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“Xu Ming, your mission…”

The new disciples all pricked up their ears, guessing what Xu Ming's mission would be.

Slay a notorious bandit?

Punish local bullies who oppressed the people?

Or safeguard the peace and well-being of a certain region?

In any case, Xu Ming's mission should definitely be worth more contribution points than theirs!

After all, Xu Ming was the undisputed number one among this year's new disciples; even someone as proud as Luo Feng had lowered his noble head before Xu Ming.

“Your mission—mining!”

Huh?

Inside the side hall, the expressions of all the new disciples froze; they all thought they had misheard.

After that, everyone looked at each other in dismay.

“What? Mining?”

“Let Xu Ming be a miner?”

“Isn't mining a task usually assigned to newly arrived outer sect disciples? Why would we, inner sect disciples, receive such a task? And it's even assigned to Xu Ming?”

“Could there be a mistake in the mission assignment?”

However, the new disciples immediately thought, “Could it be that the sect is afraid that Xu Ming will spend too much time on missions, affecting his cultivation, so they simply gave him a simple and easy task, letting him mine for a day or two, and then giving him a large number of contribution points?”

“Possible! Possible! Absolutely possible!”

“Damn, that's too unfair!—We each travel far and wide, trekking tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of miles, with life-threatening dangers, just to get a little over a thousand contribution points.

This Xu Ming, without doing anything, just mines and gets a large number of contribution points? That's not fair!”

“Yes, unfair!”

“Fair? Who are you talking about fairness with? Use your strength to argue—if you were stronger than Xu Ming, the sect would probably treat you this way too!”

Xu Ming himself was also slightly dumbfounded: “Damn, let me mine?”

Xu Ming looked up at Xue Xi, but saw a sneer in his cold eyes.

Needless to say, this guy must also be deliberately trying to make trouble; this mining is definitely not the cushy job that other new disciples imagine.

“Looking for trouble with me? Come on, let me see what tricks you can play!” Xu Ming sneered inwardly.

Xue Xi glanced at Xu Ming with a playful look: “Mission details: In the Profound Stone Mine of the Barren Mountain, mine ten thousand low-grade Profound Stones!”

Ten thousand stones?

That’s so many!

All the new disciples were surprised—Profound Stone mines are not so easy to mine!

Because the rocks in the Profound Stone mine are very hard.

Generally, a martial artist who has completed the inner training can only mine about ten or twenty low-grade Profound Stones a day; even a Xiantian Early Stage cultivator probably can't mine a hundred a day.

Although Xu Ming is strong, it would probably take him a month to mine ten thousand!

Huh?

Three hundred?

Are you sure it's three hundred? Not three thousand?

Everyone turned their gazes to Xu Ming, wanting to see his reaction.

Everyone present, except for fools, had already guessed—Xu Ming was being targeted, and very badly!

Because the first mission assigned by the sect must be completed; only after completing this mission can one accept other missions.

If Xu Ming does not complete this mission, then he will never be able to accept other missions, and he will never be able to obtain contribution points!

In the Barren Sect, almost all resources and cultivation techniques require contribution points to exchange!

If you can't get contribution points, then what are you joining the Barren Sect for, sightseeing?

That is to say, Xu Ming must waste a month of cultivation time to mine; moreover, after completing it, he will not get a few contribution points!

“Heh!” Xu Ming smiled disdainfully.

This insidious trick is really direct; let me mine for a month, but only give three hundred contribution points!

“Master Xue Xi!” Luo Feng suddenly spoke.

“What is it?” Xue Xi glanced at Luo Feng.

“Master Xue Xi, I want to ask, is the mission assigned to Xu Ming a mistake?” Luo Feng actually spoke up for Xu Ming.

Xu Ming couldn't help but look at Luo Feng in surprise: “This kid…”

Xu Ming really didn't expect that someone would speak up for him on such an occasion; even more unexpectedly, the person speaking up for him would be Luo Feng!

Luo Feng also felt Xu Ming's surprised gaze and transmitted his voice: “Don't be surprised!

It's true that I want to surpass you, but I want to compete with you fairly, and I don't want you to be tricked by others so muddle-headedly and then be surpassed by me!”

“Haha! You are quite confident!” Xu Ming laughed, “Okay, I'll wait for you to surpass me!”

“Wait! I know, I am quite far from you now, and I am not your opponent at all!

But one day, I will formally challenge you!”

“I'm waiting!”

At this time, Xue Xi also replied to Luo Feng's words: “Xu Ming's mission was personally decided by the sect elders, and there will be no mistake!”

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“But—” Luo Feng continued to argue, “Xu Ming is the number one person to break through the mountain gate this year, how can he be allowed to mine like an outer sect disciple?”

Xue Xi's expression turned cold: “You are called Luo Feng, right?”

“That's right!” Luo Feng puffed out his chest, looking like he wouldn't change his name or his surname.

“Luo Feng, there is a problem with your thinking!” Xue Xi said with a stern face, righteously scolding, “What does ‘like an outer sect disciple’ mean?

Outer sect disciples, aren't they also members of our Barren Sect? Should they be discriminated against by you inner sect disciples?”

What Luo Feng wanted to express was actually: How can Xu Ming, such a genius, waste time mining?

And Xue Xi directly dragged the matter to Luo Feng discriminating against outer sect disciples.

Isn't this nonsense?

However, Luo Feng's mind is still quite childish, so how could he play such tricks?

Xue Xi's words directly silenced him.

Xue Xi continued relentlessly: “Moreover, you are just a young boy, how would you know the elders' painstaking efforts?

Arranging for Xu Ming to mine is actually to temper Xu Ming's will—after all, Xu Ming is young and has such cultivation, his will must be much weaker than his cultivation!

Mining is a great way to help him temper his will! What do you know?”

Temper your will?

Xu Ming laughed.

This Master Xue Xi is indeed skilled at making nonsense, and he can turn anything bad into something good—he clearly wants to waste Xu Ming's cultivation time by mining, but he insists that it is to help Xu Ming temper his will.

“I don't know how this Xue Xi's skin was tempered? He can actually lie through his teeth and say it so confidently!”

“Okay, Master Xue Xi, please tell me, why is Xu Ming's contribution point reward so low?

The rest of us have over a thousand, but he only has three hundred?” Luo Feng once again argued for Xu Ming.