Chapter 745 - 48: Elder Zhuang: Get That Kid Out of Here
Chapter 745: Chapter 48: Elder Zhuang: Get That Kid Out of Here
Five days later.
Lin Chen entered the territory of the Ten Thousand Flames Sect.
The Canglan Domain and the Ten Thousand Flames Domain are adjacent, but the boundary between the two domains has a significant difference in topography.
Volcanoes!
At the junction of the Canglan Domain and the Ten Thousand Flames Domain, the Canglan Domain side is lush with vegetation, while the side near the Ten Thousand Flames Domain is bare rock and scorched earth, with only a few stubborn shrubs sporadically growing, without any towering trees.
"Which Junior Brother of the sect is it?"
Just as Lin Chen rode the Spiritual Sparrow to the border, a voice rang out.
Lin Chen controlled the Spiritual Sparrow to descend and immediately saw several innate martial artists below.
"Junior Brother Lin?"
Before Lin Chen could speak, the young men saw Lin Chen’s figure and showed expressions of surprise.
As disciples of the Canglan Sect, they were also following the matter of the Martial Arts Mountain recently, after all, those challenging and winning at the summit were disciples of their Canglan Sect.
Lin Chen did not know these young men, and only after they introduced themselves did he learn that these five were sect stewards, but none were direct disciples; they had all broken through from Inner Sect disciples to the Innate Realm and were eventually promoted to stewards.
These Innate martial artists who had risen from Inner Sect disciples, even if their realm was higher than Lin Chen’s, were very polite to him, even with a hint of flattery.
These Inner Sect disciples were very clear that Junior Brother Lin was only temporarily behind in realm, and in due time, he would surely surpass them.
Direct disciples have potential for the Innate Fourth Realm or even the Fifth Realm, and Junior Brother Lin had potential for the Innate Fifth Realm, or even the Sixth Realm.
The future potential new Elders of the sect, they could not offend.
For them, if there were no great opportunities in this lifetime, even if they were now in the Innate Second Realm, they would at most break through to the Innate Third Realm, further breakthroughs would be as hard as climbing the heavens.
While Lin Chen was conversing with these senior brothers, a middle-aged man also emerged from a tent not far away.
"Senior Brother Wen!"
The five young men immediately greeted him respectfully, Wen Yunting nodded, and his gaze fell on Lin Chen: "Not bad, Junior Martial Uncle Du has indeed picked a fine student."
Hearing this, Lin Chen knew that this person should also be a direct disciple.
Only direct disciples would address an Elder as "Junior Martial Uncle" or "Senior Martial Uncle," which implied that their master was also an Elder, while Inner Sect disciples, even if they broke through to become stewards, would not address an Elder as Junior Martial Uncle.
"Greetings, Senior Brother Wen."
"Your senior brother and I are from the same cohort; we both entered the sect at the same time."
This piece of information from Wen Yunting made Lin Chen immediately understand that this Senior Brother Zhu should have a good relationship with his own senior brother.
"Junior Brother Lin, why are you here?"
As a martial artist of the Innate Fourth Realm in the sect, he was responsible for guarding the border between the Canglan Domain and the Ten Thousand Flames Domain.
The Canglan Domain and the Ten Thousand Flames Domain are adjacent, but because of the uniqueness of the Ten Thousand Flames Sect, the area of the Ten Thousand Flames Domain was not of interest to other sects; on the contrary, the Ten Thousand Flames Sect also had no interest in the Canglan Domain. The two have coexisted peacefully for many years, which is rare for neighboring sects to have no grievances with each other.
However, the Ten Thousand Flames Sect is not only at peace with the Canglan Domain; it is the same with the other three neighboring domains.
Due to this reason, the sect only appointed one Innate Fourth Realm martial artist to guard the border, while at other borders, especially at the junction with the Eight Desolate Domain, there are two Elders stationed at all times.
Wen Yunting was puzzled, as Junior Brother Lin had just succeeded in reaching the summit of the Martial Arts Mountain and should have been staying at the sect. Why did he come here?
"Senior Brother Wen, I took on a sect task to go to the Ten Thousand Flames Sect to bring back a batch of Fire Attribute Innate Energy for the sect."
Lin Chen briefly explained the sect task. The sect has always had trading exchanges with the Ten Thousand Flames Sect; the Five Elements Energy that his master had prepared for him when he first broke through to the Innate Realm, including the Fire Attribute Energy, came from the Ten Thousand Flames Sect.
Of course, the Canglan Sect could also collect Fire Attribute Energy on its own, but they did not have the pure techniques of the Ten Thousand Flames Sect. The Fire Attribute Energy collected by the Ten Thousand Flames Sect was more effective in terms of disciples’ absorption and refinement compared to the Canglan Sect’s resources.
Not only the Canglan Sect, but many other sects also have cooperations of this nature with the sects in the Ten Thousand Flames Domain. The Ten Thousand Flames Domain, saturated with Innate Fire, lacks other resources, but it stands out in the collection of Fire Attribute Innate Energy, using this to trade for martial arts cultivation resources with other domains.
Given the Canglan Sect’s status, cooperation was naturally done with the Ten Thousand Flames Sect.
"Why would you take on such a task... Oh, I understand now."
Wen Yunting was initially confused but quickly realized the situation.
Such tasks do not yield high rewards from the sect, generally overlooked by direct disciples, but considering that Junior Brother Lin just joined the sect, he had to complete a sect task, and it all made sense.
Junior Brother Lin, having reached the summit of the Martial Arts Mountain, would surely receive rewards from the sect, and prior to the Innate Second Realm, he would not lack cultivation resources and would not need to rely on sect tasks to earn contribution points for resource exchange.
In this situation, choosing an easy task to complete is the most suitable.
Either go guard a certain area for several months, but such tasks are not always available and depend on the scheduling of disciples; it just so happens that there was a task to go to the Ten Thousand Flames Sect, so Junior Brother Lin casually took it.
After staying at the border for half a shichen (two-hour period) with Senior Brother Wen, Lin Chen bid farewell and stepped into the domain of the Ten Thousand Flames Domain.
"Don’t bother hoping, Junior Brother Lin is destined to be different from you all."