Chapter 66

Jiang Yan paused and continued:

"Spirit stone resources are of great significance to your subsequent cultivation, but except for elders and the Peak Masters of each peak, all other disciples must obtain cultivation resources through their own efforts."

"This measure is also to encourage disciples to cultivate. Generally speaking, disciples need to complete sect trial tasks or make contributions to the sect to obtain contribution points to exchange for spirit stones."

"Spirit stones are divided into four grades: top-grade, high-grade, mid-grade, and low-grade."

"Among them, one top-grade spirit stone is equal to one hundred high-grade spirit stones, and one high-grade spirit stone is equal to one hundred mid-grade spirit stones, and so on."

"Higher-quality spirit stones have more spiritual power, but if one does not know how to use them, it is very easy to cause a riot of spiritual energy, damaging the meridians."

"Therefore, cultivators at the Refining Essence and Transforming Qi stage generally use low-grade spirit stones, and cultivators at the Refining Qi and Transforming Spirit stage use mid-grade spirit stones."

Jiang Yan glanced at the thoughtful crowd and said softly:

"Although Peak Master Morax is currently an acting Peak Master, he is, after all, in charge of the Law Enforcement Hall. Besides cultivation, he also needs to patrol Shushan and supervise the behavior of Shushan disciples."

"He also has the responsibility of expanding the Law Enforcement Hall."

"His monthly stipend is set at one hundred mid-grade spirit stones."

"After breaking through to the Refining Spirit and Returning to Void stage and being promoted to an official Peak Master, the monthly stipend will be raised to one thousand mid-grade spirit stones."

"As for the other disciples..."

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Yan looked at Ningguang and the others and said:

"Since you have entered Shushan, you should naturally act according to Shushan's rules."

"If you want to obtain more cultivation resources, you need to complete trial tasks or make contributions."

"The only requirement Shushan has for disciples is to ensure that their strength constantly improves."

"The stronger the disciples, the more prosperous Shushan will be; thus, this incentive mechanism was created, which can also be considered healthy competition."

"However, the Merit Hall has not yet been rebuilt, so many tasks cannot be issued for the time being..."

As he spoke, Jiang Yan fell into deep thought.

If disciples never do tasks, they cannot obtain cultivation resources to accelerate their cultivation.

Because the disciples' progress is slow, Shushan's development is also slow.

This is a vicious cycle.

But Shushan's rules cannot be broken.

Jiang Yan couldn't help but think about what tasks Shushan currently has that he can give them.

The spirit fields have already appeared, but now there are no medicinal herbs from the cultivation world, so alchemy cannot be promoted.

However, the spirit fields have the ability to evolve ordinary herbs into medicinal herbs.

Collecting medicinal herbs can be a task.

Besides that, exploring the Nine Nether Secret Realm and obtaining resources from it to hand over to the sect can also earn contribution points.

Furthermore...

Jiang Yan suddenly remembered the Primogems that Ganyu had shown him before.

That thing is claimed to be a primordial crystal beyond the world, containing ownerless dreams and hopes.

This statement is too mysterious, but now that Jiang Yan thinks back, his intuition tells him that the thing might be very useful.

Simply put, Jiang Yan said softly:

"Although the contribution point system has not been rebuilt, I am issuing three long-term tasks in the name of the Sect Master."

"First, collect various medicinal herbs for the Shushan spirit fields; for every one hundred herbs, the reward is one hundred low-grade spirit stones."

"Second, explore the Nine Nether Secret Realm, bring out resources from the secret realm and hand them over to the sect; according to the quality and quantity of the resources, spirit stones will be issued."

"Third, collect Primogems to exchange for spirit stones; the specific exchange ratio will be determined after I examine the Primogems."

Upon hearing this, everyone was stunned for a moment.

The first two tasks were easy to talk about.

Collecting medicinal herbs is just a novice task.

But the medicinal herbs in Teyvat are not unlimited; with the ability of Liyue Harbor, they could collect quite a few within three days.

The Nine Nether Secret Realm naturally needs to be explored, but not now.

As for the third task...

Primogems?

This thing, although not exactly rotting on the streets, is not scarce in Teyvat.

In fact, Ningguang herself carries quite a few Primogems.

Thinking of this, Ningguang took out a few Primogems and said:

"Is the Sect Master saying he wants to collect these? These Primogems possess strange power, but so far, it seems no one has truly developed a use for Primogems."

"They are just collected as exquisite gemstones or used as a substitute for Mora in transactions."

Jiang Yan's eyes lit up, and he gently opened his hand; the Primogems flew silently into his palm.

With a probe of his True Essence, Jiang Yan understood.

This thing is indeed a crystallization of will; it is not unreasonable to call it a condensation of dreams and hopes.

However, the power existing in each Primogem is too weak; if the quantity is large, it would be somewhat beneficial to his divine sense cultivation.

After calculating in his heart, Jiang Yan said softly:

"This thing does have some merit; let's tentatively set it at one hundred Primogems for one low-grade spirit stone."

According to Jiang Yan's estimation, the use of one hundred Primogems for divine sense cultivation is probably equivalent to the effect of one low-grade spirit stone on True Essence cultivation.

Ningguang and the others looked at each other and decisively took out Primogems one after another from their Visions.

Ningguang and Keqing both have huge forces behind them, making it more convenient to collect them.

Although Zhongli and the others don't collect these like Ningguang and the others, after so many years, they naturally have quite a lot of stock.

Like Ningguang and the others, they also took out their own Primogems.

Not long after, quite a few small hills were piled up in the sect's main hall.

Jiang Yan laughed dumbly; the Primogems piled up here now are probably around four or five hundred thousand.

Among them, Ningguang accounted for the largest share; just by herself, she had over one hundred thousand.

And this was probably not all of her stock.

With so many Primogems gathered together, a rich power of thought was immediately produced.

Jiang Yan estimated that if he refined all the willpower from these Primogems, his divine sense power would probably increase by one-tenth.

Every cultivator attaches great importance to the wonderful uses of divine sense power.

He didn't expect that Teyvat really had such a treasure.

"Four hundred seventy-eight thousand four hundred thirty-two Primogems; do you want to exchange them all for low-grade spirit stones?"

Jiang Yan took a light sweep and knew the quantity of this pile of spirit stones.

Everyone looked at each other, and Ningguang shook her head first, saying:

"Since ancient times in Liyue, there has been a saying of apprenticeship gifts when becoming an apprentice. Today, we have entered Shushan to seek immortal arts, but we have no apprenticeship gifts to offer."

"Now, since the Sect Master has a need for Primogems, it has relieved us; these Primogems shall be offered to Shushan as our apprenticeship gifts."

"Please, Sect Master, do not refuse, otherwise we disciples will feel uneasy."

"As for our need for spirit stones, later, when everything is stable, there will naturally be other Primogems that can be exchanged."

Seeing everyone's sincere expressions, Jiang Yan smiled, feeling somewhat moved in his heart.

"I understand your intentions, but Shushan's sect rules must also be followed."

"Why not... exchange a portion of these Primogems for spirit stones."

Seeing Jiang Yan's serious tone, Ningguang and the others huddled together to discuss for a moment before continuing:

"Sect Master, since that is the case, we will each exchange for one hundred low-grade spirit stones, and the rest will be offered to Shushan as apprenticeship gifts."

"Please, Sect Master, you must accept them."

Ningguang and the others were firm in their attitude, seemingly having made up their minds.

Jiang Yan no longer refused, waving his hand to distribute the spirit stones to everyone one by one.

He then put all these Primogems into his sleeves.

These nearly five hundred thousand Primogems are a huge power of will; once fully refined, Jiang Yan's divine sense power will inevitably increase by one-tenth.

And the improvement of divine sense will naturally lead to Jiang Yan's understanding of the Huang Ting Jing; according to his cultivation state of mind and spirit as one.

The time to break through to the peak of the Refining Spirit and Returning to Void stage has also been pushed forward quite a bit.

Overall, today's Primogems were indeed an unexpected joy for him.

And the many disciples, looking at the spirit stones in their hands, were naturally overjoyed. ===== CHAPTER 67 =====