Chapter 135: Chapter 40: General Affairs Hall

The Alchemy Hall was extremely far from the valley where A Class was located. It would take at least a full day to travel there using Wind-controlling Talismans. Even with a Flying Spiritual Artifact, the journey would take about half a day.

Yang Jing simply borrowed Shentu Ying’s Flying Boat and used Spirit Stones to accelerate, flying all the way to the Alchemy Hall.

Because Alchemy required Spiritual Fire, the mountain where the Alchemy Hall was situated was connected to subterranean earth fire. This earth fire was used for Alchemy, and its residual heat made the peak much hotter than other places.

At this moment, numerous disciples were performing Alchemy in the Fire Rooms atop the mountain, and the fragrance of elixirs permeated the air.

Yang Jing stopped in front of a pavilion and put away his Flying Boat.

Behind a long row of counters sat a dozen disciples in Outer Disciple Daoist Robes, listlessly selling various Spirit Pills to other disciples.

After fulfilling their Sect quotas, many disciples of the Alchemy Pavilion would refine extra pills to sell in the Grass Market at much lower prices. As a result, not many disciples came directly to the Alchemy Pavilion to buy Spirit Pills.

It didn’t take long for Yang Jing to reach the front of the line.

“Three Transformation Pills.”

The cultivator, who had been sitting in a very relaxed posture, immediately straightened up.

After the Profound Carp Association case came to light, the Six Great Sects had all become much stricter in managing elixirs used by Demons.

“Transformation Pills? To buy these, you need an Identity Jade Token and the Demon’s Beast Token.”

Yang Jing took out his Jade Token and the Beast Tokens for his three disciples.

The moment the disciple saw that Yang Jing was from A Class, his expression became much more enthusiastic.

“So it’s Junior Brother Yang. Three Transformation Pills will be 4,500 Spirit Stones in total. They must be consumed inside a Quiet Chamber in this building and cannot be taken out of the Alchemy Hall.”

“Of course.”

The Alchemy Hall disciple’s explanation was exactly the same as Ji Feng’s.

Yang Jing took out his Storage Bag and paid the full amount of Spirit Stones.

Iron Head, Yinjiao, and Chi Yu went through the motions in one of the hall’s Refining Rooms without a hitch, pretending to complete their Transformation.

After completing the “Transformation,” their Identity Tokens were exchanged for Iron Tokens, similar to those for Miscellaneous Task disciples.

When they returned to the A Class valley, Ji Feng was astonished to see the three disciples.

Yang Jing introduced the three disciples to him by name.

Ji Feng hurriedly bowed to each of them in turn, without a trace of arrogance.

With three new laborers, Yang Jing reorganized the division of labor. He had Ji Feng instruct the three disciples on how to inscribe the Restrictions. Once they were skilled, Ji Feng would be responsible for Refining the Artifact Embryos and the final Re-Firing, while the three disciples would handle inscribing the Restrictions in an assembly line.

Yang Jing hadn’t expected the Insect Extermination Bell business to go so smoothly. Fortunately, the three disciples’ farming contracts were only for ten days and were just about to expire.

Ji Feng had been utterly convinced that three newly transformed Demons couldn’t possibly learn to inscribe Restrictions. But to his surprise, Iron Head completely mastered the three Restrictions in just one day. Yinjiao was next, taking three days. Even Chi Yu, who looked the youngest, took only seven days.

It even made him start to question his own Talent for Artifact Refining.

The small workshop formed by these four produced Insect Extermination Bells with astonishing efficiency.

Ji Feng, ever the pragmatist, proactively offered to lower his share of the profits. After witnessing the astounding progress of Iron Head, Yinjiao, and Chi Yu, he quickly determined that he was no longer indispensable to the Insect Extermination Bell business.

Yang Jing didn’t agree to lower his cut to five percent. Instead, he set the share for all four of them at ten percent each, while he would take sixty percent.

The soaring production rate allowed the Insect Extermination Bell to spread among the Miscellaneous Task disciples with incredible speed. Just one month later, shrewd Miscellaneous Task disciples were traveling great distances from the other side of the Five Elements True Spirit Sect, wanting to become sales agents for the bells.

Yang Jing naturally didn’t refuse. Both the Refining and sales speeds of the Insect Extermination Bell had exceeded his expectations, and he wanted to capture the market as quickly as possible.

One day, Yang Jing leisurely moved a Meditation Cushion outside his house and sat cross-legged upon it. He activated his True Yang Body, absorbing the Celestial Yang Qi from the dome-like sky above to refine it into True Yang.

Ever since obtaining the Pure Yang Body, transforming Celestial True Yang had become as natural to him as breathing. The Celestial Yang Qi in the sky funneled down, drawn into his body and merging with his qi and blood.

The surging Celestial True Yang was stored within his various Acupoints, deeply hidden and unrevealed.

As of today, he had opened thirty-one Acupoints. His Body Refinement Realm within the Qi Cultivation Stage was only five more Acupoints away from Perfection.

Thanks to consuming a large number of Body Refining Spirit Pills, including some precious Tier Two Spirit Pills, Yang Jing had cultivated the Tiger Roar Iron Cloth Shirt—a Technique within his True Yang Body—nearly to the absolute limit of the Qi Cultivation Stage.

After all, when the Nine Yang Sect was annihilated, the Bone Marrow Transformation Pill had not yet been invented. And even if it had, very few people could have possibly consumed enough Bone Marrow Transformation Pills to develop a severe resistance to them.

With such an incredibly profound foundation, the speed at which he opened his Acupoints was actually increasing.

Yang Jing had secretly tested himself before. He could withstand a direct hit from a Ren Water Thunder Technique with his physical body and be almost unharmed. If he used the Great Capturing Technique, he could even snatch the Silver Horned Imperial Envoy’s Flying Sword right out of the air.

The incomparably sharp Sword Gang had only managed to leave a small cut on his palm.

When it came down to it, his True Yang Body was his strongest asset, but he had never revealed it to outsiders.

Since he wasn’t short on Spirit Stones, Yang Jing had been luxuriously consuming Tier Two Spirit Rice and Tier Two Demon Beast Flesh for the past month. Under this great nourishment, he not only stored a massive amount of qi and blood, but even his thirty-second Acupoint felt unstable, ready to be broken through at any moment.

Suddenly, his eyelids twitched. He silently switched his active Cultivation Technique to the Five Talisman Scripture.

Only after he had completed a full Circulation did a voice sound in front of him.

“Yang Jing, you certainly have great composure. Truly the temperament to remain calm as a mountain collapses before you, to not even blink as a deer appears at your side. If I had earned so many Spirit Stones at your age, I wouldn’t have been able to stay this tranquil. I’d have long since gone to the Celestial Square Marketplace to live it up.”

Yang Jing opened his eyes to see three men standing before him.

He rose respectfully from his Meditation Cushion and bowed to the three of them.

“Greetings, Junior Martial Uncles.”

Among the three, Xu Hongde from the Inheritance Hall stood on the right, and the A Class Foundation Establishment instructor, Feng Tianyi, stood on the left. In the center was a middle-aged Cultivator with a dignified appearance, dressed in a purple Daoist Robe.

The words just now had come from his mouth.

“This is Senior Brother Guo Chuanzhi from the General Affairs Hall,” Feng Tianyi cautiously introduced him to Yang Jing.

“Greetings, Junior Martial Uncle Guo.”

The Three Great Halls of the Five Elements True Spirit Sect were the General Affairs Hall, the True Martial Hall, and the Inspection Hall.

The General Affairs Hall was responsible for handling all sorts of administrative matters within the Sect. It governed the Sect, its authority touching everything, which showed how powerful it was.

Guo Chuanzhi’s Cultivation was already at Foundation Establishment Perfection, with the next step being a Golden Core Master. His status in the Sect was a whole level higher than Xu Hongde’s, to say nothing of Feng Tianyi.

“Take me to see how these Insect Extermination Bells are refined.”

Yang Jing led the three men into his house.

’I knew I couldn’t keep the Insect Extermination Bell a secret for long. For the General Affairs Hall to be the one to come knocking is one of the best possible outcomes.’

Inside the house, the Artifact Refining Furnace was running nonstop as four short, child-like figures worked overtime to produce Insect Extermination Bells.

Although Guo Chuanzhi was worldly and knowledgeable, even he couldn’t help but be stunned at the sight of what looked like a child-labor sweatshop.

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