"Then I'll choose this mission."

Zero pointed to the 'Mission X' and said to the person in charge.

The person in charge of receiving Zero was a middle-aged woman. She looked at Zero with suspicion and asked again, unsure of what to do:

“Young master, are you sure you want to choose this mission? I’m not afraid to tell you, this mission has been here for several years. Many people have taken it because they thought it was easy, but no one has been able to complete it yet… That’s why this mission has been here all this time. I’m telling you this because I like you.”

"Young master, you should choose another mission. Accepting this one is pointless; you're just wasting your time looking for that city lord..."

Listening to the middle-aged woman's reminder, Zero gleaned a piece of information from it—the location of the Lord of Danning City.

The difficulty of this task lies in the fact that people do not know where the city lord is, and therefore it is impossible to gain the city lord's approval.

However, just because others can't do it doesn't mean Zero can't... Moreover, Zero has a feeling that this task seems to have been tailor-made for him.

Therefore, he became even more determined to take on this mission.

Ling smiled at the person in charge and said:

"It's nothing. I just wanted to take on this mission. Thank you for your kindness."

Seeing that Ling insisted, the middle-aged woman didn't say anything more, quickly completed the task for Ling, and then handed Ling a jade pendant.

"This jade tablet contains your mission details. It will provide hints based on your mission progress. It will also serve as proof of your mission completion. Remember, losing the jade tablet means mission failure, so please keep it safe."

Hearing the person in charge's reminder, Ling smiled and thanked them, then took the jade token and left the mission distribution point.

The jade pendant in my hand looks no different from any other pendant. Could it really be as the woman said, that it will also provide a mission hint?

But... what hints will the quest "gain the approval of the Lord of Danning City" have...?

"Furthermore, the woman also said that not all tasks have hints, and not all tasks with hints will be visible to the task recipient."

"This jade pendant sounds quite intelligent, but is it really that magical...?"

Just as he was thinking for a moment, the jade pendant in his hand suddenly reacted.

Zero quickly shifted his gaze upwards—

The jade tablet flickered slowly, and after a while, three words gradually appeared on it—Danning City.

"Danning City? Isn't Danning City right here? Is this the clue??"

Upon seeing the jade pendant's message, Zero was greatly disappointed.

He had thought the jade tablet might give him some clues, but it only told him that the city lord was in Danning City.

"Where could the Lord of Danning City have gone if he's not in Danning City...? This hint doesn't seem to have any real purpose, does it...?"

"However, to be honest, I haven't really explored Danning City properly since I arrived, so I don't know how big it is..."

Finding someone in an unknown city—someone whose appearance, cultivation level, age, and whereabouts are all unknown—is undoubtedly different from finding a needle in a haystack; it's extremely difficult.

Ling sighed slightly, but he quickly cheered up.

"Generally speaking, in a city, the best places to inquire about information are restaurants and teahouses, where customers come and go of all sorts of backgrounds. If you want to know about the lord of Daning City, you'll have to go to these places to ask..."

After figuring things out, Zero also set his next goal.

However, he went to all the major restaurants and teahouses on the street, but no one knew the whereabouts of the Lord of Daning City.

The only piece of information was from a middle-aged man selling cloth on the street, who said, "The lord of Daning City once went to Beiyuan with a caravan, but he has never been seen since."

This news is very important!

For Zero, who had no clue whatsoever, this was undoubtedly a breakthrough point.

Caravans...

He remembered meeting a merchant when he arrived in Danning City; perhaps he could ask him for advice.

With that in mind, Zero didn't linger any longer and returned to the place where she had first met Fu Tianming. After inquiring with the people around her, they said that there was no such person in any caravan...

In other words, his identity is fake...

Zero didn't know why that person would disguise their identity and approach her without any apparent purpose. So why was they doing this...?

Suddenly, a bold conjecture popped into Zero's mind—

Could that person be the one he's looking for?

The only information about the Danning City Lord, who had followed the caravan, was that there was no trace of him.