Longevity: Start by practicing the ruthless way

Gu Chi carefully read every item in the manual. It did not say that she could not hunt wild animals in the mountains while guarding the spiritual medicine garden. She thought that there should be no prohibition, otherwise what would she and the big black dog eat every day?

"Let's go, let's eat wild game today!"

"Ouch~"

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a year has passed.

The medicine field is filled with refreshing medicinal fragrance, and the growth of each spiritual medicine is quite impressive. Gu Chi and the big black dog have lived here for a long time, and they feel that even their cultivation has become twice as effective with half the effort.

"rise!"

Gu Chi stretched out her hand, and waves of water rippled around her body, and then condensed into vivid water balls, filled with the spiritual energy of this secret place.

"go with!"

Gu Chi raised his hand and the water balls were shot high into the sky, turning into dark clouds and dropping sweet dew.

"I've cultivated the 'Art of Moving Clouds and Transporting Water' to the second level in just one year. Am I really a genius?" Gu Chi said narcissistically, forgetting that Big Black Dog had already cultivated to the second level before her yesterday.

This year, she and Big Black Dog's cultivation level has been further improved, and they have reached the fourth stage of Qi training. At the same time, they have also added longevity points to [mana].

"Let's go, Lao Hei, it's time to report."

Gu Chi put a straw hat she had woven herself on the big black dog, carried a storage bag, opened the exit of the secret realm of the medicine garden, and prepared to go to the entrance of Xuanwu Hall to report.

There was only one person in the main hall of Xuanwu Hall, an old man with thinning hair, who was dozing off at his desk.

This was the third old man Gu Chi had met since joining the Xuanwu Hall. The first two were his senior brothers. He thought this one was probably an older one as well, so he called out to him, "Senior brother, I'm here to hand in this year's spiritual medicine."

"Call me uncle-master." The old man said lazily.

Gu Chi smiled awkwardly, carefully placed the storage bag on the table, and said, "Master...Uncle, this is this year's spiritual medicine. See if it's enough for your quota."

The old man sent out his spiritual sense to investigate. At first, he looked sleepy and nonchalant, but his expression soon changed. He couldn't help but glance at Gu Chi and the big black dog twice, and said with great curiosity, "What a surprise! Since the Xuanwu Hall was officially established, you are the first disciples who have been able to hand in all the spiritual medicines in the first year after joining the hall."

Gu Chi smiled and said, "Uncle Master, you may not know that my husband, Lao Hei, and I are very experienced and talented in cultivating spiritual medicines."

The big black dog nodded.

"Not bad, not bad, well done." The old man looked pleased and took out two purple prismatic crystals from the drawer. He said, "Two hundred contribution points per person, and you acknowledge me by dripping blood."

Gu Chi took it respectfully. This was their salary for a year's hard work.

"Young man, work hard. When all of us old men retire, you will be the leader of the Xuanwu Hall."

"Disciple will definitely live up to his mission!"

The old man nodded with satisfaction and smiled, "Go ahead, spend as much as you want."

After leaving the hall, Gu Chi quickly took the big black dog to a corner and squatted down, dripping blood on each of their purple crystals to recognize their ownership.

"Ahahaha, two hundred per person, that's four hundred contribution points total. I wonder how many goodies I can redeem!"

Gu Chi didn't know how much contribution value was considered a lot. Her first thought was that she and Lao Hei had worked hard for a year to earn 400 contribution points, which should not be low.

"Let's go to the exchange bureau. We're going to spend as much as we want today!"

"Consumption!"

A man and a dog rushed to the exchange bureau with a map, ready to spend a lot of money.

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The scene changed, and outside the Heming Sect's exchange bureau, a man and a dog were sitting on the steps with gloomy faces.

"Black-hearted... so black-hearted..." Gu Chi opened and closed his mouth, muttering: "Worse than cattle and horses...even capitalists would cry when seeing this..."

They had originally planned to spend a lot of money, but they found out that even the cheapest fasting pill required forty contribution points each!

Two fasting pills are worth eighty contribution points.

Two Qi-training pills are worth 120 contribution points.

The alchemy furnace is of the lower grade Xuan level, and each one has 200 contribution points.

I spent all my annual salary just on these few things. They are ridiculously expensive!

Or perhaps their wages are too low.

"Fuck you, what's the difference between this and working hard for a year and only getting paid 200 yuan?!" Gu Chi became angrier and angrier the more he thought about it. Even capitalists would not do such a conscienceless thing!

The big black dog rubbed against Gu Chi and comforted her not to be angry.

"Oh, Lao Hei, you don't know, if this happened in my original world, which company would dare to exploit its employees like this? The employees would definitely tear the company apart. This is simply... simply..." Gu Chi was speechless, and for a moment he couldn't think of what words to use to describe this excessive behavior.

"If you can't afford it, get out of here! Look for your own reasons sometimes. Why hasn't your contribution value increased at all over the years? Have you worked hard? Stop howling here!" Several scolding voices came from the hall.

Gu Chi suddenly stood up and pointed at the plaque of the exchange bureau, saying, "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west. Don't look down on the poor young man! You may ignore me today, but tomorrow I will be out of your reach!"

Lao Hei was inspired by her momentum and immediately stood up and let out a long howl.

"If you make any more noise, I will report you to the White Tiger Hall." Such a cold and gloomy voice came from the hall, scaring the man and the dog, and they immediately covered their mouths and ran away.

On the way back, Gu Chi was still furious, waving his fists and saying, "This is really too much. Old Black, let's go back to farming. Farm for hundreds of years and save millions of contribution points. Then we can empty the entire exchange bureau!"

When passing by the square, she heard a conversation between several disciples and vaguely heard words like "sect competition". She became interested and went over with the big black dog.

"The five-year sect competition is about to begin again. Senior Brother Du Yu should be coming out of seclusion soon, right?"

"If he comes out of seclusion to participate, even if he doesn't win first place, at least getting into the top ten won't be a problem. He's the best fighter among the many Qi training stage practitioners in our White Tiger Hall! Even the headmaster has praised him!"

"He doesn't have a distinguished family background, so what's the point of being a good fighter? The top ten spots in this sect competition have probably already been reserved by disciples from the Suzaku and Azure Dragon branches."

"Come to think of it, the Suzaku and Azure Dragon halls are inaccessible to anyone without a certain background. Aren't there enough inside stories from the annual sect competitions?"

"Let's not even think about a good ranking. Just getting into the top 1,000 and getting some contribution points is pretty good."

When Gu Chi heard that there were contribution points to be gained, his eyes lit up immediately, and he quickly interrupted, "Excuse me, brothers, how many contribution points can we get by participating in the sect competition?"

Several people looked Gu Chi up and down, and one of them said, "This junior sister has just joined the sect not long ago, right?"