Chapter 34 - Analysis
It soon became apparent to Benton that the battle with the rank three had scared off all the other spirit beasts, leaving the area safe for the harvesters. He released the siblings to cultivate while he periodically scanned with his spiritual sense.
Once he felt fully recovered, he cleaned up the site, storing all the beast corpses in his spatial ring, and going to each of the spots of the other battles and doing the same. With that done, he didn’t have a lot to occupy his time.
There was a small shed constructed of the area’s abundant spiritual wood that held axes and saws and the like, and the harvesters had quickly gone to work. Observing them occupied his attention for a while, but the process wasn’t all that interesting. It wasn’t all that different from something a normal lumberjack would do, just using internally manipulated qi and superior tools to hit harder and work faster than a mortal could do.
Benton settled in to consider his next steps. Yang Ru getting hurt had been scary and disturbing. While Yang Xiu favored a slashing, dart in and dart out style that largely kept her from being hurt, the boy’s entire fighting style revolved around dealing more damage than he took. That attitude wasn’t sustainable until he was a lot tougher.
He needed body cultivation. But that was too expensive.
Or was it?
Body cultivation required three elements—a cultivation method that included an alchemical recipe, alchemical ingredients mainly consisting of various qi infused plants, and an infusion of qi into the bath, typically requiring an appropriately ranked spirit beast core for Qi Gathering cultivators since they couldn’t add the qi themselves.
Benton obviously could cover the first of those once he’d recruited enough disciples to develop a steady source of Sect Points. The second, hopefully he’d be able to supply either by purchasing on his shopping trip or by foraging. Though, his ability to do so was really dependent on what the recipe actually called for. He’d need to check that. The third had been the most problematic due to sheer expense, but his spatial ring was packed with cores. He had two-hundred-ninety-nine rank ones and four-hundred-fifty-eight rank twos stored, and they were fairly equally divided among the elements.
He pulled up his Cultivation Method Creation Menu and realized he didn’t see a way to create a body cultivation method. That lack was weird considering he’d been able to increase his personal body cultivation. He mentally queried the system about it.
Host’s request is accepted.
Please select a Body Cultivation Realm
Bronze