Meal Allowance

Xuanyuan Haoyue rarely agreed with him, nodding and saying, "What you said makes sense. After all, they haven't truly joined our sect, so this place can't really be considered the sect's headquarters, otherwise it wouldn't be legitimate."

As the oldest person present, Yuan Jinsheng really didn't understand their dilemma. What did they mean by "not having a legitimate reason"? They weren't making it public; only they knew about it. Who did they need to have a legitimate reason with?

However, he felt that Mo Yuanjiao and Xuanyuan Haoyue's behavior was very familiar.

Indeed, when he served under Zhao Yunzhong, the ruler of Huanyou Nation, he saw that most people, including the ruler, were like this, agonizing over things like so-called legitimacy and reputation.

Considering their original identities in the mortal world, it makes sense now.

These people with status love to get hung up on these things. As Yuan Jinsheng himself said, who cares about all this nonsense? Let them do whatever they want!

But let these kids play if they want. Anyway, the sect leader said that summer camp is an activity that combines play and learning. Everyone can gain what they want to know through practice and find a learning direction that suits them.

So the fake base remained a fake base.

Although its interior furnishings and regulations are all in the style of a miniature Lingxian Sect.

Although it is operated by people from the Lingxian Sect and has been authorized by the sect leader.

But it remains a pseudo-base.

Since none of the eight members of the summer camp group came from the Spirit Cuisine Hall, the Spirit Cuisine Hall at the pseudo-base only provided two meals of spirit rice and a Spirit Stone as a daily allowance.

As for other delicious food, there isn't any. If you want to eat, you'll have to go down the mountain to the city and spend Spirit Stone to get some.

After introducing the fifty newcomers, Bai Zhu quietly observed their expressions.

After all, these conditions were indeed much worse than those within their own Lingxian Sect, and he was a little worried that these people would be unhappy.

Two meals of spirit rice, no side dishes, and a meal allowance of only one Spirit Stone —that's really a bit meager.

But there's nothing they can do; this is all they can offer for now.

Before the shops could open and make a profit, they covered almost all the expenses of the pseudo-base. In order to ensure that the pseudo-base could operate normally in the future, they naturally dared not give too much in the early stage.

However, the group of eight had already decided that if the store did well, they would then raise the salaries of these people.

We could also talk to the Spirit Cuisine Hall and ask them to bring over larger quantities of food regularly to supplement everyone's meals.

But that's all for the future; for now, this is the only way.

After observing everyone's reactions for a while, Bai Zhu discovered that these people did not seem to have any complaints about the two meals of spirit rice a day. On the contrary, some people asked uncertain questions such as whether it was really two meals a day and whether both meals were spirit rice.

Seeing this, he wondered if the conditions offered by their puppet base weren't so bad after all?

It's not that Bai Zhu is unfamiliar with the Immortal Cultivation Realm; it's that he's unaware of these detailed benefits offered by most other sects, including those in the Mortal Realm.

These are trivial matters that people from every sect don't talk about all the time or spread around. Moreover, the higher a cultivator's cultivation level, the less they care about food. Of course, rare and heavenly materials and earthly treasures and elixirs are another matter.

Only low-level cultivators have a high demand for ordinary Spirit Cuisine like spirit rice.

However, most sects provide very little food for low-level cultivators; one meal a day is considered a lot, and some even only provide one meal every two or three days.

This is because the spiritual rice produced by these sects is not only needed to supply low-level cultivators, but also to supply the various spirit beasts raised within the sects.

If a spirit beast is fed well, it can fetch a high price.

Even if low-level cultivators feed them an extra meal of spirit rice every day, their cultivation progress will still stagnate.

Therefore, sects naturally wouldn't be too generous in this regard.

The people of the Lingxian Sect might not know this, but these low-level rogue Rogue Cultivator who spend their lives mingling in the marketplace know a great deal.

They all found it hard to believe.

This sect doesn't look very big, nor does it seem like it has vast spirit fields. Can it really have that much spirit rice to feed them?

Not to mention the daily meal allowance of one Spirit Stone.

This was the first time they had ever heard of a sect's canteen offering meal subsidies for its communal meals.

Some people even thought that this might be because they were all newcomers, and the sect was afraid they would become unruly, so they were just making empty promises to them.

It doesn't matter if it's just empty promises; at least the spiritual rice is real.

Led by Bai Zhu, the fifty newcomers sat down in the not-so-large canteen and ate a large portion of fragrant rice.

Whether or not they make empty promises is another matter; the fact that they can eat free spiritual rice right now is enough.

As for whether there will really be two full meals of spirit rice every day, plus an extra Spirit Stone as a meal supplement, worrying about these things is useless.

If this sect doesn't offer them these preferential treatments, are they supposed to go to another sect?

And so, the fifty people settled down comfortably at the Lingxian Sect Sect's makeshift base.

Meanwhile, those who failed the lower-tier version of the Heart-Questioning Road test were about to turn away with some regret when they suddenly saw a young man standing at the foot of the mountain telling them that although they hadn't passed, the Lingxian Sect still had long-term recruitment quotas for unofficial Spirit Plant growers, with generous benefits.

As long as you pass the simple Spirit Plant Master assessment, you can stay, but you can't go up the mountain to join a sect.

"But the Lingxian Sect plans to cultivate land at the foot of the mountain. They will build several villages next to the spirit fields. If anyone is interested, they can register here," Mo Yuanjiao said.

The eight-person team, which was severely understaffed, couldn't bear to see so many people leave, so this was the solution they had just come up with.

It drew inspiration from the reclamation team model of Cage Compound in Xiushui City.

It's also good that we can cultivate some spirit fields at the foot of the mountain, which will make it easier to provide meals in the future, saving them the trouble of buying or transporting spirit rice from the sect.

However, if they want to cultivate the area at the foot of the mountain, they must protect the safety of the area. Otherwise, why would anyone come here to cultivate the land if there are no safeguards?

Mo Yuanjiao then explained to them that Lingxian Sect would set up defensive formations in the territory belonging to the sect's spiritual fields to protect its internal security.

These words resonated with many who hadn't gone through the basic version of the Heart-Questioning Road.

They originally came here hoping to find an organization to stick together and support each other. Although they haven't been able to join a sect yet, if they can become unofficial Spirit Plant growers here and have a stable income and safety, then it doesn't seem to be too different from their original purpose.

Although unofficial Spirit Plant growers certainly cannot enter a sect to become apprentices and cultivate, nor can they obtain sect inheritances or borrow sect scriptures, isn't it possible to achieve anything through effort?