I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 2119: Chapter 998: Retirement Policy and Sect Reforms

In addition to being paid with Five Element Coins based on work, free spirit rice and meat are also provided.

This made many of the loose cultivators from East Wu, who were being recruited by the Five Elements Sect for the first time, widen their eyes in disbelief, feeling that the conditions were too good. In their view, being provided with food, accommodation, and safety, they ought to be working for free and even paying with spirit stones, so how could they be earning money too?

The cultivators in the Eastern Wilderness truly live as if they were in the immortal realm!

Knowing this was the minimum treatment for recruitment by the Five Elements Sect, the loose cultivators from East Wu immediately gritted their teeth, feeling they should have found a way to smuggle themselves to the Eastern Wilderness decades ago. Who knows, they might have already earned enough for a down payment and settled down in the Eastern Wilderness.

But now is not too late either.

As long as they work steadily, they could be allocated a free property in the newly constructed Six Counties of Ruins.

Filled with beautiful expectations for the future, the Six Cities of Ruins and the Three Cities of Cloud Dream are rapidly being built.

This batch of leaders of the Five Elements Sect was trained by Chen Mobai for a hundred years. Although it’s their first time handling such extensive post-war reconstruction, under the control of Chen Mobai as the chief designer, they quickly turned the chaotic post-war situation into orderly governance.

Of course, besides arranging matters for East Wu, Chen Mobai also did not forget about internal rewards.

A lot of talented individuals emerged within the Five Elements Sect from this war.

For these disciples who have made merits, in addition to rewards like resources, spirit stones, and cultivation techniques, Chen Mobai felt they should also see hopes for advancement.

It’s just that the upper positions within the Five Elements Sect have long been occupied. To promote these young talents, the older generation must give way.

Hence, he naturally proposed a retirement policy.

He set the retirement ages as: 80 years for Qi Practitioners, 160 years for Foundation Establishment Practitioners, and 300 years for Golden Core Cultivators!

Beyond these ages, barring special circumstances, no one is allowed to hold office within the sect.

This new policy naturally caused a strong backlash within the Five Elements Sect, as more than half of the high-ranking members of the Three Halls and Twelve Divisions were already at retirement age.

Thanks to the developments of the Five Elements Sect over the years, these people had essentially filled their pockets to the brim.

Beyond their basic salaries, they could earn an additional tens of thousands of spirit stones annually.

They all dreamed of accumulating enough for buying Golden Elixir spiritual medicine.

Now that Chen Mobai was asking them to retire, naturally, they were unwilling.

However, within the Five Elements Sect, Chen Mobai’s word is law!

Moreover, those opposing were basically Foundation Establishment Practitioners from the Three Halls and Twelve Divisions. Even if they harbored resentment in their hearts, they dared not express it openly.

They were all old-timers from the Divine Wood Sect era and very well understood the significance of the Nascent Soul Ancestors of the sect.

If they talked too much, who knows if they might get slain on some unforeseen day.

As for the Golden Core Cultivators in the Five Elements Sect, those who met the retirement age were Sheng Zhaoxi and Nu Jiang who was outside.

Sheng Zhaoxi naturally was unwilling, but after Chen Mobai personally talked to her, he persuaded her to be the first to respond to the retirement policy, leading the way by stepping down from the Three Great Halls.

Once Sheng Zhaoxi retired, the rest of the Foundation Establishment Practitioners dared not say much. Some who indeed could not continue working directly went to Northern Abyss City to hand over their work.

However, Chen Mobai did not act too harshly.

He stipulated that the sect cultivators who retire would enjoy the same welfare benefits as before retirement, and all past merits and demerits would not be pursued unless it involved treason against the sect.

This means, although the positions of these old folks were taken away, the spirit rice and spirit stones would still be distributed as usual.

But what attracted these elders the most was the phrase “will not be pursued”.

Foundation Establishment Practitioners from the Three Halls and Twelve Divisions had more or less indulged in corruption.

They were also worried that once handing over their positions, the next person in charge might audit and uncover their tricks.

As soon as Chen Mobai uttered this phrase, no one dared to resist any longer. They all obediently went to Northern Abyss City, nervously handling their retirement procedures.

Actually, Chen Mobai originally intended to set a retirement age for Nascent Soul Cultivators too, but after considering carefully, he decided against imposing a limit on himself to avoid future embarrassment.

After achieving Divinity Transformation, he would include that later.

After enforcing the retirement policy, Chen Mobai implemented a series of reforms within the Five Elements Sect, including regulations on disciple selection and resource allocation for cultivation, all of which underwent a comprehensive review and optimization.

Among these, in order to intensify competition among disciples, he reduced the original twenty-four True Disciples to ten.

And beneath the True Disciples, he established three categories: Inner Sect, Outer Sect, and Side Sect disciples.

Among these, the True Disciples naturally had the highest prestige and were required to achieve Foundation Establishment before the age of sixty. If not, even if there were vacancies, Qi Cultivating Disciples would not be allowed to fill the spots.

Once becoming a True Disciple, they would receive full support for cultivation from the Five Elements Sect, including accessing the Book Pavilion to freely view various cultivation technique manuals, and even being guided by Nascent Soul Superiors like Chen Mobai.

Inner Sect Disciples were those in the late stage of Qi Cultivation under sixty years, and Outer Sect were those in the mid-stage under sixty years.

As for the early stage of Qi Cultivation, the Five Elements Sect no longer recruited them.

After all, most of the Five Elements Sect’s recruitment now came from various Scholarly Mansions under its command. If they couldn’t break through to the fourth layer of Qi Cultivation by graduation age under such conditions in the mansions, their talents were clearly insufficient.