The pavilion master conference most likely wasn’t anything good, but of course he wouldn’t be absent. When they do see each other at the conference, he would likely clash with Lu Xiao.
Chapter 825 Newcomer Ceremony
The Wind Pavilion was undoubtedly shrouded in a festive atmosphere the past few days. After all, the position of wind pavilion master had been left vacant for years, resulting in the Wind Pavilion becoming like a tray of loose sand. Without the commandership of a pavilion master, the Wind Pavilion ranked last in status among all four pavilions.
The other three pavilions, especially the Fire Pavilion and Mountain Pavilion, were constantly stealing young talents from the Wind Pavilion, which was the main reason why the Wind Pavilion was growing weaker over the years.
And now, there was finally a new pavilion master, and his strength was quite extraordinary. This was obviously a great thing for the Wind Pavilion.
As for the groups that had originally supported Chen Beifeng, they began to quickly break up, including pavilion commander Jin Teng, who previously followed Chen Beifeng’s command. At this moment they were in a very awkward situation, so they wisely stayed quiet and didn’t dare to create trouble.
They all understand that from then on, the Wind Pavilion would belong to Zhou Yuan. And even if Chen Beifeng recovered from his severe injuries, he would most likely also be suppressed. Perhaps he couldn’t even protect his position of deputy pavilion master. If Chen Beifeng was in such a situation, what about them?
Jin Teng and the rest prayed that Zhou Yuan would forget about them, so how could they dare to create trouble?
The center of Wind Island, Mirror Lake.
On the small island in the middle of Mirror Lake, there were two tall towers, one of which was a general affairs building for members of the Wind Pavilion to take up tasks and receive their salary. The other was the pavilion master tower, but this building had been vacant for several years, and was only now opened again after Zhou Yuan was promoted to pavilion master.
The pavilion master tower had been carefully cleaned during these two days, and Zhou Yuan had moved in from his small building.
In the courtyard on the roof of the building, Zhou Yuan stood with his hands clasped behind his back. He surveyed the area. Around the clear and glistening lake were a number of training grounds. At this moment, there were many Wind Pavilion members doing their daily routines, practicing and learning from each other.
After a moment, he retracted his gaze and glanced at the outside of the pavilion master building, where there was someone lingering around.
“That man is called Li Jian, right? Is he looking for you?” Zhou Yuan turned his head and glanced at Ye Bingling who was next to him.
“You don’t need to care about an ungrateful wolf like him. He now wants to turn his back on Chen Beifeng and come back.” Ye Bingling sneered coldly.
When Chen Beifeng had tried to attack them using the Mark Capturer Rune, Li Jian was the first to join his side. If other people had done this, Ye Bingling would have understood; but she was the one who had helped Li Jian get promoted to pavilion commander, and he had still betrayed her in the end, which undoubtedly angered her.
Seeing this, Zhou Yuan casually said to Yi Qiushui next to him, “Then find a chance to remove him from the pavilion commander position.”
In the Wind Pavilion, his words decided everything. Even if he wanted to deal with a pavilion commander, he didn’t need anyone’s consent.
Yi Qiushui nodded. Zhou Yuan seemed to be the pavilion master of the Wind Pavilion, but in truth she was the one who dealt with the numerous affairs. She originally thought that she had gone beyond her authority, so she tried to report everything to Zhou Yuan to let him make a decision.
But Zhou Yuan only tried for half a day and then refused again and again because he found that, compared to these trivial matters, he would rather go find someone to fight.
Back when he was a deputy pavilion master, he didn’t have so many things to pay attention to, but now he realised that controlling a pavilion didn’t seem to be as pleasant as he had expected.
After seeing Zhou Yuan’s resistance to these matters, Yi Qiushui had no choice but to let him become an off-hand manager.
When Xiao Hong, Lu Mingyue and the other pavilion commanders saw Zhou Yuan remove a pavilion commander at will, they couldn’t help but let emotions of reverence rise in their hearts.
“Qiushui, you really are a treasure,” Zhou Yuan couldn’t help but compliment Yi Qiushui for taking care of the many matters of the Wind Pavilion in an orderly manner. Without Yi Qiushui, it was unknown what a sorry state he would end up in.
Yi Qiushui darted an angry look at him. But although the affairs of the Wind Pavilion were a bit cumbersome, it wasn’t a big deal to her. She had secretly controlled Xiaoxuan Prefecture before, so she could easily handle these affairs.
“I can help you with these little things, but for the four pavilions conference tomorrow, you have to attend it yourself,” she said.
Zhou Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly when the four pavilion conference was mentioned. “I feel that it’s not anything good. “Do you know what the four pavilion conference is for?”
Ye Bingling pondered for a moment and said, “I think it has something to do with the next newcomer ceremony.”
“Newcomer ceremony?” Zhou Yuan blinked.
Seeing Zhou Yuan’s puzzled look, Yi Qiushui couldn’t help but clutch her head and grit her teeth. “Didn’t I collect all the information yesterday and put it on your desk? Didn’t you read it?”
Zhou Yuan awkwardly chuckled and yawned towards the sky.
Yi Qiushui didn’t have the energy to criticise the irresponsibility of the pavilion master anymore. She explained, “Every year, new heaven prides from various areas will come to Tianyuan Utopia. They will come to the four pavilions after being reviewed. This is the newcomer ceremony.
“The newcomer ceremony is extremely important to the four pavilions, because it represents fresh blood, and there are also some good seedlings among them. If you can take them in, they will greatly enhance the strength of the Wind Pavilion.
“So the four pavilions will always compete for a share at every newcomer ceremony.
“But not the wind pavilion.”
“What do you mean?”
“Previously, according to the rules, each of the four pavilions had a share of 25%, which couldn’t be exceeded. However, since the Wind Pavilion didn’t have a pavilion master, it naturally wasn’t eligible to participate in the pavilion master conference. In the end, Lu Xiao and Han Yuan swallowed the Wind Pavilion’s share of newcomers,” Ye Qiushui explained.
Zhou Yuan frowned. “How much have they swallowed?”
“Almost all,” Ye Bingling answered, her face a little troubled. “In the annual newcomer ceremony, the Fire Pavilion and the Mountain Pavilion were always the fastest to grab people. In the end, some unattractive talents were thrown to the Wind Pavilion’s side. So in the past two years, our foundation has gotten worse and worse.”
The corners of Zhou Yuan’s mouth twitched. Lu Xiao and Han Yuan’s manners were too ugly.
Zhou Yuan thought for a moment and then said calmly, “I can’t manage how they were in the past, but now that I am the pavilion master, they have to return everything that belongs to us.
“I don’t take advantage of anyone, so no one can take advantage of me.”
He had now become the Wind Pavilion’s pavilion master, so this was his territory. Even if they were only Divine Dwelling stage experts, in the future, someone amongst them might occupy a high position in the Tianyun Region. He naturally had to defend his share.
Yi Qiushui and Ye Bingling exchanged a glance. If this was the case, the pavilion master conference the next day would be a huge event.
“There’s one more problem.”
Yi Qiushui bit her red lips lightly and said, “Even if we get back our share, I’m worried that there is still no
way to win against the Fire Pavilion and Mountain Pavilion in the newcomer ceremony. Nine out of ten of the outstanding talents will choose them. As a result, we can only get the newcomers they don’t want.”
“Why?” Zhou Yuan asked.
Ye Bingling sighed helplessly and said in a heavy voice: “Because of salary.”
Chapter 826 The Richest
“Salary?”
On the roof of the pavilion master building, Zhou Yuan looked at Ye Bingling with a ruminative expression and asked, “The Fire Pavilion’s salary is much better?”
“The ordinary members of our Wind Pavilion receive twenty origin coins a month, but do you know how much the Fire Pavilion gives? Forty!
“There they receive twenty more every month, and two hundred in a year. That’s not a small number.
“The reason those heaven prides come to the four pavilions is for the four ancient Genesis runes of the Four Spirits Origin Tower, and the number of origin coins they have will determine their final achievements. So it’s useless to talk to them with words; it is most direct to use origin coins!
“But the Fire Pavilion can be so generous because they have the earnings from the Mark Capturing Rune. Only those huge profits can support the Fire Pavilion’s huge expenditure!
“But given our Wind Pavilion’s foundation, if we do the same we will collapse in a few days,” Ye Bingling said in a solemn voice.
At the end of the day, poverty affects ambition.
Yi Qiushui also nodded. “Every year, some resources are allocated to the four pavilions, but they are fixed. So if you want more, each pavilion has to figure out a solution themselves.
“And the Fire Pavilion’s way is the Mark Capturing Rune.”
Zhou Yuan tapped the railings gently with his fingers and said, “The income made from selling Mark Capturing Runes is all provided to the Fire Pavilion?”
Ye Bingling shook her head, “Sixty percent of the earnings from the Mark Capturing Rune is provided to the Fire Pavilion, and of the remaining 40%, Lu Xiao and Zhu Lian each have 20%.”
Zhou Yuan estimated that 20% was a very large number and completely sufficient for the cultivation training of someone of Lu Xiao’s level. Since the Mark Capturing Runes could be sold to all four pavilions, its earnings were naturally higher than the Mother Wind Runes.
According to his calculations, 10% each year was still no less than tens of thousands of origin coins, and 20% was hundreds of thousands or more.
Since 60% was given to the Fire Pavilion, it was no wonder that the Fire Pavilion was so rich and arrogant.
“I didn’t expect Lu Xiao and the others to be so selfless,” Zhao Yuan said mockingly.
“I heard from Grandpa that someone of the Heavenly Spirit Sect helped them create the Mark Capturing Rune, so Lu Xiao and Zhu Lian don’t dare to take all the credit,” Yi Qiushui whispered.
Zhou Yuan nodded and said after pondering, “From today on, I will only take 20% from the sales of the Mother Wind Rune, and 70% will be directly provided to the Wind Pavilion. The remaining 10% will be allocated to the deputy pavilion master, pavilion commanders and deputy pavilion commanders according to ranking.”
Everybody responded with stunned disbelief.
Yi Qiushui hurriedly persuaded, “Zhou Yuan, you don’t have to do this. You are the one who created the Mother Wind Rune, and you should take credit for it.”
The reason that Lu Xiao and Zhu Lian had split the profits was because the Heavenly Spirit Sect had tasked them with strengthening the Fire Pavilion. Zhou Yuan didn’t have such worries, so there was no need for him to do so.
Zhou Yuan smiled. “What use is there for me to hold so many origin coins? Those things are nothing when I leave the four pavilions.”
Yi Qiushui shook her head and said in a serious tone, “That’s not true. When you leave the four pavilions, you can exchange the origin coins for many good things.”
“Can they be exchanged for a little saint art?” Zhou Yuan said casually.
But he didn’t expect Yi Qiushui to nod. “You can exchange for one with 800,000 origin coins.”
Zhou Yuan was immediately frozen in disbelief. “Can I really exchange for one? With 800,000 origin coins?”
Eight hundred thousand seemed to be a terrifying number, but from the sales of the Mother Wind Runes, the amount accumulated in three years’ time wasn’t small at all. After all, from selling Mother Wind Runes, Zhou Yuan almost earned one thousand origin coins every day.
Ye Bingling couldn’t help laughing, “Is your heart aching now?”
Zhou Yuan was somewhat annoyed, but he immediately sighed, “Forget it, I’m not a stingy person. Do I really plan to save up for three years to exchange for a little saint art? Instead, isn’t it better to win the chief pavilion master position?
“Just follow what I said earlier.”
In truth, Zhou Yuan already had this plan in mind when he won the position of pavilion master. After all, if he were to take all the earnings made from the sales of the Mother Wind Runes, the others couldn’t blame him or say anything, but it would become an obstacle to him winning the hearts of the people of the Wind Pavilion.
And in Zhou Yuan’s view, it was enough to have sufficient origin coins for cultivation. If he could use the excess to completely control the Wind Pavilion’s heart, it would still be worthwhile.
Seeing that Zhou Yuan finally made a decision, even Ye Bingling looked at Zhou Yuan in a daze this time.
That’s up to one million origin coins!
He was just giving it away like that?
Seeing this kind of boldness, even Ye Bingling, who had always been cold and arrogant, couldn’t help but admire him a little.
As for Xiao Hong and the other pavilion commanders with him, they were already flushing with excitement and couldn’t help but exclaim, “Our pavilion master is so generous!”
They were well aware of how much benefit Zhou Yuan had given them. At this very moment, they really had deep respect for Zhou Yuan. After all, not everybody would be willing to share these benefits to the people below them.
“If you make this decision, the Wind Pavilion will most likely erupt in excitement,” Yi Qiushui said.
This was equal to everyone of the Wind Pavilion accepting Zhou Yuan’s kindness. If anyone wanted to touch Zhou Yuan’s pavilion master position, even the people who had remained neutral before would jump out to defend him. Zhou Yuan’s move to win everyone’s heart was simply perfect.
Ye Bingling gave a wry smile. “From the current situation, you becoming the master of the Wind Pavilion is the fortune of our pavilion.”
If it were her, she wouldn’t have had such boldness, and of course, she didn’t have this kind of capital.
Zhou Yuan grinned. The fact that he was a disciple of his master Cang Yuan, in a sense, meant that he was a higher-up of the Tianyuan Region. After all, according to his master’s rules, his official disciples were eligible to become grand elders in charge.
This meant his status should be equal to sect master Xuan Kun’s!
Part of the Tianyuan Region is mine! How could I be reluctant to give away origin coins?
Zhou Yuan comforted himself. Then with the wave of his hand, he said, “In addition, I will announce the new salary for Wind Pavilion at the newcomer ceremony. From now on, the Wind Pavilion will no longer be a garbage shelter. I want those heaven prides to push others aside to join my Wind Pavilion.
“But there is a price. In the future, the Wind Pavilion will establish a strict assessment, and anybody unsuccessful in the annual assessment will be eliminated.
“I don’t want to use the origin coins to raise some useless bugs. If they don’t have the ability, they should leave as soon as possible and not waste resources.”
Yi Qiushui was a little surprised to hear Zhou Yuan’s grand ambition. She hurriedly reminded, “Don’t mess around. Although the income from the Mother Wind Runes is good, it’s only limited to the Wind Pavilion, so our financial abi
lity still can’t be compared to the Fire Pavilion’s.”
The fire pavilion could raise its salary because they had the support of the Mark Capturing Rune, which was applicable to the four pavilions. Although its effect in the Wind Pavilion wasn’t as good as the Mother Wind Rune, it was still irreplaceable for the other three pavilions.
She was worried that Zhou Yuan was forcibly holding on to protect his face and would inevitably be consumed by the Fire Pavilion in the end. If they came to that point, everything would be ruined.
As for the strict assessment, she was very supportive of it since it would bring healthy competition to the Wind Pavilion.
Zhou Yuan nodded, a mysterious smile curving the corners of his mouth.
“Don’t worry, I have a plan.
“In the future, our Wind Pavilion will be the richest of the four pavilions!”
Chapter 827 Pavilion Master Conference
The next day.
The giant central disk of the four spirits origin tower.
Zhou Yuan skimmed across the air with Ye Bingling and Yi Qiushui and landed on the center of the disc where people were buzzing around. Then, led by Yi Qiushui, they headed towards a tall towering restaurant.
Many of the people they passed by were members of the wind pavilion, and they all bowed respectfully to Zhou Yuan.
The members of the other three pavilions all had strange expressions on their faces. After all, Zhou Yuan was now famous among the four pavilions.
Zhou Yuan and the others came to the towering restaurant amidst all the attention. The restaurant was empty that day, and there were many members of the Fire Pavilion standing in front of the entrance to maintain order.
“The Fire Pavilion reserved the whole place today,” Yi Qiushui whispered.
“Those with wealth do indeed speak louder than others.” Ye Bingling raised her brows. It most likely cost at least one thousand origin coins to reserve the restaurant.
“They really think they are the master,” Zhou Yuan remarked. The Fire Pavilion’s imposing manner was undoubtedly a signal, a signal that they were above the other three pavilions.
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