Relying on Wealth

The staggering sum of 3.7 million spirit crystals would spare him countless hours of missions in the early stages. He could simply pave his way with spirit crystals, exchanging them for resources at a furious pace to improve his strength.

This was an enormous advantage that other prodigies could only watch disappearing into the dust ahead of them.

Still, Lu Zhen was not blindly optimistic.

The rules made it perfectly clear—the things that truly mattered within the sect.

Things such as places in special secret realms or eligibility for advanced training missions all came with strict [point thresholds].

Without enough points, the sect would not sell them to you, no matter how many spirit crystals you had.

Training missions, for example, had different grades.

There were five in all.

First-grade missions offered the richest rewards, but only disciples under the strongest elder of the sect's strongest academy could accept them, and their personal points still had to meet the requirement.

Second-grade missions were open to everyone in the strongest academy, provided their personal points met the requirement.

Third-grade missions were open to the sect's top three academies.

Fourth-grade missions were open to the top twenty academies.

Fifth-grade missions were ordinary assignments available to disciples of every academy.

Lu Zhen slid his fingertip across the screen and opened the overall academy point rankings.

The figures were frighteningly clear.

[First place: Divine Firmament Thunder Academy. Total points: 8,540,000]

[Second place: Celestial Star Dao Academy. Total points: 8,120,000]

[Third place: Tai'e Sword Academy. Total points: 7,980,000]

"Third place," Lu Zhen murmured.

That meant third-grade missions were the highest he could accept.

Next, he opened the elder rankings within the Tai'e Sword Academy.

All twenty elders who held real authority in the academy were listed.

The figures were clear at a glance.