A Farmer's Journey To Immortality

Respectful voices echoed one after another throughout the guild’s grounds.

Even those who had only seen him through portraits immediately lowered their heads upon sensing his cultivation.

After all, a Lord had descended before them. For ordinary loose cultivators, such a sight was extraordinarily rare.

Aksai merely nodded calmly. His indifferent attitude only made him appear even more unfathomable in everyone’s eyes.

Some cultivators who had just left the guild grounds on flying artifacts immediately stopped in midair.

They exchanged surprised glances.

Then, without hesitation, they turned around and flew back toward the guild headquarters.

If the Guild Master had personally arrived, something important must have happened or was about to take place.

Within moments, the news spread through the entire guild grounds.

"The Guild Master has returned!"

"Lord Aksai is here!"

"What happened?"

"Has something serious occurred?"

More and more cultivators quietly gathered at a respectful distance. None dared approach too closely. Yet curiosity shone clearly within their eyes.

Even the senior managers responsible for the guild’s daily operations hurried out from the main building after receiving the news.

Before long, many pairs of eyes were fixed upon Aksai, silently waiting to learn why the elusive Guild Master had suddenly chosen to appear in person.

Aksai slowly swept his gaze across the gathered crowd. After pondering for a brief moment, he finally spoke.

"I am here to release a batch of special missions to all of you."

His calm voice spread throughout the guild grounds.

Before anyone could react, Aksai released a strand of his Spirit Sense.

The guild’s formation instantly recognized its master.

Without any resistance, control of the entire formation shifted into Aksai’s hands.

The Essence Equations engraved throughout the headquarters began glowing faintly.

A moment later—

Buzz!

A massive spectral screen appeared high above the guild square.

It stretched dozens of meters across the sky, allowing everyone present to see its contents clearly.

Countless lines of text rapidly appeared across the screen.

Special Guild Missions.

The cultivators immediately raised their heads.

One mission after another emerged.

Collecting rare medicinal herbs.

Harvesting high-grade Spirit grasses.

Recovering unusual ores buried inside dangerous mountains.

Gathering rare poisonous plants.

Capturing living Spirit insects.

Collecting beast materials.

Obtaining unique fungi that only grew inside forbidden valleys.

Nearly every mission pointed toward remote and dangerous regions of the subcontinent, away from the mainland, seas, and Duya Forest.

Northern Shiju Mountain Range.

Southern Shiju Mountain Range.

Gray Mist Desert.

Purple Poison Marshland.

Black Stone Ravine.

Numerous unexplored forests.

Every mission contained detailed instructions.

Illustrations identifying the target resources.

Methods of harvesting them safely.

Recommended storage techniques.

Minimum cultivation requirements.

Estimated danger levels.

Difficulty rankings.

Contribution rewards.

Everything had been organized with astonishing precision.

The loose cultivators stared at the enormous list with widening eyes.

"What..."

"So many missions..."

"These contribution rewards..."

"They’re much higher than the ordinary ones!"

Whispers immediately spread through the crowd. Many people instinctively began calculating the potential profits.

Compared to ordinary guild commissions, these rewards were almost fifty percent higher within their respective tiers.

Some were even doubled. Before the excitement could grow further, Aksai continued speaking.

"These are special missions. They mainly involve traveling into less-explored and high-risk regions like the Northern and Southern Shiju Mountain Ranges, the Gray Mist Desert, and the Purple Poison Marshland, which is less risky to explore these days because of the recent dissipation of the purple poison mist.

"There are many other dangerous locations as well."

His gaze calmly swept across the crowd.

"These missions are recurring. They have no fixed completion deadline. Multiple individuals or groups may accept the same mission simultaneously."

A brief silence followed.

Then Aksai waved his sleeve.

Dozens of jade-colored vials appeared before him.

Each one contained carefully refined pills.

The surrounding cultivators immediately recognized the dense medicinal aura radiating from them.

Without another word, Aksai guided the floating vials toward one of the senior guild managers.

The middle-aged man hurriedly received them with trembling hands.

Aksai spoke again.

"I have just placed one hundred Foundation Establishment Pills and one hundred Core Nirvana Pills inside the guild treasury."

"Along with them are various other medicinal pills capable of assisting cultivation, recovery, Spirit Essence restoration, and breakthrough stabilization."

As soon as he finished speaking—

The enormous spectral screen changed once again.

A new section appeared beneath the missions.

Guild Treasury Exchange List.

Every available pill was listed.

Beside each one appeared the remaining quantity.

Exchange requirements.

Contribution cost.

The moment everyone saw the first two entries, the entire square erupted.

"Foundation Establishment Pills!"

"One hundred of them!"

"There are actually one hundred!"

"My heavens..."

"And..."

"Core Nirvana Pills!"

The late-stage Spirit Gathering Novices almost stopped breathing.

For many of them...

A single Foundation Establishment Pill represented an opportunity to completely change their lives.

Almost every loose cultivator at the late stage of the Spirit Gathering Realm had planned to earn enough contribution points from the guild to exchange them for the necessary Spirit resources and Spirit Stones.

After making sufficient preparations, they intended to travel to the Neutral State of Haan Di, either to purchase a Foundation Establishment Pill through its auctions or commission an alchemist to refine one.

After that, they would rent one of Haan Di’s cultivation caves to attempt their breakthrough into the Foundation Establishment Realm.

After all, they knew that the Guild Master of the Emerald Cove Guild standing before them—Lord Aksai himself—had once established his own foundation in the same way.

But who would have thought that the Emerald Cove Guild would produce so many Foundation Establishment Pills at this point?

The late-stage Foundation Establishment loose cultivators shared similar thoughts regarding the Core Nirvana Pills.

Aksai’s sudden announcement of these special missions and their corresponding rewards caught them pleasantly off guard, making them even more excited.

The Core Nirvana Pill was something many of them had only heard about.

It was said that a single pill could increase the chance of forming a Spirit Core by more than twenty percent.

Compared to most Spirit resources that offered a mere ten percent increase—or even less—the Core Nirvana Pill was naturally regarded as a heaven-sent treasure.

Now...

There were one hundred of them.