nucmednet Chapter 1849 - 1843: An Outer Sect Disciple You Can’t Afford to Provoke
Chapter 1849 - 1843: An Outer Sect Disciple You Can’t Afford to Provoke
With the defeat and retreat of the Divine Profound Hall, the war between the Shenxiao Empire and the Xingyu Empire was officially over. The national strength of the Xingyu Empire was greatly weakened. Without support from the Divine Profound Hall, there was almost no suspense left as to which way the war would tilt.
Zhang Menglong and the others left like heroes amid the cheers of the Royal Family and warriors of the Shenxiao Empire.
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"Ninety–ten split! We caught all these people, so why should we split fifty–fifty with the Sect? Did you guys put in any effort at all?"
"You brat, we were the ones who went to make the exchange for these hostages. Without the Sect stepping in, you think you could have gotten this ransom money so easily? Sixty–forty, you six, the Sect four. That’s my final bottom line!"
"How about this, we each take a step back. Eighty–twenty. That extra twenty counts as your hard‑earned fee for negotiating the hostage exchange. I’m only doing this for the sake of our personal friendship, otherwise I wouldn’t give up even one percent!"
"Eighty–twenty? You really dare say that out loud? All the profits have always been split fifty–fifty with the Sect. Without the Sect’s resources, would you have had the chance to enter a battlefield like this, the chance to capture so many prisoners?" Qi Congyun refused to back down either.
"Bullshit, this opportunity is clearly something we fought for ourselves. The Sect told us to run, we stayed on our own initiative. How about this instead—the ransom from the first batch of Inner Sect Disciples is yours, but for the later batch of trainee disciples’ ransom we want eighty percent. That’s not too much, right?"
"If you’re going to put it that way, then we’ll have to have a good talk about you disobeying the Sect’s orders."
"Damn, old man, you’re not playing fair!"
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Zhang Menglong and Qi Congyun argued all the way back, and finally reached an agreement. This ransom would be split seventy–thirty between Zhang Menglong’s group and the Sunset Sect, but the Sunset Sect would reward each trainee disciple with an extra 20,000 contribution points as compensation.
When they returned to the Sect, the square in front of the Sect was practically packed with people.
The news about Zhang Menglong and the others had already spread by word of mouth through Xiu Miao and the rest. Almost everyone in the Sunset Sect knew that this group of trainee disciples had defeated a group of Inner Sect Disciples from the Divine Profound Hall, and even captured them all alive.
The Sunset Sect and the Divine Profound Hall had clashed countless times, but the Sunset Sect had basically always ended up on the losing side. Everyone had been holding in a bellyful of frustration. Finally making the Divine Profound Hall choke for once was absolutely exhilarating for the people of the Sunset Sect.
Later, no one knew who leaked it, but word got out that the Divine Profound Hall had once again sent a group of Core Disciples as reinforcements, and that group of trainee disciples actually had the iron guts to stay on the battlefield.
From then on, everyone paid close attention to this special group of trainee disciples. Even if they all died in battle in the end, they would be remembered as martyrs of the entire Sunset Sect.
But no one expected that, based on all kinds of information coming back through various channels, this group of trainees actually won again, even capturing that whole batch of Core Disciples! They even made a huge haul of ransom money!
Now they were treated like a group of triumphant warriors returning from victory, receiving the warmest cheers and welcome.
"Thank you, everyone, thank you!" Zhang Menglong walked in front, waving to all the people.
The trainee disciples behind him followed his lead; just like Zhang Menglong, they were practically floating into the sky.
"I hereby announce!" The Elder in charge of disciple registration and assessment walked out of the crowd with a beaming smile. "All trainee disciples have passed the assessment and are now officially outer sect disciples, effective immediately!"
The Elder waved his hand, and the token on Zhang Menglong, which represented his identity as a disciple of the Sunset Sect, instantly changed from gray to green.
"Oh, right," that Elder added, "based on your performance in this assessment, the Sect can grant you a one‑time promotion opportunity. As long as you pass the relevant assessment, you can obtain the corresponding title. Does anyone want to participate?"
"Damn! What kind of treatment is this? The Sect is actually opening a back door for them, that’s way too biased!"
"Biased? How do you even have the nerve to say that? They may just be outer sect disciples right now, but go find me a Core Disciple who can beat them. If you can find ten, I’ll chop my head off and give it to you."
"Ten? That’s conservative, isn’t it? I feel like, aside from Senior Brother Wu Shuang, no one can beat them. They’ve all comprehended the second layer of the Nine Nether Sunset Art; they’re basically invincible below the Dao Realm."
"They’re all freaks anyway. With their current strength, taking the assessment for Core Disciples would just be a formality. The real question is whether any Elder is willing to accept them as a Direct Disciple."
"’Willing’ or not? You think it’s about whether the Elders are willing? We’ve got so many Elders in the Sunset Sect—how many of them do you see having comprehended the second layer of the Nine Nether Sunset Art? Who’s taking whom as a disciple? Won’t they be fighting over them?"
"Elder, no need," Zhang Menglong waved his hand. "Outer sect disciples, Inner Sect Disciple, Core Disciple—those are all just empty titles. As long as we become official disciples of the Sunset Sect, that’s enough."
"Yeah, we can’t be bothered with some disciple promotion test. It’s boring. It’s not like failing it would prove we’re weaker than anyone."
"But if you don’t get promoted, you might suffer a bit in terms of resource distribution," the Elder tried to persuade them.
"Those little bit of resources don’t make much difference. We can just pick up some random missions to earn contribution points and trade for resources. We’re not that interested in the Sect’s measly scraps anyway!"
"Measly scraps..."
Everyone’s expression looked like they’d just eaten shit. Every time you move up a rank, the cultivation resources you receive each month double. In other words, if they were promoted to Core Disciples, their fixed resources would be four times what they were now!
This is what you call measly scraps? This is the kind of resources people dream about and still never get! You have to know, the resources given to a Sunset Sect trainee disciple alone were already five or six times those of an ordinary Ninth Grade Empire’s Royal Family treatment.
If that’s called measly scraps, then ordinary people might as well just give up on cultivation altogether!
"Are you sure?" the Elder asked again. "If you give up this opportunity, you’ll have to wait five years until the Sect’s unified promotion assessment. During that time you’ll miss out on a lot of resources, and there’s no way we’ll break the rules to give you another early chance."
"We’re sure," Zhang Menglong said. "We’re planning to not rely completely on the Sect’s strength and see just how far we can develop on our own. We don’t need any of that stuff."
"Since that’s the case, we’ll go with your decision." The Elder sighed. The way young people thought these days was getting harder and harder to figure out.
"From now on, everyone needs to be more careful when going out," an Inner Sect Disciple said. "If you offend a Core Disciple, you might just get beaten up, but if you offend an outer sect disciple, you might get beaten to death on the spot, right?"
"Hard to imagine what the outer sect disciples’ sparring tournaments in our Sunset Sect will look like in the future. It’ll probably be like gods duking it out."
"Best if disciples from other Sects don’t come and provoke our Sunset Sect. If they accidentally piss off an outer sect disciple, the outcome is definitely going to be very interesting."
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