Chen Yan followed the direction she had indicated and looked toward a corner of the enormous holographic screen in the center of the hall.
There, one mission listing stood out in vivid blood-red lettering, sharply contrasting with the other gray-white listings.
[Peril: Investigate the Anomaly at Painting Saint Mountain]
The mission description was unusually brief. It mentioned only that a Grandmaster squad from the Military Department had gone missing in the Painting Saint Mountain region, and asked whoever accepted the mission to find out what had happened and, if possible, recover the squad members' identification tags.
In the rewards section, alongside an astronomical number of military merit points, were three unmistakable words: Heavenly Mountain Snow Lotus.
"In the old days, before spiritual-power martial arts became widespread, this was one of the few spirit plants that could directly enhance spiritual power," Bai Lingshuang explained, leaning closer and lowering her voice.
A fervent glint shone in her crimson eyes. "You can hardly find any in the outside world now. They say its effects were so miraculous that the top Martial Dao Grandmasters and Martial Saints ate them all into extinction long ago. I never expected there would still be some in this Rift."
Chen Yan listened quietly, but his thoughts were elsewhere.
Enhance spiritual power? He suspected it wasn't that simple.
His soul perception had already spread out, and the hushed conversation of several martial artists in a nearby corner reached his ears, every word clear.
Their battle uniforms were stained with blood and dirt. Their auras were mixed and fierce, clearly those of veteran explorers who had spent years risking their lives in Rifts.
A one-eyed man took a long swig of liquor, his voice hoarse with the rasp of someone who had narrowly escaped death.
"Old Cat, have you heard?