Chapter 161: Smearing reputation.
The next day nothing noteworthy happened in the sect. Inner disciples cultivated as usual, but outer sect was bustling with everyone making plans about how to spend their newly acquired contribution points.
After sending Xiao Lian to arena to practice, Lee went to Hall of Knowledge to discuss his future employment.
As expected, Junior Elder Chen wasn’t an idiot and guessed his intentions to learn higher level cultivation techniques under the disguise of simply copying them.
They haggled for half a day, but in the end Lee was the one who technically lost. His previous contributions would be rounded up to be worth of total of fifty thousand contribution points, and while it was a fortune for an outer disciple, it was barely enough to get a decent level combat technique for Xiao Lian.
And that was the good part.
If Lee wanted to work for the library, he would be allowed to copy more advanced techniques and for that would receive measly two thousand points a month. It was barely enough to cover his basic necessities, but no matter how he tried, Junior Elder Chen didn’t budge. She was set on exploiting him to the fullest.
Lee didn’t know it was the punishment Elder Wang thought of because of Lee’s tendency to cause trouble.
The elder and Shen Rouya had a heated discussion on how to deal with him. Junior Elder Shen wanted Lee to receive some kind of actual punishment, but the elder was more inclined to help a young person grow their character, allowing to learn from their mistakes.
That is why he intended to award Lee, in case his burglary scheme worked out, with two months of cultivation time in the Ascension tower. Of course, if the elder knew it was decades too late to change Lee’s ways, he would’ve thought differently.