Muscular Rabbits Legion: “No one can escape from the novice village!”
Chapter 642 - 612: Hitting Up the Queen Mother for Benefits

Chapter 642: Chapter 612: Hitting Up the Queen Mother for Benefits

Yi Zheng patted his backside and climbed up from the ground, his face full of grievance as he said, "Making a donkey work the mill without feeding it grass, damn capitalists!"

Smack!

An item smacked onto Yi Zheng’s head and bounced off, making a ’plop’ as it stuck into the cement floor.

Upon closer examination, Yi Zheng immediately broke out in a cold sweat, feeling a chill run down his spine. It was a golden hairpin engraved with a phoenix!

At the same time, the system prompt sounded.

"Ding! You have accepted the Taiyin Star Jade Rabbit quest, the first stage has begun. Please win the Jade Rabbit competition one month from now and become Chang’e’s Jade Rabbit to gain entry into the Moon Palace.

Because the task difficulty coefficient is too high, Queen Mother has lent you an eight-grade, Divine Grade, five-star Mystic Yellow Phoenix Hairpin for protection.

Quest reward one: Mystic Yellow Phoenix Hairpin

Quest reward two: Queen Mother’s Favorability +3

Quest reward three: Heavenly Court Reputation +100

Quest reward four: Top Grade Spirit Stones +100"

Seeing this, Yi Zheng immediately burst into a broad smile.

One quest and he was being rewarded with an eight-grade, Divine Grade, five-star piece of equipment—this was definitely a win!

Moreover, this was just the reward for the first stage of the quest; according to the system’s usual pattern, the rewards got better the further along you went!

Hard to imagine what other good stuff might be waiting for him.

Yi Zheng hurriedly got up, secured the Mystic Yellow Phoenix Hairpin, then turned and bowed in the direction of Kunlun, saying, "Thank you very much, Queen Mother! Your generosity knows no bounds, so open-handed and wealthy, you’re truly the best!"

Then he skipped down the mountain, utterly delighted.

On his way down, Yi Zheng clicked to view the details of the Mystic Yellow Phoenix Hairpin.

Item Name: Mystic Yellow Phoenix Hairpin

Category: NPC Weapon

Level: Grade 8

Grade: Mythical Level, Five Stars

Description: A replica of the Queen Mother’s Mystic Yellow Hairpin.

Additional Skills:

Draw the River: Consumes eighty percent of Spiritual Power to create an invincible river domain that can block all attacks below grade nine, lasting three seconds.

Escape with Golden Light: Activates Escape with Golden Light, covering a thousand li in an instant. Can detonate the hairpin to increase speed tenfold for the duration of one hour.

Beauty Greatly Enhanced: Wearing it increases charm by +3.

Yi Zheng understood that the hairpin the Queen Mother gave him was not meant for combat, but purely for escape and saving his own skin. Clearly, the Queen Mother had no expectations of Yi Zheng beating someone; surviving would be good enough.

Although this felt a bit insulting, thinking about his own pathetic power, it seemed this trinket was the most practical for him.

Securing the Mystic Yellow Phoenix Hairpin, Yi Zheng didn’t rush back to Book Mountain. It wasn’t often he got to come out; of course, he wanted to go home for a visit.

But just as he left Kunlun, he saw an old man with white hair squatting at the gate waiting for him.

Yi Zheng couldn’t even make a detour to escape.

"Rabbit, you’ve finally come out. If you had taken any longer, I would have had to go in and look for you," said Gold Star Taibai with a concerned expression.

Looking at the old man’s genuinely caring demeanor, Yi Zheng felt somewhat moved.

Despite not being related, this old man really did worry over him a lot. Even though he knew he was a kind old soul, he had to admit, he truly was a good person.

Yi Zheng said, "It’s okay, um... maybe you could go back?"

Gold Star Taibai shook his head, "I brought you out, so of course I should see you back. Let’s go, you’ve been out for too long. Daoist Fellow Sun and the others will be worried."

Yi Zheng coughed awkwardly, "Perhaps, they’re not worried."

Gold Star Taibai said, "How could that be? You’ve been at Shushan for a while now. After spending so much time together, how could they not worry if you went missing?"

Yi Zheng thought about it and found some logic in that. Well then, it was time to go back.

Gold Star Taibai took to the skies with Yi Zheng, flying towards Book Mountain.

From a distance, they could hear the sound of music echoing from within Shushan, resonating throughout the mountain...

Gold Star Taibai wondered, "Is today a festival for Book Mountain?"

Yi Zheng shook his head, "I don’t know, I haven’t heard of any grand festival happening today."

Gold Star Taibai was also full of perplexity. As the two drew closer to Book Mountain, they finally caught sight of the banners hanging there.

The characters on them were written with a flourish, beautiful in every stroke, and the content was just as beautiful: "Warmly celebrate Rabbit’s departure from Book Mountain!"

"From now on, Book Mountain is free of calamities!"

"All disciples of Wenchang Palace warmly celebrate Rabbit’s departure!"

"Tonight, a whole roast rabbit, 20% off drinks!"

"Free drinks from Wenchang Palace, Young Master Li is picking up the tab for the whole venue!"

...

Seeing these banners, Yi Zheng’s face turned dark. Gold Star Taibai looked at Rabbit with a strange expression, "What on earth have you done?"

Yi Zheng looked at Gold Star Taibai with a wronged expression, "I didn’t do anything, I’ve been very well-behaved!"

Yi Zheng truly felt aggrieved. Ever since he arrived at Book Mountain, he had not initiated any trouble.

On the way to the assessment, it was those guys who started the trouble, then he managed to doom them all.

While climbing the mountain, he simply kept to his own path, and those people were just envious and jealous of him.

Late on when he went up the mountain again, those people ganged up on him, what was wrong with him fighting back?

In any case, Yi Zheng felt he was not in the wrong, the rest of the world was.

Observing the situation on the mountain, Gold Star Taibai said to Rabbit, "I won’t go up the mountain, I’m afraid of getting beaten. You go up by yourself..."

Yi Zheng: "..."

After watching Gold Star Taibai leave, when Yi Zheng turned back, his eyes had shifted from being aggrieved to ferocious. With a sneer and a baring of his teeth, he threw his arms wide and bellowed, "Brothers, I’m back! Surprise or not, expect it or not, happy or not?"

Whoosh!

A swath of banners on the mountain was hastily taken down, and the rest were quickly gathered up in a panic, creating chaos atop Book Mountain.

Someone shouted, "That Rabbit is back again!"

"Didn’t he leave?"

"This is outrageous, why has he returned?"

"No more discounts on drinks, no more discounts!"

"Young Master Li, you aren’t covering the tab anymore!"

...

Yi Zheng didn’t care about any of them, striding with his head high and chest out through the main street. Wherever he passed, people packed up their stalls and turned away.

It wasn’t that they were afraid of getting into a fight with this Rabbit; among these people were plenty of Level 9 and Level 10 powerhouses. But by today, everyone knew that Rabbit had a very strong backing.

The main point was that the people from Wenchang Pavilion might not like fighting, but that didn’t mean they were weak.

On the contrary, the Great Scholars from within Wenchang Pavilion, who studied day and night, full of literary grace, were in some sense the true scholars. Standing atop Book Mountain, they drew power from the mountain itself and were supported by the Vast Qi River, their combat power was terrifying beyond measure, not something those hopping outside Wenchang Palace could compare with.

Crucially, although these Great Scholars preferred not to meddle in trifles, they were all very protective of their own! Should a fight really break out, eight or nine out of ten would step in.

And then, everyone present combined would not be enough to stand against them.

Wenchang Pavilion also housed such Great Scholars, but these scholars, once they reached a certain level, would not bother with these ruffians.

Not beating them up already counted as mercy.

Thus, without a legitimate and reasonable cause to fight Rabbit, no one wanted to wage an open battle against him.

Seeing Rabbit return, people like Li Hanlin, Zhang Haichao, Su Jin, and others couldn’t restrain from cursing as they turned away.