Chapter 26: The Grumpy Elder
Sun Sect, Hall of Trials.
Bang!
A dry but powerful palm slammed against the counter, shaking the counter to scatter items.
"What do you eat?"
In front of the counter, the white-bearded old man glared angrily at the disciples of the Trial Hall inside the counter, and this slap almost tore the thick and sturdy counter apart.
His figure looked dry and thin, but his voice was like thunder on the ground, and a roar of rage caused all the disciples in the entire trial hall to look sideways.
However, after one glance, everyone lowered their heads again, pretending that nothing had happened, and each of them did what they were doing.
Only Xiao Er, who was in charge of registering the task records for the official disciples at the counter, was trembling under the old man's angry eyes at this time.
Li ...... Elder Li, don't be angry!"
This little second is also a coincidence, it is the same person who registered the task for Ling Yi before.
Bang, it's good that he didn't speak, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he slapped the counter again.
Xiao Er swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and after watching Elder Li raise his hand, the deep palm print on the counter was already crying.
"What's the matter, I think the old man is alone, so he doesn't take my task to heart?"
Elder Li blew his beard and glared, and roared with anger on his face: "Tell me, you can tell me, I have been here with you for a few days, why hasn't it been completed yet?"
His withered fingers pointed out, right on the area of the Yellow Level quest on the mission wall.
Xiao Er turned his head and glanced at it, smiling bitterly in his heart.
This Elder Li's task was to hunt the Withered Leaf Snake King and obtain the snake gall bladder that Ling Yi had taken over.
But......
Why is no one taking this task?
If it weren't for Elder Li's admittedly bad temper in the Burning Sun Sect, Xiao Er would have wanted to ask him rhetorically, why didn't anyone take this task, Elder, don't you have any points in your heart?
The Dead Leaf Snake is an extremely difficult snake to hunt, fast and difficult to detect.
Not to mention the Withered Leaf Snake King.
A few years ago, when a disciple in the sect went out to practice, he once encountered the Withered Leaf Snake King, and he almost died in the mouth of the snake.
You must know that that disciple already had the strength of the Martial Arts Quadruple at that time, but in the end, he still fled back in embarrassment, and it took more than half a year to recuperate.
To this day, when someone asks him about the details of the battle with the Withered Leaf Snake King, he still can't help but tremble.
It can be seen that the strength of the Withered Leaf Snake King is very high, and even the disciples of the Martial Arts Quadruple are not sure of victory.
Just like Ling Yi believes, the higher the risk, the greater the benefit.
Elder Li didn't have to announce this task of hunting the Withered Leaf Snake King, and the dignified Sun Sect would not be unable to come up with an official disciple who could deal with the Withered Leaf Snake King.
But the problem is that the reward given by Elder Li is too low!
Yellow-level mission, although it is the 900 contribution points of the top grid, it is still not enough to see compared to the strength of the Withered Leaf Snake King.
In Xiao Er's heart, Elder Li had to come up with at least two thousand contribution points, and if he raised this task to the Xuan level, only then would anyone be willing to take the risk.
In the past few days, Elder Li's task has been placed on this task wall, and there are many disciples who have come to take the task, but without exception, they have all automatically ignored this loss-making task where the risk is not proportional to the reward.
Oh, no.
Xiao Er's mind flashed, and he suddenly remembered that someone still took this task.
In order to send Elder Li away, he had to smile and say, "Elder, don't worry, your task was taken yesterday, I believe ......"
"Oh, someone picked it up?"
Elder Li's eyes lit up, he grabbed Xiao Er's hand, and asked very quickly, "Who took it?"
"This ......" Xiao Er's face turned straight and said, "According to the rules of the Trial Hall, the disciple is obliged to keep the identity of the person who receives the task confidential, so ...... Hey, Elder, Elder, don't do that!"
Where was Elder Li willing to listen to his ramblings, he snatched the register in front of Xiao Er with a hand, and despite the other party's anxious cold sweat, he flipped through it by himself.
"Well, yes, you kid didn't lie to me. ”
He flipped through yesterday's records, and saw that there was a yellow-level mission that showed him that he had been taken.
He nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at the information of the recipient, and suddenly his face darkened again.
"Nonsense!"
Elder Li pestled the register to Xiao Er's face, and said angrily: "A martial arts triple kid has taken over the task, how can you have the courage to tell Lao Tzu to rest assured!"
Of course, he knew the difficulty of this task.
If you want to ensure 100% completion, the person who takes on the task must have the strength of the martial arts five to have this guarantee.
But the strength of the martial arts fivefold will be comparable to his contribution value of 900 points?
Elder Li was also helpless in his heart, he spent too much a few days ago, and he only had a total of 900 points on his body, which was already his full net worth.
But the snake gall of the Withered Leaf Snake King is an urgent need for him, if it is not for the time being, he will want to enter the Scorching Sun Forest to capture the Withered Leaf Snake King in person.
In the Scorching Sun Sect, Elder Li was an outlier.
Although he is an elder, he has no intention of power, and he is not keen on martial arts, but puts all his energy on refining pills.
It is said that an alchemist should be an extremely respected and valued existence in the sect, but Elder Li's temper is too strange, and the sect has sent many elite disciples to him to fight, but without exception, all of them could not stay for three days, so he scolded him and escaped in disgrace.
Not only that, but Elder Li didn't give face to other elders of his rank, even the sect master.
If you want him to refine the pill, it depends on Elder Li's mood, and it also depends on whether he is interested in this pill, if he is not interested, don't say that the sect master, even if the martial arts supreme is close, he will never refine a pill and a half pill for the other party.
Over time, Elder Li's stinky temper was well-known in the Burning Sun Sect, and even the sect master didn't have a good way to deal with him, so he had to let it go.
It is conceivable that such a person is naturally worthy of what he says, and he is alone.
A few days ago, Elder Li suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a prescription, so he used his contribution value to buy a lot of medicinal materials here in the Trial Hall, and threw them into the Dan furnace in a hurry, and this was refined.
But in the process of refining, Elder Li suddenly found that there was an extremely important and irreplaceable medicinal guide missing, which was the snake gall of the withered leaf snake king.
The medicinal materials have been turned into liquid medicine in the Dan furnace, and he naturally can't leave if he wants to control the fire, and he wanted to come to the Trial Hall again to buy a snake gall, but it just so happened that the Trial Hall was not available here.
So in desperation, Elder Li had no choice but to use his last nine hundred contribution points to release this task, hoping that before the liquid medicine in his furnace burned dry, a disciple would complete the task.
However, a few days passed, seeing that his furnace of medicinal materials was about to be scrapped, and the snake gall of the Withered Leaf Snake King had not yet arrived, which made him come to the trial hall to make trouble.
Seeing that it was only a martial arts triple kid who took over the task, Elder Li felt angry and wanted to smash the trial hall on the spot!
But at this moment, Xiao Er, who was pestled back again and again, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly pointed to the gate and exclaimed, "Elder, the senior brother who took over your task is back!"
Ling Yi, who had three brocade feather feathered chickens pinned to his waist, was standing at the door of the Trial Hall, looking at Elder Li with a stunned expression.