klisemfg Chapter 280: Heavenly Pool Lottery
Chapter 280: Heavenly Pool Lottery
Chapter 280: Heavenly Pool Lottery
Brother Gu.
Gu Heng absolutely loved this nickname.
Although it seems perfectly reasonable for Su Jinxi to call herself "Little Brother Gu," she must be quite old.
Is it possible for a cat to become a spirit in less than a thousand years?
The Green and White Snakes are both thousand-year-old snake demons.
I'm only twenty years old, and even with my past life experiences, I'm at most under fifty.
Moreover, what puzzled Gu Heng the most was...
Regardless of whether Su Jinxi is a demon or a female cultivator who has practiced transformation techniques, why did she initially seek out his clinic and tolerate him, a mortal, treating her like a pet? If she were a cultivator, cultivators would theoretically be proud, unless she had a particular penchant for being passive, it's unlikely she would remain unresponsive to his behavior.
If she is a demon...
That would be even more unbelievable.
Although Gu Heng hadn't seen much of the world, the place he lived in wasn't far from the Demon Realm, and he had heard of the ferocity and brutality of the demon race—a place of constant killing, power struggles, and infighting among themselves…
But looking at Su Jinxi...
Well, if she's a demon, then she's far too harmless.
In any case, Gu Heng had no intention of getting to the bottom of it. It was simply because she was willing to stay by his side, and he didn't have anything to covet about her. At most, he would just feed her some sugar pills every day.
She can't possibly be willing to be a pet just to get sugar pills, can she?
That's highly unlikely. "Alright, change back first."
"Meow~"
Su Jinxi turned back into a cat and let out a soft, childlike meow.
She leaped onto Gu Heng and nestled against his chest, rubbing her head against his shoulder. Gu Heng reached out and stroked her fluffy head, then picked her up and strolled around the courtyard.
"Ding!"
The system panel pops up.
"Congratulations, host, on completing the side quest 'The Sword Master's Regret'. Reward: One chance to draw from the Heavenly Pool!"
at last.
Gu Heng stared blankly at the task completion panel, his face expressionless.
This system seems to be lagging. I managed to reunite Jiang Lingyun and Jian Xuan half an hour ago, and you're only now showing a task completion screen? This delay…
Isn't it a bit too big?
Or was it only just now that the "Sword Master's Regret" quest was considered complete?
To be honest, "re-recognizing each other" is not the same as "meeting again". If they meet but break up because they can't talk and are too resentful, does that mean the mission is not completed?
The son who was adopted by a tycoon met his biological father who was a garbage collector. If he didn't acknowledge the father-son relationship in the end, wouldn't that be the same as "not recognizing each other"?
Thinking about it that way, it seems possible.
I guessed that Sect Leader Jiang hadn't accepted this fact yet, but he should have now.
That's why the task shows as completed.
Gu Heng didn't care much. The result was good, so why bother? It was mainly the reward that was a bit off-putting.
Extracted from Tianchi.
The Heavenly Pool in the system shop has everything, even those extremely abstract "tasks" without any physical objects that you can draw.
Ironically, even the side quest "The Sword Master's Regret" was obtained through a gacha pull.
Apart from that, everything that can be extracted is useless junk.
Last night's extraction yielded a large peach, a packet of fluorescent powder, and a piece of wood. Apart from the peach being edible, Gu Heng really didn't know what the other two items were for.
Although the name sounds impressive and mysterious, that's just how the system is.
Judging by the name alone, one might think they've obtained some kind of priceless treasure, but if you think that way, you've already become a victim of the system's "word games." Gu Heng is a prime example of this.
Although Gu Heng can now seriously suspect that the "randomness" of Tianchi is actually completely manipulated by the system!
It's such a coincidence!
The key figure in the task he was assigned last night met with him today, and Gu Heng simply couldn't believe there wasn't something fishy going on.
Since it's all controlled by the system, why can't it just assign tasks to itself directly?
Do I need to build a "Heavenly Pool" for myself to draw from?
Is this some kind of perverse hobby?
"Go play by yourself, I'm going back to my room to rest."
He put Su Jinxi in the courtyard. Su Jinxi wagged her tail and said, "Then Brother Gu, you should rest. I'll go find some fun by myself."
"Ah."
Gu Heng responded and turned to walk into the house. He poured himself a cup of tea and opened the system shop. Sure enough, he saw that the limited number of attempts at Tianchi had changed from 0 to 1.
You can get four "items" in one draw.
I just hope he doesn't take out four tasks.
Give us more useful "material goods," even a hundred million taels of gold would be fine!
With this thought.
Gu Heng used up 10,000 points.
"Gained five uses of the 'Eagle Eyes' skill!"
"New features unlocked for the 'Heaven-Mending Divine Disc'!"
"Gained the 'Musical Melody' buff, usable once!"
"Received one 'Ignite the Red Line' side quest!"
Extraction completed.
Gu Heng silently looked at what he had drawn from the Heavenly Pool and smiled without appearing embarrassed.
Okay, I was just complaining to myself that I wanted more real food, but this time there's no "real food" at all.
Is Dog Bitongzi eavesdropping on his thoughts?