New Beginning

Within one of the largest open squares of the outer sect, the person who was interrogating me was holding a mass gathering to tell of the events that happened earlier.

"As the sect had decreed, for the crime of leaving the sect without permission, Shen Mo will be whipped a hundred lashes," he spoke, "This is the punishment for disobeying the sect rules." He said.

Many of the disciples were gathered in front of the teacher who was speaking and they seemed to nod at the severity of the punishment.

"However!" he said. "Due to Shen Mo's meritorious deed, of discovering a new use of the Spirit Grass which radically opened up an enormous swath of possibilities for our Poison Sect refining methods, the Sect Master personally waved off the punishment and decided to reward him by giving him a Nascent Soul refining Pill. A thousand Medium Grade spirit stones and a weapon of his choosing from the sect's treasury." The elder said.