"Ahem!"

Turns out the muscular man was King Qingshan, who coughed to conceal his surprise, "How should I address you, sir?"

"Me? You can call me Qing Songzi!"

The old man introduced himself, using a codename just like Xiao Mu and the others.

"Mr. Qing Songzi, we have been here for a long time already, can you now tell us why you summoned us here?"

The Girl with the Red Thread was impatient and directly asked her question.

"Don't rush, you all will know soon."

Qing Songzi clapped his hands, and immediately a young girl brought in a tray and placed it in front of Xiao Mu and the others.

On the tray were three energy fruits, which emitted a sweet aroma.

"Dear ones, this is to thank you all for responding to my summons!"

Qing Songzi said with a smile.

Even though they knew there would be Energy Fruits, upon seeing the three of them, Xiao Mu, King Qingshan, and the Girl with the Red Thread were all delighted.

Just one Energy Fruit was worth several million at least, and to make matters more valuable, it was almost impossible to buy even with money.

Each of them took an Energy Fruit. Upon getting it, King Qingshan immediately took a bite and ate his fruit.

Xiao Mu, however, did not eat the fruit upon receiving it but rather kept it away.

With only one Energy Fruit, even if he ate it, it wouldn't necessarily increase his power to the Late Spirit Communication Realm.

Not to mention, he wasn't keen on breaking through in the presence of others.

The Girl with the Red Thread, seeing Xiao Mu do this, also put away her fruit.

Looking at her face, it was clear she had misunderstood, thinking the reason Xiao Mu put away the fruit was because he suspected there was something wrong with it.

Qing Songzi's gaze swept over the three of them, observing their actions before clapping his hands again.

Another young girl came in with a tray, this time bearing three Martial Arts Secret Scripts.

The girl brought the tray to Qing Songzi's side.

Qing Songzi casually picked up one of the secret scripts, turning to King Qingshan, "King Qingshan, I heard you've been searching for a copy of the 'Yijinjing' recently?"

"How did you know?"

King Qingshan was startled upon hearing this.

Indeed, he had been searching for the 'Yijinjing' script.

As the 'Yijinjing' script offers no unique control over Evil Absurdities, its value is less than internal skill methods like 'Nine Yang Skill' or 'Zhengyi Thunder Technique'.

But this doesn't mean this internal skill method lacks value.

Actually, because such scripts are so rare, each martial artist can typically only cultivate one internal skill method, thus the full value of this script is not realized.

The 'Yijinjing', though not impressive if cultivated singularly, can increase internal strength by two to three times if cultivated alongside other scripts.

'Yijin' implies changing meridians. Once cultivated, it can expand the meridians and increase the total internal power.

As more and more high-level martial artists recognize this, the value of 'Yijinjing' has been quietly rising.

Qing Songzi laughed, not answering, and picked up another Secret Manual, turning to the Red Heroine. "Red Heroine, I know that you practice swordsmanship and have acquired a fragment of a Flying Sword. It's a wonderful treasure. You've been searching for the 'Sword Controlling Technique' all this time."

"How did you know?"

The Red Heroine was also startled by this.

The Sword Controlling Technique is not the Sword Mastery Technique. The latter is the art of controlling Flying Swords and is beyond the reach of martial artists in the Mortal Realm. Even if such scripts existed, Mortal Realm martial artists wouldn't be able to learn them.

The Sword Controlling Technique merely allows one to briefly handle sword-type weapons at a distance. In essence, it involves using a special amount of inner power to control weapons remotely, similar to techniques like Qilin Skill or Strike the Cow across the Mountain.

Of course, its power can't compare with the Sword-controlling Art. Moreover, the remote control will inevitably reduce the power and it would be easy for the opponent to snatch the weapon.

But if there is a powerful weapon, such as the Flying Sword Fragment, which isn't feared of being taken by the opponent, it can bring the power of Sword-controlling Technique to the extreme.

The elder smiled, still not answering, picked up the last secret manual, and turned to Xiao Mu, "Mr. Mu, you practice Fire Talismans, surely you would want a specialized Fire Talisman Scripture."

Xiao Mu remained expressionless after glancing at the elder.

Right now, due to the limitations of the Heavenly Talisman Scripture, the function of his Fire Talisman is indeed declining. Coupled with the continuous improvement of the Peach Wood Sword, the Fire Talisman has gradually been phased out.

If he could really get a specialized Fire Talisman Scripture to refine the Fire Talisman, it would indeed provide great assistance to him.

Not to mention, this Fire Talisman Scripture is a complete edition, and if modified using Energy Points, it would need at least a dozen Energy Points.

This made Xiao Mu's heart shake a bit.

"Just say what you want us to do."

King Qingshan said impatiently.

"Hehe! King Qingshan has a way with words. Well, I won't beat around the bush anymore."

Qing Songzi put the secret manual back onto the tray, sat down again, and said, "The three of you, I need your help in retrieving something."

"Retrieval?"

Hearing these words from Qing Songzi, both the Red Thread Woman and King Qingshan looked surprised, apparently not expecting such a request.

Only Xiao Mu kept silent.

The old man's request didn't seem to be too difficult, and carried a sense of a test.

Was it really just to test the leaders' attitudes?

Xiao Mu couldn't help pondering.

Listening to King Qingshan continue, "After the world mutation, various objects have gained spirituality, including air. Not long ago, our people obtained something called an Air Bead which is a bead formed by the mutant air gaining spirituality and being condensed. Its function is to change the nearby air."

"For example, if you input poison into the bead, all the air within several hundred meters around it will become deadly poison."

All three of them were shocked, including Xiao Mu.

This bead was too peculiar, it's killing invisibly and on a large scale.

But why would Qingsongzi suddenly mention this Air Bead?

Qing Songzi looked slightly sad, "Unfortunately, due to our negligence, the bead was stolen by an Evil Ghost not long ago."

"After our extensive investigation, we found that the Evil Ghost was killed by Zombies and the bead was taken away by them. Currently, the bead is in one of the Zombie's camp."

"So, I want to ask the three of you to help retrieve this bead from the Zombie's camp."

"Just a bead, even if it can poison the air, it doesn't seem that important?"

King Qingshan said disapprovingly.

Looking at King Qingshan, Qing Songzi calmly replied, "King Qingshan, you may not know that humans might soon have to start a war with Evil Variants."

"You're afraid the bead will be used on the battlefield?"

The complexion of Red Heroine changed.

Qing Songzi nodded solemnly.

Xiao Mu pondered, according to what Qing Songzi said, the Air Bead indeed had a strong strategic significance. If it fell into the hands of the zombies and were brought onto the battlefield, once the high-level zombies put evil energy into the bead, the lower-level mutants would probably not be able to hold on for long before being severely hurt and dead by the evil energy or turned into zombies.

If it really came to that step, human beings would be in chaos, and that would be troublesome.

But listening to Qing Songzi continue saying, "The three of you, we have properly arranged for this mission and have investigated the bead's location and the layout of the nearby zombies. With your strength, the mission should not be difficult."

"I won't talk about defending the country and the home. Complete the mission, and I will give you these three secret manuals."

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