Chapter 126: A New Task That Gives One the Chills

Su Jin thought about it briefly and immediately spotted the rather cruel part of it: "What if a menial disciple never manages to get in line for a Foundation Establishment Pill, and passes the optimal age for Foundation Establishment?"

"Then they'd even lose the chance to stay in line." Su Wuji continued, "The sect doesn't keep idle people, and it doesn't keep useless ones either. If a menial disciple never manages to get in line for a Foundation Establishment Pill, it means that person has no value to be exploited by the sect.

Then they either have to find channels on their own to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill, or give up the thought of Foundation Establishment themselves and switch to cultivating their own descendants to do it.

Many of the small families attached to sects developed exactly this way."

Su Jin: "……"

Just at that moment, Liu Shi walked in.

The moment she stepped onto the podium, she began to announce: "Students, Xiancheng's Xu Chengzhu has issued a city-wide muster order.

Our Su family has been an affiliated family of the sect ever since its founding.

With the sect, we exist; without the sect, the Su family would not exist.

Therefore, the entire Su family will respond to the muster order.

Even our clan school is no exception.

Now I'll divide you into groups, basically three people per group. Divided according to your results on this last minor exam.

Once the groups are formed, I'll take you to the destination. When we get there, you'll know what task the family is assigning you.

I hope that no matter what task you're assigned, you'll carry it out with the utmost seriousness and care.

Can you do that?"

Hearing Liu Shi say this, everyone immediately realized that this task was probably not a good one.

Otherwise Liu Shi wouldn't have had to remind everyone like that.

Soon everyone had been divided into groups. Then Liu Shi led the eight groups they had formed to the clan school treasury to receive a complete set of early-warning formations.

Su Jin, carrying a bag of formation disks, felt rather helpless. The formation disks given this time were purely for early warning, with not a shred of defensive capability.

Speechless!

But this time she was grouped with Su Wuji and Su Cheng again. The three exchanged glances and gave faint smiles.

Soon they were led into a large courtyard.

Then everyone awkwardly understood what their task was.

It was to look after the children of the clan's cultivator clansmen.

That's right, Liu Shi sent them group by group into room after room. And every room was full of little brats crawling and running all over the floor.

Su Jin's group was assigned to this room, which was even worse.

All of them were a bunch of little ones under three years old.

What a racket that was. And once one started crying, it set off a whole pack of little brats crying together; that howling could lift the roof right off.

And one group was responsible for watching over sixty little rascals.

Sixty of them.

The three of Su Jin's group got chills down their spines, honestly.

Liu Shi laughed till she shook all over.

"Don't worry, you're only responsible for the personal safety of the children and the caretakers.

Each room has four adult caretakers, and they all have plenty of experience looking after children.

Su Jin's group could only stand there dumbfounded as the caretakers swiftly and deftly soothed a whole horde of wailing children.

Once the children finally stopped crying, Su Jin's group secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"You need to stay here for three days. Both day and night. Not only do you need to patrol, you also need to guard the safety of everyone in the room.

After three days, once you've completed the task, you can leave here.

Of course I'll be here too.

Do you remember that big gate when we came in?

I'll be in the gatehouse over there.

If there's anything you can't resolve, you can summon me over to help."

Once she finished speaking, she left, busy going to brief and lead the next group.

The three of Su Jin's group had no choice but to brace themselves and go communicate with the caretaker adults.

In fact, the moment they walked over toward the caretakers, the caretakers laughed.

The eldest, Mama Gu, stepped forward on her own.

"I'm the team leader of the Fifty-First Caretaking Sub-group. My surname is Gu, you may call me Mama. This is Xiao Qing, this is Xiao Yuan, this is Xiao Nan. You may call them Big Sister." Mama Gu introduced her team members to the three of Su Jin's group.

"We're all students from the clan school, responsible for the security work here for three days.

We'll handle the patrolling and provide support.

If you sense any danger anywhere, be sure to summon us as early as possible.

We'll have one person stay on station inside the room, another patrolling outside. The last one on standby." Su Wuji took the initiative to arrange things.

Su Jin and Su Cheng saw that his arrangements were quite proper, and tacitly accepted him as team leader once again.

Su Wuji looked at Su Jin and Su Cheng, gave them a meaningful look, and the two nodded in turn.

Su Wuji immediately introduced them to Mama Gu: "I'm Su Wuji, the group leader. This is Su Jin, and this one here is Su Cheng."

"Hello to you all." Mama Gu immediately said with a smile.

Su Wuji was a social butterfly; he'd only chatted with Mama Gu for a short while before she treated him as one of her own.

Mama Gu even found them a small rest room partitioned off with a screen.

They could use it for sleeping at night, or for cultivation or anything else during the day.

"Did you all bring water bottles? Let's go fill a bottle of water first." Su Wuji asked.

Su Jin immediately took out an empty water bottle that held two jin. She also set three small bowls on the table.

Alright, now the water jug and water bowl are both ready.

"Then Su Cheng, go fetch the water."

"Warm boiled water is best, or hot water," Su Jin reminded.

"Don't worry, I got it," Su Cheng said.

"Then Su Jin, you go cultivate. During the day I'll be in charge of patrolling, Su Cheng will hold the house.

At night the three of us will reassign the guarding and patrolling plan. Just make sure each person can get a little sleep," Su Wuji said.

"Fine, then I'll cultivate first. Anyway, I cultivate fast, I'll switch with you two later," Su Jin agreed.

Su Cheng and Su Wuji also nodded in agreement, then the two of them went out.

Su Jin set up the formation plate, then released the Blood Chilli that had been put into the basket.

"Be careful, the underground formations here are very tight," Su Jin couldn't help but remind it, watching the Blood Chilli try to burrow underground.

The Blood Chilli shook its head. "Don't worry, Ancestress, I'm very familiar with this kind of underground formation."

When Su Jin was at school, it had been too idle, so it burrowed around underground in Xiancheng, and was very familiar with the layout of the underground formations and spirit veins.

It had also started an unfinished grand project beneath Su Jin's house.

Namely, luring and clearing a thick branch of an underground spirit vein to run beneath Su Jin's two residences.

To further upgrade the spirit field in the back courtyard.

Only, this job it was doing rather slowly. It still needed some days to finish.

Su Jin suddenly said again: "Blood Chilli, if you run into any strange bugs underground, don't attack them directly, be careful. If a bug is especially big and looks especially fierce, hurry back and tell me, got it?

We can't take it on alone, but we can call people to take it down together."