Chapter 12: This Work?

  Iask hall, amidst a crowd of discussions and mockery, Zhao Heng received the task jade slip and turo leave.

  That's right, he had accepted the task 300 Xuan Crystals to find a lost jade pendant at the Qinglong Pond.

  Although many people from the sect had taken up this task before, only to retury-handed, he felt that his ces might be a bit greater.

  To ehe task's success, Zhao Heng first went to Qinglong Lake, located in the northeastern dire of the sect.

  After some on-site estimation, Zhao Heermihat the entire Qinglong Lake spanned a range of about ten miles in radius.

  He then personally found the outer sect senior sister who had posted the task.

  This senior sister, who had the cultivation of the Bone F Realm and a sturdy build that could rival two of Zhao Heng's own, seemed to be in a sorrowful state, with tears about to fall as she spoke. She even promised Zhao Heng that if he found the jade pendant, she would offer herself to him. From her response, Zhao Heng was certain the information was accurate.

  After politely rejeg her offer, Zhao Heuro his dormitory. There, he shook the dice three times—one ordinary theft, one ordinary theft again, and finally, an accumuted luck theft.

  Afterward, he hurried back to Qinglong Pond.

  The pond was shaped like a crest, surrounded on all sides by dense forest. The tranquil waters were dotted with boats, some with couples flirting, others with fishermen casting their lines.

  Zhao Heng spent a bit of silver to rent a small boat and paddled aloo the ter of the pond.

  With only a in hand, he began casting it in a frantiner, attrag the attention of people nearby, who watched in fusion.

  But no one khat, at this moment, Zhao Heng silently muttered in his heart, "Use the Steal skill!"

  In the moment, the dipped slightly.

  He quickly pulled the , and a shiny, fist-sized silver ingot appeared in it.

  Though silver ingots were far less valuable than Xuan Jin, this rge k was still worth enough to buy a lot of food.

  The people around him were surprised, thinking his luck was excellent.

  Zhao Heng calmly collected the ingot and cast the again into the water.

  Some fishermen nearby sneered.

  "This guy must have hit the jackpot. He finds a silver ingot and thinks it's his skill? If he's so capable, why doesn't he pull up some gold?"

  At that moment, Zhao Heng used the Steal skill again.

  "Hmm?"

  The again dipped, heavier than before.

  With a slight tug, a golden ingot, as big as a fist, appeared i.

  This gold was worth about two Xuan Crystals.

  The onlasped in astonishment, and a few fishermen were left stunned.

  One of them couldn't help but scoff, "Pfft, big deal, find a huge fish if you're really that skilled!"

  Zhao Heng, however, was feeling increasingly serious.

  Now it was the st cast. He couldn’t afford to make a mistake.

  “Luck Steal!”

  After ten ordinary steals, the accumuted luck steal was triggered at this moment.

  "Whoosh!"

  Zhao Heng suddenly felt the sink heavily, almost pulling him into the water.

  He quickly exerted force to pull, and to his surprise, a huge fish—more than humah and as thick as an adult's waist—was hauled into the boat.

  The fishermen on the shore finally turned red with envy.

  "Damn, how is this possible?!"

  Zhao Heng, however, was in a sour mood. "Why is it a fish? It should have been the jade pendant!"

  He had used his luck steal just to get that pendant and earn 300 Xuan Crystals as a reward, but now it seemed his pn had backfired.

  “This is a huge loss!”

  With a grim expression, Zhao Heng looked at the fish's rge mouth and suddenly had an idea.

  He quickly paddled the boat to the shore, clutg the silver ingot, gold, and the rge fish, and began heading back.

  Not long after Zhao He, in the ing days, many small boats appeared near Qinglong Pond. Everyone had s in hand, and they began casting them wildly iers, f a peculiar se.

  But that's a story for ter. For now, Zhao Heng had returo the Servants' Peak.

  Beside a small stream, he used a ko gut the big fish.

  As the k open the fish's belly, Zhao Heng's hand quickly reached in and his eyes lit up as he pulled out a beautifully crafted pair of mandarin duck jade pendants.

  “Just as I thought!”

  Zhao Heng had suspected that the pendant might have been swallowed by the fish, which expined why no one had found it. Now, his suspi was firmed.

  “As expected of Luck Steal, it pleted the task for me!”

  Excited, Zhao Heng marveled at the 300 Xuan Crystal reward. Thinking of the uping Servant Exam in three days, his fidence grew.

  Unfortunately, high-reward tasks like these were rare, and Luck Steal didn't always guarantee success. If it did, it would have been a shortcut to wealth.

  Zhao Heng didn’t rush to turn iask. Instead, he waited until te at night, wheask hall was nearly empty, to quietly hand it in. With 300 Xuan Crystals in his possessiouro his dorm.

  Log the door, Zhao Heng pced the 300 Xuan Crystals on his bed and took out the dice.

  Before rolling, he carefully burned inse and washed his hands, praying food luck.

  Once everything was set, Zhao Heng took ten Xuan Crystals and threw them fidently.

  “Roll for me!”

  “k….”

  The dice spun for a moment, then nded on one.

  Zhao Heng remained expressionless, not immediately using his skill, and tinued shaking the dice.

  Five secutive rolls, all nding on one, but Zhao Heng wasn't disced. He secretly began to anticipate the oute.

  After so many rolls, he had started to notice a pattern.

  Every twenty rolls, he usually got a "Perfeha" ohe interval for that was typically between the fifteenth and tweh rolls.

  After ten rolls and five more, he had now hit fifteen, so the two-poi should be ing soon.

  Zhao He rolling until the eenth roll.

  “Buzz…”

  Finally, two red dots appeared.

  “Just as expected!”

  Zhao Heng was ecstatic as he raised his hand. Another perfeha opportunity!

  He immediately chose to use the skill.

  A familiar silver light appeared in front of him, and Zhao Heng took out two books.

  One was Shattered Stone Fist, which had reached Intermediate Mortal Grade and could be further upgraded, while the other was Boransformation Step, which was already at Intermediate Mortal Grade.

  Zhao Heng wao enhah teiques and decided to try putting both into the light sphere. However, a surge of energy repelled them.

  A voice spoke: "Only oem be enha a time!"

  After a brief hesitation, Zhao Heng chose Boransformation Step.

  Though enhang Shattered Stone Fist would improve the teique's level and power, even simplifying it further, Zhao Heng sidered that his movement teique was his oint. If he could master Boransformation Step, his self-defense ability would greatly improve.

  Without hesitation, Zhao Heng threw Boransformation Step into the light sphere. He had prepared a hefty amount of Xuan Crystals for the enha.

  After a short time, the light sphere absorbed a total of 120 Xuan Crystals, pleting the enha.

  “Enha plete. The item has reached its perfect state!”

  Zhao Heng quickly took the book and checked. The cover's "Intermediate Mortal Grade" had ged to "Top-tier Mortal Grade!"

  The perfeha had propelled Boransformation Step to the pinnaortal Grade.

  Though it ed a lot of Xuan Crystals, Zhao Heng was satisfied with the result.

  He didn't immediately practice the teique. Instead, he ted the remaining Xuan Crystals—y left.

  He had rolled eight times for theft and once for perfeha.

  After some thought, Zhao Heng decided to roll twice more.

  If all went as expected, the wo rolls should be theft, and after tes, he'd get another luck steal.

  “Roll for me!”

  The first roll, once again, nded on one.

  "One more roll."

  “k…”

  The dice spun in mid-air, and when they nded, an eerie blue light glowed from them.

  Zhao Heng stared ily.

  “Owo, three... it's three!”

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