After looking at each other, Master Ming quickly opens his mouth to explain the Senior level contract.
The focus for this contract was protection, training, and secrecy.
The protection aspect will be focused on any threats from core formation experts and above. Your ability will catch quite a bit of unwanted attention and already has. With our power back and the networks that well have access to, we will constrain most unsavory movents. Though we have our work cut out for us. Not only that, but we will need to make sure elents that critically shouldnt be involved wont be.
I give a glance at the others to see their thoughts, revealing grim faces all around.
Id be a fool not to understand the ramifications of my ability.
Instantly refilling qi. Able to easily restore broken cultivation bases. Healing fatal and long-lasting injuries with a wave of the hand.
In this cultivation world, while there are many cultivators who have had their cultivations unjustly broken, there are that many more ones that truly deserve not to have that level of power again.
The only issue with this is that theyll be deciding who deserves it or not.
I dont know these elders. These seem nice, but who wouldnt after seeing and receiving such things from ?
Except for Sister Nuan, I dont trust them fully. And the only reason I trust Sister Nuan is because I get a strong feeling that she actually cares about as a person, rather than a resource. Adding to that, Im her only disciple, which has so far-reaching implications Im still grasping.
So, everything is predicated on who is the ones that can allow people into the contract. Obviously, . But who else?
Its almost as if they can read my mind, as the next words from Master Mings mouth ease my growing tension.
No need to worry, Disciple Jas. Only you and your Master will have the ability to add others to the contract. We will have suggestions and introduce others, but you two will have to approve them to be added.
To be specific, she can add people into the contract, but you will have the ability to veto it within a few days. Depending on what they learned during that ti, the person may have their mory of secret things wiped. Their cultivation wont be touched, though.
He adds in a brief note, as if as an afterthought.
Regarding people under that level, we believe it would constrain your potential to take care of threats at that level. Not only that, but we wouldnt have the ti to do so, with the sheer amount to handle at the levels above.
Understandable. I also wouldnt want them hovering around all the ti. There are still so secrets Id like to keep away from their curious eyes.
Elder Li, the defensive techniques master, speaks up next.
Regarding the training aspect, you can expect regular training from anyone who accepts the contract. The only requirent is that you have to ask for it and have it done reasonably. Your Master will moderate the reasonable aspect. We an no disrespect, but most elders will know her and her judgent more than yours, giving you a better chance of bringing an elder on.
He can see my train of thought on this and quickly expounds on his words.
You should consider one large thing with this clause. You can ask them to train you on anything that they know. Regularly.
This includes their secret techniques, if you know of them. For so elders, they will teach you such things to pass them on, even if you didnt know of them.
He takes this chance to push out his chest.
Of course, Im one of them.
No one wants to learn your shitty techniques, Li.
Senior Tians voice floats over with a quip. Elder Li gives him a scowl before continuing.
Nonetheless, we believe this is fair in terms of what both you and the seniors in question will be receiving.
Ah, but thats the thing, isnt it? They still havent said what the Senior contracts will be getting from .
Despite the obvious question in the air, they move on, with Senior Tian speaking next.
And as could be expected, any senior signing onto the contract will follow the sa rules as for the other contract. And with similar penalties.
except these penalties will have a bit more of a kick than most would.
His deanor shifts slightly, as I can feel a rush of excitent from him.
Besides the death, mory, and cultivation dispersal, Ive had it deal more than a little damage to the cultivator soul. More than I think anyone at my level has done before. While it wont cripple a nascent soul state, it will buy more ti to make moves against such a soul.
And my crowning achievent is this, with both of the contracts. You can contract as many as you want with this. Built into the contract, is a need to infuse a certain amount of qi into it for every person who joins, so of which will go to you. Nothing permanent, just the sa way that a qi sharing stance would do. But with your ability and Little Song here, you can fulfill that qi requirent for seniors as much and as often as you want.
He seems to calm down after speaking all of this pretty quickly.
Ah right. You may not know, but the normal way to have contracts is to have a certain number of allowed contractees or to have the contract be done all at once, with anyone participating part of that one event.
Right. The demi human contract was like the last type, where everyone had to be there at once. Otherwise, it would have been so much easier to just add people over ti.
with this guy here, maybe I can have more like it.
Or even better, learn how to do it myself.
It seems like he can tell my train of thought, as he gives that strange crazed grin.
I didnt think Id be able to make contracts again, so with this, if you want to know anything, ask anyti.
Hehe, itll be quite fun seeing those geezers faces. And this ti, I wont be caught in the sa way.
His disturbing mutterings, with so slight giggles, bothers . So, I look at Sister Nuan instead.
Shes shaking her head.
Revenge fantasies are sothing, huh?
I really hope I never fall into sothing like that.
Why did that feel like a flag?
Ah well.
But things quickly fall silent.
Theres one last thing to talk about.
What I need to do for them.
Sister Nuan is the one that says this part.
In exchange for those benefits, when convenient, you will need to heal the contractees to the best of your ability. To the sa or greater extent that you had done for us.
She doesnt say anything else.
Is that it?
Ah, right.
I forgot the state of healing techniques in this land.
That there are many alchemists, but few true healing technique cultivators.
Alchemy is the one size fits most solution. While taking a lot of skill and dedication, you dont have to focus your fully focus your cultivation on it to receive the benefits of the craft. If you are skilled enough, you can treat even the toughest conditions with enough ti, resources, and knowledge. So, many cultivators will opt for alchemy to pursue sothing else in cultivation.
But there are situations where that isnt enough. Where ti, resources, and possibly knowledge arent enough. Not only that, but there may not be another solution, other than to dig deep into a persons body to fix them.
Thats where a healing cultivator cos in.
To put it simply, it is like the difference in my world between a physician and a surgeon.
A physician tries to encourage the body to heal itself, while surgeons act directly on the body to fix things. If the situation is favorable and you have ti to treat a condition, a physician can take care of most of your needs. But, in the most critical, urgent ones you need a surgeon.
All surgeons are physicians, while not all physicians are surgeons.
Successful healing cultivators have to have a wide and deep knowledge base, encompassing alchemy as well. Built into many of the techniques are ways to interact with the body in different ways, depending on the situation. Knowing the different healing items and additional ways to induce healing is extrely helpful in lightening the load on their cultivation techniques. This doesnt even include the poison aspect of alchemy and how to combat it.
But the breadth and depth of the healing cultivation field is too deep for most people. One wrong move with your technique and you cause irreparable damage.
So, it is a realm left to the masters and experts in the field.
A critical and respected one, but one that is not taken lightly.
The only reason that groups like the Yellow Sashes and other people allowed to heal them, with my obvious young age, is that I was working on those who were almost lost, anyway. And had made a na for myself as an alchemist, who already proved my knowledge of the body.
With that said, even being healed like this once is a debt that cant be pushed away easily.
And having casual access to a healer thats been shown to pull off impossible procedures like this? It would definitely be worth its weight in spirit stones.
Either way, her words stand on its own. All the seniors here believe that this is a reasonable trade.
I find it strange that they didnt ntion that I have to keep their secrets but I wont say anything about that.
As I think this, everyone looks towards the Senior contract.
Theyre ready to start.
And almost as if they coordinated it, they reach towards it together.
It shines stereotypically in response to their actions. I follow their lead and do the sa, and I have a similar feeling to when I signed the contract with the demi humans. A vibration and a feeling of sothing slotting into place within myself and others.
A connection.
And then its done.
I can clearly feel that Sister Nuan and I are in control of things, and if necessary, could release them from the contract.
Soone lets a breath out.
As I turn towards the sound, I can see it's Elder Li.
Ah, right, I need to heal them as well.
This shouldnt take long. And then it will be off to grab my new soon to be contractees.
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