plumnovel Chapter 22 Human Achievements, A Bountiful Harvest
Chapter 22 Human Achievements, A Bountiful Harvest
There was a moment of silence in the training ground.
Then Wang Shouzhou was the first to kneel down, his forehead hitting the bluestone ground heavily with a dull thud.
He didn't speak, but just kowtowed, his whole body trembling.
"This disciple is willing to go through fire and water for the Qingyun Sect!"
Zhao Shoucheng was the second to kneel down, saying, "This disciple is willing to go through fire and water for the Qingyun Sect!"
As Su Shoujing knelt down, tears streamed down her face. She remembered what the sect leader had said in front of the Earth God Temple: "Once you enter the Qingyun Sect, you will no longer have to live like wild dogs."
She didn't believe it then, but now she does.
"This disciple is willing to go through fire and water for the Qingyun Sect!"
One after another, new disciples and old disciples knelt down in a dense, dark mass.
Those Category C disciples who had initially approached the training with the mindset of simply getting by were now flushed and their eyes were burning with intense passion.
Standing at the edge of the crowd, Zhong Xiu looked at her fellow disciples kneeling on the ground, then at Shen Qing. The girl remained silent for a moment, then slowly knelt down.
Huang An and Huang Ning exchanged a glance, their eyes flashing with complex emotions—struggle and hesitation—before finally kneeling down.
The moment he knelt down, Huang An suddenly felt something inside him shatter.
Looking at the seventy-three people kneeling on the ground, Shen Qing felt a complex mix of emotions.
He had rehearsed this line of dialogue countless times in his mind.
This is a four-step method he developed by combining his past life experiences, from identifying pain points to reshaping identity, to binding interests, and finally to assigning a mission.
First, let everyone speak out about their most painful points, let them tear open their wounds themselves, then use the concept of "roots" to reshape their identity, make them realize that fighting alone can never change their fate, and then bind them together with Qingyun Sect to form a community of shared destiny.
Finally, they ignited their passion with a grand mission: to work together to build an immortal path.
The results were even better than he had expected.
Because these disciples really need a "root".
They had nothing in this world, so when Shen Qing gave them a new identity and a bright future, they would repay him with all their loyalty.
On the system panel, a series of notification sounds rang out.
[Disciple Wang Shouzhou's loyalty +2, current loyalty: 97]
[Disciple Su Shoujing's loyalty +3, current loyalty: 96]
[Disciple Zhao Shoucheng's loyalty +2, current loyalty: 98]
[Disciple Huang An's loyalty +12, current loyalty: 79]
[Disciple Huang Ning's loyalty +11, current loyalty: 79]
[Disciple Zhong Xiu's loyalty +2, current loyalty: 88]
The loyalty of the new disciples is jumping around in large numbers. The disciples who were recruited on the second trip down the mountain originally had loyalty levels mostly around fifty, but now almost all of them have broken through the sixty threshold.
The number of disciples bound to the system kept changing: ninety. Ninety-three. Ninety-seven. Ninety-nine.
Then, it stopped at 102.
[Achievement Completed: Number of Disciples Reaches 100]
[Rewards: 50 Premium Qi Gathering Pills, 10 Medium-Grade Spirit Stones, 1 "True Explanation of Mortal Martial Arts", 1 Sect Building Blueprint "Spirit Field Development Method", 1 Qi Condensation Technique]
Shen Qing looked at the list of rewards, her fingers tightening slightly.
Premium Qi Gathering Pills are not low-grade; the difference of just two words reflects a world of difference in quality.
Low-grade Qi Gathering Pills contain many impurities and have poor efficacy; the probability of ordinary people sensing spiritual energy increases by only 10% to 20% after taking them.
The premium Qi Gathering Pill is more than three times more effective than the lower-grade one, and has very few side effects.
A single high-quality Qi Gathering Pill is worth far more than the previous thirty low-grade Qi Gathering Pills.
As for the reward of mid-grade spirit stones, it gave Shen Qing a feeling of sudden wealth.
One mid-grade spirit stone is equivalent to one hundred low-grade spirit stones, and ten of them have the purchasing power of one thousand low-grade spirit stones.
In Fenglin County, a mid-grade spirit stone can buy a genuine low-level magic weapon.
Ten coins are enough for Shen Qing to go to the county town to purchase a batch of genuine cultivation supplies.
The book "True Explanation of Martial Arts for Mortals" also brought him quite a surprise. As far as Shen Qing knew, the mastery of mortal martial arts was divided into three levels: body refinement, meridian opening, and spiritual connection.
The cultivation technique rewarded by the system can be cultivated to the Martial Arts Divine Realm, making one's combat power comparable to a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and capable of killing immortals with mortal strength!
For Category C disciples and outer disciples, this is the best cultivation method.
After examining the "Spiritual Field Development Method," Shen Qing trembled with excitement. This method could use array formations to guide spiritual veins into mortal fields, allowing the cultivation of spiritual grains by borrowing the energy from the mountain roots and the earth.
Long-term consumption by ordinary people can improve their physical condition and increase their chances of sensing spiritual energy.
Cultivators can improve their cultivation efficiency by consuming it. Shen Qing couldn't help but imagine that if all twenty acres of wasteland behind the mountain were transformed into spirit fields, the spiritual grain produced each year would probably be enough to support hundreds of disciples with some left over.
But what truly made Shen Qing's heart race was the last reward.
The Secret of Gathering Qi.
The system description consists of only one line: It can conceal one's cultivation level and spiritual root, and can change the strength of one's aura at will, making it impossible for those one's realm higher to see through it.
Shen Qing went through the incantation of this technique in his mind, and his heart was filled with shock.
This means he can disguise himself as a dying person who has just entered the ninth level of Qi Refining and whose lifespan is running out, or he can reveal a higher level of cultivation to intimidate his enemies when necessary.
More importantly, he can conceal the true aptitude of his genius disciples, such as Zhong Xiu, Xu Ping, and Fang Xue, preventing anyone from discovering their special qualities.
Every husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime.
Although Qingyun Mountain has no walls, it has walls if others perceive them to.
Now, Shen Qingcai felt that he had a way to protect himself, not by fighting and killing, but by hiding.
If you can hide, you can live a long life.
Suppressing his excitement, Shen Qing closed the system panel.
"Get up, all of you."
The disciples got up one after another. Some were still wiping away tears, while others kept repeating the words "cultivating first will lead to cultivating later."
"Have you remembered what I said today?"
"Got it!"
"Good, that's all. That's all."
The disciples dispersed in twos and threes, their chatter continuing for a long time. Shen Qing watched their backs as they walked away, then turned and headed towards the meditation room.
Zhong Xiu stood there, watching the sect leader's white robes disappear into the twilight. Su Shoujing tugged at her sleeve: "Xiuxiu, let's go."
The girl looked away, a slight smile playing on her lips: "Mm."
In the sect leader's meditation room, Shen Qing sat cross-legged on a futon, with two high-quality Qi Gathering Pills and a mid-grade spirit stone in front of him.
He was waiting for midnight to arrive, at which time the system would draw spiritual energy and channel it into his dantian.
Shen Qing wanted to use this massive amount of pure spiritual energy, along with the assistance of two high-quality Qi Gathering Pills and a mid-grade spirit stone, to break through to the tenth level of Qi Refining.
Time passed slowly. Outside the window, the night deepened, and the disciples' rooms were gradually extinguished, Qingyun Mountain falling into slumber.
23: 58.
23: 59.
00: 00.
[Daily automatic draw, starting.]
Pure spiritual energy surged forth from within Shen Qing's dantian, and he swallowed two Qi Gathering Pills at the same time.
This time, the loyalty of the disciples has increased significantly, and the spiritual energy extracted by the system has also increased considerably.
Nearly fifty strands of spiritual energy converged, forming a fist-sized vortex in the dantian.
As the medicinal power of the two premium Qi Gathering Pills was absorbed, it merged with the spiritual energy raised through the system's crowdfunding.
The surge of spiritual energy in that short moment made Shen Qing feel like he was stuffed, but he still felt it wasn't enough.
The two mid-grade spirit stones in Shen Qing's palm gradually petrified as the spiritual energy dissipated, and streams of spiritual energy, second only to that extracted by the system, flowed into his dantian along his meridians.