The Undying Immortal System

After returning from the Su Clan, I gathered all the Disciples who had just turned 20 and gave them each a Rank 2 cultivation technique. I considered the trial run on Martial Master advancements that I had done with the leadership council the previous year to be a success, but I made a few changes for this next group.

This time, I abolished the six-month time limit. These Disciples could cultivate using only the information contained in the Rank 2 technique scroll for as long or as short of a time as they wished. The only requirement was that they had to reach Martial Master 1. Then, when they were ready, they could go to the Affinity Hall, have their cultivation base analyzed, and be rewarded based on how far they had advanced. For this initial advancement, they would earn ten times the regular amount of contribution points.

My hope was that this change would encourage them to push themselves as much as possible while not forcing them to waste their time on advancements that would never come. For some of them, Martial Master 1 would be all they would be able to achieve without the information stored in the memory orbs, and that was okay. I just wanted them to push themselves and test their limits.

With my obligations in the clan fulfilled, I wanted to head back to the Verdant Forest Sect and see how SuYin and Bao were coming along, but I didn’t feel safe leaving just yet.

With the island around Mount Jiang teaming with Martial Masters who were scouring the place for loot, the fighting down there was constant. While the members of my clan were safe up atop the plateau, if anyone decided to go down to the island to join this chaos, they would quickly run into trouble.

So, I decided to wait another year before returning to the sect. Neither SuYin nor Bao should be in any danger there, and if they needed my help for some reason, they could send me a message through the Blue Wind Pavilion. I had never been too good at checking for messages in the past, but recently, I made a special point of stopping at the Rosehill Pavilion every time I took the Disciples out on their day trips.

Considering the round-trip time to the sect was nearly two weeks, and that I usually only visited Rosehill once a month, if they did have any problems, it could take me up to a month and a half to get there to help them out. This wasn’t ideal, but it was the best I could do under the circumstances. After the two of them learned everything that they could from the sect, I might need to ask them to return to the Wastes for a while so that I didn’t have to worry about things going wrong while I wasn’t around, but that was a discussion for the future. In the present, I just needed to make sure that my clan was capable of handling the dangers of the island.

Having been Masters for nearly a year by this point, my clan’s leadership council had started making a lot of strides in their studies of Rank 2 skills.

Mo, GuiAi, and ShouLi were all mostly interested in learning profession skills. Mo was focused on formations, GuiAi was learning herbalism, and ShouLi was among the first in the clan to try and learn beast taming.