Chapter 165: Biding Time

【Accumulated 500 disciples recruited; Reward: 5,000 Merit points (already issued)】

【Appointed one Deputy Sect Leader; Reward: 100 Merit points (already issued)】

【Appointed two Main Hall Deacons; Reward: 100 Merit points】

【Appointed...】

Under the players' planning.

The Justice Sect grandly held its first disciple-recruitment ceremony, title-sponsored by Shunrou Shampoo.

Amidst the wide-eyed, stunned gazes of the many Daoists of Huilong Temple, the advertisements meticulously choreographed by the players played in rotation, featuring pantomime and brainwashing ad slogans.

One moment it was cars, the next it was shampoo, then mineral water, and there were even advertisements for personal care products that made Jiang Yuru blush, showing what one could do after putting them on...

It was a dazzling, kaleidoscopic variety.

There was no deep-seated hatred among the players; they wouldn't care about the thoughts of the natives.

On the airship, the Beggar Sect had long reached an agreement with the players of various sects, forming an advertising alliance to get rich together.

After all, Shopkeeper Lin had been doing things that alienated everyone along the way, provoking more and more enemies.

The players of the Beggar Sect were also afraid that Lin Bai might lose control for a moment and cut off everyone's path to wealth!

Therefore.

They were also doing their best, secretly building bridges and paving the way for the Justice Sect, eliminating various hidden dangers, covering for Lin Bai while making various preparations for unifying the world.

In the players' consciousness, they were the ones in control.

Nominally, Lin Bai was the Sect Leader of the Justice Sect, but in their hearts, he was just an NPC who taught Skills, a tool man.

Moreover, everything Lin Bai did benefited them from beginning to end; before squeezing him dry, they had to protect him well.

The sky turned dark.

Huilong Temple had completely transformed into the look of the Justice Sect—dilapidated and bizarre. The original Daoists of Huilong Temple had new identities and duties.

And Lin Bai's Merit points had broken into five digits.

In just one day.

Lin Bai's Merit points had caught up to the Qi Luck Value that the Beggar Sect had accumulated over nearly a month of development.

One has to say.

If you lay the groundwork early, the efficiency of completing tasks will be greatly improved.

【Though the sparrow is small, it has all the vital organs. Congratulations on owning a sect of your own, but your sect's reputation is not yet manifest. Please find a way to make your sect famous.

Task requirement: 100,000 people know of the existence of the Justice Sect;

Reward: Golden Light Array (Sect Protective Array, can release golden light to defend against invading enemies after activation)】

Famous again?

Lin Bai muttered, not taking this task to heart.

The system didn't specify that he must become famous in the Cultivation World; notifying the Beggar Sect people to run a wave of advertisements in Qian City and Jiamu City would allow the task to be completed easily without spending much extra effort.

That night.

The players who had received their identity tags spontaneously entered into the practice of their new Skills. The talent of "learning as soon as one hears, mastering as soon as one learns" once again stunned the Daoists of Huilong Temple.

Daojing and the others truly experienced the terror of the Heavenly Descended and the importance of the laws.

Without the control of the laws, the growth speed of the Heavenly Descended would leave no room for them to survive in just a few years.

After the disciple-recruitment ceremony was completed, Jiang Yuru, Zhao Ang, and others couldn't wait to take the remaining Beggar Sect disciples and their own sect disciples back to Qian City.

The Cultivation World was about to change; it was no longer something a few small fries like them could control. By passing the news back an hour earlier, their sects could respond a day sooner.

Ever since Lin Bai appeared, the situation changed almost daily. If they continued at the previous rhythm, Huilong Temple would likely be their fate.

Lin Bai's way of doing things was too unpredictable.

Over the next two or three days.

Lin Bai quieted down a lot.

He spent most of his time at Huilong Temple, researching farming, Weapon Refinement, Pill Refinement, and urging 【Deng Li Buduo】 to master the "Xianglong Shipi Zhang".

Huilong Temple was a proper sect with abundant Spirit Qi.

"Huilong Manual" and "Shenglong Manual" were mental cultivation methods; one set of offensive Skills was called "Dragon Roaming, Startled Swan", another was called "Returning Wind Sword Art", as well as the art of talismans...

The art of talismans was the hardest to practice; one must possess Golden Core cultivation to draw simple talismans such as Shield Armor Talismans, Speed Talismans, Liuyang Fu, and Healing Talismans, but the success rate of drawing them was only two or three out of ten;

Only with Nascent Soul cultivation could one draw more powerful offensive talismans like Fire Dragon Talismans, Ghost-Repelling Talismans, Wind and Rain Spells, etc., but these talismans had extremely high requirements for materials, and only Daoxu Zhenren in Huilong Temple could draw them, so there wasn't much stock.

Come to think of it.

That Daoxu Zhenren could become the Temple Master was also related to his excellent talent. The old Daoist was not only the only Nascent Soul True Person among the three martial brothers, but he was also gifted in talismans. After achieving Nascent Soul, he mastered the means of Void Talisman Drawing, skipping a level.

Although he could only draw Fire Dragon Talismans out of thin air, one trick is enough to dominate; relying on this skill, the old Daoist managed to lead Huilong Temple to contend with several major sects for many years without falling behind.

It was just that Lin Bai didn't follow the beaten path; otherwise, ten Lin Bais added together would not be a match for this old Daoist.

The Daoists of the "Qing" generation were much inferior; basically, no one had any talent for talismans, so most of them practiced "Dragon Roaming, Startled Swan" and "Returning Wind Sword Art".

The Daoists of Huilong Temple were not good at Pill Refinement, nor were they good at Weapon Refinement, but within the sect, there were still Alchemy Rooms and Weapon Refinement rooms set up.

There were Daoists studying pill formulas and the art of Weapon Refinement.

As fellow cultivation sects, being restricted in pills and Weapon Refinement was never comfortable; every sect was actually thinking about breaking the technical blockade of the Danling Sect and the Weapon Refinement sect.

Over the years, Huilong Temple hadn't researched any decent pill formulas, but they could manage self-sufficiency for basic Rejuvenation Pills used for healing.

Lin Bai looked at the Rejuvenation Pill recipe from Huilong Temple; the ratio of medicinal ingredients was clearly incorrect, and the only reason it had any healing efficacy was entirely due to the addition of spirit herbs.

Lin Bai's Peerless Divine Doctor System recipe was stuck on spirit herbs, and his purpose in establishing a sect was also to facilitate the planting of spirit herbs, research more pill recipes, and grind tasks for the Divine Doctor System.

The Daoist priests of Huilong Temple were not skilled at Pill Refinement, but they had Spirit Fields within their mountain gate, and the medicinal herbs were actually grown quite well.

And so.

It became Lin Bai's gain.

While inspecting the Spirit Fields, Lin Bai casually pulled out a weed, which activated a new system—the Shishi Zuiqiang Zhongtian Xitong.

The Farming System claimed it could grow the prosperity of the world.

Holding the mindset that even a mosquito's leg is meat, Lin Bai handed the task of studying pill recipes over to Huayishen.

He honorably transferred to become a farmer, spending all his spare time soaking in the Spirit Fields, grinding the Great Language System's bragging tasks with the players responsible for tending the Spirit Fields, while simultaneously grinding farming tasks.

"... Don't look down on farming. When I was five years old, in the Spirit Fields of the Justice Sect, I planted a grain of cooked rice that I had dropped while eating. As a result, guess what happened? Under my careful tending, that single cooked grain of rice grew into a towering stalk of grain, reaching high into the clouds. The spirit grain harvested from it was enough for the entire Justice Sect to eat for ten years without finishing..."

【Land Reclamation; Reward: Soil Identification Technique】

"Weeding at the Justice Sect is no ordinary weeding. I had a senior fellow apprentice who loved farming. One day, while weeding, he actually comprehended a Dao Method divine ability called the Grass Displacement Art. With a single thought, he could transfer the weeds from his own field into someone else's Spirit Field, instantly draining the nutrients from their medicinal herbs; it was used specifically for destruction..."

【Weeding: Reward: Farmer's Hoe】

【Sowing: Reward: Weather Forecasting】

【Fertilizing: Reward: Fertilizer Ratio Technique】

Lin Bai once thought that bragging was his strong suit and could be completed easily, but he had overlooked that this was a Xianxia World with all kinds of wondrous immortal arts.

To the extent that some remarks he considered exaggerated were actually possible to realize in this world.

By the time Lin Bai realized this, two days had already passed for the bragging task without it being completed, so he had to increase the intensity of his bragging.

It was only on the third day that he finally managed to secure the reward for the bragging task—the Sound Transmission Technique.

Within these three days.

It was not as if Lin Bai had no other gains.

The Farming System rewarded him with a full set of farmer's tools: a hoe, a sickle, a rake, and so on.

Lin Bai had originally thought the Farming System was just like that.

But on the third day, the Farming System unexpectedly rewarded him with a spell—the Spring Breeze Rain-Bringing Art!

The Spring Breeze Rain-Bringing Art creates a rain cloud out of thin air to nourish the land and increase the growth rate of crops.

This spell could only be used on plants, but Lin Bai still quickly realized the growth potential of the Farming System; following the Wanwu Youque System, this was the second system to directly reward spells...

Manipulating plants, huh? That seems a bit cool!

If there is a spell to accelerate plant growth, there must certainly be a spell to destroy plants.

If he were to face a sect like Medicine King Valley, one spell cast down would destroy all their Spirit Fields, which would be enough to deal a devastating blow to such a sect!

Moreover, a spell that accelerates plant growth might not necessarily be unusable in other places...

I'm quite busy for International Women's Day, so today's chapter is a bit short; please forgive me, please forgive me! Everything will be made up on the 9th when things are less busy.

(End of chapter)