Muscular Rabbits Legion: “No one can escape from the novice village!”
Chapter 615 - 585: World Quest Begins

Chapter 615: Chapter 585: World Quest Begins

"Brother! I admit I was a bit loud before, please forgive me. I’ll follow all your orders for the next task!" Yellow Skin King was the first to switch sides.

Yin Bai quickly followed suit, "Big Brother, I was blind as a bat before, and failed to see Mount Tai. I... I’ll listen to everything you say from now on!"

Yi Zheng nodded in satisfaction, "That’s more like it."

Then Yi Zheng noticed that Yin Bai’s eyes were darting about, looking like he had something to say but hesitated. Yi Zheng prompted, "Speak your mind."

Yin Bai said, "Big Brother, how can you leave your own mountain top?"

Yi Zheng countered, "Can’t I leave?"

Yin Bai and Yellow Skin King shook their heads simultaneously, "The system notification says we can’t leave."

Yi Zheng looked at his own mountain top, then at this place, and then checked his system notifications where indeed there was no clause restraining his movements.

Although Yi Zheng always felt he was different from others, he honestly didn’t think the system viewed him any differently from Yellow Skin King and Yin Bai.

So why were they restricted, and why wasn’t he?

Yi Zheng studied carefully for a while. There was nothing wrong with his skill, so he began to look through his equipment.

In the end, he found the answer in the Kunlun Mirror.

Clear as day, there was a message in the Kunlun Mirror: During a task, one must not leave the designated area or they will be teleported back to the starting point by the system.

Yi Zheng was astonished, "Damn, there really is such a rule! But how come it’s in the Kunlun Mirror?"

Yi Zheng had always known the Kunlun Mirror was awesome, but he couldn’t articulate just how awesome it was.

Because from beginning to end, all The Queen Mother of the West taught him was one defensive mnemonic, one attack mnemonic, and a skill to see people from a thousand miles away.

He knew nothing about the other functions because The Queen Mother of the West never gave him a manual.

Logically, such a mighty treasure would definitely have an artifact spirit, but the mirror never interacted with him, clearly showing that the spirit looked down on him.

"Mighty and explosively cool artifact spirit, can’t you explain to me what’s going on?" Yi Zheng inquired.

However, the Kunlun Mirror remained lifeless as ever, like an ancient mirror unresponsive to Yi Zheng’s questioning.

Helpless, Yi Zheng could only put away the Kunlun Mirror for the time being.

Yet it wasn’t all for naught; at least he now knew that the mirror could remove some system task restrictions.

"What a pity I can’t control it myself. Otherwise, if I removed all the task requirements, wouldn’t I have completed the task directly?" Yi Zheng muttered to himself, but also knew that one must not get too greedy.

"Big Brother, with Black Mountain King dead, what about the task? We’re one person short," Yellow Skin King shouted.

Yi Zheng waved his hand dismissively, "What if we’re short one person? Can’t we hold this mountain top with one less? Don’t worry, as long as I, your great king, am here, nobody can do anything about it!"

Although Yellow Skin King and Yin Bai weren’t really convinced, they didn’t dare to object and started to flatter him earnestly.

Yi Zheng couldn’t be bothered to listen and directly asked, "Do you know the strength of the nearby players?"

Yellow Skin King was the first to reply, "Reporting to Big Brother, the nearby players aren’t very strong, mostly around the seventh order. The strongest is only in the Great Perfection Realm of the seventh order."

Yi Zheng then asked, "When did they... no, when did you and they arrive in the Underground Immortal Realm?"

Yellow Skin King said, "I came here eighteen years ago."

Yin Bai added, "I’ve been here a bit longer, twenty-four years!"

Yi Zheng was stunned, "Damn, are you guys that much of prodigies? You came here more than twenty years ago?"

Yin Bai appeared confused too, "Big Brother, there were already a lot of people here when we arrived. Are we not considered early? I heard that the earliest group has been here for about a hundred and eighty years."

Yi Zheng had always thought he was one of the earliest to arrive and was surprised to learn there were others even earlier.

Then he heard Yellow Skin King saying, "Yeah, that’s what they say, though I’m not certain. I heard that the group from West Kunlun was the earliest, supposedly from the Cangshan Mountain World. But then, for some unknown reason, they just disappeared."

"I’ve heard about that too. It seems like when the second-earliest batch from the Nanheng World entered this place, they received a system notification saying they were ranked second, and there were even rewards for it," chimed in someone.

But Yi Zheng’s head was buzzing, the Cangshan Mountain World was the earliest?

Didn’t that mean he had been in this world for a hundred and eighty years?

Ever since arriving in this world, Yi Zheng’s concept of time had gradually become indifferent.

After all, the people around him casually spoke in terms of yuanhuis, making years seem too short of a unit.

Yi Zheng thought of The Queen Mother of the West, who said she was going to practice alchemy, which could take several years or even decades, and told him not to disturb her.

Then, suddenly, she told him the alchemy was finished and asked him to come back to test the medicine.

She even tossed the Kunlun Mirror to him...

Putting it all together, Yi Zheng realized something — he had been at Book Mountain for more than a year!

Perhaps even longer!

But where had the time gone?

Yi Zheng pondered carefully and finally remembered — it was due to Enlightenment Pathway!

While contemplating the Dao on Enlightenment Pathway, each step took an hour, and sometimes two or three hours. Though his pace later quickened, it still consumed a great deal of time.

If each step took an hour, then a million steps would have been over two hundred years.

Later he sprinted, saving a lot of time, yet in the end, it might have taken him several decades to nearly a hundred years to climb a million steps!

At the time, he was so immersed in the state of enlightenment that he had no sense of time’s passing.

He just felt as if he had climbed the mountain on the same day...

I was so wrong!

Yi Zheng understood Yin Bai and the Yellow Skin King but sent a private message to Liu Fei, "Boss Lady, how long have I been out?"

"Ding!"

Due to a time rift within the world task, it is impossible to send messages externally.

Yi Zheng was dumbfounded again, "What the heck? A time rift?"

This time, the system provided an answer, "World tasks are events from the main world, which includes the Primordial World, also known as the Divine Realm, Heavenly Realm, Underground Immortal Realm, and The Peaceful Realms.

World tasks are major events that have occurred in the main world.

The system will create a temporal rift to replay these major events.

No matter how much things change during these events, there will be no impact on the main world."

Yi Zheng understood that this world was like a grand theater set to replay all the events that occurred in the main world!

Except, these events were being experienced anew by players and wild monsters from other worlds, with the outcomes not affecting the main world.

It felt more like a massive-scale live-action role-play.

According to the system’s logic, the Cowherd and Weaver event was significant, which meant that here, events like the Journey to the West, the Havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and the Battle for Supremacy might very well occur!

If that actually happened, just imagining the Havoc in the Heavenly Palace alone, what kind of scene would it be?

How astonishing would it be?

And to possibly stand shoulder to shoulder with legendary characters...

Diving deeper into the thought, Yi Zheng was already boiling with excitement.

"Big brother, I don’t know much, but overall, the players in this region have been advancing quite fast in strength.

Of course, we can’t compare to the top ten players who have entered this world, but it’s still not bad," Yin Bai said.

Yi Zheng looked at them and asked, "From what you’re saying, the top ten players are very strong?"

The Yellow Skin King said, "Never seen them, but I’ve heard people say that the ten great worlds of the top ten are indeed very strong. Some say there are rank-eight experts among them, who have even commonly stepped into rank eight.

They say that the Nanheng World, which was the second to enter the main world, is especially formidable, having produced rank-nine experts."

Yi Zheng said, "So, the Nanheng World should be the strongest world then?"

However, the Yellow Skin King shook his head.

Yi Zheng said in surprise, "There are stronger ones?"

He was genuinely astonished. He himself has been quite successful on his journey, but even after a hundred and eighty years, he was still stuck at a two-star, rank-eight. Yet players were soaring to rank nine at a terrifying pace, indicating an incredible potential.

Of course, Yi Zheng had also primarily been delayed by his dedication to the Dao, which took up much of his time. If it had not been for that commitment, his strength would have been even greater. However, every advantage has its disadvantage, and his understanding of the Dao laid a perfect foundation for him.

It was like having an encyclopedia of knowledge at his disposal, making his future path almost smooth.

So, Yi Zheng was surprised, but not afraid.

The Yellow Skin King said with an air of mystery, "On the surface, they are the strongest, but there are private discussions suggesting that the most formidable might be the Cangshan Mountain World, the first that descended to the main world.

After all, they descended into the Divine Realm, where the spiritual energy and resources are even richer than in the Heavenly Realm. With such a long accumulation, they’re bound to be incredibly strong.

But the people from Cangshan Mountain World seem to keep a very low profile; for so many years, none of them has been seen traveling abroad.

There’s barely any news at all.

The Cangshan Mountain World is a group of enigmatic, potentially mighty, and extremely discreet beings."

Yin Bai quickly added, "When the Nanheng World publicly challenged the Cangshan Mountain World, the latter didn’t even acknowledge them!

Clearly, the Nanheng World doesn’t even catch their eye.

Besides, everyone feels that Cangshan Mountain World is holding back a big move.

If they don’t act, they bide their time, but once they do, it will be earth-shattering and sweep across everything."

Yi Zheng listened with wide eyes; he knew nothing about the other worlds, but the Cangshan Mountain World?

Wasn’t that the group of monkeys in the big pit outside their village?

Yet, Yi Zheng had some doubts. Could there be another Cangshan Mountain World? Or did they have other cities where they developed?

Yi Zheng wanted to say more when he saw a vast expanse of golden light descending from the sky in the distance!

At the same time, the system alert sounded: "Players are ready, the task is about to begin!

Welcome to the Cowherd and Weaver quest!"

...

Boom boom boom...

Beams of golden light struck the ground, and as they faded, players emerged from within.

However, not all who emerged were human; there were all sorts of demons and ghosts, and even steel life forms that weren’t carbon-based, with glowing bodies and carrying cannons, joined by a giant beehive and an ant nest...

These life forms accounted for a good sixty percent, and the rest were humanoid.

Among the humanoids were some of the Demon Clan...

The real human players probably made up only about ten percent.