After the Resonance Teleportation Array was completed, the Supreme Clarity Sect disciples who had come along were sent away. Sect Master Chen Rong, however, stayed at Black Heaven Peak for five full days.
During those five days, Bai Xiaowen used the newly built Resonance Formation to summon three hundred Skeleton Workers from White Phoenix Fief.
That cost Bai Xiaowen nearly a thousand Spirit Crystals. Even with a Resonance Formation, summoning a fief's troops to a Spirit Realm Plane was far too expensive for a lord.
The Skeleton Workers were weak, only around the third or fourth level by Awakened standards, with a Standard Template. Yet each one cost more than three Spirit Crystals.
For the Five Elements Banners' warrior troops, a warrior in his teens would probably cost one or two hundred Spirit Crystals! That was about the same as recruiting a fief resident. Summoning a hundred such warriors could easily cost ten or twenty thousand Spirit Crystals. It was frightening.
A lord's real advantage, then, lay in places outside the Spirit Realm, such as the Main Material Plane and Cosmic Secret Realms.
In those places, a lord needed only one Source of Spirit Force to complete a summoning, with no additional Spirit Crystal cost. That cut expenses drastically.
Bai Xiaowen had summoned the Skeleton Workers mainly to clear the ruins on Black Heaven Peak, restore Black Heaven Palace, and make it the Eternal Life Sect's headquarters.
After spending five days with Bai Xiaowen, Chen Rong had to leave. The Supreme Clarity Sect's daily affairs needed her attention.
During those five days, Chen Rong made a batch of Thousand-Li Voice Transmission Talismans and Spirit Talisman Paper Cranes for Bai Xiaowen. "You don't have enough sect contribution points, so you can owe them for now," she told him. "Once I'm back