CHAPTER 658: CHAPTER 488: THIS IS TOO MUCH!

So he simply pretended to be deaf and dumb, not probing deeply.

In front of the Sect Leader, the East River Palace Master was the same.

"Stop flattering me."

"As the Sect Leader, I wouldn’t covet your achievements."

Fu Danzi smiled upon hearing this, and then continued: "After Zhangg’s enlightenment, there are no longer any True Immortal Inheritors in the East River Palace and Dongqi Palace who have not proven the Dao. Since the two of you teach your disciples well, producing many True Immortals, you might as well recruit more disciples to cultivate more future True Immortals for our Daoist sect."

Upon hearing this, the East River Palace Master showed a bitter smile and shook his head, saying to Fu Danzi, "Sect Leader, please forgive me. These past years, helping them prove the Dao has exhausted my heart and mind. Now that the last misguided disciple has luckily succeeded, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. I have no plans to recruit more disciples in the short term. I hope the Sect Leader understands."

One by one, his disciples achieved enlightenment in strange ways, leaving the East River Palace Master quite uneasy.

He understood that their successes were unrelated to his aid, and he speculated on the reasons behind their achievements.

He saw things clearly and knew when to stop.

The disciples already under his tutelage couldn’t be helped; if they could prove the Dao, he couldn’t very well prevent them.

But now that every disciple had crossed the sea of suffering, the East River Palace Master was relieved. In the future, he wouldn’t easily take on more disciples.

At least not until he found truly promising candidates, or until his beloved disciple Zhou Yan truly rises.

Beside him.

Chen Jichuan also guessed the East River Palace Master’s thoughts. He smiled at Fu Danzi and said, "Sect Leader, you might not know, but when we, the senior disciples, prove the Dao, our teacher, as our mentor, must treat us equally. Every disciple who proves the Dao receives a gift, leaving the family coffers empty. Now we’re penniless. How dare we take on disciples? Should we accidentally teach a few more True Immortals, we’d really be buried in debt."

"Accidentally teach a few True Immortals?"

"You master and disciple!"

"Don’t let others hear this, it would damage your merit."

Fu Danzi couldn’t help but laugh upon hearing this, pointing to the East River Palace Master and Chen Jichuan.

"Zhou Yan is being ridiculous, Sect Leader, please don’t blame him."

Even the East River Palace Master couldn’t help but laugh.

At this time, Fu Danzi said, "In Shenzhou, there are thousands of Immortals, and the conflicts between good and evil are becoming more entrenched, inevitably leading to chaos. At such a time, if our Daoist sect can produce more True Immortals, we will have more power to suppress and control the disorder. If you, master and disciple, have the ability, truly don’t ’accidentally’ teach a few True Immortals, and please don’t hold back."

As Fu Danzi spoke, he waved his sleeve, and two jade bracelets fell in front of Chen Jichuan and the East River Palace Master.

"Take a look."

Chen Jichuan took one and saw an immense pile of source jade inside, totaling twenty thousand jin!

The East River Palace Master was even more astonished: "Seventy thousand jin of source jade? Sect Leader, this—"

The master and disciple looked up in unison at Fu Danzi.

"This is a new rule of our Daoist sect."

"For every new True Immortal under the sect, their teacher will be rewarded with source jade."

"A single True Immortal earns ten thousand jin of source jade."

Fu Danzi spoke with a smile, pointing at Chen Jichuan, and said to the East River Palace Master, "This new rule starts with your disciple Zhou Yan. Recently, you have had seven disciples prove the Dao, hence you receive seventy thousand jin of source jade."

He then turned to Chen Jichuan: "Your followers have two who have proven the Dao, thus you receive twenty thousand jin of source jade."

Source jade has always been precious.

The top Daoist Chief below True Immortals in the Daoist sect only gets one jin of source jade every two thousand years.

Even a True Immortal, like Chen Jichuan, who has just ascended, only receives a grant of five hundred jin of source jade when newly promoted. Initially, relying only on the Daoist field granted by the sect, combined with other assorted incomes, earning two or three hundred jin of source jade every ten thousand years is already considered good.

One ten thousand jin?

This is wealth difficult to accumulate even after managing sincerely for hundreds of thousands of years as a new True Immortal. It’s only through sending Dharma Domain Avatars to wander, risking life and death in search of opportunities, that there’s a hope of achieving it.

Like the East River Palace Master.

He has been in the Dao for over seventy thousand years, with his Dharma Domain Avatar roaming outside year-round. Considering the costs of cultivating and improving Divine Skills, his remaining assets, including Immortal Artifacts, treasures, Immortal Pills, and talismans, are about ten thousand jin.

Even now, if the East River Palace Master wants to earn ten thousand jin of source jade, given normal luck, it would take around two to three hundred thousand years.

But now,

as long as he cultivates a True Immortal, he will receive ten thousand jin of source jade.

At the pace of the East River Palace,

Forty thousand years.

Seven True Immortals.

One hundred thousand years means seventeen True Immortals, that’s one hundred seventy thousand jin of source jade!

"This is too much!"

The East River Palace Master swallowed hard.

Chen Jichuan was also moved.

One True Immortal means ten thousand jin of source jade.

If that’s the price, he seriously considered that earning it would be much faster than arduously mining in the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’!

In the Daoist sect, there are not just three thousand Upper Immortals stuck at the Fourth-order peak and the Enlightenment Realm?

Even if with a tap of ’Enlightenment,’ only ten percent can prove the Dao, that’s still a few hundred.

A few hundred True Immortals.

Millions of jin of source jade.

"This is too much!"

Chen Jichuan also swallowed hard.

Fu Danzi laughed when he saw this: "Our Daoist sect never thinks that there are too many True Immortals, nor is there a fear of running out of source jade in the treasury. If you master and disciple can cultivate ten True Immortals, each will earn ten thousand jin of source jade. If you cultivate twenty, each will earn twenty thousand jin. Thirty will earn thirty thousand jin. If you can produce one hundred True Immortals, you’ll immediately receive ten million jin of source jade!"

"..."

"..."

Chen Jichuan admitted, he was tempted.

Hundreds of True Immortals, millions of jin of source jade, he could still hold back. After all, with the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield,’ he could mine hundreds of thousands of jin of source jade in ten thousand years.

Millions of jin.

Just the income of about a hundred thousand years.

But ten million jin of source jade, if he emptied the whole ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield,’ there might only be that much.

Cultivating one Divine Skill to the Fourth Realm only costs ten to twenty thousand jin of source jade.

Ten million jin of source jade is enough to cultivate fifty skills.

Solely for cultivation, it’s enough for a First Realm True Immortal to cultivate for fifty million years!

That’s too much!

...

Chen Jichuan and the East River Palace Master left the Shangshan Dao Palace, dizzy with nine thousand jin of source jade.

Upon returning to the East River Palace, the East River Palace Master weighed the Storage Jade Bracelet in his hand and said to Chen Jichuan: "The Sect Leader is really being generous this time. It seems that the chaos in Shenzhou is indeed not far away, and even the Sect Leader is a bit anxious."

The conflict between good and evil in Shenzhou has never ceased. All along, as the number of True Immortals in Shenzhou increases, various conflicts and frictions also multiply, with resource competition becoming increasingly fierce.

The outer starry sky is a treasure trove, full of opportunities.

But Shenzhou Heaven and Earth is the foundation for Shenzhou’s True Immortals.

Here, the conflicts of interest, entwined grievances, after many years, have long become a tangled mess, impossible to unravel.

Only a great war sweeping across Shenzhou, where True Immortals fall like rain, can thoroughly resolve it.

There is no other way.

"Indeed."

"One True Immortal means ten thousand jin of source jade."

"One hundred True Immortals mean ten million jin of source jade."

Chen Jichuan shook his head with a smile, "Once this new rule is announced, there will surely be a wave of disciple recruitment within the sect, with many True Immortals definitely gathering more disciples. Even if they’re not sure of teaching enlightenment successfully, casting a wide net might just yield someone who can prove the Dao, earning ten thousand jin of source jade effortlessly."

This new rule was clearly made with him and the East River Palace Master in mind, but other True Immortals in the Daoist sect who can teach True Immortals will also indeed receive source jade.

Ten thousand jin of source jade.

This is not a small number; it would be hard for an ordinary True Immortal to remain unmoved.

"This is a good thing."

"True Immortals will recruit more disciples for source jade and will be more attentive than usual. For the disciples in the sect, it counts as an opportunity as well."

The East River Palace Master also saw Fu Danzi’s intention.

This new rule not only targets them, encouraging them to teach more True Immortals, but also broadly encourages the True Immortals within the sect to recruit and teach more disciples. There are many Upper Immortals and quite a few True Immortals in the Daoist sect. Perhaps the wave stirred by this new rule will allow the sect to produce a few more True Immortals.

True Immortals are supreme.

In a chaotic world, even having one or two more True Immortals is beneficial.

"Prosperous times."

"Chaotic times."

"Alas, the world is too small, and how despicable are the demons and devils!"

The East River Palace Master shook his head, glanced at the jade bracelet in his hand, and then casually tossed it to Chen Jichuan.

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