In the Five Elements Sect, the outer

sect of Jackdaw Mountain, a group of disciples knelt at the entrance of Jackdaw Mountain. There were many familiar faces, as well as new faces. They all anxiously watched Lin Jiang and Zheng Yi talk, hoping to see a good result.

"Brother Zheng, don't worry. My brother has already gone to find the master."

Lin Jiang comforted Zheng Yi. His master had been in seclusion not long ago. Lin Jiang didn't want to disturb Zhang Wanjing at all, but he didn't stop Zhang Shuhua. He was helpless.

"Uncle Xiao, this time we can only rely on Uncle Zhang, otherwise we really have no hope,"

Zheng Yi said anxiously. He is not actually a disciple of the sect now, but his eldest and second sons are, and they are large farmers in the outer sect. The two brothers have leased 10,000 acres of spiritual fields from the sect to grow spiritual grains.

Planting spiritual grains is their old trade. They have the technology and tools. Since Zhang Wanjing completed the construction of the water conservancy project five years ago, he has promoted the new spiritual grain seeds. They can be said to have lived a very comfortable life in the past five years. Zheng Yi has already planned that even if the sect's foundation-building pills cannot be obtained, their family has saved up for more than ten years, which is enough for them to buy a foundation-building pill outside. There is hope that one of his sons will break through the foundation-building stage and achieve the leap of the family. But

he did not expect that an order from the sect would shatter his hopes. This order is that the sect will increase their workload from this year.

In the past, when they rented the sect's spiritual fields, they had to hand in 300 kilograms of spiritual grains per mu as the workload, which is about 60% of their harvest. This is only if they planted well. If they planted poorly, such as the field was a little worse, or they were not so dedicated, the harvest might not be enough to hand in, so they lived an extremely difficult life.

Now that they are living a better life, the sect has increased the task of producing spiritual grains per mu from 300 jin to 500 jin. This is fatal, which means that they will return to the hard life before.

Some people are even worse than before, because the fields are divided into fat and thin. Some fields are far away from the spiritual veins, with thin spiritual energy, or water conservancy cannot reach them, and the yield per mu is not high. They can't rent all good fields, and they are all mixed with good and bad. This order means that at least 60% to 70% of their income will be taken away by the sect.

"Don't worry, Senior Brother Zheng, there will be hope."

Lin Jiang shook his head. He couldn't figure out what went wrong now. Logically, the total number of disciples in the sect has not fluctuated greatly for hundreds of years. Under the condition of small fluctuations, the sect cannot lack so many spiritual grains. There must be something wrong with a certain link.

But no matter which environment has a problem, Zhang Wanjing needs to take risks and offend the high-level leaders of the sect. This is what Lin Jiang doesn't want to see.

After all these years, Lin Jiang knew what Zhang Wanjing's backer was. It was the sect's God-transforming Patriarch who valued him very much, but the problem was that the God-transforming Patriarch was no longer in the Five Elements Sect. He had been wandering around for a long time. It was unknown how much effect he could have without him.

It was no big deal for Zhang Wanjing to scold people at ordinary times, but it was different once it involved their core interests. Before, Zhang Wanjing wanted to make changes, but it was stillborn and was directly extinguished. Even Zhang Wanjing was thrown into this mountain valley to farm.

"Master uncle is here"

"Master uncle..."

"Master uncle..."

Zhang Wanjing finally showed up. As soon as he showed up, the disciples were immediately excited, as if they had seen a savior.

Zhang Wanjing waved his hand to quiet everyone down, and then said, "Don't worry, disciples, I already know about this matter. I will discuss it with the sect, and wait for my result."

Zhang Wanjing left a few words, then called Zheng Yi to seriously understand the situation. After learning the result, his face was also livid.

"These termites"

Zhang Wanjing gritted his teeth and cursed. In his opinion, there must be termites in the upper echelons of the sect, who embezzled a lot of spiritual grains. Otherwise, why would there be such a large gap in spiritual grains? He remembered that according to the previous task volume, the sect always had extra spiritual grains, and at least one year's worth of spiritual grains would be stored to deal with some crises.

"Xiao Yi, Shuhua, come with me to the Internal Affairs Hall"

"Master, you still have to be steady and see what's going on first"

"Let's go"

Zhang Wanjing ignored Lin Jiang and got up and flew away. The outer gate of the Five Elements Sect can still fly, but the inner gate can't. Zhang Wanjing walked honestly. Only elders and above can fly in the inner gate. This is a privilege, or it is a disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall who is on a mission.

"Jin Yu, get out of here"

Zhang Wanjing was very angry and shouted the name of Deputy Hall Master Jin directly.

"Deputy Hall Master Zhang, Deputy Hall Master Jin is not in the Internal Affairs Hall"

"Where is he?"

"He went out for something, and he is not in the cave residence either"

a steward said hurriedly. Deputy Hall Master Jin was blocked by Zhang Wanjing before, and this time he hid directly.

Zhang Wanjing didn't believe it, and used his full spiritual sense to scan everywhere, but he couldn't find the figure of Deputy Hall Master Jin. He punched the cotton with his fist, which made Zhang Wanjing even angrier.

"Shuhua, you go to Jinyu Cave Mansion to wait, Xiaoyi, you wait here, notify me when Jinyu comes back."

"Yes, Master"

"Dad, where are you going?"

"Go ask the headmaster, who gave this shitty order,"

Zhang Wanjing said. Unable to find Jin Yu, he went directly to the headmaster. For this kind of thing, the headmaster's order must be carried out.

The headmaster did not hide, but waited for Zhang Wanjing to come.

"Master, uncle,"

"I knew you were coming. How come you can't find the Golden Domain?"

"Yes, he's hiding." "

Where's the head of the Internal Affairs Hall?"

"He never gets involved. This order must have been issued by your uncle,"

"I agree."

"Uncle, I need a reason. The sect's mission has not changed in hundreds of years. Why do we have to increase the workload this year?"

"Because the consumption has increased, there is not enough spiritual grain to eat. We can only increase it."

"What a joke. The number of disciples in the Five Elements Sect does not fluctuate by more than three hundred people each year. I have been away from the Internal Affairs Hall for less than seven years. Even if the number of disciples has not decreased in these seven years and they are all extra, it has only increased by more than two thousand people. The outer sect has nearly three million acres of spiritual fields for growing spiritual grains. Master, do you know how much the workload has increased and how much more spiritual grain can be paid?"

Zhang Wanjing did the math for the master. The workload was increased by 200 kilograms per acre, which was almost doubled than before. It should be enough for more than 100,000 people. Why would it increase so much for only an increase of more than 2,000 people?

"You are right to settle the accounts." "

If you are right, why is it so?"

"Wan Jing, do you know how many disciples are in the Qi training stage, foundation building stage, and golden elixir stage among the sect's disciples?"

"I don't know the exact number, but including the menial disciples, there should be more than 100,000 people in the Qi training stage, more than a thousand in the foundation building stage, and more than sixty in the golden elixir stage,"

said Zhang Wanjing. The specific number of people in the sect and the number of people in each realm are top secret. Even he does not know the exact number, only a rough estimate.

"That's about right. Now that you know, you should know the painstaking efforts of the sect."

"Painstaking efforts, what painstaking efforts? Since the sect doesn't lack so many spiritual grains, why do they want to collect so much more? Could it be that the dignified Five Elements Sect is still short of this little money?" "

No, if all these spiritual grains were sold, there would only be a million spiritual stones. But the sect lacks more advanced resources." "

What do you mean ?"

"The resources in the world of immortal cultivation will be reduced by more than half every time you ascend to a small level. It is normal for the resources of the first level to be three to five times less than those of the second level. Compared with the second level, the resources of the third level will be three to five times less. The sect can't afford so many foundation-building stage disciples."

"Can the sect still complain that there are too many foundation-building stage disciples?"

Zhang Wanjing was even more confused. The Golden Core stage was also advanced from the Foundation Establishment stage. Isn't it better to have more Foundation Establishment stage disciples? Only in this way can more Golden Core stage disciples be born.

"This goes against common sense, but it is true. Don't be anxious, listen to me. If these disciples have superior qualifications and strong comprehension, then the sect would not mind spending a lot of effort to cultivate them. But you know that they are not. Even if they put in all their effort, they can only build a foundation at most. They cannot form a pill in this lifetime. At least 99% of the disciples are like this.

But according to the sect rules, after they build a foundation, they must be given corresponding resources. This will weaken the resources of other truly talented foundation-building disciples, which is not good for the sect.

As the head of a sect, I have to be responsible for the sect. My task is to train more disciples who can form a pill, form an infant, or even transform into a god. This is why the sect divides disciples into inner sect, outer sect, and menial tasks..."

"Then according to what my uncle said, these outer disciples and menial tasks can only be said to be nutrients and consumables. They serve the inner disciples. They deserve to be in the Qi training stage all their lives?"

"This is too absolute. The sect also gives outer disciples opportunities, but this opportunity cannot be too many. It can only be a few. Only some people can break through and screen out the real geniuses, the geniuses left out of the outer sect."

Qin Quan said. The sect has too many foundation builders, but they cannot turn these people into productivity and create more value. So there can't be too many of them. More resources should be concentrated on those real geniuses.

Besides, the sect has not completely cut off their way out. There can still be a small number of people who can advance, but only a few.

Qin Quan's words made Zhang Wanjing tremble all over. He looked at Qin Quan in disbelief. These words from the heart were too terrible. He couldn't believe it. This was the sect he wanted to devote his life to.

"Wan Jing, I know it's hard for you to accept, but this is the fact. The Five Elements Sect is no longer able to expand outward. We only have so many resources. Those people have limited talents and their upper limits. Even if they break through the foundation-building stage, that's the limit. Their potential is just so limited.

Those people in the inner sect are different. They have the opportunity to reach a higher level of cultivation. The status of our Five Elements Sect depends on the Spirit Transformation and the Nascent Soul, not the Qi training or the foundation-building stage..."

Qin Quan was still trying to persuade Zhang Wanjing, but Zhang Wanjing wouldn't listen to a word. He couldn't accept this fact.