After leaving the Trial Grounds, Jiang Feng returned directly to his direct disciple estate.
Eight hundred years was not a long time for cultivators, but it was enough to change many things.
The direct disciple estate was no longer as deserted as it had been eight hundred years ago. Now, visitors thronged its gates, and it bustled with life.
After returning to the estate, Jiang Feng immediately summoned Xia Youming to learn about the situation.
The estate's development was now on the right track. The retainers each performed their own duties, and even the slaves had ample time to cultivate.
This could be considered the fulfillment of Jiang Feng's original intention.
The reason he had recruited retainers and purchased slaves was to provide those talented outer disciples and slaves with a relatively ideal cultivation environment.
However, a problem had now arisen.
The foundations of the direct disciple estate were still far too shallow.
After all, these were all low-level cultivation methods from the Immortal Sacred Realm outside. Though there were quite a few of them, they were of little help to the retainers, serving only the slaves.
The Moving Flower Palace methods provided by Young Master Black Feather were somewhat better, but for those capable of entering the Blackstone Mountain Range, they were likewise of limited use.
Jiang Feng would have to solve the problem of cultivation methods himself.
However, according to the rules, he could not appropriate the collections of the Scripture Repository as his own private collection. That would be against the rules.
Fortunately, creating several cultivation arts was not difficult for Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng's foundations were now deep and solid. Creating cultivation methods atop those foundations was as easy as turning his hand over.
In merely a few months, he created a hundred sets of high-level