Building a sect from scratch.

Spices, once more valuable than gold in the history of Earth, are sought after by countries around the world not to flaunt wealth, but because their allure is truly exaggerated and irresistible.

Just as Chinese and Indian cuisines often dominate around the world, it's because one has mastered the use of spices, while the other uses spices as if they were free.

This overwhelming flavor on the palate almost instantly conquered the catnip.

Seeing Jing Jiezi eating with great relish, Song Bozheng was overjoyed. While chewing on some roasted meat, he mumbled, "How about it? This barbecue restaurant I recommended is pretty good, isn't it? I can't resist it; I come here for one or two meals almost every week!"

Jingjiezi readily praised it, saying, "It is indeed a delicacy!"

Ling Xuan exaggeratedly chimed in, "Sigh! I can't leave Chang'an City anymore either. Just thinking about leaving behind barbecue, hot pot, braised food, roast chicken, roast duck, milk tea, fried chicken, hamburgers, pizza... makes me want to die! My God! Is there anything more cruel than this in the world?! I'd rather my cultivation regress to the Foundation Establishment stage than leave behind these delicious foods!"

Song Bozheng chimed in, "That's right! I'd rather die than go back to the Jiwei Sect and suffer! I can earn over a hundred spirit stones here in a month! Back at the Jiwei Sect, I'd work diligently from dawn till dusk, and they'd only give me a dozen or so spirit stones! Even oxen and horses don't work that hard!"

Ling Xuan nodded vigorously, like a chicken pecking at rice: "Exactly! Let me tell you, my senior brother and I are inner disciples in Guangcheng Sect, and my senior brother even won the top spot on the Pill Cultivation Ranking! That's the top spot! And guess how much we get paid a month? Twenty-something spirit stones! Good heavens! They're so stingy! Right now, we get twenty spirit stones a day just from the profit sharing from Chang'an Pharmaceutical! Only a fool would go back!"

Upon hearing that it cost "twenty spirit stones a day," Song Bozheng couldn't help but exclaim enviously, "Wow! You guys earn so much! Cultivating alchemy is really great!"

"Hey, just lucky!" Ling Xuan smiled modestly, then asked, "What do you cultivate, fellow Daoist?"

"Weapon repair!"

Ling Xuan asked curiously, "Then it should be alright! Weapon crafting, alchemy, and talisman cultivation are all recognized as some of the most profitable professions!"

Song Bozheng said self-deprecatingly, "The main problem is that I'm really bad at this. Back in the Jiwei Sect, I was just an ordinary disciple. In Chang'an City, I just made a living by taking on odd jobs!"

Du Cihuai interjected, "You could open a shop and customize spiritual artifacts for the disciples of the Taiyin Sect! It's very profitable! I have a fellow disciple who does this, and she can earn dozens of spirit stones from a single order!"

"I've thought about coming too, but... but... sigh! It's my fault for being so useless! I can't save up enough money to open a shop! Anything I earn just goes into my own food! Sigh!"

At this point, Song Bozheng said with great distress: "I'm even staying in Longshan Port now! Because they've launched free housing there to attract NPCs to settle down, and I was among the first to apply. This way, I can save one silver coin a day on inn accommodation! To be honest, I only have ten silver coins left!"

“I’m even worse off than you. I don’t have a single spirit stone on me. The Taiyin Sect disciples took it all,” Jing Jiezi wanted to comfort her friend, but she became more and more upset as she spoke. “They didn’t even leave me a single sheet of paper for drawing talismans! They’re like locusts!”

Ling Xuan was taken aback: "Why would a disciple of the Taiyin Sect steal your things? Didn't you report it?"

Jing Jiezi sighed and said, "Alas! I used to be a member of the Taiyi Ziwei Sect! I happened to be at odds with them! To my shame, they even captured me back then!"

Du Cihuai suddenly realized: "So you're from the Taiyi Ziwei Sect! That's a major sect!"

“How despicable are the major sects! Fellow Daoists, I should be clapping with joy at the annihilation of the Ziwei Sect!” Jing Jiezi said, “I was originally a disciple of the Changze Sect. Although the Changze Sect had its own lineage, it was ultimately small in number, and its sect leader was only at the Nascent Soul stage… Later, the Changze Sect was destroyed by the Ziwei Sect under some pretext, and that’s when I was taken in. Alas! It’s a pity that I was only at the Foundation Establishment stage at the time, unable to avenge my master. Even now, I’m only at the Nascent Soul stage. I thought my remaining years were numbered and I would never have another chance, but unexpectedly, this incident with the Taiyin Sect has truly made me very happy!” Ling Xuan listened with a sense of sympathy and said, “I never imagined there were so many reasons behind this… I’ve long heard that the Ziwei Sect’s actions are often underhanded. Our Guangcheng Sect has to pay a huge price to the Ziwei Sect every year! I also have a colleague who is from the Ziwei Sect. She told me that her master, True Person Pinglin, was framed and murdered! The Ziwei Sect is truly hateful!”

"Alas, the Ziwei Sect has finally met its end due to its many evil deeds..."

"Actually, all major sects are the same! Just treat them like those Misty Immortal Sect, Penglai Sect, Suiming Sect, Tianyu Sect, and so on."

"At least they don't eat like that!"

"Hey! They're about the same!"

……

While the group ate and chatted, the player [Renxin Huadao], who had shamelessly ordered ten cases of [Speed ​​Water] from Du Cihuai, was excitedly messaging his guild leader and regular guild leader [Nietzsche] to boast: "Guild leader! I bought [Speed ​​Water]! Ten cases! Ten cases!"

Nietzsche had just logged on when he saw the private message from "Human Heart Transformation" and was immediately surprised and delighted: "Wow! Where did you buy that? You deserve a lot of credit! Now we can try to kill that wild boss!"

"Wait a minute, boss, it's like this, let me explain... no, let me explain, although I bought some, I haven't bought all of them..."

"speak English!"

"I just happened to meet a stay-at-home dad, put down a deposit, and ordered ten boxes, but I haven't received the goods yet!"

Nietzsche: "..."

"Don't be discouraged, team leader! At least I managed to buy it!"

"Don't speak so dramatically next time," Nietzsche sent two private messages in quick succession, his face expressionless. "Also, let's meet at the usual spot right now, we're continuing our westward expansion!"

As a new player entering the game, it's not difficult to quickly catch up with veteran players in terms of level and cultivation; for example, you can pay someone to carry you through dungeons to gain experience. However, simply catching up in level and cultivation isn't very useful. After all, the realism of "Ten Continents Chronicles" is unprecedented. Even if you have the highest level in the entire server and the most luxurious equipment, you still can't match the attack power of other players' hard-earned skills and techniques—this is by no means an insult to Confucius or Zhuge Liang.

In short, in order to quickly familiarize themselves with the game and practice their skills, players like Nietzsche, who are more pragmatic, are more enthusiastic about the thrill of combat and exploration.

The former can quickly improve one's understanding and application of various skills and learned spells, while the latter can kill monsters and gain experience to level up during the exploration process, while also obtaining various valuable natural treasures and materials.

And these people with similar aspirations, gathered together, formed the community Nietzsche built: [Eternal Spirit]. (End of Chapter)