"Don't worry about it. We'll just stick to our respective titles," said Zhang Deming.
"Okay, Senior Brother. Once you've recovered, we can..." Halfway through her sentence, Pei Xiaoxiao's expression suddenly fell.
Zhang Deming asked, "What's wrong?"
Pei Xiaoxiao said, "Um, Senior Brother... I only have one Spirit Stone. I found it among my great-grandfather's belongings."
"I've already used half of it, and I can't post another Sect mission anytime soon."
"So... I can't afford to pay you."
Sect missions couldn't just be posted casually. If you wanted to post one for free, the Sect would foot the bill, but otherwise, you had to pay the reward yourself.
You only got one such opportunity every twenty years. Moreover, for a family dispatched to develop a new territory, you could only post two free missions—one every twenty years for a forty-year period—before you made a significant contribution back to the Sect.
