Chapter 90: Sect Life (First Release on Jinjiang Literature City)

The first batch of goods in the shop relied entirely on everyone's past accumulation. Moreover, the sect has a special teleportation array leading to Yunluo City, which makes it convenient for disciples to handle matters. The teleportation array directly transports people from the sect to the sect branch in Yunluo City. This can be considered the sect's outpost in the city, which is very safe. Even if you are carrying a large sum of money, you don't have to worry about being robbed by outsiders.

Once you arrive at your destination, you can go wherever you want.

Some sect leaders have opened large shops outside, allowing people to teleport directly from the sect without going through the sect's teleportation array.

Yao Sisi's shop has just opened, and all the goods transportation relies on the teleportation array provided by the sect. Actually, this is quite cost-effective, because the sect's teleportation array is only for the convenience of its disciples. They only charge a very low price for activating the array and have no intention of making a profit. It is much more cost-effective than maintaining the teleportation array themselves.

From the sect to Yunluo City, each person only needs one low-grade spirit stone. Yao Sisi even suspected that the sect was paying out of its own pocket to send disciples.

These were things she couldn't control for the time being. She calculated the time and, feeling it was about right, handed in the sect's mission.

She didn't use many materials at the time. An ordinary person might be able to make thirty or so beast cages, but Yao Sisi made a total of seventy-eight. Apart from the first few failures, she made almost no mistakes after that, and her success rate was extremely high.

She submitted fifty to the sect, not only completing the task perfectly but also receiving extra contribution points.

Each cage costs 100 contribution points, and she earned a total of 5,000 contribution points.

Five thousand contribution points have considerable purchasing power within the sect. For example, the opportunity to enter the Scripture Pavilion only requires one thousand contribution points, but copying cultivation techniques requires additional consumption.

Now that she's at the Golden Core stage, she naturally earns far more contribution points than before. If she were a Foundation Establishment disciple, she might not even have this much wealth in total.

The natal magic weapon that Yao Sisi wanted to refine required ten-thousand-year-old star river sand, and one piece of ten-thousand-year-old star river sand required ten thousand contribution points. She looked at her account and realized that this was the first time she had done a task since she came to the sect, and her contribution points were pitifully few.

However, being a peak master does have its advantages; you can get a 10% discount when exchanging materials, which is 9,000 contribution points.

After handing in her task, she didn't rush to leave. She wandered around the hall, accepted a few more weapon-refining tasks, collected the materials from the steward, and slunk away.

"Sigh, the basic materials for my natal magic weapon are so expensive, and the problem is I need several kinds of these materials!"

Good heavens, she hasn't even scraped together a fraction of the money.

Yao Sisi put the remaining twenty-odd beast cages into the shop for sale. She not only needed to purchase a batch of rare materials from the sect, but some of the materials were also not in stock within the sect, so she had to earn extra money to buy them.

At Jinming Peak, Qi Mu was troubled by what was to come. Originally, after completing his mission within the sect, he planned to go out and gain some experience to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment. However, now that Ri Jiu had arrived, he did not want to leave just like that and give the two of them a chance to be alone.

As a result, the places he could choose were limited to those near the sect. After much deliberation, he could only train in a few valleys within the sect.

These are all free-range demon beasts raised by the sects. Training here is much safer than outside, but the rewards will be much less. This is because you need to pay a sum of spirit stones to train here, or you can leave without paying spirit stones but you need to return half of the hunted resources.

The sect valley training grounds are mostly prepared for second-generation immortals or cultivators who are not good at fighting, so that they can have some combat ability without worrying about dying quickly outside.

However, anyone with a bit of ability within the sect looks down on this place and wouldn't even think about coming here to train; they would all go out and explore.

Qi Mu selected a valley, paid a sum of spirit stones, and then entered the area with a teleportation talisman issued by the sect.

His Cloud-Clearing Sword hasn't tasted blood in a long time!

Even within the sect, we must fight to our hearts' content.

After returning from the mission hall, Yao Sisi tidied up and prepared for seclusion.

"After completing these tasks, I'll definitely have enough Ten Thousand Year Star River Sand, and I can even exchange it for an extra South Sea Heavenly Pearl. But that's still not enough. I also need Ten Thousand Year Stone Mother Rock, which this sect doesn't have. I don't have any Heavenly Silkworm Purple Gauze in stock right now, and I don't know if we can get more recently. The Dragon Seeking Armor is also running low in the sect. Sigh!"

Besides these, she also needed some auxiliary materials. These materials weren't too rare and were relatively easy to find. Moreover, she could use her Xuan Yin Ice Ore, plus the spiritual flowers that Ri Jiu had given her...

"I just hope we can finish collecting them as soon as possible."

The refining process will be a major undertaking.

She wrote down the materials she needed. These weren't particularly valuable and were relatively easy to find, but they still needed to be prepared in advance. So she gave them to Lanlan, and if anyone came to the shop to consign or sell to the shop, she would prioritize keeping these materials.

Next, Yao Sisi entered a long period of seclusion. She needed to complete the sect's mission as soon as possible and exchange for the precious materials, lest she be a step too slow and have her stockpile taken by someone else.

She entered the space first and stayed there for more than half a year before she finished all the tasks. However, not much time had passed in the outside world, so she couldn't submit them all. She only took pictures of the Dragon Seeker Armor and the Ten Thousand Year Star River Sand, which were relatively scarce in the inventory.

With the two precious materials in hand, Yao Sisi breathed a sigh of relief. The Star River Sand was stored in a special box, which was given to her along with the box when it was handed to her. She opened it and looked inside; it resembled a flowing starry river and looked exceptionally beautiful. The Dragon-Seeking Armor, on the other hand, was shaped like a small mountain. This thing was not easily damaged, and a piece of the Dragon-Seeking Armor was quite large. It was given to her in a special storage bag, the kind that was specially customized by the sect. The materials were very simple and it was a disposable item.

She took it and stuffed the storage bag directly into the space.

The joy in her heart could not offset the physical fatigue. She worked hard in the space to complete tasks and refine artifacts, studying the various structures of magical artifacts, which was very mentally taxing. After obtaining two materials, Yao Sisi drove Lingyun slowly back to Jinming Peak.

She sensed the puppets' location and summoned them to her. Sure enough, there were no seeds left in the space on their chests. All the seeds had been planted before. She had been too busy to take care of them these days, so the puppets were just patrolling and playing on the mountain peaks, wasting her time.

Yao Sisi took out two more packets of seeds from her storage bag. These were her last supplies. She put the seeds into the puppet space and commanded them to go down the mountain to plant them.

Now Jinming Peak is covered with greenery. Even if she doesn't have time to take care of it, Qi Mu and the others will help take care of it. Yao Sisi rode Lingyun to the mountainside where the spirit cranes roost. The scenery here is very good. It is adjacent to the next mountain peak, with mountains, water and beautiful scenery.

All the fruit trees she planted survived. She walked around and found that none of them had died. Most of these fruit trees were seedlings. Yao Sisi took advantage of her spare time to water each fruit tree with spiritual energy.

After the fruit trees were watered with spiritual energy, it was as if they had been fertilized, and they grew vigorously. She watered them one by one, and when she finished, she sat by a pile of stones not far away and looked at the scenery in the distance.

She had finished the weapon-refining tasks at hand. Although some of them hadn't been submitted yet, the sect had a good stock of materials, which she would collect later. She considered her current tasks and realized she should take on some more, but she really didn't want to suppress her weapon-refining efforts anymore. Even the sight of refining materials annoyed her.

Calculating the time, it was her turn to sit in the shop tomorrow. Yao Sisi rested for a while and got up from the pile of stones. She saw little cranes playing and frolicking not far away, and some even flew into the stream to catch fish to eat.

The entire mountain peak exudes a vibrant life force.

"I heard that you can open a lecture hall once you reach the Golden Core stage. I've never done this before, so why don't I take advantage of my free time now and set up a class to see how it goes?"

She carried Lingyun to the front peak, found the steward, and enrolled her in a class at the academy for one hour, which was free of charge. She filled out a brief list of her strengths, and the steward led her to a classroom based on her area of ​​expertise.

The steward said, "The matter of Uncle's teaching is rather sudden, and it's his first time here, so there probably won't be many students."

Yao Sisi: "It's alright, please help me register the course, I'll wait inside."

The steward led her into an old-fashioned room. Here, sermons were mostly given with the doors open, and there were no rooms inside, but rather spacious halls.

There were many such lecture rooms, and many of them were empty. She was led into a room with incense, and then it was time to wait for class to start.

Yao Sisi wasn't sure how many people would come, or if none of them would come at all. She actually hoped that a few disciples would come to ask her questions, as this would stimulate her thinking, trigger her inspiration, or allow her to reorganize the questions she knew but hadn't realized before.

As the saying goes, "Learning without thinking is futile, and thinking without learning is dangerous." Cultivation is also a subtle matter that requires personal understanding.

She sat in the main seat, looking at the hourglass in front of her desk, and her class time soon began.

To her surprise, people started arriving one after another, and they weren't nice people either. Soon the room was full. Yao Sisi tilted her head and rested her chin on her hand, wondering why so many people had come.

Is she famous among the lower-ranking disciples?

Yao Sisi closed her eyes and waited for the time to pass, listening intently to the sound of the hourglass. This demeanor made her seem unfathomable among the lower-ranking disciples, causing all the disciples sitting below to wait quietly.

Soon the time came, and Yao Sisi opened her eyes, sitting at the head of the table looking at the sea of ​​disciples below. "This hour is for free Q&A. You can ask any questions you have about cultivation, but don't be too general. The more precise you are, the better it will be for you."

Soon, a disciple below raised his hand tremblingly. This was the first question Yao Sisi had encountered, so she paid more attention to it. She glanced at him and saw that he was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old cultivator with delicate features and a small mole on his face.

Seeing that he seemed somewhat frightened, Yao Sisi gave him a reassuring look and asked, "What problem have you encountered?"

The boy obediently stood up from the futon, making him stand out in the room. He asked somewhat nervously, "Disciple, when I practice my cultivation technique, I always feel some pain in my meridians..."

Yao Sisi raised an eyebrow. Very good. She had just taken office and had already encountered a problem. “Pain in the meridians is not a small problem. It will make you feel that cultivation is difficult and painful, and you will not like cultivation. Over time, you may even develop a fear of cultivation. I see that you are now at the tenth level of Qi Refining, and it seems that you have been stuck here for some time.”

The young disciple nodded obediently. He was indeed a little afraid of cultivation now, and the thought of it made him feel irritable. He asked anxiously, "Uncle Yao, what should I do?"

Yao Sisi beckoned to him, "Come here, let me take your pulse."

The disciple obediently walked over, and the disciples sitting in front of him spontaneously made way for him. When Yao Sisi placed her hand on his wrist and probed in with spiritual energy, she saw a painful expression on the disciple's face.

Yao Sisi frowned and said, "It's gotten so bad that it hurts to take your pulse?"

The junior disciple pursed his lips and said, "Yes... Martial Uncle's spiritual energy is too domineering!"

Yao Sisi took a breath. Well, she possessed a strange fire and had a golden fire spiritual root, so she was indeed too sharp.

She withdrew her hand and let him sit down next to her: "Your problem is quite serious. Sit here and wait for me to finish this class before I deal with it."

Otherwise it would be a waste of time, since there are many people sitting down there and she would need to answer more questions.

The disciple understood her meaning and quickly replied, "This disciple will follow Master Aunt's instructions."

Yao Sisi looked down and continued, "Does anyone have any questions?"

Soon another disciple asked, "Uncle-Master, every time I meditate and circulate my spiritual energy through one full cycle, I feel that the second time I do it, it's not as efficient. Why is that?"

...

Yao Sisi answered several questions in a row. Some of these questions were not only asked by the disciple who asked them, but would also be encountered by other disciples. After she answered more than a dozen questions, the get out of class ended unexpectedly.

After answering the last question, she ended up going over time, just like a teacher who would go over class in her past life. Fortunately, she didn't force her students to stay. If they had no questions about the question, they could leave first.

The disciples asked very clever questions, because they would discuss such common questions in private and wouldn't dare to bother a Golden Core cultivator with such ordinary questions.

This would make you seem ignorant and leave a bad impression on others.

Moreover, many disciples were also cunning; if they had listened to a few more lessons, they wouldn't have asked such basic questions.

After Yao Sisi finished her class, only the disciple beside her, whose meridians were in pain, remained.

She asked, "What's your name? Would you mind letting me see your cultivation technique? I don't mean anything by it, but your situation is rather special, and I'm worried that there might be something wrong with your cultivation technique itself."

The boy was quite thin, perhaps because of the technique. Yao Sisi saw him hesitate for a moment before slowly saying, "This disciple's name is Tang Yan. The technique... I obtained the technique by chance. It's alright to show it to my martial uncle."

He looked up at her, pursed his lips, and said, "But... Martial Aunt, you have to keep this a secret, okay?"

Yao Sisi: "Of course, I'll keep your cultivation method a secret. Besides, you've been in this condition for more than just a day or two. Why didn't you find someone to take a look sooner? Aren't you just delaying your future?"

The two came out of the lecture room, and Yao Sisi comforted him, saying, "Don't be afraid. It may not be a problem with the technique. As long as you heal your meridians, you'll be fine. Let's find a safe place to talk about this!"

Seeing that her disciple was being cautious, she didn't suggest going to her own peak, so as not to add to his psychological burden. Instead, she asked, "Do you have any places to choose from?"

Tang Yan was surprised that she had no airs of a high-level cultivator and was seriously considering his needs. He knew that this senior uncle had donated a set of Heaven-rank cultivation techniques as soon as she entered the sect and obtained her own peak. Not only was she young and talented, but she also had a lot of resources. If it were anyone else, he would be worried that the cultivation technique would be stolen. But with her, he felt more at ease.

I always felt that Uncle Yao wouldn't do that, and he really couldn't wait any longer.

Tang Yan told her about a place not far ahead, a place full of blooming peach orchards, sparsely populated and with beautiful scenery. He had been meditating there recently and was very familiar with the place.

Seeing that the place he pointed to wasn't far, Yao Sisi nodded and said, "Okay, let's go there!"

The two walked one after the other, when Qi Mu, who had just successfully broken through in the valley, came out of seclusion. The valley he had visited happened to be not far from the front peak, but he never expected to see her as soon as he came out of seclusion.

A smile spread across his face. He felt that among so many cultivators walking in the vast mountains, he had spotted her at a glance, which showed how destined they were to be together.