Reward (2)

"Shu-Tong Yang Guang. The elders, soldiers, and family members of the deceased praises you for your selfless effort during your time inside Thousand Boar Forest."

"As the words say, bring the person back if he's alive, and return his belonging and corpse if he's dead. This custom was practiced occasionally no matter what is the situation as to respect both master and family."

"We've found the surviving book-servants that managed to escape from the Moonlight Demon Tiger. Each sentence from them are accompanied by Yang Guang this, Yang Guang that. Hence, the Polished Jade Tower decided to reward you for everything you've done."

"With the support of Earth Fort, Elder Xiao Yi, and I, Yang Guang is now promoted to become an Outer Disciple and will continue your studies in Formation Realm class." Elder Qi Rui continued.

"Thank you, elder." Yang Guang kneeled on a knee with his hand cupped together as thanks. But elder Qi Rui doesn't seem to finish his word yet.

"The Polished Jade Tower will also reward you with five hundred merit points, a bottle of Small Huang Pellets, a bundle of Moonlight Demon Tiger's fur, and a Thousand-Li Horse." Elder Qi Rui finally finished his sentence.

"Thousand-Li Horse! What kind of reward is that? Did our Polished Jade Tower get too much profit that they felt sorry to give him only a few hundred of Merit Points?" the crowd whispered.

In the entire Tianyu City, there are less than a thousand of such breed available. Furthermore, there's also a bottle of Small Huang Pellet given along in the reward, which garnered much jealousy from others.

"Junior Yang Guang will do his best and contributes to the Polished Jade Tower." Yang Guang bowed while maintaining his posture earlier.

"Cao Meng Yuan, Wen Xuwu, Tong Ren. Come forward." the procedures continued. After the ten of them are all rewarded with their individual prizes, the gathering ended.

"Report to your corresponding tower before nightfall. Remember, from today onwards, you're an Outer Disciple now. Your task is no longer those menial tasks like handling herbs or cleaning."

"Go ahead. Don't waste your time." Elder Qi Rui waved his hand away, indicating that they are all free to go.

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"Good morning, senior brother."

"Good morning, senior Yang."

A week already passed after their promotion to an Outer Disciple. And since the Jade Coins are only a currency distributed to the book-servants, Yang Guang changed all of them to practical treasures before he moved into the Mystic Tower.

Inside the tower, Inner and Outer Disciple are given a uniform with the same design, only different in color. Inner Disciple wears a darker blue one, while the Outer Disciple put on a clear-blue outfit.

Both the quality and design of the uniform made for disciples can be said to be exquisite and detailed. There's a pocket on both sides of the sleeve, the chest, waist, and bum. As for his sash, it is changed from a thin piece of rough cloth into a properly woven belt.

There's an emblem of Polished Jade Tower on the back, the belt, and the lower leg on his pants.

After a change of a uniform, Yang Guang's position in this Polished Jade Tower changes drastically. From being a person that greets others to somebody that being greeted wherever he goes, these treatments made him somewhat happy.

After walking around, Yang Guang reaches the lowest floor of this Mystic Tower and knocked on a door three times. Above the door is a wooden tablet written,

"Xiao Lao's Medicine Room"

"Come in." a reply from the elder came to the door.

"Junior Yang Guang greets Elder Yi," Yang Guang addressed Elder Xiao Yi the moment he entered the room. The design of this room can be said to be minimal. There was a cauldron about the height of Yang Guang in the middle of the room, with ten medicinal cabinets positioned near the wall.

Near the door is a table with a mountain of books piled on top. Beside that is a bed with a messy blanket.

"En." that's all Elder Xiao Yi reply to him.

Not waiting for the elder to ask, Yang Guang makes his way over to the bed and removes the cover of the blanket. Next, he cleaned the table and placed the book back on a shelf hidden behind a curtain. He's lucky that his memorizing ability is darn good because there's once elder Xiao Yi asked him to bring out what he left on the table a day before.

About the time he's done with the cleaning, a call came from behind the door. It is breakfast time for them, and the elders usually had theirs inside their own room. And since Yang Guang is around, he's the one that should be answering the door.

"Reporting to elder, today's breakfast is sweet buns, steamed pomfret, soy-braised vegetables, and stir-fry pork strips." Yang Guang placed the tray in front of Elder Xiao Yi.

"Ready the cauldron. After that, prepare a chest of Blood Fruit, 4 Dragon Whiskers Flower, 8 Two-Leaf Bronze Orchid, 4 Citron Roots, 20 Cai-Xian Fruits including Pears, and 10 drops of essence from Azure Jade Grass." Elder Xiao Yi ordered.

While Yang Guang is busy handling the menial task like a Pill-Servant, Elder Xiao Yi slowly enjoyed his breakfast. The fresh pomfret is cooked into perfection, along with some heavy flavor pork strips and sweet buns. Unfortunately for the vegetables, Elder Xiao Yi left them aside after a few bites.

And as it was only a week-long for Yang Guang, the positioning of the ingredients is still disturbing for him. Things like Blood Fruit had to be taken from the underground storage, and the essence from Azure Jade Grass has to be cooked and separated before Elder Yi is ready.

But Yang Guang had no idea that while he's busy running up and down to prepare the ingredients, Elder Yi is observing his each and every move.

Soon, Yang Guang is almost done with his preparations. Only bringing up the heat for the cauldron remained.

"Wash the Cai-Xian Fruits! The pears as well! Change the two stalks of Two-Leaf Bronze Orchid that lost one of the leaves!" Elder Yi's order brings Yang Guang back on his feet.

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Note:

(Shu-Tong = Book-Servant)

(Thousand-Li Horse = Qian Li Ma. One of the best examples would be the horse of Lu Bu in three kingdoms, named Red Hare)

(Xiao Lao = Elder Xiao's Medicine Room)

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Another Fun Fact: Cai-Xian / Cai-Xian Immortal in this story is actually a named character in The Jade Realm 2. Which is half ready. This current book (The Jade Realm / Yu-Jie) should be finished around 460 - 500 chapters. Depending on how long imma gonna plot armor it.