Zhang Mian and Li Teng were formerly disciples of Yuquan Sect and are now disciples of Yuquan Peak. Both of them are in the late stage of foundation building.
The original fellow disciples left or dispersed, but the two of them just went with the flow and stayed, thinking that after they reached the Jindan stage, they would resign and leave.
Last month, the new sect rules and manuals on the reward and punishment system for disciples of Tianyan Sect were distributed. Neither of them read them carefully, but they only noticed that the disciples in the sect were no longer divided into inner and outer sects, but only into registered disciples, formal disciples and direct disciples.
The basic salary for a formal disciple in the Foundation Establishment Stage is fifty spirit stones per month.
There are no pills, no material quota, and not even a guaranteed contribution point.
In other words, the disciples of Yuquan Peak only have three more Yangyuan Pills than the disciples of other peaks.
When Zhang Mian and Li Teng saw this, they threw their disciple manuals aside and were quite dissatisfied with the Tian Yan Sect. They openly and secretly cursed the current leader of the Tian Yan Sect for being petty. They used to earn eighty spirit stones a month.
However, the two did not have the courage to go to the Internal Affairs Hall to argue, so they just stayed in seclusion for three months.
When the two of them had used up all the spirit stones and elixirs they had accumulated, they had no choice but to come out and go to Guannan Fort to think of a solution.
Before leaving, the two went to the Internal Affairs Hall to collect their three months' basic salary.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it’s still meat!
As soon as they reached the foot of Tianman Peak, they saw a brand new and magnificent courtyard group and almost thought they had come to the wrong place.
"Is this our Yuquan Sect's internal affairs hall? Didn't everything over there collapse?" Zhang Mian scratched his head in confusion.
Li Teng was full of surprise. "Look at these big blue bricks and white jade tiles. They are all covered with defensive runes. They can be used as magic tools. Tianyan Sect has the money to lay the floor, but they don't even raise our salary. How stingy!"
The two were indignant and stepped hard on the floor tiles as they walked into the cave. Along the way, they were shocked by the various magnificent and brand-new buildings. It had only been three months, and the Tianyan Sect had renovated the entire Yuquan Sect. Isn't that too efficient
The square outside the Internal Affairs Hall was crowded with people and noisy, so the two men stopped.
"What are they doing? So many people?" Zhang Mian scratched his head in confusion again.
Li Teng stood on tiptoe and stretched his neck, and saw many people sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding books and jade slips in their hands and muttering to themselves. Some people were even meditating and practicing in a micro soundproof array.
“Get out of the way!”
A Tianyan Sect disciple who was in the middle stage of foundation building came on a sword, pushed through the crowded crowd and came to the front. Like a magic trick, he took out a dozen storage bags and slapped them on the table outside the inner affairs hall. There was a sign next to the table that read "Supply Collection Point".
"Ten thousand lapis lazuli bricks, delivered!"
The miscellaneous disciple from the Internal Affairs Hall behind the table counted the items swiftly, and when he was done he picked up a bunch of storage bags.
"Whoever accepts the errand task, send him to the Tiangang Peak construction site!"
“Me me!”
"Go away, I was here first!"
"Go away, can't you see I'm still lying here?"
Several people rushed to deliver things.
After a while, another older cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage with a goatee came in. He smelled of medicine, had dark circles under his eyes, and it was unknown how many days he hadn't slept.
He staggered to the table and took a photo of a storage bag, "One hundred bottles of Pei Yuan..."
Boom!
Before he could finish his words, the man fell headfirst, but before others could rescue him, the monk with a goatee suddenly sat up and slapped his own face.
"I can't sleep. The fire in the alchemy furnace is still on. Please settle the bill for me quickly. I have to go back and continue refining!"
The miscellaneous disciple grinned, and after the settlement, he shot a ray of light from the token of the goat-bearded monk. The goat-bearded monk jumped up excitedly, and left the inner hall square with a big laugh.
There are large-scale construction projects everywhere in the Tianyan Sect. The Internal Affairs Hall is like a transit station. There are lights coming from all directions at all times, and there are lights going to all directions at all times.
Zhang Mian and Li Teng were confused. Li Teng even laughed at them, "What are you trying to achieve? Don't you want to live? Look at them, they are busy like animals, and they only make 50 yuan a month!"
"Fifty?" A puzzled voice came from the side. A shrewd-looking blue-robed monk snorted and laughed, "Are you two disciples of Yuquan Peak? Have you finished reading the disciple manual? Do you know how much my salary was last month?"
The blue monk raised his chin and held up three fingers.
Zhang Mian guessed, "Three hundred?"
Li Teng opened his eyes wide in shock. He couldn't earn this much even if he worked very hard for a whole year.
"Brother, how do you make money?"
The blue-robed monk said proudly, "Draw one thousand talismans, one hundred D-level tasks, thirty C-level tasks. If those beasts hadn't taken all the tasks, I could have earned more. Now I'm busy with the tasks, so I'm leaving!"
Zhang Mian and Li Teng were stunned and quickly took out the disciple manual to check.
It turns out that fifty spirit stones are just the basic salary. There is extra income for completing the tasks of the Internal Affairs Hall, and for every hundred spirit stones earned, one contribution point will be automatically increased, with no upper limit!
Contribution points can be exchanged for earth-grade skills and top-level magic weapons. The quantity is limited, first come first served, and no one will be allowed after the time is up!
No wonder this group of people are so crazy. The two of them also went crazy when they saw the catalog of martial arts and magic weapons!
The two of them hurriedly squeezed into the internal affairs hall. After finally squeezing to the front, they found a sign hanging on the counter for collecting tasks that read "Today's tasks are no longer available."
The two went to the nearby supply collection point to ask, but found out that all supplies were also full and were not being collected for the time being.
"What should we do? How about waiting until tomorrow?" Zhang Mian asked Li Teng.
Li Teng regretted it so much that his intestines turned green. He lost at least 100,000 in three months!
The Tianyan Sect is under construction, and most of the tasks are smelting bricks and tiles, refining medicine and drawing talismans, running errands and opening up wasteland, etc. These tasks are not difficult for foundation-building monks, and the rewards are high.
"Why didn't I find out earlier?!" Li Teng cried to the sky, "Forget it, come earlier tomorrow, I'll go back first."
The two were about to leave when they suddenly saw several foundation-building disciples from Yuquan Peak in the square outside. One of them was their junior fellow disciple Wang Biao. He, like the other Tianyan Sect cultivators around him, was sitting cross-legged, reading a book and muttering to himself.
"Wang Biao, what are you doing here?" Li Teng walked over and asked.
"The black jade flower is shaped like black jade, its color is transparent and poisonous, and it grows in... Senior brother, are you here too? I'm waiting in line here."
"What queue?" Zhang Mian asked.
Wang Biao frowned, "Of course we are waiting in line for the mission tomorrow. Look around you. If you don't stay here overnight, you won't get any mission tomorrow."
Zhang Mian: … …
Li Teng couldn't believe it. He glanced at the hundreds of people in the square and asked in a trembling voice, "Is it so exaggerated?"
Wang Biao lowered his voice and raised the "Hundred Herbs Illustrated Book" in his hand, "Not only that, next month will be the first small test in Tianyan Sect. The first place will be rewarded with 50,000 spirit stones and a high-level magic weapon."
"If you don't do well in the exam, you will be demoted from a formal disciple to a registered disciple, and your salary will be reduced by half. Look at those people around you, they are all secretly competing with each other!"
It is written in the disciple manual that the Tianyan Sect holds a small test once a year and a large test every five years, and the content of the test is uncertain.
The top 100 students will have priority in choosing the various courses offered by Yuanying Zhenjun in the sect. If they perform well in the classes, they may be accepted as Yuanying Zhenjun's personal disciples.
Regardless of qualifications and cultivation, only the assessment results matter!
But correspondingly, the last 100 will be eliminated, the direct disciples will be demoted to formal disciples, the formal disciples will be demoted to registered disciples, and the registered disciples will be directly expelled from the sect.
As for those who have signed a hundred-year contract with Jiang Yuebai, they are not included. If they are really not motivated, they will be sent to mine until they can pass the exam with their own abilities!
Tianyan Sect opens its gates every year and recruits far more than a hundred new disciples. Eliminating a hundred people a year is nothing.
As soon as Wang Biao finished speaking, a flash of spiritual light suddenly appeared in the sky not far away. Someone actually broke through from the early stage of foundation building to the middle stage on the spot.
hiss-
There was a gasp, and everyone looked fiercely at the person who had advanced. The atmosphere in the square suddenly became solemn and urgent, and even the sound of endorsements suddenly became twice as loud and twice as fast.
Wang Biao also said, "Let's stop chatting. These disciples of Tianyan Sect are not easy to deal with. They don't eat, drink or sleep and queue up here to recite and practice. They are simply not human. I have to recite quickly!"
Zhang Mian and Li Teng's eyes went dark. What was the origin of this Tian Yan Sect? Are these people crazy? Do they want to let people live
Zhang Mian looked at Li Teng, who gritted his teeth and said, "Why are you looking at me? There's a test question on my face, why don't you hurry up and get in line!"
Li Teng cursed while taking out the disciple manual from his storage bag and walked to the back of the line to queue up.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)