"Where did she get a private task?" Yan Yu immediately furrowed his brow.
Speaking of which restaurant nearby has the best food, Zhao Yuanzhen definitely has the inside scoop. But private tasks rely on "extensive connections", like when a civilian cultivator discovers a Mysterious Realm but lacks the power to retrieve its treasures alone—hence they find someone to work with you, and everyone shares in the spoils. Such channels are only accessible to seasoned figures in the Jianghu—you could be sure Zhao Yuanzhen doesn't fit the bill.
"It seems like she found a middleman," Xie Ruoxi seemed to know a bit more.
The so-called middleman is a dealer among the civilian cultivators. They buy clues to Mysterious Realms from low-level cultivators on one hand, and sell the information to high-level cultivators on the other, making a sure profit without much risk.
