In the future, he will join the ranks of the masters, expanding the pastures, increasing the number of lambs under his control, becoming a "qualified" shepherd.

If the ’Stigmata Brand’ is the mark on the sheep, then the ’Eleventh Hall’, which belongs only to him, is the sheepfold.

Here, he can convene his apostles and conduct the ’Ceremony of Dedication’ once a quarter.

There are typically two ways disciples shepherd, one is to drain the pond to fish, taking in all the spirituality offered by the grassroots apostles to strengthen themselves.

The other is sustainable development, giving part of the offered spirituality back to the apostles as a reward, allowing them to strengthen their potency and rise to meet future challenges, granting a more long-term income.

Most disciples use the second shepherd method, and Amos also recommended this to him.

But Lin Xun knew his place, he wasn’t a true apostle of the New World, forget sustainable development – he would seize every opportunity to shear a sheep.

Why leave spirituality for enemy apostles?

Each bit of spirituality left behind could be transformed into bullets aimed at official apostles in the future. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"Supporting the enemy is absolutely unacceptable, not that I like spirituality, I am just a carrier of it..."

Another reason most disciples choose the second shepherding mode is to cultivate their own followers, in anticipation of future ’Disciple Wars’!

The ’Disciple War’ is one of the quickest ways to expand pastures!

The ’Disciple War’ is also the bloodiest battlefield, with every participating disciple pulling out all the stops to kill the opposition and take their lambs.

Another way to expand the pasture quickly is to fight the officials, thereby attaining merit points, and requesting lambs from the ’Rectification Council’.

Lin Xun did not want to use the latter method. Pretending to be working with the officials and accumulating merit points could quickly obtain a large number of lambs, but it was risky, a mere slip could cause all efforts to go down the drain.

In comparison, killing other disciples will both weaken enemy organisations and enlarge his own pasture, rounding down roughly equates to increasing his own strength.

Not only strength matters in the ’Disciple War’, but one’s standing does as well.

Luckily, the ’Vesinu’ sect he belonged to was not weak among the disciples, belonging to the faction with the most numbers.

The superior seats include the third disciple Vesinu, the intermediate seats include the eighth disciple ’Matia’, and the inferior seats include Amos and him.

A knight under the Elder Council belonged to the ’Vesinu’ faction as well.

The ’Vesinu’ faction alone accounted for four apostles.

Although Amos, as the eleventh disciple, and him, the last in line, were considered ’weak’, they at least had a numerical advantage...

Having thought through the ’Authority of the Disciples’, Lin Xun returned to the Library.

In the Book of Letters, an extra list named ’Cain’ appeared, collecting a large number of friend requests.

However, the applicators’ names were all slightl familiar code names.

Once the request was approved, the two parties could communicate using ’code names’.

It is worth noting that it is impossible to locate enemy apostles by inputting these codes during an invasion.

Only by knowing the true soul mark can one specifically infiltrate.

Lin Xun grinned and approved all the requests.

An undercover has to truly infiltrate the enemy organisation to be considered undercover!

He could use the ’Master’ title to establish good relations with other disciples.

Even if the ’Vesinu’ faction were defeated in the future ’Disciple War’, he would not worry about having nowhere to go.

"It seems like I will forever carry the title of a spy..."

After accepting the applications, Lin Xun spent half a day interacting with these elder disciples before finally getting some free time.

When he reported his progress to his female supervisor, he unexpectedly received an invitation from headquarters.

The invitation was for him to go to Yunjing and join the core organisation of the officials - the ’Apostle Committee’!