Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Starting with the Silly Pillar of the Courtyard

Chapter 210 Rival Li Chao

Through these specific rewards and rules, the sect ensured that its cultivators could be self-sufficient.

Furthermore, the sect itself can obtain resources in this way, and then use these resources to exchange for rare and precious materials needed by high-level cultivators in the outside world.

Those high-level cultivators provide their martial prowess to protect the lower-level disciples of their sects, and then they take away massive amounts of resources to exchange for the rare and precious materials they need in the outside world.

This is the fundamental reason why high-level cultivators and low-level cultivators can coexist harmoniously.

There are tens of thousands of cultivators in Changchun Valley, but only those at the Foundation Establishment stage or above stay in the sect for a long time.

If a Qi Refining cultivator cannot break through to the Foundation Establishment stage before the age of sixty, they will often be dismissed by their sect at that age.

At the same time, newly joined cultivators were all assigned to the outer sect and were collectively called outer sect disciples.

Only those outstanding cultivators who can break through to the seventh level of the late Qi Refining stage before the age of twenty-five can join the inner sect and become inner disciples.

Inner disciples receive twice the benefits of outer disciples, who only receive 100 points as a reward for completing ordinary tasks each year.

Inner disciples can receive a reward of 200 points per year for the same task.

At the same time, the sect has rules everywhere to encourage everyone to cultivate diligently.

For example, if a cultivator can break through to the Foundation Establishment stage before the age of thirty, then they can naturally receive generous rewards.

Similarly, older cultivators who break through to the Foundation Establishment stage have a very different status in the sect compared to genius cultivators.

Cultivators are essentially racing against time. The lifespan of a Qi Refining stage cultivator is almost no different from that of an ordinary person, around one hundred years old.

It's just that cultivators in the Qi Refining stage are physically better than ordinary people and know some spells.

Only after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage do cultivators become vastly different from ordinary people, the first being that their lifespan can reach over two hundred years.

Golden Core cultivators have a lifespan of five hundred years.

The Nascent Soul stage lasts for one thousand years.

A Nascent Soul cultivator has a lifespan of three thousand years.

The legendary cultivator broke through to ten thousand years directly.

As for cultivators at the higher Void Refinement stage, their lifespan is thirty thousand years.

Mahayana practitioners have a lifespan of 100,000 years.

Once one breaks through to the Earth Immortal realm, their lifespan will be a full million years.

As for the higher-ranking Celestial Immortals, Golden Immortals, and Great Luo Immortals, they are even more terrifying, almost living as long as the heavens.

Of course, this information was something the original owner only knew after reading some of the sect's scrolls.

However, the cultivators of the sects are indeed racing against time to cultivate their realms, since they already have spiritual roots and no one wants to become a skeleton a hundred years from now.

However, not everyone can become a high-level cultivator; even the simplest Foundation Establishment stage is one in a hundred.

The so-called "one in a hundred" means that out of a hundred Qi Refining stage cultivators, only one can break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Similarly, the breakthrough from the Foundation Establishment stage to the Golden Core stage is also a process.

There are hundreds of millions of cultivators in the cultivation world, but only a small number of them can ultimately break through to higher levels.

Take Changchun Valley as an example; the number of cultivators there has remained at around 100,000 for many years.

Among them, there are only five or six Nascent Soul stage ancestors, about one hundred Golden Core cultivators, and just over two thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators.

It should be noted that this is the accumulation of hundreds or even thousands of years of the sect's history. Every five years, the Qi Refining stage cultivators would dismiss a large number of the old ones and recruit a large number of new ones.

There may have been five or six Nascent Soul stage elders, but in reality, there were hundreds of thousands of cultivators who were the same age as them or even hundreds of years older or younger, all of whom had turned to dust.

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A Nascent Soul stage ancestor has a lifespan of one thousand years, representing the emergence of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator. At that time, cultivators of the same generation, and even those of more than ten generations before and after, all turn into withered bones.

The original owner showed good cultivation speed after joining the sect, and at the age of twenty-five, he successfully broke through to the seventh level of the late Qi Refining stage and joined the inner sect.

The original owner's group of disciples who joined the sect numbered over a thousand, and were then assigned to various mountain peaks.

Changchun Valley has more than a hundred peaks, each managed by a Golden Core cultivator.

Below the Golden Core cultivator are a dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators responsible for specific management tasks.

Each mountain peak has a thousand Qi Refining stage cultivators responsible for planting spiritual herbs, spiritual rice, and spiritual trees.

Although it's called a mountain, it's actually a spiritual vein. Cultivators and spiritual herbs certainly don't cultivate in ordinary places.

In the cultivation world, spiritual energy is not available everywhere. Cultivation is often only possible in places where spiritual veins exist, or where spiritual herbs, rice, and fruits can grow.

Changchun Valley is built on top of a fourth-order spiritual vein, and then many sub-spiritual veins are divided along the fourth-order spiritual vein.

The spiritual energy at the very center of such a spiritual vein is naturally more abundant, while the energy outside will gradually decrease.

The center of the fourth-order spiritual vein is not only the secluded cultivation location of several Nascent Soul stage elders, but also the location of the sect's top-tier medicinal herb garden.

Besides the fourth-order spiritual veins, the third-order, second-order, and first-order spiritual veins outside are the locations of various mountain peaks.

Golden Core cultivators would naturally choose to cultivate in seclusion in places with third-tier spiritual veins, while Foundation Establishment cultivators and inner disciples would cultivate in second-tier spiritual veins.

Outer disciples can only stay in first-tier spiritual veins, and even in first-tier spiritual veins, there are good and bad ones.

Areas closer to second-tier spiritual veins naturally have more spiritual energy than other places.

In this way, when outer disciples are assigned cave dwellings, they will definitely hope to be assigned a good one.

The original owner was assigned to a cave dwelling that was relatively close to a second-tier spiritual vein.

Originally, this was arranged by the sect's Foundation Establishment steward, but unfortunately, a new disciple took a fancy to the original owner's cave dwelling.

The original owner was already the object of everyone's flattery in the family, and after joining the sect, he became even more arrogant and proud, so naturally he would not agree.

Moreover, his cave dwelling is close to a second-tier spiritual vein, which means he will be able to obtain more spiritual energy when he cultivates in the future. Even a child can understand this difference.

The reason that new disciple dared to bully the original owner like that was because one of his family elders happened to be a Foundation Establishment cultivator from Changchun Valley.

However, the other party was not a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the original owner's mountain, otherwise there would have been no need for the other party to come forward and threaten the original owner.

The new disciple named Li Chao originally thought that by mentioning his family elders, the other disciple would be afraid, but he did not expect that the other party would not buy it at all.

Li Chao wanted to put them in a difficult position, but he couldn't come up with any solutions. In fact, he overestimated his elders; not to mention that they weren't even on the same side.

It's just a mountain, and Foundation Establishment cultivators don't actually have much power within the sect.

Unless one is a Golden Core cultivator, Foundation Establishment cultivators live in constant fear within their sects, as there are Nascent Soul stage elders watching over them.

Below, Golden Core cultivators were stationed at each mountain peak, and every high-level cultivator was aware of the unsavory dealings that took place there.

They won't become nannies; cultivators also need to compete and fight for their own chance to break through to higher levels in the future.

However, on the surface, sects must always adhere to fairness and rules.

There was once a powerful sect that was later wiped out because one of its disciples was bullied and eventually defected.

Once the opponent breaks through to the legendary realm, we'll return and wipe out the entire sect.