Chapter 182 – Eternal Lament (VIII)

Chapter 182

Eternal Lament (VIII)

Light returned about an hour after she left, except this time she had some random horn in her arms.

… what?

Anyway, she never bothered to explain it, walking over to Long Tao, who briefly inspected her, did something with his fingers, which summoned a few traces of Qi that flew over to the back of her left knee, and nodded at her. She nodded at him, and then they both went their separate ways.

Wait–for the love of God, will either of you explain anything?!

Guess not.

Shrugging, I retired to my little corner, too, and resumed cultivation–I can actually feel the progress, and I know I’m approaching the peak of the Spirit Manifestation Realm. In a month, at most, I will reach that vaunted hill that I thought I never would when I first understood the severity of this body’s, uh, shortcomings.

So much has changed, though, in over a year I’ve been here–me more so than most other things.

And yet, I also… haven’t. There’s that stubbornness inside of me that’s trying to keep me as unchanged as possible, as though to spite this world, but it’s stumbling.

And it’s stumbling hard.

The morning came rather swiftly, and with it something staggering–a system window pop-up… with a quest.

Quests have sort of faded into the background, to be honest–6 identical ones have been swapping in and out ad nauseam ever since we left the sect, and I can really only complete one a month, if I’m lucky.

So far, in the past seven or so months, I’ve earned a total of 145 points off of the monthly quests.

I’m fairly certain that the limitation in place is mostly because of my current realm, and I have this sneaking suspicion that my breaking through into the Revolving Core Realm will change it all, at least slightly.

Nonetheless, this wasn’t a ‘monthly’ quest but rather a ‘Circumstantial Quest’, per the system’s very own description.

[–Circumstantial Quest triggered]

[Circumstantial Quests: a type of quest that requires a number of circumstances to align within a specific timeframe and location.]

Perfectly vague, as always.

[Eternal Lament]

[Quest: an ancient magic is slowly being used to empower a deeply hidden Blood Vessel in an attempt to resurrect the dead. The Laws of Heaven can never be unmade or tampered with–what is dead cannot come back to life by a human hand. Discover the culprit attempting the resurrection, and eliminate them as well as the Blood Vessel before the ancient magic succeeds–not at resurrecting something alive, but spawning something… unnatural]

[…]

[Rewards: the remainder of your Body Purification Process will be finished, and your body will be renewed]

[Reward 2: A new subsystem for creating Alchemy Recipes will be unlocked]

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[Reward 3: You will automatically learn the ‘Touch of Enlightenment’ Special Art, allowing you to cast one of your Disciples into a state of Enlightenment for a brief period once every three months]

[…]

[Due to the quest’s nature, it is time sensitive]

[Time before the magic is complete: 87 hours, 44 minutes, and 32 seconds]

[Failing the quest will result in the unleashing of a terrible thing and a permanent loss of one random art created by the system. Both you and any and all of your disciples who’ve learned the art will forget it and be barred from making a similar one for 30 years]

[…]

[Good luck!]