Immortal Road.

Chapter 115 Big benefits
After all the serious matters were discussed, the atmosphere in the hall began to relax.

The local Jindan-stage guardians all knew that they were powerless and had no choice but to obey the management temporarily.

As for whether he has accepted his fate in his heart, no one knows.

The headmaster seemed a little apologetic. He comforted everyone and let them listen in on the latest situation. The other Jindan stage guardians began to discuss the latest developments with the headmaster.

"Three quarters of the East China Sea is already controlled by our three factions. We estimate that we will be able to pacify the entire territory in another six months."

"This time, the three religions have recruited more than 50,000 independent cultivators from the East China Sea, most of whom are cultivators in the Qi training and foundation building stages."

"Our Black Lotus Sect is divided into the Central War Zone, which governs more than 2,200 islands of varying sizes."

"The only independent cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage in the East China Sea, the old monster Jinglian, announced six months ago that he would not oppose the three sects of the Demonic Path. The headquarters said that they should just ignore him."

"The scattered resistance has basically been destroyed. The few who have escaped, such as the Huishan Old Ghost, the Zhangtai Three Monsters, and Master Gui, are being jointly hunted down."

"The allies in the north and south of the Song Dynasty have already started fighting with the righteous path."

"The Dharma King who protects the religion fought with the Yuanying Zhenjun of Zixiao Sect on Diaobie Island two years ago, and his whereabouts are still unknown."

"It will take another year for the follow-up reinforcements to arrive, and we expect to be able to attack the inland areas of Song Dynasty next year."

……

The Jindan-stage guardians on the stage were discussing the current situation one by one, most of them explaining it to the newly arrived local Jindan guardians. Lin Shan and others who were standing beside His Highness also took the opportunity to understand the current situation.

I just heard that two years have passed since the turtle master of Diaobie Island, and not only did he not die in the surprise attack, he is still alive and well.

Lin Shan couldn't help but marvel at the resilience of this veteran Jindan from the East China Sea. He was over four hundred years old and still able to jump around and escape. He was indeed in good health.

There is actually a Yuanying-level old monster in the East Sea? His name is "Jinglian Jushi"? Just hearing this name, it seems that he is not on good terms with the Black Lotus Sect!
The Yuanying stage Dharma Kings in the sect actually held their noses and endured it.
……

Then they discussed for a long time on the stage, and then started to assign destinations for their disciples.

Several guardians first led several hundred people out of the main hall and went to the temporary service hall next to it, where they issued them the Black Lotus Sect's waist badges, cave tokens, and a storage bag for each person.

Lin Shan also specially checked the waist badges of the Black Lotus Sect and found that they were all newly customized, with the essence and soul of each person added inside, accurately corresponding to each person's identity. Unlike the ancient Nightingale, which recognized the order but not the person, there was no ancient charm.

As for the storage bag, there are quite a few good things in it, including a standard high-level magical flying sword, which is obviously a basic benefit for being in the foundation-building period of a major demon sect.

There is also a bottle of pills for foundation-building cultivation, which contains twelve pills, each of which is emerald green and fragrant.

In addition, there were 1,800 spirit stones, a Black Lotus Sect's magic foundation-building technique, a dust-proof robe, a stack of sect-specific communication symbols, and a sect rules manual.

Everything is upright, the system is clear, and there is no deduction or miscellaneous donations.

"The monthly salary for a Foundation Establishment Envoy is 150 Spirit Stones, and the annual salary is 1,800 Spirit Stones."

"One bottle of Foundation Establishment cultivation pills per year, 12 pills in total."

"You can practice the magic foundation-building techniques as you wish, but they cannot be passed on to others."

"Magic weapons and various spiritual materials require contributions to exchange for them."

"After the inventory is complete, please confirm with your spiritual power."

The monks in the office hall were meticulous in distributing salaries and supplies for the coming year to each of them, and reminded them that they could leave after understanding some religious rules.

"Salaries are paid one year in advance? Is there such a good thing?"

Lin Shan went to the mountainside with the storage bag in his left hand and the cave token in his right hand. He found that the temporary cave was newly dug, but a spirit gathering formation had been set up inside, and the concentration of spiritual energy was not even worse than that of the most expensive cave in Yichuan.

"Is this the great sect of cultivation? Love it!"

Lin Shan couldn't help but sigh. Even the Demon Cult treated him so well. He wondered how his good brother Lin Fan's Zixiao Sect treated him.

However, he is quite satisfied with his life now. As the altar cleaner, he can work easily for one year and then rest for nineteen years.

There is a free cave dwelling without spending any money, and a higher salary than that of Yichuan Auction House. Every year, foundation-building pills are given for free, and the accumulated contribution points can be exchanged for various rare treasures and magical spells and magic weapons in the sect's treasury!
You have to know that in Yichuan Market, he can't even buy elixirs to improve his foundation-building cultivation, and he has never seen them on the market.

In the big sects, as long as you have established your foundation, you will be provided with a complete set of skills, elixirs, and magical instruments.

Thinking about the hard days he had gone through in the past, when he had to count the spirit stones every time he bought something, Lin Shan suddenly felt what it meant to have the shade of a big tree behind him.

No wonder the disciples in the sect work together and the sect becomes bigger and bigger. With such benefits, who would be willing to leave the sect to become a casual practitioner?

“As long as I don’t steal the ancient charm of the Buddha statue, it seems that it would be nice to stay here and practice in peace,” Lin Shan began to mutter in his heart.

But the problem is, if a naked beauty is right in front of you, ready for you to pick her, can you resist?

Lin Shan scratched his hair in annoyance. He didn't know why the Black Lotus Sect had been keen on preaching and collecting incense for thousands of years. Who was it for? How was it used?
However, the stern warning from the headmaster in the hall is still vivid in people's minds. It is obvious that the belief in incense and fire is the most important thing for the Black Lotus Sect.

This time, the three evil sects crossed more than a dozen countries and traveled millions of miles to return to the Song Dynasty. The other two sects are not clear, but the Black Lotus Sect must be competing for population and seizing faith, this is for sure!

"We'll talk about it when the time comes. Maybe I'll come across a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

After settling down here for the time being, Lin Shan briefly refined the high-level magical flying sword.

【Black Iron Sword】

Quality: High-level magical instrument

Introduction: Made of the third-grade spiritual material black iron, it has three high-level inscriptions engraved on it: sharp, armor-piercing, and tough.

Enhancement required: 32 points

...This high-level magic weapon is of ordinary standard, with the same three inscriptions as the previous cold iron sword, but its material is high-level spiritual material black iron, which is extremely hard in itself, and its quality far exceeds that of the mid-level spiritual material cold iron.

He also took out the magic foundation-building technique released by the Black Lotus Sect, and discovered that this technique was not mainly about demonic energy, blood energy, or ghost energy, but a kind of dark energy spiritual power.

Lin Shan had only been in the world of cultivation for a short time and was quite ignorant. He had never heard of any dark attribute spiritual roots.

However, the cultivation of this magic technique does not require any specific qualifications. Anyway, no matter what attribute of your spiritual roots you have, you can cultivate it, and what you cultivate is dark attribute spiritual power.

The power is average, but it is rather cold and tricky. Once it enters the body of an enemy cultivator, it will take a lot of effort to get rid of it. It is a kind of magic technique that neither overdraws potential nor is it bloody and cruel.

From this we can see that the Black Lotus Sect should be considered a moderate faction in the evil world. After all, all the people in the sect think about all day long is preaching and harvesting. Apart from wanting to expand the population's faith, they are not particularly tyrannical.

In the ancient tomb of Yelang in southern Xinjiang, Lei Zhenzi said that the Black Lotus Cult sacrificed blood to Yelang a thousand years ago, which was obviously untenable. Although they belonged to the demonic sect, they were too busy to preach and protect mortals, so how could they massacre the city and destroy the country?

He took out another emerald green pill and used the enhanced panel to check if there were any hidden tricks, and found that it was also clean.

【Bi Luo Dan】

Quality: Fardan

Introduction: It can improve the foundation-building stage, the medicinal effect is mild, and the thousand-year-old herb Biluocao is the main ingredient. It is best to take it more than ten days apart, otherwise the medicinal effects will be superimposed and the drug resistance will be greatly increased.

Enhancement required: 32 points

……

Lin Shan nodded with satisfaction. Seeing that there was no danger, he swallowed one and tried it.

After refining it, I found that it was equivalent to half a month of hard training.

Twelve pills a year is equivalent to practicing for half a year longer than the average foundation-building period under the same environment!
"The disciples of the big sects are so terrifying."

No wonder there are so many masters in big sects. If this kind of elixir is thrown to the outside world, people will probably fight for it, but within the sect it is just a basic benefit.

However, this kind of pill cannot be taken too often continuously. The body must be given a certain amount of time to "digest" it. Taking too many pills will also produce some "Dao marks".

This kind of "Dao Trace" will not hinder one's cultivation, but its function is to produce a certain kind of drug resistance.

Although this "Dao Mark" can be somewhat eliminated by the body and time, it cannot be completely eliminated. If you take a large amount of it, it will still accumulate to a certain level, greatly reducing the effectiveness of the medicine.

But that is something that will happen in the long run. As long as you don't get impatient, you can always slowly improve your cultivation.

Accumulating spiritual power is not a difficult task. What is needed is time. The difficulty lies in breaking through the bottlenecks of various realms. This is the most important thing.

Next, Lin Shan got up and walked around the treasure exchange hall, and found that it was empty and only hastily built. After all, the real main hall was in the distant Lu State in the north, and it was naturally impossible to move all the treasures here.

Unless the Song Dynasty completely secures victory, all the sect’s property will be moved there. Now he will have no chance to see it.

……

After resting and wandering around for about half a month, an order came down from above that all Black Lotus Messengers must complete their tasks as a priority during wartime and must not delay.

As the altar purifier, Lin Shan was directly assigned hundreds of Qi training cultivators. He was sent to the depths of the East China Sea, or even slightly close to the outer sea, where an area of ​​about 10,000 miles in radius was divided.

There are fifty islands in total, with hundreds of thousands of mortals on them.

His mission was to preach for a year and make the Black Lotus Sect's faith take root in these fifty islands as a base for worship.

Lin Shan naturally obeyed the order. The sect's benefits for the year had already been paid in advance, so it was only natural to take money to do the work.

He first visited his immediate superior, Yan Yuanchun, who told him that the local faction had just arrived and that he should try his best to complete the task and not give the Lu faction any excuse to make things difficult for him. At present, the two parties were at odds with each other because of conflicting interests, and there was a hint of incompatibility between them.

The head master also knew that it would take time to integrate the local factions, so he let them go to the deep-sea area in the back to preach, and slowly over time they would be accepted by the Lu faction.

Lin Shan nodded in agreement, packed up briefly, and then went down the mountain according to the instructions to recruit and fill out his own staff of 100 people. After all, it was impossible for him to manage the fifty islands by himself, so it would definitely be his subordinates who would do the work, and he would be responsible for the overall situation.

When he arrived at the open space at the foot of the mountain where the Black Lotus Sect was stationed, he saw more than ten thousand monks, with densely packed black heads crowded in the square. He was going to pick out a hundred of his men from here.

But when he saw the scene in front of him, he was a little shocked.

They were all a group of ugly Qi-refining monks, some standing or lying down, some with tattered clothes, some with broken magic weapons, just like beggars.

That’s not all. Most of them are in the early to middle stages of Qi training, and there are basically not many in the late stage of Qi training. They should have all been picked up by the previous Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Looking at the remaining tens of thousands of "old, weak, sick and disabled" people, Lin Shan didn't know whether these people were assigned to him to work for him or he was there to take care of them.

After asking around, it turned out that they were all the "East China Sea independent practitioners" who had just been recruited these few days.

When these people saw that there was finally a "leader" from the Black Lotus Sect coming to recruit people, they all stretched out their dirty hands.

"Come alive, come alive~"

"Want me want me!"

"Senior, I am very capable."

“I’m hardworking.”

"I can offer you my buttocks!"

"I can play the flute!"

(End of this chapter)