Chapter 278: The Wilderness Plan
A few weeks passed where Li Lang had been in closed-door cultivation. He only came out once a week to check in with his companions, but otherwise remained within Ruby’s artifact space.
This was all made possible thanks to all the Nourishment Pills he had refined in the past. Though he hadn’t been refining as many of them recently, as he had plans to share the pill recipe with any of his students interested in alchemy. For now, he wanted to wait until they settled down in a more permanent residence first.
There were various steps one must take in order to establish an organization. It wasn’t simply gathering enough people, building a place, and calling it a day. Well, one could do that, but it wouldn’t be a proper organization that could stand up to the scrutiny of the rest of Violet Isle.
That’s why, besides learning and polishing his techniques, Li Lang had been preparing everything before they departed Emberglow City. These things included a standardized curriculum for his current and future students and how their organization would function.
Whether he liked it or not, an organization or sect wasn’t a charity. To operate, they needed funding, rules, traditions, and everything that allowed a group to function smoothly.
One of the most crucial pieces to his preparations was completed, thanks to Ruby’s new abilities—a method to increase willpower. The accelerated time gave him more leeway to test out various methods to find what was most promising. It still needed long-term study to verify the results, as the artifact space reset his progress after reentering. A day or two of progress could only get him so far, although it did enable him to observe without other methods polluting the results.
However, despite all his progress, there was one important aspect he couldn’t make any promising headways in—the subject of demonic cultivation.
Having promised the organizations of Luminescent Domain to include demonic cultivators into his ranks, he would soon need to train some of his new students in demonic techniques. The issue was that his entire group consisted of orthodox cultivators. None of them could practice demonic cultivation techniques, which meant he was reduced to an armchair theorist.
That’s why he consulted with the experts before they finally departed from the city.
“Thank you for making the time to see me, Senior Tai,” Li Lang greeted.
“I heard your group is leaving tomorrow? Are you here to say goodbye?” the Bloodwave Conclave disciple asked in return.
“Yes, but we can still remain in close contact through the communication jade. Or we can also visit. We don’t plan on relocating anywhere too far from here.”