Mirror World Administrator

Chapter 102 Rising Star Challenge

After receiving clear instructions from the city lord, Man Jianghong and the other two said goodbye and left.

Only the city lord and the prophet were left in the room.

The prophet turned around and saw a gift box on the table. It was beautifully wrapped and there was a birthday card tied to the ribbon of the gift box.

The prophet was startled, and counted the days in his mind, and suddenly realized: "Oh, yes, today is your girl's birthday."

"Yes." The city lord nodded.

"You haven't given it away yet? Your daughter still won't pay any attention to you?" the prophet asked, not being overly surprised. He had seen this scene four times before. For the past five years, every year on this day, the city lord would carefully prepare a gift, but each time, it would be returned unopened.

The city lord smiled bitterly and shook his head without answering.

For five years, the girl didn't even want to see him, let alone pay any attention to him. She never went to the house prepared for her, and would rather wander around the square like a lonely ghost every day.

The prophet didn't say anything else and patted the city lord on the shoulder.

They have been in Qingyang City for five years, but the two have known each other for ten years and have long been old friends who know each other well.

Five years ago, when Qingyang City was first built, Grandfather Taigong had offered them a better option for building the city, but Xuanjizi insisted on developing Qingyang City, a small, marginal city. Rumors were circulating that Xuanjizi, Grandfather Taigong's former confidant, had been marginalized and that Grandfather Taigong was removing him to allow someone else to take over.

Only he, Xuanjizi's partner who had always followed him, knew that he chose Qingyang City for his daughter.

Xuanjizi's daughter died many years ago, and later, by some coincidence, she was resurrected as a groundbound spirit. She is deeply bound to the earth veins of Qingyang City. As long as Qingyang City is intact, she will be fine. However, if Qingyang City is breached from the outside one day, she will disappear.

Over the years, Xuanjizi has been courteous to the wise and humble, begging for help from others everywhere, and recruiting experts to station in Qingyang City, all in order to make Qingyang City as strong as possible and ensure the safety of his daughter.

"By the way, is there any result for the bounty for the ghost body transformation issued before?" the city lord suddenly asked.

The prophet shook his head: "No, the information we received was all false. Currently, there are only two ways to transform ghost life into physical life."

"Ugh."

Xuanjizi sighed. He certainly knew what the 'two methods' the prophet was referring to.

There are currently only two confirmed ways to transform a ghost body into a real living being: one is the source of life controlled by the Lord of Samsara, and the other is the Book of Life and Death in the Hall of Yama.

But these two paths were impossible for him to take.

Lord Lunhui, that was a member of the Grayscale Organization, and he was said to have an eccentric personality. He claimed to be a root scholar, spending a great deal of time researching various relics from the First Era, and on the surface he seemed quite serious. However, Xuanjizi had heard rumors that he had no sense of humanity or morality, and had been secretly conducting various cruel biological experiments. How could he trust his daughter to such a person?

As for the Book of Life and Death, there is no need to even think about it. It belongs to the Yama Palace, and the Yama Palace is the power of the Eternal Dark Legion, and is in an irreconcilable state with their White Night Alliance.

……

At five forty in the morning, in the Mirror World community.

Yang Xu sat cross-legged on the grass, holding a pebble in each hand.

Magic power surged, and beads of sweat oozed out of Yang Xu's forehead, but his eyes were extremely focused, staring at the two stones.

On one of the stones, white light flickered and moved, and a "Qian" character spell quietly took shape. On the other stone, a "Xun" character was formed. The two characters took shape almost at the same time. Although the fonts were still a little crooked and not beautiful, they could finally be clearly identified.

After the talisman took shape, Yang Xu threw the stone with the word "Qian" not far away, and placed the pebble with the word "Xun" in front of himself.

Then he made a hand gesture and silently chanted a spell.

The mysterious sound echoed, and Yang Xu opened his third eye.

From the perspective of the Heavenly Eye, two little ghosts, one fat and one thin, appeared quietly, appearing next to two stones respectively, and each stretched out their hands to hug the stone in front of them.

"Move!" Yang Xu muttered to himself.

The magic power surged, and the two little ghosts suddenly flashed and appeared in each other's positions, and even the stones in their hands were instantly swapped.

"Success!" Yang Xu breathed a sigh of relief.

He had practiced the Five Ghosts Moving Technique in the world for seven full days before. After waking up, he continued training until dawn. After nearly seven and a half days of practice, he finally completed the moving for the first time.

Yang Xu picked up the stones and took a look. After casting the spell, the talismans on the two stones disappeared automatically.

This is normal. The energy of each talisman can only sustain one transfer, and will disappear regardless of success or failure.

Opened the panel.

Sure enough, a new skill called 'Five Ghosts Moving Technique' appeared in the skill bar of Yang Jian's skin, but it was gray and could not be selected.

He has actually learned this spell, but he is not proficient enough yet. Now he can only summon two little ghosts at most, and he cannot move anything too heavy. It is difficult to use it in actual combat for the time being.

But it doesn't matter. This is the advantage of self-learning spells. You can continuously improve the power and effect through your own practice, unlike skin skills, which are forcibly bound to the compatibility and the upper limit is locked from the beginning.

It was almost six o'clock in the morning. Yang Xu returned home and returned to the real world through the mirror.

Today was Monday again. After washing up and having breakfast, Yang Xu dutifully headed to school. As usual, Yang Xu used the two elective classes in the morning to catch up on sleep.

Yang Xu dozed off half asleep until ten o'clock, when he was awakened by a reminder sound.

When I opened it, it was the news about Bloody Darkness.

[Duanying: Have you read the forum?]

【Miki: I haven’t seen it yet, what’s wrong?】

【Broken Shadow: Look, something big is happening.】

"Oh?"

Yang Xu hurriedly opened the forum.

The forum homepage still shows the familiar scene, with a series of diverse posts that are dazzling.

Yang Xu took a quick look and quickly discovered the difference.

The Heart Guild's bounty post is gone!
The bounty offered by the Red Heart Guild has been the most popular post in the past two days. Due to the constant controversy it has caused, it has always been at the top of the list and it is difficult not to see it.

"Did the Red Heart Guild withdraw the bounty?" Yang Xu asked Bloody Dark.

"Yes, they were withdrawn last night. And when I went to the safe zone last night, I saw that all the stalkers arranged by the Red Heart Guild in the square had been withdrawn as well. Not a single one was left." Duan Ying replied.

"What's going on? Have the people from the Red Heart Guild given up and are not planning to investigate anymore?" Yang Xu was surprised.

"I don't know yet, but I saw some discussions on the post, and it seems that the city lord has stepped in to mediate." Duanying said, sending a post link to Yang Xu.

Yang Xu opened it and saw that it was an anonymous post from an administrator who claimed to be an insider. It said that the president of Tianji Pavilion, Man Jianghong, led people into the Red Heart Guild’s headquarters last night. It was unknown what they talked about. Anyway, after they left, the Red Heart Guild immediately stopped its activities. Not only did they withdraw the reward, they even ordered everyone in the guild not to mention the matter again.

"Tianji Pavilion?"

Yang Xu was a little surprised. Tianji Pavilion was the city lord's direct force, and he didn't know why the city lord suddenly came out to interfere in this matter, but this was always a good thing for them.

"The important thing I'm telling you about is not this. Look at the top of the page." Duanying said.

Yang Xu returned to the forum, and there was indeed a highlighted announcement at the top of the page.

"City Upgrade Announcement", and the poster was actually the city lord Xuanjizi.

Yang Xu opened the post and took a look.

"A word of warning to all citizens: Thanks to everyone's joint efforts and a full year of construction, Qingyang City has successfully been upgraded from a fourth-tier city to a fifth-tier city. The scope of Qingyang City has further expanded, and many new buildings are about to be completed.

Soon, a new teleportation array and a new martial arts arena will be opened in each of the four districts: the east, south, west, and north. The four lords will be responsible for their construction. Once completed, the specific locations of the buildings will be announced here. You can go there to bind to the new teleportation points..."

……

"In addition, this year's Rising Star Challenge will begin on the 7th of next month. The challenge will be divided into two parts: team competition and guild competition, which will be held simultaneously."

"Registration for the team competition is in the form of small teams. Each team has a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 people. The top 16 teams will receive team plots, and the top 8 teams will have the opportunity to receive special rewards prepared by the four lords and the city lord."

"The challenge is open to administrators with 2 stars or below. Everyone is welcome to sign up."

……

This announcement is mainly divided into two parts. The first part describes the city upgrade and the various benefits after the upgrade.

The second half is used to describe the Rising Star Challenge.

Yang Xu had heard Zijin and the others mention this challenge before. It was an annual competition held to select outstanding newcomers, and participation was limited to administrators below level 20. Those who ranked high in the challenge would receive a generous reward.

The specific rewards vary from year to year. The only fixed reward is something called "Team Plot".

[Team Plot: Place in any unoccupied area to create a 3*3 grid team territory. This territory is shared by all members of the team and can be expanded using ordinary plots.]

To put it simply, the team territory is a semi-private territory. People belonging to the same team can enter and exit this area at any time without occupying the upper limit of personal territory.

"Do you want to participate in this competition?" Yang Xu asked.

"I don't want to, but there are only 16 public plots issued each year. If you want to develop a team territory, the only way is to participate in the competition." Duan Ying replied.

Yang Xu hesitated for a moment. Actually, Zijin and the other four had proposed to invite him to participate in the competition, but he was used to being alone at that time and had never thought about joining the team, so he politely declined.

But now, he and Bloody Dark have a semi-bound relationship because of the skins of Erlang Shen and Roaring Sky Dog. It seems necessary for the two of them to form a team territory. At least when encountering a crisis in the future, they will have an extra place to move to.

As for strength, Yang Xu is not really worried. In fact, there will be many veterans who use their smurfs to participate in the challenge. However, with his and Bloody Dark's skills, and the fact that both of them have legendary skins, if they still can't make it into the top 16, then the value of this challenge is too terrifying.

Their real problem was that a team had to have at least three people, and if the two of them wanted to participate, they had to find at least one more person to form a team.

(End of this chapter)