Transmigrated Scoundrel's Exchange System
chapter-12

In the blink of an eye it has been more than 7 months since Han Cai came to Sky Soaring Sect. He lived very peacefully in the sect but it was very boring for him in the beginning as he had no one he knew or talked to.

But soon he found a solution to that problem. The yellow robed outer sect disciples never paid attention to gray robed workers in the sect but Han Cai was different; he treated them with respect because of this they chatted and spent time with Han Cai and also told him a lot about the sect.

It was not that he had no relationship with yellow robed disciples but most of them from either very rich backgrounds or they were talented yellow robes who joined the sect through tests and there was a lot of attention on those disciples.

There was always some friction between disciples with rich background who paid their way in the sect and the disciples who joined sect through their talents by passing the test. Han Cai paid his way in to the sect too but it was his father's life saving unlike other rich kids whos family could pay their way to inner sect to if inner sect took bribes.

The reason for friction between rich background disciples and the disciple's with talent mostly were female disciples. Han Cai stayed as far as possible from female disciples, Even if he wanted to get close to any it would have been difficult for him. the outer sect peak for female disciples faction was far from where Han Cai lived so he really had very few interactions with them. Only time he could see female disciples was when he went to Outer Sect Hall to get his monthly allowance of one spirit stone.

All in all he could not afford to offend the rich yellow robes nor the talented one's who joined the sect through tests without paying any bribes. because of that besides greeting yellow robed disciples time to time he kept his distance from most of them. But he chatted freely with gray robes; this helped Han Cai settle down in the sect easier.

When he talked with gray robe disciples he learnt that in general it takes around three to five years for an yellow robed outer sect disciple to reach level one of qi condensation level so it is not strange even after seven months he still hasn't been able to cultivate. But he also learnt that they start sensing Spirit Qi in the air from second month, it has been seven months for Han Cai but he still could not feel anything but air.

After three years of trying to cultivate, if yellow robed outer disciples do not reach to qi condensation level one then they are demoted to gray robed disciple. They will stay in the sect as a gray robe disciple for five years. In those five years if they are still not able to cultivate then they will be kicked out of the sect.

For gray robed disciples they had to work for five years in sect and contribute to the sect. After five years they will be given an opportunity to cultivate a soaring sky cultivation manual. They are supposed to cultivate while taking care of their daily chores. If they reach qi cultivation realm first stage within three years since they started cultivating they will be promoted to yellow robed outer sect disciple.

But if they are not able to reach qi cultivation in three years then they have to leave the sect. Out of a thousand only one gray robe was able to succeed besides that most did not have any hope to cultivate. Still they tried their best thinking they would be one in thousands of gray robes.

When Han Cai learnt that he felt life was really hard for these people they spent most of their precious teenage years laboring for the sect only to get kicked out later. He could only sigh it is not like he could change their life. Even if he had power to change things in this sect, what could he change if the sect needed gray robes or who would deliver his meals.Han Cai knew he was selfish and lazy to the core so he had no regrets having the thoughts that seemed best for his self interest. And as he saw it, It was the decision of the gray robes family members to make their own choices. They wanted a chance to become immortal and they had to pay a price for that. Didn't his father send him even knowing he might never become a cultivator hoping he would succeed.

For yellow robes it was a bit different, out of 100 at least 20 would succeed in cultivating as they did not have many chores to handle they spend all day and night trying to cultivate because of that many yellow robes succeeded in reaching at least qi condensation stage.

For the last 7 months Han Cai's daily schedule was to wake up Spend all day trying to cultivate or practice sword skill.

and fail miserably in both.

In the first two months he would also go out in the evening and take a walk around the outer sect. But after two months the weather started getting cold and by the third month it started snowing and Han Cai had to stop with his evening walks. After that he would spend most of the time in his Quarter trying to cultivate or practice sword skills. Since this was his eighth month in the sect 7 more spirit stones but he could not use them still because of his zero growth in cultivation.