Two Great Contributions

As it turned out, before running back to the teleportation point in the Barbarian Di Secret Realm, Tang Yuan had prepared for the worst. Using the jade ring given to him by the beastman chief, he had carved patterns in imitation of the Purple Jade Huang, dyed it purple, and infused it with some Spiritual Qi to make a fake.

In any case, the Purple Jade Huang was a legendary object that no one had ever seen, so it was difficult to tell the real one from a fake.

Of course, a Foundation Establishment cultivator would certainly have spotted the deception: Mystic Wood Spiritual Qi was an immortal-grade Spiritual Qi. How could it be so easily imitated...

"How could this be? The one I got was clearly the real Purple Jade Huang." Qi Feiming continued gathering the jade powder from the ground with his hands, looking somewhat crazed.

"Incompetent fool, what use are you to me?!" High Person Kui Wood flicked a finger,

and a streak of mysterious light struck Qi Feiming's head, reducing him to fine powder in an instant.

"Junior brother Kui Wood, you put quite a bit of effort into raising him, didn't you? Why scatter his soul to the winds?

What a waste. His body and soul could both have been sent to Refining Peak. Waste not, want not." High Person Su Ying gave a few mocking laughs.

Tang Yuan immediately put on a look of terror. His legs trembling like sieves, he dropped to one knee. "Forgive me, High Person Kui Wood. I never intended to cause senior brother Qi Feiming's death."

Before High Person Kui Wood could speak, High Person Yaoxi released her pressure and made Tang Yuan stand up:

"Qi Feiming was the one who robbed a fellow disciple first, and he was as stupid as a pig.

As an inner disciple, he would inevitably have left the Holy Sect with the seeds of future disaster if he had lived. High Person Kui Wood was merely cleaning his own doorstep.

Tang Yuan, not only are you innocent, but finding this Purple Jade Huang is a great contribution.

With this merit, you can become an inner disciple of one of the six peaks. Which peak would you like to join?"

Ding Chunqiu, who disliked him, had High Person Kui Wood backing him. Now that Tang Yuan had indirectly gotten Qi Feiming, High Person Kui Wood's last disciple, killed as well, he certainly couldn't join High Person Kui Wood's school.

Without hesitation, Tang Yuan cupped his hands and bowed. "I, Tang Yuan, humbly hope to join High Person Li Bai's school on Li Xuan Peak.

I practice the Purple Cloud Nine Mysteries Scripture, and I have heard that it originated from Li Xuan Peak.

I would like to offer this Purple Jade Huang to High Person Li Bai as my gift upon taking him as my master."

"Hehe, there really aren't many disciples in the Holy Sect who cultivate the Purple Cloud Nine Mysteries Scripture.

Senior brother Li Bai, the Purple Jade Huang you've longed for day and night is right in front of you. Do you want it or not?" High Person Yaoxi tossed the Purple Jade Huang to High Person Li Bai.

High Person Li Bai caught the Purple Jade Huang and swept it with his Divine Sense. His eyes lit up, and his lips moved slightly as he thought, A hundred years! With this Purple Jade Huang, I can repair the Heaven and Earth Ring. The Foundation Establishment Late Stage is just around the corner.

Breathing out softly, High Person Li Bai looked at Tang Yuan. "Tang Yuan, you have indeed been thoughtful.

But I, Li Bai, have not accepted a disciple in over a hundred years, and I swore an oath never to accept another.

You may only become my disciple in name. You may not call me master, and you will not receive the benefits of an inner disciple of the six peaks. Are you willing?"

Without the generous benefits of an inner disciple or a master to back me up, why should I take you as my master?

But a disciple in name is still a disciple. If I become Li Bai's disciple in name, that should count as having some backing.

Without backing, it really is hard to get by in the Holy Cardamom Sect.

The corner of Tang Yuan's mouth twitched. He cupped his hands and bowed. "I, Tang Yuan, am willing to become your disciple in name. Thank you, High Person."

High Person Li Bai nodded and tossed Tang Yuan a Jade Slip and a small jade bottle. "Tang Yuan, since you have become my disciple in name today, I must still give you a gift to mark our meeting.

The Jade Slip contains the Qi Refinement section of the Purple Cloud One Qi Treatise. Once you successfully establish your foundation, I will naturally give you the Foundation Establishment section.

The Purple Cloud Nine Mysteries Scripture you practice is a lower-grade Cultivation Method, while this Purple Cloud One Qi Treatise is its corresponding superior Cultivation Method.

Cultivating the Purple Cloud One Qi Treatise will not only increase your strength, but also raise your chance of successful Foundation Establishment by ten percent.

As for what's in this jade bottle, it is a strand of fourth-grade, mid-tier Spiritual Qi: Jade Gravel Sand Spirit, of the earth attribute.

If your Spirit Roots do not include the earth attribute, you can go to the sect's cultivator market and exchange it for three strands of the fourth-grade, low-tier Spiritual Qi you need."

"Thank you, High Person." Tang Yuan immediately dropped to both knees and bowed.

High Person Yaoxi's alluring brows shifted slightly, and her red lips parted in a smile. "Senior brother Li Bai, you don't have a single Foundation Establishment disciple under you.

In my view, although Tang Yuan's innate talent isn't much, he really is clever.

Why not also pass down the Solar One Qi Divine Light Cultivation Method? That would give him another ten percent chance of successfully establishing his foundation.

Perhaps within fifty years, you'll have a disciple in name with Foundation Establishment cultivation to your name."

High Person Li Bai frowned slightly, somewhat hesitant.

"I disagree," High Person Kui Wood said coldly.

"Senior brother Li Bai just said himself that finding the Purple Jade Huang served only his personal interests.

Tang Yuan has made no great contribution to the sect. He doesn't deserve that Divine Ability Cultivation Method."

"Kui Wood, the Solar One Qi Divine Light is a Divine Ability of my Li Xuan Peak. It's not your place to pass judgment on it." High Person Li Bai looked somewhat angry, but he also knew that this divine Cultivation Method could not be passed on lightly.

Looking at Tang Yuan, High Person Li Bai wore a helpless expression. "Tang Yuan, once you successfully establish your foundation, or make a great contribution to the sect, I will pass the Solar One Qi Divine Light Cultivation Method on to you."

Tang Yuan had read the introduction to the Solar One Qi Divine Light and knew that cultivating this Divine Ability Cultivation Method would not only greatly increase his strength and speed up his cultivation, but also raise his chance of successfully establishing his foundation.

When a cultivator successfully established their foundation, they would form an innate Divine Ability and then cultivate two other Minor Divine Abilities.

Only after cultivating all three Minor Divine Abilities to great accomplishment and reaching the Foundation Establishment Peak could they attempt to break through to the Purple Mansion.

One of the keys to breaking through to the Purple Mansion was to combine the three Divine Abilities cultivated during Foundation Establishment into one Greater Divine Ability.

If one could cultivate a Divine Ability as early as Late-stage Qi Refinement, it would not only increase the strength of one's innate Divine Ability, but also make it easier to merge the three Divine Abilities into a single Greater Divine Ability in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Fame was best sought early, and immortal-cultivation Divine Abilities even earlier.

Looking at High Person Li Bai, Tang Yuan once again cupped his hands and bowed. "High Person, I obtained some extra beastman canine teeth in the Barbarian Di Secret Realm. Would that count as a contribution to the sect?"

"Hmph...

Getting a few dozen or a hundred extra beastman canine teeth can hardly be called a contribution.

The sect urgently needs nearly ten thousand beastman canine teeth. If you really obtained five thousand, I, Kui Wood, would be willing to give you a strand of fourth-grade, mid-tier metal-attribute Spiritual Qi, Metal Aluan Qi, to celebrate your contribution," High Person Kui Wood said with a cold snort.

"Then let me thank you in advance, High Person Kui Wood." Tang Yuan cupped his hands and bowed.

"What do you mean?

Did you really obtain five thousand beastman canine teeth?!" Kui Wood looked somewhat surprised.

The High Persons all turned to look at Tang Yuan, and the disciples below the platform fell silent as well.

Clatter, clatter...

Tang Yuan kept pouring beastman canine teeth out of his Storage Bag, and before long, they formed a small mountain of teeth on the ground.

"Ding Chunqiu, come over and help count how many beastman canine teeth Tang Yuan obtained." The corner of High Person Kui Wood's mouth twitched.

At the order, Ding Chunqiu walked over with a Treasure Pavilion disciple to count the beastman canine teeth, looking as though he had nothing left to live for.

A few breaths later, Ding Chunqiu said weakly, "Master, there are four thousand six hundred lower left canine teeth and four thousand two hundred lower right canine teeth from beastman elites here."

"Good heavens, that's eighty-eight hundred beastman canine teeth in all!.."

"The sect pays five spirit coins for each tooth. That's forty-four thousand spirit coins, isn't it?"

"Tang Yuan must have slain at least forty-six hundred beastman elites. Could he have Foundation Establishment cultivation?"

The disciples below the platform were all astonished.

"High Person Ming Kun,

although most of these eighty-eight hundred beastman canine teeth have some years on them, they are all less than two hundred years old, so that won't affect the extraction of Spiritual Qi," the Treasure Pavilion disciple said, cupping his hands.

"What does this mean?" High Person Yaoxi frowned slightly.

"High Persons, I didn't obtain these beastman teeth by killing beastmen. I got them by breaking into the altar of a beastman tribe," Tang Yuan hurriedly explained.

"Beastmen do indeed wage war on one another, and some offer their enemies' skulls and canine teeth at their altars as trophies." High Person Yaoxi smiled.

"Tang Yuan, that means you picked up these beastman teeth for nothing.

Hehe, you really are lucky."

Tang Yuan nodded. "I wonder whether finding these beastman canine teeth for nothing counts as a contribution to the sect."

"Good luck is a kind of strength too.

Tang Yuan, you have indeed made a great contribution to the sect this time. Counting the Purple Jade Huang, you have made two great contributions to the sect.

In my view, the Solar One Qi Divine Light Cultivation Method can be passed on to you right now." High Person Ming Kun, his face full of satisfaction, announced his final verdict in a clear voice...