Chapter 93: For the Good of the Sect
With Kang Lin having departed, it was time for Benton and his council to get back to work.
“Alright, everyone,” Benton said. “Let’s move back to the arena floor. There are a few more important issues to discuss.”
No one groaned as he led them back onto the sand and set up the tables and chairs again. He wouldn’t have blamed them if they would have. The meeting was becoming a marathon.
“After Body Cultivation, the next most important step is preparing for the defense of the sect grounds by building a wall around about five acres or so of the fields around us. Until we get this crucial structure constructed, we can’t move to our cool new digs. I have dozens of buildings from houses to specialty pavilions to dining facilities in my ring just waiting to be set up, and it’s killing me that I can’t move all of us out here, yet.”
Benton had expected them to be just as blasé about the announcement about the buildings as they had for most of the other things he told them. He was wrong.
“Dozens, Master?” Yang Xiu said.
“Well, I didn’t really count them, but I’d say around sixty to seventy?”
Most of them seemed shocked. He didn’t get what the big deal was. They’d seen how big his ring was, but apparently, fitting enough actual buildings inside to flesh out an entire sect grounds was a bit much even for them.
“If it helps, some of them are small?” Benton decided to move past the issue. “Regardless, the point of the whole thing about the buildings was the importance of building a wall, which is a multistep process. First, the twins and I will do purges every morning of the area around where the Orange Vigor Spirit Wood grows.”
“Yes, Master,” they chorused.
“Ye Zan, you’ll be in charge of providing guards for the harvesters while they work. Yang Xiu, Yang Ru, help out on the first day to make sure nothing goes wrong, and the three of you can decide from there if your further assistance is required.”
“Yes, Master.”