Chapter 80: The True Role of a Sect Leader
The next morning as the wagon creaked along, Benton focused on what he wanted to do with his two free Sect Points.
When he’d first been isekaied to the cultivator world and selected the Sect Leader System, he had been more than a little naïve, thinking he’d simply recruit sect members who would do all the fighting for him.
In reality, that idea hadn’t worked out too well. For one thing, sending the twins and his other disciples into danger while not being willing to brave the same himself simply didn’t sit right with him. For another, being stuck behind a desk while dealing with the sect’s administrative duties wasn’t the primary role of the sect leader. His actual role was to be such a powerful threat that no one dared pick a fight with his sect members.
Now that he’d reached Foundation Establishment, it was time for him to start growing into that role in truth, not just bluffing it.
His future was secure in that, as long as he survived, he could recruit more and more sect members, who would continue generating more and more Sect Points for him. He didn’t have to worry about bottlenecks. His route to Nascent Soul and then Nihility and beyond was assured.
If.
If he survived long enough.
That was the rub.
In Qi Gathering, techniques were useful but not crucial. His main use of points had been to reach Foundation Establishment, and he felt that was absolutely the right call.
There was a part of him that wanted to continue on that path. No one below Golden Core would mess with a cultivator at that realm. No Golden Core would mess with a Nascent Soul and so on. But such a path would leave him as a paper tiger, essentially doing exactly what he’d done at the Poison Claw Sect—bluffing.
He needed real power, which, as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, came from techniques. Advancing minor realms would make him slightly stronger and give him more qi to work with. Techniques would allow him to make use of that qi.
Obviously, his plan going forward had to be to buy the techniques he needed to gain that power. Once he had a powerful build developed, he could balance advancing in minor realm against increasing the stage of each of his techniques.