Chapter 31 – Contribution Hall Commotion
= The Next Day =
The contribution hall opened 24 hours a day. Inner disciples, outer disciples, and even core disciples came here every day to stare at bulletin boards or exchange their CPs for items.
Silver Phoenix Sect had over 1,000 disciples. Most of them were outer disciples, but more than half of them always visited the hall in the early morning, searching for something to earn CP.
This was their lifestyle. They had to work, or they wouldn't be able to get stronger. Even if some of the jobs were sinister, such as kidnapping children, killing someone, or cleaning dead bodies in the slaughterhouse, they did it without hesitation.
But today, something was about to change forever.
This morning, over 500 disciples didn't scan through all 20 bulletin boards to find a job, but they fixated on one particular A3 paper on the centerboard.
The crowd murmured. Some of them giggled as they found it funny. Some took a photo of the announcement with their J-phones. Some tried to reach for the paper, but many girls stopped them from taking it.
The commotion got louder as several disciples from Joyous Yin School began fighting each other to take the request. Meanwhile, Virgin Yin disciples tried to stop them and control the chaos.
During the uproar, a pink-haired outer disciple from Virgin Yin School visited the contribution hall.
Zhu Qiao, the girl that used to eavesdrop Miaomiao's room, came here for a job as well. As soon as she spotted the commotion, her curious nature drove her feet into the crowd to see what had happened. She asked an inner disciple from the same school, who was observing the situation from afar.
"Excuse me, senior. What's going on here?"
"Ah, VY junior? Don't get over there. Those JY sluts are fighting over a request."
Fighting over a request happened occasionally here, so Zhu Qiao wasn't surprised. However, the number of participants was too high as hundreds of Joyous Yin disciples joined the free-for-all fight.
Fortunately, the boards were protected by the hall's magic array formation. Unless they receded their Qi, none of them could touch the bulletin boards or the papers on it.
"There're plenty of requests on the boards. Why are they fighting for that one request? Is the reward that good?"
"For them, the reward is like getting promoted. But for us, it's dumb."
"What kind of reward is that?"
The inner disciple sighed. She took out her J-phone and opened an image that was being shared in the sect MeChat group.
The image was the quest content that made everyone gone crazy. Also, the one that issued the quest was none other than Miaomiao.
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Trader: Outer Disciple Xu Miao
Deal: Offering Dual Cultivation Service.
Fee: 100CP per session.
Reward: Guarantee at least one Yin Essence and 20 Yang Qi strands in return per session.
Limit: 2nd stage or 3rd stage dual cultivators only!
Note: Repeatable every day. Three sessions max per day for 2nd stage, and five sessions for 3rd stage.
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Zhu Qiao's eyes turned into "O" as she was astonished by the content and the requester's name. The quest was indeed incompatible with Virgin Yin disciples, but those from the other school were dying to take it. This was a golden opportunity to become a nobleman's concubine.
"Uwa, he's crazy. They're crazy, too."
"I know, right?"
"Say, senior. Do you know what will happen if a VY disciple loses their virginity?"
The senior turned to Zhu Qiao. She was taken aback by the question, "What? Do you want to participate in that!?"
"N-N-No! Don't get the wrong idea. I'm just curious!"
"Haa. You'd better not get inseminated. Or else, your second dantian will be stolen by your sex partner."
"So as long as our sex partner doesn't cum inside, we're fine?"
"In theory, yes. But our Qi from the second dantian will still leak during sex. If we don't repair our hymen after sex, our dantian will still be destroyed… Wait a second. What are you making me saying!?"
Zhu Qiao ran away from the contribution hall without taking any quest. As she ran, she took out her phone and sent messages to her virgin friends, telling them about the commotion here.
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It didn't take long for sect elders to notice the commotion. Two elders from VY School arrived to control the situation. Qi Ning, Qi Hong's twin sister, came here to stop the uproar.
"ENOUGH!! ALL OF YOU, LAY ON THE GROUND!! NOW!!"
As if they were SWAT, the two elders forced all disciples to lay on the floor, face down. Everyone also complied with the order as they didn't want to offend these seniors.
Qi Ning strode to the problematic request and took the paper. She skimmed through the content and passed it to her colleague.
"What do you think?"
Yao Lan, one of the elders, took the paper.
This elder was an embodiment of amazon as she had toned muscular physique and visible six-packs. She didn't wear robes or the sect uniform, but she had bikini armors on. With studded leather bracers, studded shin guards, leather boots, shoulder guards, her 190cm in height, over 110cm bust size, and 105cm hips, this giant Amazonian stood out from the rest of feminine elders.
Still, Yao Lan's gorgeous face, sharp nose, upturned eyes, and her long wavy brown hair complimented her wild physique. Some of the disciples even fell in love with her since she looked manlier than ordinary male cultivators in town.
However, Yao Lan's duties scared away many disciples since she managed the underground floors. The prison, torture chambers, and slaughterhouses were under her supervision.
"This Xu Miao is indeed a troublemaker. But I have to admit, his reward is interesting. Had I not practiced dual dantian art, I would have taken this request myself," Yao Lan snickered.
"You would have crushed his hip bones, though," Qi Ning laughed.
"Anyway," Yao Lan passed the paper back to Qi Ning, "Xu Miao has violated the rules of the contribution hall, but he couldn't have done this on his own. Unless an elder helped him, the contribution hall wouldn't have allowed this kind of request."
Qi Ning gave the amazon a meaningful look, but she didn't say anything.
As the two were conversing, the contribution hall manager, who was also an elder from Joyous Yin School, came to see the commotion.
Long Meifang's outward appearance was a mature woman in her early 30s, but her real age was the same as Xu Xiuying, three digits in number. She had black long hair, tied in kimono hairstyle. Her black, white, and red long kimono with flower embroidery looked formal, yet sublime. Her sharp eyes, thin eyebrows, delicate mouth, and a beauty mark below her mouth made her look striking.
Different from most elders, who had the strength of 5th stage, Long Meifang was a 6th stage dual cultivator. She was infamous for her underage fetish, and she didn't hide it. Moreover, she often made sinister requests, asking her disciples to abduct children or young boys to be her dual cultivation partners.
What happened to the boys afterward? No one knew except Xu Xiuying.
"What's wrong with the request?" In a haughty tone, Long Meifang snorted as she walked toward the two elders, "Please don't put words in my mouth. I've allowed that request to be there, so there is nothing wrong with it."
Qi Ning peered at the evil hall manager with a sneer, "As expected from a child rapist. No matter how your disciples committed any crime, they were never wrong. Hell, killing innocent children is legal in your book. How can a spoiled trashy young master do anything wrong here? Am I right?"
"Enough with your sarcasm. I don't want to debate about morals with a sex-craving virgin old hag like you. What do you want?"
Qi Ning rolled her eyes. She didn't hide the contempt in her words, "Do your job properly, you child rapist. We won't be here and clean up the mess every time for you. Because of this commotion, I hereby terminate this asshole Xu Miao's reque-WUTDAFUQ YAO LIN, LET ME DOWN!!"
Yao Lin grabbed Qi Ning's slim waist and carried her by the shoulder. She ignored Qi Ning's tantrum and nodded to Long Meifang, "Control your disciple, Senior Long. We don't want to see JY disciples killing each other before the annual exam event."
While the amazon carried the closed-eye elder away, she gestured other VY disciples to follow after her, "The contribution hall is closed. Come back in the afternoon after Elder Long dealt with the request issue."
As if Yao Lin wanted to avoid infighting between elders and two schools, she forced Qi Ning and Virgin Yin School girls to leave.
Seeing that the two elders walked away, Long Meifang shook her head and picked the quest paper that they had left behind, "Watch and learn, disciples. Sex-craving virgins are always like that, a hypocrite bitches. Being true to your desire is what makes us different than those two-faced virgins. Anyway, about the issue, I don't think everyone here can take the request as it is."
The disciples slowly got back on their feet, but they didn't fight each other anymore. As the quest paper was on elder Long's hand, they didn't dare to make a fuse.
"Although I said that, I have an idea. Well, since Qi Hong and young master Xu Miao weren't thorough with their request, I shall edit it a bit."
Long Meifang took out a new paper and began writing. All Joyous Yin School's disciples waited for her to finish with anticipation.
When Long Meifang finished writing the whole quest again, she read it out loud.
"Since this request is popular, we will hold an auction for it. Three persons can take this quest each day; one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. We'll use CP to auction for this request, and I'll make it repeatable every day once I talk this out with young master Xu. After you've completed your duty, you cannot monopolize young master Xu Miao unless he calls for you again!"
Without Miaomiao's consent, Long Meifang arranged a schedule for him in advance.
The girls got motivated. Everyone checked their current CP with the central hologram, planning to bid their earning for a chance to be Miaomiao's concubine.
Long Meifang started the auction, which would become a daily event for months, "I'll start the bid with 100 CP!"
"200!"
"250!"
"400!"
"500!"
Long Meifang grinned. While she was hosting a make-shift auction, she texted messages to Qi Hong with her smartphone to report her deed.