"Junior understands." Shen Luo responded respectfully without changing his expression.
"Very good. Someone will send you a guest token tomorrow, along with nearly three months' salary." Bai Hecheng nodded approvingly and said.
"Master, I wonder when I can carry out the mission?" Shen Luo asked.
"Don't worry, the clan has made arrangements and will notify you." Bai Hecheng waved his hand and said.
After Shen Luo thanked him again, he said goodbye and left.
After he left, a man suddenly walked out from the inner room of the study. It was the third elder Bai Jiangfeng.
"Master, according to the rules, only cultivators who have reached the seventh level of Qi Refining can receive a fairy jade every three months. Shen Luo is lacking in both cultivation and aptitude, and allowing him to serve as a guest official is already an exception. Why is he promised a fairy jade as salary?" Bai Jiangfeng asked puzzledly.
"It's okay. The Bai family can still afford this amount of fairy jade. Just consider it as giving this young man a chance. Besides, this is the only requirement for Xiaotian to go to Huasheng Temple." Bai Hecheng smiled and said.
"The head of the family has good intentions, and I agree with it. But I'm afraid that the clan members and other guests will not be convinced and will cause trouble for him." Bai Jiangfeng shook his head and said.
"If we can't even handle this little bit of trouble, then all of my Bai family's fairy jade and Xiaotian's good intentions will be wasted. When the time comes, we will find a way to make him leave the Bai family on his own initiative." Bai Hecheng smiled and said indifferently.
The next day, the news that Shen Luo became a guest of the Bai family quickly spread throughout the Bai Mansion.
When Shen Luo received the guest token and a fairy jade, he also moved out of Bai Xiaotian's courtyard and lived in an independent courtyard arranged by the Bai family.
The courtyard is located in a dense forest near the lake in the mansion. It is more remote and farther away from the front yard gate, but it is much closer to the secret room at the bottom of the lake.
However, after Shen Luo became a guest official, when he went to the secret room at the bottom of the lake, he was stopped by the old woman who was in charge. She told him that he was not qualified to practice here for the time being. As a guest official, he had to make contributions to the Bai Mansion and obtain the consent of the head of the family before he could use it.
Although Shen Luo was a little depressed, he didn't say much on the surface. After all, the fact that he was able to enter the secret room to practice before was already a special case, and it was thanks to Bai Xiaotian. Now that he had accepted the new identity, he naturally had to accept a series of corresponding changes.
After figuring this out, Shen Luo settled down in the courtyard and continued to practice.
Time flies and more than half a month has passed.
There was a continuous rain in Jianye City, the temperature dropped sharply, and the autumn atmosphere in the city became more and more intense.
On this day, Shen Luo got up early, but did not meditate as usual. Instead, he took out the stone box that he had carefully collected.
After he opened the stone box, he took out a gold ingot and several silver bills and put them aside.
Then, he carefully stretched out two fingers and slowly picked out a round jade stone the size of a copper coin. Its color was emerald green, and a wisp of pure spiritual energy could be seen flowing inside. This was the legendary immortal coin "immortal jade", and it was also the first guest official salary he had received.
According to records in ancient books, this fairy jade itself is a rather rare spiritual material. It is born from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and is nurtured by the earth's veins, thus forming some extremely hidden underground jade veins.