I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 2120: Chapter 998: (Part 3)

The Five Elements Sect does not recruit mediocrities.

As for the last side sect, it consists of Qi Cultivating Disciples over sixty within the Five Elements Sect. This signifies that their potential is exhausted, and unless there’s a miracle, they will remain at Qi Cultivation for life. The sect provides them with basic benefits like Five Elements Coins and Spirit Rice every month, but if they want more resources, they need to find ways to work for it themselves.

Above Qi Cultivation are the Foundation Establishment Practitioners.

Among them, Chen Mobai used the simplest nine-level division.

Besides those geniuses capable of competing for the title of True Disciple, the rest should honestly complete sect tasks and accumulate Contribution Points.

Due to the expansion of the Five Elements Sect’s territory, more tasks arose, making it easier to accumulate Contribution Points than before, so Chen Mobai set the requirement at ten thousand Contribution Points for each level.

Even if the points are used up, accumulating over ninety thousand Contribution Points qualifies as reaching level nine.

According to the current scale of the Five Elements Sect, even the laziest Foundation Establishment Practitioner, after grinding for decades, will definitely reach the top.

After reaching level nine, a task will be issued to transition to a High Merit Elder. Upon successful transition, one can start participating in sect affairs, and if there are vacancies in the Three Halls and Twelve Divisions or as Town Guards in the major counties, assignments will be made based on their record.

Moreover, Chen Mobai stipulated that a High Merit Elder could choose to apprentice under any one of the sect’s Golden Core Cultivators, although the Golden Core Cultivators have the right to refuse.

However, to incentivize Golden Core Cultivators, Chen Mobai offered a reward of ten thousand Contribution Points for each High Merit Foundation Establishment practitioner they take as an apprentice.

Even for Golden Core Cultivators, ten thousand Contribution Points is a significant amount.

If a High Merit Foundation Establishment practitioner successfully forms a Golden Core in the future, the sect will reward them with an additional one hundred thousand Contribution Points.

In setting up this framework, Chen Mobai also referred to the Immortal Gate’s strict assessment system for the Hundred Arts of Cultivation Immortal. If anyone stands out in their realm in this examination, the sect will prioritize assigning them various roles.

With this reform, Chen Mobai immediately invigorated the entire Five Elements Sect.

As for the complaints of the elders, they were all quelled by the younger generation.

Some elders approached Zhou Shengqing, but Zhou Shengqing simply entered seclusion, refusing to see anyone.

In the past century, Chen Mobai led the Divine Wood Sect from Giant Tree Ridge to nearly encompassing the entire Eastern Continent’s Three Regions frontier, and none of his actions were wrong.

Even those reforms that seemed unorthodox at the time have now become beneficial policies for the Five Elements Sect.

After the recent righteous versus demonic war, Chen Mobai’s prestige in the Five Elements Sect was akin to that of a god, and nothing he wanted to do could be stopped by Zhou Shengqing, Zhou Ye, or Mo Douguang.

Moreover, these three held a somewhat blind trust in Chen Mobai.

With the higher-ups, both Nascent Soul and Golden Core Cultivators staying silent, Chen Mobai’s reforms were implemented very smoothly.

However, Chen Mobai still considered that the elders had indeed contributed to the Five Elements Sect, so he added a clause to appease them at the end.

The Heterodox Golden Core available in the Spirit Treasure Pavilion can be exchanged with priority by sect retirees.

In the ten years of the righteous versus demonic war, if there was anything abundant, it was Monster Beast Inner Pills, with each having various attributes; Chen Mobai planned to release one each year.

Once this supplementary clause was introduced, over a dozen Foundation Establishment practitioners nearing retirement age quickly went to Northern Abyss City to find E Yun, confessing that they had changed their age upon joining the sect and now wished to retire with the sect’s arrangement.

E Yun was at a loss for a reason to refute, but oddly enough, those who were previously forced to retire became the first to scold these confessing individuals, accusing them of having no shame.

Seeing the Foundation Establishment Elders, once discontent with retirement policies, now becoming the most loyal supporters, E Yun marveled at the Sect Leader’s brilliant tactics, realizing he needed a lifetime to learn them.

At the year’s end, Chen Mobai personally watched the sect’s annual competition.

Because of the war, many young disciples of the Five Elements Sect used Merit Points to exchange for Foundation Establishment Trithings, and having honed their Essence Qi through battle, their composure was flawless. Astonishingly, before the grand competition, thirty-two individuals successfully advanced to Foundation Establishment.

This left Chen Mobai with a pleasant dilemma.

True Disciples could only be ten.

This year’s sect competition was reputed as the most spectacular in the history of the Five Elements Sect.

The final matches were essentially duels between Foundation Establishment geniuses, and whether it was Spell or Magic Artifact, or even the application of Talisman Puppets, each excelled, each shone brightly.

Foreign cultivators who had hidden in Northern Abyss City during the war watched in awe, developing deep respect for the Five Elements Sect.

Despite being a sect merely several centuries old, it now brimmed with vitality.

If dozens of new Foundation Establishment disciples emerge annually, a century later, it might have over a hundred Golden Core Cultivators and double-digit Nascent Souls.

If Chen Mobai succeeds in reaching Divinity Transformation, then the Five Elements Sect will undeniably become the new Holy Land in the Eastern Continent.

Chen Mobai personally customized Lifebound Artifact Embryos for the ten True Disciples, arousing great envy among the other Foundation Establishment Practitioners.

After completing this task, Chen Mobai then stationed himself in Northern Abyss City for half a year, ensuring everything was on track, before using the excuse of seclusion to return to Yellow Dragon Cave Mansion.

“I feel I’m about to break through.”