The Undying Immortal System Chapter 238: Life 73, Age 36, Martial Grandmaster Peak

With the first group of Disciples advancing to Martial Master, there were a few expansions that needed to happen to our settlent on Mount Jiang, and the first one I wanted to tackle was an extension to our Technique Hall.

At the mont, the hall was a rather empty single-story structure. It only contained the three bookcases with the Rank 1 cultivation techniques and one bookcase with the orbs containing basic crafting and martial skills. This limited selection of techniques had been sufficient in the clan’s early days, but I had hundreds of techniques filling up my ntal library. There was no reason to let them go to waste.

However, there was one major problem. My ntal library could only be used by . If I wanted to make the knowledge it contained available to others, I would need to first write it all down by hand, and I had no desire to hand copy countless technique scrolls. So, I could only turn to the System for assistance.

After thinking through the problem, I ca up with a few possible solutions, and while I doubted its feasibility, I decided to check out my most outlandish idea first.

“System, how much would it cost for to gain the ability to project my ntal library into the physical world so that anyone could read the books that it contains?”

Cost is not possible to calculate at this ti.

This answer wasn’t exactly a surprise, but it was still a bit disappointing. My second idea was no doubt dood to failure as well.

“System, how much would it cost for to gain the ability to automatically create mory orbs similar to those that I purchased for the Rank 1 cultivation techniques? I would want to be able to select an orb and technique and then have this ability fill the orb with all the information needed to use the technique properly. It only needs to work with Rank 1 techniques, and it only needs to include knowledge that I already possess, but I want the quality and breadth of information to match what is in the orbs I previously purchased.”

Cost is not possible to calculate at this ti.

Unfortunate, but I knew that I had been asking for a lot. That kind of ability would have needed to actively make decisions about what information to include, and such a feature went well beyond any of the abilities I had purchased previously.

“Alright, System, what about a similar technique that, again, only works on Rank 1 techniques, but this ti, I just want it to be able to directly copy information from the technique scrolls in my ntal library.”

Cost 1,000,000 credits.

That wasn’t too bad, and the cost should remain reasonable with higher-level techniques. There were enough advantages to learning techniques from mory orbs instead of scrolls that I saw a lot of value in this kind of ability, but I just didn’t have enough orbs to make it worthwhile for the ti being.

“Okay, System, what about an ability that can copy information from my ntal library directly onto a blank book or scroll? Again, it only needs to work on Rank 1 information.”

Cost 10,000 credits.

“How much if it works up to Rank 3?”

Cost 1,000,000 credits.

“Purchase.”

Purchase confird. 743,017,430,897 credits remaining.

That would let do the bulk of what I wanted to do, but I still needed to deal with the Rank 2 cultivation techniques. I wanted to provide new Martial Masters with easy access to all the information they needed to create a solid foundation, and that ant purchasing new orbs that contained the necessary knowledge. �

Unfortunately, my supply of fresh mory orbs was quickly dwindling. I had less than 50 left by this point, and I needed them for more than just teaching people basic techniques. After running the numbers several tis, I had to concede that I just didn’t have enough orbs to do everything I wanted to do. I would only be able to provide orbs for the most basic techniques, and everything else would need to be learned from scrolls.

I riffled through my ntal library and found the 9 Low-Yellow Rank 2 cultivation techniques that matched up with the Low-Yellow Rank 1 techniques that I had previously purchased. Then, I took out nine orbs and placed them down in front of .

“System, copy all the knowledge necessary to cultivate these techniques properly into these orbs, including information on training thods such as the use of practice ridians. I also want you to include information on how to deconstruct and disperse ridians to abolish one’s cultivation base. The orbs only need to contain knowledge I already possess.”

Purchase confird. Cost 9 million credits. 743,008,430,897 credits remaining.

This would only provide the mbers of my clan with a starting point for Rank 2 cultivation, but it should be enough to give them a huge head start when compared to others on the continent.

Orbs in hand, I went to each of the six new Martial Masters and had them each absorb the mories from the proper orb. Then, sent them to cultivate in seclusion. After that, I ran over to Dragon Gate City, purchased a variety of supplies, and got down to redecorating the Technique Hall.

Designing and building the kind of library/Technique Hall that I envisioned was no simple task. It needed to be able to hold hundreds, if not thousands, of books and scrolls, and all these books needed to be sorted and arranged so that a person could quickly find what they were looking for.

If I tried to do everything myself, this was a task that could take decades to accomplish. So, wisely, I didn’t do it. Instead, I simply built out the basic frawork for a Technique Hall and placed a wide assortnt of books and scrolls inside.

I expanded the bottom floor of the hall by a few hundred square ters and built a second floor for storing the Rank 2 techniques. On each floor, I created a single large bookcase for each profession and filled it with any techniques that seed useful. Then, I filled several more bookcases with random cultivation techniques. There was one bookcase each for the Yellow-, Profound-, and Earth-Rank techniques of each elent, for a total of 27 additional bookcases on each floor.

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Later, I would need to talk to ShouLi in her role as head of the leadership council about designing a proper Technique Hall and finding soone to be a librarian, but I wouldn’t disturb her cultivation for such a mundane task.

With a basic library setup in place, I next expanded the number of professions that were available.

“System, fill 3 mory orbs with all the Rank 1 knowledge of herbalism, beast taming, and illusions that would be expected from soone expert on this continent.”

Purchase confird. Cost 3 million credits. 743,005,430,897 credits remaining.

“Fill 7 orbs with similar Rank 2 information on each of the seven professions, excluding gu keeping.”

Purchase confird. Cost 700 million credits. 742,308,430,897 credits remaining.

While I still didn’t know what kind of setup would be necessary for illusionists or beast tars to practice their craft, with the knowledge in these orbs, the mbers of my clan should be able to figure it out for themselves.

However, I did have a solid idea of how to establish areas to practice herbalism. We could ape the Verdant Forest Sect.

The island around the base of Mount Jiang was perfect for growing all kinds of herbs, from Rank 1 to Rank 3. The only problem was that my barrier and fog formations had drawn the attention of countless treasure hunters. If anyone attempted to set up an herb field down there, it would likely be looted and destroyed before the seeds even had a chance to sprout.

This didn’t make setting up such a field impossible, though. Any herbalist who wanted to do so would just need to pay warriors and formation specialists to protect it. Rank 1 herbs might not be valuable enough to make this worthwhile, but since warriors would be down there fighting invaders to train their martial arts skills anyway, protecting an herb field while doing so would just be a way to make a few extra contribution points.

Since Mo had already taken charge of the workshops, I let him decide how to handle this. At the sa ti, I also told him to designate areas for private gardens, either on top of buildings or in open spaces around the plateau. This would give herbalists a place to do small-scale experints without needing to worry about invaders.

With the library and workshops ready to go, I next worked on upgrading the Affinity Hall.

While I hadn’t yet seen any degradation in the rate at which people’s affinities were improving, I was still getting a bit worried about depleting the area’s ambient essence. The low affinity levels that people in the Wastes were typically born with showed that there wasn’t much free essence in the environnt to begin with, and constantly running Essence Gathering Formations couldn’t be helping things.

Long term, I needed to set up gathering formations around the continent, store the essence they collected, and then bring it back for my people to use. However, that would require a significant amount of work to both set up and maintain.

A better option would be to find so type of essence spirit fire, but various inquiries to the System on that topic made think that finding one wasn’t very likely. Not in the short term, at least.

Essence and affinities would no doubt beco a problem in the future, but to settle things for the mont, I moved the Affinity Hall with the Rank 1 formations to the northeast corner of the plateau and built a new Rank 2 Affinity Hall in the southwest corner. I could only hope that this separation would be enough to delay any problems with essence depletion long enough to let solve the problem for good.

Next to these halls, I constructed brand new Cultivation Halls with Rank 1 and 2 Qi Gathering Formations. While I wasn’t expecting any problems with qi depletion any ti soon, I didn’t see any reason not to go ahead and separate these just in case.

Finally, I had to deal with creating a formation that could scan a Martial Master’s energy body and award them contribution points based on how well they had cultivated. The complexity involved in this was a bit beyond . What criteria should I even use when determining how many points to award?

Ideally, ridian placent would be an important factor in such judgnts, but if a person’s Rank 2 cultivation technique didn’t match up well with their Rank 1 technique, ridian placent beca extrely difficult, and there typically wasn’t a ‘good’ way to do it.

So instead, I decided to just have the formation focus on the quality and regularity of the weave of a person’s ridians. This was only a small part of what it ant to cultivate as a Martial Master, but it should be sufficient for my purposes. Proper placent could then simply beco a requirent for being allowed to advance to Grandmaster.

Unfortunately, I still didn’t have the necessary schematics for creating such a formation, so I could only turn to the System for assistance.

“System, I want a formation to test a Martial Master’s cultivation base. It should be similar to the one I previously purchased for testing a Disciple’s. Points should be awarded based on the weave and regularity of a person’s ridians, with a total possible reward of 1,000 points per level.”

Purchase confird. Cost 5 billion credits. 737,308,430,897 credits remaining.

With that in place, I considered my upgrades to the clan’s infrastructure complete. So, I decided to take a bit of ti off and take so of the kids to Rosehill for a day out.

At the start of the new year, I returned to the Su Clan’s training compound for the next round of recruiting.

Everything seed sowhat normal at first, but I soon realized a problem. More than ninety children had shown up to participate in this year’s blessing ceremony. That was nearly double the usual amount.

When I confronted Su Heng about this discrepancy, he looked sowhat abashed.

“Prince Fang… As you may know… The Su Clan is a large family that has ruled the Wastes for centuries…”

I nodded slowly, but I kept my eyes locked on the man.

“Well, in that ti… We often have to… cut away branch families.” He winced at the piercing glare I gave him as he said this. “Don’t worry. These are all still blood mbers of the Su Clan. They are just distant relatives. The clan just doesn’t have the resources to support them all.”

I chuckled slightly and did my best to impart a bit of nace into it. “So, the clan elders have decided to try and pass these discarded branch mbers off as true mbers of the Su Clan to drain more resources from ?”

“That… No… It’s just…” Su Heng dropped his eyes to the ground. “Yes.”

This situation went a bit beyond my expectations, and it brought up interesting questions about the nature of the ascension to Sovereign. Would karma generated from these distant branch mbers be good enough to allow to ascend? Emperor Li had said that I needed to be related to the people I drew karma from by blood, but how close did that relationship need to be? Was a single drop of blood enough?

The only information I had on the Bloodline Tier ca from guesswork, supposition, and cryptic hints. I didn’t have any strong reasons to believe that these distant relatives would be any better or worse at generating karma than mbers of the Su Clan’s main branch. In fact, as a descendant of a distant branch myself, so of these people might be more closely related to than soone like ShouLi.

Making my decision, I focused back on Su Heng.

“As long as these trainees are blood mbers of the Su Clan, I can accept them. However, I will be checking this. Don’t even think about trying to cheat .”

Su Heng dipped his head in a quick bow. “Of course, Prince, of course.”

In truth, I didn’t care too much about whether all my recruits were blood mbers of the Su Clan or not. Even if a few of them weren’t, they would be surrounded by true Su Clan mbers, so they would almost certainly marry into the clan anyway.

However, I didn’t want the Su Clan’s elders to think that I was an easy mark. I would have to make a show of checking everyone with a truth stone to verify their status.

Aside from this unusual spike in the number of children present, the three-month training camp proceeded mostly as normal. At the end of it, I walked away with 58 new recruits.