Ch. 44 - The Strange White Jade Token

At the top of the upper court stood three magnificent halls, the highest of which was several tens of feet high, and the hall's tall door opened, but looking inside, only endless darkness could only be seen.

"The Hall of the Eclipsed Moon Peak."

Ji Yuenian walked under the palace door, looking up at the plaque on the palace door, he had some hesitation.

The darkness in this hall reeked an extremely dangerous aura, and he had a hunch that if he hastily entered the Eclipsed Moon Hall, he would most likely suffer a fatal attack!

Hiss!

A piercing scream came from the hall, and the darkness parted a little along with a strange force coming out of thin air behind Ji Yuenian, which pushed him straight into the Eclipsed Moon Hall!

Amid the light and shadow, Ji Yuenian cracked his eyes slightly, and what came into his sight was a floating platform as smooth as a mirror. The platform was about a hundred feet in circumference, surrounded by a sea of billowing clouds.

Amid the white clouds and mist, over thirty pitch-black chains with a thickness of half a foot spread through, eventually converging in the middle of the platform, locking a ferocious ghost several meters tall in place.

What was even more frightening was that this form was not the phantom of this ghost, but its real body.

If it were to take on a ghostly form, it would be comparable to at least a slightly smaller mountain!

"You've been dragging your feet for a long time. What are you staring at in front of the temple?"

The ghost had six heads of different shapes, and the scarlet head on the far left trembled slightly, with a very lazy tone.

The other five heads had their eyes closed tightly, as if they were dead and unresponsive.

After being stunned for a moment, he came back to his senses and tentatively opened his mouth, "Lord Peak Master?"

The scarlet head shook his head and said. "The Lord of the Eclipsed Moon Peak is so high and mighty that he won’t come to the Eclipsed Moon Peak even once in a few hundred years, and the Eclipsed Moon Peak does not have a vice lord, so I have been exercising the responsibilities of the peak lord all these years."

Ji Yuenian took out the Outer Sect token from inside the White Jade Ring, and after a brief hesitation, he placed it on the side of the enormous ghost body and said. "I want to go to the peak main hall and take part in the entrance examination shortly thereafter."

The ghost’s dozens of paws wobble slightly and one of which grabbed the token from a distance, and a dark light entered it, a moment later it returned the token to him: "Well, you can directly take part in the entrance examination with an exarchal token, and if you can pass, the Eclipsed Moon Peak will give you the official mountain peak White Jade Token."

Ji Yuenian said, "Thank you, but how can I get out of this hall?"

The platform was surrounded by a sea of white clouds, it was obviously in another dimension, with his current cultivation level he couldn’t leave it alone.

Hearing his question, a wicked smile appeared on the scarlet head and said mischievously. "Unless I do it myself, you will never get out of the Eclipsed Moon Hall."

Ji Yuenian had long been accustomed to the eccentricities in this Eclipsed Moon Peak, so at this time he wasn't too surprised, just raised his head and asked. "Then how can you send me away from here?"

The scarlet head saw that Ji Yuenian looked calm and did not have any slightest fear on his face, so feeling a little bored, it stretched out a ghostly claw and pointed to the chain underneath him and said. "Take out a spirit stone and decompose it on the chain, it can melt a little."

"Is it true that all disciple have to pay a price of one spirit stone to enter the Eclipsed Moon Hall once?”

The ghost nodded and said: "There is no vitality of heaven and earth in this space. The Lord of Eclipsed Moon Peak used a specially refined virtual spirit lock chain to imprison me here. Only the heaven and earth vitality generated by the decomposition of the spirit stone can slowly dispel the chain. "

Looking again at the dozens of densely packed thick chains, Ji Yuenian said in a tone of surprise: "So many chains, if all of them were to be dissolved using the method of decomposing spirit stone, it would take at least one vein of spirit ore."

With that, he directly took out a spirit stone and walked forward, placed it on top of one chain at random and guided his Xuan Qi to melt it down slowly.

The rich energy of heaven and earth permeated the surroundings, but at the next moment, it was all absorbed by the thick black chains.

When he looked down, the chain became a little thinner, but for a chain half a foot thick, it was just a drop in the bucket.

What's more, there were more than 30 black chains like this, even if one really moved a spirit stone vein, it may not ‌break down all these virtual spirit chains.

"There is one more piece," the ghost's scarlet head shook slightly. "You are a new disciple, and you need to hand over a spirit stone to the peak main hall every month."

"The piece just now, doesn’t that count?"

"No," the ghost's hideous face became more and more ugly, "the piece just now is used to help you hide the assessment information in the external token."

Instead of arguing with it, Ji Yuenian once again took out another stone and disassembled it on the chain just like the way before.

This ghostly creature wasn’t only aiming at him, those upper court disciples were terrified of the Eclipsed Moon Peak as a tiger, which was enough to show that it treated all the Eclipsed Moon Peak disciples the same way.

Looking at those disciples' actions to avoid the main hall, maybe this ghost was very likely to directly ingest the disciples who pass through the palace into the hall, and forcibly demand a spirit stone before sending them out, which is really shameless.

The two spirit stones completely dissipated into powder, the ghost's claws gently swayed, a small storage bag appeared in front of Ji Yuenian, and a blazing white vortex light gate appeared, the size was big enough to accommodate one person.

Ji Yuenian took the storage bag and looked inside. There was a bottle of five Qi Gathering Pills, as well as a jade talisman that recorded some information, all of them were arranged neatly in it.

"Eclipsed Moon Peak is different from the rest of the peaks, and true cultivation technique will only be given after passing the assessment. These medicinal pills and jade talismans are the compensation for the disciples in the peak." The ghost's voice came from above.

Ji Yuenian picked up the jade talisman and probed into it, and after a few breaths, his eyes sank slightly.

After being silent for a while, he took out eleven spirit stones and said, "I'll give you these spirit stones in advance. I won't come back to the peak main hall for a year."

For the first time, the ghost's eyes changed noticeably, and his scarlet head swayed, as he asked in a hoarse voice, "A mere new disciple, how can you be so rich?"

"Why, isn't it okay to hand the spirit stones in advance?" As he asked, he threw the eleven spirit stones to the distance, and a deep blue and dark spirit swept up next to them, decomposing them all on the ghosts' chains.

"Nothing is impossible," the ghost took a deep look at Ji Yuenian, it moved its claws slightly, and once again condensed a storage bag, "You can take this too, if you pass the test, I will directly let someone send you the Eclipse Moon Peak identity jade plate."

Ji Yuenian put away these things, and after saying the thanks once again he turned around and stepped into the Vortex Light Gate.

The information recorded in the jade talisman was extremely severe ; once the disciple was assigned to the Eclipsed Moon Peak, it was impossible to change the peak. After passing the examination, the disciples could be officially recorded into the Eclipsed Moon Peak, but those who did not pass could only be expelled from the Eclipsed Moon Peak or remain in the lower court as normal disciples, with almost no chance of turning over a new leaf.

The only way to enter the Eclipsed Moon Peak was to break into the True Dao Realm, other than going to other peaks as a normal disciple after failing the examination. Most of the disciples in the atrium left through this method and the number of new disciples was getting smaller and smaller, creating a situation where there were only a few hundred people on the entire Eclipsed Moon Peak today.

The other peaks in the Luoxia Mountains had at least hundreds of Outer Sect disciples and thousands of normal disciples. Only the Eclipsed Moon Peak had fewer and fewer disciples, the Outer sect only had a few dozen disciples within the three courts, and even the normal disciples were only a few hundred.

Almost all the normal disciples lived in the lower court of the Eclipsed Moon Peak.

These people didn’t have to pay a monthly spirit stone at all, so Ji Yuenian had never seen any of the normal disciples.

After exiting the Vortex Light Gate, the scene in front of him was somewhat familiar.

After looking around for a while, he realized that he had reached the atrium of the Eclipsed Moon Peak and that just a few feet away was his own courtyard loft.

The courtyards in the atrium were sparse and still as quiet as before.

As he walked into the attic, he activated the token, closed the solid mask that protected the courtyard, and took out the jade talisman and two storage bags on the table in the quiet hall.

One of the storage bags contained five Qi Gathering Pills, and the jade talisman contained some detailed information about the Eclipsed Moon Peak, which was after entering the peak, one couldn’t change the peak at will, which he already knew from the jade talisman.

Taking another storage bag, he took out a small white jade talisman in it, with six small characters "Eclipse Moon Peak's main hall" engraved on it.

What is the purpose of the ghost giving this talisman to himself? Ji Yuenian recalled the ghost's gaze. At that time, it seemed to have thrown out the last storage bag ‌casually, but this token ... he suddenly remembered the time when Li Zhao and Xu Yan had deceived him with the white jade token.

The white jade token was engraved with the word "Eclipse Moon", which should have been an ordinary identity token for the Outer Court disciples of the Eclipsed Moon Peak, but at that time it was bullshitted by Li Zhao as the token of the Peak Master Hall, which showed that such a token does exist in the Peak Master Hall.

The "Eclipsed Moon Peak Master Hall" token in his hand was most likely the token of the Peak Master Hall that Li Zhaoge was talking about, and after seeing that he seemed to be quite wealthy, the ghostly creature threw out this token directly, seemingly with some unknown intention.

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