Chapter 4077 — The Cultivators' Guild
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"The North Island Cultivators' Guild?" Having been on Cloud Terrace Island for the better part of a year, this was the first time Wei Zhao had heard the name.
Hong Zhong nodded. "That's right. It's a guild organization that in theory encompasses every cultivator on North Island. The Triple-Stack Pavilion leads it, and the various other powers and humble independent cultivators all register and gather there as well. Every day it posts all manner of bounty trial missions, and only cultivators who have registered there may take on missions and collect the bounties."
"Oh? So I can go too, then?" Wei Zhao's eyes lit up.
"Of course. Triple-Stack Pavilion disciples are the main crowd there. I imagine you've heard as much, Young Hero Lin—after a newcomer's one-year term at the Welcome Pavilion ends and they enter the Triple-Stack Pavilion, they become formal outer disciples. Unless one becomes a Golden Core core disciple, or takes a master among the pavilion's elders and other high-ranking figures, cultivation resources remain very limited. To advance quickly, one must rely on oneself and keep taking trial missions for rewards." Hong Zhong explained it carefully.
"But I've heard people say the Triple-Stack Pavilion posts missions of its own as well?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled.
"That's right. But the missions the Triple-Stack Pavilion posts are generally high-risk, high-bounty affairs. They're prepared specifically for Triple-Stack Pavilion disciples, yet without sufficient strength an ordinary outer disciple simply can't handle them. By contrast, the bounty missions posted daily by the North Island Cultivators' Guild are far lower in difficulty. For the vast majority of Triple-Stack Pavilion outer disciples, that's the shortcut to gaining experience and earning spirit jade at the same time. That Heart-Eating Linglong Grass you had me purchase before—it came from a bounty mission posted over there," Hong Zhong revealed.
Wei Zhao's interest was thoroughly roused, and he itched to try. "Elder Hong, are there any threshold requirements for registering at the Cultivators' Guild?"
"No threshold to speak of—so long as your strength reaches Foundation Establishment or above, that's enough. Your Welcome Pavilion generally doesn't encourage newcomers to take trial missions there, so they never mention it to you at all. But given your strength, Young Hero Lin, that's another matter entirely." Hong Zhong smiled faintly.
"Good. Then I'll go and give it a try." Wei Zhao decided on the spot.
Before the words had faded, Shangguan Lan'er and Ning Xuefei suddenly spoke as one: "Wonderful! We're coming too!"
Wei Zhao's face instantly darkened, but before he could object, Hong Zhong had already spoken on his behalf: "You may not. That place is incomparably dangerous. If the two of you went, you'd not only be of no help to Young Hero Lin—you'd bring trouble down on him. It's been only a few days—have you already forgotten Si Haitao?"
"Grandpa Hong, it's not as though we're certain to run into that old scoundrel..." Shangguan Lan'er said weakly.
Hong Zhong shook his head helplessly. "What I mean is, in the cultivation world, scum like him are hardly one or two in number. Female cultivators of your looks are the center of attention wherever you go—it's all too easy to stir up trouble. And the trial grounds lie entirely outside the control of the Triple-Stack Pavilion and West Island. If something happened, there'd be no time to save you."
"Well then, I suppose Junior Brother will have to go alone." Shangguan Lan'er and Ning Xuefei stuck out their tongues. Flighty as they were, they were not without sense; if going would only bring Wei Zhao trouble, then better not to go at all. R1152