Overhauling the Cloud Mist Sect! Chu Yang’s Grand Move!

"Dou Spirit Pill? Imperial Extremity Pill?!"

Fa Ma wondered if he had misheard, but after examining the pills in the bottle, he began to wonder if he was dreaming.

One month—from a complete novice to a Rank 6 Alchemist?

That was utterly ridiculous!

This could not even be measured by terms like genius or monster. Even if the Pill Emperor were alive, he could not possibly be this outrageous, right?

And judging by Chu Yang’s words, this seemed to be under the constraints of limited medicinal ingredients and pill formulas. Otherwise, he could have improved even further?

"Y-your Excellency’s talent is simply unheard of…"

Fa Ma took a deep breath and said, "I will find the Sect Breaking Pill formula as soon as possible, but I would not dare trouble Your Excellency with pill refinement. That pill cauldron is merely decoration in the Alchemist Guild. It would be better put to proper use in Your Excellency’s hands."

Chu Yang thought for a moment, then nodded. "Then I will not stand on ceremony. The Sect Breaking Pill holds no practical value for you. If President Fa Ma refines pills here, perhaps I can offer some advice."

Fa Ma’s eyes lit up. He understood that Chu Yang intended to guide him, and he immediately nodded with wild delight.

Without another word, he sat cross-legged on the floor, took out his pill cauldron, and began heating it.

Half an hour later, rich medicinal fragrance filled the Alchemist Guild hall, and a round pill shot out from the cauldron.

Fa Ma caught the pill and held it tremblingly before his eyes, tears streaming down his aged face. "Success! Rank 6!"

"Hahaha… I, Fa Ma, have finally broken through to Rank 6!"

After calming down somewhat, he turned to Chu Yang and gave a deep bow. "I will never forget Your Excellency’s guidance. Should you ever have need of me, I will brave fire and water without hesitation!"

Chu Yang waved a hand and said with a smile, "As I said, consider it payment for purchasing that pill cauldron."

With that, he raised a hand and tore open the space before him, stepping inside.

Misty Cloud Mountain, summit.

Chu Yang stood in the Sect Leader’s main hall, Pangu’s voice continuously echoing by his ears.

As he traveled through space, Pangu was also constantly analyzing the spatial structure of the Douqi Continent.

Over the past month, the Pangu Calculation Cluster had been completed. Pangu had also successfully upgraded into a Celestial Computer on the same level as the Big Clock, its computational power now vastly beyond what it had once been.

After a long while, the voice by his ear finally stopped, and Chu Yang smiled helplessly.

Even Pangu in its current state could not fully analyze the spatial structure of the Douqi Continent.

However, with Pangu’s preliminary understanding of spatial structure, combined with Chu Yang’s control over space after breaking through to the Dou Zun realm, he could now achieve something close to wormhole transport.

Ordinary Dou Zun experts could only tear open space and cross a certain distance through it.

But with Pangu’s assistance, Chu Yang could reach any location on the continent within a short time. He could also instantly transport a particular object or person through space.

Not even Dou Sheng experts could accomplish that!

After all, traveling through space required a process. Only Chu Yang could use Pangu’s algorithms to shorten that process infinitely.

It was worth mentioning that Chu Yang possessed an advantage in pill refinement that no one else had, and that advantage also came from Pangu.

By recording the pill-refining process as data and using data support, Pangu had raised Chu Yang’s pill-refining success rate to one hundred percent.

No matter how gifted or experienced an alchemist was, there would inevitably be a certain failure rate when refining high-grade pills.

But for Chu Yang, as long as he had successfully refined a pill once, there was no possibility of failure when refining it again!

The greatest benefit of this was the saving of medicinal ingredients.

It was no exaggeration to say that Chu Yang now possessed the key to wealth on the Douqi Continent. If he wished, it would not take long for him to become the richest person on the entire continent.

The value of a single pill far exceeded the value of the medicinal ingredients needed to refine it. Chu Yang merely needed to continuously refine pills and sell them to amass wealth at a terrifying rate.

Just then, a surprised voice suddenly rang out.

"Chu Yang? When did you return?"

Chu Yang turned around and looked at Yun Yun at the entrance of the hall. Smiling, he said, "I just got back. How has the sect been doing lately?"

He could clearly see that compared to a month ago, Yun Yun was in much better spirits. The sorrow between her brows had disappeared, and she was no longer as thin as before.

"When Yan Ran returned, she brought back all the resources the Flame Alliance had provided this year. The sect’s situation has stabilized."

Yun Yun said softly, "But there is still one problem. We lack people among the elders. Guiding so many disciples in their cultivation by myself is truly more than I can handle."

Chu Yang frowned. "Cultivation mainly depends on oneself. Why should people seek guidance at every turn?"

"You can implement a system of rewards and punishments in the sect. Set a standard. Any disciple who meets it can obtain a certain amount of additional resources."

"Then set a lower limit. Anyone who falls below it will be punished, or even expelled from the sect."

Yun Yun gave a bitter smile. "That is indeed a workable approach, but how should the standards be set?"

"What if some disciples truly fall below the lower limit and I expel them from the sect? Wouldn’t that only make the sect’s situation worse?"

Chu Yang fell silent. From Yun Yun’s perspective, her concerns were certainly understandable, but she was being overly restrained.

The resources provided by the Flame Alliance could resolve their immediate crisis and support the daily cultivation of all Cloud Mist Sect disciples.

But if they established an additional reward-and-punishment system, those resources might once again become insufficient.

There was another key problem: the Cloud Mist Sect simply had too few disciples now…

After the great calamity that had struck the Cloud Mist Sect, none of the surviving disciples had left the sect. They all hoped that Chu Yang, a Dou Zun expert, would take notice of them and accept them as disciples.

Even if that did not happen, a little guidance from him would still benefit them immensely.

But when they discovered that Chu Yang was elusive and impossible to find—let alone receive guidance from, they could not even see him—some disciples secretly descended the mountain due to the lack of cultivation resources.

Descending the mountain meant leaving the sect.

Only now had the situation finally begun to improve, but the number of disciples had dwindled to only a few hundred, nowhere near what it had been before.

Chu Yang pondered for a moment before saying, "How about this? Gather all the disciples in the square. I will make the arrangements."

Yun Yun hesitated briefly, but still nodded.

Although she was the Sect Leader of the Cloud Mist Sect, when it came to matters concerning the sect’s future, she followed Chu Yang’s lead.

After all, this was a world where strength reigned supreme. Moreover, it was precisely because of Chu Yang that the Cloud Mist Sect had not declined completely.

A quarter of an hour later, at the summit square.

Chu Yang stood atop the platform, with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran standing to his left and right.

The three of them were now the strongest three people in the Cloud Mist Sect.

The gazes of the several hundred disciples in the square were all fixed on Chu Yang, their eyes filled with reverence and fanaticism.

A Dou Zun expert!

In the past, they would not even have dared imagine that they would see a Dou Zun expert with their own eyes in their lifetime.

More importantly, this Dou Zun expert was so young and belonged to the same sect as them. It felt like a dream.

Chu Yang swept his gaze across the crowd, then said loudly, "I assume everyone already knows about the sect’s new rules."

"I will now give you a choice. If you remain in the sect, it means severing ties with your families and relatives behind you."

"At least within the Jia Ma Empire, you will be unable to meet."

For the Cloud Mist Sect’s disciples, this was indeed troublesome. They could not travel within territory ruled by the Flame Alliance.

Thus, if they wished to meet their relatives now, they could only go somewhere beyond the Jia Ma Empire.

Chu Yang continued, "I will establish entirely new sect rules. If you choose to remain, you must accept their restrictions."

"I will give you only ten breaths of time. Whether you leave or stay is entirely up to you. Even if you leave, I will never make things difficult for you."

A stir passed through the crowd, but not a single person chose to leave.

The resources sent by the Flame Alliance had resolved the Cloud Mist Sect’s "economic crisis," and all of it was because of Chu Yang.

In the eyes of the Cloud Mist Sect disciples, Chu Yang, who had previously ignored sect affairs, had finally taken action personally.

This would be an opportunity for the Cloud Mist Sect, as well as an opportunity for them to change their fates.

Seeing that no one withdrew, Chu Yang lightly waved his hand. More than a hundred jade slips appeared and arranged themselves neatly in the air.

At the same time, a pyramid chart was projected above the square. It had four levels, each marked with several large words.

At this sight, not only were the disciples confused, even Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran had no idea what was going on.

Chu Yang pointed at the pyramid chart and said, "Setting aside the Sect Leader, this will be the future structure of the Cloud Mist Sect."

"The first level is outer disciples. The sect will establish an entry examination. Anyone who passes it can become an outer disciple."

"Every outer disciple may obtain one low-grade Profound Rank cultivation method and select one Profound Rank Dou skill. Yellow Rank Dou skills may be chosen freely."

The moment he said this, the entire square erupted.

Profound Rank cultivation methods! In the former Cloud Mist Sect, only outstanding disciples were qualified to cultivate them!

After all, the best cultivation methods and Dou skills in the Cloud Mist Sect had only been high-grade Profound Rank.

Yun Yun opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she chose to let Chu Yang make the arrangements.

After a moment, Chu Yang continued, "The second level is inner disciples. They may cultivate high-grade Profound Rank cultivation methods and select three Profound Rank Dou skills."

"The third level is core disciples. They may cultivate low-grade Earth Rank cultivation methods and one Earth Rank Dou skill."

"At the same time, disciples at every level will be assessed monthly. Once they fail to meet the assessment standard, their status will be downgraded, and the sect will seal their memories related to the cultivation methods and Dou skills."

This time, everyone was stunned. Yun Yun was utterly shocked, feeling that this was simply unbelievable.

Sealing memories?

She had never heard that reaching the Dou Zun realm granted such methods!

Chu Yang smiled. "Do not worry. This will not cause any harm to your bodies or souls, nor will there be any hidden dangers. Once your status rises again, the memories will be unsealed."

"But if you fail the outer disciple assessment three times in a row, you will be expelled from the sect, and all memories related to the sect’s cultivation methods and Dou skills will be sealed!"

"Every year, the sect will hold a competition for core disciples. First place will receive an additional Earth Rank Dou skill and pill rewards."

Chu Yang paused before continuing, "Now let me speak about cultivation resources…"

"Outer disciples may receive three Rank 2 Qi Gathering Pills each month. Inner disciples may receive three Rank 3 Qi Gathering Pills each month. Core disciples may receive three Rank 5 Qi Gathering Pills each month."

"Once your cultivation breaks through to the Dou Wang realm, you will leave the disciple ranks and join the Steward Hall. You may accept sect missions and receive rewards upon completing them."

"Missions include, but are not limited to, refining pills and going out to acquire resources…"

"Of course, the places where missions are carried out will not be within territory ruled by the Flame Alliance."

"If any disciples become alchemists, they may join the Medicine Hall and claim medicinal ingredients according to their rank. There will be plenty!"

After saying that, Chu Yang waved his hand and dispersed the pyramid chart, dividing the hundred-plus jade slips into three piles atop the platform.

Pointing at the largest pile, he said, "These are Profound Rank Dou skills and cultivation methods."

Then he pointed at the other two piles. "These are Earth Rank cultivation methods and Dou skills, and Heaven Rank cultivation methods and Dou skills."

"Other than those who make special contributions to the sect, stewards may only obtain resources by completing missions. Resources include pills, cultivation methods, Dou skills, and certain special rewards."

"After completing three missions in total, you may claim one Dou Spirit Pill."

"After breaking through to the Dou Huang realm, stewards may take the elder assessment and become outer elders. They may cultivate high-grade Earth Rank Dou skills and accept elder-level missions."

"Once a disciple breaks through to the Dou Zong realm, they will directly become an inner elder and may cultivate one low-grade Heaven Rank cultivation method."

"The assessment for core elders is open to everyone, but it is extremely difficult. Dou Zun experts can pass it easily, but Dou Zong experts may face mortal danger. Consider carefully for yourselves."

"Core elders may freely select one cultivation method from the sect’s collection, as well as one Heaven Rank Dou skill."

"Only one disciple from each generation may freely descend the mountain and travel wherever they please—the foremost disciple of that generation!"

Chu Yang turned to Yun Yun and said with a smile, "Sect Leader, put away these cultivation methods and Dou skills for now!"

Yun Yun blankly collected all the jade slips. Even after Chu Yang left, the square remained deathly silent. No one had recovered from the shock.

Because what Chu Yang had just said was simply too outrageous!

In the past, even powerful Dou Ling experts could serve as elders of the Cloud Mist Sect. Yet now, Chu Yang had directly set the threshold at the Dou Huang realm!

And…

The core elder assessment required the Dou Zun realm to pass steadily!

Was this a joke?

The Sect Leader was only at the Dou Huang realm!

Just then, Chu Yang’s voice drifted over from the Back Mountain once more.

"I forgot to mention that I am now a Rank 7 Alchemist, so there is no need to worry about pills!"

It was like a stone thrown into a thousand waves!

A Rank 7 Alchemist—forget the Jia Ma Empire, there were only a few to be found even across the entire Northwest Region!

And when they recalled the jade slips Chu Yang had just taken out, there seemed to be more than a dozen classified as Heaven Rank!

All the disciples finally came back to their senses. No matter how unbelievable it seemed, they had to admit…

Before such terrifying temptation, everyone would cultivate with all their might.

The Cloud Mist Sect would rise with unstoppable momentum!