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Chapter 257 Sect Competition and Volunteers

Almost every sect that cultivates immortality has an internal ranking mechanism.

Especially among bulk immortal sects like Tongtian Sect.

There are many mountains inside Tongtianmen, and the strength, background, and level of each mountain gate are very different.

Some are long-established sects that have been established for thousands of years, and are even more powerful than some external first- and second-rate sects. Others may have just been established and haven't even recruited a few disciples, so they are not considered a force at all.

It is extremely unrealistic for each mountain gate to do the same amount of work and share the same number of responsibilities.

In this complicated sect form, Tongtianmen's sect competition is particularly important.

The performance of each mountain sect in the sect competition will be one of the important criteria for the sect to consider the strength of the mountain sect.

Simply put, if after consideration and calculation, Tongtianmen has a high assessment of the strength of a certain mountain gate, then the corresponding mountain gate will receive more rights, benefits, and assume more obligations in Tongtianmen.

For example, a certain mountain sect will be specifically responsible for tasks such as being sent to Liang Guo to divide the helm. Although this will drain a lot of manpower and energy from this sect, at the same time, the benefits that can be obtained by Liang Guo will also be reversed. Let this mountain gate benefit.

All in all, the sect competition is very important to most mountain sects. It means the distribution of interests within Tongtian Sect.

But this importance does not include Lin Beifeng, who was founded by Yun Shu.

The reason is also very simple. Yun Shu is the kind of monk who only takes benefits and does not work.

Suppose Jiang Cheng went to participate in the sect competition and achieved a good result, which increased Lin Beifeng's importance in Tongtianmen and obtained more resources. Yun Shu would be very happy.

Then Tongtianmen assigned Lin Beifeng a task at this time, such as going to a certain country to establish a branch organization.

Will Yun Shu go to work?
impossible.

Jiang Cheng knew her very well.

By that time, Zhenren Yun Shu would be 100% without a trace. Neither Yun Shu nor Zhenren could be found.

In the end, it was not him, the responsible "loving disciple", who had to figure out how to solve the sect's mission.

Therefore, it is good for Lin Beifeng to maintain the status quo. He has no resources and no tasks. The master has nothing to do. He can spend a lot of time to earn historical contribution points and pave the way for becoming an elder in the future.

For a self-disciplined person, a master who does nothing is much better than a master who takes care of things.

Thank you Yun Shu for not teaching me!

However, although Jiang Cheng does not plan to participate in the sect competition, it does not mean that he does not intend to participate in the sect competition.

As the sect competition approaches, Tongtianmen's internal affairs hall, which is responsible for organizing the competition, begins to get busy.

As a large-scale competition, the House of Internal Affairs will definitely need to design competition rules, issue competition notices, inspect competition venues, select competition referees, and make a series of contingency plans to deal with unexpected situations in the competition.

The workload of the Internal Affairs Hall has suddenly increased. If nothing unexpected happens, they will definitely outsource some of the difficult work in the form of tasks like other departments of Tongtianmen.

Jiang Cheng is waiting for these outsourcing tasks.

Others took advantage of the sect competition to show their strength, and Jiang Cheng took advantage of the sect competition to gain contribution points. Everyone has a bright future.

The facts turned out to be as expected by Jiang Cheng. As the competition approached, there were suddenly more tasks related to the competition in the mission hall. But Jiang Cheng is not in a hurry, he is waiting for the big fish to take the bait. As a senior task expert, some trivial tasks can no longer satisfy Jiang Cheng's appetite.

After nearly a month of quiet waiting, Jiang Cheng finally saw a satisfactory mission.

The task content is to "keep the competition venue clean and tidy until the sect competition begins." This simple-sounding task costs a full 100,000 contribution points.

After Jiang Cheng roughly inquired about the content of the mission, he set off for the mission location and handed over the task to the mission issuer, Elder Yang.

At first, when Elder Yang heard that a Danjie monk had taken over the task, he said no, because his Danjie cultivation might not be enough, and he had no confidence in the Danjie monk. But when Elder Yang heard that the person who took over the task was Jiang Cheng, he felt relieved again.

Not being able to form pills doesn't mean Jiang Cheng is not good at it. Jiang Cheng is not an ordinary monk who can form pills.

During this period of time, the name of Jiangcheng's mission expert has become famous in Tongtianmen. Jiangcheng's signature is a 100% mission completion rate.

Never failed.

And he is different from those who "protect the record." Jiang Cheng's workload is very tight, and there is no deliberate "protection of record". Instead, he implements a "take all the tasks as needed" strategy for many high-value tasks, which greatly increases his value as a task master.

Therefore, Yun Shu's previous worry that Tongtianmen only knew Jiangcheng and not Yun Shu was not groundless.

In Pingfeng Valley, Jiang Cheng successfully met the mission publisher, Elder Yang.

Elder Yang introduced it to Jiang Cheng: "This place has dense trees, moderate temperature, and abundant spiritual energy. It was selected by the sect competition committee as the location for the jungle simulated battlefield."

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Okay."

Elder Yang continued: "Since it is a competition venue, it is necessary to control the variables generated during the competition to ensure a fair competition as much as possible. However, after all, these forests are not places where only plants and no animals grow. Some spirit beasts will Wandering here, in order to prevent them from suddenly appearing during the competition and interfering with the performance of the contestants, it is necessary for you to clean up the competition venue to ensure that the forest competition can be conducted as fair as possible."

Jiang Chengdao: "Okay, I understand the work content."

"There is one more thing I have to remind you. When you are expelling spirit beasts, you must not kill them. Some spirit beasts grow naturally and wander inside the door. No one will care about you if you kill this part. But there is another part that may have been kept free by other monks. If this part is killed by you, you may face huge compensation. Of course, the mission cannot be considered as a successful completion."

"Thank you, senior, for reminding me. Jiang Cheng understands."

"Well, okay, as long as you know the appropriateness, we can contact you about other matters."

After Elder Yang left, Jiang Cheng and Liu Qing were left here.

Jiang Cheng was not in a hurry to drive away the spirit beasts in the valley. The first thing he did was to examine the terrain of the valley and decide which direction he should start from and where to drive the spirit beasts.

After determining the surrounding terrain and the driving direction, Jiang Cheng once again did not rush to drive away the spiritual beasts.

Instead, we first roughly counted the types of spiritual beasts that needed to be dealt with.

The spirit beasts here first refer to spirit beasts above the Qi training stage.

There are many small insects with different talents, but they are not among the targets of expulsion.

And some small animals, such as rabbits and mice, are not among the targets of expulsion.

The main spiritual animals that need to be driven away in Jiangcheng are mostly medium and large spiritual animals such as wild boars, wild dogs, wild cats, deer, snakes, and tigers. It also includes more dangerous poisonous bees and other pests.

The cultivation level of these spiritual beasts should not exceed the core-formation stage at most, because no matter how high they are, they will be assigned to the Tongtian Sect like Senior Yu Sheng and then sent out to work.

Of course, spiritual beasts and monsters are still different.

Spiritual beasts are always beasts, but monsters can transform into humans.

The ability to transform is one of the important indicators to distinguish spiritual beasts from monsters.

Driving away spirit beasts is a technical job. The main difficulty is not catching them, but discovering and capturing them. The spirit beast carries the word spirit, so it is naturally not an ordinary beast.

If it were an ordinary beast, Jiang Cheng would be able to accurately find its location with just one sweep of his divine sense.

However, after evolution, spiritual beasts naturally have the ability to be "invisible", and ordinary spiritual sense cannot accurately detect and locate them. Sometimes spiritual sense is not even as useful as eyes.

Jiang Cheng is responsible for the eviction work in a large valley by himself. The workload is huge and it is obviously very difficult.

If he had to capture one area after another, he didn't know how many years or months it would take to catch them all.

Then even after catching them, if you are not careful, there will be spiritual beasts from other areas flowing into the cleared area.

This means that all previous efforts have been wasted and the work for other spiritual beasts to expand their territory has been in vain.

From this point of view, it is simply fantastic for Jiang Cheng to want to deal with the spiritual beasts in a large valley by himself.

No matter how hard he works, there will be spiritual beasts from other areas, following their instincts to fill the ecological vacancy where there are no spiritual beasts.

Even if he could capture all the spirit beasts in the valley, there would still be spirit beasts from outside the valley running into the valley and quickly filling up the number of spirit beasts in the valley.

It can be said that as long as the ecological environment of the valley is not damaged, it is almost impossible to eliminate the spiritual beasts simply by catching them.

Once the ecology of the valley is destroyed, the valley will not meet the conditions for the sect competition.

This is an endless cycle with no solution.

The solution that normal people can think of is either to send out a large army, march step by step, extend the front line, dig the ground three feet, and force the spirit beasts out of the valley alive.

Or directly ask Liu Qing to take action. Ordinary spiritual beasts can hide from the consciousness of Jiangcheng's Dan Formation realm, but can they also hide from the consciousness of Liu Qing's Mahayana realm?
Or to be more direct, ask Liu Qing to scare the spirit beasts, and make sure he scares them accurately.

Of course, asking Liu Qing to take action was purely a joke.

And it is unrealistic to send out a large army. Where can we find so many people in Jiangcheng to drive them away like a carpet?
In particular, there is the objective requirement of not harming spiritual beasts.

However, the difficult tasks could not stump Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng quickly gave his own solution.

It is known that the number of spirit beasts in the forest is in a dynamic balance. If it is less, it will become more, and if it is more, it will become less. As long as the carrying capacity of the environment does not change, the number of spirit beasts will remain stable.

Then Jiang Cheng can take advantage of this and do the opposite.

Since the spiritual beasts outside the valley can follow their instincts and run into the valley to fill their ecological niche, then the spiritual beasts in the valley can also follow their instincts and run outside the valley to the wilderness to survive because of too many competitors.

Therefore, Jiang Cheng's choice was to "rent" a group of spirit beasts cultivated in the spirit beast breeding base.

The advantage of cultivating spiritual beasts is that they have marked magic weapons on them, so you don't have to worry about running away and not getting them back.

So what Jiang Cheng did was to release a large number of cultivated versions of the same type of spirit beasts into the valley.

Assuming that the small prey animals in this valley can sustain the survival of three tigers, then the carrying capacity of this valley environment for tigers is three.

Jiangcheng released ten captive tigers into the valley, causing 13 tigers to appear in the valley at once. As a result, the valley resources could not sustain the survival of thirteen tigers at all.

Then the tigers have only two choices. One is to compete with each other and kill the same kind. The second is to migrate out and leave the valley.

And because of the presence of markers, Jiang Cheng could observe the status and location of the tigers he released, thus preventing the released tigers from competing with each other and simply allowing them to crowd out the original indigenous tigers!

After the tiger balance was achieved, Jiangcheng continued to crowd out the indigenous deer and wild boars in the valley by releasing deer, wild boars and other animals. And so on.

By continuously releasing and recycling spirit beasts, Jiang Cheng used the environmental balance mechanism to the extreme, creating a large area of ​​"spiritless beasts" forest area without any bloodshed, and delivered it to the Internal Affairs Hall on the eve of the competition, and the Internal Affairs Hall arranged the formations to meet the needs of the competition. Venue requirements for the sect competition.

Elder Yang is very satisfied with Jiangcheng's work.

He suggested to Jiang Cheng: "Jiang Cheng, our Internal Affairs Hall has to prepare for the competition. Now we are very short of manpower. If you are not busy, I recommend you to come to our Internal Affairs Hall as a volunteer. You can mainly do the work of maintaining the order of the competition. How about we give you a salary of one thousand contribution points every day?”

Jiang Cheng mentally calculated the salary level and felt it was a good deal, so he agreed.

After becoming a volunteer, Jiang Cheng's job became much easier than driving away spiritual beasts.

Because volunteers are mainly engaged in maintaining order, it can be said that as long as there are no accidents in the competition, you can make a lot of money just by strolling around Jiangcheng.

Of course, on the other hand, if something unexpected happens and Jiang Cheng doesn't handle it properly, something big will happen.

Different from Jiang Cheng, although Yue Ling'er's sect is also a newly established sect, their master is not as arrogant as Yun Shu and still wants more resources to make a difference.

Therefore, Yue Ling'er and Shen Menghan were sent by their sect to actively participate in the sect competition. Their results would be converted into points and added to their sect's head.

Yue Linger and Shen Menghan are not as good at fighting as Lin Yao and Liang Lu.

But fortunately, they have Jiangcheng's talismans to protect them. Although they are dangerous, they can often win despite the yelling and curses from the opponent.

The only thing stopping them from moving forward is how many talismans Jiang Cheng is willing to give.

Anyway, Jiang Cheng's intention was to tell them not to make any rash advances. They should just fight at the knotted alchemy stage. If they encounter a genius, they should admit defeat.

Yue Ling'er and Shen Menghan also implemented Jiang Cheng's combat ideas very much. Of course, they couldn't do it if they didn't because there were no new talismans to use.

But accidents happen.

One day, Yue Ling'er competed with a fellow Dan Jie disciple on the stage. After using the Jiangcheng Talisman to "luckily" win, Yue Ling'er resigned without thinking much.

Unexpectedly, the defeated fellow disciple was not convinced at all and wanted to challenge Yue Ling'er to a private fight in front of the audience.

Volunteer Jiang Cheng came over in time to maintain order and suggested: "Private fighting is against the rules of the sect. If you insist on competing, I will give each of you a powerful electric shock talisman. You use the talisman on yourself, and then one will be matched according to the injury." It’s not a violation of the rules to compete.”

A fellow disciple said: "Why should I listen to you?"

Jiang Cheng tugged on the red armband, "I'm a volunteer, how can I still lie to you?"

The fellow disciple thought the same thing and decisively used the electric shock talisman on himself. Then, his whole body was blackened and his head was smoking, he said to Yue Ling'er: "It's your turn!"

Before Yue Ling'er could say anything, Jiang Cheng selflessly answered for her: "No more electricity, she gives up."

His fellow disciples were overjoyed at first, thinking that he had proved that he was better than Yue Ling'er.

Then he saw Yue Ling'er chatting and laughing with Jiang Cheng, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

"No, you guys are in the same group?"

(End of this chapter)