Ten thousand prestige points to upgrade the sect level definitely looked more pleasing to the eye than ten million contribution points—at least not so many zeros.
However, regarding this pay-to-upgrade behavior, Jun Changxiao cursed the feature designer to pieces in his heart.
Back in the Lower Realm, though the opening was difficult, things would gradually improve.
Now? The System upgraded to Upper Realm version, everything cost money, even refreshes required VIP membership. It was simply impossible to survive without spending money.
“Sigh.”
Jun Changxiao sighed. “This is way too realistic!”
Actually having a clear upgrade path wasn’t bad—at least he didn’t need disciples to raise their levels or gain others’ recognition. As long as he had enough prestige or contribution points, he could upgrade.
What did this mean? It meant money truly could do whatever it wanted.
“There’s a goal now!”
Jun Changxiao thought, “Moving forward, just focus thoughts on earning prestige and contribution points!”
The System said, “Host shouldn’t think too simply. Remember, a sect is judged by disciples’ overall strength. Even if you have money to upgrade to Immortal-rank, that’s just a paper tiger.”
“You mean I not only have to make money but also find ways to raise disciples’ overall strength?” Jun Changxiao said.
“Exactly.”
“What’s the value of spending money to upgrade sect level then?”
“Existence is reasonable.”
“I’ll reason with your grandma’s legs! If spending money can’t solve problems, then it’s deliberately cheating me!”
…
Prestige points could be used to purchase prestige items. From the Bluffing Outfit, one could see such equipment was actually quite good.
But now with this new function that could directly upgrade the sect, a new problem arose—should future points be spent on items or saved for upgrading?
If good items appeared in the shop, not buying them definitely wouldn’t work. So if he saved while spending, when would he ever gather ten thousand?
Trap!
Massive trap!
“I understand!” Jun Changxiao collapsed. “This must be because they think I’m completing main quests too easily, so they deliberately raised the difficulty!”
The System said, “You could understand it that way.”
“Damn it!”
Jun Changxiao cursed internally, then thought of something. “Wait, wait—I can use prestige points to buy items and contribution points to upgrade the sect!”
Ten million was a lot, but doing random side quests casually gave hundreds of thousands. Slowly accumulating would eventually reach the goal.
“Let’s do that!”
Jun Changxiao immediately decided.
However, the idea was good, but the key question was—how to obtain prestige and contribution points?
“Missions!”
“Come quickly!”
“…”
The System fell silent.
“Ding! Sect mission triggered!”
“Hahaha!” Jun Changxiao laughed. “Did you think by staying silent you could avoid triggering your jinx attribute?”
“Wait!”
“Sect missions?”
Dog Leftover’s smile froze on his face.
Whenever disciple numbers reached the limit, sect missions would trigger. After disciples completed them, they’d gain achievement points used to upgrade sect level.
But to this day, sect construction had become meaningless, and there were no more disciple number limits. How could missions suddenly appear out of nowhere?
The System explained, “Disciples have cultivated in the Upper Realm for over two years and have completely adapted to the new environment, so brand new sect missions have officially launched.”
“After completion, they give achievement points and contribution points?”
“Should be.”
“Should be?”
“I’m just an assistant. I don’t fully understand many new features.”
“You’re either getting face-slapped, jinxing things backwards, or now not even understanding upgraded features. I’m embarrassed for you.”
“…”
The System was silenced by Jun Changxiao’s retort.
“Sect Master!”
Just then, Li Qingyang transmitted, “The Mission Pavilion has many new missions appearing!”
Jun Changxiao hurried over and saw the mission board listing numerous tasks—hunting demonic beasts, external training missions, similar to those given during construction upgrades.
Damn!
Quite a lot of missions!
If all completed, they should provide substantial contribution points!
“Qingyang.”
Jun Changxiao ordered, “Notify all sect disciples to do missions during cultivation breaks.”
“Yes!”
…
After the brand new sect missions appeared, the quiet sect immediately became lively. Many disciples gathered outside the Mission Pavilion, either holding signs seeking damage dealers, healers, or tanks—once again resuming a mode similar to playing games and clearing dungeons.
Of course.
There were difficulty divisions too.
Low-star missions suited outer disciples, mid-star suited inner disciples, high-star suited core disciples, and above that were exclusive missions for halls and elders!
“Plant five million Purple Phoenix Jade Grass within one month?” Sun Bukong stood before the mission board. Seeing the task prefixed with [Medical Herb Hall Exclusive], he stroked his chin. “Should be no problem.”
Purple Phoenix Jade Grass sounded grand, but like Supreme Emperor Grass, it was among the most common medicinal materials.
Drizzle Hall, War Cavalry Hall and other halls all had their own missions. Since they were exclusive, they aligned with each hall’s characteristics, so I won’t make up details for each. You understand what I mean. (Those saying “we’ll pay book coins for you to write it out”—knock it off!)
…
“Ding! Disciple Jing Zhixiao completed a sect mission and gained 10 contribution points, 10 achievement points.”
“Ding! Disciple Lin Jianghang completed a sect mission…”
Within just a few days, many disciples successively completed sect missions. But Jun Changxiao said helplessly, “The rewards are way too little!”
“One mission gives 10 points. One hundred thousand missions equals 10 million contribution points. Is that little?” The System said.
“Uh!”
Jun Changxiao said, “Seems not that little actually.”
The reward amount wasn’t the issue. At least with sect missions appearing, they now had a stable channel for earning contribution points.
…
Inner and outer disciples had already started taking action, but core disciples hadn’t begun yet because many were in secluded cultivation, like Ye Xingchen and Xiao Zuiji.
About five or six days later.
Li Qingyang finally caught the two at the back mountain. “Junior brothers, come on—let’s do a mission.”
“What mission?”
“An extremely difficult mission!”
“Oh?”
Ye Xingchen and Xiao Zuiji exchanged glances, their eyes simultaneously gleaming with intense battle intent.
“Brother He!”
Li Qingyang called out to He Wudi, who was about to enter the Life-Death Secret Realm. “Want to come along?”
“Sure.”
“Let’s go!”
…
Inside the Mission Pavilion.
Li Qingyang stood before the mission board and selected the highest difficulty disciple-level mission.
Just as he was confirming the team members, a cold voice came from behind: “Count me in.”
Everyone turned around and saw Senior Sister leaning against the door frame. They all wondered internally, “That’s unusual.”
Previously when high-difficulty sect missions existed, it was mostly Ye Xingchen and others who took them. Lu Qianqian rarely participated. This time actively requesting to join was indeed strange.
“Good!”
Li Qingyang entered Senior Sister’s name.
With that, the mission team was complete—five people total: the other three being Ye Xingchen, Xiao Zuiji, and He Wudi.
Wait?
Where’s Su Xiaomo?
At this moment, he was touring Linyu City with Xia Shuiyun, saying affectionately, “The happiness of the past two years combined doesn’t compare to half a moment with you.”
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