Chapter 149 – Miscellaneous Matters
Han Li naturally kept these words in mind after hearing them.
”Since you’ve finished receiving your things, now follow me to meet the Transmission Disciple!” After Master Wang finished speaking, he once again took Han Li up in his vessel once more.
This time, he flew a much closer distance, and in the blink of an eye, he landed at the foot of a nearby mountain. Here, there was a huge stone building built on the mountain, and on the stone plaque in front of the building were the three golden words “Transmission Pavilion”. There were some young disciples nearby, coming in and out, quite lively, and Master Wang didn’t say anything this time, and walked in first, with Han Li following closely behind. Some of the disciples obviously recognized this Master Wang, and kept saluting and asking for his favor, and Master Wang nodded his head with a smile. It seemed that his popularity in Yellow Maple Valley was really good.
Entering the stone building, Han Li unexpectedly discovered that the back half of this Transmission Pavilion actually extended into the belly of the mountain, which was extremely wide. And once inside, there was a row of stone doors juxtaposed in front of him, and his disciples were entering and exiting from within these doors.
Han Li was about to take a closer look, but Master Wang pushed open the door to the third room on his right and walked in. This caused Han Li to hesitate a bit, wondering if he should follow closely behind.
”Come in!” Uncle Wang didn’t let Han Li wait long, and in a moment’s time, he reappeared at the door and greeted Han Li as he entered.
There weren’t many people in the room, only a green-clothed disciple in his thirties who stood respectfully beside Master Wang. Upon seeing Han Li enter, he kindly smiled at him.
”This is Wu Feng, who specializes in new disciples’ gong methods. In the future, if you have any questions about your gongfu, you can come and ask him for advice. In terms of mastery of elementary gong methods, Wu Feng is good enough to be ranked within the top ten of the junior generation!” In his words, Senior Uncle Wang was extremely appreciative of this person.
”Please ask Senior Brother Wu for more guidance in the future!” Han Li said respectfully. He knew very well that this person was his own gongfu master for some time to come, so he couldn’t afford to be neglectful!
”Hehe! Uncle is too kind, in fact, I only have a cursory understanding of low-ranked techniques, I can work together with senior brother Han to understand it!” This senior brother Wu said politely.
”Senior nephew Wu, I’m well aware of how your techniques are, so there’s no need to be too modest! This senior nephew Han’s gong method will be left to you, I’m just bringing him to let you two get to know each other, and then I have to take him to other places to greet him, so I won’t stay here with you much longer!”
Master Wang was also very dry, and after saying these words, he and Han Li left the room amidst this Senior Brother Wu’s respectful escort.
Within the next period of time, this Senior Uncle Wang dutifully took Han Li to a few other necessary places and introduced a few deacon disciples to him respectively, and gave him some daily precautions. Only then did he bring him back to the cluster of stone houses where the gray-clothed old man was located, and allowed him to choose a stone room at random to use as his residence before leaving him to go back alone.
Han Li stood in front of the stone house he had chosen and bitterly smiled as he surveyed the humble dwelling.
By this time, he already knew that disciples who had practiced their basic techniques to the tenth layer could leave this place and go move to a place called Xuan Kun Mountain to live. There, disciples within the sect could be much freer! Not only could they establish their own residence on the mountain at will, but there was also absolutely no restriction on the type or size of the house, causing Han Li to yearn for it.
However, although the gongfu was not yet ten layers, Han Li also had no real intention of living in this stone house for a long time.
After he suddenly laughed softly, he took out the Green Leaf Phantasmal Artifact for flight from his storage pouch. After injecting spiritual energy into the device, he threw it into the air and jumped on it.
At first, Han Li flew crookedly, low and high, extremely unstable because he was unfamiliar with this object. But soon after, he easily got the hang of it and could also fly around in style with his hands behind his back just like that Master Wang.
Although this magic weapon was easy to get started and simple to maneuver, it was obvious that it wasn’t very fast, just a little bit faster than an ordinary steed. It was no wonder that the disciples in the valley were able to have one in their hands. Even though the Green Leaf Phaeton was a bit worse, it was after all Han Li’s first time flying in the air, so he was still excited to play around with it for half a day.
”Haha!” In the midst of loud laughter, Han Li, who had had his fill of flying, finally drove the magic weapon and sped toward a certain place.
Along the way, he also brushed past a few other disciples who were also in flight. Perhaps it was because Han Li’s face was too unfamiliar, so these few people all curiously looked at Han Li closely for a few moments, but when they saw that he was only at the ninth level of the gongfu realm, they all disdainfully moved away again.
Han Li saw all of these people’s actions in his eyes, and while his face was expressionless, he couldn’t help but sneer a few times in his heart. It seems that these so-called Immortal Cultivation Sect disciples are no different from secular mortals, and are equally snobbish!
Han Li was just thinking about it, people have come to a large building complex in front of, and then in front of a hanging “Hundred Opportunities Hall” hall landed down, striding in.
Inside the hall, a middle-aged deacon looked like a person who was a bit surprised to see Han Li come in and couldn’t help but open his mouth to ask: “Senior Brother Han, how did you come back so soon, where is Senior Uncle Wang?”
This was exactly one of the places that that Senior Uncle Wang had brought Han Li to pay a hasty visit to, and this deacon had only just met with Han Li, so he was greatly surprised to see him return to this place again.
”Senior Brother Yu, when I came here just now, I heard that this was the place where miscellaneous jobs were picked up, correct?” Han Li didn’t immediately answer the other party’s inquiry, instead asking with a smile.
”Not bad, indeed! Could it be that Senior Brother wants to pick up his tasks so quickly? Senior Brother Han is a new disciple, so according to the rules, he can familiarize himself with the situation within the sect for a month before it’s not too late to pick up the work? There’s no need to be in such a hurry!” The deacon said in surprise.
”Hehe, it’s fine! I’m looking for something to do right now, I wonder if there’s still a shortage of planting type jobs?” Han Li smiled faintly.
”This is not a good one, ah? All disciples who come to receive tasks are assigned to do whatever job they’re assigned to, and are not allowed to pick and choose! Unless one can prove that they truly have expertise in a certain area, then they can be taken care of!” This deacon said with difficulty.
Han Li frowned upon hearing this, could it be that he really had to go to that Uncle Ye before he could do so?
”It doesn’t matter, for planting type jobs, just let this Senior Nephew Han pick at will!” A voice that was somewhat familiar to Han Li came from behind him, causing Han Li to be taken aback and turn around to see that it was actually that old man surnamed Ye who had stood behind him at some point. It was looking at Han Li with a smile on his face.
”Hall Master, back!” As soon as the middle-aged deacon saw the old man, he immediately bowed forward respectfully.
”Mm, back!” The old man said without knowing if he could.
”Uncle Ye!” Han Li also hurriedly saluted respectfully.
”Hehe, Senior Nephew Han came really fast! I was prepared to give my men an explanation as soon as I returned here, so that Master Nephew could pick any job he wanted!” This Senior Uncle Ye looked to be in a good mood and said half-jokingly.
”I’m sorry for your concern, Senior Uncle! I also came over to casually look around and see if I can find a suitable task without having to trouble senior uncle?” Han Li seemed to say coyly.
”I’m the one in charge here, so what’s the trouble! Deacon Yu, take out all the planting type jobs and let Senior Nephew Han pick until he’s satisfied!” The old man graciously waved his hand, signaling this subordinate to go and do as ordered.
The deacon surnamed Yu was stunned by these words, and looked deeply at Han Li before hurrying to find the bamboo slips that recorded the miscellaneous jobs. In his heart, he couldn’t help but speculate about Han Li’s relationship with his superior.
”The planting-type jobs handed down from above are all here. Take a good look at it, Senior Brother Han!” Deacon Yu quickly returned with a bundle of jade-colored bamboo slips.
Han Li thanked him and took the bamboo slips and read them carefully.
”Tend to thirteen plants of the Five Flower Tree and submit two hundred fruits each year.”
”Carefully take care of one three-hundred year old Fire Cloud Ginseng, ensuring that its spirituality is not lost.”
”Plant one acre of Moon Plum Grass, and submit one hundred pounds of hay per season.”
”Tend a piece of yellow jade bamboo forest, ……”
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There were a variety of jobs planted on the bamboo slip, quite a few! But some of the ones in front of them hadn’t even caught Han Li’s eye. It was only when the bamboo slips were flipped to the center that a job that greatly satisfied Han Li appeared.