When it comes to cultivating immortality, it naturally starts with upgrading the herb garden.

Yuan Daguo curled up on the ground, silent, yet still flashing a smile at his new junior brother:

"Junior brother! I'll take you to the lobby to register!"

"You dare?"

Even that fierce cultivator was afraid of the dead. He didn't use his magic power, but the mere raising of his fist was incredibly intimidating.

Yuan Daguo closed his eyes, shrank his neck, and slammed his fist into his face, letting out a heavy groan.

Song Chen glanced at it, puzzled, and took the spirit stones to ask one of his senior brothers.

After a few words, the situation was cleared up.

It turns out that the quota for new disciples has already been allocated to a disciple organization called "Qingxinlian".

Ape didn't participate when the fruit was being distributed, but afterwards he tried to take advantage of the chaos to pick up spirit stones, which led to this tragedy.

Song Chen pondered: 'What exactly is the situation with these sect disciples?'

Unwilling to cause trouble so soon after joining the group, he quickly left the area and headed to the mission site.

......

The mission office is called the mission office, but it would be more accurate to describe it as the mission building.

There was a sign at the entrance showing the building's structure.

The building has four floors. The higher the floor, the more difficult the task becomes, but the more contribution points you will earn.

Starting from the second floor, there are guards. Only those who have reached the minimum cultivation level can enter and receive missions, corresponding to the middle stage of Qi Refining, the late stage of Qi Refining, and the peak stage of Qi Refining.

Song Chen's current cultivation level is sufficient to enter the first three levels.

He stepped into the first floor, where there was a registered monk at the quest acceptance point.

"Excuse me......"

Before Song Chen could even make a move, the cultivator stretched out his hand: "New here? Give me your token!"

Song Chen was bewildered.

The cultivator's eyes gleamed as he quickly scanned the token before handing it to Song Chen.

"Currently, you have 0 contribution points. If you want to accept a mission, find one yourself. Once you find one, bring it to me to register. You will need to submit a basic contribution of 1,000 points per year. The sect details are all in the token. You can check them by probing your consciousness."

Song Chen nodded slightly, still somewhat bewildered, only to hear a burning sound enter his ears, managing to catch the most crucial words.

Token

He followed the other party's instructions and probed his consciousness into it, and a large number of memories immediately surfaced in his mind.

Song Chen was dazzled, but quickly sorted through the information.

There is a ranking system based on contribution points among the cultivators of the Lower Sword Sect.

Those with a contribution point of 1,000 or less are considered lower-level cultivators.

Those with more than five thousand are considered intermediate cultivators.

More than 10,000 contribution points, a superior cultivator.

Contribution points are like currency within the sect, and can be exchanged for spells, elixirs, rare materials, and other precious resources.

Furthermore, there are even more preferential treatments between cultivators of different ranks.

Inferior cultivators receive no preferential treatment.

The average player can gain an extra day of cultivation access to the Spirit Tower each month.

As for the top-tier option, not only will you receive a week's worth of Spirit Tower cultivation privileges, but you can also participate in a lottery, with a chance to win a lecture by a Foundation Establishment Elder.

However, these are all aspects related to contribution points and resources, as well as aspects related to cultivators.

Higher-level cultivators have more advantages than lower-level cultivators in all aspects, including human rights, mate selection, and sect selection.

Furthermore, they can bully lower-level cultivators at will, and the sect tacitly approves.

Song Chen finally understood.

Redemption points are everything!

In that case, Song Chen planned to earn more exchange points.

Just then, he spotted the Foundation Establishment Pill among the items available for exchange at the exchange point, but it was very expensive, requiring 30 million exchange points.

Even if one becomes a superior cultivator every month, it would be extremely difficult to accumulate so many exchange points.

But that doesn't matter.

Among the dazzling array of tasks, Song Chen discovered an excellent one for farming exchange points.

"Any spiritual herbs will be purchased at market price, regardless of age, and there is no upper limit to the exchange points."

"Buying Grade 3 Purple Qi Breakthrough Pills: 500 exchange points per pill, maximum 10 pills."

"Spirit Gathering Pills for purchase: 300 exchange points per pill, no upper limit."

Song Chen smiled.

Isn't this a task tailor-made for him?

Now that we've arrived at the Lower Sword Sect, we have access to all kinds of resources.

Exchange points can also be used to exchange for the resources he needs.

Song Chen can now focus on farming and honestly accumulate exchange points to buy Foundation Establishment Pills for his breakthrough!

"The Spirit Tower costs 3,000 contribution points per run, but it's better to grind until you reach the mid-level cultivator level and enjoy special privileges!"

"A Foundation Establishment lecture costs 100,000 contribution points. It would be ideal if I could win it in the monthly lottery for top-tier cultivators."

He stared intently at the Foundation Establishment sermon among the exchanged items, his mind racing.

Afterwards, Song Chen casually browsed the tasks displayed on the three floors.

The second and third levels don't have the same tasks as the first level, which involve purchasing herbs; they are all dangerous and unsafe.

Song Chen skipped this.

Now that he understood the rules, he left the place and went to his residence to take a look.

......

A courtyard, a wall, a house, and a resident.

Song Chen was fairly satisfied.

The house is decent and spacious enough for him to live in alone.

Even if he has some secrets inside, it's hard to find them without going in.

Whether a house is comfortable or not depends 30% on its neighbors.

Song Chen doesn't know about the neighbors on both sides yet, but that's not something he can decide.

After tidying up the house and setting up the medicinal herb fields and other buildings, Song Chen went to bed as it was getting late.

He hadn't practiced cultivation for a long time.

Instead, he stared blankly at the ceiling of the house.

This feeling is wonderful.

When a person who has been working hard for a long time suddenly relaxes, their whole body will not collapse; on the contrary, their attention will become more focused.

Perhaps this is the charm of balancing work and rest.

Song Chen occasionally reminisces.

If he hadn't come into contact with Feng Sancai, hadn't met Jiang Shuyan, and hadn't been attacked by Zhou Ming, what would his life as a cultivator have been like?

Will he be able to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining with the talent of a pseudo-spiritual root?

Or perhaps they risked everything to venture into the secret realm in order to break through the barrier?

Song Chen didn't know, and he couldn't imagine the path he hadn't walked.

Rather than fantasizing about these illusory things, it's better to...

He felt that it was more cost-effective to focus on improving his own abilities.

Whoosh!

Suddenly a sound came from outside. It didn't sound like a magical attack or an impact. If you had to say, it sounded more like an explosion. Upon closer listening, it sounded somewhat familiar.

Song Chen lifted the curtain and opened the window.

Brilliant fireworks are blooming in the sky.

Round after round.

He was wide awake, went out the window, flew through the air, and looked down.

The ground was filled with cultivators, most of them alone, with very few in pairs.

Everyone was gazing up at the fireworks, their eyes glued to them.

Song Chen also turned to look at the fireworks and realized that there were quite a few cultivators in the sky as well.

This is a sect, even the Lower Sword Sect, which has quite a few cultivators at the late stage of Qi Refining, only a few at the peak of Qi Refining.

Why are there fireworks today?

Song Chen was somewhat puzzled.

"The annual induction ceremony for new disciples is truly exhilarating, even loosening some of the bottlenecks in my cultivation!"

The cultivator next to him stretched and said.

Song Chen glanced at it and remained silent.

The other party seemed to be a neighbor, and noticed that Song Chen didn't seem to know why the fireworks were going off, hence this explanation.

But Song Chen couldn't be sure, and he was too lazy to be sure.

As I gazed at the endless stream of fireworks, I felt a sense of nostalgia, as if I were celebrating the Lunar New Year in a past life.

At that moment, a realization dawned on him.

Is the path of cultivation perhaps for this very moment?