"I see. Thank you for explaining, Senior." Mo Chen bowed and left the counter, finding an empty seat in the Myriad Chips Hall.
Then Mo Chen found a calendar and flipped to next year's Start of Summer.
The twenty-fifth day of the third month.
There were just over ten months until the Half-Limit Secret Realm officially opened next year. He needed to prepare early.
Mo Chen had just learned that, because the Divine Land was so vast, all the sects of the Immortal Alliance would teleport to the nearest cultivation city three months in advance. Their elders would then lead them in flight to the formation's curtain of light outside the Half-Limit Secret Realm.
Even with the sect elders carrying them through the air, that stretch of the journey would take nearly three months.
That meant he actually had only seven months to prepare. Since registering would exempt him from sect assignments starting in the seventh month, he only needed to accept one more assignment worth five chips.
Then he could free up the fifth and sixth months for cultivation, and even have two chips left over to exchange for Five Elements Essence at the Storehouse.
Having thought it through, Mo Chen selected an assignment worth five chips in the Myriad Chips Hall.
The assignment was simple: investigate and resolve the disturbances in the graves outside Changshu City.
According to reports from Emerging Cloud Peak's scouts, graves had been disturbed in several villages and towns outside the city for almost a year, leaving the mortals in the surrounding villages terrified.
For some reason, no cultivator had accepted this assignment for a long time. Still, it made sense. Emerging Cloud Peak governed an enormous territory, and the subordinate sects responsible for its various districts did not really care. When a problem