Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 376 Jun Chou Demands Back Pay
After leaving Song Bozheng's house, the night owl parted ways with Guantangbao. He had been online for a long time today, and it was almost midnight in the real world. If he didn't go to sleep soon, he could forget about clocking in on time for work tomorrow.

So, he teleported to the Taiyin Palace, randomly picked a relatively empty disciple's room, found a quiet corner and collapsed on the spot—logout!
"Tsk tsk tsk, youth is great! You can fall asleep the moment your head hits the pillow!"

Jun Chou, who happened to be passing by outside the door, saw this scene. He muttered something to himself and turned into the "Sect Leader's Office" next door—a side hall accessed through the back door of the Taiyin Hall.

The main hall near the main gate is always bustling with activity, filled with players accepting and turning in quests, or trying to increase their favorability with certain sect NPCs. However, most of the time, their favorability is reduced rather than increased. But there's always this confident young man who refuses to believe it and thinks he's the only one who's special...

Fang Xianyu was looking down at a pile of documents compiled by Elder Lu Ying, as well as plans for the development of the Arctic Flowing Continent. Without even looking up, she casually asked, "What brings you here today? With so many new disciples these days, it should be harder to supervise them, right?"

Jun Chou said with a smile, "I just went to the Arctic Flow Continent with them."

"Then?"

"Then I sensed a fragment at the Wuyue River; it must be quite a large one."

Upon hearing this, Fang Xianyu finally looked up from the stack of documents, his brows furrowing slightly: "Fragments of the Douxuan Treasure Mirror?"

"Exactly."

“So that explains it…” Fang Xianyu recalled his experience a few days ago and sighed, “No wonder I said that the dragon had been impersonating Yinglong for so long and still had a soul left, and no wonder that place was isolated from the outside world…”

At this point, she glared at Jun Chou: "Your broken mirror fragments must have some use in isolating this and that. Perhaps if it weren't for it, the Quanxian clan inside Tiangui Mountain could have made contact with the Quanxian outside, and wouldn't have been trapped for a thousand years!"

Jun Chou innocently defended himself, saying, "If it weren't for my mirror, that dragon might not have been able to bear such a great sin, and Liuzhou would have long since become a living hell. If it had really come to that, it would probably have sunk into the Netherworld!"

"Forget it, it's too late to say anything now. But since you sensed it, why don't you just go and ask Kui Huai Ren? I think the Tai Shui Dragon King's family are all quite easy to talk to!"

Fang Xianyu waved his hand and said casually.

She was just venting because she was overwhelmed with work every day, and she didn't mean to blame Jun Chou. Not to mention that Jun Chou himself was a direct victim of the Douxuan Treasure Mirror shattering, even if the mirror had been intact and hadn't ended up in Liuzhou, it's hard to guarantee that, as Jun Chou said, without the protection and suppression of the Douxuan Treasure Mirror fragments, the situation in Liuzhou would be even worse.

"They're gone now; they were probably taken away by the Dragon King."

As Jun Chou spoke, he looked at Fang Xianyu with an even more innocent gaze.

"!?"

Fang Xianyu pointed to herself with an incredulous look: "You don't mean you want me to go ask the Dragon King for it, do you!?"

Jun Chou nodded with an innocent expression: "After all, you've met Jin Yi, and you two seemed to get along quite well..."

"What the hell do you mean 'having a pleasant conversation'?!" Fang Xianyu was so agitated that he blurted out a quirk he'd picked up from the players, his tone even bordering on exasperation: "Don't you know what kind of person she is? Aren't you supposed to be 'omniscient and omnipotent'? The day she took that dragon soul, I felt like she wanted to tear the entire Liuzhou apart with a single claw. If I were to rush to ask for the thing she used to save the lives of her juniors, I'd probably have to fight her first!"

"That was the ancient sun god, who was all-knowing and all-powerful..."

Junchou muttered to himself.

"what?"

Fang Xianyu heard it clearly—with her cultivation level, there was no way she wouldn't have heard it clearly. However, precisely because she heard it clearly, she didn't understand what it meant—what "ancient sun god"? Why didn't that sound like something from China? Isn't the "sun god" Apollo?
“Ahem, I mean, Sect Leader Fang, you’ve been too stressed lately. You should relax a bit, maybe read some novels,” Jun Chou said. “There’s a novel website in China called Diaanniang, which has a lot of good novels, like ‘The God of Poverty in the Bathroom,’ ‘Psyduck Saves the Song Dynasty,’ ‘My Days as a Simp for Qin Shi Huang,’ ‘The Story of the Ancestor Who Rises from His Coffin to Save the World,’ and so on. Some of the authors write really interesting stories, like Big Eyes, Egg Spirit Emperor, and July Old Fan… I actually really like Big Eyes. Could you get me an e-signature so I can keep it as a memento?”

Fang Xianyu clutched her chest in anger: "I gave you browsing access so you could work as a network administrator and GM! Not so you could slack off at work and read novels! And electronic signatures too! You're just dreaming!"

Jun Chou remained defiant in the face of Fang Xianyu's questioning: "I didn't even ask for a salary. Making a small request as a form of compensation isn't unreasonable, is it?"

After saying that, Junchou, still feeling it wasn't enough, added in a low voice, "If they're not even willing to spend money on bananas, naturally they can't even hire cats..."

"Is it me who won't give it to you? It's clearly you who doesn't want anything! You don't need the Yin Essence, you don't need the money, you're the one who doesn't want anything!"

Fang Xianyu was quite angry as she spoke. To calm herself down, she took a deep breath and then resignedly added, "Fine, fine, so it's Big Eyes' electronic signature, right? I'll go ask those people from the Dragon Group of the Flower Country for it tomorrow!"

Jun Chou resolutely refused, emphasizing, "Actually, that's unnecessary. I still prefer the fragment of the Douxuan Treasure Mirror from Yinglong King—one fragment in exchange for a long-term free laborer like me, it's a very good deal!"

"Okay, okay, I'll go get it, I'll go get it right now!"

As Fang Xianyu spoke, he actually stood up.

However, it wasn't because of Jun Chou's matter. Rather, she had planned to visit him after Yinglong King took away the dragon soul. Jun Chou came to "demand his wages," but he had specifically reminded her of this.

Besides the fact that she had finally advanced to the Nascent Soul stage after devouring a large number of people from the Arctic Flow Continent and was no longer too worried about the heavenly lightning around Kunlun Hill, more importantly, she also wanted to visit that dragon soul.

She wasn't sure if the dragon race had a way to save the dragon—and even if they did, it would probably come at a considerable cost.

But she could save them—she was too skilled at hand-molding puppet bodies.

Of course, the reason I delayed going for several days was because of some thoughts that I couldn't share with outsiders.

We are only grateful for help we receive when we are desperate, aren't we?
For the gift of charcoal in the snow to be truly precious, the snow must fall heavily and coldly enough.