Pirate: Strengthening with Alcohol - Chapter 507

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Huh, Ling Bai exhaled. Just now, he broke through to the sixth level of the Spiritual Martial Realm. This breakthrough took the longest time, six days.

Clenching his fists, Ling Bai felt that his strength was even stronger. He jumped to the ground and began to practice swordsmanship.

This was a habit he had developed over the years. Every morning, he would practice swordsmanship. Although it was just the most ordinary sword, Ling Bai’s sword could give people a sense of simplicity.

A quarter of an hour later, Ling Bai finished today’s practice, led the horse, and continued to walk towards the Cangmang Mountains.

Chapter 14 Registered Mercenary

Next to the Cangmang Mountains, there is a city called Mocheng. There are powerful mercenaries here, and everyone is a cultivator.

Because this is at the foot of the Cangmang Mountains, there will be monsters coming to wreak havoc every once in a while, so ordinary people can’t survive here.

Over time, this place became a city for cultivators. There are two largest forces in this city, one is the Mercenary Guild, and the other is the Alchemist Guild.

In the cultivator world, elixirs are very good auxiliary items for cultivation. With elixirs, problems such as healing, improving spiritual power, and restoring spiritual power can be solved.

So these two major forces are the well-deserved overlords of Mo City. Of course, the Mercenary Guild and the Alchemist Guild are in alliance. Mercenaries are often injured, so elixirs are indispensable for them.

It was already evening when Ling Bai arrived here. He led his horse to an inn, stayed there, and sent the horse to the horse market for recycling.

There are some small horse markets in every city, so Ling Bai spent fifty taels of silver on this trip.

The horse can only be sold for fifty taels here, because this is the market, and many transactions here are in spirit stones.

The elixirs from the Alchemist Guild can only be purchased with spirit stones, and there is also a fee for registering with the Mercenary Guild, but the fee is not very expensive, and a low-grade spirit stone is required.

Ling Bai had already found out all the information and was waiting to handle it tomorrow.

Back at the inn, Ling Bai had a simple meal and then went to sleep.

After so many days of traveling, Ling Bai had not slept well. Although practicing meditation can relieve fatigue, he still needs to sleep after a long time.

After all, the cultivation of the Spiritual Martial Realm is only a little stronger than that of ordinary people. If you want to achieve the strength of moving mountains and filling the sea, you have to break through to the Holy Martial Realm.

So, Ling Bai still needs to rest now.

The night passed quickly, and Ling Bai woke up feeling refreshed.

He stretched and walked out of the inn. What he needed to do now was to register as a mercenary at the Mercenary Guild.

Ling Bai followed the crowd to the Mercenary Guild. There was no need for anyone to lead the way here. The Mercenary Guild was easy to distinguish from the Alchemist Guild.

The Alchemist Guild’s base was a very large alchemy-shaped building, while the Mercenary Guild’s base was more like a large black box, which gave people a very strong aura of evil.

Entering the hall of the mercenary guild, it was not as noisy as outside. It was very quiet. Ling Bai came to a window.

“Hello, I want to register as a mercenary. What do I need?”

“Sir, please wait, we will find someone to introduce you.”

After a while, a sweet-looking girl came to Ling Bai. Ling Bai could feel that this girl was also a cultivator in the spiritual martial realm, but only in the first level of the spiritual martial realm.

“Hello, sir, are you going to register as a mercenary?”

“Yes, I don’t know what procedures are required.”

“Come with me, the place to register as a mercenary is over there.”

Ling Bai looked in the direction the girl pointed. There was a black round table with many black tokens on it.

Ling Bai followed the girl to this side, “Sister Qin, this sir wants to register as a mercenary.”

“Okay, Xiaomei, thank you for your trouble, leave it to me next.”

“Sir, Sister Qin will handle the procedures for you next, I will withdraw first.”

“Thank you, you’re welcome.” Ling Bai nodded and sent Xiaomei away.

“Hello, registering as a mercenary requires a low-grade spirit stone.”

Ling Bai handed over a low-grade spirit stone, and then Sister Qin gave Ling Bai a black token.

“I don’t know your name, or what realm you are in, I’m registering here.”

“My name is Ling Bai, and I’m in the sixth level of the Spiritual Martial Realm.”

“Well, okay, Master Ling, what you need to do next is to inject your spiritual power into the token, and the token will record your information.”

Ling Bai did so, and then Ling Bai could sense that there was something more in the token. After injecting spiritual power, Ling Bai’s avatar appeared on the token.

Ling Bai, a junior mercenary, has reached the sixth level of the Spiritual Martial Realm.

“Okay, sir, you have completed the registration. The levels of mercenaries are divided into primary, intermediate, and advanced. Primary mercenaries are roughly people in the Lingwu realm and Xuanwu realm, intermediate mercenaries are people in the Diwu realm and Tianwu realm, and advanced mercenaries are strong people in the Shengwu realm.”

“What about the Huangwu realm and Xianwu realm?”

“Those are the elders of the mercenary guild. Their mercenary level should be Blood Moon level.”

Ling Bai nodded. This realm is still quite far away for him. Now he should get a martial arts skill first.

“By the way, I have another question. How can I get martial arts after becoming a mercenary.”

“Master Ling, look over there is a task list. Every time you complete a task, you will get task points, which will be recorded in your token. Since you are a newly registered mercenary, your token has not yet activated this function. You need to go to the task list to activate it. Martial arts are exchanged for task points.”.

Chapter 15 Introduction to Task Points

Ling Bai followed the instructions of Sister Qin and came to the task list. He found that there were dense small characters on it. After carefully identifying it, he found that all the tasks on it were tasks to kill monsters.

There were only a few escort tasks and some tasks to protect people, but the minimum requirements of those tasks were Xuanwu Realm, which Ling Bai could not accept at all.

Put the black token in a groove next to the task list, and then the black token emitted a faint light. After the light dissipated, Ling Bai picked up the token and found that it had been activated.

There was information about task points on it, and there was an extra column below Ling Bai’s information, but now the number there was one, which was the task points given to new mercenaries.

The exchange of martial arts was on the other side of the hall. Ling Bai came here and found that there was a list larger than the task list, with four big words written on the top: Mercenary Store.

Yellow-grade low-level spiritual weapon, Qianyun Spear, 100 task points.

Yellow-grade intermediate skills, Huoyun Jue, 150 task points.

Yellow-grade advanced skills, Paiyun Palm, 200 task points.

…

Ling Bai read slowly, and the more he looked down, the more task points he needed, whether it was weapons or skills, all of them were like this.

Ling Bai’s eyes finally stopped at a position in the middle of the list, Lingyun Sword Jue, Xuan-grade low-level sword skills, but incomplete, priced at 500 task points.

Ling Bai looked around and found that this thing was more suitable for him now, but 500 task points were not easy to get, so he went to inquire about this martial art first.

Coming to the exchange window of the mercenary store, Ling Bai asked the staff about the incomplete sword skill.

The list just now was only to list the items and prices in the mercenary store. For specific information, the mercenaries need to go to the window to ask.

“Hello, Lingyun Sword Skill is the cheapest sword skill here. Because it is incomplete, it only has the first three moves, but its power can be compared with other Xuan-level mid-level martial arts.”

“If it is so powerful, why is there only a fragment?”

“It is rumored that the complete Lingyun Sword Skill is a ground-level martial art, but it cannot be verified because there is no complete one on the continent now. The mercenary guild set its price so low to benefit the mercenaries.”

Ling Bai nodded and figured out the matter. The next step is to accumulate task points.

Five hundred task points are difficult and easy. As long as the strength is sufficient, the accumulation speed of task points is very fast.

Ling Bai came to the task list and thought about what task he should take. Now he can only take low-level tasks to hunt monsters, but the rewards for such low-level tasks are also different.

The level of monsters is similar to that of human cultivators. They are divided into ordinary monsters, spirit monsters, mysterious monsters, earth monsters, and holy monsters. They correspond to the cultivation level of cultivators, which is also the ninth heaven.

After a demon beast breaks through the holy demon, it becomes a heavenly demon and can transform into a human form, so it can be directly called a demon cultivator of the Heavenly Martial Realm. The realm after that is the same as that of a human cultivator.

And after killing a spirit demon, there is a demon crystal in its head, which is the most important thing and a sign of mission completion.

The demon crystal of a spirit demon is red, the demon crystal of a mysterious demon is orange, the demon crystal of a ground demon is green, the demon crystal of a holy demon is cyan, and the heavenly demon has no demon crystal. After they transform into human form, the demon crystal becomes a demon pill.

On the mission list, there is a clear division of rewards for killing demon beasts. The demon crystal of the first level of a spirit demon is worth one mission point, and so on. The demon crystal of the ninth level of a spirit demon is nine mission points.

The mercenary guild has a special instrument for detecting the level of demon crystals, so there is no possibility of cheating.

Ling Bai has not seen the demon beasts of this continent yet, so he took a mission that is easier to complete first.

Hunting ten spirit monsters of the second heaven realm, the task reward is 25 points. Note: Both the monster crystal and the most precious thing of the monster beast are required. If there is only the monster crystal, the reward is only 20 task points.

When Ling Bai’s token passes this place on the task list, the token will automatically accept the task.

Putting away the token, Ling Bai walked outside and entered the mountains. He needed to prepare some things and see what the low-level storage bags here cost, otherwise he would have to carry the things on the monster beast himself.

When he came to the market in Mo City, there were all kinds of things for sale, monster meat, monster crystals, claws, scales, etc., all of which could be used to make weapons or armor.

So they were all things that could be sold for money, but the things on low-level spirit monsters were traded with silver. If they were things on monsters of the Xuan monster and above, they had to be purchased with spirit stones.

Spirit stones actually have different levels. Low-grade spirit stones are the lowest-level spirit stone currency, and there are also medium-grade spirit stones, high-grade spirit stones, and top-grade spirit stones.

One thousand low-grade spirit stones can be exchanged for one medium-grade spirit stone, one hundred medium-grade spirit stones can be exchanged for one high-grade spirit stone, and ten high-grade spirit stones can be exchanged for one top-grade spirit stone.

These are all subject to strict exchange conditions, so Ling Bai is actually very poor now, so he can’t afford many things.

Chapter 16: So poor, find a job

Ling Bai came to a large store, where the things sold here are more exquisite than those sold on the street.

“Hello, welcome. How can I help you?”

Looking at the empty store, Ling Bai felt a little uncomfortable because the street outside was too noisy. The sound insulation effect here was very good, and the items on the shelves here were all high-end goods.

“I would like to ask, what is the price of a low-end storage bag?”

“Sir, the lowest level storage bag has five cubic meters of space, which is equivalent to the space of a carriage, and requires two hundred low-grade spiritual stones.”

Hearing the waiter’s quotation, Ling Bai was embarrassed for a moment. Hou Hu was right, a hundred low-grade spiritual stones really couldn’t do anything.

“Okay, sorry for the trouble.” Ling Bai thanked the service staff and left the store. Now he still needs to earn some spiritual stones.

Hey, without money, you really can’t do anything.

Ling Bai inquired about the ways to earn spirit stones in Mo City. One way was to go to the alchemist’s guild to help the alchemist sort out the medicinal materials. Another way was to hunt monsters, but he needed to hunt the mysterious monster.

There was no other way. Ling Bai was still going to find a job at the Alchemist Guild, helping the alchemists sort out medicinal materials. He could earn ten low-grade spiritual stones a day, but he needed to take an exam.

This assessment tests a person’s ability to identify medicinal materials. Although this task is not difficult, many people have failed.

Therefore, although the remuneration is high, there are not many people who can pass the examination, which is why there is such a high salary.

Ling Bai came to the Alchemist Guild and asked the staff, who took Ling Bai to the assessment location.

“Go into this room, and someone inside will give you a task. If you succeed, come to me with the voucher.”

“Thank you.” Ling Bai thanked the staff and entered the room.

The furnishings in the room are very simple, with only two futons, and an old man is sitting on the innermost futon.

Seeing Ling Bai come in, the old man opened his eyes, looked at them, and then closed them again.

Then he said: “There is a medicinal material book on the ground. You can pick out the medicinal materials from pages 10 to 30 of the book from the pile of medicinal materials. If there are more than three wrong medicinal materials, you will be disqualified.”

Ling Bai picked up the medicinal material book on the ground. The medicinal herbs recorded on it were all low-level medicinal herbs. You must know that medicinal herbs in Tianxuan Continent also have levels.

The low-level ones are called medicinal herbs, and the higher-level ones are called elixirs. The elixirs are divided into three grades: low-level, intermediate, and high-level. In a small place like Xiangmo City, a low-level elixir can be sold for hundreds of low-grade spiritual stones.

However, this kind of thing is not easy to obtain. Spiritual elixirs are generally found in the territory of monsters. Except for major forces such as the Immortal Cultivation Academy, the Mercenary Guild, and the Alchemist Guild, which can cultivate the elixirs themselves.

Wild elixirs all grow in the territory of monsters, and the lowest ones are earth monsters, so this kind of thing is also rare for Ling Bai.

Ling Bai has traversed so many worlds, and his memory and ability to identify things are top-notch, so this kind of thing cannot trouble him at all.

After burning the incense, Ling Bai took out all the medicinal materials requested by the old man.

“Old sir, I’ve divided them up.” Ling Bai called.

Hearing Ling Bai’s words, the old man opened his eyes and was a little surprised, because Ling Bai’s speed was a bit fast and he didn’t know what the quality was.

After a quick glance, the old man found that all the medicinal materials Ling Bai had found were correct.

“Well, that’s right, kid, you passed. Here is your voucher. Take it and go out and register!”

The old man gave Ling Bai a note with the word “pass” written on it.

Ling Bai took the note, bowed to the old man, and then left.

“It’s interesting. No young person has passed this test in this city for a long time.”

Usually those who pass this test are some gray-haired pharmacists. They have studied medicinal materials for a lifetime before they can accurately identify them.

There are indeed very few people who can find out all the medicinal materials just from the descriptions in the books.

Ling Bai came to the staff member with his voucher and said, “Hello, I passed. This is my voucher.”

The staff was also a little surprised, not expecting Ling Bai to pass, but she quickly returned to normal.