At noon, Jiang Fan and Bu Tonglin had lunch at Uncle Jiu's place, and then led by Uncle Jiu to the Hong Kong Taoist Association.
Unlike Bu Tonglin's imagination of being located deep in the mountains and rivers, the headquarters of the Xuanmen Association is located in Kowloon, still in an office building.
Looking at the Xuanmen Association like a company, Bu Tonglin said in surprise: "The Xuanmen Association is too advanced with the times!"
He originally thought that the Xuanmen Association should be in a Taoist temple deep in the mountains and forests, where a group of practitioners of the Immortal Style were sitting and discussing Taoism. However, after looking around, he saw that except for a few older people who were wearing more retro clothes, most of them were in suits.
Wearing leather shoes, those who didn’t know thought they had joined some big company.
Uncle Jiu said with a smile: "The so-called great hermit is hidden in the city. Xuanmen is not static. It is washed away by the waves. If you can't follow the trend of the times, you will eventually be eliminated!"
"Uncle Jiu said it right. Man follows Heaven, Heaven follows Tao, and Tao follows nature. Cultivation is to conform to nature. The times are developing. Only by trying more new things can we keep pace with the times and avoid being swallowed up by the waves of the times.
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Jiang Fan came here this time just to recognize the door and see if there are any suitable tasks.
"Uncle Jiu, are these two your apprentices? Why haven't I seen them before?"
At this time, a middle-aged Taoist priest who looked similar to Taoist Master Qianhe came over. He was a few years younger than Uncle Jiu. He had short, capable hair, wore a long dark blue mandarin jacket, and looked upright.
"I am not so lucky. A Fan is a disciple of the Wudang Sect."
Uncle Jiu introduced: "As for Abu..."
Bu Tonglin smiled and said: "I don't have a sect, so I will follow the boss here to gain experience."
"This time Afan comes to join the association, and I am his guarantor."
Uncle Jiu then introduced to Jiang Fan: "This is Taoist Master Zhong Fabai. He learned art at the age of five, became famous at the age of sixteen, and opened a grocery store at the age of twenty. The place where Mr. Zhong Fabai lives is within a radius of twenty miles.
All ghosts must immigrate."
"Uncle Jiu, please stop laughing at me!"
Lin Jiu's seniority is relatively high, so Zhong Fabai also calls him Uncle Jiu.
As for Uncle Jiu's introduction, it was a joke made by Zhong Fabai after he drank too much.
However, Zhong Fabai does have real abilities and is one of the eight earth masters of the Xuanmen Association.
Currently, there are only twenty-six official members of the Hong Kong Taoist Association, most of whom are at the human master level, only eight are at the earth master level, and only one is a heavenly master.
Zhong Fabai belongs to the early stage of Earth Master, and Jiu Shu belongs to the peak Earth Master. There is still a big gap between the two.
In fact, Jiang Fan has now recognized Zhong Fabai and knows that he is the Taoist priest who was tricked to death by Jin McGee and Meng Chao in "Menggui Mission".
Jiang Fan's arrival eliminated the ghost king Issey Miyake in advance, and to a certain extent, it also saved Zhong Fabai's life.
"The bell is long, and I have admired it for a long time."
Jiang Fan said politely.
Zhong Fabai saw that Jiang Fan was tall, full of vitality, and had broken through to the realm of human teacher at a young age. He couldn't help but praise: "You are young and promising!"
He originally thought that Uncle Jiu was bringing his disciples to gain experience, but he didn't expect that he was bringing Jiang Fan to join the club.
With the development of the times, spiritual energy has gradually become thinner, there are fewer and fewer real practitioners, and it has become more and more difficult. The Xuanmen Association has not had new members for several years!
Now that he saw a rising star, Zhong Fabai became more and more attracted to him. However, he had just accepted a mission and could not stay longer. He just gave Jiang Fan an address and said that he could go and communicate when he was free.
After Zhong Fabai left, Uncle Jiu took Jiang Fan to register. The process was not difficult, just input a piece of Jiang Fan's basic information into the association's computer database.
After learning that Jiang Fan had become a human teacher at the age of seventeen, it immediately caused a commotion. Many elderly people in the association came to watch, just like watching giant pandas.
"Afan, are you a human teacher?"
Among the crowd, a mature beauty said in surprise.
The person who spoke was none other than Zhang Xiaoling, who had fought alongside Jiang Fan.
She was not surprised that Jiang Fan was too strong, but felt that Jiang Fan was hiding something.
"Sister Xiaoling, you are here too!"
Jiang Fan was not surprised to see Zhang Xiaoling. Zhang Xiaoling was an Earth Master, so he was naturally qualified to join the Xuanmen Association.
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Uncle Jiu glanced at the two of them: "Afan, do you know Xiaoling?"
Zhang Xiaoling said calmly: "The new building was haunted before, and it was Afan and I who solved it together."
"I see!"
Uncle Jiu nodded.
He had heard that the Xinjian Building was haunted, but the task was taken over by Zhang Xiaoling, so he couldn't get involved.
The few of them chatted for a while, and Uncle Jiu left beforehand.
Knowing that Jiang Fan wanted to take over the mission, Zhang Xiaoling took Jiang Fan and accompanying Bu Tonglin to the mission bar in the mission hall.
I saw a scrolling data panel playing the task list in turn.
Zhang Xiaoling explained: "Afan, if you want to receive that task, you can go to a special window. After accepting the task, the task on the data panel will disappear."
"After receiving the task, you have one month to complete the task. If it times out or the task fails, the task will be placed on the data panel again."
"The tasks on the data panel are roughly divided into four levels: a, b, c, and d."
"D level is the lowest, usually some innocent ghosts and evil spirits."
"A level is the highest. It has only appeared once so far. It was many years ago."
"Like the Ghost King in the newly built building, it is a level B difficulty."
"After completing the task, you can get corresponding point rewards. These points can be exchanged for various items or money within the association..."
Zhang Xiaoling introduced patiently.
The Xuanmen Association is a non-governmental organization supported by high-level officials in Hong Kong, so you can get corresponding rewards if you complete tasks.
It's not that the higher-ups are kind-hearted, it's that they are afraid of death.
If it hadn't been for the Taoist Association's efforts to suppress evil spirits in recent years, I don't know how much trouble there would have been.
Those senior officials who hold high positions and have gained fame and fortune do not want to die in the hands of evil spirits, so they allocate funds to support the Xuanmen Association.
Jiang Fan is not interested in the operation mode of the Xuanmen Association. He is more concerned about the tasks related to weirdness.
After looking at the data interface, Jiang Fan found that there were a total of fifteen tasks on the task panel.
Among them, there are two haunted houses, three strange places on the island, and some are urban rumors, such as ghost bus, midnight taxi, ghost ordering, ghost knocking on the door, hotel fairy fox, etc.
Tasks are refreshed every day.
Of course, there are also some old tasks that have never been completed.
Compared with the huge Hong Kong Island, there are more than twenty official members of the Taoist Association, even if their disciples are added, it is impossible to cover everything.
It is not easy to maintain relative stability!
Jiang Fan took a look, chose a mission in a haunted villa, and came to the window to receive the mission.
But Zhang Xiaoling said that she would accompany Jiang Fan.
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Bu Tonglin said decisively that he had forgotten to turn off the gas at home, and returned to Ciyun Mountain alone.
Only Zhang Xiaoling with eager eyes was left to accompany Jiang Fan. This chapter has been completed!