Chapter 514: 231~232: 1800 Lifetimes, New Skill, White Hairs Settling Accounts_2 Chapter 514: 231~232: 1800 Lifetimes, New Skill, White Hairs Settling Accounts_2 He then looked at the spiritual energy status around nearly a thousand Zhangs, which had been easily drained, shook his head, and left with disinterest.
“Resources, it’s these large amounts of resources that cultivation consumes”—The stronger his capability became, the more acutely he recognized this.
A random intense fight from a Golden Core Great Cultivator could potentially drain a vast amount of spiritual energy from an area.
Even without harming anyone, the depletion of spiritual energy in such an area would have a temporary impact on the cultivation of nearby cultivators.
And this is merely a random fight from a Golden Core Great Cultivator.
In many sects, the higher the realm of a cultivator, the better the cave dwelling and the treatment they enjoy.
Higher realm cultivators control more resources as they also need more resources for cultivation.
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It is somewhat analogous to the academic circles of various fields in his previous world; once someone was elected as an academician, normally, no one else would have the chance in this field for many years to come.
This phenomenon is even more prominent in the bureaucratic circles.
Now, Chen Dengming has risen to a high position.
In terms of the four regions, he already enjoys a high status and fame, and the resources he has at his disposal are nearly the best; he has great opportunities to advance to the Nascent Soul Stage in the future.
On the Hidden Dragon List, his ranking has risen by four spots since his breakthrough to the Golden Core Stage, and he now ranks twenty-fifth, even above the recently very active Qiao Zhaoxian.
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“Your Highness!
What types of techniques are you here to exchange this time?”
In the Scripture Repository of the Longevity Sect, Golden Core Elder Ran Yiqiang greeted Chen Dengming with a smile and personally guided him to the third floor of the Scripture Repository.
“This time, I plan to exchange two lower-ranking third-grade techniques for cultivation.
It seems that Elder Ran spends most of your time here in the Scripture Repository and rarely goes to the Merit Hall?”
Chen Dengming made small talk while they walked, smiling and chatting.
With his current status, he naturally was able to converse with the Golden Core members of the sect on equal terms, in a lively and interesting manner.
Even these Golden Core Elders showed respectful regard by addressing him as ‘Your Highness’ instead of ‘Junior Brother’, which gave him much prestige.
“Hehehe, the Merit Hall is too noisy.
So many disciples come and go every day to exchange merits.
This place is more quiet and suits old fellows like me, it’s good for a peaceful retirement.
As for old fellows like me, now I’m only suitable for observing the value of sect’s assets every day.
The future Longevity Sect will rely on you, Taoist son.
I don’t know if I can live to see that day.”
Ran Yiqiang chuckled, sounding quite optimistic.
As one of the oldest cultivators in the Longevity Sect, aside from a few of the oldest ancestors, he has lived almost 900 years and is one of the strongest testimonies to a Golden Core cultivators in the Longevity Sect living up to a thousand years, with high merit.
Therefore, he holds dual positions in the Longevity Sect.
The important Scripture Repository and Merit Hall are both under his control.
“Elder Ran, don’t say that.
You are now considered a perennial presence among the Golden Core cultivators in our cultivation world.
We all look up to you as a benchmark.”
After Chen Dengming cordially interacted with Ran Yiqiang for a few more moments, they arrived at the third level of the Scripture Repository and he began to exchange techniques.
Even for a top-notch great sect like the Longevity Sect, there are not many third-grade techniques, and each one is valuable.
There are only twelve types of elementary five-element third-grade techniques.
There are only eight intermediate ones.
And only five of advanced third-grade techniques.
Chen Dengming had already made enquiries and now he was ready to spend seven thousand sect contributions to exchange two low-ranking third-grade techniques for gold and wood elements.
“The third-grade elemental technique ‘Sprinkle Beans into Soldiers’ requires three thousand five hundred sect contributions.”
“The third-grade wood elemental technique ‘Drawing Ground into Prison’ requires three thousand five hundred sect contributions…
Your Highness, you have plenty of sect contributions.
When I broke through to the Golden Core stage, I could only gaze at these techniques with envy.”
Ran Yiqiang remarked with a wistful laugh.
After activating the token, he plucked the scrolls that recorded the techniques from the forbidden area and handed them to Chen Dengming to peruse.
“It is just good timing that I could earn contributions at this time.”
Chen Dengming smiled humbly, received the techniques, and began to study them.
He now had over forty thousand merits remaining.
These merits could be exchanged for sect techniques at a ratio of 1:1.
After exchanging these two techniques, he would have over thirty thousand merits left, indeed a great amount of merit.
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Half a tea time later.
Chen Dengming had learned two new third-rank techniques and went on his way.
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He went directly to the Fantastical True Cave to find Old Qiao, who was at the False Core Realm, to test the new techniques’ power.
As soon as he cast the Sprinkle Beans into Soldiers Skill, with a wave of Chen Dengming’s big sleeve, a burst of golden light shone, and his Dan Power was significantly consumed.
Streaks of golden light flashed in the air, and more than two dozen stalwart golden soldiers, each more than ten feet tall, appeared amidst the majestic gold spiritual energy; there were twenty of them in all.
“The loss of Dan Power is about 20%…
I’ve summoned twenty golden soldiers, their strength appears to be equivalent to a cultivator at the beginning of Foundation Establishment?”
Chen Dengming pondered for a while; he was somewhat unsatisfied with the performance and power of this lower-grade gold technique.
Currently, this technique just learned requires an inhale to activate.
Summoning twenty Golden Soldiers, equivalent to cultivators at the beginning of Foundation Establishment, may look impressive, but in reality, it’s not very practical, as they would be defeated by a single blow from a cultivator of the same grade.
Even if the targets are weak, it would still be more effective for him to directly use the Puppet Skill or the Gold Touch Skill at the Grandmaster level for large-scale rigid control.
However, considering that these golden soldiers will exist as long as the gold spiritual energy is not completely depleted, and will act according to his divine thoughts until they completely disappear when their spiritual energy is exhausted, they do have strong value as defenders.