Rise from a Poor Family: My Martial Arts Counterattack

Chapter 375 Lin Shixiong, who doesn't know how to queue

8000 people.

After improving his ranking by nearly a thousand places, Lin Chen stopped.

At this moment, he was reading the Canglan Sect disciple handbook that Senior Brother Gao had given him.

This is a manual only available to direct disciples of the Canglan Sect. It contains maps of most of the Canglan Sect's territory, as well as information on the rewards that direct disciples can receive.

After a short while, Lin Chen finished reading the booklet and gained a general understanding of the Canglan Sect.

The Canglan Sect is divided into outer disciples, inner disciples, personal disciples, stewards, elders, sect leader, and supreme elders.

For Lin Chen, the focus should be on his disciples.

The treatment given to outer disciples, inner disciples, and personal disciples by the sect is different, with personal disciples receiving the highest treatment, inner disciples next, and outer disciples receiving the lowest.

In addition to the benefits provided by the sect, disciples can earn contribution points by completing sect missions if they wish to obtain resources for martial arts cultivation.

The sect will assign a variety of tasks in the mission hall to meet the needs of disciples of different strengths. These tasks are all very routine.

In addition, there are some deacons and elders who will issue some tasks in the task hall. These tasks are usually about searching for special medicinal herbs or refining materials. The contribution points given are much higher than those for sect tasks, but the difficulty is also much greater. Not all disciples have the strength to accept them.

In addition, the sect will also offer a series of rewards for the disciples' improved strength.

The prerequisite is that you must improve your strength within the sect's time limit.

"Go to the Mission Hall tomorrow and collect the resources for the personal disciple."

Now that your status as a direct disciple has been confirmed, the sect will provide you with the benefits of a direct disciple. You can receive three months' worth of resources at once, and if you need to leave the sect, you can receive one or even two years' worth of cultivation resources.

Tonight, although he was in a foreign land, Lin Chen slept very soundly.

……

The next day, early morning.

Lin Chen left the villa early in the morning, and did not encounter any other disciples after leaving the residential area.

Although the Canglan Sect has more than ninety direct disciples, most of them are traveling outside, and less than 30% actually stay in the sect, and many of them are still in seclusion.

Canglan Palace.

When Lin Chen arrived at the Canglan Palace, he saw a huge square with disciples coming and going in an endless stream.

For disciples of the Canglan Sect, there are only two places they visit most often: the Canglan Palace and the Mission Hall.

The Mission Hall is used to accept missions and earn sect contribution points, while the Azure Treasure Hall is where you can receive or exchange contribution points for desired martial arts resources.

Elixirs, cultivation techniques, and all sorts of other treasures can be obtained as long as you have enough contribution points.

The entire Canglan Palace is very large, with several branch halls. Lin Chen looked up and stepped into the branch hall on the left: the Pill Hall.

The sect provides its disciples with the same elixirs needed for martial arts cultivation, whether they are outer disciples, inner disciples, or personal disciples.

The difference lies in the quantity and the grade of the pills.

Lin Chen stepped into the Pill Hall and saw that there were many disciples queuing in front of several counters. He chose the back of a queue with a moderate number of people.

Just as Lin Chen reached the back of the line, many people looked over. The young man in front of Lin Chen also turned around and looked at him with a puzzled look in his eyes. He said in a deep voice, "Junior brother, did you perhaps line up in the wrong line?"

Did you join the wrong line?
"This is where inner disciples receive their pills."

The young man pointed to several lines of dozens of people. Although there were three thousand inner disciples, they wouldn't all know each other, but they would always run into each other on some occasions, and some of them would be familiar with each other. However, Lin Chen's face was completely unfamiliar to the young man.

Perhaps, he is a newly joined outer disciple.

"Yes, we went to the wrong place. Thank you for reminding us."

Lin Chen nodded. As a direct disciple, he shouldn't be in this line. He then looked at the first row on the left, where there were the fewest people, and walked over there.

"stop!"

Seeing Lin Chen walk to the left, the young man called out curiously, "These are all inner disciples; the outer disciples are over there."

The young man pointed to the right, where there was a queue of dozens of people. His voice also attracted the attention of the other disciples around him, and they all looked at Lin Chen with amused smiles.

This situation always occurs once or twice whenever a new disciple joins the school.

Don't underestimate the outer disciples of the Canglan Sect just because they have little status within the sect. Those who can enter the Canglan Sect, even as outer disciples, are considered quite talented in the Canglan Domain. When they first enter the sect, they are very arrogant and always think that they will receive all kinds of preferential treatment as before.

"Thanks for the reminder, I understand."

Lin Chen realized that he had been misunderstood, and with so many disciples watching him, if he blurted out that he was a direct disciple, it would inevitably seem like he was showing off in front of others.

Showing off in front of others is fine, but it's too stiff and makes it seem like you're doing it on purpose.

"I know you still..."

Seeing that Lin Chen did not stop, the young man finally gave up trying to persuade him. There were a total of thirty counters in the entire Pill Hall where pills could be collected. Three of these counters were open to all disciples, and disciples could use their points to purchase the pills they wanted at these five counters.

The other twenty counters are for outer disciples, since there are more outer disciples. Five counters are reserved for inner disciples, and the two on the far left are exclusive to personal disciples.

As Lin Chen walked, many disciples followed his every step. One row, two rows…

When they saw Lin Chen walk past five rows without stopping, many disciples on the scene widened their eyes. What was going on? Was this newcomer so bold?

There's no one queuing for the first two cabinets. Even if you don't know the rules, you should know there must be a reason.

"It's not just arrogance, it's downright stupidity."

Many disciples wore mocking expressions, waiting for this person to be reprimanded soon.

As Lin Chen walked toward the first counter, a young woman stepped out from the previously unattended counter.

When the young woman first came out, she had a displeased look on her face, but after her gaze fell on Lin Chen and she looked him up and down for a while, her beautiful eyes showed a thoughtful look, and then she smiled and asked, "Are you Senior Brother Lin?"

The woman, who was in charge of distributing benefits to the disciples in the Pill Hall, was herself a second-grade cultivator and one of the three thousand inner disciples. At first, she thought it was some newly joined outer disciple who was being disrespectful and queuing up randomly.

But when her gaze fell on Lin Chen, she noticed something was wrong; she couldn't see through the person in front of her.

The other party's qi and blood were so tightly contained that she couldn't sense their depth. She had only ever experienced this feeling with Senior Brother Qiao and a few others.

Recalling the rumors that had caused a sensation among the inner disciples yesterday, she made a judgment in her mind: the person in front of her might be the one who had caused a sensation among the inner disciples yesterday.

"Ah."

Lin Chen nodded in agreement.

Seeing Lin Chen nod, the woman's smile widened, while the many disciples who were originally prepared to watch the excitement were now collectively stunned.

This person walked to the counter reserved for direct disciples, and the senior sister in charge of receiving them greeted them with a smile, which was enough to show their identity.

Many of the inner disciples in line also thought of the rumors from yesterday.

"It's him."

“The new direct disciple who joined the sect yesterday.”

Many inner disciples were unaware of Lin Chen's name, but they knew that a disciple had passed the personal disciple assessment yesterday and scored over 200 points.

On the contrary, the outer disciples were completely confused.

How could a disciple have lined up in the wrong place before? Wasn't this just pretending to be weak to take advantage of others?

"Senior Brother Lin, according to the rules, you need to show your disciple identification card."

"can."

Lin Chen nodded and took out the disciple identity token that Senior Brother Gao had given him yesterday from his waist. When the purple-blue identity token appeared in Lin Chen's hand, all the disciples present were filled with envy and awe.

There are three types of identity tokens for Canglan Sect disciples: light blue for outer disciples, dark blue for inner disciples, and purple-blue for personal disciples.

For all Canglan Sect disciples, the purple-blue identity token is their goal, but many disciples are self-aware enough to know that this goal is almost impossible for them to achieve.

"Senior Brother Lin, your identity verification is correct."

The young woman took the disciple token from Lin Chen, glanced at the words "Lin Chen" on it, and then returned it to Lin Chen.

"Senior Brother Lin, you've come to collect the pills for your personal disciples, right? I wonder how many months' worth you need to collect?"

"Three months."

After today's incident, people will probably start saying I'm a show-off, so maybe I shouldn't do this once a month anymore.

"Alright, please wait a moment, Senior Brother Lin."

The young woman went to the back pavilion and returned after a short while, carrying a box in her hands.

"Three bottles of Canglan Pills, three bottles of True Blood Pills, three Canglan Crystals... Please confirm the quantities are correct, Senior Brother Lin."

While Lin Chen was checking the pills in the box, he could clearly feel the intense gazes of the people around him, so he simply closed the box.

I imagine this junior sister wouldn't dare to tamper with it.

On the contrary, it was his act of counting the pills one by one in front of so many outer and inner disciples that gave people a feeling of showing off.

Lin Chen left with the box, but the commotion he caused in the Pill Hall did not end. As the disciples who received the pills told the others about it, soon the entire sect knew about Lin Chen's actions in the Pill Hall that day.

As a result, several points of discussion arose.

Is this Senior Brother Lin truly unaware of the situation inside the Pill Hall, or is he doing this on purpose?

Ultimately, the conclusion that it was intentional prevailed.

The Canglan Sect has produced another pretentious disciple.

I don't know who Lin Shixiong is.

Meanwhile, Lin Chen, unaware that he had been given the nicknames "pretentious" and "unruly senior brother Lin" by the sect disciples, was in his courtyard, refining the Canglan Pill.

P.S.: These two chapters are a brief transition between some uneventful ones; the pace will pick up tomorrow.

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