Sacrificial Artifact System: From Bell-ringer to the Ancestral Patriarch of the Sect novel Chapter 129

Chapter 129: Chapter 114: Chance Encounter with an Acquaintance (3.8K for monthly ticket)

Task Hall.

In the past few years, due to the war, the Task Hall had been closed until a little over a year ago when it resumed normal operations.

Since the reopening, it has been using the system of assigning tasks.

Only a few months ago did the Task Hall reinstitute the biannual tasks for Inner Sect Disciples.

Li Qian hadn’t taken any tasks for several years.

Now the deadline was approaching, and as an Inner Sect Disciple, he could only do it this time.

If one were an elder like Pang Bai, they wouldn’t need to undertake Inner Sect tasks.

But.... Elders were dreadfully bored during idle times, and when encountering major perilous events, they had to rush to the forefront.

Therefore, he would never consider becoming an elder.

Though the biannual Inner Sect tasks were a bit troublesome, they allowed for more freedom.

With his current strength, it was unlikely he would face a difficult task.

After receiving the task, Li Qian picked up the task booklet, which listed a clearing mission that presented a challenge to Innate Martial Artists, typically only conquerable by those at the Grandmaster Level.

His strength, as recorded by the Divine Sword Sect, was already at the Junior Grandmaster level.

After discussing his strength with his master, his master immediately reported his cultivation progress to the Sect Leader... it was to prepare for the future when Li Qian had accumulated enough merit, he could be directly promoted to elder.

In recent years, due to the war, the Divine Sword Sect’s territory had fallen into chaos, and with the Divine Sword Sect unable to attend to it, numerous martial arts factions emerged from the turmoil.

It’s only been in this past year that the Divine Sword Sect had the manpower to start cleaning up the various messes.

The clearing mission Li Qian was undertaking involved dealing with a martial arts faction called the Black Spear Association, which had drifted from other areas; originally, it was a martial force under the territory of the Purple Cloud Sect.

Since the He Family began to claim the land as sovereign, in order to establish authority, they began addressing the factions on their territory, employing incredibly ruthless methods, essentially making it prosper with compliance or perish with resistance.

This Black Spear Association, having connections to the Purple Cloud Sect, was specially targeted, leaving only a remnant of martial artists who escaped into the Divine Sword Sect’s territory.

According to intelligence gathered by the Divine Sword Sect, the Black Spear Association was a very powerful force when it was under Purple Cloud Sect’s territory; reportedly, the founder, Nie Shiyin, was a Grandmaster... although Nie Shiyin died during He Family’s authoritative purge.

Nie Shiyin’s son, Nie Yun, took a group of subordinates and fled, entered the Divine Sword Sect’s territory, and renamed the Black Spear Association to the Black Knight Gang, not being very covert, frequently clashing with local forces, and was extremely ruthless.

The local factions associated with the Divine Sword Sect couldn’t tolerate the tyranny of the Black Knight Gang, but lacking sufficient strength to confront them, were forced to seek help from the Divine Sword Sect.

Nie Yun wasn’t a Grandmaster, but he was an Innate Martial Artist of the Late-stage True Qi Realm, possessing formidable strength.

For Li Qian, such a mission was naturally simple.

After accepting the task, he directly left the Divine Sword Sect and headed to Sword State’s Chuyun County.

This Chuyun County borders Xuan State and was severely affected in the previous war; even now, the area is still somewhat chaotic and far from recovered.

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Chuyun County town.