As Benton walked through the forest far from any of his sect mbers, he contemplated what to do with the points he had available to increase his personal power. Seventy-eight points was an unprecedented amount, more than enough to max out his ultimate juggernaut combat build.
His first step was obvious, to max out everything he was currently working on. Since he had so many, he went ahead and used four points to bring both Analyze and Pill Basics to Mastery, even though neither was of critical importance. Eight more advanced the Seeking Speeding Arrow and the Pause Ti techniques to Mastery as well. Finally, another eight brought him to Foundation Establishnt minor realm nine.
That was it. Done. His plan for a combat style that had seed so out of reach just a short while ago was now complete, and he still had fifty-eight points remaining. Astounding.
Ti to advance to Golden Core.
The only problem was that neither he nor Su knew much about the realm.
“System, please bring up the Advancent nu.”
Welco, Host, to the Advancent nu. You have 411 Sect Points available.
Please select one of the following options:
Increase Cultivation
Increase Body Cultivation
Add/Modify/Increase Technique
He was still astounded every ti he saw the absurd amount of Sect Points he had available. With how long it took his sect mbers to get to Foundation Establishnt and how many points he had stocked up, he honestly wouldn’t feel bad about devoting even another hundred or two to his growth. His only hesitation was that he didn’t want to advance so quickly that he couldn’t control his power.
“System, I’d like to please add a technique.”
Please specify the technique to add.
“I want to beco an expert on cultivation in the Golden Core realm, both to guide my sect mbers’ cultivation when they reach that level and to understand how to best form my build to take advantage of the power the realm provides .”
Host currently has 411 Sect Points.
Spend one Sect Point to attain Expert Golden Core Cultivation Technique: Small Success?
Techniques worked a bit differently than cultivation thods in regards to major realms. A technique related to knowledge or internal qi manipulation was only classified as Qi Gathering even if the cultivator learning it was in a higher realm. Thus, the technique for gaining knowledge about a higher cultivation realm was still relatively inexpensive for Benton.
Well experienced by that point with having loads of information dumped directly into his brain, he sank into a lotus position. “System, please give the technique and advance it all the way to Mastery.”
The System confird his choice, subtracting four Sect Points, and information flooded his brain.
In the Qi Gathering realm, cultivators gained the ability to sense qi, pull it into their body, and manipulate it internally. Foundation Establishnt allowed cultivators to manipulate qi externally, using it to power attacks and defend against them in turn. At Golden Core, cultivators embarked on a long, intense process to form a Concept related to their qi aspect.
A Concept developed when a cultivator solidified understanding of their qi aspect into a concrete set of beliefs. Prior to that point, the cultivator’s qi was sowhat malleable. Was void an absence of matter or a substance that abhorred matter? The answer depended on the cultivator, and it could shift so that techniques using both could be employed by the sa cultivator as long as they could justify the underpinning belief.
Forming a Concept eliminated that flexibility. So techniques would have to be discarded if they fundantally conflicted.
In return for the added constraint, a Concept granted extraordinary power. The amount of a damage done by a fireball flung by a Foundation Establishnt cultivator simply didn’t compare to the sa fireball flung by a Golden Core cultivator whose understanding of fire incorporated great damage.
By the sa token, Golden Core cultivators were usually able to conceptualize their qi as a tangible thing and use it to support devices like flying swords. So grew their understanding so much that they were able to convert their entire beings into qi, allowing them to imitate teleportation.
As a practical matter, a cultivator advancing from the peak of Foundation Establishnt to the beginning of Golden Core gained only a large quantity of available qi. It took years of ditation and reflection to convert their understanding of their qi aspect into a Concept.
Benton, courtesy of the Sect Leader System, had a cheat.
“System, please create a personal technique solidifying my Concept of void as abhorring all matter.”
Host cannot form a Concept as Host has not reached the Golden Core realm.
Okay. Well, that kind of made sense.
Benton shucked off all his clothes, putting them several yards away from him. “System, please advance to the first minor realm of Golden Core.”
Calculating…
Host has t requirents to ascend to Golden Core.
Host is currently at Foundation Establishnt: Minor Realm Nine.
Spend four Sect Points to attain Golden Core: Minor Realm One?
Wait a second. Hold the phone.
“System, what requirents have I t to be allowed to use my Sect Points to ascend to Golden Core?”
Host has t the following requirents to ascend to Golden Core:
Has founded sect
Has more than 100 sect mbers
Has a Loyalty exceeding six
“System, you’re saying that, if I hadn’t filled each of those criteria, I wouldn’t have been able to advance?”
Correct.
Overall, the System had been really good to Benton, but he was beginning to get a little bit annoyed at its present behavior.
“System, when were you going to tell about this little stipulation?”
Host was inford when Host attempted to advance to Golden Core.
Of course, that was the answer. Never mind that not informing him beforehand could have been a disaster had he attempted to advance in an ergency and not been allowed to.
“System, why the heck is the deal with this restriction? I could have been killed if it had popped up at the wrong ti.”
Host chose the Sect Leader System, not another system. Host’s focus should be on leading a sect. Personal strength is a necessary part of being a Sect Leader, but it is a ans, not an objective. Starting with the Golden Core, certain requirents involving the Host’s sect must be t in order to ascend.
Benton wasn’t all that happy with how he’d been inford, but he got the point. He was very glad that he had, in fact, been focusing on building the sect and that his sect mbers thought well of him. The whole thing could have turned into a debacle otherwise.
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“System, what are the requirents to reach Nascent Soul?”
Host has not t the following requirents to ascend to Nascent Soul:
Has more than fifty percent of sect mbers living on the sect grounds
Has more than 1,000 sect mbers
Has a Loyalty exceeding 6.5
Well, he definitely had so work to do, and it was a little disappointing that he couldn’t just keep signing up people and use those points to beco immortal without eting the requirents. Honestly, though, recruiting more people and making their lives better were always the essential part of his plan.
Realistically, he was less than a year out from eting the first of the criteria, and he had plenty of potential recruits to fulfill the second. A year or two would surely put him past one thousand mbers. And for the final one, it seed like the villagers liked him a lot. As long as he didn’t do anything to screw up his reputation, the last one should be filled simultaneously with the second.
He'd just have to avoid fighting any Nascent Soul cultivators until then.
“System, please spend the four points to advance to Golden Core.”
Choice accepted. Host has 403 Sect Points remaining.
For the second ti in a matter of months, Benton’s body was purged of impurities, and a putrid, toxic sludge was ejected from his pores. Once again, he nearly gagged. At least, he didn’t ruin his clothes that ti.
After scrubbing himself thoroughly, dissolving the ss that ca out of his body with void qi, and getting dressed once again, he considered how many points he should spend imdiately.
“System, please create a personal technique solidifying my Concept of void as abhorring all matter.”
Host currently has 403 Sect Points.
Spend four Sect Points to attain Void Concept Technique: Small Success?
“System, confirm choice.”
What happened next wasn’t the flood of information that he’d expected. Instead of gaining knowledge, he experienced the weird sensation of having his beliefs solidify. It was like he’d spent his life as a political independent and suddenly beca a hardcore partisan. The other side’s views could no longer possibly be considered reasonable in any way.
He could no longer believe that void was the absence of matter. It was solely a substance that abhorred matter.
Trippy. Very trippy.
Benton had to test what the change actually ant. “System, please create a personal technique allowing to make storage rings using void qi.”
Technique contradicts Host’s Concept. Technique cannot be created.
That result was exactly what Benton had expected. Creating storage rings with void qi involved thinking of void as nothingness. If you created a ring filled with void that abhorred matter, anything put inside the ring would be destroyed.
“System, please create a technique for my sect mbers, allowing them to make storage rings using void qi.”
Cultivation Realm set to Foundation Establishnt.
Sect Point Factor set to two.
Select Applicability:
Targeted to Specific Qi Aspect
Sliding Scale (Specify)
Any Qi Aspect
Okay. That was a relief. For a mont, he’d been afraid that his Concept would prevent him from creating techniques for his disciples that went against his understanding of the aspect.
Of course, he could only intellectually understand that soone could consider void as the absence of matter even though the idea seed literally ludicrous to him. The consequence of his new powerup was that his creativity regarding void was forever restricted. For all the aspects for which he ford a Concept, he’d be much more reliant on his sect mbers to define how their qi aspect worked in a particular technique.
The quantity of Concepts Benton needed would consu massive amounts of Sect Points, too. An opposing Golden Core cultivator would laugh off the best attack a Foundation Establishnt cultivator could throw at them as simply not being powerful enough. Using enhanced qi in such a fight was necessary.
Benton currently employed Void, Gravity, Ti, and Space extensively. He needed Concepts for each of those aspects to supercharge his main techniques. At sixteen points a pop to get each to Mastery, that was a total of sixty-four points, more than he had remaining.
Worse, those weren’t the only aspects he used.
Both his shield and his main attack used variable qi based on his opponents’ attack or defense. The reality of the situation was that, in order to be a true juggernaut Golden Core cultivator who could protect his sect from all enemies in that realm, he needed Mastery of the Concepts for all the qi aspects he would possibly use.
Of course, such a feat was impossible. There were conceivably an infinite number of qi aspects. In practical terms, accounting for the five primary aspects and a good number of the most common secondary ones would account for almost all circumstances. Leaving sixteen points available for anyti he might encounter sothing esoteric should cover the rest.
That was still a massive number of Sect Points that he needed to spend.
He had forty-six points out of the original seventy-eight left, which wouldn’t make a dent in the number of Concepts he needed. On the other hand, he had no real use for the nearly four hundred points devoted to his sect mbers. By the ti even a fraction of those were needed, he’d have gained so many more that reserving them was pointless.
Overall, he felt pretty good about using a good chunk of them.
Advancing his four most used aspects to Concept Mastery was a no brainer. Adding the five primary elents was also sothing he would prefer to do since it would account for around three quarters of likely attacks and defenses.
Of course, those expenditures added up to a total of one hundred forty more Sect Points to spend. He had to draw the line sowhere.
Four secondary aspects. That was the line. He’d stop after adding Mastery of his Concepts of Ice, Lightning, Poison, and Illusion.
The next step was much more tedious. Benton was, obviously, a cheating cheater who cheats when it ca to how much easier he advanced everything cultivation related compared to normal cultivators. Whereas a normal cultivator would spend years ditating on their qi aspect in order to develop a Concept, he just had to formulate an idea and tell it to the System. He still had to figure out what that idea was, though, for each of twelve new Concepts he was adding.
That process took a while. Once he’d finished, he used his main attack to target a dead tree with a re ten qi. The entire trunk and a portion of the ground several feet in diater disappeared.
Yeah. He was definitely more powerful. Much more powerful.
Benton pulled up his status.
Sect Na:Rising TideSect mbers:111Disciples:55Sect Points:195Shop Points:79Host Cultivation:Golden Core - Minor Realm OneQi Available:524,270Host Body Cultivation:Silver - Minor Realm OneHost Techniques (Qi Gathering): Analysis - Mastery Basic Archery - Mastery Basic Spear Combat - Mastery Expert Golden Core Cultivation: Mastery Pill Basics - MasteryHost Techniques (Foundation Establishnt): Automatic Reaction Variable Shield: Mastery Folded Space Quickstep: Mastery Layered Variable Shield Breaker with Void Finisher Weapon Augntation: Mastery Pause Ti - Mastery Seeking Speeding Arrow: Mastery Variable AoE Gravity Burst: MasteryHost Techniques (Golden Core Concepts):Earth - MasteryFire - MasteryGravity - MasteryIce - MasteryIllusion - MasteryLightning - Masterytal - MasteryPoison - MasterySpace - MasteryTi - MasteryVoid - MasteryWater - MasteryWood - Mastery nus:[Cultivation thod][Technique][Quest][Perk][Advancent][Shop][Sect]
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