Chapter 770 - 544: Gains and Rewards (Part 2)

Chapter 770: Chapter 544: Gains and Rewards (Part 2)

Therefore, this captured set of array base and array map, if sold at a discount at Plum Blossom Marketplace, could fetch around seventeen or eighteen thousand spirit stones.

Speaking of which, Lu Qian can already take on the role of an Array Master, earning some additional income by inscribing array transformations for other sects.

However, this market is relatively saturated. Take the neighboring Cangzhou, for instance—those who can afford Golden Core Level Grand Arrays have already upgraded, so if Lu Qian wants to expand this business, he might have to travel across the continent like a loose cultivator, finding opportunities whenever possible.

Besides, if he has spare time, he can also accept tasks such as breaking arrays at Plum Blossom Marketplace, which can be quite lucrative.

In any case, arrays are profound and vast, requiring immense computational and control skills. Ordinary cultivators find it hard to get started, and even if they force themselves to learn, they can’t go very far. But if they truly gain something, no matter where they go, they will be welcomed and treated as honored guests, effortlessly acquiring wealth, never worrying about their livelihood.

In addition to this array, there are some materials that are rare items, such as precious spiritual ore for artifact refining and rare herbs for spirit pills.

However, these materials are only at the Golden Core level, and the quantity is limited, so the total value is not as high as the Ten Extremes Ten Directions Grand Array.

Then there are the cultivation technique secret manuals inherited from Lanshan Island. Initially, Lu Qian didn’t have much expectation for this remote island’s single line of transmission, but he was pleasantly surprised.

Inside Lanshan Island, apart from some scattered cultivation techniques, there’s a complete set of "Venus Star’s Golden Yuan Secret Decree"!

This takes the qi of Venus Golden Star from the heavens and transforms the essence of five metals into the gold element secret technique, a mystic sect secret decree.

This secret technique is balanced in offense and defense. Offensively, it has the Gold Element Transformation Skill, which can refine Venus Golden Qi into blades, spears, swords, halberds, astonishingly sharp and swift, and even includes the method for crafting the Treasure Talisman: Venus Starlight Ring.

Defensively, it involves drawing the Gold Element Qi into oneself, tempering the muscles, bones, meridians, and acupoints of the body to be tougher than gold and stone, with astounding defense.

From this perspective, the two divine techniques of Qiming Spirit Monarch are both extensions and upgrades of this secret technique. Or rather, it’s because of cultivating this secret technique that he deeply understood the gold element path, gaining such divine techniques.

Therefore, this "Venus Star’s Golden Yuan Secret Decree" is indeed a rare top-class secret technique!

If a disciple immerses themselves in it and diligently practices, they might achieve similar profound divine techniques when forming the core in the future.

Truth be told, there is currently a disciple in Yunshan Sect who is well-suited for this secret technique.

Lu Qian put away the "Venus Star’s Golden Yuan Secret Decree," planning to teach it after the Pill Formation Grand Assembly.

Regarding the education and cultivation of disciples, as well as the operation mechanism of the sect, after years of practical experience, and with many sects either as lessons or as shining examples, Lu Qian has developed a reform-minded heart.

Take, for example, the teaching and inheritance—currently, Yunshan Sect, aside from imparting the main cultivation technique and foundational skills, has placed many profound skill secret techniques in the exchange list, encouraging disciples to exchange merit points for secret technique cultivation.

This certainly stimulates the disciples’ enthusiasm, prompting them to strive hard and diligently work to earn merit points, having a positive effect on the rapid development of Yunshan Sect.

But it also brings about quite negative impacts.

This exchange gives the disciples a misconception—everything I obtain now comes from my own efforts!

In other words, my success comes from my own efforts, and has nothing to do with the sect!

Yunshan Sect is just a simple exchange platform, offering merit points in exchange for desired items. Disciples only care about whether their effort and rewards are equal, and few feel grateful towards this platform.

The sect is no longer a community with shared destiny, no longer a place for passing on knowledge and understanding, no longer a big family where people treat each other as kin, entrusting their lives to one another.

Instead, it’s merely a venue for exchanging interests.

Loyalty to such a venue isn’t guaranteed, not even the slightest emotional attachment.

Such a situation could lead to disastrous consequences in the long term. During Yunshan Sect’s rapid development, it’s not apparent, but once development stagnates, or even suffers heavy setbacks, how many disciples will choose to advance and retreat with the sect?

Perhaps I’m thinking too seriously, but there are indeed many hidden concerns, and reform in Yunshan Sect is urgent.

Thinking about this, Lu Qian sighed lightly.

After all, a sect is not a modern company. I’ve been constantly absorbing corporate governance experience, implementing it to manage the sect, which has indeed driven Yunshan Sect’s rapid development, but has also planted numerous hidden dangers.

Further optimization is needed, selecting the essence and constantly innovating.

"Junior Brother, what’s the matter?" Jiang Qingfeng, seeing Lu Qian put down the list from Lanshan Island and a rare look of worry appeared on his face, was startled. She quickly grasped his hand.

"Just thinking about some troubling matters." Lu Qian took a breath, wrapped his arm around his senior sister, inhaling her familiar, warm fragrance, calming his heart.

Jiang Qingfeng lowered her delicate head, rubbed against Lu Qian’s chest, her hair lightly fluttering, tickling Lu Qian’s nose.

"Junior Brother, there’s no need to worry too much." Although she didn’t know what Lu Qian was pondering, her long-standing tacit understanding quickly made her perceive the anxiety in her lover’s heart.

She lifted her head, her delicate brows lightly curved, her eyes like water, gently kissing the corner of Lu Qian’s mouth, then contentedly lay back down.