The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Chapter 978: Becoming the Earth God The next day, Xiao Han flew to the market again, preparing to find another day job.

When passing by Xu Xingwan's general store, there were no customers inside. Xu Xingwan was holding a communication device, seemingly about to contact someone.

Xiao Han smiled at Xu Xingwan as a greeting, and was about to walk over.

Xu Xingwan subconsciously exclaimed "Hey!" as if she wanted to call her back, but then she seemed to remember something and hesitated.

Seeing this, Xiao Han went inside.

"But what's the matter?"

When Xu Xingwan saw Xiao Han come in, she said with a slightly embarrassed tone, "I just happened to take on a job finding someone to do a task. When I saw you, I subconsciously wanted to call you over, but then I suddenly thought that this task might not be suitable for you."

Xiao Han smiled and said, "It's okay, you can ask me to do it when you find a suitable one."

Xu Xingwan still wanted to explain, so she said, "This mission is to go to a mortal realm and serve as a local deity for a hundred years. You've only been in the God Realm for a short time, so you definitely don't want to leave the God Realm now and go to the mortal realm to stay for a hundred years."

Xiao Han exclaimed in surprise, "There's such a mission? You really go to the mortal realm to become a god?"

Xu Xingwan said, "Cultivators in the Divine Palace who have reached the Divine Lord realm usually have to do this task. When we cultivators reach the mortal realm, we are almost the same as immortals."

Xiao Han casually asked, "So, how many divine stones are usually needed for such a mission?"

Xu Xingwan said, "Two hundred thousand divine stones."

Xiao Han subconsciously wanted to say so much, but then immediately realized that this task would take a hundred years, which meant only two thousand divine stones per year, which seemed like a very small amount.

She is now at the True God realm. A God Lord is a whole realm higher than a True God. Two hundred thousand divine stones are probably not a lot for a God Lord.

Paying money to avoid spending a hundred years in the mortal realm was naturally a very worthwhile deal for this divine lord cultivator.

Xu Xingwan added, "Generally speaking, only those true gods who have been in the God Realm for many years and are bored will take on this kind of mission."

That's why she felt Xiao Han was unsuitable.

After all, who would go through so much trouble to ascend to the God Realm, only to spend a hundred years in the mortal world before even getting familiar with it?

To everyone's surprise, Xiao Han suddenly said, "Why don't you let me do this task?"

Xu Xingwan was taken aback. "Didn't you just ascend to heaven not long ago? You're going to stay in the mortal realm for a hundred years."

The reason Xiao Han suddenly decided to take on this mission was because the God Realm was still completely unfamiliar to her, and she had no attachments here.

Since none of her familiar old friends are in the God Realm, it doesn't really matter which realm she's in.

Besides, she herself was born a mortal, and instead of feeling disgusted by the mortal world, she felt a natural affinity for it.

If one were to serve as a local earth god in the mortal realm for a hundred years, one would receive 200,000 divine stones upon arrival, and then return to familiarize oneself with the divine realm. There's nothing wrong with that.

Xiao Han didn't hide his true thoughts and said directly, "Precisely because I've just arrived in the God Realm and don't have any attachments to it yet, it's alright for me to do this mission. Fellow Daoist Xu, please give me this mission."

Seeing that she really wanted to go, Xu Xingwan stopped arguing and directly contacted the person who issued the task.

This kind of task cannot be openly delegated to someone else; it is usually done secretly and privately.

The person who issued this task was a priest surnamed Zhou.

Xu Xingwan managed to contact him, and the priest Zhou arrived quickly.

This was a male cultivator who appeared to be middle-aged.

After the two met at the general store, Zhou Shenjun said to Xiao Han in a very kind manner, "If Fellow Daoist Xiao helps me with this task, I will pay a deposit of 50,000 divine stones first. The rest of the divine stones will be paid in full after you have stayed in the task interface for a hundred years and come back."

Xiao Han nodded in agreement.

She then asked, "When do we start the mission?"

The priest said, "I can stay in the God Realm for a maximum of ten more days. After ten days, I must go down. Do you have enough time to arrange other things?"

Xiao Han smiled and said, "I can leave right away. There's nothing to arrange or handle."

The priest was overjoyed. "We can go down earlier and come back sooner. In that case, come with me now."

Xiao Ha thought of her cave dwelling, which she had only rented for three days. She hurriedly asked Xu Xingwan, "Can the cave dwelling be sublet? I've been renting this place for a year, and I've only lived here for three days."

Once the cave dwelling is rented, it cannot be returned. Xiao Han only hopes to sublet it to minimize her losses.

Before Xu Xingwan could speak, the priest Zhou asked first, "How much is your rent for this year?"

Xiao Han said, "Seventy-five divine stones."

The priest waved his hand and said, "This little bit of divine stones is fine. No need for all that trouble. I'll give you an extra hundred divine stones."

Xiao Han was overjoyed and said with a smile, "Then thank you very much, Senior Zhou."

The priest Zhou took out another hundred divine stones and gave them to Xu Xingwan as a brokerage fee, which Xu Xingwan happily accepted.

Xiao Han took the cave's restriction token and returned it to the rental office.

Anyway, she didn't put anything in the cave. She has been staying in the Linglong Immortal Abode for the past two days, and even Ba Dou is still staying in the Linglong Immortal Abode.

After she finished dealing with the matters in the cave, the priest Zhou led her to the mission passage.

On the way, the priest Zhou explained the details of the mission to her again.

"After you descend to the mortal realm, the quest token will take you directly to the place where you need to perform the quest. Your duty is as the Earth God. If there is an Earth God Temple, place the quest token inside the temple and let it stay there for a hundred years. After a hundred years, it will take you back to the divine realm."

Finally, he added, "Without the mission jade token, you cannot return to the God Realm. The mission jade token cannot bring you back unless it stays in the mortal realm for a hundred years."

Xiao Han nodded, indicating that she understood.

Seeing that the priest seemed easy to talk to, she tentatively asked, "What is the purpose of this mission? Is it to use this mission jade token to collect the faith power of mortals?"

If that's the case, she might have to perform a miracle to make the mission even more successful.

To everyone's surprise, Priest Zhou said nonchalantly, "This is a mandatory task that the Divine Palace has kept for a long time. I don't know why we have to do this task. It's probably not about collecting mortals' faith or anything like that, since some priests who go down to do this task are said to be very perfunctory, and nobody cares about it."

Everyone just returns after completing the task and hands in the task token; I've never seen anyone question the quality of the task.

The two hadn't been talking for long when Zhou, the priest, led Xiao Han to a floating island.

With the priest Zhou leading them, the two arrived at a grand hall without any hindrance.

Inside the main hall, a nebula-like cloud slowly rotated.

The High Priest Zhou took out 50,100 divine stones and handed them to Xiao Han. "Here's the deposit for you. There's a trace of my divine sense in this mission jade token. I'll be able to sense you as soon as you return to the God Realm and I'll come here to pick you up then."

Xiao Han nodded, put away the divine stone, and then took a jade tablet with the power of laws flowing on it and engraved with mysterious runes.

Then, holding the jade token, she flew into the nebula.

The next moment, her figure disappeared into the nebula.