Chapter 349: Expanded Mutual Aid Club (3)
"For now, I have to continue maintaining my distance from Teacher Liu..." Su Yu said, "By the way, your grandfather is from the single character faction as well. Will injuring Elder Zheng affect your grandfather..."
"It's fine." Lin Yao said, "We're not from their line. We're actually from Elder Fang's line. Faculty Head Zhou's line is already used to being overbearing in the faction. But since my grandpa is quite close with Faculty Head Zhou, he decided to stay in the middle and not side with anyone in the faction."
"That's good. We don't want to create more conflict between your line and the other lines." Su Yu nodded, "Brother Lin, to speak the truth, Teacher Liu, me, and a lot of people are trying to change something. But since we are still too weak, we can only stay in the shadows for now. Brother Lin, you're a student of Teacher Liu. We have built our friendship from rivalry. I approve of your character. If one day we decide to overturn some of the existing status quo, would you be willing to stand at our side?"
Lin Yao frowned, "Brother Su, you guys aren't trying to overthrow the entire single character faction, right?"
"Of course not. And we're not strong enough to do something like that anyway."
Lin Yao thought about it and said, "I am not a selfless person. As long as my grandfather is fine, I don't really care. As long as my teacher and you are victorious, I honestly don't care about the others."
Su Yu nodded, "In that case, I hereby officially invite you to the Mutual Aid Club. Don't ask me how many members we have. Don't ask me who our members are. I am your sole contact person from the club. Everything else will remain secret."
He then gave Lin Yao a short introduction to the Mutual Aid Club.
Lin Yao asked in excitement, "Is...Teacher a part of this Mutual Aid Club as well?"
"Like I said, don't ask me about the members." Su Yu solemnly said, "This is still a small circle for now. Do not tell anyone about it. Do not speak of this club openly. That applies to Teacher Liu as well. You are not to speak with him about the club. You shouldn't be asking about his membership. He will not be aware of the fact that you're a member of the club."
"The moment you leak anything related to the club, we will have no choice but to kick you."
Lin Yao hurriedly nodded, "I understand. What do I need to do for the club?"
"Information transmission and gathering. Isn't your grandfather a Cloudbreach cultivator? He's quite close to Faculty Head Zhou as well, right? In that case, he definitely knows a lot. You only need to share some information that you think you can share with me.
"Naturally, you won't be working for free. In the Mutual Aid Club, fair exchange is extremely important. We will have someone evaluating the value of every information you bring to the club. With your information, you can trade for the things you need from the club."
"The things I need?" Lin Yao said after some hesitation, "But I don't lack any cultivation resources for now..."
Su Yu shook his head, "Brother Lin, you're too easily satisfied. Where is the Lin Yao who had looked for me for some mountainbreak bull blood essence? Aren't you aiming for the top 100? Are you giving up already? So many of our classmates have managed to enter the top 100. Don't you want to do the same?"
Lin Yao blanked out.
"I feel like after the end of the conflict between us, you seem to have lost all your fighting spirit. If I had known that this would happen, I would have remained as your rival. Brother Lin, don't forget that you're from the single character faction while I'm from the multiple character faction. From today onward, we will be rivals. You should be viewing me with hostility! That is what Lin Yao should be doing!"
Lin Yao blanked out slightly. After a short thought, he nodded and solemnly said, "Thank you for that. I seem to have gotten carried away, thinking that I have nothing to strive for since you are no longer an enemy. But now...I'm aware that I was wrong."
"That's right." Su Yu said, "We have plenty of good stuff in the club, such as a cultivation method capable of purifying source qi, the Soul Devouring Art i mentioned previously, ability blood essence, body-strengthening manuals, numerous willpower texts, and so on. You will definitely be able to find something you want. Only those in the club are allowed to obtain all these things."
Lin Yao swallowed and said, "Do you guys even have the rights to transmit all those things?"
"Why not? All those manuals are created by our fellow club members so we have all the rights for these manuals."
Lin Yao was greatly alarmed to learn that those manuals were actually created by the members of the club. Just how many members did this Mutual Aid Club have? And how many super experts did they have in the club?
It was very likely that a lot of multiple character faction members were already in the club. Some single character faction members were probably in the club as well. How about those from the other factions?
Lin Yao was getting increasingly alarmed. He was more and more confident that his teacher was probably part of the club as well. Some other students had probably joined the club as well. For example, that Xia Huyou fellow from the Xia Family.
Lin Yao had a feeling like he had been invited to an incredible organization. Perhaps an astonishingly powerful organization that not even the prefect knew about was hidden in the academy. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became.
Suddenly, Su Yu said, "But Brother Lin, you are still too weak. You have been in the Great Strength Realm since the 1st of September. Even now, you are still at the second-stage. This is too slow."
"Erm..."
Lin Yao looked awkward. But wasn't that actually quite fast?
"The Mutual Aid Club has a cultivation manual called the Pure Source Art. It specializes in clearing the impurities in your source qi. I used it before. You know how strong I am. With this cultivation method, you can grow rapidly by consuming blood essence and pills before cleaning the impurities in your body. Your cultivation speed will increase significantly. You will be able to reach the Infinite Strength Realm quickly."
Lin Yao's eyes lit up, "You're using this cultivation method as well?"
"Yeah."
"How many merit points to get this manual?"
"You can't get it with merit points. You need our internal currency, the mutual aid point. But you can only get these mutual aid points by contributing to the club."
Su Yu was busy making things up when he was suddenly stunned. Damn it. Why did it feel like he was starting a cult? But he hurriedly tossed that thought away. He was not setting himself against humanity. He was only creating this club to protect himself. Nothing else mattered.
"You only need 10 mutual aid points. As a fellow member, you can get the manual at a cheap price. If you're an outsider, you won't be able to get the manual for even 1,000 merit points."
"I only need 10 mutual aid points?"
Lin Yao was astonished. This Mutual Aid Club...was truly incredible. No wonder Su Yu was able to grow so quickly. This was too cheap!
"Can I get mutual aid points with any information?" Lin Yao hurriedly said, "I have some information, but I don't know if I can get any mutual aid points for it."
"What is it about?"
"A few months ago, the Divine Skywing Sect attacked Great Xia. During the attack, their sect master was killed by the prefect. The higher ups of the sect were all defeated, but their treasury remains undiscovered. I heard from my grandpa that even the Martial Dragon Guards had failed to find the treasury.
"My grandpa also said that if they keep searching, they might be able to find it. But the prefect disdains doing so. He left the sect master's corpse in the Myriad Race Pit. According to my grandpa, if you can get a drop of the sect master's blood essence, you will be able to separate the memory imprint in the blood essence and search the sect master's memories. Perhaps you can get the location of the treasury through it. Of course, very few people are actually capable of extracting memory imprints and the few experts that are actually capable of doing so don't really care about the treasury of the sect..."
Lin Yao nervously asked, "Is this information useful enough to get me some mutual aid points? It feels quite useless, but it is still something related to some big shots. Perhaps some other big shots in the club will find this information valuable?"
Meanwhile, Su Yu was blanking out. He had never heard of that before. Also, he was quite surprised to learn that Lin Yao actually believed that there were big shots in the Mutual Aid Club.
"Erm...is extracting memory very difficult?"
He was quite astonished. Was that so hard? Even Bai Feng knew how to do so! And he was also in the process of learning how to do that.
"Yes. It's very difficult." Lin Yao nodded, "According to my grandpa, very few experts in existence are capable of extracting memory fragments. Not even the prefect is proficient in that or he would have done so before tossing the corpse away. The faculty heads in the academy might know how to do it, but it would also be too embarrassing for people of their status to steal a corpse from the Myriad Race Pit for some blood essence..."
Too embarrassing? Su Yu had to disagree. Principal Wan was pretty shameless. Would someone like that feel embarrassed?
There were probably some other misgivings. After all, this involved extracting the blood essence of a human. Even if that human in question was a part of the Myriad Race Cult, it still wouldn't be proper for one to openly extract the blood essence of one such person.
Of course, if Xia Longwu knew how to extract memories, he probably wouldn't have any misgivings in doing so.
"Got it. I'll get someone to evaluate the value of this information. If it proves useful, you will definitely receive what you deserve. I think you can probably get enough to purchase a manual of the Pure Source Art. Of course, even after buying the manual, you won't be allowed to transmit it. Do you understand?"
"Of course. I understand."
Lin Yao nodded solemnly. He naturally knew that he had to keep something like this secret. Cultivation methods could not be lightly transmitted!
Most of these cultivation methods were created by big shots. One could easily get killed by carelessly transmitting these cultivation methods. It wasn't like something like this had never happened before.
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That night, Su Yu successfully dealt with Lin Yao and obtained a piece of news that he still wasn't sure if it would be helpful. He exhaled in relief. As of now, the Mutual Aid Club had successfully obtained its third member. Not bad at all!
All these members were high-tier students. Even Hu Zongji was a high-middle student. In truth, Hu Zongji was actually quite an impressive student. He only looked weak in comparison to someone like Su Yu.
"Teacher Liu..."
He still couldn't contact Liu Wenyan. The single character faction was probably doing something against Liu Wenyan. Su Yu cursed inwardly and wondered if he should tell his teacher and martial uncle about it. His martial uncle wasn't strong enough and still needed to protect his position in the books depository. If his martial uncle was lured out of the academy...sigh.
Their faction was still too weak. What a pity that his martial uncle still wasn't a Mountainsea cultivator.
"What do people need to reach the Mountainsea Realm from the Cloudbreach Realm? Do they need a new cultivation method or something similar? If it's cultivation method, I might be able to provide some."
Su Yu lacked everything except cultivation methods. And all his cultivation methods were guaranteed to be suitable for human practice. One ought to know that he had already activated over 80 pages so far.
His martial uncle had been stuck in the Cloudbreach Realm for many years. He wondered what the issue was. If his martial uncle could reach the Mountainsea Realm, their faction would be much stronger than before.
After entering the Mountainsea Realm, his martial uncle would be promoted into an elder and gain more weight to his voice inside the academy.
"There's also Teacher Zhao..."
Su Yu exhaled and ran straight toward Xia Huyou. By that time, it was nearly morning. The 8th was coming again so he should get ready to visit his Teacher Zhao again. If possible, he would try to get Teacher Zhao to hammer him a dozen times or so.
He could also try to ask if Teacher Zhao could give him a special privilege when it comes to entering the Source Qi Secret Grotto.
After all, the Source Qi Secret Grotto was something left behind by Teacher Zhao's father. He should have some special prerogative about the grotto, right? It would be a waste to not make use of the special prerogative he had.
Su Yu even started wondering if he should have a talk with Bai Feng and discuss having him officially come under Zhao Li instead. After all, on paper, the multiple character faction no longer existed.
Naturally, he would minor in the multiple character faction instead so they would remain on the same side. Bai Feng would be fine, right? If he did well, he would even share some of his wealth with Bai Feng!
If he really did that, the Source Qi Secret Grotto would be as good as theirs! Wouldn’t that be wonderful?