Chapter 36: task

"You just arrived on the herring island, you have no way of doing things at the beginning of your cultivation. You can't do things like hunting monsters, ploughing, protecting the formation, and digging crystals. You can only pick some simple tasks. I looked at the sect recently. Of the whiteboard tasks awarded, three of them are more suitable for you."
Xu Xing stretched out his first finger and said, "The first thing is to feed the beasts. There are many immortal birds and spirit beasts in this gate, each of which is useful. There are also some on this herring island. Such things belong to the spirit of the Zongmen. The Beast Palace is in charge, so this task is also awarded in the Spirit Beast Hall. All you need is to take care of the spirit beasts on the Herring Island. But this is inevitable."
Xu Xing stretched out a second finger and said, "The second one is alchemy. Actually, it's alchemy. It's just because this matter is a task assigned by the sect's "Pill Hall". Now you have no way to do anything. Inexperience, of course it is impossible for you to really practice alchemy. The tasks on the whiteboard are for you to lay hands, control the fire of the alchemy, and identify the medicinal materials to the alchemy seniors and sisters at any time, so the delay may be longer than others. The task is much longer."
When the four teenagers heard this, they all frowned slightly, and their expressions were not easy and beautiful. Although these tasks sounded simple, they were obviously not easy to do. Xu Xing saw their expressions in his eyes, smiled slightly, and continued, saying: "The third item, picking up shells. Every morning and evening, when the tide is low on the island, there are five-colored shells on many beaches. "Jintang' some low-level magic array materials are mostly hidden in the mud on the beach, and some are difficult to find. After this task, every two hundred shells can be exchanged for one spiritual crystal."
He Xiaomei stayed for a while, and said in amazement: "So many can exchange a spiritual crystal?"
Xu Xing smiled and said: "That's right, the rules of the sect are like this. This is to hone new disciples with difficult circumstances. Naturally, the tasks assigned will not be particularly easy. I have selected these three for you, and they are still passable. Yes. As for the tasks on the green board, red board, and yellow board in the future, the requirements will be even more difficult, such as the spiritual farming and monster hunting I mentioned before, as well as Fulu and Qianhai. , Dig Jing..."
Shen Shi raised his brows, and suddenly said, "Hey, we still have Fulu's mission here? Isn't this a sidewalk?"
Xu Xing glanced at him and said, "How can I say, these five-element spells are indeed inferior to the various mainstream Taoist magical powers that we will cultivate in the future, but such spells have been passed down for thousands of years, and sometimes they are still very useful. . Especially for the cultivator of the Qi Refining Realm, because of the Taoism, there are very few supernatural powers that can be cultivated, so they often practice one or two five-element spells at this time as a method of self-defense. There is one in this door. The special "shutang" is dedicated to the five-element spells. Although it is not large in scale, it will also issue some tasks such as talisman. After all, these talismans are taken out to Dachengfang City, and they are still very popular with some monks. In particular, casual practitioners who are not well-versed in Taoism are welcome to earn a lot of spiritual crystals."
"So that's the case." Shen Shi suddenly realized, but then he heard Xu Xing smile and said: "It's just that the Tao of Talisman is notoriously complicated and difficult. The various runes of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements are complicated and distorted. It is even more difficult for the basics to draw the talisman on the talisman paper, not to mention the difficulty of the last "injection of spirit", so that you can really make a talisman. So even a rare and proficient talisman. Master, it's also difficult to make a large number of talismans. There have always been disciples under the sect and those who do such tasks are very few.
Shen Shi nodded slowly. Xu Xing saw that he didn't ask any more, so he didn't say anything. He turned to Sun You and said, "There are only a few tasks that I think are passable. You can think about it, and of course you can go to the whiteboard again. Take a closer look, maybe there is something else suitable for you. But after all, you are new disciples. The tasks you can do are basically on the whiteboard. The green, red, yellow, and purple boards at the back are all difficult tasks. It may take some time before you can do it."
Sun You nodded and said, "Thank you, uncle."
Xu Xing smiled and said, "Fine, it's like this for the time being, you can walk around first and get familiar with it." When he said that, he seemed to have thought of something again, hesitated for a while, and stopped talking.
Sun You was sharp-eyed. Seeing his uncle's appearance, he smiled and said, "What's the matter, uncle, is there anything else?"
Xu Xing thought for a while, and said, "Actually, I just thought of another thing. It's a bit simpler, but... By the way, on your way here, did you see those red clam monsters outside the Herring Set? "
All four of them nodded, and He Xiaomei gestured with her hands, and said, "It looks weird. Two large clam shells are just like that on her body."
Xu Xing smiled and said: "These red clams have lived under our Lingxiao Sect for many years. After a long time, you will get used to it. What I just wanted to say is actually related to these red clams, and it can be considered a task. But it’s not written on this whiteboard on weekdays."
Sun You and others are all curious. Sun You is the fastest, and the first one said: "What, there is such a task, what is it?"
Xu Xing smiled, and said: "This is actually caused by the people of the Red Clam tribe who saw us here asking the new disciples to do all kinds of things. They have lived by the sea since ancient times and they love it most everyday. One kind of food eaten is a kind of prawns in the sea called'Ghost Noodle Shrimp'. There are many in the waters around Jinhong Mountain. But ghost noodle shrimp is not difficult to catch. When there is fishing tide, throw a fishing net. One fish is a big one, but the shrimp shell of this thing is extremely hard, and it is difficult to open it with a knife. You can barely peel it off and take out the tender shrimp meat by piercing it with a sharp blade through the seam between the lower abdomen shell. The gesture probably gave a hint, said,
"Those people of the red clam tribe like to eat ghost noodle shrimp, but their nature is very clean. They just want to eat this tender ghost noodle shrimp meat. When the shrimp is peeled off, they will be and dirty, so they have always been caught by the red clam. The people of the tribe regard it as a great job. After seeing us enact various tasks to the new disciples, they also learned a lot, saying that as long as someone helps them peel the shrimp, they will also be rewarded by the spirit crystal."
"So..." Only then did Sun You and the others understand, but Shen Shi thought carefully, and soon thought of another thing, and said: "Senior Brother Xu, uh...what should I call..."
Xu Xing smiled and waved his hand, and said, "I am a little older than you guys. I will call me Uncle Xu when we meet in the future."
Shen Shi nodded, and said, "Uncle Xu, didn't it mean that demons like the Red Clam tribe don't use spirit crystals on weekdays? Where can they come to pay us?"
Xu Xing said, "Oh, this is the case. Our Golden Rainbow Mountain Range is the first spiritual vein in the southeast. It is born to gather the heavens and the earth to prosper and gather many spiritual crystals every day. This is a well-known thing. And this spiritual vein is usually deep. Buried in the depths of Lingshan, there are still very fine veins scattered around the end, and some are deep into the seabed outside the islands. The red clams are very water-based, and they can dive deep into the seabed without the help of any magic weapon. Therefore, a small amount of spirit crystals can be found from the bottom of the sea from time to time on weekdays. Although they are not used, since we know that our human race is regarded as a treasure, naturally they will be stored for trading with us."
Jiang Hongguang hesitated for a moment, and asked in a low voice next to him: "Uncle Xu, how many ghost-faced shrimps are to be killed, and the Red Clam people will pay us?"
Xu Xing replied: "One hundred ghost-faced shrimps, one spiritual crystal." With that, he stretched out his fourth finger and said with a smile, "So this is the fourth thing I told you, peeling the shrimp. ."
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Leaving from Xu Xing’s side, the four stood in the Baihe Hall and discussed it. The four tasks Xu Xing mentioned earlier did not sound difficult. They were all able to do it even if they had no way of doing things. But I think about it carefully one by one, and all of them are dirty and tiring. Jiang Hongguang and Shen Shi are fine, but Sun You and He Xiaomei are both from excellent family backgrounds. If you have experienced this kind of hardship on weekdays, it is not I want to do it too much.
After discussing for a while, several people decided to come to the whiteboard together and take a closer look at whether there were other more suitable tasks.
At this time, there are many young people standing under the white board. Obviously, under the rules of Lingxiaozong prohibiting everyone from carrying spiritual crystals on their own, the top priority for these new beginner disciples has become to earn spiritual crystals for cultivation, after all, except for the initial gift. The only spirit crystal of Ling Xiaozong, the spirit crystal needed for the follow-up, seemed to make it clear to everyone to earn it.
The four people stood separately in front of the whiteboard and looked at it carefully for a while, and saw that there were countless squares of white paper on the whiteboard, stacked on top of each other, and there were many weird tasks, but look here and there. For a moment, regardless of the difficulty or the reward, it seems that they are similar to those things Xu Xing said before, and more obviously are more difficult to do than what he said.
Shen Shi looked at it for a while, and then thought of the Fulu thing Xu Xing had just mentioned. He has drawn talismans for many years since he was a child, but he never thought of the possibility of using them in the Lingxiao Sect. Together, he couldn’t bear it. After watching for a while and didn’t find a more suitable task, he noticed whether there was any on the whiteboard. About Fulu's mission.
It's just that he has been watching here for a long time, and he has almost searched the entire whiteboard, but he hasn't found even a symbol of Fulu. Shen Shi frowned. It is said that Xu Xing is unlikely to lie to himself. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly moved in his heart. After looking around, no one noticed him. Several new friends Sun You He Xiaomei Jiang Hongguang and the others were also watching the whiteboard carefully at the other end. He quietly walked around the whiteboard and turned around gently and skillfully, but walked behind the whiteboard.
After the white board, there is a large wooden sign with green color. According to Xu Xing's earlier statement, it should be called a green board. Just like the situation on the white board, there are also many notes posted on the green board, but the Ling Xiaozong disciple in front of the green board has a lot less money than the white board, and many of them are older ones from the previous five-year period. disciple.
Several of them noticed that Shen Shi walked to the green board, and they cast some strange glances. However, after a while, everyone might think that Shen Shi was just one of the new disciples who was curious and curious, so they ran to see a fresh one. He didn't care too much, turned his head one by one, and looked at the note on the wooden sign intently.
Shen Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and looked for it on this green board. This time it was unexpectedly smooth. When he saw the third blank sheet of paper on the green board, he realized that it was just an award from the school. The next task, the content is to draw a special rune array on rune paper.
Making talisman paper is not just making talisman. It is exactly what Shen Shi wants. He has no Taoism at the moment. If he wants to make talisman, then the last pass of "injecting spirit" will not pass, but if he only draws a talisman, relying on himself In the past seven years of uninterrupted contact, Shen Shi still feels somewhat confident.
When he was delighted, he looked down, but suddenly frowned, and a look of stunned expression passed across his face, only to see four characters clearly written under the note:
Bring your own materials.