Chapter 317 Hu Bu and Chakota
The thick embarrassment in the air instantly made all the players try to pretend to be busy.
"Hey, I'm running out of mana, do you have any soul elixirs?"
"You didn't bring it?"
"I've got it, I'll look for it... er, it's right here!"
"Then why are you asking me?"
"Well, that's because I'm used to asking people for it!"
“…”
Seeing the poor cover-up of this group of unpromising members, Nietzsche couldn't help but twitch his lips, and gritted his teeth and spoke again: "My fellow Taoist, we really have no ill intentions, and we are indeed here to find the Sword Sect..."
The female cultivator glanced at the players who were about to burst out in embarrassment, and said calmly: "Then you won't be able to find it!"
The Jade Emperor immediately asked, "Hey, Taoist friend, why do you say that?"
The female cultivator still had no expression on her face. "Are you really ignorant? This Sword Sect was trapped on Tiangui Island by the Soul Devouring Rift many years ago. Even if it existed in the past, after so many years, it is probably gone! How are you going to find it?"
When Renxin Huadao heard that the name was completely different from the one in the mission description, he was a little confused and whispered to Guan Tangbao beside him: "Tiangui Island? Isn't it Arctic Liuzhou?"
Unexpectedly, the female cultivator explained in a serious tone: "Beiji Liuzhou is probably the name given by people outside of Liuzhou. The Sword Sect is located in the Tiangui Mountain area, so most of the entire Tiangui Mountain was cut off. Everyone simply calls the island 'Tiangui Island'!"
"Ah, haha, I see," the Jade Emperor continued awkwardly, and asked, "Is there really no way to cross the Soul Devouring Rift?"
The female cultivator replied, "It's hard to say whether they have passed away or not. Anyway, from what I've heard, those who have passed away never come back. It's probably the same as being dead!"
The Jade Emperor asked again: "Then may I ask if the 'Soul Devouring Rift' is far from here?"
"It's about a hundred miles away. Look from here and there. That mountain is Tiangui Mountain. At the foot of the mountain is the Soul Devouring Rift Valley!"
As the female cultivator spoke, she pointed to a vague white snow-capped mountain in the north. The mountain was not too high, but it stretched endlessly, occupying the entire northern view. Clouds surrounded the top of the mountain, making the sky look especially blue.
"Thank you, fellow Taoist!"
The Jade Emperor bowed in gratitude, and the others followed suit and saluted awkwardly, but few of them did it correctly.
The female cultivator didn't care and returned the greeting. She then reminded them, "If you go directly, remember to go around from the west. This side is our Hubuyu clan, and the east is the Sushen clan. In comparison, the Quanrong clan in the west is easier to talk to. If you tell them, they will probably let you pass!"
"Thank you, fellow Taoist," the Jade Emperor thanked him sincerely again, and then introduced himself: "I am the Jade Emperor, a disciple of the Taiyin Sect of Zhongzhou. They are all my fellow disciples. This is Nietzsche, and there are also Guan Tang Bao, Renxin Huadao, Huang Zhucao, and Wu Ke."
After listing everyone's IDs one after another, he asked, "I still don't know your name, fellow Taoist?"
"Your names are really weird," the female cultivator muttered, and then she replied, "My name is Hubuyu, my last name is Lie, and my name is Chakota. You can just call me Chakota!"
Renxin Huadao couldn't help but complain: "Wow! This NPC's name is even weirder!"
At the same time, the Jade Emperor asked in the team channel: "I want to contact this 'Hu Bu Yu Shi' and see if I can use the name of trade to find out more details about Liuzhou. What do you think?"
Guan Tang Bao was the first to respond: "I think it's okay! Anyway, the tasks in this game have a lot of freedom. Maybe if you make them more detailed, you can trigger some hidden plots and get more generous rewards!"
A few players finally realized that they could also use the team channel to chat so that the NPCs couldn't hear them!
King Bamboo Grass also added: "Good fellow, why were we so stupid as to chat directly in the game just now!?"
Renxinhua said stubbornly: "Don't touch it, I just subconsciously cricketed, I'm not afraid of NPCs at all!"
"So what are you pretending to find for the elixir?"
"I just don't have any mana left! What's going on?!"
“It’s so fake!”
Nietzsche quickly clicked a few words to stop everyone from talking nonsense: "Stop arguing! Emperor, I feel like you are quite good at diplomacy. Just do what you think. Maybe, like Guan Tangbao said, you can come up with some hidden plots!"
“Sure enough!”
The Jade Emperor's eyes lit up when he got the confirmation, and he immediately spoke to Chakota confidently, "Daoist Chakota, it's like this, this is our first time in Liuzhou, and we are not very familiar with Liuzhou. I wonder if you, the Hubuyu clan, have any business needs. We can communicate. We have a lot of Zhongzhou specialties with us!"
"We are short of medicines and various elixirs. If there are any spiritual herbs or plants, we will take them too." Chakota seemed to be born with facial paralysis. His expression remained unchanged, but his tone became more serious. "However, please burn incense first to offer to the three stars of fortune, wealth and longevity."
When the Jade Emperor heard that there was a chance, he immediately agreed: "No problem, no problem!"
As for other things, everyone might not be able to take out much, but there were so many elixirs and various spiritual herbs that the community had several warehouses full! The former were the necessary supplies that everyone had stockpiled for land reclamation, and the latter were the profits from land reclamation. For a community like Haoqi Changcun that specialized in land reclamation, the various spiritual herbs that were mined in the Shiwandashan Mountains in recent days were really countless!
The two exchanged a few more polite words and then, led by Chakota, they arrived at the entrance of the village.
The whole village was indeed a bit too plain, with most of the houses made of stone and yellow mud walls. The wall foundations extended half a meter above the ground, there were no windows on the walls, and the houses were larger than one another, at least twice as wide as the houses of the people in Zhongzhou!
As for the roof, it was made of wooden boards. Some of the roof boards were not fully put up, leaving a large part exposed. If you stood higher, you could see the scenery inside the house.
There were not many people in the village. Occasionally someone would say hello, but the words they shouted were in a language that was difficult to understand. Through the translation of the game system, there were only a few very short words, mostly polite phrases like "Have you eaten?" and "The sun is getting cold."
"It's early winter now, and everyone has to go hunting for food, so there aren't many people here right now. In half a month, no one will be able to go out!"
Chakota explained as he walked, and also reminded: "Be careful."
The thick snow was swept to both sides of the road, mostly piled up in the corners and next to the houses, mixed with brown soil, looking dirty and gray. Most of it had obviously been refrozen many times, forming huge lumps of ice.
The road is made of ice and snow that have been repeatedly trampled and frozen. Although it is bumpy, you can clearly feel the slippery feeling under your feet.
Guan Tang Bao tiptoed carefully, walking through the small ice pits with great experience, and asked curiously, "Why can't you go out? Aren't you monks?"
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