Contribution Points

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Contribution Points
Original Name	贡献点
Type	Transferable currency and reward system 263 268 277
Affiliation	Vajra Sect 246 263
Function	Payment for cultivation resources, martial arts, and access to special training environments 263 284 294
Storage	Balances recorded on tokens; points can also be transferred from jade pendants 267 286
Area of Use	Vajra Sect; also used as a means of exchange among non-ordinary people in Flat Sand Prefecture, according to Li Chuan’s observations 286
First Appearance	First mentioned in the supplied context when Li Chuan considers the Vajra Sect’s economy 246

Background

After reaching Gang Force, Li Chuan finds silver increasingly inadequate for acquiring the rare materials he needs. He learns that the Vajra Sect uses Contribution Points instead: sufficient points can purchase precious resources, peerless blade techniques, and peerless internal arts 246.

Before Li Chuan leaves for the sect, Bai Ming arranges an introduction to Kong Lingsu. Learning alchemy offers him a way to earn points without relying primarily on dangerous, poorly paid missions 259 264.

How the System Works

Spending Locations

Institution	Purpose
Mission Hall	Accept assignments that award Contribution Points 263.
Hundred Treasures Hall	Purchase medicinal pills, Earth Treasures, and other precious materials. Its inventory changes periodically 263 295.
Secret Repository	Exchange points for internal skills and martial arts, including peerless techniques 263 269.
Blade Realm	Pay for a limited training session that greatly accelerates blade practice 284.
Primordial Essence Secret Realm	Pay for access to an essence-rich environment that accelerates cultivation 294.

Tokens and Transfers

• Checking a balance: Li Chuan probes his token with True Gang to sense the remaining points 267.
• Transferring points: True Gang can move points between tokens. Fang Linzhou also transfers a reward by touching his token to Li Chuan’s 268 277.
• External holdings: Li Chuan collects points from the River-Crossing Three Fiends’ jade pendants by pressing his token against each one 286.
• Loans and payments: Points can be lent between individuals, paid in advance for protection work, and transferred to settle wagers 272 284 296.

Earning Contribution Points

Missions

Mission rewards vary with difficulty, access, and personal connections. Duan Jinglan receives an unusually favorable thirty-point gathering assignment because his name was submitted for the elders’ consideration 264.

Assignment	Reward	Conditions
Catch Silver-Pattern Fish	15 points	Zhao Guangyao’s dangerous assignment 264 266.
Escort goods	10 points	A three-day round trip, with possible combat 264.
Gather a Spirit Orchid at Clearwind Ridge	30 points	Favorable assignment obtained by Duan Jinglan 264.
Collect Frostfrost Bamboo	15 points	Completed safely by Li Chuan 271.
Hunt a second-tier mid-grade Fire Phoenix Snake	50 points	Three-day limit; the notice warns of potentially fatal venom 280.
Gather two Heavenly Gang Grass plants	100 points	Gang Wind Cliff contains dangerous beasts; disciples outside the top ten are advised against accepting 280.

• Outer Area limits: Suitable missions are not always available. In one half-month comparison, alliance members report earnings of thirty-five to sixty-five points 266.
• Core Area opportunities: The missions Li Chuan inspects start at fifty points, but their dangers rise alongside their rewards 280.
• Mandatory work: Outer Disciples must complete a mission each month; earning points through alchemy does not remove that requirement 267.

Alchemy Income

Pill Hall assessment gives Li Chuan permission to refine pills there long-term. Finished Body Strengthening Pills are handed to Zhou Baiyu, who settles the corresponding points 266.

Alchemy Stage / Rank	Pill	Payment per Successful Pill	Documented Earnings
Basic Alchemy — Initiation	Body Strengthening Pill	2 points	Eight points daily from three hours of work; eighty earned over ten days 266.
Basic Alchemy — Minor Mastery	Body Strengthening Pill	2 points	Two pills per successful furnace and four successes in five attempts; sixteen points daily from two and a half hours of work 270 271.
Basic Alchemy — Major Mastery / First-Rank Alchemist	Heavenly Deer Pill	20 points	Approximately half of batches succeed; Li Chuan earns six hundred points over ten days 274 275.
Basic Alchemy — Perfection / Second-Rank Alchemist	Silver Moon Pill	80 points	Three pills provide 240 points daily. A documented four-hour session produces that amount 289 291.

• Mental strain: Li Chuan initially exhausts himself and sleeps for a full day. Resting after every two hours of alchemy improves his efficiency 266.
• Reliable output: At Second Rank, his success and failure alternate predictably, avoiding the fluctuations caused by an ordinary alchemist’s condition or mood 291.
• Higher-rank advantage: One Silver Moon Pill earns more than the fifty or sixty points that top Core Area disciples can obtain through a day of mission work 289.
• Other institutional uses: Contribution Points also serve as penalties. Li Chuan’s assistance saves Kong Lingsu from a prospective two-thousand-point quota penalty 291.

Other Sources

• Promotion reward: As the first disciple to advance to the Core Area, Li Chuan receives five hundred points and the right to select a peerless blade technique 277.
• Protection contract: Bai Zhao pays him two thousand points in advance to protect her merchant ships 284.
• Wager: Defeating Jiang Zhaoyu wins Li Chuan two thousand points, raising his balance from 3,670 to 5,670 296.
• Looted holdings: Tokens and pendants taken from defeated enemies can provide additional points 268 286 293.

Documented Prices

Medicinal Pills

Item	Price	Use / Value
Gang-Tempering Pill	2 points each	Regular True Gang cultivation resource 263 264.
Premium Gang-Tempering Pill	10 points each	Three times as effective as the regular version 276.
Extreme Gang Pill	50 points each	Higher-cost cultivation pill; twenty pills cost one thousand points 283 291.

Martial Arts and Training Resources

Item / Access	Price	Use / Value
Ordinary Blade-Practice Stone / Blade-Enlightenment Stone	40 points	Doubles Li Chuan’s blade-practice proficiency gain from +1 to +2 267 272.
Ordinary Sword-Training Stone	40 points	Li Chuan buys two as thank-you gifts for Zhao Guangyao and Cui Qiongyu 275.
Mid-Grade Blade-Practice Stone	200 points	Kong Lingsu gives Li Chuan one; he records +6 proficiency per strike while using it 270 271.
Fine Blade-Practice Stone	500 points	Initially too expensive for Li Chuan’s savings plan 270.
Supreme Blade-Training Stone	5,000 points	Can enhance the practice of True Arts 295.
Peerless martial arts	At least 1,000 points	A qualifying Core Area promotion also grants a technique without point expenditure 269 277.
Illusory Gang Art	1,000 points	Imitates the aura of other True Gang types 276.
Profound Metal Internal Skill	1,000 points	Purchased by Li Chuan after reaching External Gang 295.
Blade Realm entry	2,500 points	Three-day session; the steward later estimates about a year until its next opening 284 285.
Primordial Essence Secret Realm entry	5,000 points	Ten-day cultivation session 294.

Treasures and Materials

Item	Price	Use / Value
Great Abyss Meta-Magnetic Marrow	1,000 points	Harmonizes Li Chuan’s Xuanming and Chiming True Gang 264 272.
Second-tier upper-grade Azure Flood Python essence blood	2,000 points per bottle	Required for the Dragon Elephant Overlord Body’s Dragon Spine cultivation 288 291.
Low-grade Spirit Treasure	10,000 points	Li Chuan considers replacement of Moon-Hide unnecessary at this price 295.

Borrowing and Repayment

Li Chuan borrows points rather than delaying his cultivation while saving for Great Abyss Meta-Magnetic Marrow 272.

Lender	Amount	Response
Zhao Guangyao	30 points	Agrees to help 272.
Cui Qiongyu	30 points	Lends thirty despite having only thirty-six 272.
Zhou Baiyu	200 points	Scolds Li Chuan, then supports him 272.
Kong Lingsu	500 points	Provides the largest loan and encourages more pill refinement 272.
Total	760 points	Li Chuan’s balance reaches 1,077 before the purchase 272 274.

Duan Jinglan and He Wanqing refuse to lend him points. After becoming a First-Rank Alchemist, Li Chuan repays all four lenders. He also gives Zhao Guangyao and Cui Qiongyu an Ordinary Sword-Training Stone each, choosing useful gifts rather than additional points to express his gratitude 272 275.

Security and Theft

• Balances are vulnerable to looting: Pei Ziqian is murdered and his points stolen, prompting the alliance to discuss the danger of carrying transferable tokens 266.
• Wealth attracts attention: Li Chuan conceals his savings because a large balance could draw covetous disciples 271 283.
• Recorded gains from enemies: He takes thirty points from Zhu Xu, 269 from Wang Ling, six hundred from the River-Crossing Three Fiends, and five hundred from Feng Jinyuan 268 283 286 293.
• Sect intent remains speculation: Alliance members suspect that token theft and the harsh environment encourage survival through conflict; this is their interpretation, not an explicitly stated rule 266.
• Li Chuan rejects indiscriminate robbery: When short of funds for the Blade Realm, he rules out killing strangers for their points 284.

Role in Li Chuan’s Advancement

• Innate Great White True Gang: Borrowed points let him purchase the marrow that fuses his opposing True Gangs within an hour 272.
• Mid Gang Force: Alchemy income makes daily Premium Gang-Tempering Pills affordable, sharply reducing his projected cultivation time 276.
• Return to Dust — Major Mastery: Bai Zhao’s advance payment secures Blade Realm entry before its brief opening ends 284.
• Dragon Spine: Second-Rank alchemy income pays for the two bottles of essence blood needed for the breakthrough 291.
• External Gang: Li Chuan accumulates 9,100 points and spends five thousand on the Primordial Essence Secret Realm, where he completes his breakthrough 294.

Notable Quote

“Contribution Points aren't the most important thing. Converting them into strength is what matters most.” — Li Chuan 282