"Dossier on alchemy and talisman forging?" Cao Ren listened and nodded cheerfully, "My father seems to have some in his house. If you need them, I'll find them for you once they're all worth it."
Although Cao Ren's father, Cao Shanyue, did not particularly pay attention to his son's cultivation, he had a rich collection of elixirs and talismans.
However, what Cao Shanyue collected were basically substandard things.
But it was enough for Shen Mo, who was just starting to practice.
"Then it's settled." Shen Mo agreed.
"Yeah, okay."
Cao Ren nodded and said.
After the two people discussed it, they began to carefully guard the mountain gate.
Compared with Linjiang Sect's other sect tasks, guarding the mountain gate is not a dangerous job, but it is also extremely leisurely and boring.
The daily workload is very small. Apart from saying hello to the sect disciples entering and exiting the mountain gate and checking their identities, there is basically nothing else to do.
Unlike some disciples who were sent to guard the spiritual fields and grow elixirs, they were busy turning around every day for fear that the spiritual seeds in the rice fields would not grow well and something would go wrong.
Guard the mountain gate, unless you encounter a hostile sect seeking revenge that has never been seen in a century.
Otherwise, even if you are lazy and careless and put in a few idlers, there will be no consequences.
The two stayed on duty until noon.
Cao Ren said hello to Shen Mo: "You watch for me for a while, I'll go cook first."
"Okay, go ahead." Shen Mo nodded and watched him leave.
Guard the mountain gate, no one from the Linjiang Sect will bring you food.
If you want to eat, you can either cook it yourself or go to the special catering store inside the mountain gate to buy it.
However, although the food at the restaurant is delicious, the price is quite high.
Usually only inner disciples who are not short of money are willing to go there to eat.
Peripheral disciples like Shen Mo and Cao Ren, who could squeeze out a little from their daily expenses, were eager to use it for practice, so they naturally chose to cook for themselves.
"Speaking of which, catering in the sect is also a good business."
Shen Mo thought about it and pondered secretly in his heart.
If we could copy the takeout ordering business model on Earth, we might be able to kill people in Linjiang Sect and make a lot of money.
If this is the case, you don’t have to worry about not having enough money to support your practice.
But this idea was rejected by Shen Mo after just a moment.
After all, this is the world of immortality, unlike Earth, where everyone is a good and law-abiding citizen.
Not to mention that the food and beverage sector has already been occupied by catering companies. If you steal other people's business, you will easily suffer retaliation.
Even if the people in the dining room don't care about him, when the time comes to deliver the order, if he encounters a disciple of the sect who refuses to pay the bill, he will be tortured to death.
Doing business requires a well-behaved environment.
Traveling to another world, casually taking out some knowledge and wisdom from the previous life, and hoping to succeed here is basically wishful thinking, unless you have absolute strength to back it up.
But with that kind of strength, who would do this job?
"coming!"
While Shen Mo was thinking wildly, Cao Ren had already returned with the cooked food.
"smell good!"
Shen Mo turned around and smelled the extremely rich aroma, which whetted his appetite.
"Is it spiritual rice?" He looked at the white and translucent rice in the pot with some surprise, and then at the two thick deer legs on top of the rice: "Is this... the meat of a monster? Red Eyebrow deer?"
"Yes, this guy has some discernment."
"You are too extravagant today, you are willing to cook spiritual rice! And you even eat demon meat!"
This spiritual rice is different from ordinary rice. It is carefully cultivated by cultivators from special rice seeds. Eating it can increase qi and blood, strengthen the body and strengthen the body.
As for monster meat, there is no need to talk about it.
For practitioners, monsters are full of treasures. In addition to the most precious monster elixirs and some special parts that can be made into utensils, their flesh and blood are also quite precious.
Long-term consumption is of great benefit to spiritual practice.
However, these are rare things, and even the inner disciples are reluctant to eat them every day.
Not to mention peripheral disciples like Cao Ren.
"My father sent them to me." Cao Ren explained, "Not long ago, he saw that my cultivation was approaching the perfection of physical training, and it was the critical moment when I reached the bottleneck of my realm, so he specially asked me to eat more good food. , so that we can break through as soon as possible.”
"Don't your father usually ignore your cultivation?" Shen Mo asked casually.
"I will take care of it in my spare time!" Cao Ren laughed, "Today, since you promised to give me a Qi Gathering Pill, I will treat you to a meal as well."
Cao Ren is so heroic, Shen Mo will naturally not be polite to him.
So, the two of them sat in the pavilion at the mountain gate and began to feast.
“It smells so good~”
The spirit rice tastes sweet in the mouth, with a lingering aftertaste. Then he grabs the red-browed deer leg and bites off a large piece of meat.
The rice and grilled meat go into your stomach together, giving you an indescribable sense of satisfaction.
After devouring it, I was finally full.
Shen Mo patted his belly and finally felt comfortable.
"I'm really fed up with this life of guarding the door every day."
Cao Ren finished the last bite of rice and mumbled: "Outer disciples, it's true that grandma doesn't care about me and grandpa doesn't love me. If I really want to have a future, I have to enter the inner sect."
This is true.
The peripheral disciples of Linjiang Sect are, to put it mildly, considered registered disciples; to put it worst, they are not much different from handymen.
If you want to become a peripheral disciple of Linjiang Sect, the threshold is not very high.
Ordinary mortal children only need to have some cultivation qualifications, find a mountain gate, and come to register.
But precisely because of this, Linjiang Sect will not regard these people as real sect disciples at all, but only treat them as free labor.
The welfare and monthly salary of various disciples of the sect have nothing to do with them.
If you want to get some monthly salary for practicing, you need to do all kinds of hard work for the sect.
Moreover, outside disciples are not allowed to enter Linjiang Sect's important areas such as the Immortal Arts Building, Forging Hall, Spiritual Energy Pool, and Martial Arts Stage.
The only way to get rid of this situation is to enter the inner gate, truly leave your name on the list of Linjiang Sect disciples, and obtain an identity token.
The requirement for Linjiang Sect to recruit inner disciples is that they must break through to the Qi Gathering Realm.
"Fortunately, I'm almost done."
Cao Ren turned to look at Shen Mo and found some satisfaction in him.
After all, there are many peripheral disciples like Shen Mo who have made no progress in their practice after many years and plan to leave the sect sadly.
Although he has struggled for many years, if he is patient, at least he will have a chance to be promoted sooner or later.
From Cao Ren's eyes, Shen Mo could guess what he was thinking.
But he didn't care what Cao Ren thought of him. He just heard Cao Ren's emotion and he was thinking secretly in his heart.
My own plans for future sect promotion and cultivation path.
After awakening the destiny panel, Shen Mo no longer had any thoughts of leaving.
Instead, I thought that there was still a chance to save my path to immortality.
