"Disciple Xuanyu, please see the master!" A quarter of an hour later, Liu Yu came to the stone door of the master Zhang Yuanzhen's cave with his sword, saluted and shouted into the cave.
"It's Xuanyu! Come in quickly!" As the voice of Master Zhou Yutong came from the cave, the stone door of the cave rose in response.
"Disciple Xuanyu, pay my respects to my master, my master!" Liu Yu stepped into the cave and saw that in addition to his master Zhou Yutong, his master "Xuanmu Zhenren"'s Taoist companion "Xuanzhao Taoist" Zhou Lutong was also sitting in the cave, busy. Worship.
"No need to be polite! Xuan Yu, come sit down and try the new tea sent by my cousin!" Zhou Yutong, the master's wife, smiled and asked Liu Yu to sit down, and poured a cup of steaming green tea.
"Thank you for your kindness, Master! Master, isn't he in the house?" Liu Yu was anxious and in the mood to enjoy tea. Besides, "Taoist Xuanzhao", a master-level senior, was here, so he couldn't sit down. He asked with his hands raised.
"Bad news came back from Beiluan City. Your master was called to discuss the matter!" Zhou Yutong, the master's wife, frowned and replied, then continued: "Do you have anything to do with your master?"
"Disciples have also heard about this. It is rumored that the disciples sent by the sect into the "Black and White Secret Realm" to collect elixirs have very few survivors. Is it true or not?" When Liu Yu heard that the master was called by the sect for discussion, Liu Yu's heart More and more uneasy.
"The rumors are indeed true. Only three of the two teams of elite disciples sent into the secret realm came out alive." Master Zhou Yutong nodded and said.
"What about junior sister?" Liu Yuxin couldn't help raising her voice and asked immediately.
"Don't worry! Zhi'er is one of the three survivors." Seeing Liu Yu rushing over, Zhou Yutong knew he wanted to ask about this and said with a chuckle.
Zhi'er is a quirky girl who suits her temperament very well. This time she went to the "Black and White Secret Realm". Zhou Yutong tried to persuade her for a long time, but finally she didn't stop. She was also frightened when she heard the bad news coming from Beiluan City. I was shocked, but luckily I later heard that Tang Zhi was among the three survivors, so it was a false alarm.
"Great!" Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
"Now you can feel at ease! Come and sit down. This new tea has just been picked not long ago. Try it quickly." Zhou Yutong, the master's wife, greeted again, and then introduced to Zhou Lutong on the side: "Cousin, this is the new tea that Yuan Zhen harvested a few years ago. Disciple, Xuanyu!"
"Disciple has met the master!" Liu Yu respectfully bowed again.
"Sit down!" Zhou Lutong took a closer look at Liu Yu and said lightly. She had heard about this boy. He was originally a direct disciple of his junior brother Tang Hao. Now he belongs to his senior brother Zhang Yuanzhen's sect and opened up the "Purple" with his three spiritual roots. "Mansion", if Junior Brother Quanxia knows about it, he will be very happy.
She and Tang Hao were under the same sect of "Zhenren Xuanmu" and had always had a good relationship. She knew very well that the disciples Tang Hao accepted were all crooked and bad dates. If this son could successfully build the foundation, he could be regarded as retaining some for Junior Brother Tang. reputation.
"Thank you, Master!" Liu Yu then sat down, took the tea brewed by Master Zhou Yutong, and took a sip. His mouth was full of fragrance, and there was also a pure scent of rain and dew unique to new tea, which was refreshing.
Liu Yu was lucky enough to drink this tea several times. It was called "Junshan Silver Needle" and it was considered to be the best quality among the many types of tea Liu Yu had tasted.
At the same time, in the meeting hall of the back hall of Huangyu Palace, "Taoist Xuannan" Zhang Yuanzhen, "Taoist Mad Lion" Xiao Jinteng, "Taoist Jifeng" Xia Houhai, "Taoist Qiuri" Huang Wei, "Taoist Haoyi" Bai Yucheng, "Taoist Hong Yi" Yan Shuangcheng, all six Huang Shengzong stewards have arrived.
"Everyone must have heard about the news coming back from Beiluan City. Junior Brother Jifeng, you should tell everyone about the specific situation!" After everyone sat down, Yan Shuangcheng, the leader of the Internal Affairs Hall, spoke first.
Yan Shuangcheng is the eldest disciple of Huang Sheng Sect's leader "Sheng Yi Zhenren". All the affairs of Huang Sheng Sect, big and small, are handled by Yan Shuangcheng single-handedly, except for occasional important matters that require the intervention of the leader "Sheng Yi Zhenren". He is regarded as the acting leader of the sect. , the status of the sect is only lower than the five Jindan Zhenren.
"In this "Black and White Secret Mirror", the sect disciples suffered heavy casualties. In addition to the two teams of elite disciples sent, only three survived. There were also many disciples who served in Beiluan City and went into the secret mirror to collect medicine. The same thing happened. The total number of people killed is fifty-four." Xia Houhai said with a gloomy look on his face.
"Although the "Black and White Secret Mirror" has always been a dangerous place, and sect disciples have suffered casualties in the past, there has never been such a situation where almost the entire team was wiped out. When "Junior Brother Wo Feng" returns to the sect, he must ask about this time How did he get the position of leader and deacon?”
"And the medicine-gathering disciples selected by the sect this time are all so unsatisfactory. How can a small yellow-level high-grade secret realm have such heavy casualties?" A tall and thin figure in a Taoist robe, who looks like a middle-aged Taoist. Huang Wei pretended to be angry and said.
"What do you mean?" Xia Houhai's face suddenly changed and he asked angrily.
The leader of the team this time was his second brother Xiahou Chuan, and "Wo Feng" was Xia Houchuan's Taoist name. Moreover, more than half of the two teams of medicinal disciples were descendants of the Xiahou family. The leading disciple Qi Lingyu even came to Xiahou Hai's sect. In the secret realm, the Xiahou family suffered heavy losses.
The old enemy Huang Wei deliberately made things difficult at this time, adding insult to injury. Xia Houhai, who was already heartbroken, became even more angry and looked very ugly.
"Okay! Junior brother Qiu Ri, please say a few words. The accident that occurred in the "Black and White Secret Mirror" has nothing to do with the cultivation of the many selected herb-gathering disciples. It is said that the lizards in the secret realm have strange phenomena, and in some tribes There were two to three "Golden Armored Leaders" at the same time, and their strength increased greatly, catching the herb collecting disciples of each sect unprepared." Yan Shuangcheng interrupted immediately when he saw that Junior Brother Qiuri was still provoking.
"Oh! Really?" When Senior Brother Hong Yi said this, Huang Wei snorted lightly and stopped provoking Xia Houhai.
This time, the Xiahou family competed for the position of steward for this herb collection task, and arranged a large number of disciples from the clan to join the herb collection team. Not only did they lose more than twenty disciples at once, but they also lost a lot of money. Even his direct disciple, Qi Lingyu, who possesses the "Rain and Thunder Dao Body" and has great potential, also got involved.
Seeing Xia Houhai's face look like pig liver, Huang Wei felt extremely happy, Xia Houhai! Xiahou Hai! You're dumbfounded this time!
"The lizard people in the secret realm are indeed having strange phenomena. Not only the disciples of our sect were seriously injured this time, but also the disciples of Lingbing Palace and Wanyao Valley had very few survivors, and they received secret reports. The same was true of Tianluo Tantric Sect and Spirit Beast Sect. "Bai Yucheng replied at this time.
"Why is this so?" Zhang Yuanzhen asked with a frown.
"That's right! These lizard people are naturally stupid. The tribes are constantly fighting each other and killing each other. Even if there are a few more "gold-armored leaders", the disciples sent by each sect are all elite disciples with magic weapons and talismans to protect themselves. Logically speaking, It’s nothing to worry about! How come there are so many casualties?” Xiao Jinteng, the leader of the Law Enforcement Hall, was also puzzled.
"Judging from the news from the surviving disciples of each sect and some escaped cultivators, a wise man should have emerged among the lizard people!" Bai Yucheng continued.
"Junior Brother Haoyi, what is a wise man?" Xiao Jinteng, a tall and burly man with wild red hair, asked roughly.
"My little brother has read many ancient books. According to the book, the lizardmen in "The Secret Mirror of Black and White" are indigenous people. At first, each tribe was led by a clan named Shadow Moon. There was a king of lizardmen named Shadowmoon Stormrage. The power is close to the golden elixir. In ancient times, various sects worked together to send disciples into the secret realm several times with secret treasures to conquer. After several bloody battles, they killed the lizardman king and destroyed the Shadow Moon clan."
"After the fall of the Shadow Moon Clan, all the lizardmen tribes became like a piece of scattered sand, fighting each other endlessly. The "Black and White Secret Mirror" became a place for each sect to pick elixirs. Occasionally, tens of thousands of strong men would rise up, and they would unify the tribes and bring peace to the world. The medicinal disciples of various sects brought a large number of casualties, so they were called "wise men"" Bai Yucheng slowly explained.
"Is this happening? What should I do?" Zhang Yuanzhen couldn't help but be dumbfounded. This "Black and White Secret Mirror" has always been the place for collecting elixirs from various sects. I didn't expect that there would be such secrets in it. After the war, the sect's " The demand for these two elixirs, "Zhuankongcao" and "Seven-star Flower", has increased significantly, and now something like this has happened again.
"Brother Xuan Nan, there is no need to worry too much. It still needs to be confirmed whether a "wise man" will emerge from the lizard tribe. Even if this is the case, according to the method recorded in ancient books, send a large number of elite disciples into the secret realm to kill this "wise man". Lizard All races will be reunited as scattered sand." Bai Yucheng said confidently.
"If this really happens and the secret realm is opened again, the Xiahou family's children are willing to fight for the sect!" Xiahou Hai gritted his teeth and said.
"Okay, this matter still needs to be discussed in detail with Lingbing Palace and Wanyao Valley, and we will discuss it later. Hao Yi! Have all the "Qing Ke Dan" in each Taoist temple taken back to the sect?" Yan Shuangcheng frowned slightly and said Duan Xia Houhai said.
"They have all been withdrawn from the sect, a total of 214 pills in half a year!" Bai Yucheng immediately replied. He is fully responsible for the withdrawal of "Qingke Dan" from various Taoist temples. He will collect it every six months without any delay.
"Junior Brother Xuan Nan, how many of the sect disciples have successfully built foundations in the past six months?" Yan Shuangcheng nodded, turned to Zhang Yuanzhen and asked.
"Senior brother, in the past six months, a total of twenty-nine disciples have entered the "Building Mansion Stone Chamber" to build the foundation, and two of them advanced to open up the Purple Mansion." Zhang Yuanzhen replied with his hands in hand.
"Judging from the secret reports sent back by the secret disciples sent to the Tianluo Tantric Sect and the Spiritual Beast Sect, there is no difference between the two sects. Li Ruizong, a disciple of the sect stationed outside the Ximao Taoist Temple, violated the sect rules and raped several mortals. The woman fled into the Ximao Mountains after the incident, and the law enforcement disciples who had been tracked the day before yesterday killed her on the spot." Seeing Senior Brother Hong Yi looking at him, Xiao Jinteng said.
"The sect currently has 9,632 formal disciples, 9,150 Qi-training disciples, and 477 Foundation-building disciples."
"The basic monthly salary for half a year is 1.8 million low-level spiritual stones, and the total expenditure for sect mission remuneration and job salary is 11.27 million low-level spiritual stones, including meals, weapon refining, painting talismans, raising spiritual beasts, etc. Xiang Meng spent 110 million low-level spiritual stones." Huang Wei took out a thick account book and said in detail.
"The sect currently has a total of 323 mines of various sizes such as refined iron ore, refined copper mine, Lingjin mine, etc., and 24 Lingshi veins (sixteen are currently being mined, and six are idle for maintenance). , the second one is not mined), and the mining revenue of half a year is 65 million pieces of low-grade spiritual stones."
"The shops set up by sects in various places and Huang Shengsheng Manor have a total income of 60 million low-level spiritual stones, and the spiritual fields and medicine gardens of various sects have a total income of 30 million low-level spiritual stones."
"Excluding various expenses, the sect's net income in the past six months is about 30 million low-level spiritual stones." After Huang Wei finished speaking, Xia Houhai also took out a thick account book and said.
"If you continue to explain, starting from today, the rewards for various tasks of the sect, spiritual stones and contribution points will be doubled." After listening to Huang Wei and Xia Houhai, the two stewards of Wanwu Hall, Yan Shuangcheng said.
"Senior brother! If this is the case, the sect's monthly expenditure and income will be close to the same, and there will not be many spiritual stones in the internal treasury." Xia Houhai was startled and reminded him hurriedly.
"This was specially ordered by the sect master. Just inform him." Yan Shuangcheng took a deep breath and said. The master's move had far-reaching intentions and was obviously carefully considered.
In this battle of the sea of clouds, more than 3,000 disciples of the sect were killed or injured, and most of them were disciples in the middle or late stages of Qi training. For this reason, the sect set up dojos in major cities and recruited disciples. The sect added 4,000 Taoist boys. , these Taoist boys have become poor children. They are born in ordinary families and have no family support. It will be very difficult for them to improve their cultivation in the future.
The master doubled the rewards for various tasks of the sect, and those who directly benefited were the qi-training disciples in the sect, especially the poor disciples who were like casual cultivators, because the sect's foundation-building monks and the qi-training disciples of various families occupied He has replaced 90% of the positions in the sect, and although the mission rewards have been doubled, the salaries of each position have not been increased.
The various miscellaneous tasks assigned by the sect are almost all completed by these poor disciples. These miscellaneous tasks are usually time-consuming and laborious, and the rewards are not high. They are always thankless. The poor disciples at the bottom do not want to take the tasks, but they No choice.
The sect leader obviously intends to improve the overall treatment of qi training disciples, so as to quickly restore the number of middle and late qi training disciples that had been sharply reduced during the sect war. At the same time, he also hopes that more qi training disciples can hit the foundation building stage. After all, the three sects They only agreed to a truce with the Tianluo Tantric Sect and the Spiritual Beast Sect. After a thousand years, the war will definitely reignite.
