Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant - Chapter 529

Chapter 529: Chapter 11 – Methods of Seeking_1

Outside of Shaoyang Mountain, cultivators were coming and going.

The silhouette of Wang Ba hovered not far off.

Even now as he recalled the awe-inspiring image of the Myriad Library on Shaoyang Mountain, he still felt a lingering shock, but his face didn’t look good.

A deacon’s annual salary amounts to thirty merit points.

However, the reading privilege for a single “Green Emperor Kind God Tactics” required as much as five thousand merit points.

This means that just to obtain these methods would require more than one hundred and sixty years of service.

That’s only the wood element cultivation method.

If he were to include the other four elements, just obtaining them could take several hundreds of years.

Let alone cultivating them.

Of course, he could cultivate a method first while simultaneously accumulating the merits needed for the next method.

By the time he’d mastered one method, he’d already have enough merit points for another.

However, for the purpose of embodying the myriad phenomena through the Five Elements, it’s best to cultivate all of them right from the start.

Once a single method is refined, incorporating others would make it increasingly more difficult.

Furthermore, as Yao Wudi mentioned, cultivating the Five Elements simultaneously could greatly improve his skills.

“Merit points…”

Wang Ba was quietly calculating the numbers.

Over the past year or so, he managed to accumulate three to four thousand essence of second-class spirit chickens. Due to his previous victory at Yanqiao Pass, he defeated a Class IV Well God Lineage cultivator and fully inherited his Storage Treasure. Although there weren’t a lot of valuable items inside, adding to his initial savings, he had managed to accumulate seven to eight thousand upper-grade spirit stones.

Most Golden Core cultivators would cast envious eyes on such a fortune.

However, as to whether it could be enough to trade for the Five Elements Cultivation Methods, he still wasn’t certain.

“I wonder if there’s a way to trade them for merit points.”

Wang Ba pondered with a frown.

But as a newcomer to the Wanxiang Sect, he didn’t have a clue on where to start, even if such a path existed.

“I guess I should consult my master.”

Wang Ba whispered to himself.

Given that Yao Wudi was a veteran of the sect and a Nascent Soul cultivator, it would be highly unlikely that he didn’t know how to convert assets into merit points.

Wang Ba swiftly flew towards Wanfa Peak.

…

Wanfa Peak.

After hearing Wang Ba’s words, Yao Wudi nonchalantly replied:

“So, that’s what you’re worried about. I was going to wait until you had finished cultivating the Mother Qi of Dharmas before I took you there… However, my good disciple, I must say that you should learn to rely on others more. Before, when you were alone outside, it was understandable to rely only on yourself. Now that you are in the Wanxiang Sect, you are not alone anymore. You must learn to interact with others in the sect and leverage their strength.”

“For example, take me. Haha, bragging aside, who among all the peak masters in the sect does not know me? To learn a cultivation method, why would you need to use up merit points… If you’re worried, let’s just go there today.”

Upon hearing this, Wang Ba was stunned momentarily, then a surge of joy rippled in his heart.

The mentor is always more experienced, and indeed, standing in his current status, relying wholly on self-reliance would indeed seem rather brash, if not a little arrogant.

Learning to leverage others’ power should indeed be a skill of a cultivator from the sect.

However, considering the sky had already darkened, although day or night made no difference to cultivators, it would still be improper to bother someone at this hour. Wang Ba quickly voiced his objection:

“That won’t be necessary, Master. Once I have converted my Mana into the Mother Qi of Dharmas…”

“The sooner, the better. We must learn it sooner or later, so it’s not a bad idea to have the method at hand first.”

Yao Wudi was rather determined.

Wang Ba was touched, although he believed it was somewhat inappropriate. But his objection was invalid as Yao Wudi insisted on dragging him away from Wanfa Peak.

The speed of a Nascent Soul cultivator was undoubtedly swift. Wang Ba felt a blur before his eyes before he found himself in the air above a certain mountain.

“Qingmu Peak…”

Wang Ba looked at the lush green mountain beneath him which was far more verdant than the surrounding mountains, and immediately remembered its name.

The guide at the Rende Hall, Zhang Bao, introduced it to him when he escorted him to the Ancestral Temple.

Qingmu Peak was a legitimate grand mountain among the ten thousand peaks, with numerous disciples and abundant Golden Core craftsmen. Even Nascent Soul craftsmen numbered several.

Foundation Establishment craftsman and Golden Core craftsmen passing by glanced at Yao Wudi and Wang Ba. Since Yao Wudi had long served in Chen State, younger craftsmen didn’t quite recognize him. As for Wang Ba, it was even less likely for them to stop and chat. So they continued on their way after just a glance.

Similarly, the craftsmen taking off and landing from Qingmu Peak did the same.

They were all fellow students from the same sect, so going back and forth between mountains was a regular occurrence.

Most of them swept a glance and hurriedly busied with their stuff.

“Weird, why hasn’t that lad Ling Weizi come out yet?”

Yao Wudi muttered in confusion.

After waiting a while, even Yao Wudi began to grow impatient and contemplated going down himself.

Just at that moment, two figures finally ascended from below.

Both looked like middle-aged men, one in blue and the other in yellow.

They both exuded an aura which surpassed that of a Golden Core Craftsman but was still a lot weaker than Yao Wudi’s, indicating that they were both in the Nascent Soul realm, although their specific realm was unclear.

Upon seeing Yao Wudi, the complexion of the two Nascent Soul craftsmen slightly shifted.

They exchanged subtle glances and then bowed respectfully as junior cultivators would:

“Su Cheng/Li Xiao pays respects to Martial Uncle Yao.”

“Haha, so it’s you two, where is your master Ling Weizi? Call him out for me.”

Yao Wudi responded with a hearty laugh upon seeing them.

Wang Ba watched panickly from the side, wondering if his mentor was there to request for something or cause trouble.