Chapter 79 The Ghosts of Baiyun Mountain
The procedures are very simple. Just register a name, leave a magic mark, and get a token. Since Zhang Ying is a special talent, he doesn't need to conduct an assessment and becomes a guest official of the Tongtian Sword Sect. He was also assigned to a separate courtyard with an alchemy room. This is also considered a special care on the crowded Dushan Mountain, and it would not work without the dean's words.
After the registration is over, I pass by the main hall when I go to the courtyard. This main hall is where the guests accept tasks. The Tongtian Sword Sect treats guests with more work and more rewards, and there is no need to work. If you can contribute more to the sect, you will get rewards. However, due to the limited resources given to the guest court every year, some sect tasks that are shared with the Tongtian Sword Sect will be occasionally distributed here. Of course, the mission remuneration is provided by the sect.
In the hall, there is a task now that is long-term.
‘Task: Clear the ghost soldiers in Baiyun Mountain. The mission time limit is not limited, the task cultivation level is not limited. Please contact the relevant personnel of Baiyun Temple to hand in the task.’
Zhang Ying was stunned when he saw this mission and said to the Taoist Lu beside him: "Have the ghost soldiers in Baiyun Mountain not finished the settlement yet?"
Dao Ren Lu shook his head and said, "Where is this easy? Those ghost soldiers transformed Baiyun Mountain. The original mountain protection formation turned into a large formation to protect them. In addition, the number of ghost soldiers is very easy to defend but difficult to attack."
"Shouldn't the Sword Sect send out the help of the Foundation Establishment Stage masters?" Zhang Ying asked in confusion. Ghost soldiers are the greatest enemy of human beings. No matter what the reason is, human cultivators will wipe out them.
"How can we explain the matters of the superiors clearly? Anyway, it's enough to limit those ghost soldiers to not leave the mountain now. If you really want to solve it, you may have to take action from the Jindan Ancestor. But every time the Jindan Ancestor takes action, there is a danger of being ascended, and the Sword Sect should be measuring it." said Lu Dao Ren.
"Does the Jindan Ancestor have to take action? Several sword cultivators in the late stage of foundation building are almost the same." Zhang Ying asked curiously.
"It is not difficult for the Sword Sect to send out a few middle-stage foundation building people, but it is difficult to send out late-stage great monks. There are not many people, there are still people who are in vain, some people who are in danger, some people who are in the air, and some people who cannot take action. It is more difficult to send out a few late-stage foundation building people than to let the ancestor take action."
People are selfish, and monks are also human beings. It is not related to the life and death of their own sects. These monks in the late stage of foundation building really don’t want to take action. Almost all of these people are looking for opportunities to break through to the Golden Pill stage. Just like Zhang Ying’s high school in his previous life, the senior high school students were the busiest, but the second year of high school who was under such pressure, and the first year of high school students were the most keen on various activities.
As for the ancestors of the Golden Pill stage, they all use secret techniques to suppress themselves and prevent the world from excluding themselves from ascending. Almost capable sects will have one or two such ancestors as their final foundation. Every time they take action, they risk being rejected and ascended.
Ascension is not what the Jindan monk wants to do, but the world can no longer accommodate such high-energy creatures, and the world excludes them to a higher-level world. It is similar to dimensionality upgrading.
Zhang Ying said: "If this continues, all the ghost soldiers in Baiyun Mountain will run away. How can they catch them then?" The ghost soldiers can roam in the living world by relying on their hidden abilities. Now they finally emerge on their own initiative, and it would be a loss if they don't take this opportunity to kill them.
"There is no choice but to do it. Now many guest officials have set out to Baiyun Mountain." said Dao Ren Lu. It's a pity that Dao Ren Lu is not good at killing, otherwise he would have gone too.
The ghost energy obtained by killing can be sold by yourself, and Baiyunshan also gives an extra reward. Such a thing is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Leaving the hall, he took Zhang Ying to his own courtyard. Taoist Lu said, "This is your courtyard. You still have a certain reputation among the casual cultivators. I will promote it again. Soon you will have work to do. Of course, you can take over the alchemy mission of Tongtian Sword Sect."
Zhang Ying said: "That golden energy crystallizes..."
Dao Ren Lu smiled and said, "Not all tasks reward the gold energy crystal. But you can exchange it from other fellow Taoists to the gold energy crystal through trading. I don't know other places, but there are still many fellow Taoists here who have the gold energy crystal in their hands."
Most of the guests in the guest court are cultivators in the late stage of Qi training. The Tongtian Sword Sect is not a philanthropist and will not raise a group of cultivators in the early stage of Qi training. Only the late stage monks are eligible to apply to join the guest court. As for Zhang Ying, it is because he is a "craftsman" and he does not force his cultivation.
In the late stage of Qi training, especially those in the ninth level of Qi training, there is not much demand for the crystallization of gold qi because there is no need to increase the quantity, but to increase the quality. These people have a large amount of gold qi crystals in their hands. This is also the benefit of relying on the big sects, and the resources are always rich.
Zhang Ying's courtyard happened to be built on the side of Tongtian City. Although there is no surging river in this direction, you can see the prosperous Tongtian City. Especially the bright lights of Tongtian City under the night sky are no worse than the night view of the big city in the previous life.
There is no more river view rooms, but there is still night view rooms!
After resting in his yard for one night, Zhang Ying planned to go to Tongtian City to buy some supplies.
Tongtian City is a city where monks and mortals live in harmony. I don’t know if it is a tacit understanding. There are several Buddhist temples in Tongtian City. Especially Jiangshan Temple, this is the Buddhist temple known as the number one in Jianzhou, where there are holy monks from the Jindan stage.
In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that Tongtian City has a population of more than 30 million, and it is strange that there is no Buddhist temple. Buddhist and Taoist practice does not require gold energy, it only requires popularity, and there is no overlap in the cultivation resources. This may be the reason why the Tongtian Sword School allows Buddhist and Taoist teachings here.
With two major sects in charge, Tongtian City naturally became the center of practice and city center of Jianzhou. Every day, countless convoys of caravans, horse teams and camel teams transport massive amounts of supplies. With Tongtian River's amazing river transportation throughput, the city's prosperity can be maintained.
Riding on the Red Tide to walk in Tongtian City, Zhang Ying also discovered that the city was huge. There were many high-rise buildings. The brick-concrete structure could not support towering buildings, but the reinforcement array was different. Although the building was very high, it was not exaggerated to be hundreds of meters high, at most seventy or eighty meters. Due to the existence of the array, these houses had different styles and all kinds of weird ones.
Zhang Ying even saw houses floating in the sky, using suspended magic arrays. This magic array consumes a lot of magic power, and I don’t know how much it will cost. There is no natural magic power such as spirit stones in this world. Magic power is obtained through refining qi, and cultivating magic power is a abilities that only intelligent creatures have. The magic power that drives the large array requires monks to instill magic power into magic tools.
This kind of floating magic array uses mana all the time, so monks need to constantly replenish their mana into the magic weapon. Hiring monks costs money, and they also need to provide Yuanqi Pill to restore their mana. A suspended building is a show-off object piled up with Yuanqi Pill.
After asking about the enthusiastic stranger, Zhang Ying learned that the largest medicinal materials trading market was near the dock, so he rode the red tide to the dock.
Chapter completed!