Chapter 117: It’s Time
As Benton watched over his sect members cultivating in the Wood, his thoughts turned to the progress everyone had made. They’d all worked really hard over the last four weeks.
All his recruits from Vermillion Incomparable Rain Town had advanced from minor realm four to minor realm five, and Xun Wu, Shi Long, Zou Tian, and the original group of eight orphans from the village also reached their next minor realm, the sixth. Pan Xiaolian and the other forty-nine villagers were the big point earners as far as Spiritual Cultivation went, moving all the way from the first minor realm to the fourth. The wood harvesters actually surpassed the other villagers’ feat, resetting their cultivation and going all the way from nothing to minor realm four, but their smaller numbers didn’t result in quite as high a gain.
In total, Spiritual Cultivation added two hundred and four Sect Points to Benton’s total.
Recently, it had seemed like techniques were costing him more than they were returning, but the last month turned that trend around. With some notable exceptions, sect members learned techniques he’d already created, meaning all their work resulted in mostly pure profit for him.
One exception was for the healers. Realistically, the five villagers slotted into that pavilion wouldn’t be able to accomplish anything miraculous until reaching Foundation Establishment, but the technique he created for them essentially gave them all the knowledge a doctor on Earth might possess. It was, hopefully, enough for them to be able to triage patients during the upcoming tide to determine who needed a pill immediately and who could survive without one. They’d also be useful in dealing with scratches and bites by applying mundane bandages, etc.
Benton feared that need of miraculous resources like Healing Pills might exceed his supply of Shop Points to buy them. Having people he could trust to make good decisions about when to use them would take a large load off his mind.
The other exception was the four techniques Benton had promised Ye Zan, covering perception, stealth, defense, and movement. Each of the guards got one of the techniques at least to Small Success during the month, giving him an additional seventeen to offset the cost of forty.
Besides the five points earned from the healers, Wan Ai’s Alchemy Pavilion made ten, four from the villagers learning their craft and the other six from weapons’ techniques. Nine more points came from crafting as Xun Wu’s team and the new Formations Pavilion found time to devote to their practice.
Most of the points from techniques, though, came from sect members getting either their primary or secondary weapons, or both, to Small Success. Those advancing weapons included the wood harvesters who also each reached Small Success with their crafting technique as well. Having previous experience in an area really accelerated the learning curve.
In total, Benton earned a net eighty-two Sect Points for the month from techniques.
The biggest point earner by far, however, was Body Cultivation. The twins and Zou Tian advanced from minor realm one all the way to minor realm six. Ye Zan’s guards, Zi Delan’s group, and the rest of the seventeen Martial Pavilion members who had started the process advanced all the way to the peak of Bronze. The twenty village guards and an additional twenty sect members all began the process, the guards reaching minor realm three and the rest minor realm two.
All in all, Body Cultivation netted Benton a whopping two hundred sixty-seven Sect Points for the period.