【Quest: Curse Suppression Technique】
【Quest Description: The Curse Suppression Technique originated as an ancient shamanic art, said to have the power to subdue people or objects through curses.】
【Quest Requirements: Collect all accumulated cursed items and locate and eliminate the person spreading these cursed objects.】
【Cursed Items Collected: 6/6】
【Curse Suppression Technique Inheritor Eliminated】
【Curse Suppression Technique Fragment Obtained】
【Quest Rewards: Ziyang Vein-Protecting Pill x1, Iceheart Jade Dew Pill x1, "Huangting Spirit Nourishment Classic" x1, Five Aggregates Strange Stone x1, "The Way of Fusion Artifacts" x1】
The collected cursed items were not reclaimed by the system.
Instead, they remained with Lin Mo.
And the inheritor of the Curse Suppression Technique was obviously Qian Xin’er, who Lin Mo had already dealt with.
As for the fragment of the Curse Suppression Technique...
With a flick of his hand, Lin Mo found a handwritten old notebook in his palm.
It was likely a notebook personally penned by Liu Guixiang, found directly in Qian Xin’er’s home. If Liu Zheng and the others had searched properly back then, they might have uncovered some clues.
But this thing wasn’t all that important; it was filled almost entirely with harmful methods.
So Lin Mo merely raised his hand slightly and burned the notebook to ashes.
The Invincible Cultivation System really was impressive.
Lin Mo examined the rewards, though their effects still needed to be checked through the system’s descriptions.
【Ziyang Vein-Protecting Pill: A pill refined using Ziyang Grass as the core ingredient, capable of protecting the meridians from damage.】
【Iceheart Jade Dew Pill: After consumption, it cools the heart and calms the mind, effective against inner demons.】
Got it. These two items were meant to help face the Golden Core Tribulation.
According to Lin Mo’s understanding, the Golden Core Tribulation is a four-stage minor heavenly tribulation.
There are four rounds of tribulation, each with nine lightning strikes.
Surviving the tribulation allows the spiritual power inside the body to begin condensing into a core nucleus.
Eventually forming the Golden Core.
So what about the "Huangting Spirit Nourishment Classic"?
Lin Mo studied it and found it to be a cultivation method specifically designed to train spiritual force—that is, the condensation of the divine sense.
In Lin Mo’s view, this manual focused more on refining the divine sense, but compared to his own "Divine Refining Void Method," it seemed somewhat lacking.
【Host, please note: The "Divine Refining Void Method" cannot be transferred to others, but the "Huangting Spirit Nourishment Classic" does not have this restriction.】
Transferable?
Lin Mo roughly understood.
This meant that once he learned it himself, he could pass it on to others.
Provided he learned it first.
“System, tell me, is this thing meant for Xie Yuling to learn?”
【Host may choose to teach or not teach at will. The Invincible Cultivation System will never interfere.】
That sounds nice.
Lin Mo didn’t care either way. Since it could enhance the divine sense, practicing it more wouldn’t hurt.
Then there was the Five Aggregates Strange Stone.
Lin Mo pulled it out and saw a pitch-black stone that looked completely ordinary.
“What’s this thing even for?”
【Five Aggregates Strange Stone: The five aggregates—form, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness—do not arise in the unliving, yet this single stone has somehow produced all five. Given enough time, might it hatch into a monkey?】
【This is a material used to forge the Emperor’s Banner. Please do not try making a monkey figurine out of it.】
Fine, fine, that’s how you want to play it. Why not just catch a stone monkey and hand it over for forging?
The last item, "The Way of Fusion Artifacts," was clearly a manual on artifact refining. Lin Mo didn’t even need to read the description to know what it was.
“I have to say, for such a mundane task, piling on so many rewards—System, you really are something else.”
Lin Mo gave a thumbs-up.
A sigh of helplessness echoed from the system.
--System: No choice, borrowed stuff can’t be given out, so I have to find an excuse to hand out rewards--
Thursday.
The afterglow of Labor Day hadn’t completely faded, yet the classroom showed no signs of post-holiday blues. After all, the weekend was just around the corner, and these scattered holidays always helped soothe everyone’s spirits.
Lin Mo sat upright, textbooks spread open on his desk, but his mind was drifting far away.
A faint scraping sound came from the desk beside him. Jiang Yunlu slid her chair a little closer and gently nudged his arm with her elbow.
“What have you been up to these past three days? You haven’t even popped up in the group chat.”
Lin Mo snapped out of his cultivation trance from “Huang Ting Yang Shen Jing” and shrugged. “Studying.”
“Studying?”
Jiang Yunlu raised her eyebrows, wearing a look that clearly said, “Who are you trying to fool?”
“Fang Jun and the others said they went to the internet café in the group chat. You just studied?”
“Really,” Lin Mo said sincerely, “I found two pretty deep books. Once I started, I got hooked. They’re tough.”
That was true. These past two days, Lin Mo had been practicing “Huang Ting Yang Shen Jing” and researching “The Way of Fusion Artifacts.”
If “Huang Ting Yang Shen Jing” was a practical exercise manual, then “The Way of Fusion Artifacts” was a purely theoretical textbook.
Because Lin Mo, still at the Foundation Establishment stage, couldn’t forge artifacts using Dan Fire.
Just like the system said, he had to first form a Core, then forge his own life artifact.
It was like a treasure mountain stood before him, but separated by an insurmountable chasm. Right now, he was just a Foundation Establishment cultivator who hadn’t even gotten a ticket to enter.
At that moment, Lin Mo suddenly recalled that he had originally gathered all this knowledge to obtain a divine ability that could track people through the network.
Hmm... now, he didn’t really want it that much anymore.
Jiang Yunlu studied Lin Mo’s face carefully, seeing no sign of concealment. Instead, she confirmed something else—he hadn’t gone out alone with Xie Yuling these past few days.
A barely noticeable curve lifted the corner of her mouth, and her mood brightened considerably.
“Alright, I’ll trust you this once. Since you’ve been working so hard studying, how about relaxing this weekend?”
“Not sure. I might have to go to Peng City for a competition. You know, last time the match was cut short, so it might continue this weekend.”
Lin Mo knew very well that Jiang Yunlu wanted him to come watch the badminton match.
But if there was a scheduling conflict, there was nothing he could do.
The light in Jiang Yunlu’s eyes dimmed slightly but soon rekindled. She straightened up, locking her gaze on Lin Mo with no hint of avoidance—only expectation and a seriousness that brooked no refusal.
“My badminton match is also this weekend. So if you don’t have your competition, or after it’s over, will you come watch me?”
Lin Mo nodded gladly. “Of course, no problem. If I can make it, I’ll be there.”
Jiang Yunlu nodded in satisfaction.
She turned her head toward Ying Wenshen sitting behind them.
At this moment, Ying Wenshen was wearing a mask, engrossed in his book.
“I heard Ying Wenshen has been down with a bad cold for several days and has been staying home all this time.”
Lin Mo shook his head, neither confirming nor denying the rumor.
Just then, someone appeared at the entrance of Class Eight.
“Who is Su Mingzhao?”
Hearing the name, everyone instinctively thought Su Mingzhao was causing trouble again.
So all eyes naturally turned to him.
Su Mingzhao furrowed his brows and looked toward the person at the door.
“I don’t know you.”
“No worries, as long as I know you. Step outside for a moment.”
The man grinned widely, his smile bright but not at all friendly.
He came with ill intent.
But this was a personal matter, and no one was willing to step forward.
Especially since Ma Ruixiang already had little goodwill toward Su Mingzhao, he remained seated calmly.
As long as Su Mingzhao didn’t step outside, nothing would happen.
But Su Mingzhao—apart from Lin Mo—never backed down from anyone else.
He stood up and walked out immediately.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
