The dining hall of Ice Feather Palace.

Many disciples were dining in small groups of two or three.

Ruan Xiyan selected a few dishes she liked and found a quiet spot to eat.

Junyu sat opposite her.

Even when Ruan Xiyan was eating with her head down, she could feel the gaze coming from across the table.

"Is it pretty?" Ruan Xiyan suddenly looked up and met Jun Yu's eyes.

Jun Yu smiled gently. "She looks beautiful. No matter how you look at it, Ayan is very beautiful."

Ruan Xiyan gave a forced, insincere smile. "Being good-looking can't put food on the table. If you keep looking, I'll gouge your eyes out."

She spoke in a menacing tone, threatening him.

Jun Yu smiled and said, "Why is Ayan shy? I won't look. Besides, how could Ayan bring herself to touch such a handsome face?"

Ruan Xiyan rolled her eyes elegantly. "Have some shame."

I've never seen anyone so narcissistic.

After finishing her meal, Ruan Xiyan headed towards the mission hall.

"Is Ayan going to receive a mission?" Jun Yu followed closely behind.

"You're an inner disciple, following me around all day. Don't you have anything to do of your own?" Ruan Xiyan asked.

“Following Ayan is my business,” Junyu said with a smile.

When he came to Ice Feather Palace, he had calculated that Ayan would also come.

Otherwise, given his abilities, why would he be here as a disciple with nothing better to do?

He thought that as fellow disciples of the Ice Feather Palace, it would be easier for them to communicate, but he clearly underestimated Ayan's wariness of him.

Since she couldn't get rid of him, Ruan Xiyan decided not to waste her breath arguing with him.

Although she hadn't spent much time with Junyu, she knew he had a specific purpose in mind, but it seemed he wouldn't harm her.

Ultimately, it's because her own strength is insufficient that she is so wary of Jun Yu, whose strength is unfathomable and mysterious.

It seems she still needs to earn enough Ice Points as soon as possible to enter the inner sect. Only in this way can her strength improve faster and she will have more confidence.

Mission Hall.

Ruan Xiyan glanced at the various tasks, big and small.

Yellow-level mission: Harvest the medicinal herb cassia seeds, 800 ice points.

Mysterious-level mission: Hunt down the Frenzied Blood Leopard, obtain its beast core, and earn 2,000 Ice Points.

Earth-level mission: Obtain the tail of the Two-Faced Scorpion, 8,000 Ice Points...

Ruan Xiyan selected some simple, straightforward, and time-efficient tasks.

The tasks that were originally lit up on the wall dimmed as Ruan Xiyan accepted them.

The others in the mission hall looked at Ruan Xiyan in surprise as the missions on the mission wall kept dimming.

This woman is too arrogant! Can she even finish all these tasks?!

Keep in mind that these tasks have time limits. If you fail to complete the task within the time limit, you will lose a certain number of Ice Points.

Moreover, some of the tasks she accepted were Earth-level tasks. You have to understand that for them, as outer disciples, it is already very difficult to complete Profound-level tasks.

The danger level of Earth-level missions is always assumed to be geared towards inner disciples; outer disciples wouldn't even consider them.

Although the Ice Shard Points in the Earth-level quests are very tempting, you also need to be alive to get them.

Almost no outer sect disciple would willingly take on difficult Earth-level missions, preferring to take on simpler Yellow-level missions to accumulate experience over time.

Ruan Xiyan carefully selected suitable tasks, unaware of what the disciples were thinking.

She only wanted to take on missions with high ice content, regardless of whether they were dangerous.

If she only accepts those easy Yellow-level missions, not only will she not be able to grow quickly in adversity, but becoming an inner disciple will also become a distant dream.

After selecting some missions from the Earth, Profound, and Yellow levels, Ruan Xiyan turned her attention to the most difficult Heaven level missions.

Each Heavenly-level mission requires at least 100,000 Ice Points, but there are very few Heavenly-level missions.

A Heavenly-level mission: Hunt down the Yeti King in the Blizzard Plains, rewarding 150,000 Ice Points.

When rescuing the disciples of Ice Feather Palace, I had dealt with the snow monsters of the blizzard plains. The disciples' Xuan-level mission was to obtain ten snow monster inner cores.

The mission to hunt down the Yeti King has been upgraded to the Heavenly level, which shows how difficult the Yeti King is to deal with.

Ruan Xiyan then looked at the other Heavenly-level missions, her brows furrowing slightly.

Most of these Heavenly-level missions are team missions, requiring a certain number of people to travel together to accept them.

Therefore, she alone is not enough to take on the mission.

Knowing what she was thinking, Jun Yu behind her explained, "In a world where the strong prey on the weak, although the Ice Feather Palace provides its disciples with certain protections..."

"However, most disciples who go out on missions are left to their fate, and quite a few die every year while on missions."

"For difficult missions like the Heavenly level, Ice Feather Palace requires a certain number of disciples to take on the mission together in order to minimize casualties."

Jun Yu smiled and looked at Ruan Xiyan, "If Ayan needs it, I can help Ayan make up the number of people."

Ruan Xiyan looked thoughtful. Even with him included, the number of people still didn't meet the requirements for accepting the mission.

"Repair the formation, 200,000 Ice Points." Ruan Xiyan glanced at the only Heaven-level mission that could be accepted alone.

The Yeti King is located in the inner layer of the blizzard plains. The dangerous mission of hunting the Yeti King only yields 150,000 Ice Points, while successfully repairing the formation can earn 200,000 Ice Points.

The key point is that the mission to repair the formation is located in the Ice Feather Palace.

It seems that repairing this formation is far more difficult than imagined.

However, since we've come to Ice Feather Palace, we shouldn't be timid and hesitant. We should try some exciting challenges so that we won't have any regrets.

Ruan Xiyan raised her hand and accepted the Heavenly-level mission.

The disciples who had been secretly watching the commotion around them widened their eyes instantly.

If Ruan Xiyan had accepted a high-level mission before, people would have thought she was young, ignorant, and too arrogant.

Seeing her accept a top-tier mission without batting an eye, I can only think that this woman has completely gone mad.

In a short time, Ruan Xiyan took on a multitude of missions from the Mission Hall, including Heaven-level missions that even inner disciples could not easily complete. This news spread like wildfire throughout the outer sect and appeared in everyone's conversations.

They were all watching with a sense of schadenfreude, wanting to see if Ruan Xiyan was truly capable of completing the task she had taken on, or if she was just putting on a show and pretending to be something she'd never expected.

Everyone tended to believe the latter scenario, since since the establishment of the Mission Hall, no one had ever dared to take on so many missions and complete them all.

However, some people still set up a betting pool, using ice points as stakes, to see if Ruan Xiyan could complete the task she had taken on.

Faced with this obvious outcome, the disciples of Ice Feather Palace rushed to place bets, hoping to seize the opportunity to win big.

More and more people bet that Ruan Xiyan would be unable to complete the task, and the odds quickly reached 100 to 1.