Chapter 101: Accident
“How could such a thing happen?”
Shui Ping couldn’t believe what the disciples of the Longevity Sect were doing now.
Even his mortal mother could receive low-grade Spirit Stone rewards?
They were so generous, just to have mortals help them make money?
Shui Ping’s eyes were complex, he felt he understood this batch of disciples less and less.
She was genuinely curious, where did Song Jiulai recruit such a group of people from.
They seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
But curiosity was also bad for cultivators; excessive desire could also affect their progress in their state of mind.
So it wasn’t that cultivators weren’t curious about many things, they just suppressed it.
“Oh my, these clothes are so strange, but they look so good…”
Shui Ping’s mother, Zhao Lan, was still murmuring while looking at the design drafts, thinking that these cultivators’ ingenuity was amazing, to be able to design such clothing.
Seeing that her mother also had her own things to do, unlike every time she saw her, there was an unspeakable sadness.
Shui Ping now felt a sense of relief.
She then said, “Mother, I’m going to Cave Demon Valley. You take good care of yourself at home.”
“Go ahead.” Zhao Lan knew that her daughter, as a cultivator, would always have to go for training.
Compared to before, Zhao Lan only sighed this time: “Come back safely.”
Shui Ping felt her eyes sting: “Mm.”
To prevent her emotions from fluctuating too much, fearing her mother would notice, she turned her head and strode away.
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The players’ debate also reached a conclusion.
They were going to another place.
Some players were quite willing.
Such a good game, it couldn’t just be confined to one place.
Some players were already very confident.
However, there was a conflict between commerce and combat. Commerce had to be carried out continuously, and some players would stay in another county town for a long time without returning.
But after the Sect provided life-saving conditions, this was not a big problem.
In the end, the players who wanted to go drew lots and formed a ten-person team.
This included Wu Dahu and the Daoist Priest, among others.
The Daoist Priest had to go.
—Because this person was good at flattery.
Opening trade routes was beneficial to the Sect. Song Jiulai herself relied on them for hunting Demonic Beasts.
Therefore, this time she gave each person in the team a reward of two hundred points and designated opening trade routes as a daily Sect task.
For example, in the future, when the Longevity Sect opened shops in other places, players who chose to garrison there would receive point rewards.
Each month, players who rotated out of the team could receive a reward of 200 points, and the merchant caravan players would have priority purchasing rights for any Materials they needed.
The difficulty varied, so the point rewards naturally differed.
Cultivating Spiritual Fields within the Sect, which was safe, yielded the lowest reward.
The advantage of having many players was that decisions were made quickly, and they departed quickly.
When the team was formed, they were already preparing to depart.
Fan Guozhou funded the merchant caravan, and along with Zhou Xiao and others, they pooled money to buy each of them a Tier 2 Mustard Seed Bag.
However, this was public funds, and a portion of the Demonic Beasts hunted on the road had to be given to Fan Guozhou and the others.
Han Tian was also in the team at this time.
Because he was doing a Live Broadcast, he boldly had to open up new scenes. He wanted to show netizens what a real, large Cultivation city was like.
Jiang Tianya also chose to go with them, but they would only go for this month and not next month.
Liang Xueyao remained in the Sect to begin researching Artifact Refining.
Artifact Refining, entering the Artifact Refining room, the purchased Spirit Ore was piled on a specially cut forging table. When Spiritual Energy was input into the Spirit Ore, it would release a flame to melt the Materials. Combining different Materials could create different Artifacts.
It was quite like playing a game.
As long as the Material ratio was correct, it would produce the item.
It wasn’t very scientific, but in the Cultivation World, science didn’t apply.
Lower tiers generally provided recipes, but how to fuse them still required skill, and there were subtle differences in what each person refined.
Because Spiritual Energy had to be continuously input during the refining process, maintaining stability was a problem.
There were many types of Spirit Ore, and different Artifacts required different Spirit Ore. What he was currently researching was the most basic of Artifact Refining—Mortal-grade Magic Treasures.
These Magic Treasures could be made into flying, or offensive and defensive Magic Treasures.
However, Mortal-grade Magic Treasures were basically of little use, one could only say it was better than nothing.
The flying Magic Treasures used by the disciples of the Flying Sparrow Sect were at least Profound Grade.
Most importantly, with enough proficiency, refining Mustard Seed Bags would be twice as effective.
Otherwise, Materials would be easily wasted in the beginning.
Mustard Seed Bags were very important items.
They were the most expensive among Mortal-grade items; one could have several Mustard Seed Bags if they had money.
And the Secret Technique given by the Sect could even refine Tier 2 Mustard Seed Bags.
The money earned during this period had been given to the Sect, and after acquiring another batch of Materials, it should be enough for him to refine for a long time.
“The snow has stopped!”
The good news was that after the players departed, the Heavy Snow finally stopped.
The environment of Wang’an County changed very quickly; they could almost see everything around them melting with their own eyes.
The ice and snow melted, and a gentle spring breeze began to blow.
The changes in the New Players’ living areas were even more apparent.
Sunlight pierced through the thin clouds, casting its rays upon the land that had been baptized by the harsh winter.
The scenery within the Game began to exude the vitality of all things burgeoning.
“This scenery looks so much better.”
After the Heavy Snow melted, the oppressive feeling that couldn’t be dispelled seemed to have vanished.
The players’ moods became increasingly joyful. Their first destination, the Peach Blossom Sect, they set off!
Just as everything was proceeding quietly, and Song Jiulai had no further plans for expansion, the Shuitan that arrived at the Guanhai Sect suddenly had another unexpected event.
The Guanhai Sect had abundant Spiritual Energy. After he officially entered the Mid Qi Condensation Stage, he became an even greater thorn in the eye of that brat Yun Chenyu. However, the Shuitan remained silent and didn’t say a word, and he couldn’t find any more reasons to provoke him, so he could only hold his breath.
Coupled with the fact that he would be going out to hunt Demonic Beasts later, he could only put it aside for now.
A few days later, while the Shuitan was carrying out his routine Spirit Herb Task, he was suddenly alerted by a loud voice.
“All Qi Refining Stage Outer Disciples, gather at the Ming Hall immediately!”
The Ming Hall was where the Outer Disciples usually gathered to receive Tasks.
The Shuitan’s eyelids twitched.
Qi Refining Stage, were they all?
Given such a Sound Transmission, the Shuitan would definitely go.
When he arrived at the location, he realized that there were quite a lot of Outer Disciples in the Guanhai Sect.
A sea of Qi Refining Stage cultivators, at least a hundred people.
Each of them was young and tender. The Shuitan took a rough glance and realized he was the oldest.
A bit embarrassing, but not much.
Those children looked at him with strange eyes, as it was rare to be at the Mid Qi Condensation Stage at this age.
Not everyone knew where he came from.
Only Pan Qingyi waved at the Shuitan, and the Shuitan, with a calm expression, squeezed his way over.
At this moment, the Steward who had originally recruited the Shuitan led in a gloomy-looking young cultivator, smiling apologetically: “Senior Brother Jiang, all the Qi Refining Stage disciples are here.”
