No hope for eternal life

Chapter 362 Southern Liang and Northern Yuan

Therefore, Gan Wencui attacked Mu Changsheng fiercely right from the start, not taking Mu Changsheng, a Jindan realm cultivator, seriously at all.

Mu Changsheng had known Gan Wencui for a long time. He dared to choose Gan Wencui as his opponent, so he was absolutely sure of his success.

Mu Changsheng did not engage Gan Wencui head-on, but instead trapped Gan Wencui with three fourth-grade intermediate-level God-Slaying Formations. Then, during the time when Gan Wencui was trapped, he set up a fourth-grade chain formation outside the God-Slaying Formations.

After Gan Wencui finally broke through three god-killing formations, he had to face the fierce attack of a fourth-grade serial killing formation. If it weren't for his strong body, he would have been reduced to ashes under the killing formation.

Just like this, Mu Changsheng defeated Gan Wencui in a crushing manner, which made the king Kong Hou's eyelids twitch. If he had only admired Mu Changsheng's talent before, he now had a fear of Mu Changsheng.

However, on the surface, Kong Hou still smiled and praised Mu Changsheng: "Well, well, well, my Kong Shi country is blessed by heaven to have you, Mu Changsheng. From today on, you are the Lord of Mianyang City, Gan Wencui, and you will be Mu Changsheng's deputy in the future."

Gan Wencui was very unhappy after his defeat, but when he heard the order from Kong Hou, he was delighted and obeyed the order, saying, "Yes, I will definitely assist City Lord Mu in the future."

Mu Changsheng frowned slightly. He could tell that Kong Hou sent Gan Wencui to be his deputy, clearly intending to use him to monitor him. Although he had completed the fifth level of the test this time, he also aroused Kong Hou's suspicion.

At the same time, the voice of the Dragon Palace Spirit appeared again: "You have passed the fifth test and will receive a reward worth more than three thousand top-grade spirit stones. If you continue to the next test and fail, you will only receive a reward of eight hundred top-grade spirit stones."

"Go on." Mu Changsheng answered from his heart. The more he went on, the more precious the rewards would be. That was what he needed. Otherwise, a reward of just a few thousand top-grade spirit stones would be just a drop in the bucket for him.

After Mu Changsheng chose to continue, the spirit of the Dragon Palace also announced the content of the sixth test: "Achieve the Supreme Yuanying, the time limit is one year."

"Achieve the Supreme Nascent Soul in one year!" Mu Changsheng's heart trembled. According to his understanding, this fantasy world did not seem to have things like Heavenly Fruit and Heavenly Frost Dew, so it would be very troublesome to achieve the Supreme Nascent Soul.

On the other side, after appointing Gan Wencui as Mu Changsheng's deputy, Lord Konghou gave Mu Changsheng another pill and said with a smile: "You are now at the peak of the Golden Core stage. This Extreme Infant Pill can just help you."

"Thank you very much, Your Majesty." Mu Changsheng pretended to be grateful, but he sneered in his heart. If he were an ordinary person, he would have needed an Extreme Infant Pill to break through at this moment. It would be difficult for him to be suspicious of such a good thing that he would have a pillow whenever he fell asleep.

But Mu Changsheng knew that Kong Hou was clearly on guard against him, yet he still helped him break through. He was almost certain that there must be something fishy about this Jiying Pill, and even if he was in a hurry to break through, he would never use it.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng and Gan Wencui left the capital together and went to Mianyang City to report on their work.

However, Mu Changsheng had no plans to go to Mianyang City to report on his work. If he wanted to achieve the Supreme Nascent Soul, it would definitely not be possible in a small Mianyang City.

So, after Mu Changsheng was far away from the capital, he suddenly attacked Gan Wencui and trapped him tightly with the God-Slaying Formation.

Gan Wencui's face changed, and he asked sternly: "Mu Changsheng, what do you mean?"

"What do you mean?" Mu Changsheng sneered and said bluntly: "You now have two choices, either swear the Heart Demon Oath and swear allegiance to me, or die."

Gan Wencui looked extremely ugly. The so-called oath of allegiance was no different from being a slave. It was difficult for anyone to accept.

"If I die, the king will not let you go." Gan Wencui threatened.

"The world is so big, if I kill you, I can go anywhere. You can guess how much the king is willing to pay for you." Mu Changsheng said lightly. He was not afraid that Gan Wencui would not agree, because he had already decided to leave Kongshi Kingdom. Killing Gan Wencui would only break off relations with Kongshi Kingdom. However, his next mission had nothing to do with Kongshi Kingdom, so it didn't matter whether they broke off relations or not.

Gan Wencui felt a chill in his heart when he saw Mu Changsheng's nonchalant expression. He finally succumbed to the fear of death: "Okay, I will swear an oath to be loyal to you."

After Gan Wencui swore the inner demon oath, Mu Changsheng began to interrogate him: "Did the king ask you to monitor me?"

"Yes, the king has ordered me to report your situation every six months." Gan Wencui answered honestly.

Mu Changsheng nodded slightly, as expected. Then, Mu Changsheng told Gan Wencui: "You go back to Mianyang City alone, and you will govern Mianyang County on my behalf. Every time you report to the king, you should say that I am confined to cultivation and do not care about foreign affairs. If the king summons me, or someone looks for me, you should say that I went to travel to other countries to challenge others."

Since Gan Wencui has already obeyed, there is no need for Mu Changsheng to break off relations with the Kongshi Kingdom. Perhaps future missions will be related to the Kongshi Kingdom, so he must retain his identity as the Lord of Mianyang City and maintain his image as a martial arts fanatic.

After explaining everything, Mu Changsheng was about to leave, but then he thought of something and asked Gan Wencui: "Do you have any spirit stones?"

Gan Wencui's face turned bitter. This was what he feared the most, but he could only answer honestly: "There are 500,000 middle-grade spirit stones and 1.9 million low-grade spirit stones."

Mu Changsheng had almost no spirit stones left, so he didn't hesitate to extend his hand and said, "Give me 500,000 middle-grade spirit stones. I'll lend them to you and return them to you later."

Gan Wencui honestly offered 500,000 medium-grade spirit stones, and Mu Changsheng's borrowing word also gave him some hope, hoping that he could really get what he borrowed back.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng and Gan Wencui separated and rushed to the Northern Yuan Kingdom.

Southern Liang and Northern Yuan, one in the south and one in the north, are the two overlords of this fantasy world. The rest of the countries can only be regarded as vassals of these two countries.

Countries like Kongshi and the three surrounding countries were all vassal states of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

As the two overlords, the two countries naturally possess the most abundant resources. If Mu Changsheng wants to become the Supreme Nascent Soul, he must rely on the power of one of the countries.

Mu Changsheng took the ferry and was not idle on the way to the capital of Beiyuan. He used Gan Wencui's 500,000 medium-grade spirit stones to buy a lot of spiritual materials, and refined talismans and formation plates along the way.

After Mu Changsheng arrived at the capital of Beiyuan Kingdom, he sold the talismans and formation plates, and the value of 500,000 middle-grade spirit stones immediately doubled to one million middle-grade spirit stones.

After pocketing a million spirit stones, Mu Changsheng did not continue to earn spirit stones by refining talismans, because even if he had enough spirit stones to buy the Extreme Infant Pill, it could not guarantee that he would achieve the Supreme Nascent Soul.

Therefore, Mu Changsheng’s primary goal was to infiltrate the Northern Yuan Kingdom and then find a way to achieve the Supreme Nascent Soul.

Even though the Northern Yuan Dynasty was the overlord of the world, it still had the Southern Liang Dynasty as its rival, so the Northern Yuan Dynasty attached great importance to recruiting talents and built a Juxian Pavilion specifically for this purpose.

Mu Changsheng's plan is to join the Northern Yuan Kingdom through the Juxian Pavilion.

After entering the Juxian Pavilion, a graceful woman immediately greeted Mu Changsheng: "Your Excellency wants to join our Juxian Pavilion."

"My name is Chen Fan, and I came here because of your reputation." Mu Changsheng clasped his fists and said, using a pseudonym.

"My name is Yang Man." The woman said with a smile: "I am a third-class scholar in the Juxian Pavilion. If you want to join the pavilion, you must pass three tests in the pavilion to be assessed as a scholar."

Upon hearing this, Mu Changsheng inquired, "What are the differences between the levels of these sages?"