Chapter 149: Alert!
Benton grew concerned as he continued his search for the eighth wave. His disciples should have long since been able to dispatch the two rank six beasts that attacked the village and followed that fight up with consolidating their gains. So far, though, he hadn’t received a single notification about any of his disciples advancing due to that battle.
Of course, it was possible that none of them had gained enough to move any of their techniques or cultivation forward.
He frowned. Surviving a life-threatening situation typically led to gains, and a bunch of cultivators in the Qi Gathering realm or barely into Foundation Establishment facing the equivalent of a peak Foundation Establishment opponent should be life threatening. Even if they’d simply bombarded the creatures with the arrows and FEDs he’d left them, he’d have expected at least someone to improve something.
The lack did not necessarily indicate a disaster, however. Maybe the defenders had decided to simply depend on the walls to keep the beasts at bay instead of killing them. That result would be a lackluster one as he hoped that he was teaching his sect members to be more self sufficient than that, but he’d listen to their explanation were that the case.
Besides, that decision being reached didn’t sound right if for no other reason than that he doubted Yang Xiu would go along with such a plan. Of course, she could have been outvoted?
Either way, he couldn’t help but find the result worrisome, but there was nothing he could do about it. He had to find the next wave and the next and the next until he finally reached the Big Boss. Returning to the village to check up on his disciples simply wasn’t an option.
Besides providing an unwanted distraction, his worries about how his disciples were faring also made him want to skip quickly ahead in order to end the tide as quickly as possible. Which was, of course, the worst thing he could possibly do. He had to trust his sect members to survive a mere rank six beast as a defense against that level of threat was well within their capabilities.
His job was to protect them from the dangers they couldn’t face.
In fact, he’d list that goal as one of his top three objectives as a sect leader. He wasn’t sure about the exact order, but his priorities were well defined. One, he needed to mentor his sect members to help them grow stronger. Two, he was to serve as the nuclear deterrent so that any foe thought twice about incurring his wrath when facing one of his sect members. And three was the aforementioned protection from greater threats.
Yes. He liked that list of job responsibilities.
And he really should be getting on with that third objective instead of letting his mind wander.
Maybe advancing Mind Cultivation could help him with that.