Several days later, at dusk, a strange wind suddenly rose, sweeping over mountains and ridges, shaking trees and bending branches, followed by the sound of whistling ghosts, with a large group of cultivators flying over the grass, traveling in groups. They mysteriously activated the Divine Movent Spell and swiftly flew by using the Light Body Technique. It was as if they were being summoned by sothing from the void, gathering from all directions to a ruined temple on the outskirts of Jiangdu City.
Once these nurous figures landed on the ground, dispelled the spell, and stopped, they could see people of all sorts, both scholars and warriors, dressed in different and eccentric styles. At a glance, it was clear they were Mixed Cultivators from the Jianghu Martial World. Although their clothes varied, they now all had their faces uncovered, as if wearing blood-colored masks, like a group of mountain bandit robbers.
At this mont, the group of uncovered people was solemn and orderly, forming into two rows, sitting behind each other quietly in line, hardly daring to breathe loudly while practicing Breathing Control and Qi Replenishnt. They seed like chess pieces scattered over a board, showing respectful and dignified deference, as if so significant figure in the ruined temple was about to summon them at any mont.
With a creak, the door opened. The crowd looked up to see a beautiful woman, her face veiled with silk gauze and her body adorned in resplendent brocade, standing in the doorway with a burlap sack. She appeared startled, sowhat fearful, upon seeing so many blood-faced individuals.
Fortunately, two group leaders observed the situation and understood the implicit ssage. They simultaneously pounced forward, sliding to their knees and bowing at the woman's skirt,
"Mission accomplished successfully without failure!"
"Humbly follow the decree, here to present ourselves!"
The beauty was taken aback by the two, almost retreating into the courtyard, but she managed to hold her ground and didn't forget her lines,
"The master instructed that if the task is completed well, there will be rewards."
She then took out a talisman, slapped it onto the burlap sack, and tilted it at the door.
With a clatter, a pile of blood-colored copper coins poured out, accumulating into a small hill in an instant.
The leader quickly turned and shouted,
"Thank you, Supre!"
Thus, the crowd all bowed low to the ground, chanting in unison,
"Blood Talisman~Manifest! Divine Power~Vast! Ten Absolutes~Majestic! Holy Fire~Surging!"
"With my~loyal soul! I bow~Saint Venerable! With my~blood! I offer~to the Divine Sect!"
"Hail~Supre! Rewards and punishnts~clear! For eternity~May it last forever! Our~Holy Sect alone!"
With a clatter, the coins rained down.
Having experienced rewards and punishnts within the sect, the cult mbers were not surprised. While singing the praises, they awaited the rewards to be ready, then lined up to collect the Blood Coins. However, as they were chanting, they noticed sothing amiss.
With a clatter, the chanting ended, but the coins kept pouring...
No, isn't the amount of money given today a bit excessive...?
Suddenly curious, the crowd couldn't resist secretly lifting their heads to peek at the door. What they saw stunned everyone: a mountain of gold, silver, and blood, treasures, jewels, gold bits, and silver bars piled high.
The beautiful woman was still there, holding the sack, pouring treasures in a glistening array of colors out in waves.
Gradually, even the voices of praise stopped, and the cult mbers were left speechless and wide-eyed, kneeling like dumbfounded roosters, making "cluck cluck cluck" noises from their throats as they stared at the enormous treasure before them.
Xiao Baoqin continued pouring for a while, then seeing that it was almost all out, shook the bag, reached in to scoop out so more coins, tossed them, then folded the bag neatly. She turned to the two leaders, who were completely dumbfounded, standing there, and said,
"The master says, you can divide it among yourselves."
"Divide, divide it..."
"Wait, wait..."
The two almost couldn't get up, their hearts filled with confusion. They didn't dare make noise to disturb the Supre inside, only gently questioned,
"May we dare ask the Holy Envoy, isn't the number of rewards... sowhat excessive?"
"Yes, indeed, we only accomplished a delivery task, barely counted as a rit. Such heavy rewards, how can we bear it..."
Xiao Baoqin glanced at them,
"The master says, I clearly reward and punish. Soon there will be tis to utilize your efforts, and brothers who are willing won't be shortchanged. As for these yellow and white objects, they are useless in cultivation, purely trash. If you want them, pick them up yourselves."
"Hiss..."
"How magnanimous..."
Suddenly, the two beca utterly confused.
What does it an by these trash things being useless? If you want them, pick them up yourself? Is that reasonable!? Although it technically makes sense, unless you specifically refine Divine Gang Gold Qi, gold and silver jewelry are indeed useless for cultivation. But after all, the Central Plains is still on the gold standard era. Divine Gang Coins circulate among the populace as lower currency, while gold and silver are used by the court, Vassal States, and Gate Valve for large transactions and rewards as upper currency. Nowadays, the gold bits commonly used by businesses and Gate Valve are mostly one ounce of gold, roughly exchanging for more than ten strings of coins.
Moreover, the key point is, even the Three Great Sects don't have the Secret Technique of turning stones into gold. Although they wouldn't actively exchange stored gold, since the Gate Valve Clan, which actually controls land and manpower resources, loves using gold, cultivators naturally accept so precious tals and treasures as trading resources.
Furthermore, since gold itself isn't Heavenly and Earthly Treasures for cultivation, it will not be specifically tracked by arithtic to calculate cause and effect, and it's convenient for large transactions and exchanging for cultivation materials, therefore, when the Gate Valve Clan hires assassins, they usually pay the cultivator tribute in gold.
Of course, even so, gold ultimately needs a step of exchange. If directly presenting Heavenly Materials Treasures and gold side by side to choose, indeed, there's no need to complicate things. But isn't it just that ordinary people simply can't obtain Heavenly and Earthly Treasures...
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