Wasting Money to Become an Immortal-Chapter 152: Becoming infamous
The day after we arrived at the Medicine King Sect, it seemed that I had already built up quite the reputation.
As I walked through the Medicine King Sect, seeing the different things that were here, I could hear some people whispering around me.
At the same time, I could see that there were people staring at me and pointing at me from time to time. It was almost as if they recognized me from something, but that was strange since I had never met these people once in my life.
So there shouldn’t have been a reason that they knew about me.
That was until I heard what some of them were whispering.
"That’s the one? He’s that super prodigal?"
"Right, I heard that he wasted a bunch of Second Grade Herbs yesterday."
"He said that it was just fruit to eat...How could he do that to heaven’s treasures?"
It seemed that Kong Jing had given me quite the gift after what happened yesterday.
Right, it was a gift because...
There were spots of red that appeared on the map and the mission progress had increased. It seemed that my reputation had been spread as a prodigal because of the good work of Kong Jing.
But with the increase in my reputation as a prodigal, it meant that I had more progress in my main mission which was definitely a good thing.
He was trying to ruin my reputation, but he was actually helping me by spreading rumours about me.
Though for normal people, this definitely would have seemed like a bad thing.
That was why the senior brothers and senior sister were worried about me when they heard the same things as me.
Senior Brother Hua gave a snort and said, "There’s no need to listen to these people gossip. They don’t know a thing and they’re just listening to whatever rumours are spread."
The other senior brothers and senior sister nodded in agreement to this while also trying to comfort me in their own way.
But I just said, "Senior brothers, senior sister, I don’t mind at all. People can think of me as a prodigal since that is what I am. I am proud to be a prodigal, it’s not something that anyone can be."
All of them looked at me with a strange look when they heard this.
The lackeys just shook their heads and sighed in response, but it seemed like they had already been expecting me to say this.
After all, this was something that I had said often in our time together and I would never change my mind about it.
A prodigal really was not something that just anyone could be, it was something that I was proud to be.
In the end, they just said, "Alright, if that makes you happy."
All of them shook their heads and looked like they thought that there was something wrong with this, but I just looked at them with a side smile.
Giving them some time to recover, I then said, "Let’s go to the gathering."
They nodded in agreement, but they also couldn’t help revealing worried looks.
After all, this gathering that we were heading to was a gathering of the different disciples from the different sects who had gathered here for the alchemy tournament.
This was a gathering that was held by the Central Sect Alliance for those that were participating in the tournament, giving them a place to get to know each other before the tournament.
Of course, most people already knew each other since there were only so many sects in the first place.
The real purpose of this gathering was to introduce new talent and to scope out the competition.
They wanted to stir up rivalries between the different sects to make things more exciting.
Naturally, that meant that this was also a place for everyone to get to know each other and form friendships if they desired.
This was my first time meeting everyone, so I did want to see if there was anyone that was worth befriending. At the same time, I wanted to see if I could spread my fame even more using this gathering.
The more fame that I obtained, the more progress I would make with my main quest.
It was just that...I had become infamous during this time.
It didn’t seem like there was anyone that was willing to come over and talk to me as everyone seemed to be avoiding me.
It was almost as if they were wary of me with the way that they avoided me.
Still, it seemed like there were people that wanted to know more about me because of those rumours.
It was just that no one was able to approach me because of the rumours.
In the end, the senior brothers and senior sister were brought away because of the acquaintances that they had with the other sects. They couldn’t just ignore them since they were allies of our Star Peak Sect in the first place.
I didn’t mind that they had to go and talk to them, but it left me standing there alone.
Well, relatively alone since the lackeys were still there with me.
But they just stood there in silence behind me when they saw that I wasn’t saying anything.
It seemed that the reputation that I had developed was even more infamous than I thought.
It was to the point where I couldn’t help feeling a bit worried.
Though the reason that I was worried was for a different reason from how one might normally feel in this situation.
I was worried that no one would come and talk to me, which meant that I wouldn’t be able to increase my fame.
But that worry wasn’t necessary as there was still a moth that was drawn to the flame.
It seemed that this person wasn’t able to forget the humiliation that he suffered yesterday, so he came back to stand in front of me as if he wanted to take revenge.
It was the Divine Solar Sect’s Kong Jing.
