50 Junior Brothers and Sisters Are Promising Youth (1/2)

Across the hall before the wall shadow, Mu Xiao watched the gradually setting sun. Feeling the gentle warm from the sunset afterglow that sprinkled over his body, he could not help but feel languid.

It was another leisure day for him. In about half an hour, it was time for him to get off work. If not for the sect’s harsh rule, Mu Xiao would really follow his impulse to leave early.

He had been working at the Heavenly Policy Hall for about three years. Three years ago, his Master had entrusted him to be responsible for answering the sect’s official affairs in the Heavenly Policy Hall every ten days for each month and eight hours per day. Actually, the work itself was not difficult; he just have to inspect and register the applicant’s information and deal with a few knotty problem. However, this official working hours would inevitably delay his cultivation time. Three years ago, regardless of his Master, Martial Uncles or Aunts, Senior or Junior Brothers or Sisters, all thought that he got the short end of the stick, especially his Master. Thus, overtly or covertly, he would get a lot of compensation. For example, occasionally, he would get make-up classes or would be granted various kinds of gifts and subsidies according to the sect regulations...

Thus, Mu Xiao was quite satisfied with his job. Moreover, for three years, he had reaped unexpected benefit - the signboard of the Heavenly Policy Hall was signed by the Sect Leader. With this sign, he was no longer just a Xudan Stage disciple, but an official who represent the sect management. This identity brought him a lot of benefits.

In fact, if not for the sect restriction on the amount of time the disciple could work as officials, Mu Xiao really wanted to continue doing this—delayed cultivation was not that big of a deal. He started cultivating thirty-seven years ago, and now he has reached the Xudan Stage, his lifespan was nearly three hundred years. Moreover, within the next thirty years, with his spirit root qualification, he fully expected to reach the Jindan Stage. Thus, he still has much time, so why would he need to hurry? His position in the Heavenly Policy Hall could only be discovered but not sought.

Although Mu Xiao enjoyed his life in this Heavenly Policy Hall and wished that he could work overtime everyday, for the last few days, he had always been punctual when it was time to get off work, never tarried a moment longer, as if he had a guilty conscience.

In fact, Mu Xiao indeed slightly felt guilty, specifically about the dispute that happened four days ago.

At that time, he and Wang Lu had a quarrel, made a commotion in the office and set a high stake gamble. At that time, he was so angered by Wang Lu; he thought that people from the Non-Phase Peak simply has no brain. How could a mere Body Refining Stage disciple dare to take the experiential learning challenge at Small Clear Sky Peak? It was simply “vulgar claptrap to please the crowd”; he was as irritating as his disgrace of a Master. As for their bet of five hundred challenge points, no matter how Mu Xiao thought, it was impossible to earn that much points.

However, that evening, Mu Xiao felt uneasy. So, while he had nothing but free time, he looked for the sect historical text and flipped through Wang Lu’s detailed record on his Immortal Gathering two years ago. Two years ago during the Immortal Gathering, he was in the middle of seclusion practice, so he failed to witness the event. After the end of the Immortal Gathering, when he returned to work, the enthusiasm to discuss the Immortal Gathering had cooled down, so he knew only about the results, and not so much about the process, nor did he care.

However, this time, when he flipped through the record, what he found stunned him and caused him to gasp a mouthful of cold air.

Unexpectedly, Wang Lu, whom he thought as a grandstanding-kind of person, was actually so fierce and vigorous! If not for the quality of his spirit root that was a pain in the ass, by virtue of his character and perception, he was fully qualified to be the Sect Leader’s Successor Disciple! Even more frightening was that, in the Peach Blossom Village, he got a such a terrifying score that the score counter almost got data overflow! Other people could not be compared to him at all!

Mu Xiao could not help but sigh with emotion, thinking, “All the test is probably just a game for Wang Lu.”

“Damn it! This experiential learning is not a game! If it is, then it’s a fatal game!”

Then, he thought about his bet with Wang Lu, “Five hundred challenge points is the base and one hundred spirit stones for each point differ from that. I initially thought that, at most, he would get one or two hundred points and will owe me tens of thousands of spirit stones. But now, it seems…”

A few years ago, his Master Liu Xian had imparted meaningful and heartfelt words toward a few black and white disciples at the small class inside the Inner Court’s hall.

“You are all well qualified to be called genius in cultivation, but the Nine Regions is vast and full of wonders, so people more genius than you do exist. And, the gap between geniuses is, perhaps, far beyond your imagination.”

At that time, he and several of his fellow disciples humbly listened but thought that those remarks referred to the few freak Successor Disciples that the Elders recently accepted.

But now, he realized that Wang Lu was the kind of people who’s a genius far beyond his imagination. Thus, Mu Xiao was naturally anxious; for several days, everyday at work, he was always afraid that the guy would come to him with four digit challenge points and demand the money from him.

Although even those freak Successor Disciples would logically find it impossible to earn five hundred challenge points, much less more, but if it was Wang Lu...

While he was pondering, the half hour quietly slipped away. Looking at the scarlet setting sun outside the Hall, making him feel secretly relieved. He was ready to get up and leave, but at this time, a burst of footsteps came from outside the hall.

“Damn! Are you kidding me! Is he going to claim his bet now!?”

Mu Xiao could not help but be startled as cold sweat quickly poured out from his body. However, his Primordial Spirit was moved; he sensed that the situation was not as what he imagined—the person who came was not Wang Lu.

“Sorry to disturb you, Senior Brother Mu Xiao.”

With a gentle and courteous greeting, a disciple in black and white slowly walked to the front of the hall and cupped his fists towards Mu Xiao. Mu Xiao was stunned, he recognized the other person was Junior Brother Yue Yun. Although this Junior Brother only possessed third rate spirit root, he has gentle and generous personality, with excellent perception. His future cultivation wasn’t going to be inferior to him. Recently, he often honed himself with actual combat, so his cultivation progress was very fast.

Following behind Yue Yun were several inner and outer court disciples who entered the sect the same time as Wang Lu two years ago. These few people were covered with dirt, yet they could not contain their joy.

Seeing this scene, Mu Xiao immediately understood; he said with a smile, “Junior Brother Yue Yun, you guys have concluded your experiential learning?”

Yue Yun nodded. “That’s right! Because of all sorts of accidents, we couldn’t complete the previous experiential learning, so… I took the initiative to propose that everyone redo the experiential learning to make up for the previous shortcomings. Fortunately, several Junior Brothers and Sisters were very supportive, so we soon put together the team. And this time’s performance is really amazing.”

Indeed, just a week ago, Yue Yun had brought a stack of information to the Heavenly Policy Hall to apply for another experiential learning. Because this application was not referred by an Elder, Mu Xiao thus asked several questions. After knowing the reasons, Mu Xiao praised Yue Yun and his team member’s ambition. Now, seeing their happy faces, it was clear that their experiential learning was a great success.

“Congratulations Junior Brothers and Sisters, I will register your results, please wait a moment.”

Yue Yun cupped his hands. “Thank you for the hard work, Senior Brother… We are too reckless for coming here as you are going to get off work.”

“Hehe, it’s nothing, I’m just going to write several characters, that’s all… Was your traveling schedule the same as what you declared last week?”

Yue Yun said, “It’s the same. We go through the primary route, from the Full Moon Valley toward the Azure Dragon Gorge and finally returned through the Lotus Pond. From the planned six days, we did it in five… Moreover, I was the sole leader, Junior Sister Huo Ying had to do some other things, so she couldn’t travel together.”

Mu Xiao continued to nod as he recorded their reports. “Not bad. Based on your average cultivation level and a single team leader, this achievement is really good.”

Yue Yun smiled. “Speaking of which, we were really quite lucky; this time’s experiential learning, from start to finish, we rarely encountered particularly powerful monsters. Especially around the Full Moon Valley, where the monsters would constantly harass us; it seemed like someone had done a clean-up in advance, so our journey there was quite easy.”

Mu Xiao laughed. “Luck is also part of the strength. Junior Brother Yue Yun, no need to be modest. Being able to avoid monsters encounter, you got the credit for choosing the right path.”

While speaking, Mu Xiao had finished recording and was about to close the book when he heard Yue Yun suddenly said, “Senior Brother, please hold on, this time, several Junior Brothers and Sisters got some challenge points.”

“Oh?”

Hearing about the challenge points, Mu Xiao suddenly turned serious. “Please elaborate and show me the proof.”