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

Chapter 285 Promotion and salary increase
Chang Ping'an did not participate in the selection, so Murong Ruyan took it upon herself to devise her own method, requiring that the first person to learn one of her minor spells would be accepted as her personal disciple.

This news thrilled the new disciples, and even some of the older disciples inquired about it, wanting to participate, even disregarding Murong Ruyan's infamous reputation.

To save trouble, Ye Shuyun adopted Murong Ruyan's method, simply telling her to choose the rest and keep them herself.

After careful consideration, Tang Xiaoyu decided to use Murong Ruyan's method as well. However, unlike Ye Shuyun, she did not simply follow along to find something useful. Instead, she stayed up all night to design a basic array formation tutorial. She wanted to recruit people who were good at numerology and array formations so that they could help her when she built the teleportation array.

"Besides, I'm not very good at anything else. If I just accept things indiscriminately, wouldn't that mislead young people?"

Tang Xiaoyu smiled and, when she and Murong Ruyan reported to Steward Xu, she specifically explained why her assessment was different from Murong Ruyan's.

The first few days after a new disciple begins their training are for them to familiarize themselves with the environment, so no classes are scheduled.

The main reason is that Xu Ying is too busy; the courses haven't been scheduled yet.

Considering that Xu Ying had too many affairs to attend to, Zhang Chengdao transferred all the teaching-related content to Chang Ping'an and appointed him as the sect's chief instructor, since he was a good teacher, diligent, and honest.

In this way, Xu Wen was one rank lower than Chang Ping'an in terms of "professional title." Fortunately, since Chang Ping'an was Zhang Chengdao's "first disciple," everyone already knew of his extraordinary status, so Xu Wen didn't feel any resentment.

He is currently focusing all his efforts on Baishi Immortal University, and Zhang Chengdao is even considering whether to appoint him as the first president of Immortal University when the university's system is adjusted later!
However, although this batch of new disciples has not yet been assigned courses or chosen a main peak, they can still do the tasks listed on the notice board, so the area near the notice board in front of the main hall is always crowded with people.

"Junior brothers and sisters, are you interested in joining our Spirit Medicine Peak? Our Spirit Medicine Peak allows you to develop in various directions such as alchemy cultivation and medicine cultivation!"
"As the saying goes, no matter how high your cultivation level is, you're still afraid of getting cut. If you choose our Spirit Medicine Peak, even if you get cut, we guarantee you'll get a second cut! Besides, who doesn't carry some pills for emergencies when they're out and about? Come to our Spirit Medicine Peak, and all the other cultivators will be begging you to sell them medicine! You'll never have to worry about running out of spirit stones! Take my senior sister, for example. She's already built up several businesses at such a young age! Now she's a winner in life... no, a winner in life among cultivators!"

Zhong Hui, leading Ye Hanxing who was somewhat hesitant to look up, gathered around the notice board in front of the main hall and passionately gave a speech: "It's okay if you can't apply for the time being. If you're interested, you can come and work at our Spirit Medicine Peak to experience it. Although the income isn't as high as the Spirit Mine Peak next door, it's not as tiring either! They really have to swing iron pickaxes to mine there! It's so hard!"

Seeing more and more people gathering around, Ye Hanxing awkwardly tugged at Zhong Hui's sleeve and whispered, "Senior Sister Zhong, even if you don't have enough people to raise 'Cola Vine,' you don't have to... you don't have to be here pulling people in, do you..."

Zhong Hui replied in a low voice, exasperated, "Wow! If we acquire more land, we can make more money. You're from the Ye family, for goodness' sake, how come you're so unenthusiastic about making money!"

The two had barely exchanged a few words when someone stepped forward, cupped their hands, and asked, "Senior sister, when I was in the 'Trial Array,' I was fortunate enough to use a 'miracle medicine' that could almost bring the dead back to life, called 'Traumatic Injury Powder.' May I ask how valuable this medicine is?"

"【Traumatism Powder】! This stuff is super cheap!" Zhong Hui replied, "If you join our Spirit Medicine Peak in the future, your senior sister will give you ten portions!" "Very...very cheap!?"

Jiang Wanli was taken aback, his brows furrowing as he said, "But I spent three strings of cash to buy it..."

Zhong Hui was also taken aback upon hearing this: "Huh!? Who's so heartless!? Three strings of cash!? When I was selling them down the mountain, I was even embarrassed to accept 300 coins! He really dares to do that!"

Jiang Wanli took a deep breath, looking as if she was also angry, and cupped her hands, saying, "Thank you very much for your explanation, Senior Sister. I apologize for bothering you."

After saying that, he turned and left, seemingly in a hurry.

Zhong Hui called out anxiously, "Hey, hey, don't go! Come to our Spirit Medicine Peak to do a commission! I'll give you one directly!"

Watching the figure leave without hesitation, before Zhong Hui could even feel disappointed, another person approached and asked, "Senior Sister, I used to be a doctor, and I'm quite interested in this Spirit Medicine Peak. Would you be so kind as to enlighten me?"

Having found someone interested, Zhong Hui quickly forgot about Jiang Wanli and enthusiastically began introducing Spirit Medicine Peak to them: "Oh, junior brother, you really have good taste! I'm the senior sister of Spirit Medicine Peak, you can just call me senior sister from now on! Let me tell you, our Spirit Medicine Peak only earns a little less than the Spirit Mine Peak next door, but the work every day is much easier, just pulling weeds and watering plants, it's very easy..."

Zhong Hui's eccentric actions quickly led to Lingyao Peak being overcrowded. When Zhang Chengdao learned of this, considering that he was still nominally in charge of some places and couldn't manage everything, he specially promoted a group of previous disciples to temporary positions.

After all, these highly motivated outer disciples... cough, no, they are quite good and should be promoted to encourage everyone to be more proactive.

It's important to know that just the "Peak Master" title alone comes with a subsidy of 42 high-grade spirit stones! That's more than double the 20 high-grade spirit stones that outer disciples receive, not to mention that the two can be combined!

For example, Zhong Hui became the acting peak master of Lingyao Peak. This was mainly because although her cultivation level was considered good among the outer disciples of the same batch, she had not yet established her foundation. She was just waiting to be called "acting" because Zhang Chengdao had specifically stipulated that from the first year of Xianyuan, those who had not established their foundation were not allowed to hold official positions in the sect.

Tang Xiaoyu became the peak master of Tiangong Peak—formations and talismans were all assigned to Tiangong Peak. Huang Wu had low cultivation level and was not good at managing affairs, so Zhang Chengdao let Tang Xiaoyu take over.

The acting peak master of Spiritual Food Peak is Lady Liao, the cook who manages the restaurant, while the peak master of Spiritual Cultivation Peak is Prince Murong Ruyan...

It was definitely not because there were too many disciples on Lingxiu Peak that they arranged this way to discourage others by using Murong Ruyan's reputation!
(End of this chapter)