Packed Full

The flow of Primordial Qi shifts into Spiritual Qi, then transforms back into Primordial Qi, the two cycling endlessly, giving rise to new life without cease.

Perhaps due to Tong Jialiang's unique constitution, even though he had never attempted such a thing before, this wisp of Primordial Qi moved through his body with remarkable smoothness right then. The conversion between Primordial Qi and Spiritual Qi faced not the slightest trace of stagnation or obstruction in his body, which had never even been cultivated to harness Primordial Qi before.

After the process continued for a while, Lin Xiao stopped to let Tong Jialiang try practicing on his own.

"Even though your cultivation level has not reached the required threshold, and the *Primordial Heart Sutra* you practice has not unlocked the ability to harness Primordial Qi yet, your special constitution lets you try wielding it ahead of schedule," Lin Xiao said.

Tong Jialiang followed the sensation he had just felt, tried a few times, and succeeded.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao was very pleased. He said to Tong Jialiang, "Primordial Qi can counter Extinction Qi. You can practice it more often in your spare time to get the hang of it, and it will do you good for your future cultivation too."

Tong Jialiang said earnestly, "Thank you so much for your trouble, Sect Master. I will work hard to practice." He was determined to cultivate diligently, striving to become useful as soon as possible when the time came to stand against the Extinction Stone Faction.

The headcount for the Cultivation World Summer Camp was finalized, and the next step was to draw up a travel plan.

But Sect Master Lin's travel plan was essentially no plan at all.

After all, a cultivation expedition meant going wherever the road took them.

There was no fixed travel plan, but expedition funds were still a necessity. Since this was a proper cultivation expedition and not a casual outing, the Finance Hall did not approve an excessive budget.

Aside from the round-trip teleportation fees, the Finance Hall only allocated a budget of one thousand spirit stones per person. With seven Qingyun Peak disciples, plus Lin Xiao and Mo Yuanjiao, that made nine people in total, amounting to nine thousand spirit stones.

The sect was not just giving this budget away for free. Except for the travel fees, every bit of the remaining nine thousand spirit stones would have to be repaid by each person in another form.

On the day the summer camp group was set to depart, people from the Finance Hall hauled over several sacks filled with storage pouches, along with a long, long list.

There were nine sacks in total, each packed to the brim with storage pouches.

And of course, every single one of those storage pouches was stuffed full to bursting with goods.

"These are the goods for the next quarter, along with the procurement lists and the allocated funds. Since so many of you are heading out this time, you can bring all these along on your way," Qin Jianghe said to the summer camp group with a wide, sunny smile.

With so many people already traveling, and the teleportation fees already having to be spent anyway, it only made sense to have them help the Finance Hall deliver this quarter's batch of goods. That way, the Finance Hall would not have to waste extra spirit stones sending a separate team to make the delivery to the Cultivation World.

"Oh, right," he added, pulling out a stack of lists much thinner than the previous procurement list and handing it to the nine people. "This is your personal task list. Most of the items on it are marked with the regions where they can be found. Please help collect them whenever you can. This counts as one part of your expedition tasks."

Lin Xiao looked at the list in his hand, which was clearly different from everyone else's. "Why is mine not the same as theirs?" he asked.

Qin Jianghe smiled cheerfully at him. "Brother Xiao, you're already at the Nascent Soul stage. The materials you're capable of collecting are naturally far more valuable. The capable do more work, after all."

Lin Xiao: Fair enough.

The lists in the hands of the Qingyun Peak disciples mostly contained entries for various spirit plants and ores. These were items that were not too difficult for Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stage cultivators to collect, but for one reason or another, were generally not very abundant on the open market.

Some of those items were not particularly high in value in the Cultivation World, but since every department of the Lingxian Sect was full of relentless, curious researchers, many of these ordinary items had been developed to have research uses that no one in the Cultivation World had ever discovered before.

The lists given to Lin Xiao and Mo Yuanjiao were also tailored to match their respective cultivation levels.

After the Finance Hall finished assigning their tasks, the General Affairs Hall stepped up next.

Liu Yunan walked to the front of the group and pulled a stack of pamphlets out of his lock ring.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao and the others immediately had a bad feeling. Could it be that the General Affairs Hall was also going to make them run procurement errands?

Liu Yunan had no idea what they were thinking. He handed one pamphlet to each of the nine members of the summer camp group. "This is the activity manual for this summer camp. It contains all sorts of safety notes, emergency contact methods, and life-saving measures for crisis situations. You all must read it carefully and keep it close on your person at all times."

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out not to be another task assignment.

Lin Xiao had no idea when Liu Yunan had put this manual together. He picked it up curiously, flipping it back and forth to look it over, then obediently tucked the manual safely into his lock ring, planning to go through it when everyone had a chance to rest after arriving in the Cultivation World.

Right after that, everyone watched Liu Yunan pull out nine more storage pouches.

"Inside these are samples of all sorts of farming tools we have produced recently. There are only a few dozen of each type. When you are in the Cultivation World, try to promote them to the mortals there, and help expand the business of our factories in Xiushui City," he said, handing one storage pouch to each person.

Liu Yunan often went to Qingyun Peak to visit his grandmother with his mother in his free time, and he had heard his grandmother talk about life in the Cultivation World every now and then. It had struck him that there were a huge number of mortals living there too. Most of those mortals relied on cultivators for survival, doing all sorts of odd jobs for them, and the cultivators rarely paid them much mind, let alone went out of their way to make properly fitted tools and supplies for them.

That was when a brilliant idea struck him. This was perfectly aligned with what their sect specialized in! They were already doing dedicated research and production of exactly these sorts of practical goods!

Since the summer camp group was already heading out on their cultivation expedition, having them bring along the samples to help promote the products at appropriate times would let their goods gain popularity in both the Mortal Realm and the Cultivation World!

Just like that, the nine-person summer camp group passively accepted the storage pouches stuffed full of samples.

Great, that was one more expedition task added to their list.

They thought that was the end of it, but then they watched Liu Yunan, the head of the General Affairs Hall, pull out another stack of jade slips from his lock ring.

"You nine are the only ones who get to participate in our sect's very first summer camp. It wouldn't be right to let the other disciples just sit around in the sect with no way to share the experience. These are recording jade slips. You can use them in your spare time along the way to jot down everything you see and hear on your journey, or your own cultivation expedition insights. Think of it as keeping a travel diary. When you get back, our sect's monthly publication will publish the content you recorded, so that all the other disciples and sect members can follow along with your diary and experience a trip through the Cultivation World vicariously," Liu Yunan explained.

Not just the Qingyun Peak disciples, even Lin Xiao and Mo Yuanjiao each got their own jade slip for their diary.

The nine summer camp members accepted their travel diary jade slips, and that was yet another new expedition task added to their list.

Just then, Jiang Youfu hurried over, hugging a whole pile of storage pouches.

Lin Xiao looked at him with a wary expression. "Fuzi, you wouldn't have come here to assign us more tasks too, would you?"

Jiang Youfu blinked in confusion. "Assign tasks? I'm here to bring you guys travel rations!"