Fewer than four hundred manuals, with a daily rental fee of eight hundred. That was already quite cheap, yet Supreme Clarity still felt it was a bit much. Tiantong, however, wanted to add more cultivation methods—more methods available for rent meant higher rental fees and more manuals sold.
Once Feng Jun successfully matched a technique, if it came from Tiantong, Supreme Clarity disciples could only purchase it from Mingsha Tiantong.
The two sides could not agree on the number of cultivation methods, so they had specifically come to Feng Jun for an appraisal—could he see whether certain methods ought to be included?
Feng Jun felt this was not his decision to make. "Supreme Clarity is the one paying the Spirit Stones. Why are you asking me?"
True Adept Yuan Ming also found it rather odd. He knew about the matter but had not participated in it, so he asked in confusion, "Then just include more cultivation methods. The disciples will have more choices, and once they buy a manual, they won't need to rent it the next day."
The Four Great Sects were simply this domineering. Tiantong still had to declare, "The methods we sell are exclusive and will not be sold a second time," but the Four Great Sects' attitude was—if one of my disciples buys this method, then my sect possesses this method.
Of course, that was not entirely accurate. If disciples obtained cultivation methods but were unwilling to donate them to the sect in exchange for sect contributions, the sect could not regard them as "our sect's cultivation methods." Such cases were not uncommon.
For ordinary supplementary cultivation methods, the sect truly could not offer many Contribution Points. If it offered too many, people could exploit them to farm contributions. Thus, methods without particularly distinctive traits were