After going through the third mission, Li Feng and Yue took a look at the fourth one. This mission was given by one of the most prestigious hall of the outer sect, the Alchemy hall. This hall was known for being extremely generous so the reward for this mission was extremely high.
They needed five disciples to become test subjects for a few new pills created by them. This task was one of the most dangerous task given by the mission hall and the death rate was as high as 50 percent. But still there were always disciples willing to take on this extremely dangerous mission.
The high reward was not the only reason behind this. There was a chance that the pill a disciple would get to test might be a high level elixir. If there was a no problem with the pill, then the cultivation of that disciple would soar.
There was a rumour in the outer sect that once a peak qi gathering cultivator got the opportunity to test a new type of foundation establishment pill and was able make a breakthrough to that rank. Many many poor outer sect disciples who had no chance to get their hands on a pill like that had the wish to get lucky just like that man and to establish their foundation.
Li Feng had no reason to take risks like that. The only reason why he had even considered this option was because the reward was really very very good and he had no fear of suffering any mishap from a defective pill with his Blood God Divine Scripture.
But if Li Feng ended of swallowing a poisonous pill and did not show any symptoms of it, then that would make the pill refiners suspicious which was very troublesome. So Li Feng's chance to accept this mission was also quite low.
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After going all all four of the good missions, Li Feng and Yue felt that that the mining one was the safest with very high reward. Not only that but even though his freedom would be somewhat restricted in the mine, Li Feng would also be able to leave the sect and go outside. But they still had the last mission to check out.
The fifth mission was given by the Beast hall and the request was to join a beast hunting expedition. Obviously with Li Feng's publicly shown level, he would not be eligible to become the hunter and could only work in the logistics.
The reward for this mission was lowest among all the missions and it was also a bit dangerous. If the base where the low level cultivators were staying was attacked by the beasts, then those weak cultivators would have no ways to defend themselves.
But even with all the disadvantages, this mission allowed Li Feng to go out of the sect and as he had already worked with the beast hall before, he would probably be able to use that connection to move a bit more freely. That was why he was considering this mission.
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After going through all the missions, Li Feng asked Yue about her opinion. He himself was leaning toward either the Mining mission or the beast hall one but he also wanted to know what Yue's thoughts were.
After thinking about a little bit, Yue hesitated a bit and pointed toward toward the mining mission. According to her, she thought that this mission would be safe and would allow them to take a look at the other places of the cultivation world.
The alchemy mission was very dangerous and Yue also thought that taking the herb searching mission would be better after studying the encyclopedia about them. As for the negotiation mission, even though both Li Feng and Yue were interested in knowing more about the other Demonic sects, with their limited strength, currently making contact with them was extremely dangerous.
As for the reason why Yue rejected the beast hall's mission, first of all, the reward for it was quite low. But the most important reason was because Yue wanted to accompany Li Feng and there was a chance that the higher ups of the beast hall might have a way to detect a spirit beast like her. That was why she chose the mining mission.
Li Feng was already convinced about this mission and after listening to Yue's explanation, he immediately decided to take this one. But before that he had something else to do, which was to visit the Scripture hall to get his free technique.
Li Feng's Blood God Divine Scripture already had powerful techniques of all kind so he did not really need them. But he would not be able to use any of those techniques publically as he was not suppose to know them. So by going to the scripture hall and getting a technique similar to his already learnt ones, he would be able to use those techniques in the future without raising any suspicion.
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The scripture hall was located in the most noticeable part of the sect. Unlike other halls, this hall had no disciples under it. That was because the scripture hall itself was a part of powerful and intelligent spirit tool called "Nine Layered Erudite Tower".
The main spirit tool belonged to the sect leader and was always with him. But that tower was able to create two subordinate tools which were kept in the outer and the inner sect. So inside the scripture hall, everything was automatic and it had no need for disciples to work.
But this place still needed guards and that duty was taken by an decrepit looking old man. He looked extremely weak and feeble but with his keen senses, Li Feng was able to immediately judge that this man was stronger than anyone else he had met so far in the sect. That was why, he became even more cautious when coming toward the scripture hall.
After reaching the scripture hall, Li Feng took out a talisman given to him by the sect and held it in front of the door. A light shone on the door which hit the talisman and scanned it. After judging it to be genuine, the door started to open slowly but steadily.
Throughout this whole process, the old man was completely silent. He did not moved at all and if Li Feng was not able to sense his powerful aura, one would have thought that he was actually dead. Even after Li Feng stepped foot inside the scripture hall and the doors closed behind him, the old man remained unmoving.
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The inside of the scripture hall was like a library. But instead of books, this whole place was filled with many jade slips. By sending spiritual energy through the jade slips and putting then on their forehead one was able to study the content written inside it. As only proper cultivators were allowed to enter the scripture hall, it only had the jade slips available for reading which only a cultivator could use.
Seeing the vast collection of jade slips, Li Feng started to check them one by one in order to find a suitable one which he could use as a hoax for his own powerful techniques. This process was going to take some time but he was not given any time limit, so he was planning to go through most of the techniques to see if he could be lucky and found something on which he could use his upgradation cards.