"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for completing the side quest: Popularizing the Cultural Characteristics of the Northern Palace Underworld!"
"Mainly popularized the characteristics of the Northern Palace: paper crafting, musical instruments, campus, drama club, underworld concert, simulated apartment..."
"Reward obtained: 10000 points, 1000 points of Heart of Faith! One special product from the Northern Palace!"
...
As soon as Jiang Lin sat down, the system's prompt sound rang out.
It was about the settlement of the Northern Palace mission.
Compared to the Southern and Western Palaces, there was no double reward this time.
In the Northern Palace, most of the time was spent on the campus, and the harvest was proportional to the effort.
Jiang Lin had no regrets about this.
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for returning to the Eastern Palace, settling now...
Congratulations to the host for completing side quest four: Complete at least one special-grade mission!
Current completion count: One.
Reward obtained: +50000 points, Drift Bottle * 1.
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Congratulations to the host for completing side quest five: Learn at least one new skill!
Currently learned new skills from other underworlds: cultivation methods and skills from the Southern Palace, paper crafting and musical instruments from the Northern Palace.
Reward obtained: +40000 points, Portable Cultivation Room Reinforcer * 1.
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Congratulations to the host for completing side quest six: Maintain your original heart!
Reward obtained: Glazed Heart * 1."
"Settlement complete, please continue to work hard!"
...
Jiang Lin sat quietly at his desk, and only moved after the system prompt sound ended.
He opened the storage bag, and all the rewards from the system were placed in a corner.
Jiang Lin activated a ghost energy shield around himself to isolate the outside. Da Feng Novel Network.
He laid out all the rewards obtained from this trip.
He had been too busy during this time and hadn't had time to study many things carefully or utilize their functions.
The first item he took out was the special product from the Southern Palace:
—A piece of dark green, thin shell.
It was currently known to help in calming the mind during cultivation.
There was also a phantom image of a four-legged beast on it.
"!!!"
Upon seeing this shell appear, the Seven-Colored Egg immediately became vigilant.
But soon, it discovered that its master was taking out fresh and strange things one after another.
It actually couldn't understand them.
The second item Jiang Lin took out was the special product from the Western Palace:
A brown branch, and a 'robot' composed of two antennas + four iron balls.
When taken out, the robot was still in its previous state—spinning.
It was like a tireless spinning top.
Jiang Lin had not yet figured out these two items.
He also didn't know why a branch would become a special product of the Western Palace.
The system provided no explanation.
Jiang Lin waved his hand and asked the Seven-Colored Egg to take the branch to the courtyard to plant it first.
'Okay, Master!'
The Seven-Colored Egg immediately flew to the courtyard with the brown branch.
He wondered if this branch would bear fruit when it grew up in the future?
...
When the Seven-Colored Egg finished dealing with the branch and came back after watering it.
There were several more items in front of the master.
The Drift Bottle obtained after completing the special-grade mission:
A palm-sized transparent bottle, containing a rolled-up small piece of paper.
Jiang Lin had heard of this thing when he was in the human world.
Its function seemed to be that people who didn't know each other would write down information, put it in the bottle, and then let the bottle drift around.
The person who finally picked it up could see the information inside.
"Is this an underworld version of a drift bottle?"
Was it him leaving messages to drift out?
Or would messages from others drift in?
This could only be discovered through gradual attempts later.
Finally,
There were four black, round, disc-like things.
—Portable Cultivation Room Reinforcer.
This was self-explanatory; it should be placed in the four corners of the cultivation room.
It could prevent the cultivation room from being damaged, saving extra expenses.
"Huh?"
Jiang Lin carefully searched through the storage bag.
But he couldn't find the reward from the system's final issuance regarding 'maintaining one's original heart'.
—That 'Glazed Heart'.
Could it have been directly used on him?
Jiang Lin closed his eyes and observed his internal condition.
Indeed, at the location of his heart, he saw a layer of glazed light.
If he couldn't see it, he wouldn't have known that this thing had appeared inside him.
It was imperceptible, as if it were nothing.
He drew out a wisp of ghost energy to test it, but found nothing unusual.
Just as Jiang Lin was pondering, a 'dong' sound suddenly echoed in the hall.
Following the sound, he saw that the robot that had been spinning had fallen to the ground.
Beside it was the Seven-Colored Egg, pretending to be innocent (*❦w❦).
After falling to the ground, the robot stopped spinning.
The two antennas on its head moved, as if trying to fly like the Seven-Colored Egg.
After two attempts, it failed.
Jiang Lin found it strange, "Does it have the ability to imitate and learn?"
Thinking that it was obtained from the Western Palace.
Jiang Lin stopped the Seven-Colored Egg, which was trying to sneak away: "This robot will follow you for now."
He had underworld work to do, and it was inevitable that he couldn't pay attention to this robot.
He could only see if there would be any changes if it stayed with the Seven-Colored Egg.
The Seven-Colored Egg was startled: 'Ah?'
It, it couldn't take care of a robot!
However, since Master said so...
The Seven-Colored Egg wished it could pat its chest to guarantee, 'Master, don't worry, I can do it!'
...
While Jiang Lin was sorting out the rewards issued by the system and the items brought back from other underworlds.
The Ghost Festival in the human world was still ongoing.
Not to mention the Eastern Palace, the other three palaces were also 'celebrating the Ghost Festival'.
In the Southern Palace,
Various dazzling skills could be seen.
Whether it was wings or fiery red robes...
The ghosts acted as ostentatiously as they pleased.
After a year of research, they could finally come out to show off.
Some ghosts with peculiar thoughts even disguised themselves as descendants of divine beasts and entered human dreams, saying they would impart cultivation methods.
The humans in their dreams learned everything and felt invincible.
However, when they woke up, they were dumbfounded at first.
"Qiankun Nuoyi!"
With a shout, there was no movement around.
????
Where was all their ghost energy?
How could they operate without ghost energy?
Underworld.
Zhong Kui had even set goals for the captains.
Each captain's team had to deal with at least four digits of ghosts.
The first-ranked team would receive a reward after the Ghost Festival.
If human viewers knew, they would definitely exclaim, 'Good heavens!'
The human world had dragon boat races, zongzi making competitions, as well as various technology and dance competitions...
And in the underworld, there was a Ghost Festival competition?
However...
With the financial situation of the Southern Palace, what reward could the first place give?
They were quite curious.
...
Western Palace,
The world of ghost artifacts.