Chapter Twenty-Seven, Top Task
On the morning of the second day, Qingshi attended two classes, one was advanced fire control theory taught by Elder Ding, and the other was the preliminary introduction to advanced water elixirs taught by Elder Xu.
Qingshi was not very interested in these two courses and decided not to take them in the future. When it comes to fire control, Qingshi's fire control methods are very different from the mainstream methods in the Tianlong world, and his own fire control skills are obviously better, so there is no need to learn this course.
There is a more complete and advanced theory in the bluestone memory of refining advanced elixirs, which only requires practice. However, what Elder Xu talks about is a preliminary theory, so there is no need to learn it.
In the afternoon, Qingshi attended Elder Liu's lecture on the relationship between the Five Elements and the properties of medicine, and then went to the Formation Dao Academy to attend a Formation Dao class.
A regular study life began. Qingshi took at least three theoretical classes every day. After class, he also diligently practiced martial arts and studied formation techniques. Time passed quickly for more than half a month, and Qingshi felt very fulfilled.
After class that day, Qingshi came to the central square. This square was nearly 10,000 square feet in size. There were five arenas of varying sizes on the east and west sides of the square, which were used by students to compete and communicate.
There are six circular buildings lined up in a row on the south side of the square, which are the trial halls. Students can spend spirit stones to enter and choose puppets of different strengths to fight, mainly to hone their martial arts.
There is a large three-story wooden building in the northwest outside the square, which is the credit task management office. There is a brick wall dozens of feet long outside the wooden building, which is the credit task release board.
Qingshi walked to the credit task release board and started to look at the tasks on the wall. Both sides of the wall were covered with book-sized metal signs. The upper part of the sign marked the level in large characters, and the content was written directly on the sign in small characters.
Qingshi started looking at low-level tasks. There are various tasks with different credit rewards.
For example, one task is to be a cleaner for a month and be responsible for the cleaning work in a designated area. The credit reward is twenty points.
One assignment was to be a teaching assistant to an elder for a year. He had to be assessed by the elder first, but the reward was 360 credits.
There are also temporary correspondents, couriers, school equipment maintenance workers, etc., which are all classified under the college miscellaneous category.
Qingshi looked at the item contribution categories again. There was one that rewarded thirty points for contributing six taels of cloud grass, one that rewarded one hundred points for turning in thirty kilograms of hematite fine gold, and so on.
In addition to those issued by the college task office, there are many such tasks issued by the elders in the college. Each elder has a certain credit allocation quota. For example, when a student comes to class, the teaching elder will give some credits to the students in the class. Qingshi is in the sky these days. I took fifty-five classes and got fifty-four credits. Except for Fatty Zhong, every teacher gave me one credit for each class.
From this point of view, in theory, you can earn enough credits by taking classes alone. Of course, you need to attend at least 1,600 classes, and you have to meet a teacher like Fatty Zhong. In fact, it is impossible to have so many classes in a school year. superior.
Qingshi spent fifty points on a trip to the gravity chamber, and now only four points are left.
After looking at the item contribution category, Qingshi then looked at the competition category. There are many competitions in the academy, and you will get credits if you participate. The better the competition results, the more credits you will get.
For example, there is a competition held by a martial arts outer school, which only competes on swordsmanship regardless of the level of cultivation. The first place will get 1,200 credits.
Qingshi quickly looked again, and sure enough, the Alchemy Academy also had a competition this month. It was a spiritual material identification competition organized by Elder Zhang. Both the inner and outer academy could participate. The top five were awarded fifty to three hundred credits respectively, and all participants were awarded twenty point. Qingshi naturally made up his mind to sign up.
So I looked at various types of tasks. The last thing I saw were the combat training missions released by the academy. These missions required going out to experience risks, including killing spiritual beasts, eradicating evil people, searching for designated spiritual materials in designated dangerous areas, etc.
The credit rewards for these tasks are very high, but the risks are also very high. Students often get injured or even die while performing such tasks.
Qingshi looked at it for a while and realized that none of these tasks could be completed by him at the moment. He was about to leave when he saw another task that seemed to have something to do with him. He took a closer look at it.
This is a mission package to eradicate the remnants of the Five Poison Sect. This mission began twenty years ago. According to the introduction, twenty years ago, at the invitation of Wushan State, the college participated in an operation to eradicate the Five Poison Sect, the evil cult of Wushan State. It failed. It was thought that a cult had infiltrated into the Wushan Kingdom's court, so secrets were leaked before the operation and a large number of Five Poison Cult members escaped.
After escaping, the members of the Five Poison Cult began to retaliate wildly against the college and killed many students of Tianlong College. Therefore, the college issued a mission package to eradicate the remnants of the Five Poison Cult.
At that time, there were a total of 42 remnants of the Five Poisons in the mission package. Today, twenty years later, only three of them have not yet been brought to justice, and the rest have been killed by generations of students.
Qingshi saw that one of the three people whose cases had not yet been solved was named Wu Yulin. There was news that this person had fled to Dahuang Mountain in Mingshan Kingdom.
Mingshan Country's Dahuang Mountain, it was this familiar place name that made Qingshi feel that it was related to him.
Looking at the detailed introduction, Wu Yulin was about fifty years old, with an ugly appearance and a short stature. She was at the sixth level of Qi Condensation Realm. She had water attribute Qi and was good at using poison. Her weapon was a pair of water attribute daggers.
After reading this, Qingshi couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the old woman killed by the Poison Pond in Dahuang Mountain was Wu Yulin? It can't be such a coincidence, right?
But after comparing the information presentation, I feel that the possibility is very high.
Qingshi looked at the bonus credits again. The credits for killing Wu Yulin were as high as 5,000 points. He couldn't help but feel excited and decided to ask for certification no matter what.
Qingshi took out the pair of water-attribute daggers from the storage ring and looked carefully. Sure enough, he found a small witch character engraved on the bottom of the dagger handles, which was found on both daggers.
Qingshi put away the dagger, thought for a while, and took out several large and small porcelain bottles to check the bottoms of the bottles one by one. Sure enough, he discovered that there were three exquisite small porcelain bottles with witchcraft characters written in red lacquer on the bottoms.
Qingshi no longer had any doubts. He reached out and took off the mission sign. When he turned around, he saw three people wearing martial arts clothes staring at him with their mouths wide open, like monsters.
Qingshi found it funny, coughed and asked: "Three senior brothers, what is this?..."
"Oh," the three of them came to their senses, one with a mustache said, "It seems that the clothing junior just entered the inner courtyard of the alchemy path this year, right?"
"That's right."
"Hehe, um... Junior brother, you are so brave. Do you know that this task is the top task of the academy?"
"Know."
"Hey! Then you still dare to take it? This task has been here for twenty years. It is said that it has been picked three times in the past few years, but it was returned before it was completed."
"Why?"
"I don't know why. I just want to remind you that this task is one of the top ten difficult tasks recognized by the academy. It is very dangerous. Don't just look at the high credits. Be careful not to get yourself involved."
"Thanks."
"This junior brother is really serious," the mustache said patiently, "This Wu Yulin was at the sixth level of Qi Condensation Realm twenty years ago. You shouldn't be at the fifth level of Qi Gathering Realm, right?"
"Three sections"
"Oh, third level, that's good. Wu Yulin also has water attribute Qi and corresponding martial arts and spiritual weapons. She is also good at using poison. Not to mention that you probably can't find her. Even if you find her, can you still beat her? ? Why not die in vain!"
The mustachioed man said he was patient, but in his heart he was cursing that this kid seemed to be deliberately pretending to tease me, otherwise I wouldn't kick your butt because you are an alchemist.
Qingshi smiled secretly in his heart, looked at the mustache and said: "Thank you, senior brother, for reminding me." After saying that, he smiled and squeezed past the three of them, "I borrowed it, thank you, senior brother!" and then walked to the task management office.
"Wait a minute," the older and kinder brother on the left caught up to stop Qingshi and said, "Junior brother, didn't Senior Brother Huang make it clear to you just now? You really can't accept this mission. Don't make trouble. Come on, be good! Put the sign back up quickly."
"Who said I was going to take on this mission?" Qingshi said seriously, "I am going to take on this mission."
After saying that, Qingshi left in a hurry, leaving only the three of them messy in the wind.
Walking into the lobby of the Task Management Office, Qingshi saw a row of twenty reception counters. There were students handing in tasks in front of several counters, and the people behind the counters wearing receptionist badges were all students. Then he remembered what he had just seen This serving as a task receptionist is also a credit task in itself.
Qingshi looked around and found that the reception counters were divided into categories. There was a sign above each reception counter indicating the category. The reception desk for the experience mission is a single large counter on the far right, and the person sitting behind it is not a student, but a teacher.
Qingshi walked over, put the task sign in his hand on the counter and said: "Hello, elder, I will hand in the task."
"Well, what's the mission?" The elder was thin and had a goatee, and his beard curled up as he spoke.
As he spoke, he took the sign and took a look. He couldn't help but be surprised. He looked up and down at the bluestone and stared, "You can't be mistaken, are you? How can you complete this task? Besides, I remember this sign from the past two days." Are you still here? When did you pick up the task and register it? Yesterday, Lao Yang was on duty. Could it be that you picked up the task yesterday and completed it today?"
"Elder, please listen to my explanation," Qingshi said calmly, "I just picked this mission sign. Just now I saw this mission outside and found that the mission target Wu Yulin had been eliminated by me three years ago, so I came in after accepting this mission, and I wanted to ask the elder if this counts as completing the mission?"
"Get rid of it?" the goatee elder said loudly with his eyes widened, "Three years ago?" It attracted the attention of many students, and the mustached senior brother and three other people also followed to watch the fun.
"Yes," Qingshi took out the pair of daggers and placed them on the counter, "This is the proof." The pair of daggers were the physical evidence mentioned in the mission requirements.
Goatee grabbed the dagger and looked at it carefully, and then said to Qingshi: "Follow me." He turned around and walked to the wooden ladder to go upstairs, and Qingshi followed.
After coming up to the second floor, Goatee took Qingshi to a room and asked him to wait for a while before going out. In less than a stick of incense, he came back with two elders. The first one was an old woman with gray hair and a kind face, and the one behind him was Slightly fat middle-aged man.
The old woman looked at Qingshi and smiled and said, "This classmate is a student from the inner courtyard of Dan Dao. I am Liu Changqing, the person in charge of the task management office. This is Elder Fan. The person who brought you up is Elder Yu. What is your name? ?”
"Student Qingshi, hello Elder Liu, hello Elder Fan, hello Elder Yu!" Qingshi saluted one by one.
"Well," the old woman said, looking at the pair of daggers in her hand, "These are indeed Wu Yulin's weapons. Can you tell me how you got rid of this evil man? Don't worry, let's sit down and talk slowly." As he spoke, he asked everyone to sit down.
Qingshi listened to the old man's words with a feeling of spring breeze. Then he looked at the two people next to him who were staring at him with friendly eyes. He immediately sorted out his thoughts and said: "The student originally lived in seclusion with his master in a town near Dahuang Mountain in Mingshan State. Five years ago, my master entered Dahuang Mountain. While collecting medicine, I was poisoned unknowingly, and then I was attacked and injured by someone. The person who attacked me was this evil woman Wu Yulin. Although the master was poisoned and injured, he still severely injured her internal organs and cut off one of her legs. But I The master died of poison soon after returning home. Three years ago, I accidentally obtained a treasure that could cure hundreds of poisons, so I went into the wilderness to collect medicine. Later, I really met that evil woman. She has been poisoned by me since The master’s internal injuries have not healed since the injury, and there were still signs of poisoning, so when she found out about me she did not attack me directly, but set up a trap to get me into the poisonous fog area. I used this trick to pretend to be poisoned until she thought I had been poisoned. When Dufa came to search me, I suddenly sprinkled the poisonous black ear grass powder I had prepared on her, blinding her eyes and finally killing her, finally avenging my master. "
As he spoke, Qingshi took out three exquisite small porcelain bottles and handed them to Elder Liu, saying: "These are also the belongings of that evil woman, and there are some other things, but I just checked, and only these three bottles have the word "witch" written on the bottom. "
Elder Fan took a bottle from Elder Liu, first looked at the writing on the bottom, then uncorked the bottle and looked inside, then leaned closer to the mouth of the bottle and sniffed, and said with some excitement, "Yes, this is unique to the old poisonous woman. The Seven Poison Powder.”
Then Elder Fan looked at Qingshi and said: "You not only avenged your master, but also avenged our college. I also participated in the campaign to suppress the Five Poison Cult. Those who were poisoned by this old poisonous woman were not Young Master, in addition to the monks from Wushan Kingdom, seven or eight students in our college were poisoned by this old poisonous woman’s Qi Du Powder, and one of the junior fellow apprentices even lost his life.”
"Very good," Elder Liu said happily to Qingshi, "the last remnant of the Five Poison Sect was killed six years ago, and now another one has been killed. You have done a lot of credit! This credit reward is a lot. Give them all to you. But I have to keep this pair of daggers and medicine bottles for a while. This matter needs to be reported at the academic meeting at the end of the month. The dagger and medicine bottles are physical evidence and need to be presented. I will return them after the meeting. For you."
Elder Yu next to him said, "Qingshi, you are an alchemist. I'm afraid you won't be able to use these water-type daggers. If you are willing, you can exchange them for credits. It would also be a good idea to use the credits to exchange for weapons you can use."
Qingshi nodded and thanked.
Elder Liu stood up and said, "Okay, Lao Yu, help him register and distribute the prize." He encouraged Qingshi a few words and then left with Elder Fan.
Elder Yu took Qingshi downstairs, came to the counter and registered the relevant procedures in person, and then said to Qingshi: "Bring me the credit card."
Qingshi took out the card and handed it over. This credit card is issued to every student by the college. It only corresponds to the student. It is made of metal and is about the size of half a palm.
Under the gaze of the onlookers, Elder Yu placed Qingshi's credit card on a one-foot-square metal platform engraved with array patterns. A translucent square in front of the metal platform showed Qingshi's name and a number: four. The crowd burst into laughter.
Elder Yu moved his fingers, and the number became five thousand and four. Suddenly, everyone, including the three mustached people, was stunned.
