Chapter 93: Mission Selection and Training (2)
Translator: Henyee Translations | Editor: Henyee Translations
âFellow Daoist Lin, long time no see. I was talking to Kou Ming about you yesterday. How have you been?â
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âThank you for your concern, Master Tao and Senior Brother Kou. Iâve been busy cultivating recently, so I didnât go out much.â Lin Shen smiled and nodded in greeting.
âThatâs good. Youâre very talented. You should focus on cultivating. Your future will definitely be limitless!â
Tao Zongbao didnât hesitate when he said all those mushy things. Then, he smiled and asked,
âFellow Daoist Lin, what brings you to the Internal Affairs Department? If you need my help, feel free to ask!â
âI do have something to trouble Master Tao with.â
Lin Shen deliberated over his words and slowly asked, âMaster Tao, do you have channels to obtain special herbs or pills that have powerful side effects but can increase the efficiency of cultivation, such as the Snake Orchid or the Blood Boiling Powder?â
Tao Zongbao was stunned. He seemed to have thought of something and had an extremely strange expression.
âFellow Daoist Lin, even Master Si admires and acknowledges your talent. As long as you follow the prescribed order and cultivate steadily, youâll one day become a cultivator master. Even if you fall into a low point, youâll be able to make a comeback sooner or later. Thereâs really no need to take the riskâŠâ
If it were any other time, Tao Zongbao wouldnât have thought too much about it.
However, Lin Shenâs record had been spreading like wildfire recently.
Many Yellow-rank disciples had even publicly announced that they would replace Lin Shen as a Black-rank disciple in three months.
Tao Zongbao immediately thought Lin Shen couldnât withstand the pressure, so he wanted to take a shortcut to increase his strength so that he could keep his spot as a Black-rank disciple in the level challenge three months later.
Seeing that Tao Zongbao looked like he wanted to say something but hesitated, Lin Shen knew he was mistaken. He hurriedly said, âMaster Tao, Iâm not looking for these things for myself. I need them for other uses!â
He wasnât lying. After all, those things were indeed not used by himself.
Seeing Lin Shenâs bright eyes and solemn expression, Tao Zongbao didnât feel Lin Shen was hiding something, so he was relieved.
Come to think of it, Lin Shen didnât look like such an impulsive person.
Why would he risk his future?
With all his doubts gone, Tao Zongbao smiled again and thought for a moment.
âAlthough these kinds of things are rare, many disciples in the academy have accidentally obtained them when they were training outside. However, because the price-performance ratio isnât high, they have always been difficult to sell. If someone is willing to buy them, I believe the disciples wonât turn down the offer. HoweverâŠâ
Lin Shen understood and immediately said, âI can buy it with merit points!â
Tao Zongbaoâs smile broadened.
âThen thereâs no problem. Donât worry, Fellow Daoist Lin. I promise to get a fair price for you!â
âThank you, Master Tao!â
The two of them tacitly didnât talk about the difference in selling and purchasing prices.
Since Lin Shen had asked for a favor, he had to pay Tao Zongbao a little fee.
Lin Shen didnât care what price Tao Zongbao would buy things from others. As long as the final price he gave didnât exceed his expectations, it was fine.
Moreover, he didnât think Tao Zongbao would be stupid enough to offend him for a little benefit.
If Tao Zongbao was really so short-sighted, he wouldnât have been able to climb to the position of a deacon of the Internal Affairs Department.
After leaving the Internal Affairs Department, Lin Shen heaved a sigh of relief and looked overjoyed.
After a few searches by Old Wu, most of the rare herbs and pills on the black street that had similar effects to Condensing Liquid had been consumed by Clone 2.
Recently, Old Wu had collected fewer and fewer rare herbs and pills each time.
It was foreseeable that it wouldnât be long before there were no similar rare herbs and pills on the black street.
That was why Lin Shen had set his sights on the Nine Yang Academy.
However, what disappointed him was that there were no similar items on the exchange list of the Merit Hall.
Probably not many disciples would exchange for such things. The academy didnât want to see disciples use these things to take shortcuts either, so they simply removed them from the list.
Kou Ming happened to introduce Tao Zongbao to Lin Shen.
At that moment, Lin Shen had an idea. He wanted to ask Tao Zongbao to look for him.
That was why he took a trip to the Internal Affairs Department today.
Tao Zongbao didnât disappoint Lin Shen. He agreed to help right away.
It was worth mentioning that the Nine Yang Academy prohibited disciples from exchanging merit points.
However, when there were policies, there were countermeasures. Since merit points couldnât be traded, the disciples would trade items that were exchanged with merit points.
The academy couldnât forbid disciples from exchanging items, right? Hence, a disguised merit points transaction was created.
âI have to earn a lot of merit points as soon as possible!â
If he wanted to trade for enough rare herbs or pills, Lin Shenâs current three minor merits were clearly far from enough.
Thinking of this, Lin Shen immediately rushed to the Merit Hall.
The Mission Hall again was still filled with wooden tablets as usual.
Lin Shen concentrated and carefully searched through the wooden tablets.
He first eliminated intelligence missions.
The uncertainty of this kind of mission was too great. If he encountered unexpected danger, it would be too late to cry!
Secondly, the duty-type mission was also ruled out by Lin Shen.
Not only was the reward for this kind of mission low, but the missions also took a long time. It was safe, but the cost-performance ratio was too low.
Excluding the two types of missions, the only ones left were the collection and crusade types.
The former didnât need to accept the mission beforehand. He could wait until he obtained the item before taking the corresponding wooden token to complete the mission.
Therefore, Lin Shenâs attention was mainly on the crusade missions..
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