Chapter 272: Punching Up
Benton re-activated his Time Aura. He didn’t have long before the kids were ready to depart for the expedition to the mountains, and he didn’t want to delay them. Before they arrived, he needed to check his gains he’d made since the last time he looked at his status and decide how best to upgrade himself further.
In the last two weeks, twenty of his sect members had made a total of five advancements in Bronze Body Cultivation, gaining him one hundred Sect Points. Additionally, Wan Ai had figured out how to incorporate the herbs he’d purchased for the twins into baths about a week prior. They each gained him three bonus points upon reaching Silver and another four in making it to minor realm two, so fourteen points total. Testing had proven that Jin LiJuan could use any of the baths, and she had chosen to emulate her Senior Sister Yang Xiu. For no extra cost, the little girl got him another seven points.
Benton’s total gain for Body Cultivation over the time period was one hundred twenty-one points. Not bad.
He really liked Body Cultivation for the super consistent gains it provided while at the same time making his sect members much stronger, faster, and more durable. And it wasn’t really that expensive. Even if they eventually ran low on beast cores, his ability to easily create mass quantities of greater spirit coins would offset the costs.
So worth it!
As profitable as Body Cultivation was, it just couldn’t hold a candle to Spiritual Cultivation, considering how rapidly he had expanded his sect. After all, the low minor realms were fast point earners. Unfortunately, he fully expected his current pace to slow greatly unless he stepped up recruitment.
The village was getting close to tapped out as a resource for new members, only having a few hundred who were un-inducted, and neither he nor Fatty Ren were too enthusiastic about adding random citizens from Vermillion Incomparable Rain Town.
Benton did have some thoughts about possibly adding people from the village where he found Xun Wu, though. That place was run-down and barely hanging on. Those people were unlikely to have been approached by other factions to be spies and were likely to jump at the chance to improve their lot in life.
Sure, there were only one to two hundred people left there, but that was a lot of Sect Points when you extrapolated out to them reaching Foundation Establishment.
On the other hand, the need for rapid advancement had dwindled greatly. He was a Nascent Soul and could go toe-to-toe with anyone on the continent. Sure, eventually reaching Nihility would further ensure his sect’s safety, but there was no reason to feel like he had to focus solely on that goal.