Chapter 99 99 – Going To The Exchange Office



"WHAT?"

Diana didn't stop herself and screamed. The wolf ate 5 pills daily, so feeding her cost 2500 Qi Stones daily for the next 2 months. That's 75,000 Qi Stones per month, and the costs will rise to 300,000 per month when the pup becomes a second-rank beast, and 750,000 in the next rank.

As for after that, she didn't dare think of the costs. As a talented core disciple, she got a very high monthly budget – 100,000 medium Qi Stones per month along with other benefits and discounts. It was barely enough to sustain her training regime, and she could always use more money. 

"I can't afford it! are you going to let Hazel starve to death? She is your pup's sister!"

"Hazel? But her fur is gray."

"It's irrelevant."

"Well, yes. You forced my pup on me, so why would I care about its sister?"

"'My pup'? You didn't even name him yet? and why are you referring to him as 'it'?"

"I did, his name is Emrys since he will become immortal by my side." (1)

Ken made up a name on the spot and even gave it personal meaning. After bickering with Diana, he agreed to halve the price for the next two stages, mainly because it didn't really matter to him. 

After providing them with enough pills for the next two months, he left the house and went to visit the Exchange Office to get his rewards.

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"Hello, how may I help you?"

A disciple wearing gray robes said with a bored voice. He took the mission for the CP from the sect, but just like the rest of his sect, he looked down on everyone from sects out of the top 5.

"I want to exchange my spoils for MP."

"Sure. You can look at the exchange rate over there."

He pointed at a board behind him, and Ken read it. MP's value was higher than CP; the former was given during a war while the latter was earned in the daily activity of the sect.

'1 MP for one fourth-grade material. 

3 MP for one perfect fourth-grade pill. 

20 MP for a disciple token of a fourth-rank outer disciple.

50 MP for a disciple token of a fourth-stage inner disciple.

The reward for ranked disciples and core disciples change according to their ranks.'

He figured that the Divine Sword Sect didn't want them to make easy money by selling pills in their sect, so they made it more lucrative to sell the materials than the pills. This way, only unneeded pills looted from the other sect would be sold.

'Let's see the buying rate. 1 MP for a single fourth-grade material, 5 MP for one fourth-grade pill, 100 MP for a lower Earth-grade technique, 300 for an intermediate one, and 1000 for a higher one. They also offer a deal of registering to the sect and getting a low Heaven-grade technique for 100,000 MP.'

The last deal was almost impossible to accomplish; the disciples of the top 5 sects were stronger than those of Ken's sect, and to accumulate that many MP in a year, they'd need to slaughter the disciples of the Four Seasons Sect.

"Hey Little Brother, do you use pills to keep your youth? I think you're kind of overdoing it."

Ken raised his eyebrow at the outer disciple behind the counter. Despite his initial disdain, the man apparently was interested in Ken's youthful look.

"Why, do you want to look as young as me?"

"No, of course not, no adult would want to look like a child. But if I were to want that, what pill is it?"

"It's not a pill. When I was a child, I found a golden fruit on my grandmother's apple tree. It seemed tasty so I ate it, and it really was. However, I've never grown ever since eating that golden apple."

"Oh."

Ken turned back and gazed at the board for the fifth-stage cultivators. To his surprise, the prices were exactly the same; apparently, the sect wanted to keep the value of MP consistent cross-ranks. The only difference was a note saying that fourth-stage disciples will get double the points for fifth-stage disciple tokens.

"Hello, if I want permission to get into your libraries, how much MP would it cost me?"

"I don't know, there's no such reward."

Ken was irritated, feeling like he was dealing with a lazy civil servant in his former world.

"Can you check?"

"Is it even relevant? How much CP do you have?"

He asked Ken dubiously. Even if such a reward would be added to the rewards list, it'd be costly, and the payment would be by the hour.

"That much."

Ken poured the disciple tokens he collected during his stay in the mountains of the Outer Ring. He had 47 tokens before the last fight, and 18 of them belonged to fifth-stage cultivators. In the last battle, his share was 4 tokens of each rank, while the others took 3 tokens of their stages.

"Wow, that's a lot of tokens. Let's see if you hunted anyone important."

The outer disciple straightened his back and scanned the tokens one by one. Sometimes his face revealed surprise, and Ken figured it should be the times he saw tokens of fifth-stage cultivators.

"All right. Overall, you submitted 55 disciple tokens, which is the highest number so far. Good job. Let's begin with the tokens of fourth-stage cultivators. There are 33 of them, of which 16 are outer disciples, 12 are inner disciples, and 5 are ranked disciples."

It made sense, so Ken wasn't surprised. He figured that all the disciples from the large battle were ranked, and it was possible to stumble upon one more ranked disciple by luck when you hunt so many of them.

"You get 320 MP from the outer disciples, 600 MP from the inner disciples, and 2,600 MP for the ranked disciples. Overall, you earned 3,520 MP from the fourth-stage disciples."

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A/N: (1) Emrys – the meaning of the name is 'immortal'.