"From now on, if you have an Off-Campus Mission, you only need to report it to your captain. Your monthly stipend is three hundred taels. You can take it in silver or the equivalent martial resources..."
The commander explained some basic matters to Zhao Er.
Three hundred taels of silver was a Martial Guard's monthly stipend. That might not sound like much, but it was actually the treatment normally reserved for Primordial Unity Realm martial artists. An ordinary Martial Academy student received only thirty taels of silver a month.
A stipend like that was generally only enough to cover a martial artist's basic cultivation needs. Anyone who wanted more resources had to complete missions.
Missions inside the Martial Academy were safe but took up cultivation time. Missions outside were dangerous but came with enormous rewards. How to weigh the two was usually up to the individual.
Of course, there were compromises, too, such as gathering martial resources in the mountains, then selling them at the Exchange Office or trading them with other members.
For Zhao Er, however, the most important thing right now was to improve his strength and digest everything he had gained recently.
Zhao Er had brought all his silver with him this time. Originally, he had thought he would need to buy manuals or hundred-forged fine iron to cultivate the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art, but now it seemed both problems had already been solved.
That meant Zhao Er had no need to risk venturing outside or entering the mountains. For now, what mattered most was breaking through to the Primordial Unity Realm and reaching the fourth layer of the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art—the Golden Body.
Only then could he secure his position as a Martial Guard.
He remembered perfectly well that ordinary Martial Academy students would not