Chapter 29: Lu Li: Without me, Senluo Mountain would collapse
"Haha, then junior brother, you have to try it. The chefs at our Pojunfeng canteen are all good at it."
Shi Kui couldn't help but smile proudly after hearing Lu Li's words.
It seemed that he had experienced this many times with disciples from other peaks coming to eat.
"Even senior brother recommends it so highly. I'm really looking forward to that junior brother."
Lu Li couldn't help but smile when he heard this.
"Okay, junior brother, please take out your identity badge and I'll take a look at it before you go up."
Shi Kui said.
"Then senior brother, you have to remember junior brother. Maybe I will come to eat for you tomorrow."
Lu Li smiled and took out his identity badge, paving the way for him to have a meal tomorrow.
His status and waistband are not special compared with others.
They are both black sword orders.
"Okay, junior brother, let's go up the mountain first. It's almost time for dinner."
Shi Kui glanced at Lu Li's belt and then moved out of the way.
"Goodbye, senior brother."
After Lu Li said goodbye to Shi Kui, he quickly ran towards the top of Pojun Peak.
I didn't see anyone else along the way.
When Lu Li touched the Pojunfeng dining hall, he couldn't help but be stunned.
The whole dining hall is full of big men!
The human voice is extremely noisy.
Lu Li even once mistakenly thought he saw the student cafeteria where he studied in his previous life.
"Junior brother, did you come here specially to eat at Pojun Peak? Go grab it quickly and don't pretend to be reserved, otherwise, they will all be robbed by their group of cultivators later."
A fellow cook had obviously finished his meal and was wiping his mouth gracefully before leaving. When he saw Lu Li standing at the door, he guessed his identity and reminded him kindly.
"Oh, thank you, senior brother."
Lu Li saluted the man, then quickly rushed into the dining hall and joined the huge army of people cooking the meal.
I have to say that Pojunfeng’s dining hall is well-known for its quality and is indeed powerful.
Lu Li was immersed in his meal when he was suddenly attracted by the chatter of several physical cultivators at the next table. He couldn't help but prick up his ears and listen.
These senior brothers seemed to talk to each other and discuss merit points. The merit points given were too little.
Lu Li even heard a senior brother say that he had accepted a mission to cut down iron wood. After working hard for several days, he only received two points of merit.
Even this is still a lot. His friend accepted a task to help his junior sister build a stone house. After working for more than half a month, he only received ten points of merit.
His friend wanted to argue with his junior sister, but the junior sister said that what she had given him was too much.
This situation seemed to be quite different from what Lu Li learned about the situation in the Hall of Merit from Kong Chen.
According to Kong Chen, merit should not be difficult to earn.
After a while, Lu Li saw that everyone seemed to have finished chatting, and curiously spoke:
"Hello fellow seniors, I just overheard the exchange between the senior brothers and I am a little confused. Do all the merits in the Hall of Merit have such a low price?"
"Junior brother is a newbie, right?"
After hearing Lu Li's question, Weishou Tixiu deduced Lu Li's identity and explained:
"Actually, the tasks assigned by the sects and some elders in the Merit Hall are quite high in terms of merit. What we were talking about earlier were entrusted tasks between our disciples."
"Commissioned tasks? Do the tasks in the Hall of Merit still have levels?"
Lu Li was a little confused when he heard the new term.
"Junior brother, have you never been to Merit Peak?"
The man was a little surprised to see that Lu Li was at the peak of Qi refining but didn't know what a commissioned task was.
Logically speaking, people with cultivation levels like Lu Li worshiped in Senluo Mountain in order to build their foundation.
If you want to redeem the foundation-building skills, you must go to the Merit Hall on the Merit Peak to accept tasks and earn merit points.
"Senior brother, you have good eyesight. I actually just joined Senluo Mountain a few days ago. I have been consolidating my cultivation recently, so I haven't had time to go to Merit Peak yet."
Lu Li cupped his fists.
"I see. Junior brother, you may not know that the tasks in the Hall of Merit are actually divided into two types: sect tasks and entrusted tasks.
Among them, as long as you are a disciple of Senluo Mountain, you must complete three sect tasks every ten years, otherwise the resources you will enjoy in the next ten years will be halved.
At the same time, there are not many sect missions released, and priority will be given to those disciples who need to complete mandatory missions, so it is not easy to grab them.
Entrusted tasks are tasks issued by sect elders and disciples through the Hall of Merit. In such tasks, the merit points all depend on the person who issued the task. At the same time, this is also the main way for our disciples to earn merit points."
Meng Xiu opened his mouth to explain.
"Then what happened to the low merit points for commissioned tasks that you said earlier, senior fellow apprentices?"
Lu Li nodded after hearing this and asked again.
After hearing Lu Li's words, Meng Xiu and the others at the table looked at each other and sighed in unison.
Seems shy to speak.
"Speaking of which, we brought this upon ourselves." Meng Xiu hesitated for a moment and then said.
"In the past few years, the missions of Pojun Peak were actually the same as those of other peaks, and the merit points were considered normal.
But then, I don’t know what happened, but several senior brothers suddenly united and claimed to voluntarily reduce the merit points they received in order to seize the mission.
Naturally, the client would not be stupid enough to spend too many merit points, so he also entrusted the task to those senior brothers.
So over time, we began to lower prices ourselves and compete with each other for tasks.
As a result, there was so much scrambling that it turned into what it is now. Originally, a mission usually cost around five meritorious deeds, but now a mission only has two meritorious deeds..."
After listening to Meng Xiu's words, Lu Li asked thoughtfully: "What about those senior brothers who volunteered to reduce their merit points to seize the mission?"
"Oh, stop talking."
Before Meng Xiu could speak, a muscular man beside him sighed.
"Those senior brothers later were unwilling to exchange their merits for resources because their merits for the mission were too low. As a result, they accepted the sect's mission and went out to slay demons as a team. Unfortunately, they were killed by the monster group. This news was later discovered by an elder.
Those people hadn't returned for a long time, so they went to investigate and found out."
"Then are there only a few senior brothers who are currently suffering from low merit points in missions, or are all our senior brothers in Pojun Peak suffering from this?"
In order to verify his idea, Lu Li asked.
"Of course the entire Pojun Peak disciples are suffering from it."
The muscular man next to Meng Xiu shook his head and said, "Junior brother, you are a newbie and you don't know. The disciples of other peaks have always spread rumors that the current disciples of our Pojun Peak may not even have a hundred points of merit for ten of them. Let's not talk about others.
I’m afraid that the total merits of the senior brothers on our table really don’t add up to fifty meritorious deeds.”
As he said this, the muscular man's eyes were filled with tears.
"I'm not afraid of your jokes, junior brother. I haven't been willing to buy an Iron Bone Pill with twenty meritorious deeds for almost half a year. I've almost forgotten what the Iron Bone Pill feels like..."
"To put it bluntly, we were blindly competing for the mission back then, fearing that those senior brothers would take away all the mission. This resulted in this situation and made us a joke in the eyes of others."
Meng Xiu shook his head.
"Then I wonder if a few senior brothers want to return the merit points of the mission to what they were before?"
Lu Li looked at everyone and suddenly asked.
After the conversation just now, he has initially figured out the current situation of Pojun Peak.
Obviously, this is a situation of excessive involution, leading to a collective downturn in the entire industry.
Those senior brothers who maliciously lowered prices to seize tasks were short-sighted and only saw temporary benefits, but did not expect the consequences later.
As a result, in the future, even I had to do tasks desperately to earn merits in order to maintain my practice. I even had to take on the more dangerous tasks of the sect, which resulted in the death of my body and Taoism.
And everyone behind was trying to get the job at a lower price, but it was actually because they all lost their sense of proportion.
In addition, all the senior brothers at Pojun Peak are also physical practitioners, and maybe their brains are really not very bright, so no one thought about the consequences.
As a result, the vicious cycle has become what it is now.
Even in Lu Li's opinion, it's not the worst situation yet.
It should be noted that meritorious deeds represent resources in Senluo Mountain.
Therefore, all disciples of Po Jun Peak must accept tasks to earn merit in exchange for resources for training.
And physical education is a big consumer of resources.
So when the worst happens, someone will definitely think of forming a group to squeeze out others who don't join the group.
Use various methods to prevent those who do not sign up for the mission from receiving the mission.
Because this is the easiest way.
When the mission merit points are extremely low, how can I earn more merit points?
It's very simple, just make it impossible for others to receive the task.
From Lu Li's point of view, the entire Pojun Peak might fall into conflicts among the disciples.
On a larger scale, even Senluoshan will fall apart due to this strange vicious involution.
Thinking of this, Lu Li felt excited.
Obviously, without him, Senluoshan would collapse.
"Master, please watch carefully. My disciple is really worried about Senluoshan..."
When I think about it, Sikong Xuan and others will look at me with admiration in the future.
When Wu Tian first thanked him for saving Senluoshan, and then offered the debt with both hands and begged him to accept it, Lu Li couldn't help but smile.