Cultivating immortality relies on spatial abilities; defying fate to become the protagonist.

Chapter 19 The mission begins

As soon as Gu Shihan stepped out of the forest, she was stunned. A transparent panel appeared in front of her with words on it.

Name: Gu Shihan
Age: 14
Spiritual Roots: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth
Qualification: Superior

Constitution: Chaotic Pure Body

Luck: Medium (Green)
Comprehension: Superior (Blue)

Appearance: Superior (Blue)
Realm: Great Perfection of Qi Refining
Health: 65
Fate-Changing Value: 0 (100 Fate-Changing Values ​​can be exchanged for one Fate Attribute)
Fate Attribute: Cannon Fodder +++++
Below is a note that reads: Personal attributes are divided into gold, purple, red, cyan, blue, green, and white from high to low. The host can only change their fate attributes by completing tasks.

Gu Shihan swallowed hard and asked, "Xingbai, what the hell is this?"

"Hanhan, I don't understand either! What the hell is this? Do you know what 'cannon fodder' means?" Xingbai asked weakly, this being her biggest concern.

“Xingbai, cannon fodder means being used, sacrificed, eliminated, and ignored, which means I will die,” Gu Shihan said helplessly.

"What? No way, Hanhan! You can't become cannon fodder! What will happen to me if you become cannon fodder? Are we going to die together? Absolutely not! Didn't they say that completing the mission can change your fate attributes? Do the mission, do the mission now!"

"Xingbai, what mission? I don't see a mission! How do I complete it?"

“That’s true! What can we do without a mission?” Xingbai and Gu Shihan were both stunned.

"Let's take it one step at a time! Maybe we'll find out what mission we're going to have soon." Gu Shihan rolled her eyes and strode towards the nearest city.

Once in the city, Gu Shihan rented a small cave dwelling. She needed to figure out exactly where she was.
And what is that inexplicably appearing transparent panel? And the word "cannon fodder" is like a knife hanging over my head, it's terrifying.

To find out what this place is, she has to go out; staying in the cave is definitely not an option. She exhaled and went out into the market.

Good heavens, she arrived right in the territory of the Gu family in the spirit world. This city, named Yaoyang City, is under the Gu family's name.

However, the Gu family's main residence is not here; this is just one of the most remote cities in the Gu family's territory.

The Gu family is exceptionally powerful in the Spirit Realm, possessing five cities and a vast territory spanning hundreds of miles.

The Gu family has forty-seven Nascent Soul cultivators, over two hundred Core Formation cultivators, and no fewer than five thousand Golden Core cultivators, making them the second largest family in the Spirit Realm.

The Gu family has twelve branches and one direct branch, plus two direct branches, with a total of over 500,000 members.

Each branch has at least two Nascent Soul cultivators, with the main branch having ten Nascent Soul cultivators and the secondary branch having eight.

A thousand years ago, Gu Yanli's branch was the direct branch, but after the incident, it became the secondary direct branch, consisting of two Nascent Soul cultivators.

This branch of the clan has the fewest members, less than ten thousand. The reason for the small number is that there was internal strife a thousand years ago, and some died or disappeared.

For a thousand years, no one knows why, but it seems that the descendants born are cursed. Not a single one has good aptitude, and even if they do, they all die young.

Currently, they are the weakest branch of the Gu family. Even members of other branches dare to come and trample on them. They live in a village less than five miles in circumference in the far west of the clan's territory.

Yaoyang City is the territory of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth branches, which together have over 100,000 members.

Three-quarters of the businesses in Yaoyang City belong to the Gu family, and the entire control is in their hands.

Suddenly, a thin woman collapsed at Gu Shihan's feet and quickly lost consciousness. A "ding-dong!" sound rang out, and a few lines of text appeared on the transparent panel.

A mechanical voice simultaneously echoed in Gu Shihan's mind: "Task 1: Accept the woman's soul and merge with it. Fate-altering value +2. Failure to complete the task will result in a fate-altering value of -3. Failure to complete the task within 15 minutes will be considered a failure."

"Holy crap! They can be this rough?!" Gu Shihan had no choice but to step forward and help the girl up, and many cultivators gathered around her as well.

Gu Shihan helped the woman up with one hand and pretended to check her pulse with the other, actually letting the woman's soul automatically enter her body.

"Does any fellow cultivator know who this person is? It seems to have stopped breathing," Gu Shihan asked.

“Fellow Daoist, this woman is Gu Shih-han, the foolish daughter of the Gu family. You must be from out of town. Poor thing! Fellow Daoist, no one will collect her body. You should do a good deed and burn her body, then bury her ashes somewhere.” An uncle who was setting up a stall shook his head and said.

"The Gu family? Gu Shih-han?! Can't such a large family like the Gu family tolerate a foolish girl?" Gu Shih-han blurted out.

"Fellow Daoist, be careful with your words, lest you bring disaster upon yourself!" someone warned.

Gu Shihan was startled. There were too many intricacies in a large family, and it was not for someone like her, who was not yet a novice, to question.

"Ahem, I spoke too quickly. Thanks for pointing it out! Since you're so pitiful, I'll be a good person this time."

Gu Shihan unleashed a fireball that burned the woman's corpse. As the fireball exploded, a white, transparent shadow burrowed into her forehead.

"Ding-dong! Mission halfway complete, host, speed up the completion!" A mechanical voice rang in my mind.

Gu Shihan quickly collected the small handful of ashes on the ground into a porcelain box, and without continuing to shop, went straight back to the cave she rented.

It's so fantastical. She was quite resistant to the soul that entered her body, but the mission required it, and she didn't want to be cannon fodder, so she had to compromise. Who doesn't want to live longer?

Gu Shihan assumed a meditative posture, looked inward into her sea of ​​consciousness, and sure enough, saw a faint figure merging with her soul.

Gu Shihan processed some scattered fragments of memory.

What a coincidence that this woman shares the same name as me, Gu Shihan, just one character different. It's just too damn melodramatic.

Gu Shihan was born into the Gu family and was a direct descendant of the second branch of the family. To put it bluntly, he should be a disciple of Gu Yanli's lineage. He was found to have an excellent ice spirit root at the age of five.

Unexpectedly, at the age of ten, he was injured in an accident, which damaged his soul. A genius was reduced to a mentally challenged and useless person, and cultivation became impossible for him.

Her ice spirit root became something that the other branches of the Gu family all wanted. Not long ago, it was said that her spirit root was tainted by demonic energy and was completely beyond saving.

The truth is that her spiritual root was dug out. No one knows who did it. The Gu family's public statement was that demonic energy dissolved her spiritual root, and from then on, no one cared about her life or death.

Gu Shihan thought to herself that the people who made the move were probably from the Gu family. She would know once she saw which ice-spirit-root genius appeared in the future.

Gu Shihan sighed. This spirit realm is too cruel. Spirit roots can be dug up? And can dug-up spirit roots be used?
The thought had barely formed when he shuddered. Sure enough, there was a spirit-changing technique in the cultivation world, which used a formation and something called corpse oil. This technique could be performed by those with a Nascent Soul cultivation level or higher.

However, this method is too insidious and is not recognized by the Heavenly Dao. Those who are devoted to the Dao will not do it, because such people will definitely not survive the tribulation of lightning.

(End of this chapter)