"You'll know once you visit the Duty Hall..." Yin An said softly, his eyes full of sympathy.
Lin Nan froze for a moment, quickly put his things away, and followed Yin An along the temple paths.
The Duty Hall lay north of True Yang Temple, a broad courtyard with a main hall inside. Above it stood a stone tablet more than ten meters tall, covered in task completion records written in white.
True Yang Temple disciples could exchange task rewards and contribution points based on those completion records.
When Lin Nan and Yin An arrived at the Duty Hall, quite a few people had already gathered in the courtyard, all hurriedly checking their own task records on the stone tablet.
Lin Nan raised his head and looked at the latest entry on the task tablet:
[Watermouth Town plague investigation task. Completion rating: average. The source of the plague has been identified. Unable to save the Inner City constables and Watermouth Town residents.] [Task reward: Li Luyao, fifteen taels. No other rewards.] [Task reward: Yin An, thirteen taels. No other rewards.] [Task reward: Lin Nan, one tael. No other rewards.]
"One tael?!"
At last, Lin Nan understood why Yin An had specifically come to tell him.
Only one tael?
Given how dangerous Watermouth Town had been, even a Sinews-and-Bones Realm martial artist might have perished there if they had failed to see through the truth about the ghost servant.
He had carried the entire task from beginning to end, yet his reward was only one tael. Were they tossing scraps to a beggar?
Lin Nan frowned. Compared with the rewards received by the other two members of his team, his was as different as heaven and earth. There had to be something fishy going on!
"It seems some people