Chapter 405: The Courtyard (2/2)

Ma Rong was still unconscious and the floor was still covered with a layer of frost despite the water there being cleared away. With nothing more to be done, he thanked the girls and walked away.

He went to the disciple hall and saw if he needed to mention his return to the sect. Thankfully, he was exempt from the Contribution point stuff, or he would've been expelled by now.

He got a few spirit stones and some rather weak pills as the monthly compensation. Alex nearly laughed at the spot as to how bad they were.

'Two 30% Common Rank pill, and 50 spirit stones. Before I sold my first pill, I would've thought that this was a really expensive compensation that only core disciples got,” he thought.

Now, he knew just what sort of luxury the core disciples had from being so talented in Alchemy. He checked the contribution rankings and the alchemy achievement rankings.

His name was nowhere to be found in the contribution ranking as he had no more contribution to the sect. As for his alchemy achievements, due to not passing along any pill for the last 6 or so weeks, his rankings had dropped down to the 50s.

'Should I provide some pills to up my rankings?' he wondered for a few moments. 'I don't think so. I can easily just give a heaven-grade pill and become an elder,' he thought.

Thinking that he went back to his house and logged out.

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Elsewhere in the real world.

A car appeared outside a giant metal gate and stopped. From inside, Hao Ya walked out with a briefcase in her hand. She wore a long, sleeved black dress that ran up to her knees.

Below that, her skin was covered with stockings. She wore no jewelry except a single ring on her hand that held a large ruby-like jewel.

She didn't even wear a watch aside from the ring. Her hair was untied, but she had a sunglass pushing her bangs away from her face.

She walked up to the gate in high heels and pushed it open. She walked inside and entered the massive mansion that belonged to the man that was responsible for the game of Eternal Cultivation.

She walked to the door she had waited upon previously back when the man was just done making the capsules. She saw that the door to the room was open, so she decided to enter.

Inside was a massive room that didn't match the size seen from the outside at all. She walked in and went past a huge number of glass cylinders and searched for the man, but he wasn't there.

'Is he in the courtyard?' she wondered and walked back out.

Behind the massive mansion, was a small courtyard that was full of well-trimmed lawns and a massive pond in the middle. If one got close enough, one could see something very large moving inside that pond.

Just before the pond, the man was sitting in a lotus formation and had his eyes closed.

”You finally found your way here,” he said as he opened his eyes.

Hao Ya frowned when she saw him sitting there in front of the pond. ”You could've let me know you were here. I wouldn't have to walk through that room if you did,” she said with a pout.

”Haha, what's the hurry. Nothing is going anywhere,” he said with a laugh.

”Whatever here's your stupid data you wanted,” she said as she tossed the briefcase over to the man.

The man's eyes lit up. ”So, it's out already huh. I wonder how it has changed now,” he said as he took the stack of paper out of the briefcase.

Once it was out, he started reading it slowly.

”Oh,” he said in surprise at the very first thing he saw. ”There are over 400 Million capsules sold around the 17 cities? That's a lot more than I had imagined. Wait, what was the number for the helmet again?” he asked and closed his eyes.

He thought back to the previous stack of paper he read and said, ”ah right, 250 Million. So, we've had 150 million people join us on our venture huh? I hope some of them are good.”

”Although I have to say, I am quite smart to realize that I would need such a large room to accommodate those stuff,” he said.

”That reminds me, when is the next shipment of materials coming? The current supply is already ending,” he said.

”I have brought it with me, you don't need to worry about that. Just read those data,” Hao Ya said.

”Tsk, why are you so cold towards me from time to time?” he asked.

”You damn well know why,” she said in an angry voice.

”Ah, yeah. Uhh… I will do something about that for sure. Don't worry about it,” the man said and looked back into the records.

His eyes went over a list of data and sighed, ”half of them died huh? That's really unfortunate,” he said and kept on reading the pages more and more.

”Sigh… why do they keep on rushing through their cultivation so much? I thought everyone would know that's bad by now,” the man said.

”Well, at least this girl with the only Ancient grade body has seemed to have slowed down a lot in her cultivation and is fixing her cultivation base right now.”

”It seems not all hope is lost.”