We Are the Most Charitable Sect in the Cultivation World!

Hearing Wang Mu's voice.

The whole scene immediately fell silent.

All eyes converged, as if by prior agreement, on the direction where the Nine Yang Sect stood.

They discovered that Sect Master Yang Juzi wore the same bewildered expression as they did.

"Me? Are you calling me?"

When Wang Mu had invited them earlier, he had only said they were to attend the ceremony. He had never mentioned this part.

On the cloud platform.

Wang Mu continued with a smile, "Senior Yang Juzi possesses a heart of great kindness. At the founding of the Charity Foundation, he injected a full eight thousand four hundred Spirit Stones in donations into the foundation!

Ranked first!

He has received the top-ranked honor on our Langya Charity Foundation's Merit List!

Let us congratulate him!"

After saying that, Wang Mu took the lead in applauding.

As the crowd followed suit and clapped, they saw a golden ranking descend from the void above the cloud platform.

The ranking had originally been blank.

Only the three words "Merit List" stood at its very top.

Nalan Rongyun, Guild Master of the Langya Merchant Association, took a golden brush from Li Yuanhua and personally wrote a line upon it.

"First rank: Nine Yang Sect, Yang Juzi, donation—eight thousand four hundred Spirit Stones!"

Then she turned around, swept her gaze across the crowd, and said with a faint smile, "Which Daoist Friend is Yang Juzi of the Nine Yang Sect? Please come up to receive your award."

Upon hearing this.

Yang Juzi's mind buzzed, then exploded outright.

I'm screwed!

What did I just hear?

The Guild Master of the Langya Merchant Association!

The Prince of Wei's consort!

The Wang Family's matriarch!

A towering figure at the Earth Immortal realm!

Actually calling a tiny Golden Core Stage cultivator like him Daoist Friend?

My fucking ancestral graves have exploded!

"Sect Master, Sect Master? Guild Master Nalan is calling you!"

Seeing Yang Juzi frozen in place, the Nine Yang Sect elders beside him were nearly driven mad with anxiety.

"Oh, oh! Here! Me, it's me!"

Yang Juzi raised an arm high and shouted in reply.

Then he rose into the air and arrived on the cloud platform, lifting the hem of his robes and hurrying toward Nalan Rongyun and Wang Mu with tiny, rapid steps.

He even fell once midway, then scrambled hurriedly back to his feet.

He practically rolled and crawled his way before Nalan Rongyun, bowing so deeply that he stammered, "Th-this junior is the Sect Master of the Nine Yang Sect, Yang... Yang Juzi. Greetings, Guild Master. Greetings, Young Master!"

Nalan Rongyun nodded calmly, took a certificate from Li Yuanhua, and handed it over with both hands.

Yang Juzi remained bent over as he accepted it carefully.

"Thank you, Daoist Friend Yang Juzi, for your contribution to charity," Nalan Rongyun said with a gentle smile.

"I dare not accept such praise, I dare not accept such praise. It was merely a lift of the hand!"

Yang Juzi said in terror, though the excitement in his heart was already nearly impossible to contain.

His chest felt as though it were about to burst open.

Mother of heaven!

Guild Master Nalan had personally presented him with an award.

This honor was simply beyond the heavens!

The crowd erupted into an uproar.

"Fuck, is this real?"

"An Earth Immortal expert personally giving out an award? This is going to cost years off my life!"

"No, wait? Eight thousand Spirit Stones can get you this treatment? Fuck me!"

"Didn't Young Master Wang say it? Only one percent of what you spend at the Langya Merchant Association goes into the foundation! Yang Juzi donated eight thousand, which means he spent more than eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones at the Langya Merchant Association!"

"...So what if it was over eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones? He still doesn't deserve this!"

"..."

Everyone fell silent.

That person was right.

So what if it was eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones?

What kind of figure was Nalan Rongyun?

Never mind eight hundred thousand—even eight hundred million might not earn you a second glance from her!

Much less make her smile like this and thank you!

What kind of glory was this?

It was enough to be written into books and passed down for descendants to brag about for thousands of years!

"Why the fuck does that bastard get it?"

The two Sect Masters of Myriad Snow Pavilion and the Lunar Yin Sect had reddened eyes as they stared at Yang Juzi on the cloud platform, who looked trembling with fear on the surface but was secretly unable to contain his delight. They wished they could rush up and kill him.

Putting themselves in his shoes.

If they were in Yang Juzi's position right now.

The focus of countless eyes, an Earth Immortal presenting the award!

Then... how amazing would that feel?

Hiss!

Just thinking about it made their bodies tremble uncontrollably!

"Didn't he just spend a little more than this senior? Fuck!"

The two regretted it until their guts turned green. They had also spent quite a bit recently, only slightly less than the Nine Yang Sect.

Had they known there would be such treatment, they would have been willing to sell their mountain gates!

Before their words had faded.

A voice drifted down from the cloud platform.

"Next, please welcome the second-ranked recipient on the Merit List, Senior Chu Youchang, master of Myriad Snow Pavilion!"

"The third-ranked recipient on the Merit List, Senior Shui Ziliu, master of the Lunar Yin Sect!"

As soon as these words were spoken.

The two brightened.

It was their turn!

It really was their turn!

The two scrambled and rolled their way onto the cloud platform, receiving their awards with utmost respect.

As they watched Nalan Rongyun write their names on the Merit List, the satisfaction and exhilaration in their hearts surged to the peak in an instant.

This felt fucking incredible!

"Thank you to all three of you for your tremendous contributions to the peace, prosperity, and shared development of the Northern Region's Cultivation World!"

Wang Mu approached the three with a faint smile. "May I ask what thoughts the three of you have at this moment? Is there anything you would like to say to your fellow Daoist Friends?"

"I am ashamed to say that this old man only made such a tiny contribution to charity. Compared to Young Master's sympathy for the world and his heart that embraces all under heaven, it is truly not worth mentioning!"

Yang Juzi said with deep emotion, "From now on, I will certainly work even harder and make my own contribution to the peace of the Northern Region's Cultivation World!"

Chu Youchang said in a trembling voice, "Thank you, Young Master. Thank you, Guild Master. Thank you, Langya Merchant Association, for giving us such an opportunity!"

Shui Ziliu said, "As everyone knows, disciples of our Lunar Yin Sect have always been upright and aboveboard when traveling abroad, generously spreading benevolence and righteousness. It was so before, and it shall remain so in the future!"

"..."

At the same time.

Below, the disciples and elders from the three great sects who had come to witness the ceremony were also excited to the extreme.

"Did you see that? This is the bearing of our Nine Yang Sect! The top rank on the Merit List personally designated by Guild Master Nalan! Your Myriad Snow Pavilion and Lunar Yin Sect are still a notch beneath us!"

"Bullshit! Your Nine Yang Sect only spent a few tens of thousands more Spirit Stones than us! If those Langya Branches hadn't run out of stock recently, first rank would definitely have belonged to our Myriad Snow Pavilion!"

"Our Lunar Yin Sect is the most charitable! Stop fighting already! Hey, you there, take the money and head to the Langya Merchant Association to sweep up goods right now. Qi-Replenishing Pills, Rejuvenation Pills—buy as many as they have..."

"We're going too! Not to fight for first place, but to prove that our Nine Yang Sect's title as the top of the Merit List is deserved in name and truth. We simply want to do our small part for the peace and prosperity of this Cultivation World!"

"Who's afraid of who? Buy! Buy the hell out of them! Does buying Qi-Replenishing Pills by the bottle even look respectable? If the sect next door sees us, they'll think we can't afford them! Buy them by the pound—one pound per person!"

"..."

The three great sects of Heavenly Severing Island had always competed with one another.

At this moment.

Their desire to win had been ignited to the extreme, and none of them were willing to yield.

Before the founding ceremony of the Langya Charity Foundation had even ended, disciples from the three great sects were already charging toward the Langya Branches in the city with money in hand and murderous aura blazing.

At the same time.

The faces of the people from the Three Great Merchant Associations turned green when they saw this scene.