Am I the old man who's always by my apprentices' side?

Chapter 131 Seven Peaks and Three Gardens
The seven peaks and three gardens within the White Stone Immortal Sect are Spirit Cultivation Peak, Spirit Mine Peak, Spirit Medicine Peak, Spirit Food Peak, Spirit Cultivation Peak, Spirit Beast Peak, and Heavenly Craft Peak, as well as Peach Garden, Mulberry Garden, and Immortal Trace Garden.

As its name suggests, Linggeng Peak specializes in agriculture, including the planting and maintenance of spiritual herbs and plants, as well as the cultivation and breeding of various spiritual crops and cash crops.

Lingkuang Peak is also very simple. In addition to mining work, ore exploration and identification must also be considered. Even the "casting profession" has been assigned here.

Lingyao Peak primarily focuses on alchemy and medicine making, while also engaging in the cultivation and planting of a small number of medicinal herbs.

Ling Shi Peak focuses on food cultivation and culinary cultivation—these two are very similar in terms of cultivation and are not often distinguished. If they must be distinguished, they can only be said that one is mainly for eating and the other is mainly for cooking, and their main focus is on perfect coordination.

The Spiritual Cultivation Peak is the most diverse, primarily catering to disciples who take time off for full-time study, which will be quite demanding. It includes various categories such as sword cultivators, array cultivators, talisman cultivators, and spell cultivators. However, in addition to this, the Spiritual Cultivation Peak is also responsible for guiding and offering various courses within the sect for the outer disciples to learn.

The current master of Spirit Beast Peak is Sandy—this girl has successfully gained Zhang Chengdao's approval through her diligence and hard work, becoming an outer disciple of the White Stone Immortal Sect, and her demonic power is visibly increasing.

Compared to the little raccoon who does nothing but eat and sleep all day and does nothing serious, Sandy is now several sizes bigger and can no longer live in the tree hole.

Therefore, Sandy, who also served as the owner of the mulberry garden, actually built a miniature "house" in the mulberry garden little by little. It was made of wood, stone and yellow mud. Even Zhang Chengdao was shocked for a while when he found out!

No wonder it's the first animal he's encountered that generates a character card!
That's right. The reason Zhang Chengdao accepted Sandy as an outer disciple but not Xiaoli was not because he discriminated against foxes, but because only Sandy had a character card!
Zhang Chengdao discovered this by chance one day when he was browsing through the character list and had nothing else to do!
Sandy's character card is even purple-named, making it second only to gold cards in rarity!
Sandy's abilities were far superior to those of ordinary disciples. Not only could she understand human speech, but she could also accurately comprehend its meaning. Furthermore, she could suppress some of her animalistic and demonic instincts and do her best to imitate humans. At the same time, she perfectly completed every task that Zhang Chengdao assigned to her, to the point that she could manage the entire mulberry garden on her own!
This is also why Zhang Chengdao appointed him as the owner of the mulberry garden—talented people are hard to find! He might as well use a rat for now!
The last of the seven peaks, Tiangong Peak, is easy to understand from its literal meaning. It is a collection of "professions" such as casting, refining, and sewing, which are collectively referred to as "extraordinary skills and crafts." Zhang Chengdao himself temporarily serves as the peak master.

Taoyuan was assigned to Anche Huaishan, which was at Anche Huaishan's own insistence, because he preferred peaches to herbs—both for eating and for tending to them.

Of course, it was only after Zhang Chengdao learned the Mind Demon Illusion Technique that he had An Che Huaishan try it out, and the latter successfully passed the test, that Zhang Chengdao felt at ease accepting him as a disciple and arranging for him to become the master of Peach Garden.

However, Anche Hexiang was no match. After being affected by the illusionary magic, the little girl couldn't even last five minutes before she was frightened and cried. She was completely ensnared and had no ability to become a disciple of the White Stone Immortal Sect, nor did she have the mindset to cultivate immortality.

Therefore, Zhang Chengdao turned a blind eye and allowed Anche Hexiang to stay in the sect as a family member, working as a cook in the teahouse to earn a living.

The unique existence of Anche Hexiang is also the reason why Zhang Chengdao, after much deliberation, finally decided to design a system of jade tokens for sect identities.

Although nominally everyone can enter the library to study the classics, the premise of this "everyone" is everyone within the White Stone Immortal Sect, namely all the managers or disciples.

To avoid ambiguity, all benefits and privileges within a sect must be verified with the sect's identity jade token before they can be issued or provided. Thus, Anche Hexiang was excluded.

The sect's identity jade tokens are divided into two types: disciple identity jade tokens and manager identity jade tokens. Among the manager jade tokens, apart from Zhang Chengdao's own jade token, which was carved into a fancy gourd shape, all the other manager identity jade tokens are treated the same.

The disciple identity jade tokens are further divided into those for personal disciples and those for outer disciples. The former is slightly larger than the latter, but otherwise there is no difference.

Of the three gardens besides the Seven Peaks, the largest is actually the Fairy Garden.

Fairy Garden includes all the saplings Zhang Chengdao bought from the mall, such as Manchurian ash, Phoebe zhennan, and Hematite.

Compared to Qifeng, which still possesses some "professional" characteristics, Xianzongyuan is purely an industry.

The two disciples who were previously assigned to cut down trees, along with the two outer disciples who were assigned to mine, have now been reclassified as new disciples and need to choose a new peak for their work and training.

Zhang Chengdao planned to designate mining and logging as "hourly jobs," posting the commissions on the bulletin board. This way, he wouldn't force his four disciples to do hard labor for extended periods, which could breed resentment. Secondly, he could use cheap labor to subsidize these newly initiated disciples with spirit stones, allowing them to spend more freely in the teahouse, restaurant, and market, thus returning the spirit stones to himself…

“I used to be a carpenter, so why don’t I go to Tiangong Peak and still be a carpenter… Hmm, it’s strange, even in the world of cultivation, you have to be a carpenter?”

The new disciples discussed among themselves in twos and threes. Huang Wu and Tang Xiaoyu huddled together, Huang Wu looking puzzled.

Ye Shuyun happened to be watching over the two of them, and upon hearing this, she couldn't help but chuckle, "Junior brother, you are a direct disciple, so you don't need to choose a main peak. Direct disciples don't need to do work."

"Huh? Didn't you say you only get paid if you work? And if you want to eat more, you have to earn spirit stones to buy food yourself. I can eat quite a lot," Huang Wu said, scratching his head a little embarrassedly and chuckling. "I'm afraid the allowance I get won't be enough for my food. Can I go work at Tiangong Peak? I'm a very good carpenter!"

"Oh? I remember you don't have a big appetite, junior brother."

Ye Shuyun recalled the scene when she ate with Huang Wu last night. There didn't seem to be anything special. Huang Wu's appetite was not even half as big as that of her senior brother Chang Ping'an!
"Hey, I only have 200 low-grade spirit stones on hand right now, so I don't dare to spend them recklessly!"

As Huang Wu spoke, he muttered to himself, "If I could do some carpentry work, I might be able to eat a couple more steamed buns! Those big meat buns are so delicious!"

(End of this chapter)