Killing God - Chapter 36

Chapter 36 Mission
‘”You have just arrived at Green Fish Island. You have no dao to begin with. You can’t do anything like hunting demons, cultivating spirits, protecting formations, and digging crystals. You can only choose some simple tasks. I looked at the white board missions recently issued by the sect and found that three of them are more suitable for you.”

Xu Xing stretched out his first finger and said, “The first thing is to feed the beast.” This sect has many immortal birds and spirit beasts, each of which has its own uses. There are also some in Qingyu Island. All such matters are under the control of the Spirit Beast Palace within the sect, so this mission was also given by the Spirit Beast Palace. “All you need to do is to take care of the spirit beasts on Qingyu Island. You can’t feed them on time and wash them carelessly every day, so it should be a bit dirty and laborious. However, this is inevitable.”

Xu Xing extended his second finger and said, “The second one is pill refining.” Actually, it’s pill concoction, It was only because this was a mission given by the sect’s Pill Hall. “You have neither dao nor experience. Of course, it’s impossible for you to really refine pills. The tasks on the white board are for you to fight, manage the furnace temperature, and identify the medicinal ingredients to hand over to the senior apprentice-brother and senior apprentice-sister of the pill refining department at any time. Therefore, the delay may be much longer than other tasks.”

When the four youths heard this, they frowned slightly. Their expressions were not relaxed and good-looking. Although these tasks sounded simple, they were obviously not easy to accomplish. Xu Xing looked at their expressions and smiled. “Third, pick up the shells. Every morning and night, when the tide is down on the island, there are many five-colored shells on the beach. They are some low-grade materials of the Array Hall, but they are hidden in the depths of the beach mud. It’s hard to find them. After this mission, you can exchange one spirit crystal for every two hundred shells.”

He Xiaomei was stunned for a moment and asked, “So much to exchange for a spirit crystal?”

Xu Xing smiled and said, “Exactly. The rules of the sect are like this. They are meant to temper rookie disciples through difficult circumstances. Naturally, the missions given to them will not be particularly easy. I have specially selected these three for you, and they are considered acceptable.” As for the missions on the green, red, and yellow boards in the future, the requirements are even more difficult. For example, I have mentioned the matters of spiritual cultivation, demon hunting, and talismans, diving into the sea, and digging for crystals … ”

Shen Shi raised his eyebrows and suddenly said, “Eh, we still have a mission for talismans here? Isn’t this a side path?”

Xu Xing glanced at him and said, “How can I put it this way? These Five Elements Spells are indeed not comparable to the various mainstream Dao Spells that we will cultivate in the future. However, these spells have been passed down for tens of thousands of years, and sometimes they are still very useful.” Especially for Qi Refining Realm cultivators, because there were very few divine abilities that could be cultivated due to Dao practice, they would often cultivate one or two Five Elements Techniques at this time to protect themselves. “There is a special ‘Art Hall’ in this sect that specializes in the Five Elements Art Technique. Although it is small in scale, it will also give out some missions such as talismans. After all, these talismans are still very popular with cultivators, especially rogue cultivators with low cultivation. They can also earn a lot of spirit crystals.”

“That’s why.” Shen Shi suddenly realized, However, Xu Xing smiled faintly and said, “However, the Dao of Talismans is notoriously complicated and difficult. Not to mention the complicated and distorted runes of the Yin Yang Five Elements, it is even more difficult to draw a talisman formation on the talisman paper based on it, let alone to go through the last obstacle of ‘Spirit Injection’, so that it can truly be made into a talisman.” “Thus, even a rare and skilled Talisman Master would find it difficult to create a large number of talismans. There have always been very few disciples of the sect who have done such tasks.”

Shen Shi nodded slowly. Xu Xing saw that he didn’t ask any more questions, so he kept quiet. He turned to Sun You and said, “These are the few tasks that I think are acceptable. You can consider them. Of course, you can also go to the whiteboard to take a closer look. Perhaps there is something else suitable for you.” “However, you are new disciples after all. All the tasks you can do are basically on the white board. The green, red, yellow, and purple boards behind you are all quite difficult tasks. You may still need some time to complete them.”

Young friend Sun nodded and said, “Thank you, little uncle.”

Xu Xing smiled and said, “Alright, that’s it for the time being. You guys can walk around first and get familiar with it.” At this point, he seemed to have thought of something and hesitated for a moment before stopping.

Sun You’s eyes were sharp. Seeing his little uncle’s appearance, he smiled and said, “What’s wrong, little uncle? Is there anything else?”

Xu Xing thought for a moment and said, “Actually, I just thought of another thing. It should be a bit simpler, but … by the way, did you see those Red Clam Demons outside the Green Fish Market on your way here?”

The four of them nodded. He Xiaomei even gestured with her hand and said, “It looks very strange. The two big clam shells grow on her body like that.”

Xu Xing smiled and said, “These Red Clam clansmen have lived under our High Firmament Sect for many years. You will get used to it after a long time. What I wanted to say just now is actually related to these Red Clam clansmen. It can be considered a mission, but it is not normally written on this whiteboard.”

Sun You and the others were curious. Sun You was the fastest and was the first to say, “What? There’s actually such a mission? What is it?”

Xu Xing smiled and said, “Actually, this is something that those Red Clam clansmen have been attracted to when they saw us call out for rookies to do all sorts of things. This clansman has lived at the seaside since ancient times. One of their favorite foods is a sea shrimp called ‘Ghost-Faced Shrimp’. There are many of them in the surrounding waters of Golden Rainbow Mountain.” However, Ghost-Faced Shrimp was not difficult to catch. When there was a fishing tide, it could be casually thrown into a fishing net. A single fishing net was a large handful. However, this shrimp shell was incomparably hard, and the blade and axe were difficult to open. Only by piercing through the gap between the lower abdominal shell with a sharp blade could it be barely peeled off and take out tender shrimp meat. Xu Xing made a gesture with his hand and said,

“Although the red clam tribesmen like to eat ghost-faced shrimp, their nature is extremely clean. They want to eat this fresh and tender meat of ghost-faced shrimp. When they peel off the shrimp, they will definitely make their entire bodies bloody and dirty. Therefore, the red clam tribesmen have always regarded them as extremely bitter. After seeing us issue various missions to the rookie disciples, they also followed suit and said that as long as someone helped them peel the shrimp, they would also reward the spirit crystals. ”

“How about this” Only then did Sun You and the others understand. Shen Shi’s thoughts were very cautious. He quickly thought of another matter and said, “Senior Brother Xu, uh … what should I call him …”

Xu Xing smiled and waved his hand, “I’m a few years older than you idiots. Call me Uncle Xu when you meet in the future.”

Shen Shi nodded and said, “Uncle Xu, didn’t you say that Demon race like the Red Mussels usually don’t use spirit crystals? Where did they get spirit crystals to reward us?”

Xu Xing said, “Oh, this is the case. Our Golden Rainbow Mountain Range is the number one spirit vein in the southeast. It is innately rich in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and it condenses many spirit crystals every day. This is a well-known fact.” This spiritual vein was usually buried deep in the depths of the Spirit Mountain, but there were still extremely fine remaining veins scattered around the ends of the mountain, some of them even going deep into the seabed outside the islands. The Red Clam clansmen were extremely good at swimming. They didn’t need any magical artifacts to help them dive into the depths of the seabed, so they could occasionally discover a small amount of spirit crystals from the seabed. “Although they don’t need it, since they know that our humans regard it as a precious treasure, they will naturally keep it for trade with us.”

Jiang Hongguang hesitated for a moment and whispered to the side, “Uncle Xu, how many ghost-faced shrimps do you want to kill? Only the Red Clam Race will reward us.”

Xu Xing replied, “A hundred Ghost-Faced Shrimp and a Spirit Crystal.” With that, he stretched out his fourth finger and smiled, “So this is the fourth thing I told you about, shrimp peeling.”

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Leaving Xu Xing’s side, The four of them stood in White Crane Hall and discussed. The four tasks that Xu Xing mentioned just now didn’t sound too difficult. They were all tasks that they could accomplish even if they didn’t have any dao skills. However, when they thought about it carefully, they realized that all of them were dirty jobs. Jiang Hongguang and Shen Shi were fine, but Sun You and He Xiaomei both had excellent family backgrounds. They didn’t want to do such a thing.

After discussing for a while, the few of them decided to go to the whiteboard together to see if there were any other more suitable missions.

At this time, many teenagers were already standing under the whiteboard. Evidently, under the Ling Xiao Sect’s rule of forbidding everyone to bring their own spirit crystals into the sect, the most urgent task for these new disciples was to earn spirit crystals for their cultivation. After all, apart from the one spirit crystal they had given them at the beginning, it seemed clear that the Ling Xiao Sect would need to earn the spirit crystals they needed later.

The four of them stood in front of the whiteboard, After looking carefully for a while, he saw that Fang Zheng had countless white papers stacked on the whiteboard, and there were many strange tasks. However, if he looked over here and there, regardless of the difficulty or the reward, it seemed to be the same as what Xu Xing had said before. Most of them were obviously harder to do than what he had said.

Shen Shi looked at it for a while, then thought of the talisman Xu Xing had just mentioned. He had painted talismans since he was a child for many years, but he didn’t think that there was any possibility of using them in Lingxiao Sect. He couldn’t help but feel a bit impatient when he thought about it. After looking for a while and not finding a more suitable mission, he noticed whether there were any missions related to talismans on the whiteboard.

However, he had looked around for a long time and had searched through the entire whiteboard. He didn’t even find a single talisman. Shen Shi frowned. Normally, Xu Xing wouldn’t lie to him, After thinking for a moment, his heart suddenly moved. He looked around and saw that no one noticed him. A few friends he had just met, Sun You, He Xiaomei, Jiang Hongguang, and the others, were also carefully looking at the whiteboard at the other end. He then quietly circled around the whiteboard and walked to the back of the whiteboard.

Behind the whiteboard was a large wooden board with a green color. According to what Xu Xing had just said, it should be called the green board. As was the case on the white board, there were also many notes on the green board. However, the Lingxiao Sect disciples in front of the green board had much less money than the white board. Many of them were older disciples of the last five-year period.

A few of them noticed that Shen Shi had walked over to the green board and cast strange gazes. However, later on, everyone thought that Shen Shi was just one of the new disciples who had great curiosity, so they ran over to see a new disciple. Therefore, they did not pay much attention to him. They turned their heads and concentrated on the note on the wooden token.

Shen Shi heaved a sigh of relief and began to search on the green board. This time, it was unexpectedly smooth. When he saw the third piece of white paper on the green board, he discovered that this was a task issued by the Academy. The content was also to draw a special formation on the talisman paper.

Making talismans wasn’t just making talismans. It was exactly what Shen Shi wanted. At this moment, he didn’t have any dao skills at all. If he wanted to make talismans, then he wouldn’t be able to pass the final stage of “Spirit Injection”. However, if he only drew a talisman formation, relying on his uninterrupted connection over the past seven years, Shen Shi felt a little confident.

Just as he was about to rejoice, he looked down and suddenly frowned. A trace of astonishment flashed across his face, only to see four large words clearly written on the bottom of the note:

The materials are self-contained.