Chapter 33: Earning Spirit Stones from Outer Gate Missions!

  The next morning.

  Deng Mo Bei walked out of his stone hut, just as dawn was breaking.

  The bright moon is hidden in the clouds and mist.

  On the east side of the mountain range, a thread of dawn broke through, pushing away the darkness that belonged to dawn inch by inch.

  The soil is slightly damp, and a faint fragrance of grass wafts through the air.

  The greedy breaths of Mo Bei, inhaling and exhaling, as if all the pores on his body had opened up, feeling extremely comfortable!

  "Last night, after returning to the stone house, I began to cultivate." Mo Bei snapped his fingers: "Time really flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's already been five or six hours. However...the spiritual energy in my body just happened to flow along the meridians, completing a large cycle. Compared to the previous time of seven hours, I was almost an hour faster."

  "Hey," a voice suddenly sounded behind Mo Bei, who turned his head to see a sly figure emerging from the remaining darkness, looking around and walking towards him - wasn't it Long Hao Tian?

  "What are you doing..." Mo Bei barely managed to say half a sentence.

  "Shh!" Long Hao Tian put his finger to his lips and made a silencing gesture, saying in a low voice: "Big brother, come quickly. I'll take you to receive the mission."

  "Accepting a task?" Mo Bei raised an eyebrow: "Didn't Brother Tian say that he would take us to receive the task today?"

  "Hmm."

  Long Haitian snorted disdainfully and said, "That Tian Shixiong is just a slightly older outer sect disciple, what good job can he find for us?"

  At this point, Long Hao Tian's voice gradually lowered, revealing a sly smile: "Big brother, to be honest, I just so happen to have a second uncle who is an executive in the Task Hall of Penglai Island, and many of the bounty tasks go through his hands!"

  "I've been keeping an eye on him since early on, letting him plan some good tasks for us. Heh heh..."

  Long Haitian smiled slyly and urged, "Hurry up and let's go. Before they find out about us. How can we share this good thing with them?"

  As soon as he finished speaking, Long Hao Tian pulled Mo Bei away without a word, and they quietly left the stone house.

  ……

  Horizon, morning sun just born.

  A cool breeze blows in, autumn wind sweeps away fallen leaves, swirling up withered leaves, falling into the pond, splashing wave after wave of ripples.

  Long Hao Tian tied his waistband while walking in the eight-character step over the arch bridge, stretched and exclaimed: "Big brother, that Xianpai Taixu Sect is indeed worthy of being a cultivation sect. Even its... sucks!"

  Long Hao Tian closed his eyes, flared his nostrils and took a deep breath before continuing: "Even the air here is fresher than in the mortal world!"

  "It's almost here, it's almost here! Big brother!" Long Hao Tian pointed at the market on the other side of the arch bridge and exclaimed: "The Task Hall is in the market! My second uncle must already be waiting for us!"

  As he spoke, he quickened his pace and ran down the arched bridge in a cloud of smoke, heading towards the market; Mo Bei also quickened her pace to follow him.

  At this time, the sky was just bright, and there were already many outer door disciples or people of other ethnic groups in the market. The small stalls on the street had also started selling goods.

  As far as the eye can see, halls and pavilions rise one after another, people come and go. Shops are opening one after another. The market is showing signs of bustle.

  Long Hao Tian led Mo Bei, looking around curiously in all directions as they walked through the crowd.

  Long Hao Tian rummaged through the materials on the street stall with his hands and feet, explaining to Mo Bei: "Brother, my second uncle once told me when he returned to Qing Guo. These street stalls, most of them are outer door disciples doing tasks, getting unnecessary materials or beast skins in exchange for spiritual stones. It's really cheap, much more cost-effective than the materials in those shops."

  "If we get extra materials in the future, we can also collect them and sell them here." Long Hao Tian continued.

  Two people walked and chatted casually for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

  Long Hao Tian stopped in his tracks and suddenly said: "Big brother, we've arrived! This is the Task Hall - Xian He Hall."

  Mo Bei finally came to his senses and listened as Long Hao Tian bragged and told stories about the Penglai Peninsula, before he knew it they had already arrived.

  Mo Bei subconsciously raised his head, and a magnificent grand hall stood towering before him.

  This building is five stories high and is much taller than the surrounding buildings, standing out like a crane among chickens!

  The roof's flying eaves slightly raised. The red wall has carved flowers and patterns, vivid and full of momentum. On the doorframe and signboard are several dragon and phoenix dancing gold-plated large characters - Xianhe Hall.

  "What an imposing building." Mo Bei couldn't help but admire it quietly.

  The two of them had just entered the door.

  Mo Bei only discovered that in this spacious great hall with a diameter of tens of meters, there were already many people wearing outer door disciple uniforms serving.

  Fortunately, this hall is spacious enough to accommodate four or five hundred people without feeling crowded.

  People's heads were nodding in agreement.

  In the center of the hall stood a huge wooden wall.

  The wooden wall was covered with numerous small wooden plaques.

  The outer disciples all looked up at the small wooden sign on the wooden wall, occasionally pointing and discussing in a low voice.

  "Second Uncle, Second Uncle! I'm over here!" Long Hao Tian's gaze fell on a blue-clad middle-aged man in the crowd.

  The middle-aged man in blue heard this, looked up and saw him, then a gentle smile appeared on his face. He walked over with great surprise and said with a smile: "Little Dragon, you have indeed become an outer disciple of the Tai Xu Sect!"

  As he spoke, the middle-aged man's gaze fell on Mo Bei, smiling and nodding in acknowledgement.

  "Second Uncle."

  "This is my elder brother, Mo Bei." Long Hao Tian waved his hand grandly, full of pride: "This is my second uncle, Long Jiu Tao."

  Long Jiu smiled warmly and nodded, "Since you are a friend of Little Dragon's, then you're not an outsider. I spent some time in the Xianhe Temple, so let me share with you my insights on taking tasks, as well as tell you about the Xianhe Temple."

  "In case I'm not around in the future, when you receive a task, don't be dazzled and confused."

  Long Jiutao beckoned to both of them and led them inside.

  "Those small wooden plaques are what you people live on every day." Long Jiutao, in the crowd, turned his head and pointed at the numerous small wooden plaques on the wooden wall.

  Mo Beidong took a closer look.

  Only found these small wooden boards of different colors were all filled with words. Hundreds of small wooden boards, from left to right.

  "On the wooden wall, there are many acceptable tasks." Long Jiu Tao said while looking at the small wooden plaques on the wooden wall: "Take a wooden plaque, complete the task according to what's written on it, and then hand it over to the Xianhe Temple. You will receive the corresponding reward."

  "This is your first year, all of you are doing primary tasks, the pay is not high. Next year, the tasks will start to get heavier and the pay will begin to increase!"

  I had just started out and knew nothing. If someone could have given me some guidance, it would have saved time and effort, which was a great blessing at that difficult beginning.

  Mo Bei pondered in her heart, concentrated her spirit, pricked up her ears and listened intently.

  Long Haitian poked his head out and curiously asked: "Second Uncle, what's special about these wooden plaques?"

  Long Jiu Tao smiled but didn't speak, he pondered for a moment, pointing to the small wooden plaques lined up on the left, and only then said: "These wooden plaques are arranged from left to right. The difficulty of the task is also from simple to difficult."

  "In other words, the one on the far left is the simplest?" Mo Bei asked rhetorically.

  "That's right." Long Jiu nodded: "These tasks, everything is included. From simple feeding of spiritual pets, to medicine collection, to spiritual farming, and later on, array protection, demon capture. Everything is available."

  "Hmm..." He said, propping his chin on his hand and staring at the white wooden board for a while before continuing, "Considering your current abilities and cultivation level, the most suitable tasks for you are simple ones like feeding spirit beasts and planting spirit rice. Although these two tasks have low rewards, they are extremely easy. They may be dirty and tiring... but there's no danger involved."

  "Also."

  Long Jiu pointed to the wooden board in the middle, saying: "Most of the tasks that are a bit difficult are collecting herbs, digging crystals, or excavating spiritual stone mines and exchanging them for corresponding spiritual stones."

  "These two are more tiring. So relatively speaking, the pay is higher."

  Mo Bei curiously pointed at the wooden sign behind him and asked: "Tou Shu, what's the task on that sign back there?"

  Long Jiu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. Finally, he decided to speak up: "Those tasks in the back are mostly about capturing demons and hunting beasts. They're all combat missions that require fighting and killing demons and beasts to obtain materials from their bodies. However..."

  Long Jiutao's gaze slowly swept towards Mo Bei, his expression serious as he said, "I advise you not to take the risk."

  "After all, those demonic beasts are not easy to provoke. The lowest first-class demonic beast has a strength equivalent to that of an outer sect disciple in the Qi Refining stage from one to six."

  Long Hao Tian sucked in a breath of cold air: "Sixth level Qi Refining? How can those demonic beasts be so formidable?"

  Mo Bei's eyes also flashed with a hint of astonishment: "Second Uncle, I only knew that the demon was powerful. But I didn't know that it would be this formidable!"

  "This is natural." Long Jiu said with a straight face, "Can the Tai Xu Sect be compared to those in the mortal world? Those so-called demons in the mortal world are not even on the same level as the demons of Penglai Island, they're just a motley crew."

  "That Penglai Peninsula's demon, are all absorbed the spiritual energy, evolved into a spiritual beast. Each one is more ferocious than the last!"

  "So that's how it is." Mo Bei and the other person exchanged a glance, suddenly enlightened.

  Long Haitian glanced around cautiously and whispered, "Second Uncle, what's the good or bad plan you're going to tell us?"

  Long Jiutao smiled warmly and nodded: "The things Xiao Longzi entrusted to me, how could Second Uncle not take them to heart? You see..."

  Long Jiu pointed at a wooden board on the wall: "You see, what's that?"

  Long Hao Tian looked carefully, shook his head in dissatisfaction, and curled his lips: "Raising a Flame Beast for twenty days. Two pieces of first-grade spirit stone. Second Uncle... you wouldn't be fooling me, would you? Raising a Flame Beast is dirty and smelly!"

  Long Jiu Tao let out a dry cough and brought the two to another wooden wall, pointing somewhere: "What about this one?"

  "Guarding the Desert Mountain Array for 15 days, and only getting a single piece of first-grade spirit stone. This job may be easy, but it takes too long, and the pay is too little, way too little." Long Hao Tian still frowned, showing his discontent.

  "What... what about this?"

  "Take care of the Tiger Clan's cubs for ten days and you'll get a first-grade Spirit Stone..."