《Master of Jade Cauldron》Book 1 Chapter 8 - A Perfect Fool.
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"Fellow brother, please be quick, I need to get two batches of the Blood Ginseng Roots for my order!" said one of the interns that gathered on one of the popular product cabinets.
"Don't block me please, my Spiritual Pearl Powder is very easy to be scattered away by a slight wind!" another female intern is troubled by the running crowd that rushing up and down to grab their respective ingredient.
"Kid, your ingredient request is incomplete, make sure it is well gathered before you place it for our final examination." one of the senior staff push away the pouch containing four different ingredients back to the intern.
"This is so hard! I want to give up! Senior please allow me to leave!" one more intern gave up on handling the ingredient request, and escape without looking back.
Rushing to complete their order, the bunch of interns is all busy fighting with each other to grab their own ingredient first, while some of them even tried to choose some slightly easier request from the chest of request slips. But unfortunate to them, this chest considered as the easiest package of ingredient request slips, as they only consist of a total of four to five ingredients.
"Senior, please have a check on this five pouches of ingredients. The slips of the request are placed within as well." one capable looking intern hand over a total of five pouches in one attempt.
"Hmm..." the senior staff busy checking the quantity of the required amounts within the five different pouch of ingredients, and professionally fold the pouch opening, to seal it for delivery.
"Good job! The portioning of each request is very well distributed. Keep up the good work!" the senior staff praised the intern for her good job.
After looking clearly on that intern's facial distinction, although she had a piece of cloth wrapped around her hair to allow more flexibility and reduce the disturbance from her long hair, Long Feng could still recognize this intern's identity.
"She is Nan Jing Jing, one of the top 3 students of our intake. This makes me wonder, where is Gou Yu? Did he not participate in this intern job?" Long Feng take his time to gather the ingredient into his pouch.
"Senior, please check this five pouches of ingredients." Long Feng place his gathered works on top of the table, allowing the senior staff to have a look.
The senior staff checked the ingredient within with the slip on its side, and soon he reacts differently.
"The portioning is just correct. The slips you chose to work with is very well organized as well. Keep up the good work." the senior staff approved Long Feng's work, and proceed to seal each pouch to be delivered.
The works go on again and again, almost in a repeating order. But as the intern is only hired for a total four hours of work, they only successfully completed a total of 1400 piece of ingredient request. Between the 1400 slips, a total of 160 is completed by Nan Jing Jing, while Long Feng managed to complete a total of 150 slips.
Among them, two of the intern is performing even better than both Nan Jing Jing and Long Feng.
One of them is known as Tang Jiu, who completed a total of 210 slips of ingredient request.
And another one is known as Liu Tsung, who completed a total of 280 slips of ingredient request.
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The remaining 600 slips is completed by the remaining interns within the room, which is roughly about 16 of them is left.
Earlier before the work starts, the room is occupied with a total of 60 interns, but currently, only 20 of them remains.
"Great work for all you have done today."
"I will now distribute the total points of your results."
"If you are interested in exchanging for a few ingredients, I advise you to quickly went over to the counter to seek for the list in their hand."
"And for the four of you, the Pavilion wished to see each of you presents on next week duty, could we expect you to be helping the pavilion again?" the senior staffs spoke directly to each of them.
While the others answer is not known to Long Feng, his own answer is yes.
In return of obtaining a firm answer from Long Feng directly, the senior staff arranged that the room he will be allocated next time will be on a more personal station, specially made for the experienced intern to pack the ingredients more easily.
And on the same time, Long Feng received a bonus 50 points for agreeing to appear for the next consecutive week, so he currently has a total of 200 points in his hand for exchange.
"Older sister, can this younger brother take a look on the exchange list?" Long Feng request for the exchange list as he reaches the counter, which is expected to close in another 30 minutes time.
"Sure, that won't be a problem, just let this big sister know if you need anything else." the female staff replied, as she turns around, allowing Long Feng to noticed the nametag on her right chest written (Li Ying).
"Big sister, can I have the same list as well?" Nan Jing Jing arrived at the side of Long Feng, requesting for the same list as well.
"Good job in the room just now, at least us being two of the top three students in this year intake does not lose our face during the process." she speaks.
"I am only trying my best and not making any mistakes during the gathering process. Fellow disciple Jing Jing, I am Long Feng, nice to meet you." Long Feng replied humbly, as he introduces himself to Nan Jing Jing.
"I know who you are. The Sky elemental disciple am I right? We might happen to help each other in soon future, my master did mention about joint mentoring between two elder and two disciples." Nan Jing Jing replied with her husky voice.
"So fellow disciple already knows about me, I'm sorry for being so ignorant in terms of communication between disciples." Long Feng knows that his attitude of being a loner within the Pill Hall caused him to have the lack of friends and labeled as eccentric within the outer division.
"Do not worry about this issues, it just Jing Jing is more interested in knowing people that think slightly different from others."
"Oh and by the way, Jing Jing is born with the Extreme Cold Constitution, so I'm Excellent in Water Element, Excellent in Earth Element and Excellent in Metal Element compatibility." Jing Jing continued.
"Ah..." Long Feng mind goes blank.
Nowhere to hide his embarrassment, Long Feng decided to keep quiet without giving any reply to Nan Jing Jing. In his mind, only two sentences are repeating in his mind.
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"What is that Extreme Cold Constitution?"
"I should spend more time in researching such matter, now I am seriously looked like an idiot in front of my fellow disciple!" Long Feng brain almost short circuit as he repeats the two sentence in his mind.
"Brother Xiao Feng!" Nan Jing Jing wakes him up from a trance.
"Yes?" He awkwardly looked at Nan Jing Jing.
"Big sister Li Ying says we have 15minutes to decide, else we have to wait until tomorrow to exchange our points." She explained what Li Ying says when he was in his trance period.
"Oh! I will make it quick, I'm so sorry for being away from my mind for a moment." Long Feng quickly run through the list.
First Grade Ingredients
Green Lizard Blood - 2 Points
Blue River Horse Blood - 2 Points
Bullet Horned Beetle - 2 Points
Atlas Moth Molted Skin - 2 Points
Black Bitter Mint - 2 Points
Rainbow Berries - 2 Points
Hundred Layered Moss - 2 Points
Ten Years old Ginseng Powder - 2 Points
Thunder Sparrow Egg - 2 Points
Dark Fluid of Ferocious Crow - 2 Points
Blood Ginseng Root - 2 Points
Spiritual Pearl Powder - 2 Points
Cultivating Materials
Clear Toad Fruit's Wax - 20 Points
Ferocious Crow Hatchling - 25 Points
Fire Breathing Fruit's Juice - 20 Points
Thunder Sparrow Hatchling - 25 Points
Dragon Fang Flower's Petals - 20 Points
Fire Stripe Bee's Larvae - 25 Points
Ironwood Shoots - 5 Points
Atlas Moth Worm - 25 Points
Blood Fruit - 5 Points
Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant Seed - N/A
Bubble Fruit Spring Water - 5 Points
Rock Dragon Elderberry Seeds - N/A
Specials
Impure Azure Jade Rock
200 Points
Impure Marble Jade Rock
200 Points
Lower-Rank First-Grade Cultivating Pellet
200 Points
After going through the list, Long Feng mind started to tell him that choosing the Impure Azure Jade Rock is the best choice for him.
Jades.
This special gemstone is believed to be one of the god blessings towards the residence of the Continent of Yan.
Came is many kinds of condition, type, and purity, each piece of Jade Rock have the capability of re-growing themselves into a much more pure gemstone as they are cultivated.
Although their actual number of different types is unknown at the moment, a majority of the resident have seen, and also have the basic knowledge of three of them.
Azure Jade Gemstone
This type of Gemstone is brilliantly clear with the clear color of light green jade combined with a streak of sky blue color throughout the gemstone. Cultivator who cultivates with this gemstone by their side could felt a more cooling breeze as if they are cultivating in the middle of the air and also the gemstone have a slight capability of absorbing surrounding Essence Qi to be stored within the Gemstone.
Marble Jade Gemstone
This gemstone came in a middle tone green as if they got the color directly from newly grown stems of a plant. Deep within contained with streaks of gray tone from the marbling, making the gemstone looks like spirally created. Cultivator who cultivates with this gemstone could felt a tougher skin as they temper their body strength, and through wearing this gemstone on their body, the practitioner will felt more resistance to their surroundings, such as being active as they were on ground while at mountain peak, breath longer when submerging in water, more durable even though they are strike by lightning, and unmovable when blown by heavy gust.
Clearness Jade Gemstone
This gemstone is mysterious, quiet and difficult to fathom. Some Cultivator says that it could bring them luck when looking for an ingredient, while some say that they protect the life of a cultivator when he was trapped in a dire situation. Some even say that they bring success to a cultivator no matter which field of knowledge they wish to procure. This gemstone keeps an almost clearly see through tone, only disturbed by a few streaks of white cloudy tone around the edge of the gemstone.
"I remember master have a Jadestone necklace on his neck as well. I wonder what type of Jadestone is that."
"Big sister Li Ying, may I exchange 200 points for the Impure Azure Jade Rock?" Long Feng placed his order, thoroughly gave a shock to Li Ying and Nan Jing Jing.
"Brother Xiao Feng, with our current cultivation, you might take forever to clean the gemstone before you have the chances to put it to use." Nan Jing Jing is the first person to explain the difficulties of refining and cultivate the jade to carry the expected effect when wearing it.
"Little sister Jing Jing is correct. Little brother Long Feng, choosing this stone instead of other resources might give you some disadvantage until you could refine it." even Li Ying tried to give advice to Long Feng's decision.
"Big sister Li Ying, sister Jing Jing, please, believe me, there is a voice within me that says choosing the Jade Rock is a correct choice for me." Long Feng do not hesitate to answer them and reject their advice.
"Since that's the case, I guess I will remain quiet regarding this matter." Li Ying stopped giving any comments and walked over to the treasure room to retrieve the piece of Jade Rock for Long Feng.
With the transaction for Long Feng is over, Li Ying moves to Nan Jing Jing, and make an exchange for her. Nan Jing Jing decided to exchange all her points for a Bubble Fruit Water, as she has a plan to create her own cultivating zone.
With today's internship job ended, they both leave the pavilion and return to the Bronze Pill Hall together.
Not paying attention to his surrounding, Long Feng walked as his mind pondered on the Impure Azure Jade Rock because that rock is giving him a very special feeling. But to the other outer disciple, Long Feng's action is practically unforgivable!
How can such an ignorant brat have goddess Nan Jing Jing to follow him from behind while he himself is dreaming in his own wonderland as he walks! How many male disciples wished to have that opportunity to laid themselves on the floor to become her walking carpet, just to make sure her shoe doesn't get dirtied by the leaves and remains of decomposing branches on the floor?
While in Nan Jing Jing's mind...
"Is this guy dumb or what? I've been hinting him all the way until now and his attention is only on that piece of Jade Rock. He is lucky because my father did not give me any additional pocket money to spend, else I will decorate myself like a Jade Rock to make him look at me for eternity!"
When did this ignorant fool manage to catch a grasp on Nan Jing Jing's heart?
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