Chapter 4080 — The North Island Expert Rankings
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
A big merchant house with deep capital like the Hong Commerce, when it lacked some item, would usually just post a bounty to buy it, but that approach did not suit the small traders whose capital was thin.
They generally recruited a few hands of their own to form trial squads. Besides gathering goods for themselves, such squads could also earn spirit jade through bounty missions—small capital, two gains in one stroke. Yet this approach was highly uncertain, and their supply of goods was often insufficient, so they were doomed to remain small merchant houses.
Passing through the noisy, bustling main hall that felt like a vegetable market, Wei Zhao went straight to a room on one side. It bore a sign: this was the dedicated registration point.
In truth, if Wei Zhao had come solely for the Life-Form Mushroom, he need not have come to the North Island Cultivators' Guild at all; he could have tried to make his way directly to Mount Tianwu in Hucai. But in the end Wei Zhao decided to follow Hong Zhong's advice and come here to register and sign up.
Because once a mission was accepted here, one could obtain the corresponding intelligence directly from the Cultivators' Guild—route maps and every sort of caution and notice—which saved a great deal of tedious preparation. That was what Wei Zhao truly needed.
The registration process was not complicated. After Wei Zhao revealed his cultivation at the Foundation Establishment stage, he waited only a short moment, and soon it was smoothly approved, and he received a membership card of the Cultivators' Guild.
Of course, it was not given for free; it cost one hundred spirit jade.
Like the spirit jade card, once one's signature true qi was input, it could identify and verify identity through a special micro formation array. It was something of a "technological product" unique to Cloud Tier Island; its reliability and security far surpassed similar products on Earth, so one hundred spirit jade could hardly be called expensive.
This membership card was not only the badge of Wei Zhao's membership in the North Island Cultivators' Guild; the bounty rewards from missions done in the future would all be paid directly onto this card, and like the spirit jade card, it could be used for spending at the major merchant houses under the Commerce Alliance.
And under the face Wei Zhao now wore, the name displayed on the membership card was "Ling Yi."
With the membership card done, Wei Zhao's next order of business was naturally to accept missions. The North Island Cultivators' Guild divided its missions into two areas: one for the Golden Core stage, one for the Foundation Establishment stage.
Gold Core members had private, elegant rooms, and missions were accepted within those rooms. Yet many Golden Core missions were posted by Triple Stack Pavilion, and the vast majority were taken internally by Triple Stack Pavilion disciples; rarely did anyone come here to accept missions, save for the very few powerful rogue cultivators.
As for the Foundation Establishment mission area, it was this very main hall Wei Zhao had just passed through, and the situation was the exact opposite of the Golden Core side—crowded and bustling, packed to bursting. All missions were written up as mission boards and hung on the great black board in the center; once a mission was completed it was removed, and those already accepted but not yet finished were ticked on the board to show they were in progress.
However, apart from the various bounty missions, Wei Zhao noticed another black board set alongside it, filled from top to bottom with names, which was likewise a focus of attention and discussion for everyone present.