"If you want Merit Points, you'll have to go to the Phoenix Residence and see whether there are any suitable assignments. Nine Heavens, do you need those two Immortal Resources urgently?"
Feng Mengtang asked softly.
Assignments. Looks like I can't avoid going down that old road after all.
Ji Yuan instinctively recalled his visit to the Phoenix Residence that afternoon. He didn't remember seeing anywhere to take assignments.
"I do need them fairly soon. I have to exchange for both before entering the Kunxu Secret Realm."
Honest as ever, Ji Yuan chose to tell the truth.
"All right. I'll go to the Phoenix Residence with you now." Feng Mengtang stood up at once.
"You're coming too, Mengtang?"
"Yes. Most of those assignments are posted by stewards within the clan, so some don't quite match their descriptions. You've never taken one before, so you wouldn't know."
After hearing that, Ji Yuan would have been lying if he said he wasn't moved.
What a good person. Good people like her are rare.
"Then thank you, Mengtang."
Ji Yuan was already thinking that once this was over, he ought to give Feng Mengtang a few jugs of Peerless Wine in thanks.
"Oh, one more thing. I heard the clan lets us claim Demon Cores for free?"
Ji Yuan hadn't counted the two Sixth-Tier Demon Cores among his difficulties because of something he'd learned from the Jade Slip Feng Xian had given him.
Demon Cores were cultivation resources for the Demon Race. Like Spirit Stones, they could be claimed for free from the Phoenix Clan.
The Demon Race kept a tight grip on other Immortal Resources, but there was no need to do that with Demon Cores and Spirit Stones.
They were a Sacred Race, after all. They couldn't pinch pennies over everything.
"Yes.