Chapter 175: Life 68, Age 43, Martial King 1
Out in the wilderness with students who knew nothing about soul cultivation, maintaining the appearance of the ‘Great Teacher’ hadn’t been too difficult. I had several libraries worth of books at my fingertips, and I could use them to address any questions or concerns my students raised. This allowed me to maintain a pretense of knowledge and understanding that I didn’t truly possess.
With everyone having come to Profound City, they now had access to nearly all the same books I did. They might not be as quick at searching through them to find relevant passages as I was, and they might not have read as many of them as I had, but little of my knowledge was unique.
I didn’t consider myself some great sage who could pontificate on weighty matters with nothing but my own reasoning. If I wanted to join LiTing at that school and maintain my image as the ‘Great Teacher,’ I needed to rely on knowledge from greater minds than my own.
To do that, I needed to spend credits, but how many credits would I be willing to spend on such an endeavor? The importance of faction building in the sect was crystal clear, and this school was the closest thing I had to a faction. How many credits would maintaining it be worth?
I had already sunk 2 billion credits into soul cultivation in this life, and doing much more than that was questionable. There was still a lot that I needed to buy if I wanted any chance of pushing the limits of Martial Emperor.
So, before doing anything else, I needed to buy everything I considered non-negotiable. I needed to make all the purchases that I had been holding off on because they weren’t yet entirely necessary. Then, once the essentials were taken care of, I would be in a better place to decide how much I could spend on helping me with the school.
“System, increase my alchemy and formation comprehensions to a total of one billion credits each.”
Purchase confirmed. Cost 1,499,479,989 credits. 4,983,184,599 credits remaining.
“Permanently increase my Water and Metal affinities to mid five-star.”