Master of Kaidan
Chapter 468: No Big Problem

Chapter 468: Chapter 468: No Big Problem

"What the hell just happened?"

Feng Xue was about to inform the Ke family’s young lady about the room instructions Old Li had told him, but then—poof!—she disappeared!

"Damn! What kind of shitty luck is this?!"

Feng Xue stared at the suddenly closed door, bemused. If he wasn’t mistaken, the moment the young lady pushed the door, she triggered a teleportation mechanism—and without any stabilizers at that.

"Tsk tsk... A moment of silence for the beings in that world... Hmm, seems like that’s not enough. Let’s give a few more seconds of silence. Oh right, I remember there’s a not-so-famous cyber Bodhisattva next door. I should go and hit his wooden fish to accrue some good karma."

Feng Xue remembered that fleeting glimpse, shook his head vigorously, and then took out a mirror to cast the Soul Capturing Technique on himself to erase those images that should not exist in his mind.

Yet, even so, the powerful sensation of "feeling empathy as one would for a dead rabbit" still made him unable to resist visiting the cyber Bodhisattva to tap the electronic wooden fish.

Speaking of which, the higher-ups of Kaidan were actually quite easy to get along with. This might be because most of them were "old" in age, inherently more laid-back, or perhaps this was just conducive for the other party to accumulate enhancements in their "attributes." After a brief chat, the cyber Bodhisattva happily sent him an app with an automatically tapping electronic wooden fish.

"So, Kaidan really is fascinating." Watching the "thud thud thud" of the +1 electronic wooden fish on his phone, Feng Xue grimaced as he tossed the guilt of "releasing Asatros from his seal" out of his mind, also feeling a bit disappointed.

He didn’t just pull the Ke family’s young lady out to reduce the harm she could do to his fellow cultivators; he also wanted to form a team with her.

His previous experience with Old Li in the Martial World had proven that teaming up in Kaidan was feasible, and both Mystical Lord and Yue Lai Inn had indeed complemented each other effectively.

This time, he wanted to drag the Ke family’s young lady to lease a door on the lower floors and then play Dota together... ahem, engage in a faction battle.

He could let the Ke family’s young lady set up a Dream LAN, and he’d add some details to the dreams, crafting a plausible backdrop story—like Outer Gods invading, local gods awakening from their slumber to build defenses in dreams and fend off invasions.

The young lady’s powers could endow strength directly within dreams, while Feng Xue’s capability was a bit weaker in comparison. They could make it into an asymmetric competition, involving games like Werewolf, Dead by Midnight, Ke-based RPGs, and even tailor specific abilities based on their opponents’ needs. If you need control-based powers, then she could grant her subordinates the necessary strong control abilities to counter, or if I needed powerful offensive methods, you could bestow strong defensive power on my subordinates. When the needs arose, they could launch an "Epic Battle of Gods" in dreams. Both sides could naturally appeal to their own "Main God" for corresponding powers and then just slightly tweak the packaging a bit. It should basically be set then.

By the time the "followers" on Feng Xue’s side had become powerful, they could transition to symmetric competition, officially proclaiming that the forces of Evil God’s invasion had strengthened, leading to more Fallen emerging, and so forth. After all, in the dream realm, no matter how wild the ideas, it wouldn’t matter.

As long as this logic was well-developed, he could then move on to reclaim the sixtieth floor. Even if he was in the world of Kaidan, he could frame the narrative into one of Alliance vs Horde vs Scourge, directly framing local Kaidan as Scourge, then run with the Warcraft script.

Yet all this planning shattered as soon as the Ke family’s young lady traveled to another world.

After all, who knows—upon reaching the new world, whether she would annihilate it at light speed or reboot an era—if she decided to hibernate like in her original world for decades, those plans would have long gone cold.

Unfortunately, the core of this logic lied in the Dream Power and Power of Destiny wielded by Miss Ke. Without these two elements, setting aside whether it contradicted Feng Xue’s moral baseline, initially, the population of the new world simply wouldn’t be able to bear it.

After all, not every place had a mechanism to refresh its population at midnight.

However...

"I still need to clear up the spiritual pollution that Miss hung on me. Although it doesn’t seem to pose a big problem, I always feel keeping it might cause issues someday."

Feng Xuexin muttered to himself and did not immediately head for the next trial. Instead, he turned to enter a tavern and tossed a handful of Tower Coins onto the table:

"What would you like to drink?"

The bartender glanced at the money on the table and, with a calm demeanor, set aside the glass he seemed never able to clean completely, then asked. Feng Xue scanned the wall behind the bartender filled with various beverages and suppressed the urge to order watered-down whisky—a torturous drink—and instead bluntly asked:

"Do you have a method to remove foreign power influences from my body?"

It wasn’t just spiritual pollution but also that damned Shit Magnet Aura. Although he had asked in both low-tier taverns and hospitals before, it didn’t hinder him from asking again, especially since Miss Ke’s sudden teleportation might have been influenced by that damned thing.

Upon hearing Feng Xue’s question, the bartender looked up at him and, with a sensation as if a strange force had swept over his body, he scooped up a pile of coins from the table then turned to open a wooden faucet next to the liquor cabinet. What flowed from the tap was not water, however, but a glass of milk.

"Drink this for spiritual pollution. As for your fate... It’s caused by illusions and powers. Passive powers can only be dealt with by blocking related Kaidan entries. As for the illusions, you need a targeted attack specifically designed for that illusion."

The bartender said, pushing the remaining coins and the glass of milk back towards Feng Xue. Staring at the glass of milk, Feng Xue found himself momentarily lost for words.

Fate is bigger than heaven, and apart from native exorcism methods, Feng Xue truly couldn’t think of another solution to the Miraculous Alexander Gem...

Of course, theoretically, since this thing fundamentally represents obsessions, intentions, and remnants of thoughts, if one could find a method in the settings that could remove others’ remnants of will, it might just work.

"Forget it, I currently have both ’Hard Fate’ and ’Luck Path Hard’ powers; a Shit Magnet Aura won’t make much difference," Feng Xue said, clearly consoling himself, then gulped down the milk. As the smooth sensation flowed down his throat to his stomach, a gentle warmth spread from his limbs and throughout his body. Feng Xue instantly felt his spirit clear, his slightly blurred Spiritual Platform Mirror becoming bright and clear once again.

"Phew..." He let out a long breath, as if expelling the pollution from his body along with it, and placed the cup back on the table. He didn’t take the remaining coins but waved his hand and said:

"Keep the change."

The bartender’s eyebrows rose slightly as he scraped the remaining pile of coins to the back of the counter. Meanwhile, as Feng Xue reached the doorstep, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind—

"Having received a generous tip, the bartender has decided to disclose some information to you."