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"Fellow Daoist Lu, please keep the token well. Our Outer Sect main branch's tasks are generally based on this token. It would be quite troublesome if you lose it."

"Fellow Daoist Jin, rest assured, I remember."

Lu Qing finally left, watched by the gazes of others who clicked their tongues and shook their heads.

He was in a decent mood. After all, it was only his first day here, and on the first day, he definitely needed to find a place to cultivation, but the rent for immortal's caves here was simply exorbitant.

Lu Qing was someone with a small five-figure amount of Spirit Stones, but to live somewhere with good conditions, the price was incredibly high. As for his Master's Dao field, it was the same. Don't talk about the Master-disciple relationship being above all else; this was ultimately a Dao Sect. Within a Dao field, a disciple could cultivation in one place or even two, as long as they had spirit money and Spirit Stones in hand.

Therefore, although that Senior Brother Wang was very kind, he subconsciously overlooked the fact that Lu Qing was a genuine pauper here.

Converted, he currently only had a little over a thousand spirit money on him.

The outermost area started at a hundred spirit money per month.

"Room and board included, can't expect too much. At least there's a place to cultivation."

Lu Qing also understood that every piece of land here required spirit money, he thought as he walked downstairs.

The first day was not yet over.

Lu Qing also realized his previous misconception. It was true that Golden Core Cultivators were more common here than in the Profound Heaven Domain, but it wasn't to the extent that Golden Core Cultivators were everywhere.

The Golden Core Cultivators Lu Qing had seen so far each had profound and mysterious auras, likely due to their Inner Worlds being different.

He steered his flying boat towards a certain direction; the place he chose for his appointment was Sun Moon Peak.

Sun Moon Peak, just by the name, you could tell the characteristics of this mountain peak.

To be honest, since he couldn't get close to the place with the densest spiritual energy in the sky and clouds, he would change his approach.

He would get close to a place with pure and beautiful nature, where the essence of the sun and moon was rich. If he couldn't delve deep into the earth's spiritual veins, then he would look towards the sky. Lu Qing's ideas had always been very simple.

The Spiritual Plant Garden was located within Sun Moon Peak.

From the foot of the mountain to the halfway point, you could see patches of spiritual fields stacked up like stairs reaching into the clouds.

When Lu Qing arrived, it was just evening, with the setting sun casting its glow and the sunset clouds scattering their colors. The peak of Sun Moon Peak was bathed in rosy clouds, while the mountainside and foot of the mountain were illuminated by thin clouds refracting streaks of dazzling and colorful light. It looked incredibly beautiful, like a fairyland on earth.

At least from the outside, there were no ugly or unattractive places for cultivation.

But this Sun Moon Peak was still a cut above the rest.

Although the spiritual energy wasn't surging upwards, creating massive clouds of spiritual energy, it still presented a landscape of lush vegetation, mountain streams, and peaks shrouded in misty, verdant hues.

It was just that the route to get here was slightly farther.

Sun Moon Peak was to the East of the Dao Sect. Lu Qing had come from the reception peak earlier, which was in the back mountain, to the north, while his Master's Dao field was also to the East, but slightly to the northwest.

As Lu Qing arrived, the flying boat beneath his feet carried his figure down.

As he got closer, he realized that there were already many figures standing at the foot of the mountain.

The figures in the front and middle all had auras within the Foundation Establishment range, from Foundation Establishment first level to Foundation Establishment ninth level.

And at the very back were groups of tall and imposing strongmen, over ten feet tall.

However, at this moment, they were all waiting at the foot of the mountain.

Lu Qing had always cultivated alone before. Now that he had an additional Chief position with a monthly salary of sixty, he finally understood why that Senior Brother Wang hadn't mentioned the rent for the immortal's cave after he arrived here.

As for spirit money, it ultimately depended on one's cultivation level. The Chief position started at Golden Core; if you hadn't reached that cultivation level, it was out of the question.

Old Hu Zhang was an old-timer at Sun Moon Peak.

When he was young and first entered the path of immortality, he was full of vigor and ambition, wanting to climb the peak of the immortal path and pursue the true words of the Great Dao.

But it was precisely because his ambition was too high that after entering a ruin, he was injured by a thousand-year-old zombie. The corpse poison damaged his Foundation, and because his inherent Aptitude was mediocre, he couldn't obtain or buy any good elixirs. With this delay, there was no hope for his path.

Over the years, he had become more detached. Having stayed at Sun Moon Peak for a long time, he had seen many young faces come in, only to be unable to endure the loneliness and hardship here and then leave.

Having seen it so many times, Old Hu Zhang was no longer surprised.

After all, this place was like a graveyard. Those favored children of heaven, the young geniuses, were destined to soar into the sky and would never come to a place like this.

This was also why, among the Outer Sect main branches, the tasks related to Spirit Planters and Spiritual Plant Gardens were the most short-staffed.

After all, caring for Spiritual plants didn't necessarily require much skill, but a Chief of a Spiritual Plant Garden absolutely had to have the title of Spirit Planter.

Having the time and effort to care for Spiritual plants, it would be better to refine elixirs and collect herbs, forge artifacts and gather fire, or draw talismans and arrange formations, because these were all things that could genuinely be converted into cultivation Foundation and strength.

Who would come here?

The disciples in their Spiritual Plant Garden were also just getting by. There were many Outer Sect Disciples, but the identity of an Outer Sect Disciple was a dime a dozen here; you could grab a handful and they could be used as food.

In contrast to the Inner Sect, even the registered disciples within those main branches were thousands of times better than these Outer Sect Disciples. Registered disciples also had Masters.

All of them were just left to cultivation on their own, wild and untamed.

However, today was a special day.

"Hey, Old Zhang, do you think the new Chief will come today?"

"I wonder what the Chief coming to our Spiritual Plant Garden will be like?"

"Yeah."

"Heh, you ask me that? Who should I ask!"

There were roughly more than twenty people here, and Old Hu Zhang was the most senior.

He had also seen Chiefs come here, but they usually used this place as a stepping stone and would basically leave after not staying for long.

This was also very normal.

Although the Outer Sect was also a separate branch, due to the complex internal composition of Cultivators and the lack of a leader facing outwards, the cultivation resources distributed each year had led it to become the lowest ranked among the seven branches.

This Outer Sect branch was complex, mostly responsible for matters other than the six main branches of the Profound Heaven Dao Sect.

Behind them were also groups of strongmen, who also formed their own circle.

Their status was even lower than those disciples in the front.

They had strong bodies, trained with secret methods to forge bronze bones and iron tendons, increasing their strength. This had little to do with body cultivation. They did the kind of physical labor that mortals spoke of.

They were some people who had no hope of the immortal path but were unwilling to stop at being mortals.

As they talked here, they had various speculations in their hearts, whether uneasy, apprehensive, or hopeful...

A clear light had already appeared on the horizon.

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