Chapter 786 - 237: Beautiful Glow
Chapter 237 [Beautiful Glow] (6800)
Chen Yan smiled, "Thank you for the guidance."
This Senior Brother Kong patted Chen Yan on the shoulder, "No problem, no problem. You’re in the Artifact Refining Hall, and I’m in the Tools Hall. We’ll have plenty of opportunities to interact in the future."
Chen Yan immediately understood the other party’s intention to make acquaintances, and his smile became deliberately broader.
Subsequently, Senior Brother Kong left. Chen Yan stood outside for a while, seeing that Senior Sister Le inside was still engrossed in writing and drawing at her desk without any intention of looking up. He decided not to wait and walked straight ahead, stepping through the entrance.
As soon as he stepped inside, the Senior Sister Le behind the desk sensed something and looked up at Chen Yan.
She appeared to be around thirty years old, with a charming and vibrant appearance, and her looks were quite attractive. However, her expression and gaze were both extremely indifferent, resembling the so-called "world-weary face" often praised by people online in the real world.
She wore a black robe with no adornments, making her look quite plain. Moreover, the robe was so large that it concealed her figure completely.
This attire, combined with her world-weary face, gave off a sense of detachment and lack of desire.
"Greetings Senior Sister Le." Chen Yan, adhering to the adage that politeness goes a long way, took the initiative to greet her.
Senior Sister Le replied coolly, "You’re an Outer Disciple; how dare you enter here?"
Chen Yan took off his token and placed it on the table, "I am Zhao Shanhe, a newly inducted disciple of the Artifact Refining Hall. I’ve just joined and haven’t changed out of the Outer Sect preparatory disciple’s attire yet..."
"I see, you’re here to receive new disciples’ equipment and a Magical Artifact."
Senior Sister Le casually picked up the token and infused it with a trace of Primordial Qi. The token reacted, emitting a uniform silver light, which immediately softened Senior Sister Le’s gaze.
After verifying it, she thought for a moment and, without speaking to Chen Yan, clapped her hands. A wooden puppet quickly came out from the back, holding a wooden box, and brought it before her.
Opening the box and turning it toward Chen Yan, Senior Sister Le said, "Newly initiated disciples can choose a set of new disciples’ items.
One Storage Magical Artifact and three sets of Outer Sect disciple attire—this attire contains defensive runes that can withstand some low-level spell attacks.
Well, if you are a disciple of the Alchemy Hall or Artifact Refining Hall, you can also receive an additional item—the Alchemy Hall’s disciples get either an Alchemy Furnace or a herb hoe with an embedded array.
For you, an Artifact Refining Hall disciple, you might as well take an anvil made of Iron Essence."
Chen Yan simply nodded, "I’ll follow Senior Sister’s arrangement."
Inside the box, there were various items messily placed, mostly jade pendants, jade tokens, or rings.
Senior Sister Le picked up a jade ring from inside and tossed it to Chen Yan.
"This is the Storage Magical Artifact. The disciple attire and anvil are stored inside. Just take this set with you."
Chen Yan took the jade ring, infused it with a trace of Primordial Qi, and then used his Primordial Spirit to probe inside. The space inside the Storage Ring wasn’t large, only about a few dozen cubic meters—the size of an ordinary room.
But having extra storage equipment is always beneficial.
Chen Yan accepted it and promptly placed it on the middle finger of his left hand. Then, he looked at Senior Sister Le, "Senior Sister, I also want to buy a Jade Scroll for engraving, to copy the contents from other Jade Scrolls."
Senior Sister Le nodded, rummaged around in the box, and pulled out an item like a jade bead that Chen Yan had seen before, resembling a glass marble.
This item is a one-time use storage equipment that Chen Yan had seen in the material shops at the Snow Cliff Pass.
"How much is it?" Chen Yan immediately took it and held it in his hand.
Senior Sister Le said indifferently, "The one-time storage jade bead isn’t worth much. The Jade Scroll for engraving cultivation techniques is the most basic type, only with simple copying and recording functions, so it doesn’t cost much either. I’ll just charge you five hundred coins in total."
It truly wasn’t expensive, but Chen Yan still asked, "Senior Sister, I’ve just joined and don’t have much savings yet. Can it be any cheaper?"
He was now almost out of money and nowhere near having five hundred coins.
Senior Sister Le glanced at Chen Yan again, slightly furrowing her brow, and said slowly, "I don’t set the prices; it’s the official sect pricing. If you find it expensive, you can choose not to buy."
However, looking into Chen Yan’s eyes, she smiled, "But since you are an Outer Disciple, you’ll receive two hundred coins monthly as the sect’s remuneration for your service. If you’re short on money, you can have this month’s remuneration deducted. As for the rest... you can sign a contract, and I’ll help you advance two more months’ pay, then it’ll be enough."
Advance salary?
But two hundred coins a month—that kind of salary seems quite low?
Chen Yan couldn’t help but feel a bit resistant.
However, after a moment’s thought, he might have misjudged the prices within the Domain Realm!
Killing a member of the Fierce Beast Race and cutting off its head is worth two hundred and fifty coins.
Though over two hundred coins seem like a small amount, it’s just the head of a Fierce Beast Race.
But the area around the Evil Land Mountain, where the Fierce Beast Race resides, is surrounded by the Evil Spirit Tree’s forest.
That place is not only bitterly cold but also suppresses Spiritual Artifacts, making the cultivators who venture there lose all their mana. To cut off a Fierce Beast Race’s head, one must abandon their most proficient skills and instead wield raw physical strength, confronting the monstrous body of the Fierce Beast Race directly.
In this light, a Fierce Beast Race’s head being worth over two hundred coins doesn’t seem so little.
"New disciples can advance up to three months’ worth of wages at most." Seeing Chen Yan lost in thought without speaking, Senior Sister Le became somewhat impatient, "Do you want to or not?"