The man was thin, with an honest-looking face, yet an unmistakable unease showed between his brows.
"Are you here to take a mission too, fellow Daoist?" Seeing Mo Chen look at him, the man added a cupped-hand salute.
Mo Chen returned the salute. "Indeed. May I ask your name, fellow Daoist? Which group are you in?"
When Mo Chen asked his name, the man scratched his head before finally squeezing out an answer.
"I am Gu Dongfeng, courtesy name Xingyu, a disciple from the previous intake. My cultivation has been stuck at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining for almost ten years, so I came to earn some Task Points to exchange for materials, lest I fall into a self-seated void. If you want this one, fellow Daoist, I can choose another."
Before Mo Chen could say anything, Gu Dongfeng saluted again and went off to find another mission.
What an interesting fellow.
He had thought he had run into another tough customer, like those he had encountered in Great Qian and the Twin Crane Sect, but the man had simply walked away.
Gu Dongfeng had clearly entered the sect before him, yet he was even more afraid of offending people than Mo Chen was.
Mo Chen did not dwell on it, however. Following the instructions of the cultivator behind the counter, he handed over his Identity Token to have the mission recorded.
The cultivator took Mo Chen's token, infused it with Dharma Power, then pointed at the mission. The line of text floating in the air turned into particles of light and flowed into Mo Chen's Identity Token.
The cultivator casually tossed the token back onto the counter, then found several other items and pushed them over as well.
"Take these. This is a map of the twenty-li area