Chapter 34: Eighth-Stage Qi Refinement

“It’s best if I can take up a position at the Battle Arena… The most important thing now is to raise my Qi Refinement cultivation.” Chen Mu calculated silently.

It was definitely not possible to keep guarding near the Battle Arena. It would waste too much time and also be very suspicious.

It would not do to wait for Little Assistant to detect the battle fluctuations. By the time he arrived, the battle would probably be over.

The best way was to know in advance.

The fights between sects and between Outer Sect disciples were different. When one really needed to fight, there would already be a lot of grievances.

Under such circumstances, they needed stronger disciples or deacons to watch the battle from the side to prevent casualties from occurring.

It was precisely because of this that sects had to apply in advance for such fights.

To him, it was naturally best if he could be the “referee of the match”.

However, he was not strong enough at the moment and could not grasp it.

However, if he could not become a “referee”, he could become the person in charge of registration.

Chen Mu decided to apply for this position from the sect while he had just made a contribution.

This way, it would be logical for the sect to assign him a position.

After all, ordinary Outer Sect disciples could not do whatever they wanted.

…

The next morning, Chen Mu went to the Outer Sect deacon.

The battle arena was on Immortal Seeking Peak, so it belonged to the Outer Sect.

The outer deacon did not agree immediately. Instead, he asked him to wait.

…

At noon, the Outer Sect deacon looked for the First Elder.

The First Elder had said earlier that Chen Mu’s identity was somewhat special and had an unclear relationship with the Sect Leader. If anything happened to him, he had to report it to the higher-ups.

“First Elder, Chen Mu wants to be in charge of registering the sect’s fights…” The Outer Sect deacon answered truthfully.

Zhang Yan fell into deep thought.

Was he missing something again?

“There aren’t many positions in the sect that can obtain spirit stones steadily… The one who is currently holding this job earlier is one of the top ranked Outer Sect disciples, Liu Zhen.”

The Outer Sect deacon answered softly. There were hints in his words.

It meant that transferring this position to Chen Mu might offend someone.

“Did Chen Mu say anything else?”

“He said that it doesn’t matter whether he gets spirit stones or not. The main thing is that he likes to watch people fight… Also, he said that the sect has given him too much. He wants to contribute to the sect!”

When Zhang Yan heard this, he recalled the look of yearning in Chen Mu’s eyes when he stood outside the battle arena during the Entrance Competition. He could not help but laugh.

Unexpectedly, this kid looked handsome on the outside but was actually a battle maniac on the inside.

Moreover, he was really smart. He knew how to take advantage of the situation to make a request to the sect.

As for helping the sect…

Whether it was from the bottom of his heart or not, it was already impressive that he could say that.

“Let him handle it,” he said without hesitation. “As for Liu Zhen, give him a better position.”

“Uh, there’s no such vacancy at the moment.”

“Then make one up!”

“Understood, I’ll make the arrangements now!”

The Outer Sect deacon turned around and left. At the same time, he sighed upon thinking of the First Elder’s benevolence.

The First Elder was clearly at odds with the Sect Leader, but when the Sect Leader was not around, he was still caring for Chen Mu so much.

Perhaps this was a true gentleman.

…

In the afternoon, Chen Mu received a notice from the Outer Sect deacon.

From now on, he was responsible for registering the battles.

In other words, if the disciples of the sect wanted to fight, they had to first come to the stone forest to find Chen Mu.

Then, Chen Mu would arrange for the “referee”.

Liu Zhen arrived shortly after receiving the notice.

“Junior Brother Chen! You really live up to your reputation! I’ll leave this booklet to you in the future! I wish you a bright future!”

Liu Zhen smiled and handed a booklet to Chen Mu.

Then, he rubbed himself against Chen Mu before turning around and leaving with a chuckle.

This was the rumored Son of Destiny. Previously, he did not believe it.

Now, he completely believed it. All it took was a little luck and he immediately gained a huge opportunity!

It was too magical!

…

Chen Mu took the booklet and returned to the cave.

The booklet recorded the arrangements for the battles in the following three days.

“At dawn tomorrow, the Inner Sect disciple Wang Duo will fight with the Inner Sect disciple Cui Hao. The core disciple Jiang Xuan will be in charge of maintaining order.”

“Before the end of tomorrow, core disciple Zhao Jia will fight with core disciple Wei Lan. Inner Sect deacon Zheng Zhou will be in charge of order.”

“At noon the day after, Outer Sect disciple…”

…

Chen Mu took a glance. There were a total of eight battles in three days. It was enough for Little Assistant to extract enough power of cultivation.

Furthermore, this was not a waste of time. Every time he registered a match, planned the time, and arranged for the referee, he would be given a low-grade spirit stone.

The spirit stones were all provided by the cultivators who were involved in requesting the battle. Each person had to pay ten spirit stones as registration fee.

The sect took half, those who maintained order took nine, and those who registered took one.

…

After becoming a registrar for the sect battles, Chen Mu’s life became rather fulfilling.

During the day, he took two hours to watch battles and “charge” his Little Assistant. The rest of the time, he was basically cultivating.

After half a month, not only did the attributes in Little Assistant not decrease, it was almost full.

However, after half a month of observation, Chen Mu confirmed one thing.

The spiritual root attributes were indeed very rarely dropped.

Ordinary disciples would not drop any spiritual root attributes in battle.

After watching over 20 battles, he had only managed to extract one wood spiritual root and one water spiritual root from the two core disciples on the first day.

As for those disciples with better potential…

Basically, no one dared to fight them.

…

Time flowed like water. In the blink of an eye, two months had passed.

Chen Mu lived a mundane and repetitive life.

With his spirit physique talent, the help of Little Assistant, sufficient spirit stones, and the superior cultivation environment, his cultivation managed to reach the eighth-stage of Qi Refinement!

This cultivation level together with the spirit physique aptitude…

He was definitely going to dominate the Outer Sect.

However, Chen Mu was a little flustered.

That was because he had secretly asked Zhou Jinglei about it and found out that he was only at the fifth-stage of Qi Refinement.

No matter how impressive he was, no matter how good the environment was, the eighth-stage of Qi Refinement was too ridiculous.

Furthermore, in the eyes of the First Elder and the others, his aptitude was mediocre.

This made him feel more and more uneasy. As a result, every time he went to the battle arena to watch the battle, he had to conceal his aura with all his might, trying not to let others see any clues.

…

When he returned to the cave that day, Chen Mu started to arrange for the battles in a few days.

One of the referees to maintain order was actually an elder.

Others might not be able to see through his cultivation, but the elders might be able to.

Chen Mu thought about it and made a decision.

It was not good to keep hiding like this.

It was time to leave the sect and do a mission.

After leaving the sect, he would pretend to have encountered a fortuitous encounter, causing his cultivation to soar.

This way, he would be able to openly reveal his cultivation level at the eighth-stage of Qi Refinement. Only then would he be able to show off in front of others and allow the Azure Yang Sect to arrange the next step of resources.

Fortunately, the Azure Yang Sect had a similar tradition.

Under normal circumstances, Outer Sect disciples would go out on a mission once every three months.

Usually, such missions were very simple.

After the mission was completed, the disciples could even take the time to go back and visit their relatives and report the situation of cultivation to their families.

Without further delay, Chen Mu sent out a mission application to the sect on the same day.

…

In another bamboo forest, Zhou Jinglei was also pondering the same question.

In fact, with the help of the jade pendant, his cultivation had already reached the sixth-stage Qi Refinement Realm!

However, for an Outer Sect disciple to reach the sixth-stage of Qi Refinement within two months of entering the sect, this was too exaggerated!

Even the spirit physique could not explain this level of cultivation.

After all, Chen Mu was only at the sixth-stage Qi Refinement Realm even though he was heavily nurtured by the sect.

Therefore, he had concealed his true cultivation level from Chen Mu and felt guilty for it for a long time.

“It’s time to head out. When the time comes, I’ll say that I found a fortuitous encounter outside…”

Zhou Jinglei secretly made up his mind and sent out an application to the sect.