Chapter 54: Yuqing Universal Rain Creation Art

Ye Rong had no intention of giving up the Golden Daily Quest. He was determined in his heart and was set on completing this task.

Fortunately, daily quests did not have to be finished on the same day. The only rule was that you could not take a new daily quest if you still had an unfinished one.

Ye Rong’s current strength was still a bit lacking for Snow Ridge, which was why he was struggling so much.

The fifth-tier Body Refining Pill was priced at one hundred taels of silver each, with a discounted price of fifty taels for Formal Disciples.

Ye Rong checked his Universe Pouch and found only seventeen copper coins left.

“Could it be that I really have to die once?”

Enduring three days of downtime was an unbearable loss for Ye Rong. His advantage might be caught up by others in those few days.

Ye Rong furrowed his brows. Choosing to die and respawn was definitely a last resort, to be considered only when there were no other options. If there was any other way to solve the problem, he would not take that path.

After thinking for a while, he headed toward the Five Peaks Residence. With no money and unwilling to die, it seemed his only option was to ask that Eldest Senior Brother for help.

He hoped that his status as a direct disciple of Demon-Subduing True Lord Jiang Shu would be of some use. After all, he only needed healing, not a full intervention. Such indirect help should not be refused, right?

Ye Rong felt uneasy. The System gave every named high-level NPC unique personalities and ways of handling things. So, under the same conditions, different NPCs could give completely different responses. Ye Rong did not dare claim he fully understood Senior Brother Chen Taizhen’s nature.

The bond between fellow disciples—he could only hope that bond carried some weight in Chen Taizhen’s heart!

Arriving at the Five Peaks Residence, he knocked and entered. Ye Rong saw Senior Brother Chen Taizhen sitting upright on a smooth, jade-like black stone cushion. A small, three-inch-long Flying Sword danced like a spirit in his palm, moving on its own.

Mysterious runes flowed from his hands into the three-inch tasseled dragon-patterned Flying Sword. With each rune absorbed, the patterns on the sword became clearer and more lively, and the sword’s color deepened.

This was a Sword Embryo that had not yet been fully refined, but the sword intent it emitted already far surpassed that of Ye Rong’s Taixuan Ice Soul Sword.

After waiting patiently for a long time, until nearly a hundred beast-shaped runes of dragons, tigers, lions, and leopads around the tasseled dragon-patterned Sword Embryo were fully absorbed, Chen Taizhen finally opened his mouth and swallowed the Sword Embryo, then stood up.

“Junior Brother, what brings you here today… Oh, you’re injured?”

With just a glance, Chen Taizhen noticed something was off with Ye Rong. He reached out and grasped Ye Rong’s wrist.

Since Senior Brother Chen Taizhen had already noticed, Ye Rong honestly recounted what had happened.

“That was too reckless. With your current strength, entering Snow Ridge is still too dangerous.”

“Senior Brother Chen Taizhen, could you heal my injuries?”

Ye Rong looked at Chen Taizhen expectantly, hoping to hear a positive answer.

“Hmm… you need Sect Contribution points to ask for my help. That’s the Sect’s rule. It costs 500 points to hire me.”

“Seriously? Clearly marked prices, no deception!”

Ye Rong muttered to himself. Chen Taizhen had clearly hesitated for a moment; this was obviously a System-set response.

So Sect Contribution could be used like this—to ask Sect NPCs for help. He wondered how much Sect Contribution would be needed to ask his master, Demon-Subduing True Lord Jiang Shu, or someone of Short Elder Zhu Mei’s level to take action.

No matter how high the requirement, it would be worth it at critical moments. No one would be stingy then. Both Qingcheng Sect Leaders were around level 200, towering figures. During important events like Faction missions or large Immortal Manor explorations, having such a figure present would almost guarantee an unbeatable position.

“But since you, little junior brother, only ask me to heal you, and it’s your first time making such a request, I’ll only ask for 10 Sect Contribution points.”

Just when Ye Rong thought this path was closed and he had lost hope, Chen Taizhen suddenly changed his tone, giving him a huge surprise.

“Yes, yes! I have 10 Sect Contribution points.”

Ye Rong nodded eagerly. Luckily, out of curiosity, he had accepted a daily quest that rewarded Sect Contribution, and he happened to have exactly 10 points.

“Yuqing Universal Rain Creation Art, begin!”

Chen Taizhen formed a hand seal like a flower. A fountain-like mist of rain droplets sprayed from his fingertips and fell onto Ye Rong.

System Notification: You have been healed by the Yuqing Universal Rain Creation Art. All internal injuries have been cured. Qi and Blood recovery speed increased by 100% for one hour.

The injuries that had troubled Ye Rong so much were effortlessly resolved by Chen Taizhen, without the slightest effort, and he even gained a beneficial status effect.

This Yuqing Universal Rain Creation Art was clearly a high-level Qingcheng spell. He wondered what level one needed to be to learn it.

After sincerely thanking Chen Taizhen, as expected, Ye Rong had to endure a long lecture. He felt drowsy but gritted his teeth and endured it.

…

Ye Rong turned his hand, and a familiar key appeared in his palm. It had faint, ancient patterns, full of mysterious and profound meaning.

Immortal Mansion Key, Bronze Tier. After use, teleports the user to an Immortal’s Cave Abode. Limited to one use per day.

It was exactly the same as the Immortal Mansion Key he had obtained before, only the exterior color and material had changed—from fine-grained white wood to ancient bronze.

“Immortal Mansion Key…”

Ye Rong tightly gripped the Immortal Mansion Key that had dropped from the dead mountain ogre. Thinking of the rewards he had gotten from the Langhuan Jade Cave last time, Ye Rong grew restless. If a White Wood Tier Immortal Mansion Key had such rewards, then a Bronze Tier one should offer several times more.

He wouldn’t even be surprised if a fifth-tier Flying Sword or Magic Treasure appeared among the rewards.

Having played Far Shore for a while now, Ye Rong was no longer a complete newbie. Through conversations with others and posts on the Forum, he had discovered that the drop rate for Immortal Mansion Keys was much lower than he had initially thought. How lucky he was to get one from killing a fire fox!

At least, the Immortal Mansion Keys exposed on the Forum were all only White Wood Tier. Ye Rong had never seen a Bronze Tier one.

Of course, this didn’t mean Bronze Tier Immortal Mansion Keys had never appeared. Maybe the owner failed the Immortal’s Cave Abode challenge, or that person was very low-key, etc. But it at least indicated that Bronze Tier Immortal Mansion Keys were extremely rare in the game.

Ye Rong had only killed one mountain ogre and obtained an Immortal Mansion Key. On one hand, this was due to his own high luck attribute; more importantly, it was probably because this was the first monster killed by a Player on Snow Ridge.

The first kill always had a higher drop rate. Ye Rong just happened to benefit from that.