Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 157: Hall of Good Deeds

Chen Yuan's heart moved, and he bowed and said, "Please give me some advice, Senior Brother Yi."

Yi Jin smiled and said, "Three months ago, Senior Brother Wang Ran changed his position and was transferred to the Good Merit Hall as a steward. Before Junior Brother Chen accepts the sect's mission, you can go find him. He will definitely take care of you."

Chen Yuan was surprised: "Senior Brother Wang was transferred to the Good Merit Hall?"

This person was one of the three fellow disciples who had been introduced by Yi Jin and asked Chen Yuan to refine the elixir. He was a deacon disciple.

In Lingyun Sect, deacon disciples need to handle the sect's miscellaneous affairs, and each has their own duties.

Before he went into seclusion, when he was refining pills for Wang Ran and the other two, he chatted with them and learned that Wang Ran was the deacon of the Beast Taming Pavilion, responsible for raising the spiritual beasts in the sect.

However, the art of taming beasts was not popular in the Lingyun sect, and the Beast Taming Pavilion was extremely deserted. Wang Ran's position here was like being exiled.

Most of the deacons and disciples of the casual cultivators lineage hold such positions.

The same is true for Yi Jin, who serves as the deacon of the Hall of Questioning the Heart and is responsible for recruiting disciples.

However, since the Lingyun Sect only recruits disciples based on their spiritual roots, cultivators with spiritual roots below the true level, even those who are descendants of the Nascent Soul stage, cannot enter directly. Therefore, Yi Jin does not have much power.

The deacon of the Good Deeds Hall is one of the most powerful officials in the sect. Chen Yuan was quite surprised that Wang Ran could be transferred from the Beast Taming Pavilion to the Good Deeds Hall.

Yi Jin smiled and said, "It's a coincidence. Junior Brother Chen also knows that few people in our sect practice the art of taming beasts. Senior Brother Wang is very free in the Beast Taming Pavilion. He is close to the water tower and has spent more than ten years carefully raising several spirit beasts. Although they are not capable of fighting, they have many magical uses, such as searching for spirits and treasures, identifying qi and escaping underground. In the past, he often lent them to fellow disciples to drive them and earn some spirit stones."

"A few months ago, a Jindan elder heard about Brother Wang from somewhere and borrowed a Level 3 Spirit-Seeking Dog from him. He found a spiritual object and was very happy. He then transferred Brother Wang to the Good Deeds Hall as a deacon."

Chen Yuan suddenly realized: "So that's how it is. Senior Brother Wang is really lucky."

Yi Jin picked up the teacup, took a sip, and sighed, "Yes, a word from a Jindan cultivator can change the fate of low-level cultivators like me. Senior Brother Wang has really turned things around this time. He no longer lacks spirit stones and is expected to break through the bottleneck of the late foundation-building stage. Then things will be very different..."

In Lingyun Sect, most of the cultivators in the late foundation building stage are core disciples. Among the deacon disciples, there are only a dozen or so who can cultivate to the late foundation building stage. They are all in charge of various halls and pavilions and have great power in their hands.

Chen Yuan was a sharp-minded person who observed carefully. He noticed that Yi Jin's expression was different. After a little thought, it was not difficult to guess what Yi Jin was thinking. It must be because of Wang Ran's matter. Thinking about himself, he felt that the road ahead was difficult, so he was sad.

At this time, he couldn't say much, so he could only comfort him, "Everyone has their own fate. Senior Brother Wang has also carefully raised spirit beasts for many years and spent a lot of effort to cultivate a third-level spirit-seeking dog, so he has today's opportunity. Senior Brother Yi is the steward of the Heart-Searching Hall and has recruited many disciples for the sect. He has made a lot of good connections. When the time comes in the future, there will be no shortage of opportunities."

Senior Brother Yi was stunned, staring blankly ahead, and suddenly put down the teacup and said with a smile: "Junior Brother Chen is right, I am obsessed. I have been on good terms with you before, and now I can ask you to make pills. Isn't this an opportunity? It just so happens that I have saved up a furnace of spiritual herbs. When you complete the sect mission, you must make a furnace of pills for me."

Seeing Yi Jin's heart knot was slightly relieved, Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Brother, how dare I not obey your order?"

The two looked at each other and laughed.

After a while, Yi Jin stopped laughing and said seriously, "Brother Chen, time is running out and you need to complete the sect mission as soon as possible. I will not bother you any more."

After saying that, he stood up and said goodbye and left, and Chen Yuan escorted him out of the cave.

After Yi Jin left, Chen Yuan did not waste any time. He activated the restrictions of the cave, rode on the light, and headed straight for the Hall of Good Deeds.

Yunyin Peak is located in a remote area, quite far from the Shangong Hall. Chen Yuan had not yet used the cloud boat, so it took him three quarters of an hour to reach the Shangong Hall.

The Hall of Good Deeds has always been the gathering place for disciples of Lingyun Sect. There was a constant stream of people outside the hall. Chen Yuan lowered his escape light outside the hall. The surrounding Qi-refining disciples saw the robe on his body and knew that he was a foundation-building cultivator, so they saluted and made way for him.

This was Chen Yuan's first time coming to the Hall of Good Deeds. After he entered, he followed Yi Jin's instructions, passed the third-level alchemy assessment, and received the alchemy task.

After that, he entered the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain and did not come out until ten years later. He then went to the Dihuo Palace to refine pills and went to Lingyun Market to buy spiritual weapons. After that, he went into seclusion to practice hard. After receiving the sound transmission note from the Shangong Palace, he came out and came here.

Chen Yuan walked into the hall. The hall was very spacious with five huge vermilion pillars that required several people to hug. Hanging on the pillars were talismans that flashed with a faint white light.

Hundreds of disciples gathered in front of the huge vermilion pillar, with their eyes slightly closed, silent, as if they were sensing something.

Chen Yuan came to a large red lacquer pillar, his consciousness spread out, touching a magic talisman, the contents of which flowed naturally in his mind: "Yellow Letter No. 27 Spiritual Medicine Garden, take care of the spiritual herbs for six months, limited to outer disciples, inner disciples, and miscellaneous disciples, reward 20 good deeds..."

The spiritual medicine garden in Lingyun sect is divided into four categories: Tiandi, Xuan and Huang. Among them, the Huang spiritual medicine garden grows hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, the Xuan spiritual medicine garden grows three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, the Di spiritual medicine garden grows five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, and the Tian spiritual medicine garden grows eight-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs.

It is said that there is a spiritual medicine garden in the sect that specializes in growing thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, but no one has ever seen it.

Chen Yuan moved his spiritual consciousness away and touched other talismans. Sect missions naturally emerged one by one, but they were all limited to Qi Refining disciples.

He came to the last red lacquer pillar, which had much fewer talismans than the first four pillars. This was a sect mission that only foundation-building cultivators could take on, and there were only seven or eight cultivators before this pillar.

Chen Yuan spread his consciousness and touched a magic talisman, and the content emerged: "Hunt down the demon cultivator Mo Daobai in the early stage of foundation building. The deadline is one year, limited to core disciples, and the reward is 5,000 good deeds. This person's skills, magic weapons, and whereabouts are as follows..."

He frowned slightly and changed a talisman: "Hand over a fourth-level demon beast Red Armor Rhino Demon Pill, the deadline is one year, limited to core disciples, and reward is 3,000 good deeds..."

Afterwards, Chen Yuan finished reading all the remaining talismans and found that the contents were either about hunting down the foundation-building demon cultivators, or handing over the demon cores of fourth-level demon beasts, or handing over ten three-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs. It would take a very long time and was not easy.

Among them, the most common ones are the pursuit and suppression of foundation-building demon cultivators. There are a total of fifty-six sect missions, thirty-eight of which are the pursuit and suppression of demon cultivators.

This is understandable. Lingyun Sect is located in the northern border of Qi State, adjacent to Wu State, with only two tiny countries in between. Naturally, it has the most demon cultivators within its sphere of influence.

Chen Yuan withdrew his spiritual sense and his face was solemn. It seemed that what Yi Jin said was true. Those simple tasks were either intercepted or taken away early.

He no longer lingered in front of the vermilion lacquered pillar, but turned and walked towards a disciple on duty.

The disciple on duty saw a foundation-building cultivator walking towards him, and did not dare to neglect him. He immediately bowed and saluted: "Disciple Fang Ling, greetings to Uncle Master."

Chen Yuan said calmly, "Is Deacon Wang Ran in the palace?"

The disciple on duty immediately said, "Uncle Master, please follow me."

After saying that, he led the way and Chen Yuan followed behind him. They walked out of the Hall of Good Deeds and after a quarter of an hour, they arrived outside a three-story building.

This place is quite far away from the Shangong Hall, located on a flat ground below the top of the mountain. The environment is elegant and quiet, with six small buildings scattered around.

The disciple on duty came to the attic, knocked gently on the door, and said respectfully: "Deacon Wang, a master uncle is looking for you."

Chen Yuan stood behind him, with his hands behind his back, waiting quietly.

The attic here is different from the cave. There are no formation restrictions and no need to use talismanic messages to communicate.

After a while, the door opened and a middle-aged monk walked out. He said to the disciple on duty, "I understand. You can go down."

"Yes."

The disciple on duty bowed to the middle-aged monk and Chen Yuan, then turned and left.

The middle-aged monk then put on a smiling face and raised his hand to invite him in: "Junior Brother Chen, please come in."

Chen Yuan bowed and said, "Sorry to bother you, Senior Brother Wang."

He followed the middle-aged monk into the small building and went up to the second floor, which was arranged as a reception room. The two of them sat down as host and guest.

The middle-aged monk was Wang Ran. He looked to be in his forties, with a thin build, a handsome face, gray hair on the temples, and an elegant temperament.

After the two sat down, he waved his hand, and the purple clay teapot on the table slowly flew up, pouring spiritual tea for Chen Yuan, and said with a smile: "I heard that Junior Brother Chen has been in seclusion for the past few years. Wang wanted to find Junior Brother to refine a furnace of elixirs, but had to give up. I found another alchemy master, but only got three Qingning Pills, which made me very sad. It is really a good thing that Junior Brother Chen has come out of seclusion this time. Wang will not have to be exploited by the people in the Alchemy Pavilion if he wants to refine elixirs in the future."

Chen Yuan picked up the spiritual tea, took a sip, and sighed, "If Senior Brother Wang needs me to make an elixir, I will certainly do my best to help you. But during this period of time, I have no time to help you make an elixir."

Wang Ran frowned slightly: "What do you mean by that, Junior Brother Chen?"

Chen Yuan put down the teacup and said helplessly, "Brother Wang, you don't know that after I successfully built my foundation, I went into seclusion to practice before receiving any sect mission. I came out of seclusion this time because I received a sound transmission note from the Good Merit Hall, which required me to complete a sect mission within a year, otherwise I would be severely punished by the sect. However, the sect missions in the Good Merit Hall are either very difficult or take a very long time, and are not easy to complete. I came to visit you, brother, and hope that you can help me."

After saying this, he bowed deeply to Wang Ran with a sincere expression.

Wang Ran heard this and smiled softly: "This matter is simple. After Wang became the deacon of the Good Merit Hall, he and the other two deacons jointly took charge of the task assignment. I still have three relatively simple sect tasks in hand. Junior brother, you can choose any one you like."

He touched his storage bag, and three talismans appeared out of thin air on the table, flashing with a faint light.

Chen Yuan was a little surprised to see Wang Ran agree to this matter so readily, but a hint of gratitude appeared on his face just right: "Senior Brother Wang, you are so kind. Thank you very much."

Wang Ran smiled and said, "It's a small matter. Junior Brother Chen, you came at the right time. The demon plague has been getting worse recently, and the difficulty of the sect's tasks has been increasing. These three tasks were just released yesterday, so I was able to intercept them. They must be hung on the red lacquer pillar this afternoon. If Junior Brother had come a little later, he would have been like other core disciples and accepted those difficult tasks."

(End of this chapter)