Chapter 439: Crystal Pad Network - 439
The network behind the crystal pads and crystal balls spanned the entire world, or at least that was what was said.
While the crystal pads in the rogue cultivator guild could only be used to find missions within a certain area, it is said that there are higher level crystal pads that could freely browse the network, though not all information could be freely seen, or seen at all.
Zhu Yi looked forward to using the crystal pads, but first, he needed to actually sign up. After waiting in a line for a while, Zhu Yi finally reached the front desk.
"Welcome to the rogue cultivator guild. How can I help you?" The lady behind the desk asked in a tired voice.
"I'd like to join the guild." Zhu Yi said.
The lady nodded and pulled out a clipboard from under the desk. "We need your name, cultivation, and blood."
Zhu Yi nodded. They did not need too much information.
"Your blood will be kept on standby in case you lose this card. In the case that you lose the card, the blood test will be taken." The lady said as she handed Zhu Yi a card.
The card had nothing special about it, or at least not to the naked eye. According to what Zhu Yi had heard, there was some sort of special mark on the card that only core formation realm cultivators could see.
At the core formation realm, simply having a card did not mean anything and there were different forms of identification, but below the core formation realm, the card and blood were the only two means used.
Zhu Yi took his card and lined up near the pads. His information was uploaded into the crystal pad network almost instantly after receiving his card.
When Zhu Yi reached the crystal pad, he scanned his card on the top of it.
A screen popped up that read, "Welcome Zhu Yi."
Zhu Yi looked over the screen and attempted to understand how it worked.
He tapped on it, and the words went away. With a blue background, there were 3 icons.
One read, crystal web. Another read, missions. The final one read, personal information.
Zhu Yi clicked on the crystal web icon in curiosity, but a screen asking for a username and password appeared.
Zhu Yi helplessly clicked out of it and clicked on personal information. On it was his name and cultivation, as well as rank within the rogue guild.
The rank of a cultivator was increased by completing missions and gaining mission points. Even a nascent soul realm cultivator could be at the F rank. Zhu Yi was also at the F rank.
The ranks in order were posted on the wall. It went: F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS, X.
There were apparently benefits gained with a higher rank, but Zhu Yi did not know what they were.
Finally, Zhu YI clicked off of personal information and tapped on the missions icon. A long list of missions appeared, but a button at the top that read, "Find fitting missions" made everything easier.
Zhu Yi clicked on it and countless missions disappeared. What remained were basic F rank missions within the vicinity. While anyone could take a mission of any rank, it was more or less better to focus on missions within the same rank unless you entered the rogue cultivator guild already powerful.
The missions were sorted from F to X based on importance, and although it was theoretically possible for a Qi gathering cultivator to reach X rank, X rank missions were more or less impossible for anyone below the absolute peak of the world, which was why there were probably few.
Of course, as an F rank member, Zhu Yi could only see missions up to A rank, which were already far out of his league.
Zhu Yi found an F rank mission to retrieve Qi gathering realm beast tendons. There were countless shops around the entire world that used such things.
This mission was perfect for Zhu Yi. He could find where beasts were and absorb their core while also making money.
It was a win-win-win situation.
Zhu Yi took a mission and the location where that specific beast resided popped up. Zhu Yi grabbed a piece of paper that was next to the crystal pad and wrote it down. Naturally, it was quite far away from the city. He would need to travel for a few days even while running at his fastest speed. Luckily, the mission paid a fair amount.
In general, only Foundation Establishment realm cultivators could touch spirit stones, so this mission paid in gold. It would seem like a lot to mortals, but cultivators found metal coins more or less useless.
The Inn that Zhu Yi stayed at was still a mortal inn, though the prices were sky high due to being in a cultivator city.
Zhu Yi soon left the rogue cultivator guild and walked towards the exit of the city with a loan backpack on his back. With his hatred for that arrogant old man, Zhu Yi had a newfound motivation to get stronger, and waiting even a single day was impossible.
Zhu Yi began to run out of the city, Zhou Fan on his shoulder as always.
Traveling on the path was uneventful as usual, besides the flying cultivator that Zhu Yi saw. It was his first time seeing a person fly, not including Zhou Fan in his soul form.
"I guess I'll be able to do that eventually, right master." Zhu Yi said with a tone of longing.
"You better." Zhou Fan said. He still needed Zhu Yi to beat up that old man.
After around 4 days of running and resting, Zhu Yi finally entered the "Lizard Beast Forest".
As for why it was called the lizard beast forest, it was not hard to comprehend.
Zhu Yi looked up as he walked along. He moved quietly and carefully. Although there were foundation establishment realm lizards in the forest, they would stay in the inner portion. Zhu Yi only needed to worry about peak Qi gathering realm beasts. After all, he was only at the 5th level of the Qi gathering realm.
Chapter 440: Lizard Beast Cores - 440
Zhu Yi walked deep into the forest while staying alert. Zhou Fan was on his shoulder, acting as an additional lookout. This was all Zhou Fan could do in order to help before he recovered more.
As Zhu Yi walked, he suddenly fell into a crouch. Up ahead, laying on a tree, was one of the lizard beasts that inhabited the lizard beast forest.
"3rd level Qi gathering." Zhou Fan said.
This was another way that Zhou Fan could assist Zhu Yi. After all, no matter what, he still had the river of cultivation.
Zhu Yi, who had been unable to estimate its cultivation, nodded and crept forward. He got closer and closer, but after entering a range of about 20 feet, the lizard beast's head snapped up. It jumped off of the tree and launched towards Zhu Yi.
Zhu Yi hurriedly dodged its sharp claws and punched it in the side. The lizard hit the ground hard, and Zhu Yi took a dagger out from behind him.
He had made a stop in white palace city to buy that dagger. After all, he needed to cut out the beast cores.
He used the dagger as a weapon and stabbed the beast multiple times before it died. Without being able to wait or rest for a moment, Zhu Yi began to cut into the beast. Luckily, the dagger was quite sharp.
Soon, Zhu Yi held a beast core in his hand. He touched it with his ring, and Zhou Fan tested his theory.
The river of cultivation moved, and like a river washed away dirt, the will of the dead beast was washed away. The beast core was then absorbed into the ring.
Zhou Fan felt a very slight amount of recovery. It was about equal to half of a low quality spirit stone.
It was a very small amount, but there were countless Qi gathering realm beasts around the world.
In addition, once Zhu Yi could hunt foundation establishment realm beasts, everything would be much better.
Qi gathering beasts, as well as Qi gathering cultivators, had very little Qi.
Zhu Yi moved around the edges of the forest. After digging out the beast core, he would also take the tendons out.
After nearly two days of nonstop hunting, Zhu Yi camped in the forest. The mission had requested 1000 Qi gathering realm beast tendons, and Zhu Yi had already gathered 900. He only needed 100 more, but he was too exhausted to continue. He fell asleep while Zhou Fan kept watch.
The night passed by safely and Zhu Yi soon woke up. "Let's start another day, Master."
Zhu Yi had gained a lot more confidence and did not even hide himself any longer since he felt so safe.
Zhu Yi soon gathered the remaining hundred, but just as he turned around from the corpse of a beast, Zhou Fan spoke.
"Dodge."
Zhu Yi did not hesitate and leaped to the side. Where he was previously standing, a lizard's claws were buried into the ground.
Zhou Fan assessed the threat. "It is at the 7th level of the Qi gathering realm. Run."
He did not need to tell Zhu Yi. From the moment he heard the number 7, he had began running as fast as he could.
In the wider universe that Zhou Fan knew, humans and humanoid creatures almost exclusively held the advantage over beasts of the same level. This was due to passing down techniques and the large amount of battle experience accumulated while cultivating to a high level.
In this world, however, there was no such advantage. If 100 random humans and 100 random beasts on the same level were to spar, the beasts would win 90 out of 100 times.
This was not only due to the relatively low strength in this world, but also due to the lack of inheritances passed down. There simply wasn't as much of a foundation in a single world as in the wider universe.
Of course, even in this world, there were exceptions. A prime example is Chen Jie. However, there were also exceptions among beasts, such as dragons and phoenixes, or rather, most supreme beasts in general.
Zhu Yi was not a dragon, phoenix, Chen Jie, or a person from the wider universe. Therefore, rightfully so, he ran away.
No matter where, beasts had an advantage in the Qi gathering realm, a time when Qi was barely accessible. Their stronger body's made an obvious gap.
Zhu Yi ran, and the lizard beast followed. Zhu Yi had already been close to the exit of the forest and soon ran past it.
The beast did not stop chasing simply because Zhu Yi left the forest. It ran after him, slowly catching up.
Zhu Yi focused on running away from the beast while Zhou Fan made a plan inside his head.
A short time later, Zhou Fan had an idea. "Run to the open plains. Forest beasts can feel uncomfortable without any cover. It may stop chasing you."
"May!?" Zhu Yi asked.
"You got a better idea?"
Zhu Yi shook his head and took a turn. He bursted through some leaves and ran into a plains.
Looking from behind his shoulder, Zhu Yi saw the lizard stop for a moment, clearly hesitating.
Then, the lizard continued chasing him.
"What now?!" Zhu Yi asked desperately.
"I suppose you'll just have to fight to the death. Ready your weapon. I'll try to guide you." Zhou Fan said.
Zhu Yi nodded and gripped his dagger. Just as he was about to stop and turn around to face the lizard, he tripped and fell down face first.
"Oww." He heard a voice. It was the voice of a girl.
Zhu Yi got up and turned around. Behind him, he saw an approaching lizard and a girl no older than 16 rubbing her head.
"What is a girl doing out here? Damn girl!" Although Zhu Yi cursed, he ran in front of the girl. He could not let some innocent get hurt because of the lizard.
Just as Zhu Yi was about to charge, Zhou Fan spoke. "Don't worry about her. She'll be fine."
Zhu Yi was about to question him, but an icicle shot past his face and into the skull of the lizard.
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