After working for both the righteous and demonic factions, I became a big shot.

Based on his years of experience reading novels, Shen An could guess that this kind of mental cultivation method must be quite good.

After all, many novels have said that any coming-of-age story has a promising future.

The problem is, once those 30,000 spirit stones are spent, plus other things, all the money I've painstakingly saved will be gone...

Although he will still receive a bonus starting next month, he has now reached the Foundation Establishment stage, and the things he needs will become increasingly expensive...

No, no, the Qinglongfang market and the two undercover agents are still not enough to support ourselves. We need to think of other plans.

What? You're asking why he spends so much money on breakthroughs and Foundation Establishment?

After all, the best elixirs, cultivation techniques, and weapons are right there; if he doesn't buy them, that would be his fault.

Shen An decided to wait and see what quality the cultivation manual his master had given him was before deciding whether to buy it from the store.

These days, working people have it tough; they can't afford to spend all their earnings on installment plans like this.

However, Shen An did buy all the other items used to assist in foundation building.

Top-grade Foundation Building Pill, Top-grade Great Rejuvenation Pill, Fully Automatic Mini Spirit Gathering Array, Top-grade Meridian Protecting Ointment...

Those who knew him were planning to establish his foundation, while those who didn't might have thought he was about to break through to the Golden Core stage.

Shen An didn't care at all; since he had already bought it, he naturally wanted to buy the best!

Shen An spent a total of eight thousand spirit stones on all of these items.

Now, he's just waiting for his master to finish his meeting and come over.

.........

The atmosphere inside the council hall was far from relaxed.

The Moon Fairy's seat was moved from the eighth to the fifth. Because of her breakthrough, she wanted to sing a song and show off, but she found that the meeting had not been going on for long before she was besieged by the elders.

"Ahem, Lan Yue, your Lan Yue Peak hasn't done any sect missions for over a month, and many people aren't even in the sect. How do you explain that?" The Grand Elder asked routinely.

The other elders nodded in agreement, clearly showing their anger.

Everyone is working diligently for the sect, so why are you all so carefree?

The Moon-Embracing Fairy curled her lip: "If I said that from today onwards, our Moon-Embracing Peak can give the sect more than 33,000 spirit stones every month, would that be enough to explain what we've done in the past month or two?"

After saying that, she took out more than 30,000 ordinary spirit stones that she had exchanged and piled them up not far away.

She began to understand why her disciple liked to exchange spirit stones for ordinary spirit stones and then show them off; these things were indeed quite impressive.

The other elders stared wide-eyed: "Where did these spirit stones come from?"

However, it's not that everyone present didn't have these spirit stones; it's just that the sheer number of spirit stones piled together was quite impactful.

"These are just a small portion of the profits from my Qinglong Market over the past month or so. Consider it a small token of our Lanyue Peak's appreciation to the sect," Lanyue Fairy said casually.

"What?"

One of the elders stood up in surprise. He had three markets under his jurisdiction, and his profits in two months were not even that much.

Moreover, according to Fairy Lanyue, this is only a small part.

How is that possible?

"Old man, what's so surprising? Our Qinglong Market is now incredibly wealthy, and we're constantly launching new businesses. You guys should just go and manage our markets instead," said Fairy Lanyue disdainfully. She had also learned many new words.

Everyone present was stunned.

"I said, does the sect want it or not? If not, I'll take it back." As she spoke, Fairy Lanyue was about to take out her storage bag and put it back.

The Grand Elder hurriedly spoke up: "Yes, of course we want it! Why wouldn't we?"

Although this amount of spirit stones is just a drop in the ocean for the sect, it also depends on who provides them.

Previously, Lan Yue was extremely stingy and kept asking the sect for money, but now that she is willing to give money to the sect, it is already commendable.

"Let's put that matter aside for now. Another matter is that someone reported Shen An as a spy for the righteous path, which led to the righteous cultivators attacking the market..." the elder continued.

"Given the large number of whistleblowers, I have already sent people to Qinglong Market to investigate secretly. Lan Yue, you don't need to concern yourself with this matter; the sect has its own set of rules."

Upon hearing this, Fairy Lanyue remained silent and did not raise any questions. She knew perfectly well whether her disciple was an undercover agent or not. If such a disciple were an undercover agent, then the entire Lanyue Peak would probably not agree to it.

Will an undercover agent help someone in the demonic path break through to the Void Refinement stage?

Would an undercover agent help the people of the Demonic Path make money?

As for visiting Qinglongfang Market, there's even less to worry about.

"In addition, the Inner Disciple Competition is about to begin this year, and all disciples who are not out here must participate." The Grand Elder then moved on to the next topic.

Almost everyone present had no objections, except for Fairy Lanyue, who raised her hand and said, "That won't do. My disciple is only at the ninth level of Qi Refining. The Inner Sect Competition is usually for late Foundation Establishment and Golden Core stages, so there's no need for him to participate."

One elder retorted, "What? Our specially recruited disciples can participate, but your disciples can't?"

"That's right, that's right."

Enraged, Fairy Lan Yue slammed her hand on the table and shouted, "Old man, don't think I'm afraid of you just because you're at the Void Refinement stage! I am too, so what if we've fought?"

……

Then the entire council hall instantly descended into chaos.

The Grand Elder sighed helplessly. This was the norm before; it was just that Lan Yue had only dared to slam her fist on the table before, but now she dared to take action.

However, Shen An is indeed quite capable. If his reputation during this investigation is good and he is confirmed not to be an undercover agent, perhaps we can give him more responsibilities.

However, he needs to achieve good results in the inner sect competition to silence the critics.

In this world, strength ultimately prevails.

The Grand Elder quickly intervened to quell the commotion and then reached a conclusion.

"Shen An must participate in the Inner Sect Competition, but if he can make it into the top 32, he can spend a day studying on the fifth floor of the sect's Scripture Pavilion. In addition, the sect will give him a magic weapon. How about that?"

After thinking about it, Fairy Lanyue felt that this was too much to ask of anyone. Even if one were to be among the top thirty-two in the inner sect competition, one would need to be in the late Foundation Establishment stage to have a chance.

"No, he must stay in the Scripture Pavilion for at least two days, and the magical artifact he is given must be of medium grade." Seeing that there was no way to back down, Fairy Lanyue could only try her best to gain benefits for her disciple.

She has already decided to give Shen An special training when she gets back, and he will crawl to the top 32 if necessary.

I'll fight for pride, not steamed buns!

The Grand Elder looked around and saw that none of the other elders had any objections, so he nodded in agreement.

The other elders felt that Shen An had no chance of making it into the top 32, so giving him more points wouldn't make much difference.

After the meeting, Fairy Lanyue did not leave, but instead went to find the Grand Elder alone.

"Elder, I want a cultivation manual."

"You are an inner sect elder, what kind of cultivation method can't you use?" the Grand Elder asked in confusion.

The Moon Fairy rubbed her hands together shyly: "I want the one you mentioned before."

The Grand Elder was speechless for a moment, then looked at Fairy Lan Yue and said, "Are you sure you want him to cultivate that kind of mental technique? That technique is both righteous and evil; can he handle it?"

After thinking it over, Fairy Lanyue decided to let Shen An walk that path; he shouldn't be like them.

"I'm sure, I trust my apprentice!"