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.