"Enough, I'm not talking to you about this anymore."
Cang Xuan climbed off Xu Yanwu, then said to him, "Didn't you come here to buy items?"
Cang Xuan's words made Xu Yanwu instinctively shudder.
Before long, Xu Yanwu left the shop carrying a huge bundle of things.
And his wallet had become completely empty...
"Come again next time."
That was what Cang Xuan said to Xu Yanwu.
"Okay..."
Xu Yanwu replied with somewhat vacant eyes, then walked away step by step. Houla, who had been waiting at the shop entrance, followed after him.
Just like that, Xu Yanwu walked into the guild, one step at a time.
He stood blankly before the bulletin board for quite a while before tearing down one of the quest sheets from the wall. Swaying as he walked, he approached the reception desk and said to the person behind it, "I'm taking a quest... the cactus-gathering quest in the Great Desert..."
"Alright, the quest has been registered. Best of luck with it."
The receptionist quickly completed the registration, then spoke in a very polite tone.
"Thanks..."
Xu Yanwu picked up the sheet from the desk and left the guild. The way he swayed as he walked made the nearby Valkyrie trainees start discussing him.
"That... is Teacher Xu, right?"
"Yeah, but why does Teacher Xu look like he's gone completely gray?"
"Hey, hey, hey, did you hear? Apparently, when Teacher Xu was doing a Novice Mission before, he got dragged back by a Homu cart..."
"? No way? Novice Missions are really easy, though?"
"What was your Novice Mission?"
"Gathering mushrooms."
"Gathering iron ore."
"Catching little glowbugs."
"..."
"Then why did Teacher Xu get dragged back by a Homu cart?"
"Teacher Xu doesn't look that weak..."
After the Valkyrie trainees got that far, they