After Jun Changxiao roughly understood the channels for obtaining prestige points, he thought that if he was given a prestige quest to earn tens of thousands, he wouldn’t need to bring disciples to competitions.
The result?
The system spat in his face and mocked him with ‘dream on.’
And the result after that?
Jinx, face-slap!
This moment might arrive late, but it would never be absent!
After hearing the prestige quest trigger, Jun Changxiao couldn’t help but adopt Fan Wei’s tone, saying, “Thank you!”
“…”
If the system had a physical body, it would probably already be in tears.
So difficult.
I’m finding this so difficult!
“Swish!”
Jun Changxiao pulled up the quest panel, clicking on the prestige quest categorized under side quests. The displayed content was—
Vigorously develop sect industries, making them into sect symbols.
“That’s it?”
Seeing only these brief two lines, Jun Changxiao was instantly confused.
Side quests at least had numerical values to measure them—what was this about vigorously developing sect industries?
Moreover.
What did this have to do with sect prestige?
“A sect cannot do without industries. The strength of industries naturally relates to sect prestige,” the system said. “For example, the Myriad Ancient Pill Shop—develop it so that every major city in the Upper Realm has a chain store. As soon as it’s mentioned, people immediately think of the Myriad Ancient Sect. That’s prestige.”
“I see.”
“Snap!”
Jun Changxiao snapped his fingers, “Got it. The prestige quest is having me develop the pill shop!”
“I was just using it as an example!”
“Your example was very appropriate—it helped me grasp the key point.”
“…”
Having said he’d let him explore on his own and be too lazy to explain, yet he’d still inadvertently provided help.
“So what?”
Jun Changxiao said, “You’re here to assist me. Providing help and you’re complaining?”
“If I could start over, I would never be willing to assist a host who’s stingy, shameless, AND a scumbag!”
“Tch, having a male voice nagging in my ear all day—you think I’m happy about it!”
“So what, I’m in your way now?”
“Exactly!”
“Go to hell!”
“You go to hell!”
Jun Changxiao and the system entered their daily ‘showing affection’ mode.
In the distance, Su Xiaomo said in a low voice, “Second Senior Brother, the Sect Master is talking to himself again.”
“Stay calm.”
Li Qingyang said peacefully.
The Sect Master forgetting to take his medicine and acting like this had happened so many times they were long accustomed to it. In fact, if he didn’t do this one day, they’d find it strange.
Indeed.
After reaching Martial Emperor, the Sect Master had gone through a period where he seemed to have lost his soul.
…
Actually, even without the system saying it, Jun Changxiao could have thought of the pill shop—after all, it was currently the sect’s only industry.
Over the past two years, the pill shop’s business had become increasingly prosperous, being the Myriad Ancient Sect’s largest source of funds. But the scale had always stayed stagnant.
Now that a prestige quest had arrived, Jun Changxiao began considering how to expand operations and develop more industries, making the ‘Myriad Ancient’ brand leave Lin Yuan City and go global!
To this end.
He summoned Young Master Yuan and Feng Guichen back to the sect to discuss.
One was responsible for pill management, the other for pill refinement—they cooperated quite well.
“Sect Master.”
Feng Guichen shook his head, “We lack pill-refining talent. It’s very difficult to open more branch stores.”
Jun Changxiao was typical of someone whose brain gets hot and just charges ahead without considering anything. Little did he know that as the Myriad Ancient Pill Shop’s business grew better and demand for pills grew larger, the refinement side had clearly fallen behind pace.
“Can’t Sun Bukong and the others refine pills yet?”
“They can refine them, but at the pill shop’s current sales volume, they can only support one store. If we open shops in other cities, we’ll definitely be stretched too thin.”
Jun Changxiao fell silent.
It seemed he’d thought things too simply.
Wait a moment!
Stretched too thin?
Jun Changxiao slapped his forehead, “I forgot about the Great Thousand Shadow Splitting Art!”
Two years ago, when attending the Lingfeng Mountain sect leaders’ meeting, completing the side quest had rewarded a secret manual. Due to various reasons, it had been forgotten by Gou Sheng. Fortunately, Feng Guichen reminded readers one step ahead.
Integrating it into his spatial ring, he took out the manual that had been gathering dust for two and a half years… and immediately began carefully reading through it.
From the name, this should be related to movement techniques. But after Jun Changxiao read the first page’s contents, he realized it was actually a kind of martial art related to shadow clones.
The meaning of shadow clones need not be explained. Gou Sheng had encountered them before when fighting people.
However, this Great Thousand Shadow Splitting Art was rather miraculous. After successful cultivation, it would condense shadows identical to oneself while also copying the main body’s aptitude, martial arts, and skills. Then… it would cultivate on its own!
Simply put, you condense a shadow clone that doesn’t need you to cultivate—you can even go sightseeing while it handles things, then transmits the acquired experience back to the main body.
“Holy shit!”
Jun Changxiao blurted out, “This is kind of awesome!”
The system muttered, “Such a powerful martial art would cost at least a million in the shop. That it’s actually a side quest reward is really quite unbelievable.”
Gou Sheng continued reading. The more he read, the more excited he became, because the records further stated that this martial art wasn’t suitable for actual combat, but as long as shadow clones were gathered, it could accelerate martial cultivation speed and even manipulate shadows for use in pill refinement, forging, and other areas.
In simple terms.
Not responsible for fighting, only responsible for logistics!
“Hahaha!”
Jun Changxiao slapped his thigh laughing.
Just when he was worried about insufficient manpower, here came a martial art that could condense shadow clones to help refine pills—this was like timely aid in snow!
Sitting nearby, Young Master Yuan grimaced because the Sect Master had suddenly started laughing for some reason, then raised his palm and madly slapped his own thigh with force that could be described in just two words—really painful!
“Sect Master!”
Feng Guichen couldn’t help but say, “Did you think of something happy?”
“Uh…”
Only then did Jun Changxiao return to his senses from wild laughter, then said seriously, “Where was this seat just now?”
“Opening branch stores.”
“Mm, it’s decided then. In a while, Old Yuan will go examine other cities and scout out shops with good locations.”
“Sect Master, the manpower issue…”
“Manpower isn’t a big problem. This seat will find a solution.”
…
The meeting ended.
Walking out of the great hall, Feng Guichen collapsed, “Old Yuan, our Myriad Ancient Pill Shop follows a high-end route. If the Sect Master opens branch stores, does that mean finding a bunch of low-level pill refiners to make up the numbers?”
“No way.”
Young Master Yuan said seriously, “Based on my understanding of the Sect Master, as long as there’s a method, it will definitely be the best!”
“…”
Feng Guichen still felt uncertain inside.
Mainly because he’d joined the sect late, and the Sect Master had been out training for two years, so he’d encountered fewer sect laws. If it were the Three Brain Supplement Brothers, as long as the Sect Master said there was a method, they’d definitely believe there was one.
…
The next day.
The two were preparing to set out and return to Lin Yuan City when Jun Changxiao called them to the great hall, tossing over two secret manuals, “You can cultivate these in your spare time from managing business and refining pills.”
“Thank you, Sect Master!” Young Master Yuan joyfully received it.
Feng Guichen also accepted the manual, but his heart had no ripples because as someone obsessed with the pill dao, he had little interest in the martial dao.
However, on the road returning to Lin Yuan City, seeing Young Master Yuan studying it with great interest, studying it until his eyes gleamed, curiosity got the better of him and he opened the manual titled Great Thousand Shadow Splitting Art. After reading through the contents recorded above, he immediately exposed his lack of culture: “Holy shit!”