Chu Fan saw this and gave an awkward smile at once, hurriedly saying, “Alright, alright, everyone stop hugging. That’s enough.”
Being caught in the act like this made Chu Fan feel a little embarrassed. He quickly explained, “Grand Elder, they only heard me say that they would no longer have to be sent to the Blazing Flame Sect, so each of them got incredibly excited. That’s why, in their joy, they hugged me like this.”
Chu Fan looked and saw that today Shi Henshuang was clearly not wearing yesterday’s short skirt and stockings. She was probably too embarrassed, planning to save them for battle later.
“Since you already informed them, that’s even better.”
Shi Henshuang smiled. Looking at Liu Qingyue and Liu Siya on the side, both wearing sexy stockings and short skirts, she immediately frowned. “Steward Chu, you actually have treasures like these?”
“Treasure? Grand Elder actually says this is a treasure? Looks like Grand Elder really likes clothes like these, huh? Could it be that Grand Elder also wants to wear them, which is why she thinks they’re treasure?”
When the registered disciples heard this, they all looked confused. Wasn’t this just clothes? How did it become treasure in the Grand Elder’s mouth?
Chu Fan smiled calmly and said, “Haha, I still have some. I just thought that these two had quite a bit of fate with me, so I gave each of them a set.”
“Mm, very good!”
Shi Henshuang nodded, thinking that if a few more female disciples wore this, then when she wore it out later, it would not be so awkward.
She just had not expected Chu Fan, the Patriarch, to actually give such treasure to two female disciples with such low cultivation. These things should be given to people with higher cultivation to bring out their greatest effect. Giving them to these two female disciples made Shi Henshuang feel that it was a little wasteful.
Last night, she and Ye Yanji had already put on those clothes and flown to a forest farther away to test them. They found that after wearing this treasure, their strength had indeed increased by a huge margin.
This morning, Ye Yanji had also given one set each to Second Elder and Third Elder. Fourth Elder and Fifth Elder had not returned yet, so they planned to give them theirs when they came back.
After thinking it over, Chu Fan said to Shi Henshuang again, “By the way, Grand Elder, I see there are quite a lot of registered disciples. I’m afraid that when I get busy with cultivation in the future, I won’t have much time. Could you help me arrange an assistant?”
“An assistant? What is that?”
Shi Henshuang frowned, unable to understand Chu Fan’s meaning.
Chu Fan was immediately a little amused and exasperated. Right, how could the people of this world understand such words?
After thinking it over, he explained, “That is, arrange a deputy steward for me to assist with my daily duties and help share the workload.”
Clearly, Chu Fan was planning to be a hands-off manager.
On the surface, Chu Fan looked like he was discussing it with Shi Henshuang, but in reality, it was practically an order. As for the Patriarch’s words, how could Shi Henshuang dare refuse?
She nodded and said, “Mm, that works. Then who do you think would be better suited to be this deputy steward? I mean, your assistant!”
Chu Fan looked at Liu Siya behind him and said, “Siya, how about you? The treatment would be the same as a steward’s. You can earn sect contribution points and receive spirit herbs or spirit stones for cultivation, just like a steward. What do you think?”
“Me? I really can? My cultivation is so low, that probably isn’t very appropriate…”
Liu Siya was delighted inside. Becoming a steward’s assistant… this was the first time she had ever heard of a position like deputy steward.
She had just broken through to 1st-rank Spirit Master, so this made her feel a little overwhelmed.
“Since Steward Chu thinks you’re suitable, then it’s you. Work hard and don’t let Steward Chu down.”
Shi Henshuang smiled slightly, then said, “Later, I’ll go and exchange a token for you, a deputy steward token.”
It would be easy enough to add one character to the steward token.
“Thank you, Steward Chu! Thank you, Grand Elder! I will definitely work hard to serve the sect!”
Liu Siya immediately cupped her hands in thanks.
Many registered disciples who heard this were filled with envy.
Lin Xiaoxiao, in particular, could not help saying enviously, “Hmph, isn’t she just a little prettier than me? It must be that Liu Qingyue found out who the new steward was and had Liu Siya go curry favor in advance. Otherwise, this position would probably have been mine.”
Thinking that someone had gotten ahead of her, Lin Xiaoxiao felt a little unhappy.
“Alright, everyone disperse. If you registered disciples have anything in the future, go find Steward Chu, or Deputy Steward Liu.”
Shi Henshuang smiled faintly and said to everyone, “I’ll go post a notice about appointing the two of them later on the notice board.”
After thinking it over, Lin Xiaoxiao still could not help stepping forward and asking Shi Henshuang, “Grand Elder, is it really true that we won’t have to send female disciples to the Blazing Flame Sect anymore? We’re not the Blazing Flame Sect’s opponent. Aren’t you afraid they’ll really attack?”
Shi Henshuang smiled calmly and said, “Don’t worry. Since we made this decision, we naturally have our own confidence. You don’t need to worry about that.”
“That’s great, truly great. If that’s the case, then we can cultivate in peace and strive to become outer disciples as soon as possible.”
After hearing this, everyone was overjoyed.
Very quickly, the registered disciples dispersed.
After everyone had left, Shi Henshuang then said to Chu Fan, “Steward Chu, the clothes you gave us, the Sect Master and I wore them last night and tested them. Our strength really increased dramatically. Even someone with First-rank Spirit King cultivation may not necessarily be our opponent. More importantly, I, Second Elder, and Third Elder are all at Ninth-rank Spirit Venerable cultivation. If we all wear these sets, that is equivalent to having four experts comparable to Second-rank Spirit King cultivation. Then we won’t have to fear that damn Blazing Flame Sect.”
When Liu Qingyue and Liu Siya heard this from behind, the two sisters exchanged a glance, and their hearts were also filled with joy. They had not tried these clothes yet and had thought the Patriarch was just bragging.
They had not expected that this thing could really increase strength when worn.
After thinking it over, Shi Henshuang could not help saying, “But treasures like this should not be so easy to obtain, right? If they could be mass-produced, and if some of our sect’s elite disciples could also wear clothes like this, that would be even better. The overall strength of the sect could be raised to another level.”
“Cough, cough, after all, this thing is a treasure, so naturally I wouldn’t…”
Chu Fan gave an awkward smile. He did have some, but not many were left. If the System did not give him more, there was nothing he could do.
Unexpectedly, just as Chu Fan had only said half of his sentence, the System’s prompt suddenly rang out.
“Detected that the Grand Elder wants to obtain stockings and short skirt sets in bulk. Triggering System quest!”
“Complete the first hug cultivation of your life with the beautiful Grand Elder, and you receive 1,000 sets!”
The System’s voice then slowly rang out: “Quest completion time limit: ten days. If the quest fails, the host’s manhood shortens by two centimeters!”
“Accept the quest?”