Sage had returned before this whole plot against the Yi Yang Group was put into motion. He arrived just in ti to offer up so rewards for their performance. These rewards were already sothing he planned on giving out to the whole Lang Clan, so the only actual reward they received was getting priority spots in line. Funny enough, most of the fighting was done by Sages children and the Dragoons. For Sages kids, the real reward was deciding the order of entry for their own descendants while the Dragoons were rewarded with the right to start families and retire from the front lines.
The many hundreds of direct mbers of the Lang Clan were put into a rotation so that each of them could take a two week vacation to visit the Inner World. After treating the Yi Yang Group so fiercely, they pulled back from most of their commitnts to protect themselves carefully. Other than the continuing harassnt of the Yue Clan, the rest of the Lang Clan buttoned up, reducing the business hours of their operations and recalling most of their forces back to Lionheart Town and Golden Cricket Cove. Not only were they preparing for retaliation, they were also doing it while short-handed.
The two week vacation that the clan slowly cycled through actually turned into a 40 year stay on the Inner World. After Sage advanced again, the scale of ti also shifted. Every stage of Nascent Soul he surpassed boosted ti by 100 tis. Now that he was in the tenth stage, a peak Nascent Soul, it was a thousand tis faster on the Inner World than the outside world. It took only slightly longer than fourteen and a half days for a full forty years to go by. Returning to the Inner World for such a long ti would not really be that beneficial for them as theyd just started to entrench themselves in the outside world, but that is why these two weeks were split up into eight smaller stays that spanned five years each.
Each of the mbers of the Lang Clan would be gone for less than two days, spending five years on the Inner World. Then they would return for a few weeks before heading back again. This gave them ample ti to learn new skills on the Inner World, then so ti to put them into practice on the outside world before returning to learn sothing new or to refine the things that didnt work as they expected on the outside world.
Just like the culture of the Inner World, Sage didnt want to intercede too much. There were so things that he tried to promote or invent from Earth that he brought to the Inner World and his Clan because he missed them or because he knew how useful they were. Yet, there were many other inventions and devices that he never bothered with. Other than the basic infrastructure related to human needs: water, sewage, heating and cooling, he had only selfishly created airships, entertainnt dia, and bio-computers. Hed also greatly improved the power of propaganda by using news style broadcasts instead of relying on flyers and word of mouth like the current rulers did, but in most other cases he allowed the people to grow in their own ways.
Most of the advancents in relation to bio-computers and the dia were still being controlled. There were many businesses and facilities offering access to them, but they were not offered to every citizen in ho versions. Most of the mid-range Cultivators could probably afford them, but Sage had encouraged a group model so that everyone could have access rather than only Cultivators. The Cultivators paid for access to priority services, and these costs could then pay for the public screens.
The Lang Clan itself were the only ones who received their own Adjutors, which was also the main reward they were receiving from this trip. Most of them chose to make them their linked insect as this was many tis more beneficial than not, but there were so who had special battle partners insects that chose not to. So of them used this ti to fuse the two together, but others just used the Adjutor as an assistant while keeping their linked insect the sa as before. The good thing about the Adjutor was that they could link and unlink to them anyti they wanted. These bugs were specially bred for this and unlike others where it was usually easier to just breed a new one to link with, the Adjutors treated a specific mber of the Clan as their forever master and would remain completely loyal whether they were linked or not.
This extended period of ti on the Inner World was ant so the Lang Clan could digest all the gains that the Inner World had made over thousands of years. The advancent in techniques, engineering, dia, professions, and all sorts of other things could all be brought out with them and used to improve the Clan in the future. In fact, Sage had long ago lost the ability to know everything going on in the Inner World. He could only rely on the researchers of the Lang Clan on the inside to do most of the heavy lifting in that regard.
Before leaving for the Depths, Sage planned it as a sort of test run to see how the Lang Clan functioned without him. If things went well he assud that hed be leaving for a long ti afterwards to pursue higher realms. While he cared for his family, the path to higher levels was still a mystery and the only way hed been able to advance his laws so far had been to follow his curiosity and stumble upon lucky opportunities. If he were to stay with the Clan there was no telling when or if hed ever advance again.
He never imagined hed run into a huge opportunity in the Depths. The Realm Heart that Guan Zhenyan helped him take control of was likely many tis more beneficial than Icefire Valley had been. Unfortunately, Guan Zhenyan told him that the more people experienced it, the worse the effect would be. It was also a prerequisite to already have a decent grasp upon the laws so only Nascent Souls were suitable to study there. He was tempted to bring along the strongest mbers of the Purple Mist Sect, but as Demonic Beasts their comprehension ability was much worse than a human, even as low as Sages was, and even if they were using Human Seals.
Talent, the perception of energy in the body as Sage understood it, was very important to reaching Core Formation in a short ti. Yet, the knowledge of how to advance laws was controlled by those at the top and so Sage had no idea what actually controlled it. His own rate of advancent to a peak Nascent Soul was very quick, especially when considering how slowly he moved through the first four ranks. Then again, his rapid rise only happened after he started to incorporate the bodies of other creatures into his own. Perhaps the combination of the human mind with a more powerful beast body was the key to his success? His Clan would be a great example of this, as they were all quite talented. Even so, none of them had broken through into a Nascent Soul like he had so there was so other quality he was clueless of.
Either way, now that he had such a great opportunity in front of him, there was no need for him to leave imdiately. In a few decades the Realm Heart should beco active and he would have the perfect opportunity to advance. At that ti, whether he advanced or not he planned to fulfill a promise. A prior deal hed made with Guan Zhenyan demanded he perform a task for him within 300 years. Hopefully, hed be ready to take it on at that ti.
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