negative reward points will be eliminated when the horror movie ends.]

Shortly after the teleportation, the members of the Celestial Team received a notification.

What it means is self-evident.

John merely snorted coldly, his body shuddered, and the bullets, as sharp as steel needles, that had just pierced his body fell to the ground.

This attack couldn't really hurt him... but it did instill a sense of humiliation.

He didn't want to experience that embarrassing feeling of bending over due to the massive barrage of bullets again!

"Tsk... This Zhongzhou team really doesn't hold back when it comes to their own people!" Musk clicked his tongue and said sarcastically.

Aside from giving a negative score, even Song Tian didn't express any regret about Luo Yinglong's death.

The Celestial Team had eleven members, and three of them were killed before they even saw the enemy's face.

Although Luo Yinglong and Anavia, these two newcomers, are just there to fill the ranks, their presence or absence does not affect the fighting power of the Celestial Team at all.

Even Kenneth was only a decent fighter, not an indispensable person.

For the Celestial Team, the most difficult thing to deal with is the coma of the psychic Lina!
The most difficult part is that Linaya clearly prepared a lot of medicine to restore her mental state. However! Linaya's storage devices bear her mental imprint, meaning only she can use them!
The Celestial Team was like a loose alliance; Lina's relationship with the others wasn't close enough to entrust her life to them. And the others, instead of thinking of buying her medicine to restore her mental strength, were all only concerned with themselves!

A perennial winner in low-level matches, it's impossible to see any problems within the team.

Once you sit at a high-end table, all sorts of problems start to surface!

Adam felt that there was no way he could manage the Celestials team with these insects around!

How come a mere small team from Zhongzhou, with the same rating as them, can dominate them?
It's all because these people aren't united!

Adam has already started planning that after this team battle, he must create a new god!
"Guardian Adam, may I have the pleasure of looking at the scroll in your hand?"

Adam, who was deep in thought, was suddenly jolted awake. The scientist, Bai Yue, had silently appeared beside him.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and immediately presented the teleportation scroll, saying, "Reporting to the Master, this is a teleportation scroll that I just found in the Western Regions. I originally intended to present it to you as tribute. However, the situation was urgent just now..."

"No problem."

Baiyue did not dwell on Adam's use of the scroll.

He simply pieced the torn scrolls back together and stroked the now-ineffective magic runes with great interest.

“I saw the different civilization systems contained within… It seems necessary to make a trip to the Western Regions.”

"If the Master needs it... I will do anything, even risk my life, to find a new scroll for the Master." Adam immediately pledged his loyalty.

Bai Yue, however, paid no attention to his behavior and remained engrossed in the patterns on the scroll...

Taking advantage of the time, the other members of the Celestial Team used consumables to recover their condition to varying degrees, and soon restored their combat power to 80% or 90%.

After several minutes, Bai Yue finally put the scroll away and sighed, "What a pity for Yinglong... The Shushan Immortal Sword Sect is not far away."

The location Adam chose was less than ten kilometers away from the Shushan Immortal Sword Sect. That was the limit. Any closer, and there would be some kind of spatial blockade, possibly a mountain-protecting formation.

Before Adam could even urge them on, Baiyue raised his hand and lifted all the gods into the air.

"I have some unresolved questions, and I would like to invite you all to join me in paying a visit to Mount Shu!"

……

Mount Shu is located amidst the towering mountains of western Sichuan, its peaks soaring into the sky like floating clouds, and is said to be a sacred place bestowed upon humankind by immortals. In the world of Legend of Sword and Fairy, Pangu separated chaos, with the pure energy rising to become the heavens and the turbid energy sinking to become the earth.

After Pangu's body disintegrated into the Three Sovereigns, the spiritual power within his body decomposed into the Five Elements. The Three Sovereigns gathered the Five Elements of the earth into the Five Great Spiritual Pearls, so that heaven and earth would no longer be separated. Pangu's heart connected heaven and earth.

The divine tree, born from the confluence of the pure and impure elements and the power of Fuxi, one of the Three Sovereigns, was created by pouring out most of his spiritual energy. It became the source of life in the heavens.

The earth's energy in the divine realm underwent a strange change, causing the divine tree to grow to a height of ten thousand feet, its roots resembling clouds hanging from the sky, penetrating deep into the heart of Pangu. The heart of Pangu gathered the surrounding soil and rocks, gradually expanding to form a suspended mountain, which became known as [Mount Shu].

The Heart of Pangu... is actually the central ley line of the world of Legend of Sword and Fairy, which makes the land near Mount Shu unique and its spiritual energy extremely abundant. This has formed the largest spiritual mountain and blessed land in the Immortal Realm.

It is different from the great realms such as the realm of gods, the realm of demons, and the realm of humans.

The celestial realm is mostly located within the thirty-six grotto-heavens and seventy-two blessed lands, sharing the same space-time with the mortal realm.

These places, teeming with spiritual energy, are often home to immortal cultivators who practice or establish sects, detaching themselves from the mortal world and gradually forming the immortal realm. Mortals, through cultivation and the absorption of spiritual energy, can awaken the power of Nuwa within them and attain immortality.

Since its founding, the Shushan Sect has had generations of disciples diligently cultivate immortal arts, enter the mortal world to subdue demons, and imprison them in the Demon-Locking Tower. They protect the human world from the harassment of evil spirits and are deeply loved by the people.

After the patriarch, Taiqing Zhenren, ascended to heaven, he did not actually sever ties with the mortal realm.

The successive leaders of the Shushan Sect could communicate with their patriarch through a special method. However, this method seems to have been lost over the years.

According to the TV series, the current leader of the Shu Mountain Sect is the twenty-sixth generation, named Yin Ruozhuo, who is known as the Sword Saint.

When the Sword Saint was young, he went down the mountain to experience life. His junior brother, Mo Yixi, gave him a lover's pendant, which led to the Sword Saint meeting Lin Qing'er, a girl who possessed the other half of the pendant.

The two fell in love and experienced the joys and sorrows of life. However, the Sword Saint, bound by his principles, did not marry Lin Qing'er, but instead allowed his beloved to sacrifice her life to save the world.

In the end, both of them attained enlightenment through love, relinquishing personal love and choosing universal love.

The Sword Saint's cultivation was unfathomable due to his enlightenment. He revered destiny, believing it to be unchangeable.

Yet, quite contradictorily, she had tried to change her fate...

For example, he once considered dealing with Bai Yue himself, which is why he captured Zhao Ling'er and imprisoned her in the Demon Locking Tower, hoping to prevent the tragedy between Zhao Ling'er and Li Xiaoyao.

However, if one acts in this way, defying destiny, it may very well lead to even greater disaster.

The calamity of the Water Demon Beast will only destroy Nanzhao. But if the Sword Saint were to intervene... it might create further trouble, plunging even more people into misery!

Inside the Demon-Sealing Tower, upon hearing the clone Chu Xuan's analysis of the various aspects of Mount Shu, the clone Zheng Zha said unhappily, "Destiny comes and goes...aren't we just supposed to change the plot to survive?"

The underlying logic of the Reincarnators' actions is to alter the plot to gain side quests. So why hasn't it caused any real trouble?
"not quite."

Chu Xuan shook his head and said, "The concept of cause and effect is not that simple... You saved Zhao Ling'er, so you not only have to take on Zhao Ling'er's responsibilities, but also have to shoulder more because of it."

"Just like when we complete side quests... it often leads to the main god increasing the difficulty. However, the reincarnators don't consider the impact on [others]."

"The Sword Saint, however, would ponder whether there were people who shouldn't have died, but instead, they did. And who should bear the responsibility for these deaths?"

“What’s the point of saying all this?” Reinhardt clearly didn’t want to waste time on these things.

"If we become the ones who bear the responsibility," Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses, "what choice will the Sword Saint make?"

No one can provide the answer.

"A suspected enemy squad has appeared!" Nijabin suddenly exclaimed.

“Baiyue is here too!” Zhang Jie added.

(End of this chapter)