Sword Among Us

Panda Novel

That was too great of a joke!

Instructions from Emei Sect’s Mistress Annihilation…

The seriousness of this could be great, but it could also be insignificant.

If it were normal instructions, Mistress Annihilation would only need to say a few words to increase Happy’s Comprehension by one point or give him a secret manual for a sword technique. But Mistress Annihilation actually suggested for Happy to descend the mountain together with them.

Happy guessed that it should be a quest.

‘What should I do?’

His mind raced. Happy could not quite grasp just how valuable would Mistress Annihilation’s instructions be, and he hesitated.

After all, the person who would capture Mistress Annihilation was an elite from Ruyang Mansion. Right then, the Emei Sect disciples were tired after a great battle, and Ruyang Mansion would win with ease against the exhausted women. They could take down all of Emei Sect’s members without a single bit of effort.

If Happy went along with them, he would definitely be in trouble.

Momo and Ancient Wind stared at Happy solemnly as well. They hoped that he would not lose everything just because his emotions overruled his head for a moment.

“Happy, reject the quest.” Momo said quietly. “Don’t forget about Ruyang Mansion. Hurry up and get your reward. Then we’ll leave.”

“Get my reward?” Happy was stunned.

“The battle has ended and the points have been accumulated. You haven’t changed it for rewards yet, right? Do you intend to follow her to Emei Sect?” Momo cast him a puzzled glance. “I’ve already gotten my reward. I got myself one grade one masterpiece and two grade two masterpieces with over nine hundred points.”

“Then why didn’t I receive the notification from the system.” Happy was stunned on the spot. He stared at Ancient Wind, and when he saw Ancient Wind nodding in agreement, he sucked in a deep breath. “It hasn’t totalled up my points yet. The system didn’t tell me to get my reward.”

When the duo heard it, they were shocked. They exchanged a glance, and both of them had surprise on their faces.

It was the sign that the quest had yet to end.

“Could it be…”

“That it wants you to continue with the quest?”

“It’s possible.”

“Think about it carefully. If you continue, you’ll be doing the quest at Ruyang Mansion. It’ll be very dangerous!” the duo reminded him softly.

Happy thought about it long and hard. In the end, he looked at Mistress Annihilation.

“Alright, since you regard me highly, it will be best if I show my respect to you by obeying.”

Just then, he had thought about it carefully. In his previous life, he did not remember receiving any word of a player from the six great system-allocated systems falling into any mishap when they descended the mountain. There was also no news of any subsequent quests from the six great system-allocated sects.

Happy had a bold assumption. Even if similar quests from the six great system-allocated sects appeared, there should only be a handful of people who could master them. Besides, the subsequent quests should be pretty good, or else, there would be some hints about them. Only some of the rarer hidden quests were hidden by players.

Of course, if he had missed hearing about it, then he could only blame himself for having bad luck.

Anyway, he did not have to be worried even if he died once. Thunderous Battle had obtained quite a lot of valuable medicinal herbs from the Thousand-year Blood Sucking Wood forest in Shennongjia. Among them were the valuable thousand-year ginseng and thousand-year Lingzhi that could allow a person to return to the peak of their condition.

Happy could take this risk!

Mistress Annihilation smiled and nodded.

“Alright. It’s not good for us to stay here. Let’s go down the mountain.”

Happy turned to Momo and Ancient Wind.

“Since Mistress Annihilation has summoned me, let’s part ways here. I don’t know how much longer I’ll need to follow the mistress, so if you have some free time, you can go to Baokang and help me look after Mu Clan for a while. I’ll be eternally grateful if you do so.”

“Since you agreed to it, then go at ease and worry about yourself! Until you come back, I’ll stay in Baokang.” Momo knew that Happy was worried that the quest would require a lot of time, which was why she agreed to it without hesitation.

Ancient Wind pondered it for a moment before he answered. “I’ll go with Momo to Baokang, but Class One Hall isn’t an easy opponent. I’ll call a few friends to join me.”

He also agreed to it. After all, Happy had taken care of him on the way, and he had also delivered an effective attack once, so he gained 500 points and got himself a valuable grade one masterpiece in exchange.

“Thank you!”

Once they finished speaking, Happy turned around resolutely and headed down the mountain with the Emei Sect members.

Momo felt very uneasy as she stared at the direction in which Happy disappeared.

Ancient Wind was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, and he could be considered to be someone experienced, so he comforted her by saying, “Don’t worry, he’ll be fine. Even Zhang Wuji was unable to do anything to him. The power of the top ranked player on the Famous People Rank isn’t for show.”

“Let’s hope so.”

Even though Momo received Ancient Wind’s comforting words, she still did not become completely at ease.

Emei Sect did not leave quickly. In fact, they were actually quite slow.

It was only when all players had left Mount Huangshan that they reached the foot of the mountain. On the way, the number of Emei Sect disciples kept decreasing as well. When Happy saw that, he felt incredibly gloomy.

Suddenly, when they arrived at a rather dense forest that was at the foot of the mountain, Mistress Annihilation came to a stop at the front of the group!

A strange sound could be heard from every direction.

“Enemy ambush! Everyone, be careful.”

The person who spoke was Happy.

Even though he was prepared to be ambushed when he followed Emei Sect down the mountain, when the moment truly arrived, he still could not stand Mistress Annihilation’s actions. He shouted and jumped into the air like a bird.

Ding Minjun, Bei Jinyi, and Zhou Zhiruo tightened their grips over their weapons and put on wary expressions.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!!

Black smoke began tumbling toward them from all directions out of the blue.

“Be careful, there’s poison in the smoke. Hold your breaths and charge out!”

Happy gave a command and woke up Mistress Annihilation. She then shouted loudly, “Listen to Young Swordsman Happy! Emei Sect disciples, hold your breaths and charge out with me!”

Once she finished speaking, Mistress Annihilation took the lead and charged up a tree. She tried to break out of the black smoke by going above it. Happy, Ding Minjun, Zhou Zhiruo, and hundreds of Emei Sect disciples followed closely behind her.

“Fire!”

There was Ten Fragrant Tendon Weakening Powder contained within the black smoke. Some Emei Sect disciples occasionally fell prey to it and fell from the air, terrifying the others so much that they did not dare to breathe.

The group could only brace themselves and charge 328 feet forward by force to get out of the ambush zone. Mistress Annihilation cast a glance at the Yuan Dynasty soldiers who were before her and wanted to turn around to escape, and she instantly flew into a rage.

“Where do you think you’re going?!”

Heavenly Sword was drawn, and sword force came charging out like a magnificent waterfall. Mistress Annihilation cut up the group of Yuan Dynasty soldiers into two before she smoothly returned her sword into its sheath. The entire deed was done in one go.

While Happy sighed in admiration regarding the old nun’s extraordinary sword techniques, he frowned as well.

Mistress Annihilation did indeed have a fiery temper. Once it was triggered, she would not think about leaving a single person alive to look for information.

In his gloom, the system gave him a piece of good news.

“Successfully helped Mistress Annihilation avoid a disaster. Obtained 100 points!”

‘As I expected! The quest from the final battle at Light Summit hasn’t ended.’ Happy felt his heart sink.

“Mistress, my junior sisters seem to be limp.”

Zhou Zhiruo turned back and looked behind her. There were hundreds of her junior sisters who had fallen at the back and moaned nonstop. There were only around a dozen who managed to escape the disaster, and she instantly felt at a loss.

“Damn it, just what sort of poison has this sort of effect?” Mistress Annihilation turned her head around to look at the hundreds of disciples who did not manage to escape from the poison smog, but she did not dare approach them carelessly. She was so angry that she gritted her teeth in exasperation. “These dogs of the imperial court, I will definitely have them repay this debt sooner or later!”

“Mistress, this isn’t the time for you to care about this. Since the imperial court decided to set up an ambush here, the other five sects might be their next target, since they were also injured badly after the great battle,” Happy reminded her at the perfect moment.

Mistress Annihilation instantly sucked in a sharp breath. “The imperial court intends to defeat us while we are tired. They might have harbored the thought of defeating all the six great sects and Ming Cult in one go. This won’t do. We must spread the news. Happy and Zhiruo, I will write a letter now. The two of you go and immediately bring it to Light Summit and hand it to Wudang Sect’s Great Swordsman Song, have him tell the news to the heroes of the world!”

Happy and Zhou Zhiruo’s expressions changed.

“What about you, mistress?” Zhou Zhiruo asked.

Happy said nothing.

“These children are still here, so where can I go? I will wait here and see just who wants to destroy Emei Sect.” Mistress Annihilation lamented and sat down with her legs crossed. She was very determined. “You mustn’t waste time. Hurry up and leave!”