Top-tier Unruly Master-Chapter 1649 - 1686: Sect Advantages
Ding Fan knew that although Qing Wen had entered the Cultivation World and joined the Great Gate Sect, and had demonstrated talent within the sect, Gusu Qingwen’s cultivation was still relatively weaker compared to Zhou Ruoran’s. Should she encounter any danger in the Cultivation World, Ding Fan knew she wouldn’t be able to handle it.
However, Ding Fan did not know Qing Wen’s current cultivation level. After all, it had been a while since he left the Great Ocean Sect. Before leaving, he had left behind a large amount of medicine pill resources. Although Ding Fan didn’t know Qing Wen’s current cultivation level, he was certain she had made progress. He believed that not only Qing Wen, but all disciples of the Great Ocean Sect would have made significant progress in different degrees, and this progress would definitely be astonishing for them.
After all, Ding Fan left so many medicine pills behind, they were indeed plentiful. Even the lowest-ranking disciples of the Great Ocean Sect would receive a large amount of medicine pill resources each week. Moreover, any cultivator who reached the Emergence Stage would have the chance to obtain a Supreme Quality Medicine Pill as a reward. With such a resource supply, Ding Fan believed that the Great Ocean Sect would undergo earth-shattering changes within a short time.
Ding Fan understood that although the generous supply of medicine pill resources made the disciples of the Great Ocean Sect very happy, it wasn’t entirely beneficial for them. Ding Fan had always advocated for fundamental cultivation, and these disciples were using medicine pills for rapid cultivation advancement.
The direct consequence of this was that the foundation of these cultivators was extremely unstable. Although their combat strength or power might have improved noticeably, it posed a significant disadvantage for their future cultivation development, limiting their highest achievements.
Ding Fan knew, as the village leader’s strong words mentioned, the future development of these disciples from the Great Ocean Sect, under normal circumstances, could cultivate to the Nascent Soul Mid Stage. However, due to the accelerated effects of these medicine pills, their cultivation might stop at the Late Nascent Soul Stage.
This wasn’t what Ding Fan hoped to see, but currently, he had no other solutions. The Great Ocean Sect was still too weak, incapable of withstanding even minor challenges. Any slight storm could destroy the Great Ocean Sect that Ding Fan had painstakingly built, reducing it to nothing. Therefore, Ding Fan could only incessantly provide medicine pills to help the Great Ocean Sect grow to a certain level, ensuring that they had the strength to retaliate even in his absence when faced with provocations from smaller sects.
Thus, Ding Fan had no choice but to utilize a large number of medicine pills for rapidly fostering growth among the disciples of the Great Ocean Sect. Although this was a reluctant strategy for Ding Fan, many large sects couldn’t even accomplish this. Not all sects had access to such ample medicine pill resources.
Whether it be the spiritual materials needed for alchemy or the costs associated with the alchemists, it represented a massive expenditure for the sects. Most sects had numerous disciples. Distributing even one pill per person to thousands of disciples meant thousands of medicine pills for a single distribution.
Such expenses would alarm many sects even at mere thought, let alone considering the acquisition of Supreme Quality Medicine Pills, an impossible notion for ordinary sect disciples. Supreme Quality Medicine Pills were exceedingly precious, akin to invaluable treasures.
Securing even one Supreme Quality Medicine Pill for a sect was a monumental challenge. If obtained, it would certainly not fall into the hands of the sect’s disciples; even elders might not have a share, as the sect leaders coveted it deeply.
Moreover, when a sect invests heavily in commissioning a Grade Nine Alchemist to refine Supreme Quality Medicine Pills, it undoubtedly becomes an asset of the sect leader. Forget about regular disciples; even elders shouldn’t entertain the thought. The price of one Supreme Quality Medicine Pill was breathtakingly high.
Considering the rarity of these Supreme Quality Medicine Pills, managing to encounter a Grade Nine Alchemist didn’t guarantee successful refinement. A single failure could drain the sect’s resources considerably. Such precious medicine pills weren’t intended for the hands of sect disciples.
Aside from the current Great Ocean Sect, no sect’s disciples would foolishly dream of obtaining Supreme Quality Medicine Pills within the sect, as it was simply impossible.
Let alone someone like Ding Fan, who could even produce Supreme Quality Medicine Pills in bulk, something utterly inconceivable in the Cultivation World.
No sect could achieve this, even the force with the most alchemists in Donglai Continent, Dancheng, couldn’t accomplish it. After all, refining a single Supreme Quality Medicine Pill was immensely challenging for alchemists. Even for Grade Nine Alchemists, successfully refining one Supreme Quality Medicine Pill depended heavily on luck. Bulk production was simply not feasible!
Like Ding Fan’s Great Ocean Sect, any cultivator who reaches the Emergence Stage will receive a Supreme Quality Medicine Pill. This kind of sect welfare is something any sect would not even dare to dream of. Of course, Ding Fan believes that this strategy could rapidly enhance the strength of the Great Ocean Sect and even attract numerous foreign disciples, the so-called entry-level disciples.
For a sect, although the cultivation of foreign disciples is generally somewhat lower, they are very important, even extremely important, because a sect’s strength and scale depend on the number of its foreign disciples. Now, the sects on Donglai Continent that can be regarded as Great Gate Sects are such because they have thousands of foreign disciples and are large in scale.
Of course, becoming a Great Gate Sect doesn’t just require foreign disciples; the strength of elders and the sect master’s power are also essential criteria, but the number of foreign disciples is indispensable.
Ding Fan believes that his initiative will not only allow some elders in the sect or Wang Hu, temporarily substituting as the sect master, to greatly enhance their cultivation with the help of the Supreme Quality Medicine Pill but also attract a large number of foreign disciples. After all, the medicine pill welfare of the Great Ocean Sect is unmatched by any sect currently.
Therefore, Ding Fan is not overly worried, but as for the side effects caused by the massive influx of medicine pills, this is something Ding Fan wants to resolve. Ding Fan can refine some Pure Moon Pills, a kind of pill that eliminates the residual impurities of medicine pills within the cultivator’s body.
This kind of pill is the best for cultivators who rely on long-term medicine pill consumption to enhance their cultivation, but Ding Fan currently lacks the spiritual materials to refine these Pure Moon Pills, so he can’t make them now. Only after returning to the Great Ocean Sect or acquiring some spiritual materials for Pure Moon Pills can he refine them.
Although the Pure Moon Pill is the best pill for impurity elimination and is very magical, capable of removing more than nine layers of medicine pill impurities from a cultivator’s body, it still leaves some residual impurities inside. This is something Ding Fan cannot resolve, and to completely eliminate even that last layer of impurity, special spiritual materials or treasures are needed, which are not readily available even to Ding Fan.
Therefore, it’s even more impossible to distribute them to the sect’s disciples below.
Despite this, the existence of the Pure Moon Pill is Ding Fan’s best thought-out solution. If a previous cultivator could reach the Nascent Soul Mid-Stage with just accumulated medicine pill-enhanced cultivation, but only reached the Late Nascent Soul Stage, Ding Fan’s Pure Moon Pill could enable them to reach the Nascent Soul Early Stage. However, reaching the Nascent Soul Mid-Stage might not be impossible; it would all depend on the cultivator’s fortune.
As for other solutions, Ding Fan can’t fathom any at present. He can think no further, but nothing in the world is truly absolute. Ding Fan believes this limit is just due to his current cultivation which constrains his vision. If he could reach the Divine Warrior Stage, alternatives would naturally increase in number, and solving the problems brought by medicine pills should be manageable.
This is merely because Ding Fan seeks a better future for the Great Ocean Sect, attending to matters concerning the disciples beneath the sect. For disciples of other sects, it is something they would earnestly wish for; after all, who wouldn’t want to use medicine pills over painstaking cultivation, given that post-pill cultivation enhancement is significantly faster.
Therefore, the most urgent matter for Ding Fan currently is to focus on rapidly enhancing his own strength and cultivation. Subsequently, Ding Fan seriously starts flipping through the ’Basic Martial Arts’ in front of him. For Ding Fan, acquiring the ’Basic Martial Arts’ is definitely a huge stroke of luck. Ding Fan believes if he can train it to a perfect level, his strength will surely see a significant boost, even if his current cultivation is only equivalent to a Fourth Grade Divine Warrior, comparable to Nascent Soul Mid-Stage, his strength will have a considerable surge.
Thinking of this, Ding Fan couldn’t help but break into a smile. If the village chief’s legacy indeed could be cultivated to a perfect level, how could his cultivation remain stagnant, which is absolutely impossible. Perhaps, for others, training the village chief’s legacy to perfection might seem exceedingly challenging.
But for Ding Fan, he doesn’t harbor such thoughts. After all, being a fortuitous person with the village chief, since receiving the chief’s legacy, he’d naturally progress faster than average cultivators. Ding Fan is extremely confident and believes if he leaves this Xuantian Secret Realm, he’d emerge transformed.
Following this, Ding Fan calms his emotions and starts carefully reading through this ’Basic Martial Arts’.
Ding Fan glanced through the ’Basic Martial Arts’, finding that the initial Chapters describe some preparations before cultivation and some mindsets. Although these seem seemingly useless, Ding Fan remains cautious, meticulously reading, assured that this ’Basic Martial Arts’ comprises the village chief’s lifetime learnings, promising no useless content. Ding Fan is convinced that not a single word within might be purposeless, since it’s the village chief’s lifelong legacy crystallized over nearly a millennia, how could it contain useless parts?
