Chapter 2179 - 7: Mystic Spirit Treasure Pavilion, Reporting to Become a God?

Chapter 2179: Chapter 7: Mystic Spirit Treasure Pavilion, Reporting to Become a God?

"Is it settled?"

"It’s settled. Cloud Sky Dao’s current identity is my Divine Guard." After leaving the Primordial Realm, Zhao Xing met with Ji Si.

"That’s good." Ji Si breathed a sigh of relief. Cloud Sky Dao had greatly helped Great Zhou, significantly contributing to crucial funds back in the day. If Old Yun weren’t unwilling to enter Great Zhou as an official, he would have been a Demigod by now, considering Cloud Sky Dao had reached the Lord-level himself.

"Has there been any progress in the task of finding someone that Cloud Sky Dao mentioned?" Zhao Xing asked.

Ji Si waved her hand, and the water curtain flowed in front of her, revealing a densely packed list: "I contacted the current Academy City Elder Feng Chen and obtained a scholar list."

"Among the scholars registered in the Academy City, there are a total of 1385 people named Pang Jiale or with the Taoist name Pang Jiale."

"Fewer than I imagined," Zhao Xing said as he looked through it.

"This refers to the list of pure scholars," Ji Si explained. "It does not include the historical scholars integrated by Bo Wei."

Zhao Xing nodded. Scholars are a naturally talented profession. Upon birth, their origin within automatically condenses into a blank Taoist Book, and the Fate Palace forms on its own. The scholar profession cannot be cultivated after birth.

Of course, since Bo Wei unified the groups of Starry Historians and historical scholars, there is another path to becoming a scholar. However, pure scholars remain rare.

The birth of scholars is also irregular. Even if both parents are scholars, it doesn’t guarantee the birth of a scholar; it only increases the probability.

"If we expand to the group of historical scholars, this number would be much larger," Ji Si said, "We have already found hundreds of thousands named Pang Jiale, and that’s excluding those below the Origin Realm and those not registered."

The Xuanling Star Domain is vast, and the base number of historical scholars who can be cultivated after birth is naturally large as well.

"Finding a needle in a haystack," Zhao Xing thought of his past experience searching for Mi Fei.

"Without any characteristics, just a name, this search task given by Heavenly Mother of Thunder is truly puzzling."

Ji Si chuckled, "I even suspect this is a Cause and Effect Trap thrown by an Evil God, deliberately occupying our computing power."

Heavenly Mother of Thunder gave no hints, just a name, which means to complete this task, they have to gather a group named Pang Jiale before her to verify them.

"Whether there’s something or not, just give it a try. I’ll leave this to one of my avatars to slowly screen through," Zhao Xing set the matter aside, as he had many avatars and could handle it gradually.

There are many tasks related to Evil Gods that are inexplicable, with unknown rewards and task content, and extremely cumbersome.

In tasks like these, where you have to find someone, Zhao Xing has seen many Demigod candidates face similar challenges in the Star Mirror.

Some people like to challenge such tasks, but the Evil Gods perished, and the people were never found.

Ji Si’s guess wasn’t ungrounded; it’s likely just a ruse.

"Finding objects is relatively easier. The initial version of Boundary Faro is kept by Lu Ya Palace Master in the Primordial Heavenly Palace," Ji Si said.

"Getting hold of this Divine Artifact is a fool’s dream," Zhao Xing shook his head.

Boundary Faro wasn’t unfamiliar to him because he had used the Boundary Star Daoist version of the Boundary Faro before. Boundary Faro and Twelve Wandering Gods are quite famous magical weapons.

"It’s rumored that Boundary Faro was a Magic Artifact created by Mechanical God ’Jieluo’ for the Minister of Agriculture. He wanted to emulate the Great Emperor’s Path of Enlightenment."

"The Great Emperor created the ’Hun Yuan Dao Tower’ for the Self Sect’s Minister of Agriculture, so Jieluo created Boundary Faro for the Heavenly Time Sect’s Agriculture."

"But he obviously failed."

The level Zhao Xing was exposed to now had risen, so he knew that Jieluo was a God from the Desolate Domain Era faction, known as Jieluo Divine General.

Ji Si said, "From the classified archives I obtained from the Heavenly Master Mansion, it shows that Jieluo Divine General’s initial version of the Divine Artifact is collected by Lu Ya Palace Master. Since the ninth epoch of the Desolate Domain, there’s been no news of Jieluo Divine General; who knows where he went."

"I probably know where he went," Zhao Xing remembered the words of Guluo River.

Jieluo Divine General wanted to complete the Heaven and Earth Dao, creating a real Heavenly Time Sect’s Divine Artifact, likely requiring him to go to that special Solar Year sealed by Divine King Guxiao.

"But why does Heavenly Mother of Thunder want the initial version of Boundary Faro? It’s really perplexing," Ji Si’s eyes flashed with endless storms of Cause and Effect, seemingly calculating.

At this moment, Eight-direction Artifact Spirit jumped out from the mirror, observing Ji Si’s slowly falling hair, and interrupted, "Stop it, Ji Si, you’re almost bald now."

"Such tasks can’t be figured out in just a few thousand Solar Years, you’re purely wasting computing power."

"Many unsolved mysteries are intentionally left by past space-time factions. A Fate Master must learn to prioritize."

"Heavenly Mother of Thunder is merely a Divine General in the Thunder God Department, whether she can fulfill the rewards to her believers is questionable."

"Just as Zhao Xing said, whether there’s something or not, just strike the rod, maybe that’s what they’re thinking, too."

"Indeed, thanks for the reminder, senior." Ji Si stopped pinching her fingers, and as she stroked her bald head, hair automatically grew out again.

Eight-direction Artifact Spirit pulled Ji Si into the mirror.

Zhao Xing saw Eight-direction Artifact Spirit about to whisper with Ji Si, so he tactfully left.

"Brother Yun, your issue is resolved."

"Thank you." Cloud Sky Dao and the neighboring Ni Feng Fairy were about to bow together, but Zhao Xing quickly supported them.

"Brother Yun, although your problem is resolved now, some things you must still do yourself," Zhao Xing said. "Only in an unavoidable situation can you use this identity to save your life."

"I understand." Cloud Sky Dao nodded, "If everyone knows I’m your Divine Guard, and I openly complete the tasks of the Evil God, the Evil God would surely suspect me."