At this moment, a cold female voice came from the direction of the main hall of the Service Hall:
"Forget it, Lao Xin, let him go."
Gao Yuan looked up and saw a beautiful female figure turning from the inside of the main entrance of the Service Hall.
She looked to be about thirty years old, and she was wearing a dark green robe. Although her facial features were beautiful, she was not wearing makeup, and at first glance she had a dashing and heroic aura.
At this time, she was frowning slightly, looking directly at the two people arguing.
The strong man with the beard was very obedient to the woman. After hearing the woman's words, although there was some anger on his face, he still followed the words and let go of the skinny old man.
I saw him spat on the ground aside and cursed angrily:
"Hmph! If Boss Su hadn't spoken, I would never have spared you today, so get out!"
The skinny old man suddenly looked ashamed when he saw the woman coming out. He cupped his hands in the direction of the woman and left in despair.
After the skinny old man left, the strong man who called himself "Xin Lei" walked forward quickly, followed the woman back to the corner of the service hall, and said a little anxiously:
"Boss, why did you let the butcher go? Now the day of darts is coming, and our team is still short of one person according to the minimum configuration!
If we cannot make up for the missing number of people by then, the Service Hall will directly determine that our mission has failed!"
Having said this, the strong man slapped his thigh and said:
"No, we can't just let this bastard Tu Fei go so cheaply. Boss, listen to me. This old boy has always been timid. It won't take much effort for me to make him submissive!"
"Okay, Lao Xin, you don't know what Lao Tu is worried about? You can't force this kind of thing. After all, there are still three days left, let's look for it again.
If we really can't find anyone, then the mission will be a failure. I still have some savings over the years, so I won't treat my brothers badly!"
When the bearded man heard this, his face suddenly turned red, and he stamped his feet and said:
"Boss, how can you say that? Is this why I, Xin Lei..."
At this moment, a man's voice suddenly came from the side:
"Excuse me, are you still recruiting people? I want to join!"
The strong man with beard was shocked when he heard this and quickly turned his head.
But he saw a young man in a blue robe standing at the door of the box. He looked like he was in his early twenties.
A look of resentment suddenly appeared on his face, and he said impatiently:
"You can stay here wherever you like. How old are you, and you want to learn how to be an escort?"
The reaction of the strong man is not wrong. For ordinary monks, it is naturally wrong to judge people by their appearance, but there is a certain truth in judging people by their age.
Older people may not necessarily be stronger, but younger people's cultivation levels are indeed not much higher.
At Gao Yuan's current age, even among the family members in the inner city, there are not many who can reach the seventh level of Qi training, let alone the ordinary monks who come to the service hall in the outer city to find work.
The reaction of the bearded man further strengthened Gao Yuan's determination to study the art of disguise, but now he was only interested in taking advantage of the opportunity to get to know these two people and inquire about the information about the 'Shadow Demon'.
Therefore, he didn't care about the strong man's attitude. He pointed to the propaganda banner hanging outside the door and said:
"Isn't that what you said above? Those who are on the eighth level of the Qi Training Realm and have an actual combat rating of 'Above B' can sign up. Can those who are on the seventh level of the Qi Training Realm and have a higher actual combat rating be included?"
As soon as he finished speaking, not only the strong man with the curly beard, but also the face of the woman sitting inside the counter showed a look of surprise.
The strong man turned his head and looked Gao Yuan up and down, and said in surprise:
"Could it be that you are actually a fellow Taoist at the eighth level of the Qi Training Realm?"
"That's not true. I'm currently at the seventh level of the Qi Training Realm, but I'm quite involved in magic, so I want to give it a try."
Gao Yuan didn't lie. When he first came to Qingliang City to go through the formalities for entering the city, he passed the internal Qi test and the registered cultivation level was the seventh level of Qi training.
However, he did not go to the Administrative Hall to make changes after his breakthrough, so his identity token was still marked with the seventh level of Qi training.
When the strong man heard this, a look of disappointment flashed across his face. At his age, it was already rare for him to reach the seventh level of Qi training. How much time could he spend on practicing techniques?
But he still had a plan in mind, so he asked:
"So what's your actual combat rating? Let's take a look at the combat power token."
"Well, I met a Taoist friend as soon as I arrived at the Service Hall, and I haven't had time to complete the actual combat rating." Gao Yuan explained while taking out his identity token.
The strong man with the beard became even more disappointed when he heard this. He had never even done any actual combat rating. Doesn't that mean he had never been on a single mission? How could such a young man have so much fighting ability?
He was too lazy to say anything more and turned his head away from Gao Yuan.
On the other hand, the woman sitting in the box was calmer. She was looking at Gaoyuan with a smile on her face and said:
"Little brother, we are an escort team that is going to the Gray Desert to escort supplies. There are many dangerous places along the way, so the requirements for our team members' actual combat capabilities are relatively high.
Even if you are at the seventh level of Qi training, your actual combat rating must be at least 'B-medium', otherwise you will easily lose your life if you join rashly!"
"Gray desert?"
Gao Yuan repeated it in his mind. He had no memory of this place, but he didn't express much on his face.
After chatting with the other party for a few more words, he walked straight towards the row of counters at the back of the hall.
…
The actual rating fee is 1 intermediate spiritual stone?
Gao Yuan was secretly stunned. He was not too entangled, and he readily took out a white spirit stone and handed it over.
Then he took a thumb-sized jade plaque handed back by the other party and followed the guidance towards the back of the hall.
After a while, we arrived at the side hall dedicated to actual combat ratings. It was much deserted compared to the main hall where people came and went.
At first glance, there were only a dozen or so people, half of whom were staff members wearing black deacon robes.
Gao Yuan stood at the door and looked around briefly, then went straight to the innermost side of the side hall, where a fat middle-aged man wearing a deacon's robe was sitting, holding a scroll-bound book in his hand and reading with gusto.
Gao Yuan walked up to him, exchanged some polite words with the other party, and then handed over the jade token in his hand.
The middle-aged man looked up and saw Gao Yuan, the look of surprise on his face fleeting.
But he didn't say much. He nodded lightly and motioned for Gao Yuan to follow him. After a while, the two of them arrived at the back of the side hall, in a hall that looked like an indoor shooting range.
The hall is divided into two areas from the middle. In the center of the left area is a human-shaped stone statue. The faces of these stone statues are flat and complex spiritual patterns are engraved on them.
In the center of the area on the right, a tower-shaped building more than two meters high stands quietly, with a blood-red crystal the size of a basketball inlaid on the top.
After the middle-aged man led Gao Yuan into the hall, he said calmly:
"The actual combat rating is divided into two parts: defense and attack. During this period, talismans and magic weapons are not allowed to be used."
Then he pointed to the stone statue in the left area and said:
"This is the area for testing attack capabilities. Did you see that white line on the ground? The distance between it and the stone statue is seven feet.
After the test starts, a protective barrier will be formed on the surface of the stone statue. Breaking it within five breaths will be considered level A, breaking it within ten breaths will be considered level B, and breaking it within fifteen breaths will be considered level C.
Then he pointed to an area about one foot in diameter with red floor tiles on the ground on the right side and said:
"This is the defense testing part. Do you see the red area on the ground? You can enter when you are ready. At the same time, you will be attacked by the rays emitted by the strong attack crystal.
The power of the ray will gradually increase over time, with five breaths being considered low, ten breaths being medium, and fifteen breaths being high."
"After the two assessments, you will be graded based on your performance. Do you hear me clearly?"
Gao Yuan originally thought that the so-called actual combat rating was to find someone to have an actual combat with him, but he didn't expect it to be like this.
He was amazed in his heart, but he didn't say anything at the moment. Under the guidance of the middle-aged man, he quickly started the test.
When he deliberately suppressed his casting speed, it took him eight breaths to use two proficiency-level pyroblasts to break through the orange-yellow shield produced on the surface of the stone man.
Then, just to be on the safe side, he condensed an umbrella-shaped ice shield in the red area to protect him, and then took the initiative to cut off the supply of internal energy at the twelfth breath to disintegrate the ice shield, and then pretended to be exhausted and exited the red area.
area.
Under the somewhat surprised gaze of the middle-aged man, he got an evaluation of 'Yi Shang', and soon he got a piece of green engraved with 'Yi Shang' at the counter of the main hall, which was bound to his identity token.
Gray square token.
Then Gao Yuan stopped delaying and went straight to the small box where the bearded man and the woman called 'Boss Su' were recruiting people.
But he found that the woman had left, and there was only a strong man with a beard sitting in the box with a bored look on his face.
Gao Yuan stepped forward and knocked on the door of the box. Under the surprised eyes of the strong man, he handed over the combat power token that he had just received but was not yet warm.
"Oshang? Hiss!"
The strong man with the beard took the token and took one look at it. He screamed strangely and stared at Gao Yuan with an expression as if he had seen a living ghost.