125 Small World (1/2)
With an anime pin on his chest, Xu Miao entered the portal and teleported to another location. When he could see everything clearly again, he found himself inside a grand hall with several long counters and clerks. The three cauldron sign of Myriad Cauldron Sect on the ceiling told Xu Miao that he was inside one of their official buildings.
Hundreds of cultivators and alchemists attended to their businesses. A dozen white-robed elders were sitting on lounge sofas, having a loud conversation. More than half of alchemist disciples in green robes were queueing in front of the long counters, waiting to submit their assignment report. A hundred CP hall staff were busy handling paper documents and sorting countless bottles of unknown pills.
Everyone was busy. It reminded Xu Miao about a modern bank office during peak time. Fortunately, no random telephone sound rang here, or it would have been more chaotic.
While Xu Miao was confused about where he should start first, a fat middle-aged man noticed the pin on the former's chest. He smiled and approach Xu Miao, ”Greetings, comrade. Are you new here?”
Xu Miao blinked in confusion and nodded, ”Yes.”
”Then, you should report yourself at our garden's counter if you're in trouble. We should stick together, or those Han bitches will bully you.”
Again, these nerds hated women from the Han Garden for some reason.
Although Xu Miao wasn't compatible with nerds since he was from thug communities in the modern world, he pretended to be gullible, ”My master has told me to come here for a farm job. Could you teach me how this sect works?”
”Of course! Come, come!”
The fat man led Xu Miao to a fancy counter, decorated with colorful anime posters, nendoroids, and figures. Even the worker behind the counter was wearing a mascot costume of … a moist banana.
On the counter, there was a nameplate.
Wet Banana Garden
Everything was clear. Goddess Yuan Hua was the owner of these men.
Still curious about the bananas, Xu Miao muttered, ”Say, do you receive magical wet bananas every day?”
The fat man and the clerk were surprised. They laughed, ”Of course not! Only the selected the top contributors of our garden can enjoy a piece of wet banana. But if you're rich, you can buy it from the sect.”
”How much is it?”
”An essence crystal for one wet banana!”
Essence crystals were a rare currency and one of the top cultivation resources for cultivators under the Essence Foundation Realm. Xu Miao hadn't seen one of them yet, but Jia Shan and Qi Hong used to teach him that a crystal carried enough energy to boost one's strength from an initial 4th-stage to a peak 4th-stage, who developed a sea of essence. Its market value was a million of refined Yin or Yang stone, and one Yin or Yang stone could be exchanged for 1,000 raw spirit stones.
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Wet Banana (1) – 1,000,000 Yin Essence
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As expected, a juicy dildo treasure of Yuan Hua was expensive. No matter which channel Xu Miao chose to buy from, it would cost his arms and legs.
”Haiya! Too expensive!”
”I know right? Hahaha!”
”Fellow comrades, let's get to business or we'll trouble the others,” The service clerk coughed and changed the topic.
”Very well. I'll excuse myself. Good luck, comrade!” The fat man had something else to do. He left Xu Miao with the clerk.
Seeing that the fat man left, the clerk gave Xu Miao a small jade pallet with a magic circle on it.
”Er… What do I do with it?”
”Please drop your blood on the paper, so we can register you to the contribution hall.”
”Okay.”
Xu Miao cut his fingertip and dropped his blood on the green jade. The pallet flash in green light.
The clerk continued, ”I'll ask a few questions. Please answer them in your mind. First, what's your name?”
”…”
”What's your current status in Myriad Cauldron Sect?”
”…”
”What's your true cultivation base?”
”…”
*WHOOSH*
The jade pallet transformed into a small business card with Xu Miao's true name and his face.
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Name: Mao Miaomiao
Status: Guest
Affiliated Garden: None
Cultivation Rank: Bone Refining, Stage 4
Contribution Points: 0
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The service clerk looked at the green card. He nodded and smiled, ”Junior Mao Miaomiao, welcome to Myriad Cauldron Sect! If you're looking for work, you can bring this card with you and show it to the staff at the freelance counter. You can also pick a mission from the freelance bulletin boards, but you can't accept missions from any garden until your status has become an official guest disciple.”
The clerk explained how the CP hall worked.
This sect's system was similar to Silver Phoenix Sect's CP hall. However, 90% of the missions here focused on either concocting specific pills or processing herbs. The rest of the missions were combat tasks, such as hunting for rare beasts or bandits while the minority was odd jobs.
But what surprised Xu Miao was the technology behind this jade card. It revealed his true name, which he wanted to forget.
'No one has called me by this name for a long time…'
It felt nostalgia to see his modern world's name here.
”Any question, comrade?” The clerk finished explaining.
”Err, no. Thank you very much, comrade.”
”No problem. Unfortunately, you're not a formal disciple, so you can't accept our garden's missions. But don't hesitate to ask us if you run into problems, okay?”