You Came from the Void Realm?

You came from the Void Realm? [There were mineral resources around Firewood Town, and quite a few of them, but there were no Source Stone mines.]

[Under the normal script, Firewood Sect should have been squeezing the common people here for corvée labor, filling those mines.]

[But Firewood Sect did not do that.]

[Nor did they make their disciples do such hard labor.]

[Shen Yifeng's exact words were:]

["These children came to our Firewood Sect because they wanted a chance to cultivate. Aside from a few Cultivation Methods, we have little else to give them. We can't possibly make them do hard labor too, can we?"]

[Farming and working were necessities of life. There was simply no other way, or everyone in the sect would starve to death.]

[Now, having bandits work as miners solved their employment problem while expanding the sect's resources—a single stroke that killed two birds.]

[Managing those bandits was a problem.]

[After this measure was implemented, there were quite a few incidents of miners escaping.]

[Until you had saved up enough Source Stones to buy a batch of formation materials from the market, then sealed the mines with a grand formation.]

[Shen Yifeng, Ma Bang, and the others were stunned again.]

["You know formations too?"]

[Some time later.]

[Using the Artifact Refining materials mined from the mines, you forged a full set of intermediate Dharma Artifacts for everyone in Firewood Sect, comprehensively raising the sect's practical combat strength.]

[You thought of the disciple who had been killed by bandits. You hoped that with weapons and protective gear in the future, the disciples would be better able to protect themselves.]

["You know Artifact Refining too?!"]

[What more was there to say?]

[Ma Bang directly took off the sect leader's formal robes he was wearing and draped them