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It was noon, and Guo Bao passionately invited Qin Tian to the closest city outside of Immortal City. The two of them ate lunch at a restaurant.

Guo Bao fiercely slapped his head, and just now, he reminded: "The Spirit Nurturing Pills Elder Fang bestowed to you are genuine Profound Rank spirit pills, and with your current cultivation realm, you might even use the power of the pills to break through two levels in a row and directly form the congealing force. If you can obtain the spirit blade before the advancement assessment next month, then you will definitely stand out among the other disciples, and after entering the outer sect, your monthly medicinal contribution will be much higher."

Guo Bao's tone was a little sour, thinking that it made sense. He had been in the Celestial Sect of Clouds for a few years already, but he did not receive the slightest bit of respect, as he was even looked down upon in front of the new disciples, let alone passing the examination and being promoted to an outer disciple.

After Qin Tian heard this, he took out the porcelain bottle and took out the Spirit Nurturing Pill.

This pill was the size of a thumb and had three orifices. These three orifices had a rune between them that could increase the speed at which a cultivator could absorb spiritual energy by many times.

But unexpectedly, Qin Tian took out a small knife, and with a raise of his hand, the Spirit Nurturing Pill was split into two, and half of the pill was placed in front of Guo Bao.

"Senior brother Guo, since we are friends, we have to rely on each other and work hard. Wouldn't it be better for us to both be promoted to the outer sect disciples in next month's assessment?"

With that said, Qin Tian swallowed the other half of the Spirit Nurturing Pill.

Although Qin Tian's heroic spirit soared to the clouds, he did not know the details of the promotion to an outer disciple, so he naturally inquired about it.

"There are hundreds of thousands of disciples in the Celestial Sect of Clouds and tens of thousands of disciples in the outer sect. The elders of the sect will not ask about them one by one, and there will be this quarterly promotion assessment, which will be a competition in the arena to select the best participants. As for the rules of the examination, it will be different, sometimes it will be a competition, and sometimes they will even arrange a mission."

"Then what's the quota?"

Qin Tian asked again.

"If it's a martial arts competition, the slots are fixed. There are more than two hundred slots."

After Guo Bao finished speaking, he pondered for a moment and said: "If it's the mission assessment, then the number of people to be promoted would be a bit more. At that time, other than the disciples that completed the mission, even the disciples that have performed outstandingly would receive favor, I remember that at most, there would be close to a thousand people to be promoted."

Guo Bao had consecutively taken more than ten promotions and had a say in this.

After Qin Tian heard this number, he hesitated for a moment. He had already made a plan in his heart, to quickly raise his strength.

The Celestial Sect of Clouds was huge, and currently, there were around twenty to thirty thousand outer sect disciples. Even though not all of them would be participating in the Proficiency Promotions, they would still be ninety percent of the total participants, and their promotions would be one in a thousand.

"According to the legends, a formation set up with a demon beast core can not only quickly refine spiritual energy, but also gain some of the insights that the demon beast gained when she was alive if it was completely absorbed."

"In addition, you will also be able to improve your physique with the help of elixirs. At the same time, you will also be able to obtain an enormous amount of Spiritual Qi."

"The fastest and most succinct way is to use the spirit stones to set up the Spirit Gathering Formation."

"…"

Many plans flashed across Qin Tian's mind, but none of them were achievable. The value of beast cores, spirit pills, and spirit stones were all far beyond Qin Tian's reach.

Just by looking at Guo Bao, one could see that as an old qualified disciple, his family's wealth was only around 10 low rank spirit stones. The contribution towards the welfare of the outer sect disciples was outrageously low.

Guo Bao faintly sensed that the future Qin Tian would definitely not be an ordinary person. This time, without waiting for Qin Tian to take the initiative to ask, he explained, "Qin Tian, you are in charge of the medicinal garden and the animal garden under the name of the Princess Feng Ming, and you also know a few contribution points. This is far from the reward of a sect mission, even the simplest mission would require you to receive half a month's worth of rewards from the medicinal garden!"

"Oh?"

Qin Tian's eyes lit up, and continued to ask.

On the other hand, Guo Bao expressed that he had never accepted a mission from the sect before, and was unaware of the details, as the one pointing out the locations on the map for Qin Tian was the Contribution Pavilion who specialized in giving out missions.

Qin Tian's heart was raging, he bid farewell to Guo Bao and entered Immortal City again.

It was not hard to find the Contribution Pavilion. It was a huge pavilion standing in the middle of the Immortal City, with an ancient style, carved into the walls. It was even more majestic and more dignified than the nine layers of white jade stairs.

Cultivation technique was the basis of all the sects in Celestial Sect, and it represented "Convergence"

The Contribution Pavilion was the vigorous life force of the Celestial Sect of Clouds!

In the vast Contribution Pavilion, there were many different kinds of disciples. There were outer sect rookies, inner sect elites, and even entry level elites. Some of them were even mixed with inner sect disciples and clan deacons.

All of these cultivators had high and low cultivation bases, forming groups of three to five, but there was one exception: All of them were spirited, their gazes were sharp, as though they had high aspirations, and were completely different from the outer sect disciples that Qin Tian had met in the past few days.

"Presumably, these cultivators who are brave enough to challenge are the backbone of my Celestial Sect of Clouds!"

Qin Tian became excited, he looked around, only to see that the four walls were densely covered with jade slips and bamboo tubes. He casually picked one up, and a stern voice sounded out in his head.

"The Yellow Rank mission exterminated the sand bandits, west of Constant Country, the sand bandits rampaging …"

The voice should be a certain clan elder in charge of giving out missions that were imbued with a sacred art, following that it was the specific location and contents of the mission. Qin Tian patiently listened until the final contribution reward was split into two.

"Clearing out the bandit's nest will result in 500 contribution points. Collect the Desert Tiger Scorpion venom and exchange for 2 points each."

Qin Tian muttered to himself, and thought: "This reward is really rich."

Qin Tian was in charge of the medicinal garden and the animal garden s under the name of Princess Feng Ming, so his monthly income was around three to four thousand contribution points. The bandits killing in the secular world might be strong for mortals, so any one of the six flesh sage cultivators could easily exterminate them.

However, Qin Tian did not plan to accept this mission, and carefully hung the bamboo tube back on the wall. The desert to the west of the Constant Country was over a hundred thousand miles away from the Celestial Sect of Clouds, so it would take a lot of time to travel back and forth.

Qin Tian looked around, and also looked at a few files. The missions on the first floor were mostly places to cause chaos or missions to collect and investigate. Although the reward points were not small, it was not worth it to travel through the past few days.

At this moment, seven cultivators walked in from outside. These seven people were all wise and powerful, and as soon as they entered, someone recognized them.

"I've also heard of that mission, it's a recently risen sect called the Cyan Fox Sect, which has a peak flesh sage of the Cyan Fox Lady, with a treacherous personality, and the fox race is one of the best, many of the disciples didn't dare to accept it!"

"He must have made a ton of money."

"…"

This was also known as the "seven prodigies of Cloud".

Sure enough, the second floor was much quieter, and the amount of missions issued was very little. After looking at a detailed list, Qin Tian had concluded that these missions were much more difficult than the ones downstairs, and the corresponding rewards were also much more generous.

At this time, a young man dressed in plain clothes, with not a single piece of ornamental jewelry, walked up to them. His cultivation was at the flesh sage Six Directions, and he looked like he was Contribution Pavilion's deacon disciple.

"Junior apprentice-brother."

He opened his mouth but did not say anything. After a long while, he said: "Junior brother, your cultivation is still shallow, it is better not to accept missions on this floor, and just watch from the bottom of the stairs."

"Senior brother, what do you mean?"

Qin Tian was a little doubtful.

"Junior apprentice-brother doesn't know."

The man was rather enthusiastic and explained: "All of the missions on the first floor of Contribution Pavilion are basic, the second floor's missions mostly to exterminate the Demons, in recent days, the Demons have been rampant, and the Demonic Way Demonic Cultivator has caused trouble everywhere, so many of the disciples that joined the sect have been injured or even lost their lives."

"So that's how it is."

Qin Tian thoughtfully nodded his head, then asked: "What about the third floor?"

"The third floor is the place where large scale missions are issued. My Celestial Sect of Clouds is known as one of the Tian Yuan Continent s, and is also the head of the Dao Sect.

That person explained in detail.

This continent called Tian Yuan was actually tens of times larger than Qin Tian had imagined. In the past, Qin Tian only knew that the Constant Country and a few other surrounding nations were enemies, but he did not know that in the distance of the vast continent, there were even more countries and even more Celestial Sect.

Including the Celestial Sect of Clouds, there were four sects that were publicly recognized as top sects by cultivators. They were the Celestial Sect of Clouds in the north, the Mount Shu Sword Sect in the east, the Valley of Hundred Flowers in the west, and the ten martial arts sects in the center of the continent.

Outside of the ranks, the smaller sects would issue larger missions, encouraging their disciples to explore, invade demon territory, or enter the eight forbidden grounds of Tian Yuan Continent to explore, in order to obtain more resources or more prestige.

What he did not know was that this kind of mission was the chance to rapidly increase his strength!

Regardless of whether it was the demon territory or the eight forbidden areas, they were all rich in resources and fortuitous encounters.

In the law of the jungle, where the strong were respected, danger was always equal to opportunity.