Chapter 700 - 647: Asking for Money
Jiang Yuebai and Li Jiuchuan talked all night. Facing her master, Jiang Yuebai felt like she was a forgetful old lady, endlessly chattering, always wanting to repeatedly share her experiences and joys with her master.
Li Jiuchuan also rarely put aside the sect affairs, quietly brewing and drinking tea, listening to Jiang Yuebai reporting only good news without the bad.
Besides chatting, the two also carefully discussed the upcoming grand competition, which Li Jiuchuan named the ’Fuyao Immortal Conference’.
Jiang Yuebai only thought about the present, while Li Jiuchuan, having been the Sect Master for many years, had already started planning for the future.
Once the Heavenly Interence Sect is established in the Upper Realm, if in the future they can open the passage from the Earth Spiritual Realm to the Upper Realm, then the Fuyao Immortal Conference will not be a one-time event.
The Fuyao Immortal Conference will become the pathway for the Heavenly Interence Sect in the Earth Spiritual Realm to send elites to the sect in the Upper Realm. Even if it’s just an empty promise now, it will still attract the cultivators in the Earth Spiritual Realm.
After all, in the Earth Spiritual Realm, not everyone has the ability to reach the Divinity Transformation stage. If one can reach the Upper Realm earlier where spiritual energy is richer and resources are more abundant, the opportunity to achieve the Immortal Dao is naturally greater.
Consequently, more elites from the Earth Spiritual Realm will gradually flow into the Heavenly Interence Sect, elevating the status of the Heavenly Interence Sect in the Earth Spiritual Realm.
After discussing the important matters, Li Jiuchuan began to worry again about writing to the Guiyuan Sword Sect and the Vajra Platform and sending letters to various cultivation families. These written matters were easy to handle, but the hardest part was the funding for the grand event; the Heavenly Interence Sect might not be able to come up with enough spirit stones.
But the first Fuyao Immortal Conference couldn’t be held shabbily either.
"Why should the Heavenly Interence Sect pay for it?"
After listening to Li Jiuchuan’s concerns, Jiang Yuebai was full of confusion.
"Master, you must understand that we are now giving them the opportunity to go to the Upper Realm. Such a rare opportunity, with limited spots, and they don’t even want to pay some price to get on my boat? Unbelievable! You should simply include the funding requirement in the letters to Vajra Platform and Guiyuan Sword Sect."
"Just say that, in the spirit of mutual support among the three sects, the Heavenly Interence Sect is willing to give them a batch of spots. It’s the same for other cultivation families, only thirty spots available: the highest bidder wins! First come, first serve! No waiting!"
Li Jiuchuan tapped Jiang Yuebai on the head with his hand, chuckled, and shook his head.
"You little rascal, you’re a cunning merchant!"
Jiang Yuebai beamed with a smile, "Master, I’ll take that as a compliment. If this is handled well, not only will the Fuyao Immortal Conference be a grand success, but the Heavenly Interence Sect can also make a huge profit. You go ahead and write the letters, I’ll head back to Heavenly Cry Peak to take a look and then go find Yun Shang."
Jiang Yuebai stood up, put the chair back in place, bowed, and ran off, afraid her master would rope her into labor, especially writing letters. Even though she was now well-read, she still didn’t like writing those flowery articles.
Just stepping out of the Heavenly Chief Peak’s main hall, a majestic blaze of fire rushed towards her and landed, transforming into a plump man with fiery red hair in dark red attire, full of vigor.
"Yuebai lass, you finally came out!"
The person was none other than True Monarch Cang Huo, who after many years still appeared the same, not only unchanged in appearance but his cultivation...
"Brother Cang Huo, why are you still at the late stage of Nascent Soul?"
Upon hearing this, True Monarch Cang Huo’s eye and heart twitched. When he first heard the report from those below, he couldn’t believe it: the disciple he missed because of a fight with Ling Guanghan had become his junior sister in just a few years.
Utterly preposterous!
Fortunately, True Monarch Cang Huo had a thick skin, at this moment both angry and amused, "You heartless little girl, daring to tease me, you think everyone is a prodigy like you? This is what’s normal!"
As the primary intelligence holder of the Heavenly Interence Sect, True Monarch Cang Huo knew all the secrets of everyone in the sect.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuebai respectfully made a gesture of courtesy, "I wonder if True Monarch Cang Huo is available to accompany me back to Heavenly Cry Peak?"
"Let’s go, let’s go, I came precisely for you, quickly tell me, is the Upper Realm fun?"
The two walked together toward Heavenly Cry Peak, and along the way, many disciples, upon hearing of Jiang Yuebai’s return, came from afar pretending to coincidentally encounter her, secretly peeking at Jiang Yuebai from a distance.
"Look quickly, that’s the legendary senior sister of Heavenly Cry Peak!"
"True Monarch Wangshu is so beautiful, where did she dye her hair, I want it too."
"I heard True Monarch Wangshu is only slightly over eighty this year and she’s already at the Mid-stage Nascent Soul. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I could hardly believe it."
"Exactly, compared to True Monarch Wangshu, the geniuses at Guiyuan Sword Sect and Vajra Platform are nothing."
"Ahhh, I see True Monarch Wangshu, it’s really her!"
Screams of excitement occasionally rang from the surroundings while True Monarch Cang Huo angrily shooed people away.
"Shoo, shoo, all of you, get away from me. If you keep crowding around, I’ll roast you bald and send you to Vajra Platform!"
The crowd laughed and scattered as True Monarch Cang Huo chased them away, Jiang Yuebai smiled and asked, "True Monarch, why didn’t you directly come in to see me earlier? Waiting outside doesn’t seem like your style."
When this was mentioned, True Monarch Cang Huo looked slightly embarrassed, "You don’t know, your master is so petty, he has a whole set of ways to deal with people. He said if I barged in again without regulation, he’d make me serve as a duty elder at the Dharma Hall for three years."
"What position is the duty elder at the Dharma Hall?" Jiang Yuebai inquired curiously.
True Monarch Cang Huo waved his hand dismissively, "Indescribable, it was all stirred by the crooked trends you started back then. Now the Heavenly Interence Sect disciples have many issues in their cultivation. We used to solve our own problems, but nowadays these little brats only know how to ask, ask, ask, this and that, carrying their small booklets, they never stop asking!"
"So your master assigned the position of duty elder to the Dharma Hall, where each Nascent Soul True Monarch in the sect takes turns on duty, one year term, answering the disciples’ questions, regardless of whether they’re from the outer sect, inner sect, or servants. If Foundation Establishment disciples and Golden Core disciples can’t solve the issue, they can seek the duty elder."
Jiang Yuebai nodded. No wonder she noticed earlier that the atmosphere in the sect was harmonious, reminiscent of her time with the Zhuge family. The disciples below were no longer solely fearful of the Nascent Soul True Monarchs but rather, they interacted as one.
It seems her master really accomplished a lot in the Heavenly Interence Sect over the years. He’s an excellent Sect Master, but truly, he shouldn’t continue as Sect Master in the Upper Realm too; someone else must relieve him so he can continue with his cultivation.
"By the way, how about Sword Lord Guanghan? He should be about to reach Divinity Transformation, right?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
True Monarch Cang Huo shook his head and sighed, "Don’t even mention that hopeless guy, Miaoyin is cultivating Dharma Body in the mortal world collecting Incense Fire Power, and he’s just suppressing his cultivation, saying he can only be at peace to transform to the Divinity stage after Miaoyin completes her Dharma Body, so he’s still at Peak Nascent Soul, not intending to advance to Divinity Transformation."
"How does Miaoyin’s Dharma Body cultivation go?" Jiang Yuebai asked eagerly, recalling when she and Xie Jingshan went to rescue Xie Jingshan in the Asura Domain, Miaoyin, though possessed by Blood Orchid, still lent her and Lu Nanzhi much help.
True Monarch Cang Huo scratched his messy red hair, "Incense Fire Power isn’t easy to collect, still too soon, not well-known. Too few mortals are willing to worship Miaoyin. Just enduring it slowly."
Jiang Yuebai instinctively pressed on her dantian; the Imperial Decree Golden Book was still within the Lotus Platform Small World. Since Yann Hongyu formed a Dharma Body and advanced to Mid-stage Foundation Establishment, she had retracted the Imperial Decree Golden Book.
Though the Iron Palm Realm had been destroyed, the book hadn’t acquired new Incense Fire Power, yet it still retained quite a bit. Maybe it could lend Miaoyin a hand.
Plus, the Blood Jade Meat Mushroom could raise the cultivation of Ghost Cultivators. Bai Jiuyou had replanted it within the Lotus Platform Small World. Cutting off a portion to accompany the gift to Miaoyin might be feasible.
"True Monarch Cang Huo, could you tell me about the others, how have they been these years?"
Upon this mention, True Monarch Cang Huo became enthused, mysteriously withdrawing a copy of the "Heavenly Inference Sect’s Secret Record" from his sleeve...