Taking a Disciple?

Several decades ago.

As the Luoling Sect's 127th-generation Inner Disciple and its Discipline Elder, Ren Feng's status and standing were essentially equal to those of any of the Luoling Sect's Spirit Connection Realm Peak Masters.

At the time, Ren Feng had not yet turned a hundred, yet he had already attained the Spirit Connection Realm.

In Kunwu Continent's cultivation world, anyone who attained the Spirit Connection Realm before the age of a hundred was, without exception, an absolute genius with boundless prospects.

The Luoling Sect had high hopes for Ren Feng's future, and Ren Feng himself did too.

From a young age, Ren Feng had been hailed as a genius by the sect's elders. He had always been admired and sought after by the younger disciples, and he was exceedingly proud.

But as time went on, Ren Feng became increasingly aware that something was wrong.

As the Luoling Sect's Discipline Elder, Ren Feng oversaw all the Discipline Halls belonging to the sect's thirty-six peaks.

Within the sect, Ren Feng's status placed him in the tier just below Sect Master Cong Linshan.

As a Spirit Connection Realm cultivator, Ren Feng could collect two thousand Spirit Stones each month from the sect's General Affairs Hall.

At the same time, as the sect's Discipline Elder, Ren Feng received an additional twelve hundred Spirit Stones from the sect.

With a few other sources of Spirit Stones added in, Ren Feng could obtain a total of four thousand Spirit Stones from the sect each month to support his cultivation.

But four thousand Spirit Stones were no more than a drop in the ocean.

Ren Feng had made a rough estimate based on his cultivation speed.

If he had only four thousand Spirit Stones each month to support his cultivation, it would take him at least