A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 287 Gathering: Old Friends and New Guests

Task Requirements:

First, the secret of destiny. Those who are reincarnated are asked to explore the secret of why the emperor of destiny is suddenly wise and then falls into depravity.

Second, the tragedy of the Immortal Path. The will of Heaven has always been difficult to fathom, and the Immortal Path is a solitary and lofty path with few successors. At this time of great prosperity for unorthodox sects and the resurgence of demonic paths, we beseech those in reincarnation to support the Immortal Path so that its lineage may never be broken.

Third, heroes of the common people. Among the common people are many dragons and snakes; however, the dragon devours people and is surrounded by crowds, while the python eats flesh and terrifies the countryside. Whether one is good or evil is never definitively judged. May those who have undergone reincarnation suppress the snakes and dragons, and their names be renowned among heroes.

Mission duration: One year (calculated according to the mission world timeline).

Task rewards will be distributed based on the degree of task completion.

Note that once the Reincarnators reach four stars, the evaluation rating for completing tasks will be adjusted to a higher limit. Tasks below four stars will have a maximum completion rate of 100%, which is equivalent to an excellent rating.

Four-star and above are divided into six levels: failure, superficiality, mediocrity, excellence, pioneering, and perfection.

Your assessment for this task is: Pioneering!

Task reward calculation in progress: Standard 1, 10000 points; Standard 2, 10000 points; Standard 3, 30000 points; additional development points, 100,000.

The total reward points for the task are 15.

The current rating of the reincarnator is six stars.

You have been teleported to the Reincarnator Base. The base's internal time is 240 hours. The next mission will begin in 240 hours.

Have a nice day during your break!

Note: Your personal interface contains unused self-developed tasks marked. You can choose to join or create a battle group to apply for enabling this self-development permission.

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Reincarnators Base, No. 36 Yun Chui Street.

Guan Luoyang had just returned and was resting for a while, lying on the sofa, staring at his account balance, when he saw a message notification from his friend list in the upper right corner.

He opened the chat interface, exchanged a few words, and then got up and walked towards the refrigerated display case.

When I first arrived at the Reincarnation Base, I even bought a complete set of furniture for the residence allocated to me by the base.

Although he rarely lived there afterward, Guan Luoyang remembered that when he bought the furniture, some tea and a tea set were given away as a gift.

He took the tea set and returned to the clean and refreshing living room. He tapped the tea set with his fingertips and used a little energy to slowly boil the tea.

Just as steam began to rise from the spout of the kettle, the doorbell rang outside.

After Guan Luoyang opened the door, Bai Tong walked in carrying two large food boxes, An Feiyu carried a bag of melons and fruits, and Gu Lanxiang carried a large box of wine.

"Wow, is this your home in the base? This is my first time here."

Bai Tong put down the food box, took out the steaming dishes from it and placed them on the table, saying, "I thought you would choose the home in the snowy mountain town of the base world. We were even preparing to apply to leave the base and go there to wait for you."

"Brother An, Lanxiang."

Guan Luoyang closed the door, greeted them first, and casually replied, "After all, we put a lot of effort into choosing this set of furniture back then, and it would be such a waste to not live here for so long."

Gu Lanxiang placed the wine on the coffee table next to her, picked up four bottles with her fingers, put them on the dining table, and said, "Speaking of this, I didn't live in the room I was assigned in the base much, but I was smart enough not to renovate it at all."

An Feiyu laughed and said, "It's because you use all your points to buy alcohol, except for getting stronger, so you don't have any spare money to buy furniture."

Gu Lanxiang shook her finger smugly: "Wrong. Buying wine is also for becoming stronger. For a reincarnator, becoming stronger is the right path. I have no intention of doing anything improper."

Guan Luoyang handed him a cup of tea: "Although I know you only want to drink alcohol, since this is your first time visiting, please have a cup of tea first."

After taking a sip of tea, the group sat down around the table.

Although the gathering was held at Guan Luoyang's home, it was Bai Tong who proposed it.

In his words, "Our first mission as a team was so thrilling that we definitely need to find someone to vent to."

Because the team contract that Bai Tong and his team had was for a three-person team.

Last time, before Guan Luoyang left Violet State in the base world, he had dinner and chatted with them, saying that he quite enjoyed the fun of traveling alone, and suggested that the three of them could form a small team to try it out.

It seems that the three of them do get along very well now.

After tasting two pieces of Kayla Crocodile roasted meat, Guan Luoyang asked, "So, what exactly happened in your previous mission world?"

When Bai Tong mentioned this, he put down his chopsticks, took a deep breath, and said, "After we formed a team, our first mission was a team battle. The mission standard was that, apart from fighting the other side, we only needed to help the Taoist priest in the mission world kill a few zombies and eliminate some evil spirits and sorcerers in the designated town."

"That mission world was set in the Republic of China era. We quickly met with the Maoshan Celestial Master in that world. If that Celestial Master didn't use certain mediums or perform rituals, his combat power was actually only around four stars."

Guan Luoyang said, "And then you became careless?"

An Feiyu said, "We weren't careless, but we felt that the difficulty of this task was normal and within our capabilities."

Gu Lanxiang nodded: "I also fought a zombie in an imperial tomb. According to that Taoist master's description, that kind of zombie is one in a thousand years, but in a real fight, it was actually about evenly matched with me."

"But it was inside that imperial tomb that we fought against the enemy reincarnators. They took out a tree branch artifact that could disrupt the seven emotions and six desires, and then something outrageous happened."

She patted her forehead. "That tree branch artifact attracted a savage-like monster. With a single wave of its hand, that guy ripped the entire imperial tomb out of the mountains..."

They only found out about Bai Tong later.

That tree branch magic artifact is made from the Bitter Love Tree from the world of "Fox Spirit Matchmaker". It possesses the power of the world's most profound emotions. Under the influence of the Bitter Love Tree itself, it can even control reincarnation and influence the fate of human relationships to a certain extent.

It's just a tree branch, of course, not nearly as powerful, but its essence has a unique attraction in the eyes of some truly strong individuals.

That savage-like monster was also a believer in deep affection and the belief that "love is the source of power." He was Jiang Chen, a member of the Pangu clan and the king of zombies.

"Jiang Chen erased all the traces of artificial refinement on that tree branch, and then planted it. I don't know what methods he used, but he actually made that tree gradually grow into a new Bitter Love Tree."

"The Celestial Master Mao Xiaofang we encountered died in this chaotic battle and his soul returned to the underworld. However, seven days later, he was resurrected, and his body and magical power were completely renewed, as if he knew countless secrets."

"He told us that the ancient goddess Yaochi, who was born at the beginning of humankind, also knows about the existence of the Bitter Love Tree. In order to rekindle her relationship with the Human King, she might come to explore the mysteries of the Bitter Love Tree. There is also a mysterious being who calls himself 'Destiny' and does not allow humankind to escape his control, and he has also noticed us outsiders."

Guan Luoyang's expression immediately turned strange. He seemed to have heard of a work with a similar background to this mission world before, which seemed to be called "My Date with a Zombie".

Although I've only heard snippets of information from netizens, if I remember correctly, in that world, a large group of powerful beings capable of shaking the human world, almost half of them, are in love every day.

Sure enough, Bai Tong followed up with his statement.

"Master Mao helped us find a way. He went down to the underworld and, with the help of Ksitigarbha, temporarily concealed our whereabouts. He then sent us to find the oldest human king. But it turned out that the human king was actually focused on picking up girls and having a romance in the context of the Republic of China."

"During this period, the group of reincarnators on the other side came into contact with 'Fate'. With the help of those reincarnators, the inferior zombie virus spread to the background of the mission world. The defeated side returned from Antarctica and awakened millions of zombie spirits."

Bai Tong took a big gulp of fruit wine and shook his head vigorously. "To be honest, at that time, I didn't know what the point of us staying there was anymore."

Guan Luoyang laughed and said, "But I see you still have the mood to complain to me. You guys probably didn't just go with the flow under those circumstances until the mission was over and you admitted defeat, right?"

Bai Tong chuckled: "This is where the advantages of teaming up become apparent. I have no choice, but Brother An is quite skilled."

"I was just trying anything as a last resort."

An Feiyu took a bite of pufferfish. "Since the other side has already caused such a big mess, we might as well make things bigger. I was following the Ghost Immortal cultivation method from the world of Yang Shen, so I traveled all over the country and printed and spread the Ghost Immortal method."

The Ghost Immortal Path in the world of "Yang Shen" may have the word "ghost" in its name, but it is not a dark and evil system. On the contrary, to reach a high level on this path, one must have a magnanimous spirit that is worthy of looking up to heaven and earth without shame.

If a scholar is well-read and has a strong mind, he may be able to unleash his full potential once he comes into contact with the way of ghosts and immortals.

"The path to becoming a Ghost Immortal requires nine tribulations of lightning, which originally did not exist in that world, but Gu Lanxiang came up with a solution."

An Feiyu looked at Gu Lanxiang, only to find her chugging down a bottle of wine. Judging by the amount in the bottle, she wouldn't have time to speak for the time being.

Gu Lanxiang waved her hand at him, and An Feiyu continued on his own.

"She said at the time, stronger, pure Yang lightning, isn't that nuclear energy? That world already has nuclear bombs. We used some methods to urge the group that had mastered nuclear bomb technology to build more, and then borrowed some of them. We invited everyone to undergo tribulation in the desert, starting with the smallest yield bombs."

An Feiyu laughed, "I wonder what level of tribulation the ghost immortals created by that kind of explosion were at, but in that era, there were so many people who could accumulate strength and then unleash it. Anyway, when we left, the sky over there was already a vast expanse of clear skies, with the 'destiny' suppressed in the South Pole."

Guan Luoyang said leisurely, "That sounds really fascinating. No wonder the three of you are already at the peak of the five-star level."

An Feiyu said, "I blew myself up twice to reach this level, and I didn't dare to try a third time. Bai Tong learned archery from the Human King, and with the help of several experts, he refined a wisp of the Human King's arrow intent."

Gu Lanxiang put down the wine bottle: "I chatted with Ksitigarbha for more than a month, and I only barely broke through to the fifth star. However, during the final battle, the people who suppressed fate obtained Jiang Chen's essence blood and gave it to me. I also bit the Holy Mother of Yaochi. So I'm a fake fifth star peak achieved by taking drugs."

Bai Tong looked at Guan Luoyang suspiciously: "Wait, five-star rating can be determined by the individual's stats panel, but the term 'peak five-star' must have been something you figured out yourself, right? So you..."

He pulled up his personal panel and clicked "Appraisal" on Guan Luoyang.

"Holy crap!"

He stared speechlessly at the six stars that appeared above Guan Luoyang's head under the panel's assessment.

"You two," Bai Tong turned to look at them, "why don't you seem surprised at all?"

Gu Lanxiang said calmly, "Is it possible, I mean, possible, that he was just leveling up faster than us to begin with?"

Bai Tong said dejectedly, "But this time, we really only managed to come back alive by sheer luck."

An Feiyu laughed and said, "That's why I said long ago, if you want to send something, just send it directly. There's no need to use all this idle chatter and complaints as a cover. After all that chatter, you found out that Luoyang probably doesn't need it at all. Now you're in an awkward situation, aren't you?"

Bai Tong snorted coldly, took out a bunch of bottles and jars, along with a few notebooks, piled them on the table, and pushed them toward Guan Luoyang, saying, "These are all useless junk to you. Do you want them?"

Guan Luoyang didn't even look at it, and took it directly: "These are all good stuff, would you be a fool?"

Although the three of them were ostensibly just there to complain, it goes without saying how difficult it would be to survive in such a drastically changing event.

The so-called life-or-death crises are probably nothing more than trifles; who knows how many times the three of them have actually encountered them.

If Guan Luoyang were to refuse a gift presented with such heartfelt sentiments, it would be an insult to this friendship.

"Those things weren't just from me; they also came from the two of them. Basically, aside from things like the Pangu clan, the first generation of zombie essence blood, and Guanyin's tears, the rest were insights into the Ghost Immortal Path from those big shots we got. It feels like there are quite a few similarities between them and your previous Mind and Intent Method."

Seeing that he had accepted the gift, Bai Tong couldn't help but smile. He raised his half-glass of wine and said, "Well, no matter what, everyone has leveled up, which is something to be happy about. Come on, let's have a toast."

Several people stood up and clinked glasses.

After Guan Luoyang sat down, he sighed, "You have so many things to give, but I don't have anything to give in return."

He took out two jade scrolls. "These are the only things I have to offer, but even I can't understand them."

"What is this?"

Bai Tong examined it on his personal interface and wrote: "Fragment of the Book of Calamity, six-star... Book of Warp and Weft, seven-star!"

Guan Luoyang unfolded the two jade slips, which were covered with countless tiny characters and pictures.

Bai Tong glanced at it and felt dizzy.

An Feiyu said, "I've heard that the range of six-star levels is extremely large. The knowledge contained in these two heavenly books is probably the secret of seven-star levels, but it's not a specific cultivation method, so it's not something we can study right now."

Guan Luoyang originally wanted to try his luck and see if this heavenly book was something he could stumble upon by chance, but seeing that none of the three of them could understand it, he had no choice but to put it away. He thought to himself that he would use his points to buy some gifts that would suit the three of them, and at the same time, organize his insights into the cultivation technique and give each of them a copy.

During the meal, Bai Tong inquired about Guan Luoyang's previous mission experiences.

The group chatted happily, and after finishing the dishes, they ate fruit and vegetables. Before they knew it, more than three hours had passed.

Suddenly, someone rang the doorbell again.

"what?"

Guan Luoyang found it strange and opened the door to look. Standing outside were Blue Scorpion and a cunning Taoist in a dark blue ancient robe.

"Oh my, this must be Mr. Guan Luoyang."

The Taoist priest, who used a jade pen as a hairpin, warmly grasped Guan Luoyang's hand, laughing and saying, "Hello, hello, I am Yu Ding, and I have come here specifically to thank you for what happened to Xiao Lan and the others."

Blue Scorpion immediately saw through the ruse: "This is our battle group's vice commander, here to discuss business with you."

Ah!!! (Takes a deep breath)

He had finished writing, but he fell asleep at the table!

I'm so sorry for missing a day and keeping you all waiting.

(End of this chapter)