Outside Qin Hao's room in the Heavenly Master Mansion.
Two Daoist boys stood outside the door, waiting to be dispatched.
They had no idea what the Heavenly Master was doing inside the room, but since a while ago, sounds of sword cries had been emanating from within.
Out of sheer curiosity, the two Daoist boys stealthily peered inside.
They were immediately stunned by just one glance.
For in the Heavenly Master's room, they actually saw Qin Hao practicing Sword Control.
The Heavenly Master Sword flew around him this way and that.
It was no different from the Immortals flying swords in the myths and legends.
The two Daoist boys exchanged a look, clearly seeing the shock in each other's eyes.
At this moment, they both had the same thought: Is our Heavenly Master about to become an Immortal?
No wonder he became the Qingyun Mountain's Heavenly Master at such a young age; truly extraordinary, just this skill in Sword Control Technique alone, who in the past thousand years of Qingyun Mountain could achieve that?
Too impressive.
The two Daoist boys dared not peek any further.
They knew that such high-level Xuanmen secret techniques were not meant for their mortal eyes.
Better to just dutifully stand guard.
Inside the room, Qin Hao fiddled with the Heavenly Master Sword for a while.
Now he, although able to control the Heavenly Master Sword to fly through the air,
still could not manage long-distance Sword Control.
He was still far from the true Flying Sword Skill of legend.
A true Flying Sword Immortal could refine a sword into a tiny sword pellet, nurturing it within their Dantian.
In battle, they would spit out the sword pellet from their mouth, and across thousands of miles, slaying enemies with the Flying Sword in the blink of an eye.
Qin Hao could presently control the sword no more than a hundred meters away from his side.
Any farther, and the connection between him and the Heavenly Master Sword would weaken.
Beyond a hundred meters, the Heavenly Master Sword could still be summoned, but it would lack attack power.
The reason for this boiled down to two points.
First, the level of the Heavenly Master Sword was too low.
If the legendary swords capable of killing enemies from thousands of miles away were of Immortal Artifact grade, then Qin Hao's Heavenly Master Sword was just barely a Spiritual Artifact, low in weapon grade.
Secondly, Qin Hao's cultivation was insufficient.
Not even at Foundation Establishment, and he wanted to play with Flying Swords?
Third, he lacked professional assistance in the Flying Sword Skill.
Mere reliance on the forceful drive of True Yuan within his body naturally required much effort.
Therefore, the foppish enterprise of Flying Swords was something that Qin Hao should not think too much about for now.
Using Sword Control remotely at this stage was more like an auxiliary method at best.
Qin Hao placed the Heavenly Master Sword back on its rack.
He turned his gaze to the last reward.
A top-grade Immortal Crane Egg!
An egg of the Spiritual Birds, capable of hatching a top-grade Immortal Crane!
It belonged to a type of flying Spiritual Beast, intelligent and incredibly swift in flight. The only drawback was its lack of strength in combat, but it was still a decent mode of transportation!
Reading the description provided by the system,
Qin Hao retrieved his reward.
Then before him appeared an egg of colossal size.
This egg was twice as large as that of an ostrich.
If the system had not clarified beforehand, Qin Hao could have mistaken this thing for a dinosaur egg.
Placing the egg on the table, Qin Hao examined it.
The egg as a whole was hard and remarkably heavy, and on its shell, there were peculiar pale golden patterns.
Along with the eggs hatching process, the patterns on the shell would flicker brightly, looking rather magical.
Qin Hao tapped on the eggshell.
He wondered when the Immortal Crane would hatch from the egg.
Just as Qin Hao pondered how to hatch the Immortal Crane Egg,
he heard the system's prompt in his ear.
"Ding! New task released: draw one talisman to increase hatching by 1%. Draw one hundred talismans to complete 100% hatching!"
"Ding! Hidden task released: if the host achieves a total success rate of 80% while drawing talismans, an additional reward of a Giant Immortal Crane Innate Divine Ability*1 will be granted. With a success rate reaching 90%, an additional reward of a Time-Space Divine Crane bloodline!"
"Note: The hidden task has only one chance. If failed, there is no redoing!"
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Listening to the system's prompt,
Qin Hao's expression became serious.
The hatching task ahead was simple; it was just about crafting talismans.
One hundred talismans, Qin Hao could take his time drawing them.
But that hidden task, that was the real challenge.
He needed a success rate of 80% on one hundred talismans to receive the extra reward.
It would be best to reach a 90% success rate because he could get the Time-Space Divine Crane's bloodline as an additional reward.
The Time-Space Divine Crane!
Just the name made it clear; it had to be something exceptional.
Perhaps it was some kind of ancient mythical beast!
But with a 90% success rate, even Qin Hao was not confident; one hundred talismans to draw, and only ten mistakes allowed?
The difficulty was somewhat daunting!
However, Qin Hao decided to give it a try.
After all, the opportunity was there; what if he succeeded?
Qin Hao stood before the table, first extracting the Talisman Encyclopedia he had purchased from the System Mall.
He directly merged with the Talisman Encyclopedia.
Instantly, all the knowledge points of the Talisman Encyclopedia were absorbed into his mind.
In an instant, the methods and details of drawing tens of thousands of talisman types were presented in his mind.
As long as he wished, he could view the drawing methods of any talisman any time.
The levels of Xuanmen talismans, like those of Elixir Pills, ranged from First to Ninth Grade.
Above Ninth Grade, there were Divine Talismans.
The pale pink talisman paper Qin Hao had could, at most, withstand Fourth Grade talismans.
Above Fourth Grade, the talismans couldn't be drawn on pale pink paper.
The energy was too strong; the paper couldn't endure it, and a higher-grade Green Talisman would be needed.
Of course, Qin Hao would definitely not start by drawing high-level talismans.
He was surely going to start from the lower-level talismans.
Qin Hao quickly searched for entry-level talismans in his mind's Talisman Encyclopedia.
A moment later, he selected hundreds of entry-level talisman types.
Golden Light Talisman, Flame Talisman, Water Ball Talisman, Great Strength Talisman, Divine Speed Talisman, immobilization talisman, Healing Charm, and so on.
These were all First-Grade talismans.
Among them, the most rudimentary entry-level talisman was the immobilization talisman.
That was the type of Yellow Talisman that Uncle Jiu and other Daoists would stick on the foreheads of zombies in movies.
That's the most fundamental immobilization talisman.
This immobilization talisman was known as the Xuanmen beginner talisman.
It was the simplest and easiest to draw.
Generally used for neophytes to practice.
In the movies, even Uncle Jiu's two bumbling apprentice pigs could draw it themselves; this shows how low the difficulty of drawing this talisman was.
Now, Qin Hao intended to draw the immobilization talisman.
At that moment, Qin Hao's expression suddenly changed, looking at the immobilization talisman in his mind; he recalled the hidden task released by the system.
He suddenly discovered a loophole.
When the system had issued the task just now, it only asked him to draw one hundred talismans with a 90% success rate.
But it didn't specify which talismans he should draw!
A beginner's immobilization talisman was also a talisman.
Did this mean he could exploit a bug and make a hundred of the simplest immobilization talismans?
As long as he achieved a 90% success rate, wouldn't he still get the task reward?
Thinking this, Qin Hao couldn't help but laugh.
The system seemed a little unintelligent.
The drawing of an immobilization talisman was inherently simple.
Moreover, Qin Hao had the added guarantee of success rate from the pale pink talisman paper and the Eighth Grade Talisman Pen.
The talisman paper added a 20% success rate.
The Eighth Grade Talisman Pen added another 30%.
Qin Hao wanted to ask, how could he lose?
What was the difference between this hidden reward and a giveaway?