122 Yeet City 2 (1/2)
Jia Shan and Jia Wenhe took their time in the meeting with the Myriad Cauldron's elders and the sect master since he was reporting the changes in the Mountain Goose Sect and the appearance of a succubus queen.
Meanwhile, Xu Miao and the 13 girls cheered as they finally found a temporary home. Their morale was high since this city was out of Xu Xiuying or Wei Huang's influence.
Despite having their rare precious time to be alone, everyone was too busy cleaning their new courtyard, rooms, and buildings. Also, they unpacked their ”living” luggage, the chest that carried a teenage girl inside.
She was the rescued mental girl, who was left behind by Long Meifang's group. Jiang Lan was in charge of keeping her alive.
The party had been hiding this girl inside a human-sized chest to avoid inspections of various checkpoints. Although they ran into problems during the boat trip, Jia Shan brought her along with them.
After cleaning the girl's body and giving her a proper dress, her unique beauty outshone Jiang Lan and others. Her wavy long brunette hair was similar to one of the Hollywood movie stars. Her slanted eyes with double eyelids, sharp nose, and arched eyebrows were like a piece of art. The youthful flawless white-jade skin lustered in the sunlight while her s-curved proportion, perky breasts, and round buttocks made Xu Miao drooled.
Xu Miao hadn't tried to brainwash the girl yet since all yin slaves and Wei Yuan monopolized his free time. Now that everyone had a new home, he was looking forward to adding this juicy girl to his collection.
”How is she?” Xu Miao was worried about the girl since they had been restraining her freedom for almost a month.
”We gave her a sleeping pill. She's is okay as long as she's sleeping.”
Jiang Lan always kept feeding her sleeping pills since this teenage girl was a troublemaker. Every woman, especially Wei Yuan, was wary of her.
”It must have been torturing for her. We can finally let her move outside the chest.”
Jiang Lan revealed a wry smile, ”Please heal her before you do. Master, you have no idea how feisty she was when I fed her water and food.”
”Oh? What did she do?”
”She bit me. She always drooled and tried to eat us. There was one time that I got careless, and she almost tore my arm's flesh with her teeth!”
Jiang Lan described the brunette girl's technique and the dangerous traits whenever she was freed. The rescued girl always eyed Jiang Lan and all girls as if she was looking at delicious food.
Xu Miao laughed, ”Well, she has a mental illness, so that's totally normal.”
”No. She used Energy Drain on me as well.”
”… What?” Xu Miao froze.
”It's similar to Energy Drain, but it has the smell of Xu Xiuying.”
”…”
”She must have practiced Vampiric Touch and got corrupted like the others,” Xu Miao guessed, judging from all collected information from Yao Lan and Long Meifang.
”I doubt it. She's somewhat special. The other sisters aren't this ferocious when they were still in the corrupted state.”
”… Is that so?” Xu Miao took a mental note that he had to be careful about this brunette girl since Jiang Lan was this paranoid, ”Alright. Thanks for the warning. For now, let's tidy our new home.”
…
At night, Jia Shan visited them to relay the result of the meeting.
”Congrats, kids. The Myriad Cauldron Sect has accepted all of us as guests. The sect will protect us.”
It was a piece of good news for all girls. But for Xu Miao, he sensed hidden bad news.
Learning from the past experience, Xu Miao didn't believe that the alchemist sect would let them stay for free, ”What's the catch, master?”
Jia Shan shrugged, ”They want me to be their guest elder. I also have to teach their combat disciples my swordsmanship.”
”I see,” Xu Miao had expected this.
However, Jia Shan hadn't finished, ”They also want you to work as an herbalist or farmer.”
”Wait, what!?”
As Xu Miao had guessed, there were conditions.
”They're not going to let you stay in their sect for free. All of you have to earn your keep. They won't pay for your food or provide you with spirit stones if you don't work. Also, we will have to pay the rents.”
”How much?”
”It's quite cheap. 10 raw spirit stones a month per person, except me. There're 15 of you, so that will be 150 SS a month.”
The renting rate was cheap for Xu Miao, but he didn't want to pay for the rent, ”Err, can't we join their sect and be their disciples?”
Jia Shan sneered, ”Can you concoct pills?”
Xu Miao wanted to say that he could make low-grade healing pills, but he was too embarrassed to say. After all, he could only make one type of pills.
Dejected, Xu Miao sulked, ”I can't.”
”Haiz. Don't blame yourself. Not everyone can master the art of alchemy. Well, it's not like they're forcing all of you to work. But if you do, you'll get some herbs and contribution points to exchange for spirit stones. If you don't want the stones, you can exchange the points for the rent.”
Xu Miao secretly checked his invisible ring. Inside the spatial space, he still had several thousands of refined demonic stones, raw demonic stones, Yin stones, and Yang stones. Even if he had to live alone for a century, he wouldn't run out of resources soon.
”I'll think about it.”
”Good. Stay here from now on. If you don't want to work, make sure to inform me. I'll spar with you until you drop!”
”Err, sure. By the way, where do I report for duties? Where is the herb farms? I only saw workshops and resident buildings around here.”