Chapter 261: Incredible Generosity
Kang Lin reminisced as she flew on her glider, as Master called it. She still enjoyed the experience of flying, but with her Foundation Establishment level body control and reflexes, simply staying over the trees as she made her way to Sixth Flawless Flowing City didn’t require much of her attention. The easy flight was nothing like playing what Yang Xiu called sky tag.
Now that game made Kang Lin concentrate solely on flying.
As it was, though, her mind wandered. First, she considered the gliders themselves. The construction and arrays weren’t anything all that special, and the only part that would make it difficult to replicate was the inclusion of Gravity qi, not an element that many cultivators used. Still, she’d never heard of a sect that produced anything like the device.
She couldn’t help but wonder why.
The device allowed Foundation Establishment cultivators to get from place to place much faster than any movement technique available at their level. Considering that the majority of the hard labor performed in a sect was done by cultivators of that level, it seemed like improving their efficiency would be something worth doing.
On the negative side, the devices were only good for a couple of years at most for the most talented of sect members, and sects weren’t known for giving expensive gifts to untalented members. Maybe they just didn’t think it was worth the effort to produce.
The Rising Tide Sect was different in that they had very, very few high realmed members, only Master and Town Lord Ren. They had a growing number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, though. The twins and, as of recently, Jin LiJuan were just the start. Master had promised that every Qi Gathering cultivator in the sect, even those with only F talent, would reach the second major realm if they were diligent enough, and Kang Lin believed him.
The benefit provided by his top heaven grade cultivation methods could not be overstated. Combine those with that crazy Trial Pagoda, and there was no reason the entire sect wouldn’t eventually reach even Golden Core. Or higher.
She had personally witnessed one man use the pagoda to go from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core and another from Golden Core to Nascent Soul. Nascent Soul! And both men had been stuck for a long time at the peaks of their respective realms. The Trial Pagoda was solely responsible for their advancement.
Kang Lin trembled, and she didn’t know if the reaction was from fear or excitement. Probably both but more the former.
Within two to three years, it would not be surprising if the Rising Tide Sect had a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators. Which wasn’t a big thing. The Poison Claw Sect had treble that number. But even selecting only highly talented recruits, more than half the inductees never even reached that high.
To ensure that no recruit, no matter how untalented, failed was unfathomable. What would the Rising Tide Sect be in a century? A millennium?