Chapter 146 Two Salaries
The smile on Pan Yun's face disappeared. "Is the academy a Zhou Baopi? Sweeping the floor for a month only earns one merit. Why don't they just go and rob?"

Pan Yun: "So if you want to exchange this sword technique, you have to sweep the ground for ninety-nine months, eight years and three months?"

Miao Zhen: "Uncle Junior, I am not only good at sweeping the floor. Once I learn some skills and get enough credits, I can take on missions and go down the mountain to gain experience. That way I can earn more merit points and it won't take eight years."

Pan Yun was spinning in circles, why were all the points he got were merit points?
It takes merit points to unseal her spiritual realm, it takes merit points to improve her luck, and now it also takes merit points to exchange for skills in the academy.

Although the calculation methods are different and the subjects are different, one is based on a person's emotional value, measured by the way of heaven; the other is based on the rules set by the academy, but...

Pan Yun lowered his eyes and thought, it is said that the Tianshi Mansion governs the local clergy in the world, and is a bridge to reconcile the country, the imperial power and the worship of gods in the world. Then, they set merit points and encourage Taoists in the world to fight demons and defend the way of Taoism, do good deeds and accumulate virtue. Is it because they have touched the rules of heaven?
Miao Zhen and Miao He saw that Junior Master was silent, so they looked at each other and asked in a low voice: "Junior Master, is there any problem with the merit points?"

"No problem," Pan Yun said, "That's great! I'm so happy!"

Aren’t you happy?
The academy also has merit points, which is equivalent to her having a double salary.

Doing one thing and getting double the merit points is like earning double salary, right? There is no extra workload.

Miao Zhen was delighted when she heard this and asked, "Little Master, are we going to work to earn merit points? I've found out that in addition to sweeping the floor, we can also clean the palaces of the Great Shangqing Palace and the Doumu Palace, buy incense oil, and even fold ingots and make talisman paper to earn merit points."

Pan Yun: "These are all hard labor. What we have to do is to do technical work."

Miao Zhen said: "But I can only find out about these jobs, and these jobs are hard to get. They are usually taken by the sophomores."

Pan Yun: "Who did you ask?"

"Xuan Li."

Pan Yun sighed: "She is really well-informed."

She said, "Go find Senior Brother Zhou directly. He's a fourth-year student and works in the Criminal Law Department, so he must know something about it. I'll go find him. Don't make any moves yet. Once I find out everything, we can make a plan."

Miao Zhen Miao He responded.

Pan Yun looked at Miao He and asked, "What about you? What is the booklet he gave you?"

"It's a prescription book. I've read it. I've never seen many of the names of medicines on it before in the mountains. Some of them seem to be new prescriptions." Miao He said excitedly, "There are also notes written by someone on it. Take a look."

Pan Jun took a look and found that the notes were very detailed. Even if her alchemy skills were average, she might be able to make the medicine by following the notes.

Miao He turned to the next few pages. "In addition to the prescriptions, it also records the preparation methods of many medicinal materials, which are what we lack in Sanqing Mountain."

There are so many medicinal herbs in the world. Although there are many kinds of medicinal herbs on Sanqing Mountain, it is impossible to include all of them due to the climate differences.

Apart from the preparation methods of common medicinal materials, Miaohe only knew the preparation methods of those commonly used medicines on Sanqing Mountain. He could not learn the others, and Tao Ji did not know much about them either.

Therefore, this manual is very important to Miaohe. After learning it, he can not only learn many prescriptions, but also prepare medicinal materials by himself, from collecting herbs to refining them, he can do it all by himself.

Not to mention, the gifts Zhang Liuzhen gave to the two of them were very valuable. Pan Yun estimated that the merit points required for Miaohe's manual would not be less than ninety.

Ninety merit points, for her and Ling Jing, is the amount of food for Xiaoqi and others in Yushan County for three days, but for the people in the academy, it is eight years and three months' salary.

At this moment, Pan Yun became curious about the gift that she had not received, and wondered what gift Zhang Liuzhen was going to give her.

"You should go back to your room and practice. Don't tell anyone about the gift, lest someone gets jealous," she said, "Although we have Zhang Liuzhen as our backer now, we should still keep a low profile and not draw attention."

Miao He: "I understand. It's like pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger. Master said that this way you can live longer without feeling frustrated."

Pan Yun: "...your master uncle is quite right. Don't learn your master's temper. Even if you do a lot of good things, people still want to put you in a sack. I often want you to change your master for this reason."

Although Miao He spent more time with Master Uncle, she still loved her master, so she whispered: "I don't want to change..."

Pan Jun waved his hand and said, "Go back, go back. I just want to go look for Zhou Wangdao."

Zhou Wangdao didn't expect that Pan Yun would come back in less than half an hour.

He was very curious, "Junior Sister Pan, why don't you go back and take medicine to heal your wounds? Healing your wounds is your top priority now." Pan Jun paused, remembering his own personality, covered his chest and coughed twice, saying, "I plan to take it at night when it's quiet, so that I can concentrate and heal my wounds better."

Zhou Wang said, "That's good. The spiritual energy in our entire academy is more concentrated at night than during the day, especially in the early hours of the morning. It may be that fewer people use spiritual energy, so practicing at that time will be twice as effective with half the effort. The spiritual energy in Fengqiyuan is second only to Fanxiyuan. You might as well go to bed early and wake up after midnight to take medicine to heal your injuries. The effect may be better then."

He said, "I stayed at Fanxiyuan for a few days, and the eldest brother asked me to practice breathing exercises after the Chou hour, and he did the same."

Pan Yun: After all this time, it’s an open secret.

Pan Yun asked quietly, "Why don't you announce this secret to the students and let them get up and practice breathing exercises?"

Zhou Wang said: "Of course it's to let them sleep well and keep their spirits up."

He said, "For us, cultivation is important, but learning knowledge is more important. All those who enter the academy only have five years at most. Not all Taoists have a complete inheritance like your Sanqing Temple. The magic, talismans and alchemy have their own complete set of skills."

"Many Taoist temples don't have such complete knowledge. Even a set of exercises may be incomplete. Many Taoist knowledge is only partially understood, so we can only learn from the academy."

"If this matter is made public, students will think that the academy places more emphasis on cultivation and will rush to cultivate, which will inevitably lead to slacking off during daytime classes. It is better to do it as it is now. Interested students will discover this matter one day and choose whether to focus on cultivation or classes. The rest of the students who haven't discovered it just need to sleep and don't have the affinity for it."

Pan Jun: "Oh, it's fate~~"

"It's all about fate." Zhou Wangdao looked at Pan Yun's expression and asked in a low voice, "I see that Junior Sister doesn't look surprised at all. Could it be that you have already discovered it?"

Pan Jun grinned and said, "I am not talented, but I am a caring person."

Zhou Wangdao smiled and said, "No wonder Junior Sister's cultivation is so high. She put out the fire in my body in one go that day. Have you been able to cultivate your energy for a long time?"

Pan Yun said: "This is a gift from Master."

She would never tell others that she was born with a Taoist body. Anyway, don't ask. If you ask, it's all the credit of the mountain god master.

Zhou Wangdao was filled with envy and curiosity at the same time, "Junior Sister Pan, did you really see the mountain god?"

"Of course, I have the god's seal." After the temple fair, Pan Yun already knew how to get the mountain god's seal on her wrist. Seeing that Zhou Wangdao was curious, she cast a spell to make it appear so that Zhou Wangdao could see it.

Zhou Wangdao was amazed, "So this is the seal of the mountain god... How did Junior Sister become the disciple of the mountain god?"

Pan Yun sat on the steps and boasted to Zhou Wangdao. Of course, he was bragging about the version that everyone in Sanqing Mountain had agreed upon after discussion. "...I had a very hard life at that time. It was like I was soaked in bitter juice. I didn't have enough to eat, I didn't have warm clothes, I couldn't sleep well, and I didn't know when I was beaten to death by the host family."

"It's indeed hard to be a servant, but Junior Sister, you don't look like a servant at all," Zhou Wangdao hesitated for a moment and then whispered, "You look more like a master. Your spirit and aura don't look like an ordinary master."

Pan Yun said seriously, "Everyone is the master of his own spirit. I was sold, but for me, what was sold was just my labor, not my personality and spirit."

Zhou Wangdao was stunned when he heard this. After a while, he sighed and said, "Junior sister, you have such insights at such a young age. No wonder the mountain god accepted you as his disciple."

What was he doing when he was nine?
Oh, he was carrying a sword and pretending to be a chivalrous knight, wandering around the world, doing justice, becoming the leader of the martial arts world, and finally sacrificing himself for the martial arts world.

Finally, he carried the sword and beat all the other children with no rivals. Seeing that he was really undisciplined, his father sent him to his master to discipline him, hoping that he could learn some seriousness and integrity from his master.

Pan Yun: "Ah, it's just so-so. It's because I suffered so much at a young age and endured so much, so I have a lot of insights."

Zhou Wang said: "...What happened next?"

"Later? Later, my fourth sister and third brother saw my frail and miserable figure in the vast crowd. They had a keen eye and saw that I was a good candidate for learning Taoism, so they wanted to take me to practice Taoism."

Pan Yun said with tears in her eyes, "I and Fourth Senior Sister and Third Senior Brother also hit it off right away. As soon as we met, we were attracted to each other. As soon as we looked at each other, I felt that we must have met in our previous lives. Otherwise, how could our emotions fluctuate so much when we met?"

Zhou Wangdao listened with great interest and asked quickly, "What happened next?"

"Then I returned to Sanqing Mountain with Fourth Senior Sister and the others. As soon as I stepped into Sanqing Mountain, there was a radiant glow. It took me less than a quarter of an hour to walk from the foot of the mountain to the top. You have to know that I was just an eight-year-old child with no cultivation at all. As soon as I reached the top, my master, the mountain god, immediately appeared and said that I was the disciple he had been waiting for for many years."

Pan Yun waved his hand and said, "You know what happened next. I naturally became his disciple smoothly and have been practicing with my master and my fellow brothers and sisters ever since."

(End of this chapter)