At this moment, other disciples who were holding tokens saw that someone had actually accepted the task and shook their heads with amusement. They thought it was obviously a newbie who didn't know anything. They thought that taking on any task would be more efficient than taking on that green rat task. These green rats are very cunning. These newbies will probably not be able to catch even ten and will come back crying.
Meanwhile, the best team from Shixuan is ready to go.
The area where the green rats lived was not far from them, and the group traveled by sword and arrived quickly.
Just like in the book, the best team patrolled the two or three floating islands twice but did not find any trace of the green rat.
However, the green rats were very good at concealing their aura. When you used your divine sense to check them, you could only feel that their aura was almost the same as that of the surrounding plants. Since they were green plants themselves, their appearance blended into the surrounding environment.
After careful consideration, Shi Xuan selected a floating island where green rats were recorded to have appeared. He then instructed, "I will now drop the pills from the sky. You all go down and surround the central area. Once the green rats come out, we will make our move. Remember to hold your breath for a quarter of an hour. Although these pills are for demonic beasts, it is best to be careful."
Having all experienced the power of Shi Xuan's pills, they all cooperated and landed in a circle upon hearing her words. This allowed them to keep an eye on those in front, behind, left, and right, without needing to concentrate, as the green rats were not particularly powerful.
Seeing that everyone was ready to take their positions, Shi Xuan took out the Spring Love Pills left over from the Six Sects Grand Competition and threw them into the lush green area.
Green rats love places with lush vegetation, so throwing them in these spots is a sure bet.
Sure enough, before Shi Xuan could even count to twenty, some restless green rats scurried out.
This method proved incredibly effective against monsters. These green rats seemed to have sprung up from the trees, leaping and bounding outwards. But what awaited them was a trap.
The best team members were already poised to attack. As soon as they showed their heads, they were subdued. They put up a token resistance, but they were no match for these late-stage Golden Core cultivators and could only surrender.
On this single floating island, they completed their mission in half an hour, capturing 380 green rats.
Shen Wuyang was having a great time and suggested to Shi Xuan, "Captain, it's still early, why don't we go and collect two more islands?"
Sun Shaoxing nodded in agreement, saying, "I see the price for green rats in the trading area is quite high. Why don't we attack a couple more islands and catch more to sell?"
“Yes, the living are more valuable,” Mi Sui said, unusually. “We can hand over the dead ones for missions and sell the living ones.”
"Alright!" Shi Xuan decided, "Since everyone is so enthusiastic, let's acquire three more islands!"
After she finished speaking, she took out the Heavenly Origin Pill Furnace and began refining pills on the spot. She would refine one batch of pills and go to one island. After finishing the pills, she would refine another batch while the team members were fighting the green rats. Then she would go to the next island. In this way, she fought on five islands in a row, exceeding the mission target.
They stopped when it was time to leave and returned to their lodging together.
After their initial victory, the team members were in high spirits. However, seeing the time approaching and knowing they weren't allowed to stay outside at night, they decided to go to the council hall on the central floating island the next day to hand in their mission.
The group of nineteen people walked into the council hall together, which attracted quite a bit of attention.
Normally, a small team would send two or three people to complete a mission. It's rare to see the entire team come out like this. You can tell at a glance that it's a newly formed team, because only newly formed teams would have all members wanting to see what the council hall looks like.
As a result, this group of nineteen people attracted a lot of attention.
They watched Shi Xuan walk to the center of the hall, then stop to look at the sign, walk to the mission area, and say to the receptionist, "We're here to hand in our mission."
Behind them, all sorts of cultivators were watching this new team closely, whispering amongst themselves.
"Newcomers, guess what kind of task they're doing?"
"No, it's the green mouse, that's the easiest."
"Simple my foot! Even if we sent our team now, we might not be able to complete the task of killing 300 animals in a day, let alone this rookie team."
"Perhaps they've been fighting on the floating islands in the northeast for several days."
"They're in such good shape, they don't look like they've been through so much hardship for days."
...
At that moment, the council member opposite Shi Xuan asked, "Which task did you submit?"
Shi Xuan replied, "I received it yesterday, Green Rat."
As soon as she spoke, several gasps came from behind her. The one she picked up yesterday? Green Mouse?!
Many people saw someone accepting the Green Rat quest yesterday, and they were saying that it must be a new player who would accept such a time-consuming, laborious, and low-scoring quest.
But this team came to complete their mission today? They could hardly believe their eyes. It was morning, which meant they must have finished the Green Rat mission last night, otherwise the Night Owl would have appeared as soon as it got dark.
They remembered that when they received the assignment yesterday, it was already late morning...
Are all newcomers this fierce these days?
The council member also looked visibly surprised, but he didn't say anything, only stating in a businesslike manner, "There are a total of three hundred green rats for the mission."
Shi Xuan placed the prepared storage bag on the table.
The board member took them, opened them, and checked them. There were indeed three hundred green rats, some of which were even bigger and fatter than he had ever seen before, and their quality was quite good.
He nodded and asked routinely, "What's the name of your team?"
The entire team that completed the mission left their names on the leaderboard, which also listed team rankings, but Shi Xuan and the others didn't pay special attention to it at first. This was because the team rankings didn't show which continent they belonged to, and Shi Xuan's attention was focused on his own continent's ranking.
Now that they have completed their first task, it is natural for them to participate in the ranking.
Shi Xuan looked at the council member, paused slightly, and replied calmly, "It's best not to team up with us."
The council member was also taken aback. He sized up Shi Xuan and then said irritably, "Nobody wants to oppose you. I'm just asking for your team's name so I can enter it into the ranking system. What are you all thinking at such a young age? You're new here, who would want to oppose you? You're the ones who are more likely to oppose others!"
Behind Shi Xuan, a dozen people looked at each other, finding a secret smile in each other's eyes that only they knew.
Meanwhile, the cultivators who were secretly observing them grinned. What was this new team saying? Were they a bunch of lunatics? Someone asked them what their team's name was, and they started spouting threats...
“No,” Shi Xuan pursed his lips and explained, “Fellow Daoist, please don’t misunderstand. Our team’s name is: It’s best not to team up with us.”
She separated the team name, pausing in the middle, and this time the council member finally understood what she was talking about.
"Pfft..." A cultivator behind him had just taken a sip of wine when he heard the team name. He didn't swallow the wine and spat it out.
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