Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 412: 1 Road to Immortality 3

Yun Chu joined the huge crowd of people entering the city. After paying the spirit stones required to enter the city, he finally stepped into the hustle and bustle of the huge city of Anzhou.

The complex scent that hit her face lifted her spirits, but also made her more cautious in restraining her breath.

Possessing spatial abilities and rich accumulation, she is now seen by everyone as just a dusty and ordinary-dressed casual cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining.

She had a clear goal and avoided the gorgeous shops in the core area that exuded strong medicinal fragrance or sharp sword energy, and headed towards the quieter area in the east of the city.

The streets here are still busy, but the houses are lower and the spiritual energy is thinner, which is more in line with the spending power of an ordinary casual cultivator.

At the end of a relatively quiet alley, Yun Chu found a "Ke'anju" place that provides short-term rentals for casual cultivators.

The yard is not big, with a total of six or seven houses. The residents are all casual cultivators with the same low level as her, or even lower.

"Fellow Daoist, would you like to rent a house?" An old man in the early stage of Qi Refining beside the courtyard gate raised his eyelids. He was the manager of this place.

"Well, I need a quiet room for at least one month." Yun Chu's voice was flat as he handed over a small bag of spirit stones.

"The third room in the east wing, closer to the inside, is quite quiet. Eight low-grade spirit stones a month, and you have to bring your own food." The old man took the spirit stones and tossed over a simple wooden talisman key. "The rules are written on the wooden planks of the porch, so take a look."

Yun Chu followed his instructions and came to the third room in the east wing.

As I pushed the door open, a smell of old wood and dust came in.

The room was extremely small, only accommodating a bed, a table, and a chair. The walls were made of ordinary earth and stone, without any signs of any formation reinforcement.

However, the window faces a small abandoned vegetable patch in the backyard, which avoids the noise from the alley.

Yun Chu quickly closed the door. Although he did not set up any advanced formations to avoid attracting attention, he also carefully pasted a basic and ubiquitous "isolation talisman" to slightly isolate himself from sounds and ordinary spiritual observations.

She needed to keep a low profile. Before the Xianyao Sect opened its gates, she was just an ordinary casual cultivator.

Putting down the simple package, Yun Chu began to plan his initial life in Anzhou City.

The first thing is to earn enough money to live here, and try to integrate into this grassroots circle of casual cultivators as inconspicuously as possible to obtain some basic information.

In the following days, Anzhou City's huge and active task distribution system became Yun Chu's main destination.

Yun Chu would go to the edge of the "Free Cultivator Market" in the west of the city every day. There were several huge bulletin boards there, covered with various tasks issued by chambers of commerce, shops, and individuals.

She screened the tasks that matched her "identity":

Picking and processing medicinal herbs: This is her focus. She can recognize many rare spiritual plants and is proficient in basic processing techniques.

Successfully took over the tasks of "sorting Qingxuan grass" and "drying and turning the second-level hemostatic grass" for several small medicine shops outside "Baicaotang".

The reward is not high, sometimes it is a few low-grade spirit stones, and sometimes it is just the fragments of inferior herbs disposed of by the medicine shop, but for the current "identity", it is reasonable and it can also be used as an opportunity to familiarize oneself with the local herbal medicine market.

Low-level guards/guards: Some small caravans with weak strength temporarily need manpower to support the business, or when a low-level weapon refiner or talisman master is in seclusion, he needs people to protect his temporary cave (mainly to prevent thieves and wild beasts).

This type of mission has relatively low risk and does not require high combat power. As long as the cultivation level is acceptable and the person looks reliable, it will be fine.

Yun Chu also took on a few of these jobs due to his calm demeanor, and the pay was slightly better than processing medicinal herbs.

Cleaning up low-level monsters: Anzhou City is huge, and the surrounding mountains and forests are also vast. There are often low-level monsters and small beasts causing trouble in the farms or medicinal fields on the outskirts of the city.

Yun Chu also took on the task of "clearing out the group of steel-bristled pigs (mainly cubs) that appeared in the wild boar forest thirty miles east of the city."

This task was too easy for her, so she deliberately controlled her efficiency and pretended to have spent a lot of effort to complete it.

When doing these tasks, Yun Chu behaved like a casual cultivator who had some abilities but was definitely not outstanding.

She doesn't talk much, leaves after completing her task, and tries to avoid making close friends.

She kept Xiaobao in the house most of the time and told it not to emit any spiritual power fluctuations or show any special characteristics.

At night, she would return to the simple hut.

Light up the cheapest but longest burning "fluorite candle" and sit quietly on the simple little bed to meditate and regulate your breathing.

The rich spiritual energy in the core area of ​​Anzhou City is of little benefit to her, but the important thing at the moment is not to show off.

Occasionally, she would check the scattered information brought back by the Fire Iron Flying Ants, mainly to pay attention to the follow-up of the Yellow Dragon Sect - but no particularly valuable news came, as if her rebirth had only caused a tiny ripple in that small mountain gate.

Time passes by in the day-to-day trivial tasks and meditation practice.

Yun Chu was like a most patient hunter, blending into the background, silently collecting every bit of gossip about the Xianyao Sect opening its doors to recruit disciples, every possible rumor about the sect's preferences and assessment methods, quietly waiting for the door that would determine her next fate to open.

The dull tasks day after day made Yun Chu almost an inconspicuous background board.

That morning, Yun Chu came to the independent cultivators' market in the west of the city as usual, and glanced at the densely packed tasks on the bulletin board.

A gruff voice rang out beside Yun Chu, "Hey, fellow Daoist! You look friendly, and your skills seem solid. Would you like to take on a job that's more lucrative?"

Yun Chu turned her head and saw a burly man with a shallow scar on his face in the late Qi Refining stage talking to her. Standing next to him was a taciturn gray-clothed talisman master in the middle Qi Refining stage.

"I'd like to hear the details." Yun Chu's voice was flat, in line with her cautious and low-key personality.

The scarred cultivator grinned and pointed to a recently posted notice on the wall. "Here, this is it! Three hundred miles north of Anzhou City, in Cangyan Ridge, there's a mine site called Black Wind Cave. Rumor has it that demonic energy has been leaking out recently, causing disturbances nearby."

"The Zhangjiagou official who issued the mission said the main cause of the trouble was the 'Black-Scaled Python'. He demanded that the hidden dangers in the cave be eliminated to ensure the safety of the herbalists in the surrounding area."

"The reward is quite generous, divided per person, at least twenty low-grade spirit stones per person, plus a Qingxin grass! What do you think? The two of us will take it, and we want to find a reliable fellow Taoist to make up the three of us, which is safer."

Black-scaled python… Yun Chu searched quickly in his memory.

A standard low-level monster, the adult individuals can reach the peak of the second stage (equivalent to the great perfection of Qi Refining), but most of them are juveniles or the first or early to middle stages of the second stage. The snake venom is ferocious, but the movement trajectory is relatively fixed.

It is not difficult for her, but for ordinary Qi-refining practitioners, especially those who have to go deep into the cave, it is indeed quite risky.

Twenty spirit stones plus Qingxin Grass are considered generous in the low-level casual cultivator missions.

Playing the role of a "capable but cautious" casual cultivator, Yun Chu pondered for a moment: "The Black Scaled Python is not an easy opponent. The environment inside the cave is complex. Are you confident?"

"Hey, I, Old Wang, have thick skin and flesh, so I can easily withstand a few blows from it!" The scarred cultivator patted his chest and pointed at the talisman master next to him, "Old Meng's 'Flame Talisman' is specially used to defeat snakes."

"If we find someone as careful and steady as you, the three of us can work together to eliminate the first and second level black-scaled snakes without any problem! As long as we don't encounter the snake king, it's a sure win! How do you think?"

Yunchu calculated the risks and the possibility of exposing her strength. Under the cover of "Ke'anju", Xiaobao could quietly go out to investigate, and if necessary, he could also teleport to rescue people or clear out the monsters in the corner. She nodded: "Okay, my name is Yunchu."

"Okay! Great! My name is Wang Meng, and this is Meng Xiu." Wang Meng was very happy. They agreed to meet at the city gate early the next morning, and then they dispersed to prepare.