Chapter 747 - 693: Tianyan (Sect) [July Monthly Ticket 1000 Bonus Chapter]

Chapter 747: Chapter 693: Tianyan (Sect) [July Monthly Ticket 1000 Bonus Chapter]

Zhang Mian and Li Teng are former disciples of the Yuquan Sect, now disciples of Yuquan Peak, both with Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivation.

Their original fellow disciples have either left or scattered. The two drifted with the tide and stayed, thinking that they would muddle through until Core Formation before resigning and leaving.

Last month, the new sect rules and various disciple reward and punishment system handbooks from the Heavenly Interence Sect were distributed. They didn’t read them carefully, only noticing that disciples were no longer divided into the Inner and Outer Sect, but rather into Registered Disciples, Official Disciples, and Direct Disciples.

And for Official Disciples at the Foundation Establishment Stage, the basic monthly salary is fifty Spirit Stones.

There are no elixirs, no material quotas, and not even guaranteed contribution points.

Yuquan Peak disciples only receive three more Nourishing Essence Elixirs than disciples from other peaks.

Seeing this, Zhang Mian and Li Teng tossed the disciple handbook aside, feeling quite dissatisfied with the Heavenly Interence Sect, and openly and secretly cursed the current Sect Master of the Heavenly Interence Sect as being miserly. They used to get eighty Spirit Stones a month.

However, neither of them dared to go to the Inner Affairs Hall to reason, and they directly went into seclusion for three months.

When they used up all the Spirit Stones and elixirs they had accumulated, they had to come out and prepare to go to Guan Nanbao to figure something out.

Before leaving, the two went to the Inner Affairs Hall to collect the three-month basic salary.

Even mosquitoes are meat!

As they approached Heavenly Full Peak, the two saw the brand-new and grand courtyard complex and almost thought they had gone to the wrong place.

"Is this the Yuquan Sect’s Inner Affairs Hall? Wasn’t the old one collapsed before?" Zhang Mian asked in confusion, scratching his head.

Li Teng looked amazed, "Look at these green jade bricks, white jade tiles, all with defense runes on them, they could be used as magic artifacts! Heavenly Interence Sect can afford to pave the floors but won’t even give us a raise in salary, so stingy!"

The two walked heavily on the paving bricks, entering the cave doors, shocked by the majestic and new buildings throughout the journey. In just three months, the Heavenly Interence Sect renovated the entire Yuquan Sect, how efficient are they?!

Outside the Inner Affairs Hall, the square was crowded, bustling with people, as the two stopped walking.

"What’s going on? So many people?" Zhang Mian asked again as he scratched his head in confusion.

Li Teng stood on tiptoe and stretched his neck, seeing many people sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding books and jade scrolls while chanting, some even meditating inside miniature sound insulation arrays.

"Make way!"

A Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment disciple from Heavenly Interence Sect came using Sword Control, pushed aside the crowd to the front, and magically took out a dozen or so storage bags, slapping them on the table outside the Inner Affairs Hall, where a sign read ’Resource Collection Point’.

"Ten thousand green gold bricks, delivered!"

The miscellaneous disciple beside the table swiftly counted, and after finishing, handed a string of storage bags.

"Who took the task of running errands, deliver them to the Heavenly Gang Peak construction site!"

"Me! Me!"

"Don’t push, I came first!"

"Hey, didn’t you see I’m still lying here?"

Several people scrambled to deliver things.

Soon after, an older Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator with a goatee arrived, smelling of medicine, his eyes black and blue, indicating who knows how many days without sleep.

Stumbling, he ran to the table and slapped down a storage bag, "One hundred bottles of Nourishing Essence..."

Thud!

Before finishing his words, the man fell flat, but before anyone could rush to help, the goatee cultivator suddenly sat up and slapped his face.

"I can’t sleep, the pill furnace fire hasn’t extinguished, quickly settle up for me, I need to go back to continue refining!"

The miscellaneous disciple grinned, settled the accounts, and a light flashed into the token of the goatee cultivator who then excitedly jumped up, laughing, and left the Inner Affairs Hall square.

The Heavenly Interence Sect is busy with construction everywhere, the Inner Affairs Hall like a transit station, constantly having tunneling lights arriving from all directions and departing to all directions.

Zhang Mian and Li Teng were at a loss, and Li Teng even scoffed, "Why are they doing this, don’t they care about their lives? Look at these people, busy like livestock, only fifty a month!"

"Fifty?" A voice came from nearby, a shrewd-looking blue-robed cultivator chortled, "Are you gentlemen from Yuquan Peak disciples? Did you read through the disciple handbook? Do you know how much my salary was last month?"

The blue-robed cultivator raised his chin, holding up three fingers.

Zhang Mian guessed, "Three hundred?"

The blue-robed cultivator chuckled, "Thirty thousand!"

Li Teng’s eyes widened in shock, as in the past he couldn’t earn that much in a year despite working hard.

"Brother, how did you earn it?"

The blue-robed cultivator proudly replied, "Painted a thousand runes, completed a hundred D-Class tasks, thirty C-Class tasks. If not for those beasts taking up all the tasks, I could have earned even more, but I’m busy with tasks, so I must leave!"

Zhang Mian and Li Teng were dumbfounded, they quickly flipped through the disciple handbook.

Turns out fifty Spirit Stones was just the basic salary; completing tasks at the Inner Affairs Hall offers additional income, and for every hundred Spirit Stones earned, you automatically gain a contribution point, with no upper limit!

Contribution points can be exchanged for Earth Grade cultivation techniques, high-level magic treasures, limited quantities on a first-come, first-served basis, don’t miss out!

No wonder these people are so fanatical, as the two saw the catalog of cultivation techniques and magic treasures, even they went crazy too!

The two quickly pushed forward into the Inner Affairs Hall, finally squeezing to the front, only to find a sign saying ’Today’s tasks are full’ hanging on the task counter.

They then went to the resource collection point next door, only to find all kinds of resources were full and temporarily not collected.

"What do we do now? Should we wait until tomorrow?" Zhang Mian asked Li Teng.

Li Teng regretted greatly, losing at least ten thousand over the three months!

The Heavenly Interence Sect is under construction, and most of the tasks involve refining bricks and tiles, refining medicine and painting runes, running errands and opening wasteland, tasks not difficult for Foundation Establishment cultivators, with high rewards.

"Why didn’t I discover this earlier?!" Li Teng lamented, "Forget it, let’s come earlier tomorrow, let’s go back for now."

The two were about to leave when they suddenly saw a few Foundation Establishment disciples from Yuquan Peak outside the square, among them their junior fellow Wang Biao, who was sitting cross-legged like other cultivators of Heavenly Interence Sect around him, reading a book and chanting.

"Wang Biao, what are you doing here?" Li Teng walked over to ask.

"The Moyu Flower resembles black jade, its color transparent and poisonous, growing in... Senior brothers, are you here too? I’m here queueing up."

"Queueing for what?" Zhang Mian asked.

Wang Biao frowned, "Obviously queueing up for tomorrow’s task allocations, look around, if you don’t stay here overnight, you won’t be able to claim any tasks tomorrow."

Zhang Mian:......

Li Teng couldn’t believe it, scanning over the hundreds of people in the square, nervously asked, "Is it really that exaggerated?"

Wang Biao lowered his voice and raised the "Hundred Herbs Atlas" in his hand, "Far more than that, next month is the first small exam in the Heavenly Interence Sect, and the first place reward is fifty thousand Spirit Stones and a high-level magic treasure."

"If you don’t perform well, you directly drop from Official Disciple to Registered Disciple, halving the benefits, see those around, everyone’s fiercely competing silently!"

The disciple handbook records that the Heavenly Interence Sect holds a small exam annually and a big exam every five years, with the content of the exams not fixed.

Top hundred can choose courses opened by Nascent Soul True Monarchs in the sect, and outstanding performance in the course might lead to being taken as a direct disciple by Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

Regardless of aptitude and cultivation, only exam results matter!

However, correspondingly, the bottom hundred would be eliminated, direct disciples demoted to official disciples, official disciples relegated to registered disciples, registered disciples expelled from the sect.

As for those contracted for a hundred years with Jiang Yuebai, they aren’t included; if they’re ineffective, they go mining until they earn their way back with their own ability!

The sect opens its doors every year, recruiting more than a hundred new disciples annually, eliminating a hundred a year isn’t much.

No sooner had Wang Biao finished speaking than spiritual light burst out not far away, as someone suddenly advanced from Early-Stage Foundation Establishment to Mid-Stage.

Hiss——

A burst of gasps, everyone turned a fierce glance at the one who advanced, and the atmosphere in the square immediately became solemn and urgent, even the chanting got louder and quicker.

Wang Biao said, "No more chatting, these Heavenly Interence Sect disciples are not to be trifled with, each one queues, chants, and still cultivates without eating, drinking, or sleeping, they’re simply not human, I need to hurry up and chant!"

Zhang Mian and Li Teng felt black before their eyes, wondering what the Heavenly Interence Sect is all about, have these people gone mad, and can they survive?

Zhang Mian looked at Li Teng, Li Teng gritted his teeth, "Why look at me? Do I have exam questions on my face? Hurry up and queue up!"

Li Teng cursed, as he took out the disciple handbook from this storage bag, and went to the end of the queue.