335 A Great Harvest
From the perspective of the Tiangang Sect members…

Wang Wen was a stubborn individual who only knew how to accumulate spiritual power but not how to cultivate and improve his state.

That was an earlier record.

Given that he was not picky about his rewards, whether it was the mountain-protecting formation or the spirit stone mine, one can only imagine how frightening the amount of spiritual power in his body was.

How bad was the quality?

The middle-aged man had no idea where that obnoxious man had come from or what kind of cultivation technique he had developed that could devour everything.

Was it true that fools were lucky?

When he saw how Wang Wen’s body accumulate so much spiritual power but did not explode, the middle-aged man sighed in admiration.

Wang Wen was the only one who knew.

Spiritual power was something that climbers could forcefully upgrade rather than something that could be gradually developed.

As for why his body did not blow up…

Obviously, it was the power of the oath and the result of the World Tower’s overall strengthening.

The Tiangang Sect’s followers were ecstatic.

They were even more animated than Wang Wen.

They wanted to see how terrifying his spiritual power would be once his golden core was formed.

The middle-aged man selflessly offered the sect’s most effective cultivation method.

He was truly at the pinnacle.

It was an item from the World Tower!

A rare item from the 600th-floor punishment level was the Tiangang Main Scroll. The sect’s top cultivation technique was cultivable. At the foundation establishment state, one could activate the Tiangang sword qi, absorb spiritual power, and use the spiritual power to protect one’s body.

The cultivation techniques in the Tiangang Sect were classified into several levels.

Ordinary disciples used the most basic cultivation technique, which could only be cultivated to the golden core state. They needed enough spirit stones or sect contribution points to exchange for higher-level cultivation techniques if they wanted to cultivate further.

The higher-ups preferred the lead disciples to receive better cultivation techniques. They could cultivate the nascent soul state if they were talented, diligent, and lived long lives.

In the old woman’s position, she was not restricted from accessing any cultivation methods, but there was one cultivation method that she was not qualified to handle.

That was the sect’s top cultivation technique, which only the sect master could cultivate.

That type of cultivation technique was distinct from other types of cultivation techniques.

It was not written down anywhere.

Instead, it was a smooth and transparent jade token containing the entire cultivation method’s content. They could master the entire cultivation method quickly when the sect master opened it with a particular method and allowed the user to touch it with spiritual power.

Unfortunately, that jade card could only be used once.

Before he could have a new one, he would have to find a spirit jade of the same quality and have someone who had already mastered the cultivation technique refine the contents back onto the spirit jade.

The middle-aged man also heard that…

The process of reintroducing spirit jade cultivation was extremely taxing on the human body.

That was because to have enough spiritual power to finish the refining, one had to be at least in the soul-splitting state.

When the refinement was done…

If one’s cultivation level dropped by an entire state, it would be considered fortunate.

If they were unlucky, their cultivation could be destroyed, and they could even perish.

As a result, the jade token was frequently made by the previous sect master, who would have abdicated to enjoy the treatment of a lifetime of worship in the sect, which was why he would expend so much effort in making it.

If they were lucky, they could spend the rest of their lives in the sect, enjoying their carefree and respected old age.

The only difference if they were unlucky was whether they left early or late. In any case, they would already have been used to the sect master’s treatment. They might as well die if forced to become ordinary disciples to sweep the floor and wash clothes.

Under such conditions,

The supply of jade tokens had always been extremely limited. It was essentially a one-on-one inheritance.

It was not that finding spirit jade of the same quality was difficult.

The main reason was that few people wanted to improve it.

It was impossible to coerce them because they were all members of the same sect.

Forcing them was not always safe. After all, such a one-time event could only be used to determine its true effect. One could only check the completeness of one’s perception in advance, and one could not confirm if there were any special circumstances.

It would be simple to determine if there was a problem if they used an ordinary disciple to test. It would be embarrassing to waste a jade token if there was no problem. What about their ancestors?

They could not just put the sect master to the test, could they? What would happen if something went wrong?

They also could not let any ordinary disciple pass the test and become the sect master, right? Would that not be a disaster?

Should they create another? Who would be willing to take the risk? Should they retest it after completing it?

Otherwise, it was impossible to create an effective inheritance plan.

The Tiangang Sect ultimately decided that the jade token would be the sect master’s inheritance and a voluntary contribution in exchange for a lifetime of worship.

It was only until then…

There was still only one jade token in the heavenly spirit sect.

The middle-aged man had made it ahead of time to have it at his disposal at any time.

He had to give the jade token to an outsider, so it was clear that he had abandoned the fruit of his labor. He would have to refine another one if he wanted to be worshiped for the rest of his life.

He would almost certainly only dare to gamble when he abdicated.

The Tiangang Sect members were perplexed by the sect master’s actions.

The middle-aged man made no further comment.

He only told Wang Wen about the difficulty and value of the jade token.

He appeared to be sincerely presenting the treasure and made no other intentions known.

Wang Wen was determined to replicate the Tiangang Sect’s inheritance model.

It was difficult to believe they had continued with such a complicated and dangerous method.

Those who had bad luck would have most likely lost their inheritance long ago, right?

No wonder it was said that a sect’s inheritance was important and difficult.

It would be odd if such a risky method were not difficult!

Why would he not just scribble it down and print 10,000 copies?

Even if his success rate was lower than with that method, he could still get a few disciples to learn that cultivation technique through sheer numbers, right? They could get the heirloom passed down then.

He did not know what those people were thinking. Would they rather cut off their inheritance than give it to someone else?

The reset time for the World Tower was approaching, and Wang Wen was no longer surrounded by people.

He kept the jade token and prepared to leave the tower.

The middle-aged man did not expect that.

“Senior, where are you going?” he asked, reluctantly looking at the jade token that had been taken away.

“Don’t worry. I will be back,” Wang Wen said cheerfully.

Before he finished speaking…

His entire body glowed white light and vanished.

It shocked all the Tiangang Sect members.

Only the middle-aged man stood there, a glint in his eyes, staring at the spot where Wang Wen had vanished.

Exactly like that…

Wang Wen’s trip to the punishment checkpoint replenished his energy and accelerated his cultivation.

He also obtained a cultivation technique for recovering and condensing energy from the Tiangang Sect.

He had yet to discover the Tiangang Main Scroll, and he had no idea how effective it was. On the other hand, the Spirit-returning Technique was already in use.

Although it was not as quick as the oath’s recovery speed…

He did not need to sleep to regain his energy, though, because the natural recovery speed of the Spirit-returning Technique was nearly the same as that of sleep. Every hour, he could recover nearly two-thousandths of his energy.

It would be even faster if he deliberately circulated his internal energy to recover, reaching a speed of five-thousandths of an hour, more than twice as fast as sleeping.

He heard from the Tiangang Sect members that if he got to the golden core state, he would be able to recover faster.

Wang Wen expressed his happiness.

That journey was a great harvest.

There was even more unexpected happiness.

Previously, he had used the last effect of the Unity of Man and Nature to swear and exchange for an hour’s worth of points.

How many points was one hour of Unity of Man and Nature worth?