"Little friend Ye Chen, you already know my fat disciple Li Zhenyuan; he also has a quota of Mystic Pond and will be going inside with you."
"If there is any trouble, just tell him I assure him that he and other disciples of the Buddhist Temple will help you at once," Wei Sun stated with a serious look as he pointed at the fifteen disciples.
After him, Hong Fang also followed, but he had brought twenty disciples to enter the mystic pond.
There were a total of three hundred quotas. In which the royal family and BlueMoon pavilion took twenty places, while the first-grade sects took fifteen and the four prominent families a total of ten places.
The remaining quotas then were all divided based on the rankings and through competition between sects.
Because of this, there were some third-grade sects with one quota while some of them didn’t even have one.
"I appreciate your kindness; if there is a need, I won’t hesitate to ask for help," Ye Chen replied politely.
The mystic pond didn’t have any dangers; however, the journey to the pond was filled with traps and beasts.
Of course they were not life-threatening; however, other disciples could take advantage of it and try to kill him.
Su Qiming, Wei Sun, and Hong Fang were worried about this, and they even wanted him to follow their disciples.
However, in their eyes, Ye Chen was someone with a special physique; if he went with others, they would only become a burden, so they didn’t suggest this.
Just as Ye Chen was having a talk with them, there were many disciples who were eyeing him with greed.
No matter how much sects pressured the disciples, in front of a huge sum of spiritual stones, everyone couldn’t help but have other thoughts secretly.
Even if they knew he might not bring the spiritual stones with him, they were still going to try robbing him.
"A pity that the girl beside him might have some secret arts; if not, we might even have some fun after killing him."
"Yeah, but we can try like this..."
Some male disciples gazes couldn’t help but flash with a sinister look.
In this cultivation world, weak women were not defenseless. There were some arts that could stop anyone from insulting them even after the death. So even if someone has thoughts, they dare not to force it.
However, it didn’t mean they could not play some tricks.
…
"Hey, look, aren’t those two new elders of Flame Dragon Sect and Sword Pavilion? Why are they heading towards Ye Chen?"
At this moment, someone pointed at the two figures who were approaching Ye Chen.
"Hiss! I thought I was seeing things, but that’s really Senior Song from Sword Pavilion!"
"Seeing things? How could you fail to recognize the goddess?! Fuck off! I won’t be friends with you anymore!"
The disciples gazes couldn’t help but lock on the voluptuous woman with sky blue hair walking towards Ye Chen.
As for the middle-aged man beside her, no one cared about him.
"Hey, I heard that Senior Song was defeated many times by the current sect master of Azure Cloud Sect! Don’t tell me if she is going to take revenge now?!"
"Humph! Senior Song was not defeated but tied! Don’t spout nonsense if you don’t know anything, you ugly worm!"
As the conversation of disciples became heated, the senior monk and a middle-aged man approached Ye Chen despite the cold gazes from Su Qiming, Hong Fang, and Wei Sun.
Because the Flame Dragon Sect and Sword Pavilion wanted to recruit Ye Chen, they sent new elders overnight, afraid that Zhi Qiang and Cheng Hao might cause trouble.
"Ye Chen, I am Song Meilin, an elder from Sword Pavilion. I understand that you might not have a good impression of us because of someone; however, I assure you that person has been punished severely."
"Also, to make up for his mistakes, the Sword Pavilion had decided to give you a tier-5 Sword Essence Jade Pill. Once you consume this, the chances of gaining enlightenment in sword technique would increase by eighty percent."
"I hope you accept this and won’t be dissatisfied with Sword Pavilion because of just one person," Song Meilin spoke with a sweet smile as she sent a white jade bottle flying towards him.
Hearing her words, many couldn’t help but become shocked. The Sword Essence Jade Pill was not something that could be bought with money.
Moreover, only Sword Pavilion has the formula and herbs to refine this pill. So it was almost impossible to see them outside the sect. Even inside the Sword Pavilion, there were not many who could get this, as the Sword Essence Jade Pill took a lot of effort to refine.
Not to mention there were not many herbs to refine this pill because of this; unless there were promising disciples, no one could get this.
"What happened to the mad sword dog? Why didn’t he come to apologize?" Ye Chen inquired as he took the jade bottle before giving it to Lan Ming with a nonchalant look.
Hearing his words, Song Meilin’s expression stiffened a little; however, her smile didn’t fade.
"He had been summoned by the sect to go through the punishment. However, if you want him to apologize in person, then I can order him to come back," she replied immediately without displaying any dissatisfaction.
"Well, there is no need to get that mad sword dog over here; however, I want him to write ten million apology letters. They all must be handwritten, and he must use stone beds as paper."
"How about this? If you agree to this request, I won’t care about what he did; however, if you don’t want to, then you can take that pill back. I don’t lack any of these things," Ye Chen stated with a smile.
Song Meilin’s face couldn’t help but change a little; but, after a moment of thought, she nodded.
"Okay, I will agree to your condition, and I hope you will not bear any ill will because of him," she replied with a nod.
After which she said a few words and took her leave. Before leaving, she didn’t forget to glance at Zhen Yunqi with a deep look.
’She has become more powerful!’ Song Meilin thought as she walked back to the groups of disciples from Sword Pavilion.
She didn’t try to recruit Ye Chen because today’s purpose was only to fix his bad impression of Sword Pavilion.
The middle-aged elder from the Flame Dragon sect also had the same intentions. Although he didn’t bring a rare pill like the sword pavilion, it was still something valuable to others.
Ye Chen didn’t reject this and gave the same condition to him without making things difficult.
The sourc𝗲 of this content is freēwēbηovel.c૦m.
This surprised many cultivators, as they knew his relationship with Flame Dragon Sect could be considered hostile. Even if the sect didn’t seem to care about it, any shrewd person would know they didn’t have any good thoughts.
One could even figure this out from looking at the disciples of Flame Dragon Sect as well as the elder who displayed a fake smile.
There was no way Ye Chen couldn’t notice this, so they were stunned, wondering why he at least didn’t try to make things difficult.
However, they didn’t understand; it does not mean others failed to see through what Ye Chen was thinking.
Swoosh!
It was this moment a golden illuminance shot up from inside the forest.
"The Mystic Pond is opening; everyone take out your tokens and be prepared to enter!"
An elder instructed their disciples, and others followed after.
"After entering, just head straight to the source of light. That’s where the Mystic Pond is. However, be careful because the distance is a little great, and it will take half a day to reach there…"
Zhen Yunqi explained to Ye Chen, Li Mei, and Wang Yiyi who was forced to tag along.
"Inside the Mystic Pond, no one can attack you, and there will be no need to sleep or eat, so do your best to refine all the spiritual Qi inside your body."
"The mystic pond will be open for two weeks, so by no means hurry to break through further. Even if you reach the ninth stage of Qi-gathering, suppress the further breakthrough and stay inside the pond as long as you can."
She reminded with a serious look and took out some talismans related to voice communication, escape, and location.
"The chances of getting lost or separated are low, but still take these," Zhen Yunqi gave it to the three and told a few more things they should care about.
It was at this moment the transparent golden wall turned blue, and the wooden tokens in the hands of Ye Chen and others started to illuminate.
"Go! It’s time!"
Someone shouted.
The disciples with tokens hesitated no more and ran inside without any trouble.
Ye Chen also didn’t delay and entered inside the forest with Li Mei and Wang Yiyi.
After him followed the disciples who were waiting for him to go first. In this group was Hu Tian, who had been standing a distance away from him with his father and other sect elders.