Outside Lesser Yang Mountain, cultivators came and went.
Wang Ba hovered a short distance away.
Recalling the vast collection of texts in the Myriad Phenomena Scripture Repository he had just seen on Lesser Yang Mountain, he still felt somewhat shaken, but his expression was grim.
A deacon's annual salary was thirty merit points.
Yet viewing the Azure Emperor Seed-God Mantra alone required a full five thousand points.
In other words, merely obtaining this cultivation method would take more than a hundred and sixty years.
And that was only the wood-element cultivation method.
Adding the other four elements, obtaining them alone would take several hundred years.
Cultivating them went without saying.
Of course, he could cultivate one first while saving the merit points needed for the next.
By the time he had made sufficient progress, he would have enough to purchase another.
However, to enter the Myriad Phenomena One-Intent Art through the five elements, it was best to cultivate them together from the very beginning.
Once a single cultivation method had taken shape, the difficulty of making it compatible with the others would rise by far more than a little.
And according to Yao Wudi, cultivating all five elements together could actually increase his speed considerably.
"Merit points..."
Wang Ba began making calculations to himself.
Over the past year or so, he had accumulated three or four thousand portions of second-tier Spirit Chicken Essence. As for Spirit Stones, he had killed a Fourth Tier member of the Well God Lineage back at Yan-Qiao Pass and taken everything in the man's storage Law Artifact. Although little inside had been valuable, together with his existing savings, he had seven or eight thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones in total.
Such wealth left the vast majority of Gold Core cultivators so far behind they could not