Why the Added Sentence? A Gift from Senior Brothers

Jiang Shoucheng's task of guarding the Yellow Heaven Sect's gates was surely a miserable assignment. Even if no blind Outer Heavenly Demons came to the Yellow Heaven Sect to stir up trouble, merely standing watch at the gates for ten years was already a waste of time—and humiliating besides.

As the saying went: Junior Brother Su became the abbot at Mind-Stilling Temple, Junior Brother Li cultivated properly within the sect, while I guarded the gates. The three of us all had bright futures.

Su Che had previously heard the story behind this. According to the original arrangement, those ten years of gate duty should have fallen to Preceptor Mo's branch. However, they seemed to have made some wager among themselves. In the end, Senior Brother Jiang lost everything, and all ten years landed squarely on Jiang Shoucheng's head.

But hadn't they agreed on ten years? Why had another two been added?

"After you came out of Mystic Origin Pavilion, Master went to visit our patriarch and asked whether there were any arrangements on your end. Then..."

"Then what?"

Jiang Shoucheng's voice was like ice that had lain frozen for ten thousand years.

"Then, for some reason, Patriarch suddenly remembered me and asked Master whether that child Shoucheng was currently responsible for guarding the sect. Master told him everything truthfully. Then Patriarch said that thirty years was not long; endure it, and it would pass. Consider it a lesson the child had bought for himself."

"Wasn't it settled at only ten years?"

Li Shouchang looked just as dumbfounded as his senior brother.

"Shouchang, are you saying that our patriarch—a mighty figure from the Ancient Era, a true Transcendent Earth Immortal—couldn't even calculate the difference between ten and thirty years?"

"Senior Brother, you can't put it that way. If you talk nonsense