Jia Nan Academy, Alchemist Department plaza.
A group of Outer Academy students at the Dou Qi and Dou Zhe stages hurriedly carried out a cleanup task in the plaza. After scrubbing the entire Alchemist Department plaza spotless, they began moving stone platforms into it one after another.
Once they had finished, the students gathered before their instructors and seemed to receive something. Most of them left with excited expressions, while a smaller number took what they had received to the Technique Pavilion, Combat Skill Pavilion, or Pill Hall.
These were the preparations before Jia Nan Academy's Alchemy Competition, as well as a way for ordinary students to earn Contribution Points in exchange for cultivation methods and combat skills.
While many of those who came to Jia Nan Academy were gifted descendants of great clans, even more had no family support at all, or came from small families in places like Wutan City.
In a place like Wutan City, a high-grade Yellow-tier cultivation method was already the finest method accessible to a family's direct descendants. Most people only had mid-grade Yellow-tier methods, while those from even poorer backgrounds simply used low-grade Yellow-tier methods. Quite a few did not even possess a cultivation method at all.
If Jia Nan Academy recruited students only to let them continue practicing mid-grade or even low-grade Yellow-tier methods, it would undoubtedly tarnish Jia Nan Academy's reputation. Yet the Dao was not sold cheaply, and teachings were not lightly passed on. Things given away for free were rarely cherished. Besides, Jia Nan Academy could not afford to equip every student with Xuan-tier cultivation methods and combat skills from the start.
Thus, the Outer Academy had Contribution Points. As long as students did work for Jia Nan Academy, they could use Contribution Points to exchange for cultivation methods