"In the end, I'm still just at the Qi Refinement Realm. Even if I advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage, there's still a significant gap between me and those at the Golden Core Stage."
"Fortunately, I've obtained the Foundation Establishment Method. Once I return, I'll study it diligently and strive to reach Foundation Establishment quickly, narrowing the gap with my opponents."
Ning Zhuo successfully passed the trial at the Buddhist Sect and obtained the method for Foundation Establishment.
He needed to start preparing for Foundation Establishment.
At the age of sixteen, he was about to begin the process of Foundation Establishment! Such an achievement was enormous.
It was worth noting that from the time he left the Immortal Palace, revamped his cultivation technique, until now, it had not even been a year.
The speed of his cultivation was simply miraculous, like lighting a firecracker that shot straight up into the sky.
Of course, solely relying on the rewards and resources from the Magma Fairy Palace, Ning Zhuo would never have been able to achieve this.
He had leveraged the Magma Fairy Palace to influence several other major cultivator families.
By obtaining vast resources from them, he had reached today step by step.
Now, not only was he at the ninth level peak of Qi Refinement, but he also had numerous subordinates, controlled the black market, and garnered substantial profits.
His rapid rise was supposed to attract attention, jealousy, and suppression from others.
But with the issuance of the Recruitment Decree, the Magma Fairy Palace and the external cultivators became the primary focus of attention.
Ning Zhuo was overlooked.
This indirectly created a favorable environment for his rise.
Unable to come up with a solution, Ning Zhuo decided to first select his trial rewards.
Each identity waist token represented a specific position within the Magma Fairy Palace.
Ning Zhuo casually picked one. As soon as he held it in his hand, a surge of information flooded into his mind.
This was the command token for the Discarded Items Room.
In the Magma Fairy Palace, there was a large Discarded Items Room filled with numerous scraps and waste.
These scraps and waste often required specific methods for proper disposal and couldn't be thrown away carelessly.
In the process of handling them, they could also be reforged or recycled.
Managing these items was the responsibility of the Discarded Items Room.
Of course, Ning Zhuo did not choose this position, placing the waist token back down.
After careful selection, he ultimately chose the highest-ranked position token—the Medical Hall Master's token.
Once he selected it, the token automatically acknowledged him as the master, instantly making him the Medical Hall Master of the Magma Fairy Palace.
This was a second-rank level position!
Ning Zhuo could now sense the Medical Hall building and preside over its normal operations.
Besides the Hall Master, the Medical Hall also had physicians, pharmacy boys, and other positions.
As the Medical Hall Master, Ning Zhuo had certain powers to appoint and dismiss these personnel.
In fact, he had painstakingly cultivated cultivators from the Ning Family, especially his fellow disciples from the renovation team, mainly for this purpose.
As long as these individuals met the standards, Ning Zhuo could appoint them to positions within the Medical Hall.
If Ning Zhuo was displeased with them, he could dismiss them in a single thought.
Dismissing was much easier than appointing.
The premise for appointment was that these cultivators had to meet the standards of the Magma Fairy Palace. In contrast, dismissal had no such requirements.
As Ning Zhuo held the Medical Hall Master's token, he suddenly sensed the addition of a new subordinate under his command.
Looking closely, he saw it was someone he knew quite well.
"How did she become a physician in the Medical Hall?"
"How could she have accumulated so much merit and contribution in such a short time since changing her path?"
Ning Zhuo's eyes showed a thoughtful expression.
"Even considering the strong support from the Ning Family Main Line, such speed is still quite extraordinary. It suggests Ning Xiaohui has been incredibly diligent, completing tasks to amass merits and contributions fanatically."
"What if I just dismissed her position right now?"
This was just a fleeting thought of Ning Zhuo's.
Within the Magma Fairy Palace.
Ning Xiaohui entered the Immortal Palace and arrived at the Medical Hall.
At this moment, she clenched her fists with a face full of excitement and joy.
"Finally, I've finally been promoted to a physician in the Medical Hall!"
"I've finally achieved my goal."
"This will be a brand-new starting point for me."
"From now on, the efficiency of my accumulation of merits and contributions will far exceed others."
"Changing my path and coming here was absolutely the right choice!"
"This place is a whole different world. With my status as a trial disciple, I have far more advantages than the Golden Core cultivators."
"My efforts during this time haven't been in vain; it's all been worth it!"
Ning Xiaohui felt deeply that she had received obvious preferential treatment.
With the status of a trial disciple, she was treated as an insider in the Magma Fairy Palace.
Whereas people like Zhu Xuanji, no matter their Golden Core level, were still considered outsiders.
For instance, the position of Medial Hall physician could not be chosen by outsiders.
Now, Ning Xiaohui found herself in the Medical Hall, allocated a mechanism workbench as a physician.
"Let's see if there's any new task that can help me gain more contributions."
Next, Ning Xiaohui's eyes widened in shock.
She saw a mechanism artifact.
An artifact that left an indelible impression on her.
The Golden Blood Battle Ape!
The Golden Blood Battle Ape - Dasheng had repeatedly blocked and tormented her.
It had made Ning Xiaohui stop at the first three levels many times, causing her performance exploring the Immortal Palace to be horribly unsatisfactory, making her hang her head in shame among the renovation team.