Even though Lin Shao was prepared,
He could not help but shudder.
He was nervous.
He opened the system interface.
He opened a new mission.
Reward: 400 points. Time limit: one month.
The target of the mission is … Nine-tailed Fox?
"I know that."
Lin Shao spoke the moment he saw the name.
"The Legend of the Nine-tailed Fox."
Nine-tailed Fox was a commonly used meme in the human realm.
It was used to describe a seductive woman.
It was also often used in fantasy movies and TV series.
Lin Shao saw the name.
He instinctively associated it with some seductive faces.
"… It feels very seductive."
Lin Tuo's imagination ran wild, and she lowered her head to read the content of the mission.
The mission said: The chief of the Nine-tailed Fox clan. It only has eight tails.
Lin Shao pondered this sentence, and wondered if this would be the same as the West Queen Mother's mission, a mission to find something. But tails … How would he find something?
Lin Shao did not forget to open the Mountain Sea Map even as he pondered.
On the Mountain Sea Map.
The Middle Realm, which had been dark all this while, finally lit up. Lin Shao opened it. It said: A wild beast lives in Mount Qingqiu.
Its shape is similar to a fox.
But it has nine tails.
Hence its name: Nine-tailed Fox.
The cry of this wild beast is like the cry of a baby.
If humans eat the meat of this wild beast, they will be safe and auspicious, and will not be affected by evil spirits.
Below the introduction was the favorability rating. 45.
Lin Shao was stunned when he saw the favorability rating. He thought that this Nine-tailed Fox should have heard about him, and should not have any grudges against the position of Emissary.
A favorability rating of 45 was probably at the stage of curiosity and not rejection. It was a good start.
Lin Shao breathed a sigh of relief, and lowered his head to take a closer look at Mount Qingqiu's position in the Middle Realm.
Bi Fang had mentioned before that the interior of the Intermediate was divided into rings, and Mount Qingqiu was in the middle of that ring.
"Nine-tailed Fox?"
The West Queen Mother frowned when she heard the name. "He's not a bad mission target … but he's a little hard to deal with.
Hmm, there's still something I need to do. "
Phoenix nodded in agreement.
As Lin Shao looked down at the quest details, Bai Ze asked, "Do you want to go to Mount Qingqiu now?
You've been training well recently, and Nine-tailed Fox doesn't like to fight. You should be fine when you go back. "
Lin Shao hesitated for a moment before replying, "Wait a moment."
Then, he opened the System Store interface.
Every time the system store refreshed, it would either strengthen him or be related to the current mission. They were all useful items.
Lin Shao had more than nine hundred points left from before, including the points from the recent official and derivative quests. He had been saving them for no use, and those points were enough for the System Store to refresh again.
Lin Shao had spent a lot of points when he changed slots last time, filling up some of his quota. This time, he only needed to spend two hundred points to refresh it. Lin Shao did some calculations, and finally spent three hundred points to buy a slot and two bottles of Growth's Happiness, waiting for the System Store to refresh.
Lin Shao first ate the Growth's Happiness that improved his physique.
It was during his recent training that he realized the need for Growth's Happiness. Physique was physical and was the foundation of everything.
However, he grew up happily and ate a lot more, so the side effects were a lot less. Lin Tuo's body was sore for less than ten minutes, and she was already able to sit up and check out the new items that had spawned.
The newly refreshed item in the System Store seemed to be an edible, and it looked a little like the flying tomato next to it. Lin Shao took a closer look and felt that it looked like a tender strawberry. Lin Shao looked at the name and description, and felt that he had been maliciously slapped in the face by the System.
The strawberry that was worth a hundred points was called "I'm Super Good-Looking". As the name implied, the effect of this thing was that it would make one look better after eating it, and like the Growth's Happiness, it could be stacked.
Lin Shao: "What is this???"
He almost doubted his eyes.
When it came to appearance, Lin Shao did not pay much attention to it, but because of his face, he did receive a lot of goodwill from others in the Human Realm. However, appearance was not something that Lin Shao cared about.
With these points, he might as well exchange them for two more bottles of Growth's Happiness. Appearance was a thing of beauty in the Mountain and Sea Realm. Many races had only seen Lin Shao as a human, and there was no definition of whether he was good-looking or not.
Lin Shao began to frown after he was done with his doubts.
Although the System was a little mischievous, it had never made any major mistakes. Putting out something that looked good but was not useful, was it not letting him down?
Therefore, Lin Shao did not exchange them. He even closed the System Store interface a little angrily, thinking to himself that he would never spend his precious points to exchange for something like this. He then directly teleported to Qingqiu Mountain.
However, Lin Shao was quickly slapped in the face by this trashy System.
Regardless of how much he thought he had no use for the items that were spawned from the System Store, he would still have to exchange them for points in the end.
There was no other reason except that Lin Shao had used the System to teleport him to the foot of Qingqiu Mountain, only to find that he could not even ascend the mountain, much less meet his quest target.
The only ones who could be lured up by Qingqiu Mountain were Bai Ze, Phoenix, and the West Queen Mother. Lin Shao and Bi Fang, who was here as a commentator, were all blocked outside.
Their group was at Qingqiu Mountain for Lin Shao in the first place, so why was Lin Shao unable to ascend now?
"What?" Lin Shao looked confused. "Does this place discriminate?"
The West Queen Mother snorted, and complained that she knew the Nine-tailed Fox's stubborn nature had not changed. She then suggested, "Why don't we fight our way up?
Lin Shao could use that as practice. It's just a Nine-tailed Fox, isn't it? The entire clan might not be able to beat me even if they worked together. "
Lin Shao was speechless.
In the end, he rejected the West Queen Mother's overly violent suggestion. After all, it was a situation where they had a foundation of Favorability. If they could talk nicely, then so be it. It was definitely not his style to fall out with them right off the bat.
Still, the Favorability shown on the Mountain Sea Map would not lie. Although 45 points was not high, it was not at the level where he would be rejected.
Lin Shao opened the System Panel to check, and was shocked to find that the Nine-tailed Fox clan's Favorability towards him had actually dropped!
And it had dropped from 45 points to 5 points!
With such a low Favorability, it was no wonder that they did not want to meet him.
Lin Shao looked at it carefully a few times before confirming that he had not misread the number. He looked up blankly. This was the first time he had seen his Favorability drop, and it was a huge drop. Lin Shao thought to himself, 'What did I do wrong?
Why did the Nine-tailed Fox hate me all of a sudden? '
But he really did not do anything. He stood at the foot of Mount Qingqiu and did not move at all. He felt so wronged.
Fortunately, Bi Fang was still of some use. It laughed bitterly and said, "I think I know what's going on."
Lin Shao looked at it.
"The Nine-tailed Fox clan is different from other clans. Other clans choose their clan leader based on experience and strength, but the Nine-tailed Fox clan's only criterion is beauty," Bi Fang explained. "This criterion is also used in the way they interact with other clans. As long as the clans are not good-looking enough, the Nine-tailed Fox clan will not even want to meet them."
Simply put, the entire Nine-tailed Fox clan was obsessed with beauty.
"But I'm not ugly, am I?" Lin Shao touched his face. He could understand why Bi Fang did not fit the Nine-tailed Fox clan's aesthetic standards. After all, it had not recovered from its injuries, and there were many bandages on its body that Lin Shao had given it. Many of its feathers had fallen off and had yet to grow back. The whole bird was messy and not very good-looking. But this was the first time Lin Shao had been questioned about his looks. "Could it be that the Nine-tailed Fox clan's aesthetic standards are different from the human world's?
But Phoenix is also in human form now, and he looks very much like me. Do I have to dye my hair and wear contact lenses? "