Missionary Holy Son
Meng Yunxu's face immediately darkened. He stared intently at Duan Wei: "Awei, are you playing me?"
"Brother Xu, I'm sorry, I..." Duan Wei quickly apologized.
"Enough!" Meng Yunxu waved his hand impatiently to interrupt. "I was hoping to show some leniency, but it seems I was being presumptuous! Changhao, it's up to you now."
"It should have been done long ago!" Qi Changhao, dressed in a Daoist robe, stepped out from the crowd, chuckling coldly at Duan Wei, whose expression had drastically changed. He reached out and tore open a scroll. "Look me in the eyes!"
Duan Wei looked over instinctively, only to feel that those eyes possessed an extraordinary magic; in his dazed state, he couldn't remember anything...
"Greetings, Master!" The two Daoist guards standing watch at the temple bowed.
Lin Xu scanned the Daoist temple with his spiritual sense and found that it was mostly empty, with only a small number of disciples and soldiers remaining, and mostly busybodies coming and going in a hurry.
The Incense Offering Hall is located in the southeast corner of the Daoist temple, and the magnificent palace gleams with a faint golden light under the sunlight.
A thin layer of gold leaf is affixed to the thick bricks and tiles, and two jade kylin statues, each over ten feet tall and exceptionally handsome, gaze at the square in front of the hall, like loyal guardians.
"Greetings, Palace Master!" Two outer disciples, accompanied by a group of servants, bowed.
Lin Xu glanced at the crowd and asked, "How many disciples does the Incense Offering Hall still have?"
"Reporting to the Hall Master, there are 5 inner disciples, 15 outer disciples, and 60 servants in the hall," an outer disciple replied. "Currently, everyone else except us has been called up to the front lines by the Abbot."
Lin Xu nodded, descended from the clouds, and walked towards the main hall. "What tasks need to be performed at the Incense Offering Hall?"
"Reporting to the Temple Master, the main tasks of the Incense Offering Hall are threefold: to collect incense offerings from the five villages under the Daoist temple's jurisdiction, to spread the faith, and to collect land rent," the disciple replied.
Lin Xu understood that the situation at Xuanwei Monastery was different from other Daoist temples. Due to the nature of its traditions, incense and faith were strategic resources within the temple, so the Incense Offering Hall, which was responsible for proselytizing and collecting incense, held a high position and its power had been expanded.
He sat in the main seat in the hall, his gaze sweeping over the empty seats, and opened the Incense Offering Hall management panel.
The Xuanwei Monastery Incense Offering Hall is a Level 1 building, currently housing 5 inner disciples, 15 outer disciples, and 60 servants.
Attached buildings: Immortal Welcoming Pavilion, Incense Fire Altar, Preaching Pavilion, Warehouse, etc. Buildable structures: Incense Burner Array, Prayer Platform, Merit Stele, Spirit Talisman Printing Workshop, etc. Effects: Automatically collects and stores incense offerings from within a ten-mile radius daily. Recruitment needed: 144 miscellaneous servants, 36 outer disciples, 4 inner disciples. Incense offering collection: 52,127 points/month. "The resources are barely enough." Lin Xu frowned, looking at the data panel. Leaving aside the amount of incense offerings, the output of basic resources like rice and spirit rice alone was very unsatisfactory.
In a mere Peach Blossom Spring Village, he developed over a thousand acres of spiritual fields in less than a month, each yielding 100,000 catties of spiritual rice.
Peach Tree Village is the smallest village under the jurisdiction of Xuanwei Monastery, yet it has such great development potential. As a result, the combined resources offered by all five villages each month are still so meager.
"One-tenth tax, that's heaven!" Lin Xu shook his head after looking at the tax rate. Even in a prosperous dynasty, such a tax rate was impossible.
He did not adjust the taxes; having just taken over the Incense Offering Hall, he prioritized a cautious approach.
"The recruitment panel only shows one year's worth of resources. Is this due to the restrictions of the Spirit Realm rules, or because the Incense Offering Hall only exists for one year?"
The NPC territories in the Spirit Realm were not complete from the beginning; they also needed to evolve and accumulate resources gradually over a long period of time.
Therefore, it is possible that the Xuanwei Monastery appeared, but the Incense Offering Hall appeared several years later.
[The Incense Offering Hall is recruiting: 144 miscellaneous servants, 36 outer disciples, and 4 inner disciples (12 miscellaneous servants/month, 3 outer disciples/month, and 1 inner disciple/3-month)]
"They can even recruit inner disciples now, so we won't be short-handed."
The menial servants are level 0 Spirit Calming Realm Daoist children, the outer disciples are level 1 Soul Leaving the Body Realm cultivators, while the inner disciples have already stepped into level 3.
A Night Wandering Realm.
These newly recruited NPCs have all barely reached the minimum threshold for becoming a cultivator of the corresponding level in the Daoist temple.
Those level 4 inner disciples in Xuanwei Monastery should have advanced through cultivation over the past 10 years. These professional Daoists imitate the daily life of True Person, chanting scriptures, meditating, refining elixirs, and practicing swordsmanship. Although their cultivation progress is slow due to a lack of wisdom, they can eventually break through to a higher realm through daily practice.
The price was astonishing: 200 Dharma Coin for menial tasks, 1500 Dharma Coin for outer disciples, and 10000 Dharma Coin for inner disciples. But Lin Xu just wanted to burst into laughter.
Talent is the most important resource; only with enough talent can one turn their blueprint into reality as quickly as possible.
"Recruit all!" He pressed the recruit button without hesitation.
As the light swirled, 184 figures appeared out of thin air in the Daoist temple square, surging out like a tide, their robes fluttering as spiritual light flickered.
"Greetings, Lord of the Palace!" The voice boomed like thunder, making the copper bells on the eaves ring.
Lin Xu raised his hand and pressed down lightly, releasing a soft spiritual pressure. Everyone immediately held their breath, lowered their heads, and fell silent.
His gaze swept across the crowd, and he felt a surge of joy.
Before he arrived, the entire Incense Offering Hall had fewer than a hundred people, including the servants, but on the very first day after he arrived, he doubled the number!
"Let's look at their talents first..." Lin Xu's gaze swept over the 40 inner disciples standing in the front row. Based on his past experience, the talents and attributes of the inner disciples were far superior to those of the outer disciples and servants.
Sure enough, the panel flashed, and the relevant data for forty people was displayed.
Intelligence: 13, Spirit: 14
Intelligence: 14, Spirit: 15
Lin Xu calculated that these four people had an average intelligence of 13.2 and a spirit of 14.3, far exceeding the level of outer disciples.
One person even had the talent bar prominently displaying "[Incense Offering Spirit Communion]", and a faint light, in sync with the Incense Offering Hall, emanated from their body.
On a whim, he opened his personal profile.
Chen Xuanli, an inner disciple of Xuanwei Monastery, a level 3 Daoist priest, with stats of Strength 10, Agility 9, Constitution 10, Spirit 17, Intelligence 16, Charisma 9, Health 100, and Mana 170.
Talent: [Incense Offering Spirit Communion *Purple] Incense absorption efficiency +300%, proselytizing effect +50%, and can sense the fluctuations of believers' thoughts. Skill: Wish Fire Incense Burning Record. Lin Xu's eyes lit up when he saw his talent.
The Xuanwei Monastery Temple are based on incense. Whether it is the "Bright Lamp Spirit Kindling Art" or the "Mystic Art God-Descending Technique", incense is used as the catalyst and the power of wishes is used as the medium. Even the authentic Daoist practice "Spirit Lamp Prayer Art" requires incense as fuel and the power of the mind as the flame.
However, Chen Xuanli's [Incense Offering Spirit Communion] can increase the efficiency of incense absorption by 300%, which is equivalent to increasing the efficiency of Daoist cultivation methods passed down in the Daoist temple to more than four times that of ordinary people!
"And he's also skilled at missionary work; he's definitely a future missionary saint!" A satisfied smile spread across Lin Xu's face.
However, inner disciples, even those who have just been recruited, cannot be dealt with casually. He suppressed his thoughts and looked at the remaining outer disciples and servants.