Chapter 19: The Registered Disciple
Chapter 19: Registered Disciple
“I heard from Sister Xu that you started learning the way of talismans two years ago?”
The white-shirted girl snapped.
Li An nodded, “Right.”
The white-shirted girl pondered for a moment and nodded, “Not bad.”
She smiled, “I’ll accept your apology, we’ll write off the matter of you hijacking the trading market!”
“Good!”
Li An also smiled.
In fact, Li An did dominate the market of Spirit Gathering Talisman and Qi Replenishing Talisman, but, the main reason for being able to dominate was …… that these two types of talismans were not very profitable, and the market was not big in the first place, so the people in the Talisman Hall could not see it.
“Li An, she is the disciple of Elder Guo Xiao of the Fu Hall, Tan Qingxue.”
Xu Qiuhui introduced.
She was quite satisfied that Li An had been able to grow up and had lived up to her intentions.
“Long time, long time, long time!”
Li An was polite.
“Alright, you still have to go to the examination, right? Go now, we won’t delay you.”
Tan Qingxue smiled and spoke, and Li An immediately excused himself.
“Sister Xu, it’s true that he has some talent, but it’s not so much that you would attach so much importance to him, right? To actually personally bring me over to see him?”
After Li An left, Tan Qingxue looked at his back and asked suspiciously.
It was indeed rare for Li An to grow from being a handyman to a talisman master.
But the talent could only be described as mediocre.
Refining a flame talisman in two years’ time was not uncommon in the Talisman Hall where there were many such disciples, moreover, the quality of Li An’s flame talisman wasn’t too high, and it looked like it was barely refined.
“What’s valuable about him isn’t his talismanic talent.”
Xu Qiuhui spoke indifferently, “Qingxue, although your talent is strong, you are a bit too simple and childish when it comes to dealing with people in the world, if you want to earn Elder Guo Xiao’s second-order inheritance with Sun Lin, you will definitely not be able to do it without one or two usable people around you.”
“Although this person’s Talisman Dao talent is average, his heart is rare, and …… extraordinarily resourceful!”
She recalled the incident a year ago when the Hundred Beasts Sect invaded the Xuan Yang Sect ……
She had only casually reminded her, but she was convinced that Li An must have listened at that time.
–Later in that side of the mountain forest where Li An was hiding, she had looked at the surroundings carefully, and that hole in the ground, was obviously carefully chosen, not quite like an unintentional fall.
That was the reason why she valued Li An!
“Moreover, this person is from a humble background, as long as you treat him better, he will remember it, and it’s not difficult to take control.”
Since Li An became the person in charge of Spirit Plant Mountain, she intentionally didn’t let Li An see one side for a year, but Li An would entrust someone to leave her some spiritual rice, talismans and the like every month, which wasn’t precious, but it was a good indication of his heart and mind.
She had already carried out the screening once, that’s why she dared to leave this person to Tan Qingxue, increasing Tan Qingxue’s power in the talisman hall.
“Alright, alright.”
Tan Qingxue said, “I don’t think the person you recognize, Sister Xu, will be too bad, I won’t treat him badly in the future.”
Xu Qiuhui couldn’t help but say, “Damn girl, don’t be unattractive, Sun Lin is not an idle commodity!”
“I’m going to take the inner sect examination first.”
……
“Next, Li An.”
Li An paid the examination fee of two spirit stones, and after waiting for a long time, it was finally his turn.
“Ten pieces of talisman paper, randomly create any kind of first grade low grade spirit talisman, fail and you are eliminated.”
The person in charge of the assessment was a middle-aged disciple with a black mole at the corner of his mouth, seeing Li An dressed in handyman clothes, there were three points of displeasure in his eyes, but he didn’t say anything and handed Li An the talisman paper.
Li An took out the talisman pen and carefully traced it.
The first eight pieces of talisman paper, all of them were a little worse, until the ninth, only barely succeeded in creating a Spirit Gathering Talisman.
Li An’s face was very elated and said, “Did I pass?”
“Passed? It’s not that easy!”
“Twenty more and produce three or more first grade low grade spirit talismans.”
Ten sheets, possibly luck!
Producing four within thirty sheets of talisman paper would be considered a pass.
Li An gritted his teeth and continued to produce, after twenty sheets of talisman paper were drawn, he was already sweating profusely, but he still produced three more Spirit Gathering Talismans.
“Qualified.”
This disciple waved a big brush on the roster, “Pass!”
A flash of delight appeared in Li An’s eyes!
In the afternoon, the examination finally ended.
Besides Li An, there were seven other registered disciples who also passed the examination and became the new registered disciples of the Fu Hall.
The disciple in charge of the examination brought them and entered the Talisman Hall. By now, Li An already knew that this disciple was named Feng Lin, a first-order mid-grade talisman master with a cultivation level of the fourth level of Qi cultivation.
“The central Xuanfu Hall, is where Elder Guo lectures on scriptures, and he will lecture three times a week.”
“In addition, there are also two trading places within the hall, where you can pay contribution points to obtain talisman paper, talisman pens, and some special talisman making materials, and even tips on talisman making, etc.”
“It’s cheaper than the sect exchange offices.”
Feng Lin introduced as he walked, “Named disciples of the talisman hall are given seven spirit stones and ten bags of spirit rice per month, in addition to twenty sheets of talisman paper per month and one talisman pen per year.”
“You have just entered the talisman hall, for the first three months, you only need to submit five first rank low grade talismans every month, this part of the talisman is the basic task, if you pay more, the contribution points will be calculated based on the spirit talisman grade and quality.”
After becoming a registered disciple, contribution points became very important.
This was because, important merit law inheritances and the like, needed to be exchanged with contribution points, and spirit stones couldn’t even be purchased directly.
Moreover, whether or not the contribution points reached the standard was the key to assessing whether or not a registered disciple could be promoted to a full disciple.
One of the reasons why the Dan Hall, Weapon Hall, and Rune Hall were popular, aside from the high monthly fees, was that after joining these three halls, one only needed to diligently refine spirit talismans, spirit weapons, and the like, to obtain contribution points.
After all, elixirs, spirit weapons and talismans were strategic resources.
While disciples of many other halls would have to take on tasks issued by the sect, such as removing spirit beasts, etc., which could put their lives at risk if they weren’t careful.
Li An was satisfied with this.
This kind of place was the most suitable for Gou.
Even if a clan war did occur, it would still be the last ones to die.
“Well, this residential area, is where you guys live, see? There are talismans affixed to some of the door lintels, those can be first-order mid-grade spirit gathering talismans hand-painted by Senior Brother Sun Lin, which can strengthen your cultivation, and also enhance the success rate of your talisman refining.”
Feng Lin suddenly stopped, pointing at a row of houses on the right side within the residential area, and spoke in an enticing manner.
Buildings of varying heights were lined up, the row of houses on the right side was obviously newer and more luxurious, built with spirit wood, newer, and with spirit talismans affixed to the lintel.
While there were others that looked old and ordinary.
“Senior Brother Feng, can we live in these dwellings?” Someone asked.
“Of course,” Feng Lin smiled, “Three spirit stones per month, and you can obtain the right to live there.”
Three spirit stones!
The crowd was stunned.
This number …… is quite a lot, close to half of the monthly example.
“Senior brother Sun Lin is a first rank upper grade talisman master, he is even Elder Guo’s disciple, even your classes on weekdays are taught with his help.”
Feng Lin sneered.
The crowd all came to a realization and immediately all paid their money.
“What about you?” Feng Lin looked at Li An.
Li An immediately showed a look of embarrassment, “Senior Brother Feng, can we get credit first?”
“On credit?” Feng Lin’s eyes narrowed.
“Yes, I guess I have to take credit for half a year first, because I owe my friend a large amount of spirit stones that I haven’t paid back yet, the early stage of a talisman master is too much of a money burner ……”
“Scram!”
Feng Lin was instantly too lazy to listen, half a year on credit, ghosts shook their heads when they heard it.
He immediately led the remaining seven disciples and chose those luxurious residences.
Li An, on the other hand, sighed deeply and had to be alone, casually finding a quieter and more remote ordinary house to live in.
Although said ordinary house, but compared to the Spirit Plant Mountain’s too much better, Spirit Plant Mountain’s residence, the windows are made of paper, and very narrow, eating, sleeping and bathing are in a room, but here is “four rooms and one hall”, kitchen, study, bedroom, bathing room, are all independent.
In comparison, it is many times more comfortable!
The only difference is that there is no so-called first-order medium-grade spirit gathering talisman.
But Li An precisely do not care, a first-order medium-grade spirit gathering talisman, in fact, outside the most is only sold for a piece of spirit stone a, listed on the name of Sun Lin, to charge three …… too black.
Moreover, when he first came to the Fu Hall, he was not clear about the internal situation of the Fu Hall, and he did not want to take the risk of getting involved with anyone.
Therefore, first use the excuse of not having money to hide for a while, so that it will not offend Feng Lin and Sun Lin to death.
It would not be too late to take action later when the situation became clearer.
He took a hot bath and changed out of the gray old clothes of the handyman and changed into the dharma robes in the room that belonged exclusively to the registered disciples.
The satin-like silky soft touch, heavy texture, warm in winter and cool in summer, too much more comfortable than the handyman’s clothes!
Only then did Li An go out, to find Wang Dazhu and Zhao Xianchuan.
The three agreed to have a small gathering by the moon lake.
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(End of chapter)