Chapter 194: Life 70, Age 25, Martial Lord 1
My demotion to the inner sect was a slight problem, but it was one that was easy to solve. After a couple of months, I would be able to take the sect’s Exam, and a quick purchase of Rank 4 talisman knowledge would be enough to ensure my return to core disciple status. For the moment, I just needed to continue on as normal.
After reaching Profound City, JiaQi and I immediately turned around, teleported out of the sect, traveled through the portal network, and returned to NanLu City.
When we arrived, I was shocked by the change. We had only been gone for a few weeks, but the town was already pulling itself together. On every street, I saw dozens of people cleaning the cobblestones, tearing down dilapidated buildings, and planting fresh flowers.
The walls surrounding the city remained in their same crumbling, broken-down state, so outside observers hopefully hadn’t noticed any changes. However, the city inside the walls had completely transformed.
When I arrived at the city lord’s manor, I found the three people responsible for this change.
LiTing, in her position as Minister of Public Works, had laid out careful plans of what needed to be done and how to do it. For the most part, this involved making a list of the buildings that needed to be torn down and the materials that needed to be purchased to construct something new in their place.
Jin ZiHan, in her role as Minister of Revenue, had been in a more difficult position, but she had excelled. She was not yet a Grandmaster, so she couldn’t personally visit the sect to sell pills or buy supplies. Instead, she had to relay everything through a team of servant disciples. Even with that limitation, she had still been able to take the pills I had left her and transform them into everything LiTing and the others required.
However, none of this would have been possible without Meng LuYao. As Minister of Personnel, not only had she recruited Jin ZiHan’s servants, but she had also recruited numerous other low-level sect disciples to do odd jobs around the city.
When I called a meeting and gathered everyone together, I wanted to thank the women for their hard work, but Jin ZiHan didn’t want to hear it. She was all business and only wanted to focus on what she considered to be the most important problem.