86: Chapter 86: The Benefits of Inner Sect Disciples 86: Chapter 86: The Benefits of Inner Sect Disciples “Ye Zhen, come often in the future, Donglai Peak will always welcome you!”

Watching Ye Zhen about to leave, Steward Liu of Donglai Peak showed a broad smile, a far cry from the sullen face he had when Ye Zhen just became an Outer Disciple.

“I will!”

Ye Zhen nodded and, together with Golden Yuanbao, set off toward Chaotic Cloud Peak without bringing anything else.

In the Qiyun Sect, disciples of every rank have their fixed cultivation sites.

Servant disciples stay at the peripheral Servant Three Hundred Peaks; if they encountered a peak leader, they would sleep in large communal rooms and only get meat broth and barley bread that were just enough to fill the stomach.

Outer Disciples reside in the enormously expansive Donglai Peak, receiving a significant improvement in treatment, each with a small private room and a dedicated dining hall providing meals, allowing them to focus on cultivation.

Once an Outer Disciple is promoted to an Inner Sect Disciple, the treatment improves dramatically.

At this moment, Ye Zhen and Golden Yuanbao were moving to their new residences at Chaotic Cloud Peak, where the Inner Sect Disciples lived.

Golden Yuanbao, having made it into the top ten Outer Disciples this year and having broken through to the True Essence Realm, had also smoothly transitioned to become an Inner Sect Disciple alongside Ye Zhen.

The living conditions at Chaotic Cloud Peak for Inner Sect Disciples were completely different from those at Donglai Peak for Outer Disciples.

Steward Liu of Donglai Peak, was wholly in charge of the Outer Disciples, reprimanding them as commonly as eating and drinking.

Ninety-nine percent of the Outer Disciples were like grandsons in front of Steward Guann Feng.

Conversely, Steward Hee of Chaotic Cloud Peak served Inner Sect Disciples completely, where each Inner Disciple was almost treated as a lord.

Of course, these lords of the Inner Gate were also ranked differently.

For example, Steward Hee Miao, who came to greet Ye Zhen and Golden Yuanbao, was clearly more enthusiastic towards Ye Zhen than towards Golden Yuanbao.

“Ye Zhen, you and Golden Yuanbao have just advanced to being Inner Sect Disciples, and the first thing to do is to choose your residences.

The Sect takes great care of Inner Sect Disciples, providing each of you with a private courtyard, and an even larger training ground in the backyard,” Steward Hee Miao said as he handed over a map with a clever look.

“The distribution of all the courtyards on Chaotic Cloud Peak is on this map of courtyard distribution.

Those marked in green indicate they are already occupied, and you are free to choose from any unmarked ones.”

“Is it that good?”

Ye Zhen smiled as he received the map of courtyard distribution, and the distribution of the several hundred courtyards on Chaotic Cloud Peak instantly became clear.

The majority of Chaotic Cloud Peak’s private courtyards were clustered at the foot of the mountain, appearing cramped on the map, and even from a distance, the courtyards seemed tightly packed together.

However, a small portion of the courtyards were scattered across the mid-slope and even atop the peak.

Standing at the foot of Chaotic Cloud Peak and looking out, the courtyards on the mid-slope and peak were spread out like stars in the sky.

Because courtyards can only be built in suitable terrain, those above the mid-slope were very far apart.

The nearest ones were probably a mile or two away, very secluded and extremely suitable for cultivation.

“Steward Hee, are there no vacancies for those higher-up courtyards?” Ye Zhen asked, pointing to the green dots on the map.

“None left.

Courtyards on the mid-slope or peak are extremely sought after and were taken long ago,” Steward Hee Miao replied.

“Old Ye, the courtyards on Chaotic Cloud Peak are taken based on strength.

The stronger the strength, the better the location of the courtyard.

For those of us who have just become Inner Sect Disciples, we can only stay at the foot of the mountain,” Golden Yuanbao added after a pause.

“But the treatment in these private courtyards is already good enough compared to when we were Outer Disciples.”

Looking at the green dots across the map, Ye Zhen felt a bit frustrated.

The cramped living space for Outer Disciples made it very troublesome for Ye Zhen to cultivate.

He always had to find a place where people rarely went to practice.

Although it was said that the backyard of an Inner Sect Disciple’s courtyard has a training field over a hundred meters large, the commotion of cultivating in the True Essence Realm was still quite significant.

With the courtyards at the foot of the mountain so close to each other, there would inevitably be a lot of disturbance during cultivation, so this time in choosing a courtyard, Ye Zhen wanted to pick a quiet one conducive to practice.

But unfortunately, there wasn’t even one quiet courtyard left above the mid-slope.

“I choose this one marked number 431, it’s nice.

There’s even a small stream running through it.

Old Ye, why don’t you take the one next to me?

It’s also vacant!” Golden Yuanbao said excitedly upon settling on a courtyard.

“That sounds good.

Then I’ll choose…”

Just as he was about to make his decision, Ye Zhen’s eyebrows suddenly twitched as he asked, “Steward Hee, that place where Yuen Chengzu used to live…?”

“Yuen Chengzu?” Steward Hee Miao slapped his forehead fiercely, “Look at me, how could I forget about that!

Blame me for not updating the map.” A green dot on the map was promptly scraped off by Steward Hee Miao.

A courtyard marked number 97 situated on the mid-slope was thus vacated.

From the map, courtyard number 97 was located on the mid-slope, with the nearest courtyard being two miles away in every direction.

It was surrounded by open woods upon exiting the courtyard, and its cultivation environment was dozens of times better than that of the courtyards at the mountain’s base.

“This one then, Courtyard No.

97,” Ye Zhen said.

“Alright, I’ll arrange for someone to clean up these two courtyards, and then I’ll send you over later.”

While waiting, Hee Miao began to explain to Ye Zhen and Golden Yuanbao about the things they needed to pay attention to after becoming Inner Sect Disciples.

Inner Sect Disciples were the true elites of the Qiyun Sect.

Each Inner Sect Disciple was considered a treasure by the Sect, and their treatment improved substantially.

Apart from having their own independent courtyards, they were also entitled to receive pills every five days, which were upgraded from Blood Essence Pills to True Essence Pills.

Plus, after becoming Inner Sect Disciples, they would gain access to the second floor of the Scripture Storage Tower.

However, these things didn’t hold much attraction for Ye Zhen, as he had already been granted access to the second floor of the Scripture Storage Tower before he made it into the top three of the Ground List.

What truly attracted Ye Zhen was the Sect’s greatly relaxed control over Inner Sect Disciples, who could go out for field training at any time, although they still couldn’t skip the monthly Sect tasks.

The aspect that delighted Golden Yuanbao the most was the chance to become an apprentice, but Ye Zhen didn’t feel much about it.

Ye Zhen felt that ever since a couple of events had taken place, Liao Feibai, the Outer Sect Instructor, had always treated him in a very special manner, almost like a master would, so Ye Zhen wasn’t in a rush.

After all, he was protected unconditionally by someone, taught high-level martial skills, more of a master than a master himself, so he wasn’t eager to take a master.

“Alright, the courtyards you’ve picked are now cleaned up.

Ye Zhen, because the one halfway up the mountain is a bit far, let me take you there.

Golden Yuanbao, you can go on your own.”

Ye Zhen nodded, and Golden Yuanbao was not bothered.

He had been to Chaotic Cloud Peak many times back when he was an Outer Disciple, so he was very used to this kind of scenario.

“Old Ye, I’ll come to see you in a bit!”

Golden Yuanbao yelled out and quickly left.

“Ye Zhen, this is Courtyard No.

97.

Don’t you want to go in and take a look first?”

Halfway up the mountain, outside Courtyard No.

97, Hee Miao looked at Ye Zhen with a smiling face.

Ye Zhen surveyed the surrounding environment, nodding continuously.

Not bad, really not bad, within two or three miles, there was just his courtyard, absolutely no disturbance during cultivation.

“Good!”

After responding, just as Ye Zhen was about to push the door open and enter, a sudden whistling sound came from behind, and a claw shadow fiercely clawed towards Ye Zhen.

“Wait, I saw this courtyard first!”

“Hmph!”

With a cold snort, True Yuan surged from within Ye Zhen, instantly covering his shoulder.

Chi!

The claw shadow that came from behind was suddenly repelled high into the air, and the person who came was taken aback, watching Ye Zhen, still dressed in the Black-Robed Outer Sect Disciple’s attire, and exclaimed in surprise,

“A newcomer, so strong?”

“What are you doing?” Ye Zhen turned around and shouted angrily after being suddenly attacked.

The person paused for a moment, then dissatisfiedly shouted at Hee Miao, “Steward Hee, didn’t I tell you?

As soon as a quiet residence is available, keep it for me.

Yuen Chengzu has vacated this courtyard for several days now, why didn’t you notify me?”

Hee Miao’s face immediately turned bitter.

“Wu Zheng, it was Ye Zhen who chose this house first, there’s nothing I can do.”

The Inner Sect Disciple named Wu Zheng was about to erupt when he heard this and his expression suddenly changed.

He turned to Ye Zhen and asked, “You’re Ye Zhen?

The Ye Zhen who killed Yuen Chengzu?”

“That’s right!”

“I was rash, just pretend I didn’t come.

This courtyard is yours,” Wu Zheng said with a frustrated face and hurried away without looking back.

These past days, Wu Zheng had been occupied with Sect tasks and had just returned.

Hearing of Yuen Chengzu’s demise by Ye Zhen, he knew the room must be free and hastily rushed over.

He hadn’t expected that Ye Zhen would choose this very place.

He dared not challenge Yuen Chengzu before, and even less so with Ye Zhen, who had killed Yuen Chengzu.

“It seems that my reputation does have some effects.”

Ye Zhen chuckled self-deprecatingly, pushed open the courtyard gate, and the moment he stepped into the inner area, he paused briefly, then turned to look at Steward Hee.

“This…”

In the courtyard, a girl of about seventeen or eighteen was waiting.

Seeing Ye Zhen enter, she bowed deeply to him and said, “Xiangcao, your servant, pays respect to the young master.”