If one wished to apply for a task, you’d manifest your name with Divine Sense beneath it.
This name contained some basic information about the disciple.
Including one’s cultivation realm, Cultivation Techniques, expertise in Taoist Skill, and the grade of their Formations, Pill, Artifact, Rune, and so forth.
Exactly which details to show was up to the disciple to decide.
The Cultivator posting the task would consider this information and carefully decide whether to let you undertake it.
Only with mutual agreement could a contract be reached.
Mo Hua, who was a “newcomer” with prematurely accessed Taixu permissions thanks to Elder Master Xun’s influence, even faced setbacks when attempting to accept even just “entry-level” tasks via the Taixu Token.
Watching the Sect gate…
Others wouldn’t have him, saying he was too young, his height and appearance even younger, which could lead to comments about Taixu Gate employing a schoolchild, not a good influence…
Sweeping the Taoist Field…
Mo Hua did sweep once.
The Sect’s steward thought he swept too slowly and, seeing his small arms and legs, didn’t have the heart to let him keep sweeping, so thereafter he simply stopped giving him tasks…
He didn’t know Artifact Refining, Alchemy, or Refining Rune.
The other rewards were even less achievable.
So in the end, Mo Hua could only resort to Drawing Formations.
“If I must draw Formations, so be it…”
Originally hoping to experience other tasks, Mo Hua had no choice but to put aside those thoughts and focus on Drawing Formations.
But he had oversimplified things.
Sect tasks were essentially a kind of “bounty.”
These bounties were issued within the Taixu Gate by other neighboring Sects, the Taoist Court, and other allied forces or individual Cultivators.
Demand generated the bounty.
Others must need your formations for you to draw them.
You don’t get to draw whatever you please.
This in itself was no issue.
Mo Hua was extremely proficient in universal Five Elements Formation and reasonably skilled in the Eight Trigrams Array.
Most of the “bounties” in the Taixu Token for Secondary Stage Initial Grade, and even some Primary Stage above Formation-related tasks, Mo Hua was more than capable of handling, even with “ease”…
But he couldn’t receive any!
The Cultivators offering the bounties didn’t choose him!
Because Formation-related bounty tasks required one to look at the Formation Master’s grade assigned by the Taoist Court.
Those competing with Mo Hua were uniformly “Second Grade Initial Stage,” “Second Grade Middle Stage” Formation Masters…
These Formation Masters, seniors by several terms, while Mo Hua, having passed only the First Grade Formation Master assessment, bore the title “First Grade Formation Master,” and others simply didn’t bother looking his way.