Chapter 11: Labor Tirelessly in the Pursuit of Immortality
"In today's world, a mortal who wants to cultivate immortality has no more than a few options." Kou Hong patiently explained.
"One is to join the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is a loose alliance formed by many cultivators where one can earn contribution points by taking on and completing quests or trading with others. With the contribution points, one can then exchange for cultivation techniques and resources from the alliance."
"Second is the Five Elders Association. The Five Elders Association is an organization created by five top-tier powerhouses, and it wields significant influence. As long as one has the qualifications to cultivate, one can voluntarily join and choose a cultivation technique. The price is that one needs to sign a soul contract and serve the Five Elders Association for a certain amount of time."
"The third is to choose to join the local forces around the world. Although these forces can't be compared to the previous two, the local forces tend to be more cohesive and generally don't involve dangerous missions, which is more suitable for those with laid-back dispositions. As for certain other chaotic organizations, they are not very reliable, so let's not mention them." Kou Hong slowly explained the general situation of today's cultivation world.
Li Fan frowned at his words and was a bit puzzled, "From your description, why does it seem like cultivation techniques are not that scarce in the cultivation world?"
Kou Hong snorted coldly, "That's because the techniques obtained through these organizations are all incomplete."
"Incomplete?" Li Fan stared blankly, then suddenly realized. "If you want to obtain a higher level-technique, you have to continue to sell your life for them?"
"Not bad!" Kou Hong replied bitterly. "All techniques have been crippled by major factions in recent years, and cultivating them to the peak of Foundation Establishment is the limit. If you want to break through to the next realm, you have to switch to a higher level technique every further realm you reach."
"Switching techniques? If one has to replace their cultivation technique and cultivate from the beginning every realm breakthrough, wouldn't that mean that all the previous efforts were in vain?" Li Fan was shocked.