Chapter 171 Nothing New

After leaving Qingfeng Hall with two thousand seven hundred lingwu grass, Li Fan wandered around for a while, hoping to find some hidden small loan organizations.

Unfortunately, he didn't get his wish.

Li Fan returned to the tianxuan mirror and secretly calculated.

“The price of lingwu grass will temporarily rise to 25 contribution points soon. I must sell all of them before then.”

“After the news of the Wood Attribute Grotto-Heaven being discovered spreads, the price will plummet, falling to 6 contribution points before stabilizing.”

“At that time, I will buy back three thousand five hundred and ten stalks to return to Qingfeng Hall.”

“Going back and forth, I will earn almost forty thousand contribution points.”

“Tsk tsk, that's so little.”

“Earning money is still too difficult…”

It is hard to go from luxury to frugality. Having become accustomed to contribution points in units of hundreds of thousands, a mere increase of thirty to forty thousand truly failed to excite him.

However, the accumulation of capital is often the most difficult at the beginning. Once it reaches a certain magnitude, rolling like a snowball, the growth of wealth will become faster and faster.

“In this life, it seems that extensively developing the transfer of Cultivation Technique business like before is not feasible. Perhaps due to the strict control of the number of Cultivators, the Cultivation World's reaction to this was far beyond my imagination. The might of the Dao Integration is not something I can contend with at present.” Li Fan pondered carefully.

“The four hundred thousand contribution points from Zhang Zhiliang, however, cannot be given up.”

“In this life, someone is still needed to push the Soul Transformation Cultivators of Wanxian Island to fight against Chiyan.”

“It's just that, perhaps I can change the target.”

A chubby figure suddenly appeared in Li Fan's mind.

“Zhang Haobo, possesses strange Luck but no heavenly Luck. Although he could rely on the desperate power of the Congyun Sea to kill Chiyan and successfully integrate with the Dao as a Golden Core Cultivator.”

“But facing the Mo Sha who descended next, he had no power to resist at all and was killed.”

“His Luck was exhausted, and his life and Dao were extinguished.”

“If his Luck were a bit stronger, would the outcome be different?”

“Of course, the most important thing is. I have now fully comprehended the Congyun Twenty-Eight Swords, so Zhang Haobo coming again would be useless to me.”

“That Ye Feipeng has a peculiar fate. If he is given enough assistance, perhaps he can truly give me a surprise.”

“Supplemented with the Sitting Mountain Sutra…”

“I wonder, if he succeeds in Dao Integration, how much Cultivation will be fed back? Can it push me to the Golden Core Realm?”

“Of course, guiding this person must be done with a different method. If Zhang Haobo was moved by emotion, this person must be lured by profit.”

After some planning, Li Fan already had a plan in mind.

The reason he still chose an agent to perform the Dao Integration, instead of Li Fan personally trying it, was naturally because the risks involved were too high.

Even the black-clothed Dao Integrator could almost freeze Li Fan's thoughts, to say nothing of Mo Sha, whose strength was clearly superior.

Even Zhang Haobo, who had just integrated with the Dao, was annihilated before he could react. How could Li Fan ensure he would be an exception?

There was a probability of success, and also a probability of failure and annihilation. The probability of failure was not small.

Once he failed, there would be no chance to start over.

Li Fan had no need to gamble.

“I can wait until the lingwu grass incident settles, then go to the Li Realm to make arrangements.”

“For now…”

Li Fan searched for ways to join the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.

Soon, a pile of information popped up.

There are several ways to hold a certain position in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance and join the system.

The first method is to participate in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's examination held every 10 years.

To participate in the examination, several conditions must be met. For example, one must have been a member of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance for at least thirty years, their Cultivation must be at the Foundation Establishment Stage or above, and they must possess a specialized skill, and so on.

In simple terms, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance does not support idlers or useless people.

The second method is to have a high-ranking Cultivator in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance act as a guarantor, recommending a Junior Cultivator for a position. Only after passing a three-year probationary period can one officially assume the position.

In simple terms, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance does not support idlers or useless people, unless one has connections above.

The third method is more special. It involves completing specific bounty missions. For example, assassinating a key figure of the Five Old Men Association, or completing a crucial mission.

It is said that Zhou Qingang, the Town Guardian of Taian Island, officially joined the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance through this method.

Li Fan was very interested in what Fellow Daoist He said about raising his authority to a certain level, allowing him to exchange for Cultivation Techniques that he couldn't even see before.

Because Li Fan found that the Cultivation Techniques normally provided and exchangeable by the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance generally had limited power.

Perhaps due to the reason of restricting the combat power of ordinary Cultivators in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, the Cultivation Techniques Li Fan had seen in the tianxuan mirror in these few lives did not have truly divine Cultivation Techniques.

Not to mention comparable to the Congyun Twenty-Eight Swords, even those comparable to the Technique of Calming the Sea Divine Sword were rare.

However, Li Fan thought about it, and this was reasonable. If the cattle and horses became threatening, would they still be cattle and horses? Wouldn't they want to turn the sky upside down? Of course, there had to be some restrictions.

As for those within the system, their treatment was naturally different. As long as one's authority was sufficient, all sorts of divine Cultivation Techniques were available.

The benefits within the system naturally needed no elaboration. Li Fan carefully examined those special bounty missions.

As he looked, Li Fan frowned. Because he hadn't paid attention to this aspect before, Li Fan had no clue about these missions. But Li Fan quickly discovered the peculiarity within them.

Only a very few of these missions actually had some bounty value. For example, tracking down a certain Five Old Men Association spy, or personally killing a certain Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance traitor.

But the vast majority of the missions had extremely strong…

Customization?

As if they were bounty missions specifically created for a certain Cultivator.

For example, one of the missions Li Fan saw was particularly bizarre.

The Tianji Hall of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, due to the need for calculating heavenly secrets, needed to recruit a Cultivator named Wu, between 123-130 years old, whose Cultivation Technique was fire attribute, and whose Cultivation Realm was Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

It was almost explicitly naming and directly designating the candidate.

Li Fan was not unfamiliar with this practice. It was the so-called 'one carrot, one pit'.

But he didn't expect that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance had now developed to this point.

After selecting left and right, Li Fan did not find a suitable mission for himself.

And the once-a-decade examination had just passed not long ago.

Without connections, Li Fan once again inquired of Fellow Daoist He, who never disappointed him.

He Zhenghao still replied very quickly.

“Fellow Daoist wants to officially join the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance? Er, that's a bit difficult. Mainly because Fellow Daoist has only just joined the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance recently.”

“But, it's not without a way.”

“I have some friendship with the Formation Great Master Gong Boyu. He has some annual quotas for Formation repairman positions.”

“You only need to spend a little contribution points to get this position.”

“You just need to work hard in this position for one or two years, and then you can use other connections to transfer to other positions.”

“Hehe, this is something I would only say to you, Fellow Daoist. Fellow Daoist must not spread this casually outside.”

“It doesn't look good.”

I'm out on a business trip today, so I can only provide one update.