Ch. 39 - The Swirling Clouds and Mist

After Lu Han left, Ji Yuenian put away the token and walked towards the Spiritual Materials' Hall on the east side.

"Cousin," Zhao Xiaoyun quickly followed, "Which mountain are you on?"

"Eclipsed Moon Peak."

Zhao Xiaoyun's eyes were a little dazed, and he said, "But there are hundreds of towering Dao fields in the Luoxia Mountains. How do we distinguish them?"

Ji Yuenian glanced at him sideways, and said, “Channel your Profound energy into the token and focus on the inscription within it. In your case, it is “Cicada Mountain”, and a detailed map of Luoxia Mountain will appear in your consciousness.”

Zhao Xiaoyun took out his token, and channeled his consciousness into it. He slowly opened his eyes after a few breaths, and said in surprise, “It’s true! So many mountain peaks are scattered like motes of light. I can see through a bird’s eye view. Cicada Peak is on the eastern side of the map!”

After a while, he seemed to have regained his senses and asked in doubt, "Cousin, how did you know that you can view the map of the Luoxia Mountains through the token?"

While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived at the door of the main hall of the Spiritual Material Hall. The crowd here became more and more dense, and almost every moment there were Outer Sect disciples walking by themselves.

Ji Yuenian said in a low voice, "After you got the token, did you not read the words 'Luoxia Mountain Cicada Peak Zhao Xiaoyun'? Shouldn't you want to study it in detail? These are the matters concerning life. You are so negligent."

Zhao Xiaoyun froze in his heart, and his face became a lot more serious.

Ji Yuenian noticed the subtle changes on his expression, nodded, and said, "This is not the ancient city of Taichu. Zhao Sixing's tragedy should still be fresh, so you have to be careful."

After the words were finished, he walked directly into the main hall of the Spiritual Material Hall.

Zhao Xiaoyun stood there for a while, readjusted his mood, and stepped into the hall bustling with people.

On the stone platform in front of the Hall of Records.

Chu Lingyue hesitated for a moment, then said, "We should go to the Spiritual Material Hall to get what we need."

The rest of the people responded while Zhao Yanran was in a trance, and whispered, "Why didn't Senior Brother Lu save Zhao Sixing? He was clearly in the initial stage of True Dao Realm, but he just watched Zhao Sixing getting killed by the black-robed disciple!"

Chu Lingyue looked at Zhao Yanran with the same eyes as if looking at a fool, and said, "Don't you understand yet? We are just like an ant here, if it weren't for the special token of the Outer Sect given by Hexuan Shangzhen, we could only start from the bottom as servant disciples. We might not even stand where we are right now."

(TN:- Changing Handyman disciple to Servant disciples.)

After saying that, he went directly to the Hall of Spiritual Materials with the rest of the group, leaving only Zhao Yanran standing in the same place. …

"Give me your token."

Ji Yuenian took out the token and gave it to the gray-robed disciple in the upper realm of the Nascent Profound Realm.

The gray-robed disciple instilled the Profound energy into the token, pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "A new disciple who has entered the sect has the cultivation base of Profound Sea Realm?"

Ji Yuenian nodded and said, "I have cultivated since childhood."

"That's right, someone with a cultivation foundation like you is much stronger than those mortals who haven't ignited their Heart Fire’s yet, and can save some spirit stones in some aspects." The gray-robed disciple seemed to be very talkative, he slowly handed the token back, and turned around to find something in a huge storage bag.

Ji Yuenian was silent, thinking about the meaning of "some aspects".

After a few moments, the gray-robed disciple turned around and said, "For new disciples, the Service Peak Spirit Material Hall will give you a bottle of five 'Qi Gathering Pills', five spiritual stones, and an ordinary magic weapon, and an ordinary storage bag. You can come here to receive two 'Qi Gathering Pills' and two spiritual stones every month from now on."

Seemingly seeing the white jade ring on Ji Yuenian's wrist, the gray-robed disciple put the storage bag back, took out an extra piece of spiritual stone, and said, "Since you already have a storage magic weapon, you will not use this storage bag. How about I replace it with a spiritual stone for you?"

Ji Yuenian put all these things into his White Jade Ring, and thanked him, "Thank you, senior brother."

The gray-robed disciple shook his head, took out five spiritual stones and a bottle of five "Qi Gathering Pills" again, and said, "This is an additional reward from the Spiritual Material Hall to you since you've cultivated to the Profound Sea Realm.”

Ji Yuenian thanked him, put away the Spirit Stone and Qi Gathering Pill, and was about to leave, but was stopped by the gray-robed disciple from behind.

"Junior brother, why are you so impatient?"

The gray-robed disciple unhurriedly took out three more Spirit Stones and a magic robe, and held it firmly in his hands.

Ji Yuenian looked a little confused and said, "Senior brother, what kind of reward is this? Why don't you hand it all out at once?"

"I see that your token is an advance recommendation from the ancient city of Taichu. Unlike ordinary disciples who have passed the examination and entered the sect, the Spiritual Material Hall also rewards the disciples recommended by the nineteen ancient cities. Apart from these, in the future, you can receive two more Spirit Stones every month," the gray-robed added, "It's easy to get it confused if I hand it all out at once. In this way, it stays organized and easy to record."

Ji Yuenian took the three Spirit Stones and the magic robe, looked around, and his expression became even stranger.

Only at this moment did he realize that the other gray-robed disciples in the Spiritual Material Hall were surrounded by more than ten disciples of the Outer Sect waiting in front of them, and only the gray-robed disciple in front of him was alone and no one cared about him.

"Senior brother, is there anything else?"

This time, Ji Yuenian didn't turn around rashly, but asked one more question.

The gray-robed disciple waved his hand and said slowly, "No more, you can go."

Ji Yuenian breathed a sigh of relief, and walked quickly towards the door of the Spiritual Material Hall.

Earlier, he took most of the spirit stones accumulated in the Ji family's treasury, and there were as many as one hundred and fifty pieces in his possession. Now, including these spirit stones that he just received, there were actually a total of one hundred and sixty-four spirit stones in his White Jade Ring.

This was a huge amount that ordinary disciples couldn't even imagine!

The resources granted to the Outer Sect disciples in the Luoxia Mountains were only a mere two spirit stones per month. Even the disciples recommended by the major ancient cities could only receive four spirit stones per month.

If one wanted more spirit stones, he could only earn additional training resources by going to the Sect Affairs Hall to receive various sect quests.

In the White Jade Ring, there was a bottle of ten "Qi Gathering Pills" from Ji's family, plus five "Qi Gathering Pills" he just received. At this time, he already had twenty pills in his possession.

Although the magic weapon and magic robe were only worth one or two spirit stones, they were better than nothing.

Leaving the Spiritual Material Hall, Ji Yuenian looked at the cloudy and misty mountains, slightly startled.

The issue of how to get down the mountain had quickly become an urgent one.

It seemed that he was aware of Ji Yuenian's predicament, after a while, a disciple of the Outer Sect who was poking his head leaned over with a smile on his face, and said, "This senior brother, do you need a chauffeur?"

Ji Yuenian thought for a moment and said, "What do you mean by that?"

The disciple smiled and said, "I looked senior brother’s expression, you must be a disciple of the Outer Sect who have recently joined. If you have not cultivated to the True Dao Realm, you cannot command the flying magic weapon. If senior brother does not hire a chauffeur, how will you leave the mountain?"

"You are only in the Initial stage of the Profound Realm, how did you become this chauffeur?"

The disciple pointed to a huge lotus leaf with a radius of more than ten feet on the stone platform, and said, "This is a specially made flying magic weapon. Ten disciples in the initial stage of the Profound realm can jointly push it to lift it into the sky. With two spirit stones, I can send you directly to any peak within the Luoxia Mountains."

Ordinary new disciples only received five spiritual stones. They were just rushing on their way, but they had to spend a full two spiritual stones!

"So expensive?" Ji Yuenian frowned slightly, but did not refuse.

Obviously, other than this method, no new disciple could go down the mountain at all.

"Senior brother has cultivated to the Profound Sea Realm, and he can move the lotus leaf together with me, thereby speeding up the process." The disciple led Ji Yuenian to the lotus leaf, and said, "So I will only charge senior brother with a single spirit stone, and we will set off when the lotus leaf is full."

Ji Yuenian realized the meaning behind "some aspects" the disciple in gray robes mentioned before.

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