God of Pets

"How do you know so much?" Chen Guan looked at An Yiqi with some surprise and asked.

Gate Leader chuckled from the side, "This guy An is our team's informant. He might not be good at anything else, but he's excellent at gathering little bits of information and hearing gossip. There's no piece of gossip within our reserve team that he doesn't know."

An Yiqi said a bit sheepishly, "While a lot of the gossip turns out to be false, this one is definitely true. Someone from Team 9 is from my hometown. He swore it was true after getting drunk while we were drinking together that day."

"Tell me more details about that Ghost Emperor." Chen Guan was genuinely interested in these golden tasks.

Finding a World-Defying Secret Spirit outside was extremely difficult, and these golden tasks were benefits given from above, just depending on whether they had the ability to take them.

If they hadn't joined the reserve team, they wouldn't even have the qualification to meet the Ghost Emperor, let alone kill him.

An Yiqi quickly recounted what he had heard about the Ghost Emperor in detail. Though it sounded pretty thorough, the amount of fluff in it was unknown.

The Ghost Emperor himself can summon shadow soldiers and shadow generals, and it's on a large scale. Each summoning can bring forth at least ten thousand shadow soldiers and at least ten shadow generals.

So, if they want to kill the Ghost Emperor, they must first break through the blockade of the Shadow Soldier Corps.

Breaking through an army of over ten thousand shadow soldiers and withstanding the assault of ten shadow generals just to reach the Ghost Emperor was already no easy feat.

The Ghost Emperor's power was even more terrifying, almost decathlon-like, with speed, power, and skill all extremely abnormal, plus various abnormal body techniques, swordsmanship, finger techniques, palm techniques, fist techniques, body protection, secret spells, and other types of high-level secret skills all top-tier at the First Awakening stage. With the Secret Treasures he carried, he was simply unmatched by humans of the same level.

Jiang Tianqing and the others barely managed to create an opening and caught the Ghost Emperor's flaw, allowing Jiang Tianqing to deliver the final strike.

However, Jiang Tianqing's Supreme Divine Sword Cold Condensation Sword at full force failed to even scratch the Ghost Emperor's skin.

An Yiqi was talking so enthusiastically, yet the more the others listened, the more their hearts sank.

Let's not even talk about how the Ghost Emperor can summon the Shadow Soldier Corps, even getting inside seems difficult.

Just considering the Ghost Emperor's versatile and unstoppable attributes, no one could withstand that.

"And there's more, the Ghost Emperor's primordial energy is exceptionally abundant. It's like he's using secret skills for free, with very short downtime. I guess he has quite a strong ability to recover primordial energy." An Yiqi's words left everyone even more desperate.

"Did he mention why Jiang Tianqing's attack couldn't harm the Ghost Emperor?" Chen Guan pondered and asked.

Logically, Jiang Tianqing was already the pinnacle of First Awakening combat power, combined with a Supreme Secret Treasure Sword, there should be no way not to injure a First Awakening Secret Spirit of the same level, even a World-Defying Secret Spirit shouldn't remain unscathed.

"According to my hometown buddy, Jiang Tianqing speculated that the Ghost Emperor possessed a very powerful body protection secret technique, and unless they found the weak spot of this body protection secret technique, no one at the First Awakening could hurt him. Another way was to wait until he ran out of primordial energy and couldn't use the body protection secret technique, then seize the opportunity to strike. But the Ghost Emperor can recover his primordial energy, there's no way to wait until his primordial energy is exhausted." An Yiqi replied.

"Invincible, how do we fight this?"

"Do you think above will casually let us kill a World-Defying Secret Spirit and reap all kinds of benefits? They actually never intend for anyone to complete this kind of task; at the end of the month, they just take it back directly."

"It's really hateful, they're treating us like donkeys, dangling a carrot in front of us."

"With just this one task, we're already out of the game, and there are three other equally monstrous tasks; it's truly pushing us to a dead end. Who's so malicious to target us like this?"

Everyone was a bit disheartened, the confidence they had just built up had almost been completely crushed.

"We have to make it even if we can't, do you all intend to have no resources in the future, just floating around here until the two-year term is up and then go home?" Gate Leader said coldly.

"I don't want that, but what can we do? The difference in strength is apparent, we have to deal with thousands of shadow soldiers on one side and fight such a fierce Ghost Emperor on the other; with just the ten of us, it's impossible."

"If we're willing to put our hearts into it, there's nothing that can't be done. Let's study it more, maybe we'll find a flaw in the Ghost Emperor." Gate Leader wanted the team members to be more spirited.

"There's no time, now there are only six days left until the end of the month, and we have to complete four golden tasks within six days, otherwise it's considered a failure," An Yiqi stated.

"We don't necessarily have to complete all four, actually, if we can complete two golden tasks, it should offset things, right?" Chen Guan suggested.

Hearing this, everyone regained a little spirit. Indeed, completing two golden tasks might offset things, though it would still be a loss.

However, this way, they wouldn't be without resources in the future. Even if they owed some, it could be manageable.

"But... two golden tasks are still tough..." An Yiqi said with a bitter face.

"We'll study them and start with the easiest one, every bit counts." Chen Guan was naturally thinking of killing all four, but he needed to get these people motivated first. At least someone had to help him withstand the shadow army.

"Chen's right, we can't sit around waiting for death. Everyone, get yourselves up. Didn't you also not believe we could complete the fixed tasks earlier? The facts proved we underestimated ourselves. As long as we work together, we might be able to complete the golden tasks." Gate Leader was also doing his best to boost morale.

Chen Guan noticed the difference in potential between him and Gate Leader, the effect of the Spirit of the Cheerleaders was much stronger on Gate Leader than on the other members, even his energy and demeanor were uplifted.

Although he hadn't entered the absolute secret state like Qin Ziyu and Xiu Yingmei, if he could maintain this spirit, he must be able to achieve something in the future.

Other team members also knew that this matter concerned their uncertain fates; even though they knew it was impossible, they had to think of every way possible, hoping to find a way out of this.

After researching for half a day, all four golden tasks were equally difficult, simply unachievable by them.

The four golden tasks respectively involved dealing with three World-Defying Secret Spirits and one Unique Secret Spirit. The three World-Defying Secret Spirits were the Millennial Ghost Emperor, the Emperor Vein Ghost-Eyed Python, and the Underworld Blood Phoenix; the Unique Secret Spirit was the Holy Horned White Deer of Cuiyun Peak.

Each World-Defying Secret Spirit was harder to kill than the last, not to mention that the Unique Holy Horned White Deer task was even more challenging than the other three tasks.

Because the Holy Horned White Deer was atop Cuiyun Peak, and even Third Awakening cultivators dared not set foot there, let alone them, the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals.

To kill the Holy Horned White Deer, they would have to find a way to lure it down from Cuiyun Peak.