"Speaking of this really gets me upset," Li Qianxia said, "they want me to kill Guanyin!"

Li Changzhou didn't feel any less pressured because their goals were the same; instead, he became even more worried.

If he was the only player tasked with killing Guanyin, it would mean either there wasn't a significant difference between an Earth Immortal and a Human Immortal, or there was something wrong with Guanyin.

Now that Li Qianxia also had Guanyin as her target, it indicated that the task was extremely perilous.

"I was to kill Jigong Monk," Yang Qinglan said.

"This game is truly anti-human," Li Qianxia sighed, "Guanyin and Jigong are both good Bodhisattvas, good Arhats."

"In any random event of the Game of Value, it wipes out more than sixty percent of the life forms on dozens of planets. Do you think It cares whether the two Bodhisattvas and Arhats on Earth are good or bad?" Li Changzhou asked her.

"I understand, and I won't hold back," Li Qianxia said, "but I just hope that good people receive good karma."

Despite wanting to be tough, her heart was kind and gentle, so Li Changzhou flicked her forehead.

"And you?" Yang Qinglan asked him.

"Unmoving Arhat, Demon Suppression Arhat, Guanyin."

"...I feel the gap between us siblings now, two Arhats." Li Qianxia managed to find humor in their grim situation.

"Let's join forces and tackle them one by one," Yang Qinglan said, "This was originally a Buddhist Battle, a fight between all of Daoism and Buddhism."

"Yes," Li Qianxia nodded, "those people in the meeting earlier were talking about wanting more Qi. I thought it over, and it's probably about the mining rights for Qi radiance. For that, we either have to travel far to other planets or join the Buddhist Battle and fight to the death."

"I always feel," Li Changzhou pondered, "like we might all be falling for the Game of Value's trap."

"Hmm?" Li Qianxia looked at him.

Yang Qinglan smiled: "Are you trying to say that Nature could mobilize all past powers to let those gods and immortals perish through our hands as players?"

"Right." Li Changzhou smiled, "Just like a mobile game, every paying player acts as a shareholder."

"That analogy doesn't really fit," Li Qianxia complained, "It should be like a romance novel, because it continues chapter by chapter only with the support of subscribed fans, allowing the male and female leads to come together."

"That's more fitting than what your brother said." Yang Qinglan laughed.

"Who's your wife?" Li Changzhou asked her.

"...Yours was more fitting." Yang Qinglan looked as if she saw her husband wielding a broom pretending it was a sword, her face filled with helplessness, yet she had to comply and say 'cool, cool, cool.'

Li Qianxia pouted.

A satisfied Li Changzhou said, "Enough small talk, next we'll head for the Turquoise Pool, find her, and then go together to the Lingyin Temple."

"Is Jigong our first target?" Li Qianxia asked, "Bro, you have three task targets; I think we should help you first?"

"Do you know where the Unmoving Arhat and Demon Suppression Arhat are? Let's capture Jigong first, since we know where he is, then think of a way to find the others."

Capturing was harder than killing, but with four of them taking action together, it should be no problem—if they had to kill, Yang Qinglan would have to return to the train.

Suddenly, Li Qianxia looked up. She opened the cave's array, and a Green Bird flew in.

The Green Bird circled inside the cave, hovering over their heads, emitting a luminescence: "I am at the Liuhe Tower beside Lin'an West Lake."

By the time the sentence was finished, the entire Green Bird had transformed into a luminescence, vanishing without a trace.

"Then I'm actually not far from Sister Yao." Li Qianxia said.

"This Lin'an really is the next capital of the Song Dynasty, everyone is heading here," Li Changzhou said.

"Let's go." Yang Qinglan stood up.

"Wait!" Li Qianxia took everything she could from inside the cave, though not necessarily for exchange, it might come in handy during the mission.

The three rode clouds toward West Lake.

Yang Qinglan was embracing the Fairy's Ruyi, while Li Changzhou's Emerald Bee Sword transformed into various lethal weapons filled with malicious energy.

"West Lake's beauty, March sky, the spring rain like wine, willows like smoke... I wonder if I can meet Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing at the broken bridge." Li Qianxia hummed a song in anticipation.

Li Changzhou glanced at her: "Whether we meet them or not, don't do anything unnecessary."

"Can I at least get an autograph?"

As a child with little entertainment, Li Qianxia would sit in front of the big-butt TV five minutes early every day to watch "The Legend of the White Snake".

She learned Bai Suzhen's spell-casting gestures and would wrap herself in a white mosquito net, sometimes twisting on the bed pretending she was a snake.

Unfortunately, things are never the same, and as she grew up, she wanted to be a spicy girl (at least in words), having completely forgotten her younger self who once wore a white mosquito net.

When they reached above West Lake, the three concealed their appearances and withdrew their mana, turning it into divine will.

To the average cultivator, the trio seemed like ordinary tourists enjoying the scenery because, without mana, Yang Qinglan and Li Qianxia couldn't hide their looks, and Li Changzhou simply transformed the Emerald Bee Sword into a small boat.

The small boat, although tiny, was very delicate and clean, complete with various kinds of food.

This was a tool specially meant for enjoyment.

Using a silver coin, they hired a group of kids who were playing to send a message to Turquoise Pool, then Li Changzhou and the two beautiful young women sat inside the cabin, eating crabs, drinking wine, and admiring the scenery of West Lake.

West Lake was indeed teeming with tourists.

Misty mountains, glimmering waves, willows hanging by the shore, resembling a lady in green by the lake washing herself, occasionally someone's kite would fall upon them.

Boats traveled back and forth on the lake, and although Tokyo was about to fall, the boats were incessant with songs and laughter.

"That must be the broken bridge?" Li Qianxia said, looking out of the cabin as she dipped crab roe into vinegar and bit into it.

The male crab was somewhat sticky to the teeth but very delicious.

She sucked on another crab shell cap then, unfulfilled, began eating the meat.

There was also a steamed bass, which Li Changzhou was enjoying, picking at the meat with his chopsticks.

"Aren't you going to sing for us?" asked Yang Qinglan elegantly as she ate the crab leg meat piece by piece, laughing at Li Changzhou, "Sing us a little song."

On the noble's pleasure boats, there were always women singing short tunes.

"Let's sing together," Li Changzhou said, his face full of smiles as he looked at her.

Yang Qinglan smiled, "Alright, let's sing 'Crossing Feelings.'

Li Changzhou put down his chopsticks, started tapping his knees and began to sing heartily, Li Qianxia laughed so hard she leaned on Yang Qinglan, and would have hugged her if she weren't holding the crab.

"Destined... to meet from a thousand miles away," it was Yang Qinglan's turn to sing, she laughed breathlessly.

Li Changzhou sang even more passionately, gesticulating and acting as if he were in a play, amusing them both.

It was hard to finish the song, and the two without mana were already laughing until their stomachs hurt.

"This is so fun," Turquoise Pool said as she stepped in, lifting the curtain.

In her light purple robe, as thin as the wings of a cicada, with a lotus-embroidered tube top resembling white gauze and a long skirt embroidered with auspicious clouds, added to her white hair, she looked like an immortal in purple clothes from the Heavenly Palace.

"Now that you're here, no one is leaving," Li Changzhou said excitedly, "Sit down first and have a couple of drinks, Qian Xia is up after you."

"What do you mean I'm next?" Turquoise Pool laughed as she sat down and poured herself a drink.

Li Changzhou didn't explain but directly said to Li Qianxia, "Qian Xia, Qing Lan and I have sung, now it's your turn."

"What do I sing?" Li Qianxia asked, her mouth covered in crab roe, her hands all sticky with vinegar.

"'Bai Suzhen Below Qingcheng Mountain,' today is all about the Bai Suzhen series, so sing!"

"Wait, what's the first line again?"

"Your expression is like hearing 'Passing through the long tunnel of the county boundary, it's Snow Country', without knowing the book's title is 'Snow Country,'" Yang Qinglan said.

"Silly," her brother was always the first to straddle the line between consoling and mocking his sister.

"Oh oh, I got it!" Li Qianxia put down the crab in her hand, "Bro, accompany me."

Li Changzhou tapped the edge of a wine cup with chopsticks, producing a crisp sound that, although simple, carried a unique charm.

"Mm-hmm," Li Qianxia cleared her throat, "At the foot of Qingcheng, Bai Suzhen, in the cave for a thousand years she cultivated, relentlessly practicing to attain Tao, reincarnated to become human...uh, that one."

"Forgot the words?" Turquoise Pool chuckled.

Li Qianxia struck a concluding pose: "Transport me, Suzhen, out of the mundane world, hey yeah hey hey hey yo, hey hey yo, transport me, Suzhen..."

"May I ask who the esteemed ones are?" a voice from outside interrupted the singing.

The four exchanged glances, and Li Changzhou lifted the curtain to see two figures, one white and one green, standing on a thatched boat.

"Bai Suzhen! Xiaoqing!" Li Qianxia exclaimed.

The green figure flashed, a sword gleaming like lightning, thrusting towards Li Qianxia's brow.

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