Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards

"How is it? The city is very meticulous in what it does, don’t you think?" Shanqing asked as he looked at Fengyu’s surprised face.

"Fellow daoist Shanqing, this is more than meticulous! This is giving someone a job, food and even a path. With so many things, even a pig would ascend to immortality!"

"Haha, well, these Cultivation Creation Masters are like that. They even have a specific branch focused solely on the cultivation of beasts, so it’s not a surprise if they really fed a pig to become an immortal!" Shanqing joked, not thinking that this behaviour was wrong. Other creation masters all had their own ticks and unique ’tastes’.

"Even beasts? Then..." Fengyu looked at Zimu in his arms, who had been ignored by all cultivators as always. Something about his pet’s presence made it difficult for others to pay attention to it, or maybe these cultivators he met simply didn’t think much of a small duck.

"Your spiritual duck? Well... its bloodline is good, so it is indeed fine to ask a cultivation master to create a cultivation plan for your beast. It’s just that by doing so, you will be less involved in this matter..." Shanqing looked worriedly at Fengyu. Usually beast tamers didn’t want to use cultivation masters.

Partially because it was expensive, but more importantly, such an act would change their relationship from full dependence to monetary assistance, which was a lot less.

"Hm? Such a thing, fellow daoist... you don’t think it really affects me, do you?" Fengyu was surprised at the man’s worry, "Haha, I walked through life and death with Zimu, and he has always helped me with many things. If I can spend a bit of money to help Zimu advance better, why wouldn’t I?" Fengyu shook his head, but he also knew that these so-called Cultivation Masters weren’t something that he could use for a long time.

In the end, a cultivator knew their own situation best. Revealing everything to someone else was a taboo, even if they’re your parents or master. It was fine to gain advice, but if you don’t take the initiative in cultivation, then your path will be lost. From then on, you will be like a tamed beast to the cultivation master - your everything depending on them.

Fengyu hadn’t heard of cultivation masters before, but he knew deeply about the Yin Spiritual Herding!

Heh, it was nothing much. Just that instead of herding beasts, you herded humans. Instead of focusing on the body, you focused on the soul.

This was clearly a demonic art and forbidden everywhere...

But look at the righteous arts, isn’t there something like a Cultivation Master? What was the difference between raising humans to harvest them, and cultivating humans like tamed beasts?

Fengyu didn’t focus too much on it, knowing that each profession had a dark side, and that he would be fine if he followed his own path.

"Fellow daoist Fengyu, if you really want it, it’s not difficult. The price is the same, so you can just take it. Just make sure that you focus on... Zimu’s path when he attempts to break through to the second stage. Cultivation Masters are known to choose efficient paths or paths that help them instead of the path that the individual wants to take!" Shanqing warned him.

Such an inheritance was important for the city to have, so even if there were dangers, the city wouldn’t stop it. Whether you could see the danger and escape the net in time, or fail and become a puppet, the city didn’t care. In the end, the cultivation master was still a cultivator of their city!

"Thank you, fellow daoist, for warning me! I have my own plans for this and won’t be influenced by the words of others." Fengyu smiled and thanked him, then he asked the question he was most curious about.

"Fellow daoist, please tell me, what is the benefit of inviting others into the Inner City?" although initially he didn’t plan to ask, now that he knew the foundation of the city, he couldn’t help but be curious and have an idea.

"Since fellow daoist has completed the initiation and I witnessed it, then I have already completed my part and will get my benefit, so there is no harm in telling fellow daoist.

Of the three benefits, the first two - cultivation art and inheritance - can absolutely not be touched. You can get it for free when you join, but getting it a second time is nearly impossible. Either you use many resources to achieve it, or... you use the third reward, the request!

With the request, there are many things you can do. For example, you can use it to directly recommend a person to enter the inner city! Recommendation and invitation are different - only those who have awakened a True Spiritual Inspiration can be invited, but with a request, you can invite those with lesser inspirations or no inspiration at all.

You can also use this request to gain rare cultivation resources or breakthrough items.

This is a rare opportunity and you will think deeply about what to use it for since you only get it once... except when you invite someone!

If the person is eligible and enters, you gain this special reward - the request! There is no other reward, but this reward alone is something everyone is seeking!

That’s why the inner city has so many new members joining every year.

In our city, those with a clean lineage who can recommend eight or ten cultivators basically have a true path to the higher ranks, reaching at least the third stage!

If I wasn’t lucky to be the first to see fellow daoist, then I can honestly say that you would have been approached by every cultivator with some insight." Shanqing didn’t hide anything and explained honestly.

Fengyu nodded, not disappointed at all, but rather gaining an understanding of why everything happened so hastily.

If he didn’t complete the initiation as soon as possible, wouldn’t Shanqing be worried he might be snatched by others?

Fengyu didn’t care and chatted a bit more with Shanqing, gradually getting to know each other.

He found out that Shanqing had great insight and actually cultivated his eyes, following a special Battle Art - but he was weak and generally people didn’t think he was a battle master, so he generally didn’t reveal it and even used his insight to learn a bit of everything!