The Devil Spring!

As soon as the tasks were posted, the disciples went to work. Outer sect disciples could take these tasks as well.

The disciples set about building houses and cleaning, and before long, the entire sect would have a fresh new look.

"Senior brother, are there any tasks that aren't too tiring but still give lots of points?" Junior sister Yu Yu came over and asked. She really didn't want to clean or build houses. She was an elder of the Black-Yellow Sect, after all; doing that kind of work was far too embarrassing.

"There are!"

Lin Ye pulled his junior sister into the sect's main hall before saying, "There's a task available right now worth 100 points."

"What task?" Yu Yu asked curiously.

"Just give me a massage for a quarter of an hour."

Lin Ye smiled.

"What? Senior brother, you want me to massage you? You're bullying me." Yu Yu pouted angrily.

"Anyway, do you want to take the task or not? If you don't, forget it."

Lin Ye was only teasing his junior sister and didn't expect her to actually take the task.

"I'll do it!"

Yu Yu gritted her teeth and agreed.

Anyway, if she gave him a massage here, nobody would know.

So Lin Ye lay down, and Yu Yu began massaging him. She wasn't very good at it, but Lin Ye guided her again and again. Yu Yu learned quickly and gradually got the hang of it.

"That feels good."

Lin Ye had to admit that a massage from his junior sister was far more comfortable than one from a stiff puppet.

Soon, a quarter of an hour had passed.

"Junior sister, extend the session."

Lin Ye spoke with his eyes closed.

"Senior brother, what does 'extend the session' mean?" Yu Yu didn't quite understand.

"Massage me for another quarter of an hour, and I'll give you another 100 points. Want to do it?"

"Yes!"

Yu Yu nodded hurriedly. Of course she was happy to earn another 100 points.

Soon, another quarter of an hour passed. Lin Ye felt so comfortable that he extended the session again, and then several more times in a row, letting Yu Yu earn 600 points. Just as he was about to extend it again, Yu Yu collapsed onto the floor from exhaustion. "Senior brother, I can't do it anymore. I'm too tired. I'm not extending it for you again."

As a ninth-level Body Forging Realm martial artist, Yu Yu was very strong, but Lin Ye's body was even tougher. Making him comfortable took a great deal of strength, and it was no small effort.

Seeing that Yu Yu really was exhausted, Lin Ye felt a little sorry for her and said, "Junior sister, thanks for your hard work. I'll give you another 100 points, for 700 in total."

"700 points? Senior brother, that's wonderful!"

Yu Yu sprang to her feet as if she had recovered to full health.

"Senior brother, what can I exchange 700 points for?" Yu Yu asked.

Lin Ye said, "A peak Body Forging Realm puppet costs 1,000 points, so you can't exchange for one yet. The earth-grade Law Treasure, the Supreme Clarity Dharma Robe, costs 5,000 points, so that's even further out of reach. But you're an elder of the Black-Yellow Sect, junior sister, so you can borrow points."

"Borrow points?" Yu Yu quickly understood what Lin Ye meant and immediately prepared to borrow points to exchange for the earth-grade Law Treasure, the Supreme Clarity Dharma Robe.

She knew that borrowing so many points at once would put her under a lot of pressure, but if she massaged her senior brother every day and earned several hundred points each time, it wouldn't take many days to pay them back.

"Senior brother, is this the Supreme Clarity Dharma Robe?"

Only after refining the Supreme Clarity Dharma Robe did Yu Yu understand how powerful the Law Treasure was. It was perfectly suited to the Supreme Clarity Jade Canon she cultivated. Moreover, the robe could transform into all kinds of Dharma robes according to her wishes, changing both color and form. It also had powerful defensive effects. She struck the robe with her sword, and it was completely unharmed.

"Senior brother, this robe even cleans itself. Now that I have it, I'll never need to buy clothes again. One Supreme Clarity Dharma Robe is as good as countless outfits, and I don't even have to wash it." Yu Yu was delighted with the Law Treasure. What was more, she could obtain such a treasure just by giving her senior brother massages; in any other sect, that would have been impossible.

Senior brother must be taking special care of me, deliberately letting me exchange for it at such a low price, Yu Yu thought.

Afterward, Yu Yu went to cultivate, while Lin Ye prepared to set up the Devil Spring and the Illusory Devil Cave. These two things were genuine devil-path items. The sect's main hall, cultivation tower, and library were all perfectly normal buildings, so bringing them out wasn't much of a problem, but the Devil Spring and the Illusory Devil Cave would need a proper explanation. It would be best to make some changes to them, at least enough to make them easier for the disciples to accept.

"I'll set up the Devil Spring first."

He remembered that there was a spring on the mountain behind the Black-Yellow Sect, but it had been abandoned and no water flowed from it anymore. He planned to set up the Devil Spring there.

Soon, he arrived at the spot and set up the Devil Spring.

The installation caused little disturbance and didn't attract the disciples' attention.

Once the Devil Spring was in place, a large number of black boulders surrounded the spring, with densely packed formation patterns covering them. There was nothing inside.

After claiming the reward, he had learned how to use the Devil Spring. It needed Spirit Stones to activate its formation, which would draw water from the earth veins, and it also needed flesh and blood to form the scarlet water of the Devil Spring. The water could temper the body and forge a formidable devil body, making it well suited to devil-path disciples' cultivation, but unsuitable for righteous-path cultivation. If a righteous-path cultivator used the Devil Spring to temper their body, it would gradually become a devil body. The true Qi they cultivated in the future would also become devil-path true Qi, turning them into a Devil Cultivator.

"The Devil Spring isn't suitable for junior sister. How should I explain it to her?"

Lin Ye considered the problem. It would be easy enough to explain to the disciples: he could simply say it was the Pure Yang Blood Spring, which used the flesh and blood of Demon Beasts and spirit water to temper the body. That wouldn't be much of a problem, since even righteous-path martial artists ate Demon Beast meat and used materials from Demon Beasts to cultivate.

But if he refused to let his junior sister cultivate in the Devil Spring, she would surely have a host of questions.

"That's right! She cultivates the Supreme Clarity Jade Canon. I'll just say that it's a very special Cultivation Method that can't be tainted by even a trace of foreign energy. She'll definitely believe that!"

Having figured that out, Lin Ye posted a task to hunt Demon Beasts. After all, once the Devil Spring was activated, it wouldn't do without enough Demon Beast flesh and blood. Human flesh and blood would actually work too, but he wouldn't dare do that. Nor did he intend to follow the true devil path. He wasn't that twisted!

Soon, the disciples learned of the new task through their identity tokens: hunt Demon Beasts.

Early-stage first-tier Demon Beast: 10 points.

Mid-stage first-tier Demon Beast: 50 points.

Late-stage first-tier Demon Beast: 100 points.

Early-stage second-tier Demon Beast: 200 points.

The rewards for this task were high, immediately drawing the disciples' interest. Killing a few more Demon Beasts would earn points much faster than building houses.

Of course, the task was also dangerous. A moment of carelessness could lead to an encounter with a powerful Demon Beast.

Dongfang Bai went straight to find his younger sister, Dongfang Rou. "Let's go hunt Demon Beasts together, little sister. With our strength, we should have no problem hunting mid-stage first-tier Demon Beasts. If we earn a lot of points, I want to exchange them for the earth-grade martial art, the Taiyi Needle Technique."

He understood how precious earth-grade Cultivation Methods were. Even two-star sects had no earth-grade martial arts, and if a three-star sect had an earth-grade Cultivation Method, it would be a sect-protecting martial art. Only in the Black-Yellow Sect could one exchange for an earth-grade Cultivation Method so easily. Once the sect had more members, it surely wouldn't be easy to exchange for earth-grade martial arts, and the requirements would only get higher.

"Okay, brother. Let's go together."

Dongfang Rou agreed.