Qingzhou company headquarters.
"Notice, all idle personnel, gather in the conference room. Group 1 201, Group 2 202, Group 3 203"
The sound of the broadcast spread throughout the company building, and many monks who were playing games on their phones raised their heads. It was not that they wanted to be lazy, if they could, they would rather sit in meditation and practice. Unfortunately, the company had to ensure sufficient standing staff to deal with emergencies, and it was impossible to give them time to practice.
Meditation and Qigong are not like eating or sleeping. You can't stop whenever you want. If you are suddenly disturbed, you may go crazy. The three-day shift and one-day rest is to give them time to practice. I heard that they will work two days and rest one day when there are enough people.
In order to kill time, most company employees play games on their phones, or at worst read some cultivation books.
"Something happened again? Is there going to be another demon?"
"There's no alert, so it shouldn't be anything serious."
"Maybe it's the selection for the monk class. This year's list hasn't been announced yet. I heard that the output of the spirit veins has increased after the recovery of heaven and earth, so they will increase the number of places."
"It's possible. The spiritual stone allocation has indeed increased by 1/3 recently. However, among us in the monk class, only the Zhao team has a chance. Does the Zhao team have any ideas?"
Zhao Si was a little confused when he was suddenly asked this question. He had just dozed off and his mind had not yet come back to its senses.
After thinking for a while, he replied: "I heard that you are going to Fengjing. To be honest, I still prefer to stay in Qingzhou."
After all, Brother Yi was protecting Qingzhou. Although Brother Yi could protect him even if he went there, his safety would definitely decrease if he was not in Qingzhou. He was really afraid that a peerless demon would suddenly appear and kill him.
This was not paranoia. After going through so much, Zhao Si also understood that in this line of work, everyone had their heads tied to their belts and could be killed at any time. Although monks had a long lifespan, in reality only a small number of people could die of old age.
Of the few colleagues he met when he started working, only two are left now, and one of them has retired due to disability.
Maybe being a mortal can live longer than being a monk, at least this is the current situation of the monks in Shenzhou. They have to fight to maintain the peace in front of them, and their relatives and friends are all mortals and cannot just care about themselves.
In the past, he wanted more training resources and naively thought that he could catch up with Li Yi as long as he worked harder. Now he has realized the truth a little. Not to mention catching up with him, even seeing his back is a luxury.
Instead of working hard to catch up, it is better to just cling to others.
Hearing that Zhao Si didn't want to go, the people around him immediately looked regretful.
"Oh? Don't waste such a good opportunity. The path of cultivation is all about competition, Zhao Zu. You will definitely have a place if you build your foundation in one year."
"That's right, maybe when we get in, we'll meet a beautiful lady who's attracted to Zhao Zushi!"
Zhao Si rolled his eyes and said, "I have a fiancée, and she is a favored daughter of heaven. Even if someone sees me, what will happen?"
As they walked and talked, they soon arrived at Group 1's meeting room 201.
We walked in and sat down. There were 35 people in total. Originally there were 60 people, but due to the previous Demon Abyss incident, 25 people were reduced, and the staff has not been replenished until now.
After waiting for a few minutes, Lu Haochu came in with a stack of documents. He stood on the podium, tapped the microphone, and said, "Today I have called you all here for three things. One is the selection of teachers for the Cultivation Academy."
He shook the document above and said, "Since Shenzhou came into contact with the cultivation world in 1971, Shenzhou's understanding and development of cultivation has taken a big step forward. In order to further standardize cultivation and for all people to benefit from it, the Zhou government decided to establish the world's first cultivation academy, dedicated to cultivating new-era cultivators who serve society and the people."
Lu Haochu quickly read the content. To simplify it, it was to create a monk academy completely led by the government, selecting talents from primary, secondary and high schools across the country. It was equivalent to directly bypassing the sect to train monks, so many monks were needed as teachers.
Obviously, after becoming familiar with the practice, the government wanted to break away from Shangqing Palace. At least to reduce its dependence on Shangqing Palace, so that if there is any problem with Shangqing Palace in the future, the entire region will not collapse. This official statement must have many specific interests, which is not Lu Haochu's turn to know.
He is just a local official and has no right to interfere in these matters.
"The training academy should be a lower-level substitute for the sect and the monk class. Anyone interested can come to me to sign up. It only takes the eighth level of Qi Refining or above. Of course, the salary will definitely not be as good as it is now, and I guess the supply of training materials may be halved. After all, our job is to lick blood on the edge of a knife, while there we are teaching in an ivory tower."
This statement caused a lot of discussion among the people. The people present generally reached this standard, but they were not very interested. It was indeed much safer to teach, but there were also fewer cultivation resources, and they would definitely fall behind in the long run.
At least most people are still motivated, and many cultivators nowadays have some talent, so building a foundation is no problem.
After waiting for a few minutes and seeing that no one had signed up, Lu Haochu continued, "No one has signed up, right? Then the next thing is, regarding the quota for the monk class, we just happened to have one available here."
The next moment everyone turned to look at Zhao Si. He was the only one present who had reached the foundation-building stage within a year.
"Zhao Si, our genius Zhao."
Zhao Si curled his lips. He was a shitty genius. Everything was because of that cloud fruit.
He raised his hand and said, "Can I not go?"
Although the resources in the monk class are many times higher than here, and they don't have to go through life and death, it is said that the government trains them according to the standard of cultivating golden elixir. But for Zhao Si, it's too lame, and he feels it's better to go back to the village.
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