Chapter 143: Thoughts on Submission
Zhou Heng actually has many wishes.
He wants to know why he traveled here, and wants to know what the relationship between this world and the earth is, and how he can go back.
In addition, there is the whereabouts of his parents in this world, whether they are related to his travel, what is in the Western Wilderness Forbidden Land, and so on.
If he can make wishes unconditionally, Zhou Heng will definitely wish to gain the ability to travel freely between this world and the earth. He wants to go back first and tell his parents that he is fine, so that they don’t have to worry, just think of himself as working in "another place".
And he can go home often.
Just thinking about it is very exciting.
But this is not realistic.
First of all, Zhou Heng doesn’t know whether the wish made here will be recorded.
If it will be recorded, even if the wish is not recognized by the wishing pool, it will most likely leave a mark.
This will expose his identity as a traveler and will cause unpredictable consequences.
This cannot be done.
All wishes involving previous lives cannot be made, at least before you have enough strength.
Very dangerous.
So what wish should I make?
Is it a longer life, some special abilities, or completing the incomplete martial arts?
If you want to make these wishes, how should you describe them?
For a moment, Zhou Heng seemed to be in a dilemma, unable to make a decision, and unable to determine what kind of wish to make.
Should I make a wish to break through the current bottleneck and step directly into the seventh rank?
When Zhou Heng thought of this, he was indeed a little tempted.
But then he thought that he could not guarantee whether there would be hidden dangers by making a wish to break through, and he didn't know whether it would affect his future practice.
So, after thinking carefully, he chose to give up this idea and continue thinking.
Seeing that Zhou Heng seemed to be slow to respond and seemed to be in deep thought, the Five Emperors Inner Seat laughed and reminded him: "In fact, I suggest you not to make a big wish at the beginning. It will require a huge amount of good deeds. With your current strength, you can't accumulate enough, and it will only waste this opportunity to make a wish."
"Ah?" Zhou Heng was stunned at first, and then said embarrassedly: "Senior, can you see that I am struggling with some big wishes?"
"Haha." The Five Emperors Inner Seat laughed and said: "Do you know what wish I made when I first came here?"
"What?" Zhou Heng asked curiously, this can be used for reference.
"I made a wish to improve my Taoist qualifications." The Five Emperors Inner Seat sighed: "This is something I gave up some big wishes after some consideration, but the good deeds required are still out of reach for me who was only a sixth-grade martial artist at the time."
Improving Taoist qualifications, isn't that improving spiritual roots?
Zhou Heng thought of the basic attribute of "spiritual roots +1" that he had obtained before, which has now become "spiritual roots +2". It turns out that this can also be achieved by making a wish.
I just don't know how many good deeds are needed.
However, the number of merits that even the sixth-grade martial artist feels out of reach must not be a small number.
"Does the senior have any suggestions?" Zhou Heng asked.
"I suggest you make some small and detailed wishes that you really need now, such as weapons, martial arts, elixirs and other physical objects." The Five Emperors' Inner Seat said this and reminded: "By the way, it is much simpler to wish for physical objects than for virtual things, and the merits required are much less."
"Well, I know, thank you senior." Zhou Heng nodded. After some thought, he decided to start with what he needed at the moment.
A handy sharp-grade knife weapon.
Now his sword and gloves are sharp-grade, only the knife is still an ordinary hundred-tempered weapon. Even if he can improve it with the additional attribute of sharpness +2, it is still a bit of a drag overall.
It's just a good opportunity to get a suitable knife, and you can also see how many merits are needed for sharp-grade weapons, and compare things of similar levels at the same time.
It's just how to describe it?
According to the advice of the Five Emperors' Inner Seat, the more accurate the description of the wish, the clearer the logic, the more in line with the reality, and the smaller and more detailed the matter, the more likely it is to be recognized.
"This seems to be somewhat similar to the requirements of the 'prophecy' obtained earlier. Is there any connection between them?" Zhou Heng's thoughts diverged, and after some thought, he finally decided on the exact description.
"I've thought about it." Zhou Heng said.
"Okay, then I'll go down." The Five Emperors' Inner Seat nodded and walked down the jade platform.
When making a wish, there can only be one person on the jade platform, so that the wish silently recited in the heart can be conveyed to the "wishing pool". If there are two people, the information cannot be transmitted.
"I want a knife-like weapon that is suitable for my body type, contains thunder characteristics, is relatively light, and preferably has a certain acceleration effect."
Zhou Heng silently recited the wish in his heart, and after about three breaths, he got feedback.
This requires 500 good deeds.
At the same time as getting the feedback, a stream of light flashed across the jade platform, and Zhou Heng was directly teleported from the jade platform to the bottom of the steps and stood with the Five Emperors' Inner Seat.
"After making a wish, if there is not enough good deeds stored in the mask, you will be transported down from the jade platform." The Five Emperors smiled and said, "How many good deeds do you need to make a wish?"
It is very rude to ask others what their wishes are, but it is very normal to ask how many good deeds are needed.
This also makes it easier for him to choose suitable tasks for Zhou Heng.
"Five hundred." Zhou Heng answered truthfully and asked, "Is this too much?"
"No more, no less." The Five Emperors' inner seat thought for a while and said: "For the initial excessive tasks, the reward for good deeds is usually between fifty and one hundred. Most of these tasks are pure investigations and do not involve combat.
"If a mission involves combat, the starting point is 100 good deeds, and the level of the lower third level is usually up to 300.
“In addition, good deeds will be rewarded for killing ghosts and evil creatures.
"Fifty good deeds at the ninth level, eighty good deeds at the eighth level, and one hundred good deeds at the seventh level."
"From this point of view, five hundred good deeds really doesn't seem to be a lot." Zhou Heng smiled and said: "It's good. At least it's very motivational, and it's not an unattainable number."
"This is because the wish you made is more pragmatic." The Five Emperors sighed and said with a wry smile: "I made a wish to improve my Taoist qualifications, but it turned out that I needed thirty thousand good deeds.
"And after setting foot on the third level, if you kill the third level ghost again, the reward for good deeds will be reduced to 10% of the original value, which makes it even more difficult."
Thirty thousand... This is too exaggerated. Even if you keep killing seventh-grade ghosts, you will still have to kill three thousand. Ghosts are good at hiding, so how can they be so easy to find?
"Has senior's wish come true now?" Zhou Heng asked curiously.
"Although the process was difficult, it was finally achieved." The Five Emperors' inner seat smiled and said: "Okay, let's go. Next, you can pay attention to the message in the mask, and there will be missions assigned.
"The initial three tasks are distributed by the inviter. After you become a formal member, you will have to choose among the columns that distribute tasks."
"Can this mask still receive information?" Zhou Heng asked in surprise: "Is there no distance limit?"
"No." The inner seat of the Five Emperors said with a smile: "The mask is essentially a part of the Zhoutian Star Chart, and the information is also distributed through the Zhoutian Star Chart, a peerless weapon.
"Its nature is extremely high, enough to cover a vast space. However, there are restrictions, but they are not distance restrictions, but area restrictions. Information can only be received within Daqi, but not outside Daqi."
Love is a local area network... Zhou Heng complained silently in his heart.
However, such a large-scale "local area network" is very powerful. The territory of the thirty-three states of Daqi is extremely vast. It is really powerful to be able to completely ignore such distances and transmit messages.
"Can the members of the organization communicate with each other?" Zhou Heng asked curiously. As a good young man living in the Internet era on earth, he naturally thought of real-time communication.
"You mean that the members of the organization transmit information across distances through masks?" The Five Emperors understood what Zhou Heng meant and smiled: "Your idea is very good, but unfortunately, we can't do it yet."
Later, the Five Emperors' inner seat explained to Zhou Heng in detail why it couldn't be done.
In fact, this idea was proposed shortly after the Zhou Tian Xunjie Division was established, but when it was tried, it was found that it could not be realized at all.
This is because the Zhoutian Xunjie Division can only send information to the mask through the Zhoutian Star Chart, but the mask cannot transmit information in the reverse direction. Such information transmission is one-way, and it can only send mission information to the mask.
Moreover, even if the masks can transmit information in the reverse direction, if you want to communicate between two or more masks, you still need to establish a transfer station in the Zhoutian Star Chart.
But that requires extremely high control over the Zhoutian Star Map. No one in the Zhoutian Xunjie Division can do it so far, not even the second-grade Dao Lord.
It is said that the two leaders speculated that this seemed to be related to more than just the realm of cultivation.
"So that's it." Zhou Heng was a little disappointed. Originally, he thought he could relive the feeling of using chat software in this world, but now it seems that he can't.
However, from what the Five Emperors said just now, he learned another important information. The Zhoutian Star Chart can cover a vast space and ignore distance. Can the Ziwei Palace do the same?
Thinking of this, Zhou Heng's eyes lit up and he asked: "Senior, since the Zhoutian Star Chart can transmit messages regardless of distance, does the Ziwei Palace also have the same characteristics? We can enter the Ziwei Palace anytime and anywhere?"
He still remembered that the inner seat of the Five Emperors had come out of thin air before, and had brought him directly from the outside into the strange void where Ziwei Palace was located.
"How can such a good thing happen?" The Five Emperors' inner seat smiled and said: "However, you are actually right. Theoretically, we can indeed enter Ziwei Palace anywhere in the world.
“But we don’t have enough control over Ziwei Palace, and we still can’t completely come and go freely. We can only establish entrances and exits in some specific places to facilitate entry and exit.
"However, if your cultivation level reaches the fifth level, the true energy is transformed into magic power, and is intertwined with legal principles and condensed into a legal form, you can use some special talismans and seal spirit guides to directly descend to the location of the spirit guide in Ziwei Palace.
"Well, later I will send you the entrances and exits of Ziwei Palace near the capitals of each state and county, as well as the corresponding sealing formulas, together with the assigned mission information."
At this point, Zhou Heng's initial process of joining Zhou Tian Xunjie Division has almost been completed. After he completes three tasks, he can become a formal member.
The Five Emperors sent Zhou Heng and his bay-red horse back to the original road, and then left again.
He wanted to go back and choose a suitable task for Zhou Heng.
Afterwards, Zhou Heng set foot on the road to Changxing Sect again, but he saw a lot of hurried horse hoof prints on the road, which seemed to have just run past.
This means that someone is galloping on this road, moving fast.
And judging from the marks of horseshoes, there are more than one horse, at least three, and it seems that they are chasing someone.
But these three horses are close to each other, and there is no sign of people riding horses to escape in front.
Who is he chasing?
Zhou Heng suddenly had a flash of inspiration, frowned, and said to himself with some uncertainty: "This... is not going to chase me."
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