"Why did you take gold coins instead of Xin coins?"

Xiao Yu asked Zhao Luo.

The reason behind his question was simple.

He considered himself, Zhao Luo's equal thus either he could take the same choice that Zhao Luo would take or question his decision.

"Ah, that..."

Zhao Luo had nothing to answer Xiao Yu so he started looking around.

Elder Gay was checking on the fruits in the bag. Before he had only counted them, and now he was just checking their condition.

'Master, can you tell me the reason now?'

Zhao Luo asked the old man but there was no reply. Thus he looked at Xiao Yu who was staring back with a questioning gaze, Zhao Luo was ready to make an excuse but before he could say something else,

"Don't forget that Little Brother is the ultimate winner of the outer disciple ranking tournament."

Senior Cutie answered Xiao Yu's question instead of letting Zhao Luo say anything.

"Brother Zhao Luo doesn't need points to advance as an inner disciple."

Pi Hao added right after Senior Cutie's dialogue.

'They answered it better than me. But how could I forget that I don't need points to enter the inner hall??'

Zhao Luo couldn't believe that he had forgotten the fact that he was the current king of the outer hall.

Xiao Yu had also calmed down after Senior Cutie and Pi Hao's comments.

They looked at Elder Gay who had already finished inspecting the condition of the fruits.

"I don't know how four disciples can complete five A-rank missions in less than a day. How did you even carry all of 'these' back in such a short time?"

Elder Gay asked them while bringing the bags behind the counter.

"It's all thanks to Bimba."

Senior Cutie unconsciously remembered the sand lion who had taken them on their mission trip without a stop.

"Bimba?"

Elder Gay was confused but didn't continue asking them since the completion of missions mattered the most.

"This is your reward for the 'fruit gathering mission'. 20 points have been added to your badges. Here you go."

Elder Gay threw their badges back to them through the glass window.

"This is the second reward for completing this mission."

'Ching, Ching....'

Elder Gay added 20 gold coins in each of the four bags since this was the fixed reward of this mission. They weren't given the choice of selecting between the xin or gold coin.

After distributing the coins and points which were the rewards of the five missions Zhao Luo and the others had completed, Elder Gay walked towards them and gave them the brown bags.

"And these shall be awarded to you too, for doing a great job."

Elder Gay had taken eight internal energy fruits to Zhao Luo.

"I believe you will distribute them fairly."

Elder Gay looked at Zhao Luo who was tilting his head towards the right while the others also looked confused instead of screaming in the bliss that they should be feeling right now.

'I just gave them four extra fruit, but what is with their dull expressions?'

"But wasn't the bonus just one fruit for each of the disciples in the group?"

Senior Cutie was the one to raise the question that was in everyone's mind, as the others nodded when he questioned the elder.

"I gave you two since the group limit for this mission was 10 disciples but..."

Elder Gay answered their curiosity.

"But, who knew that even our disciples could complete it perfectly."

Elder Gay felt a little disappointed since he couldn't award them with more fruits. But right then he nodded his head instead of shaking it in the disappointment that he was feeling.

'I can give them my special vitality pills.'

He said to himself and brought out a corked flask that had brown pills inside it.

"Here take this too. These are my vitality pill. Even if you are exhausted to the extreme, just taking one of them will bring you to your best state."

Elder Gay passed it into Senior Cutie's hand. 

"Maybe your hair may return after taking this."

Elder Gay said to Senior Cutie with a grin since he was the one who had been tarnishing the reputation of these vitality pills.

"Haha, I will definitely try them then."

Senior Cutie laughed heartily, not minding Elder Gay's taunt.

"Let's go."

Senior Cutie looked at the others and told them since he could see how exhausted his brothers were. 

'Except for little brother.'

Senior Cutie noticed that even though Zhao Luo was a little tired, he still looked fresh.

"You all can wait for him outside. I need to talk to him."

Elder Gay said to Senior Cutie, Xiao Yu, and Pi Hao.

Xiao Yu and Pi Hao turned around as they made their way towards the exit of the building while Senior Cutie who was walking beside them, turned his head to look at Zhao Luo who was talking to Elder Gay.

'I was worried for now reason.'

Senior Cutie wondered as he turned back and left the building with Xiao Yu and Pi Hao.

"Yes, Elder."

Zhao Luo waited patiently for Elder Gay to say something.

"Friend, you don't have to call me elder when no one's around."

Elder Gay laughed it off as his eyes turned serious.

"First off, you will be able to store the fruits after a day of breaking them off from the tree. That is, you will be able to store them in a few hours."

Elder Gay informed Zhao Luo about the fruits.

"But why aren't we able to store them before the one-day wait?"

Zhao Luo asked the elder since it didn't make sense to be able to do something that was impossible a day before.

"Because of the white tree's energy keep on lingering on the fruit for at least a day. So there may be a chance that it could take more than a day before you are able to store it in your storage space. And..."

Zhao Luo looked at the eyes of Elder Gay which had turned even more serious.

'What is he going to say?'