Most of the tasks for junior formation masters are requests from disciples in the Qi Refining Stage. Some require strengthening the cave's defense formation, some require customizing the formation, and some are requested by junior formation masters to solve difficult formation problems they encounter.
The Qi Refining disciples who can issue these tasks are all powerful late Qi Refining disciples in the sect, with relatively more spirit stones and good deeds.
Li Shiming also discovered that the rewards for tasks were mostly spirit stones, and there were not many tasks that required good deeds.
I don’t know whether the good deeds tasks were given priority, or the Qi Refining disciples were reluctant to use their good deeds as rewards.
However, all the difficult formation problems posted by junior formation masters are rewarded with good deeds.
In addition, there is a long-term sect mission, which is to maintain the sect's formation, and the rewards are also good merits. The good merits for a month's mission are as high as 500.
You have to know that a junior spirit plant husband can only earn less than 300 merits in a year of hard work, while a junior formation master can be rewarded with 500 merits per month for one task, and that’s for a long-term task.
If a junior formation master is willing, he can complete this long-term task and gain a lot of good merits.
Li Shiming almost fantasized about having a lot of good deeds and being selected into the Canggong Pavilion for special election.
However, when he saw the exchange list open to junior formation masters, his fantasy was shattered.
Every piece of magic array knowledge and material in the sect needs to be exchanged for good deeds. In order to exchange for the required good deeds, he suspected that the sect had intentionally increased the good deeds rewards for array masters, otherwise it would not be able to afford the exchange of these magic array knowledge and materials.
Junior formation masters do earn a lot, but they also spend a lot.
Unless you don't want to upgrade, you can store a large amount of good deeds. But the problem is that after the formation master's level is upgraded to the intermediate level, the ability to earn good deeds will be enhanced, and the status in the sect will also be improved.
Which array master can resist such temptation, seeing so much array knowledge but not learning it, seeing so many array materials but not buying them for practice?
When Li Shiming was thinking about what task to take first to earn some good deeds, the defensive magic circle was triggered.
He came to the triggered location and saw the situation outside through the defensive formation.
On a flying boat stood five late-stage Qi Refining monks wearing the robes of the Law Enforcement Hall. It was they who triggered the defensive formation.
"I wonder what may be the matter, brothers?" Li Shiming was slightly surprised. The law enforcement monks were directly under the leadership of the sect leader, and it was the Zhongfeng organization that supervised all the monks in the sect.
On weekdays, law enforcement monks are responsible for arresting monks who violate the clan's laws and have almost no contact with ordinary monks.
"Activate the island's defense formation, we need to go in and check!" said the leading law enforcement monk in a deep voice.
"According to the sect's law, caves are the private property of cultivators and must not be violated!" Li Shiming did not activate the defensive formation just because the other party was a law enforcement cultivator, but replied in a serious tone.
His rookie period was not wasted, and he remembered the sect's rules very clearly.
Even if he was a law enforcement monk, he had no right to request to enter his cave without an order from the sect.
What is a cultivator's cave? It is the most core place for a cultivator.
"This is an order from the master. Do you intend to disobey it?" The law enforcement monk took out a token and scolded with a cold face.
Li Shiming narrowed his eyes slightly. The other party clearly had the token, but he didn't take it out first. It seemed that this law enforcement monk had a sinister heart.
He said no more and immediately activated the defensive formation.
It would be unwise to confront the law enforcement monk holding the token. If a conflict arises, he will be in a passive position.
"Hmph!" The law enforcement monk jumped off the flying boat and snorted coldly as he passed by him.
Another law enforcement monk jumped off the flying boat, and the remaining three law enforcement monks remained standing on the flying boat.
They are extremely experienced law enforcement monks. If there is really a problem on Li Shiming's side, Li Shiming has great means to instantly deal with the two law enforcement monks in the late Qi Refining stage, and the three law enforcement monks on the flying boat can immediately report to the sect.
"Our search is for your own good. A disciple at the peak of Qi Refining in the Holy Ice Sect is missing. If he is hiding with you, you might be able to gain a lot of benefits if you find him!" The law enforcement monk who followed later seemed to be easier to talk to and explained to Li Shiming.
How could Li Shiming believe the nonsense of this law enforcement monk? It was not like he was not in the sect before. With Elder Quan's aura, it was impossible for him to be like this unless something big had happened.
The law enforcement monk mentioned the Holy Ice Sect, which made him understand Baili Jinyan's background, and that outer sect elder should be the elder of the Holy Ice Sect.
I just don’t know what the relationship is between the elder of the Holy Ice Sect and Baili Jinyan. I think the Holy Ice Sect and the Tianhai Sect should be very far apart. He came here from afar just for a disciple in the Qi Refining Stage.
As soon as the leading law enforcement monk entered Eagle's Beak Island, he discovered Fu Lingzhu.
He obviously knew Fu Lingzhu, and greed flashed in his eyes.
At present, the Fu Ling Bamboo is still in the growth stage. When it fully grows, it will form a small bamboo forest.
Not to mention the other uses of Fu Lingzhu, just the bamboo leaves of Fu Lingzhu can provide an income of more than 500 spirit stones every month.
Five hundred spirit stones per month is a huge income for any Qi Refining cultivator.
If you don't want to manage it yourself, just find a junior spirit plant husband, give him some benefits and he will manage it for you, and then you can just wait for the spirit stones to be distributed every month.
As he thought about it, his eyes moved to the spiritual field.
"When did this spiritual field get upgraded to a high-grade lower-level spiritual field?" he wondered in his heart.
He had information about Eagle's Beak Island in his hand. It was rented to a monk who had just joined the sect, Li Shiming, who had just spoken to him.
Because Li Shiming is a junior spiritual plant husband, the newcomer can rent a cave with a spiritual field.
The information on the five acres of spiritual fields on Eagle's Beak Island stated that they were low-grade spiritual fields, and there was no mistake about that.
In other words, after renting it, Li Shiming used resources to improve the quality of the lower-grade spiritual field.
Greed reappeared in the eyes of the leading law enforcement monk. The yield of spiritual rice grown in high-level and low-level spiritual fields would increase nearly times.
If one rents Eagle's Beak Island with the sect's information, one can use the rent for a low-grade spiritual field to rent this cave residence with a high-grade spiritual field and Talisman Bamboo.
Of course, the prerequisite is to get rid of the trouble of Li Shiming first.
Little Li Shiming, a cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining, has many ways to solve Li Shiming's problem.
But he was smart and did not intend to frame Li Shiming. Instead, he had other plans. He wanted to give up some of the profits to please his boss.
Li Shiming felt malice from the leading law enforcement monk. He couldn't help but wonder how such a narrow-minded monk could become a law enforcement monk.
Such great malice was caused simply because the law enforcement monks were not allowed to enter freely before!
"Li Shiming, when did you advance to the fourth level of Qi Refining? Why didn't you report it to the sect?" The leading law enforcement monk turned to look at Li Shiming and asked.
According to the records, Li Shiming had only entered the third level of Qi Refining not long ago. With Li Shiming's talent of three spiritual roots, it would be impossible for him to be promoted to the fourth level of Qi Refining in such a short time without any miraculous encounter.
Li Shiming has already reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, so he can make great use of this.
"I have just entered the fourth level of Qi Refining, and I have never seen any content in the sect's decrees that requires reporting Qi Refining strength!" Li Shiming replied indifferently.
He could see that this law enforcement monk was deliberately causing trouble.
Although this law enforcement team has five cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage, this place is only two hundred miles away from the sect's Nine Peaks. He is not worried at all that the law enforcement cultivators will attack him without reason.
If it was the day before, he might have been a little afraid, but now he was a junior formation master, a rare and important profession in the sect.
At least no one can control him at will. If you want to touch him without a proper reason, you need to consider whether Dui Feng agrees.
In fact, if Li Shiming revealed his identity as a junior formation master at this time, the law enforcement monks would not have any opinion of him.
However, he had just acquired the identity of a junior formation master, and it would take some time for the information from Duifeng Lingji Pavilion to be synchronized with the sect's formation.
According to the information collected by the law enforcement monks, Li Shiming was still just a junior spiritual plant husband.
The leading law enforcement monk looked at Li Shiming coldly, as if he wanted to scare Li Shiming, but how could Li Shiming be intimidated by him?
"Hmph!" The leading law enforcement monk snorted coldly, made a gesture to another law enforcement monk beside him, and then went to the side to take out his identity jade disc.
In Zhongfeng Law Enforcement Hall, Xu Peiran was sipping spiritual tea leisurely.
Many foundation-building monks do not like power and worry that managing others will affect their own practice.
But he is different. Since entering the Law Enforcement Hall, he has been using various means to gain benefits.
Even if he wasted ten years in the Law Enforcement Hall, with enough resources, he would still be able to reach the middle stage of foundation building. Perhaps he would even arrive later and surpass his fellow disciples of the same period.
"Uncle Master Xu, I have a cave that is rented by a new cultivator and it has Talisman Bamboo growing on it. If it grows in a while, it can generate an income of at least 500 spirit stones per month!" Xu Peiran received the message from his subordinate, the law enforcement cultivator Han Tianlei.
Xu Peiran was very clear about the little thoughts of his subordinates. He also came from the Qi Refining Stage, so how could he not know about the competition for resources.
But the good thing about Han Tianlei is that he doesn't keep all the benefits to himself, but also thinks about his position as the deacon of the Law Enforcement Hall.
"Han Tianlei, tell me your opinion!" Xu Peiran replied.
"Look, this kid has just been promoted to the fourth level of Qi Refining. It's a good time to assign him a mandatory mission to kill himself. I will take over the cave and honor you first!" Han Tianlei immediately told Xu Peiran the plan he had in mind.
Xu Peiran was also an old fox. He took out his identity jade disc and retrieved Li Shiming's information to check it out.
A newcomer from Daxia, without any foundation, has some immortal affinity, so with the qualification of three spiritual roots, he stands out among the newcomers who remained due to the attack incident in this period.
If compared with the newcomers in previous sessions, Li Shiming would be nothing.
It is precisely because of this that this batch of newcomers was not taken seriously by the Nine Peaks. This can be seen from the fact that not even one newcomer was accepted as a disciple by a foundation-building cultivator.
"I'll give you the authority, just do it cleanly!" Xu Peiran said in a deep voice, and then he continued: "After the task is completed, I will give you half of the resources!"
He also knew that it was not good to monopolize such benefits. If he really did that, his reputation would be ruined and no law enforcement monks would come to him.
What's more, the cave still needs Han Tianlei to deal with it. It's impossible for him, a dignified foundation-building cultivator or a deacon of the Law Enforcement Hall, to go down there in person!
On the other side, Han Tianlei showed a smug smile on his face.
He took out half of the profits from Fu Lingzhu and deliberately did not mention the matter of the spiritual field, because for a foundation-building cultivator like Xu Peiran, the income from growing spiritual rice would not be worth his attention.
Although the benefits generated by the high-level low-grade spiritual field are less than those of the Fu Lingzhu, they are still not small for a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.
Fu Lingzhu took half for himself, and together with the profits from the high-level lower-grade spiritual fields, he still took the lion's share.
Although Han Tianlei did all the work and Xu Peiran only provided authority, he would have to rely on Xu Peiran in many ways in the future. If he wanted to live comfortably in the Law Enforcement Hall, he had to have a good relationship with his superiors.
"Li Shiming, since you did not report that your cultivation level had been improved to the middle stage of Qi Refining, Deacon Xu from the Law Enforcement Hall sent you an order to complete a mandatory task. This is a mandatory task order!" Han Tianlei came up to Li Shiming and said coldly.
He knew that Li Shiming was familiar with the sect's laws, so he did a very thorough job in this regard. He used the authority given by Xu Peiran to issue a mandatory task order to Li Shiming.
Li Shiming's identity jade disc also received a forced mission order. He frowned slightly, this was very unreasonable.
Even if he was promoted to the middle stage of Qi Refining, he still needed some time to get familiar with the realm, because he would not be able to form combat power immediately after his promotion, but needed time to slowly hone his skills.
But Deacon Xu forcefully issued the mandatory task, and he was extremely puzzled as to why he did so.
You can't blame him. In his eyes, the value of Fu Ling Bamboo is not that great. He didn't plant Fu Ling Bamboo with the intention of earning spirit stones from it.
He can make talismans by himself. Once he has the Fu Lingzhu, he will have talisman paper and no longer needs to order it from outside.
In terms of value, his spiritual tea tree is far more valuable than Fu Lingzhu.
What Li Shiming had not thought about was that it was because of Fu Lingzhu that the Hao family was able to prosper among the independent cultivators.
Relying on the Fu Lingzhu, the Hao family has been able to support seven cultivators and continue to train the next generation of cultivators. This shows how valuable the Fu Lingzhu is to cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.
After Li Shiming entered the world of immortal cultivation, he almost never lacked spirit stones.
Of course, this lack is relative to the consumption of ordinary Qi-refining cultivators. He also lacks spirit stones, but that is because he has his eyes on spiritual objects such as flying boats that are beyond his own status.
He still has nearly two thousand spirit stones left on him. In addition, Baili Jinyan's storage bracelet has not been opened for inspection, so there will be no shortage of spirit stones in it as well.
His only desire for spirit stones was to get rich overnight. He did not have much demand for a small amount of spirit stones, so he had never thought about developing Fu Lingzhu.
"I'll clean up here and then go carry out the mission!" Li Shiming accepted the forced mission reluctantly and said as he glanced at the cave.
"What do you have to pack? Leave immediately, otherwise I will take you to see Deacon Xu for resisting law enforcement!" How could Han Tianlei let him pack? He said in a cold voice.