Monthly Cultivation Progress Award: Top 10, Quarterly Cultivation Progress Award: Top 10, Annual Cultivation Progress Award: Top 10, Mission Completion Award: Top 10, Best Invention Award: Top 10, and so on.
There were rewards for all of these awards. Some were crystal stones, some were contribution points, some were artifacts, some were cultivation methods, some were opportunities to be personally taught by a teacher, and some were even opportunities to be personally taught by Zhao Hai. The moment these rewards were taken out, the entire sect went into an uproar. The people of the sect didn't expect such a reward. This caused the passion of the disciples to soar.
The rewards were given out for another year. It has been two years since the attack on the Iron Buddha Temple and Zhao Hai began to reform the sect. In these two years, the sect had completely changed. In the past, the sect was no different from the other sects in the Sword Spirit Boundary. If they followed the original path of development, the sect would never catch up to those large sects. At most, they would be a mid-tier sect.
But now, the sect had become a mixture of a modern academy and factory. It could even be said that it was an army and a country.
Two years was enough for some disciples to see through themselves. They knew that they had no talent for cultivation, nor did they have any talent in other aspects. Therefore, some of them stayed in the Sea Exploration Sect and began to do odd jobs in exchange for crystals and establish their own families. Some of them left the sect master and went to various cities under the sect's control to help the sect manage some businesses and establish their own families. They hoped that their descendants could enter the Sea Exploration Sect and become a member of the sect.
In these two years, a large number of experts had emerged from the Sea Exploring Sect. Some of these people had directly advanced from the Qi Refining Realm to the Qi Refining Realm. Some of them had directly advanced from the Qi Refining Realm to the Spirit Refining Realm. The most obvious example was Long Dingtian. Long Dingtian originally had the Dragon Tiger Golden Body. He had also learned some other Physique Cultivation Methods. Now, he had become a Spirit Refining Realm expert. This was unimaginable in the past.
In the past two years, the Sea Exploring Sect had deliberately kept a low profile. Therefore, nobody knew that the Sea Exploring Sect had so many experts. Moreover, these experts weren't flowers in a greenhouse. They had all gone through actual combat. Some went to other sects for training, while some went to the South Sea to deal with wild sea beasts. In short, everyone had to go through actual combat.
In addition to their own cultivation, Zhao Hai also trained them in teamwork. There were all kinds of training, such as formation training, formation training, cooperation training, how to fight on large artifacts, and how to escape on large artifacts. All of these were done without anyone knowing.
The reason why nobody knew about this was because this large-scale training was carried out in the open sea. This way, not only would they not be discovered, they would also be able to fight with the sea beasts in the wild. They would even be able to participate in actual combat.
The disciples of the Sea Exploration Sect were now used to this. For them, the current cultivation environment was much better than before. As long as they completed a certain number of missions every month, they would be able to obtain sufficient cultivation resources. If they didn't use up all of the resources that were given to them by the sect, they would be investigated to see why they hadn't used up all of the resources. If they felt that the resources weren't enough, they could apply to the sect. After the sect evaluated them, as long as they determined that they needed the resources, they would be able to directly obtain them. If the sect determined that they shouldn't have the resources, they wouldn't be discovered. But as long as they completed the missions, they would be able to obtain contribution points and exchange for the resources themselves.
But now, almost no one was doing this because they felt that doing so was too stupid. In the beginning, there were still disciples who did this. They thought that the resources given to them by the sect weren't enough for their cultivation, so they wanted to exchange for more resources. Therefore, they would do some missions in order to exchange for more resources. However, after a few times, no one did this anymore. This was because they discovered that, aside from a few individuals, the others' cultivation progress didn't improve even after receiving more resources. On the contrary, because they did too many missions, it would affect their own cultivation. If they didn't meet the sect's requirements, they would be punished. Therefore, no one did this anymore.
In the opinion of the disciples of the Sea Exploring Sect, instead of going out to do missions, they might as well study their own cultivation methods. If they could come up with one or two inventions, then the sect's rewards wouldn't be small.
The atmosphere of the Sea Exploring Sect was slowly changing. Some disciples preferred to improve their strength, so they would participate in battles to improve their combat strength. However, there were some disciples who didn't. They preferred to go all out and make things. Just like Na Fu in the Iron Buddha Temple, he didn't like fighting, he didn't even like cultivation. The purpose of his cultivation was to make himself live longer and make more talismans. But in the Iron Buddha Temple, all disciples had to participate in battles and do missions. It was impossible for him to study talismans and nothing else.
However, he could do so in the Sea Exploring Sect. As long as he reported that he liked to study talismans and didn't want to do anything else, then he could study talismans. However, he would have to submit a certain number of talismans every month. The sect would even focus on training him in this aspect.
The atmosphere of the Sea Exploring Sect was more like that of an academy than a cultivation sect. A cultivation sect was completely different from an academy. Of course, the Sea Exploring Sect couldn't train its disciples to be ignorant students in an ivory tower. Those who didn't need to go out to do missions and didn't need to fight were limited in number every year. As long as there were enough quotas, even if you were very talented in a certain aspect, you couldn't just stay in the sect and cultivate without doing anything. That was absolutely unacceptable.
In the past two years, a lot of things happened in the Sword Spirit Boundary. First, the excavations of the ruins of Sky City were very smooth. More than half of the ruins had been excavated. This was much faster than when the 72 islands were excavated.
Second, the sects began to set up small sects in the Sword Spirit Boundary. They sent their disciples out to accept new disciples. Moreover, the process was very smooth. A lot of Vagrant Cultivators in the Sword Spirit Boundary joined these small sects and became disciples. In just a short period of time, the number of Vagrant Cultivators in the Sword Spirit Boundary decreased greatly.
On the other hand, the Sea Exploring Sect wasn't idle. In the past two years, they also recruited two batches of disciples. Some of them were Vagrant Cultivators while the others were people who ascended from the lower realms.
Aside from these two matters, there was also the situation of the sword cultivator sects in the Sword Spirit Boundary. The sword cultivator sects in the Sword Spirit Boundary began to unite. Two years ago, the Myriad Buddhas Temple invited the sects to a meeting but didn't invite them. This matter attracted the attention of some sects in the Sword Spirit Boundary. However, these sects didn't find any evidence that the sword cultivator sects were colluding with the Demon Sword Sect. In the end, they had no choice but to give up.
In the past two years, less and less people had mentioned the Scouring Sea Sect. Even the people of the Profound Sky Sect and the Thirty-Three Islands of the Southern Sea rarely mentioned the Scouring Sea Sect. This was because the Scouring Sea Sect had less and less opportunities to interact with them. The people of the Scouring Sea Sect seemed to have sealed themselves off.
However, they didn't discover that shops had appeared in the territories controlled by the sects. These shops were selling pills, formations, talismans, and other things. Later on, some low-level artifacts were added. These things weren't only useful to Vagrant Cultivators, but also to sect disciples. Moreover, the prices were very cheap.
Not only did these shops have a lot of income, but they also collected a lot of information. These shops were actually released by the Sea Exploring Sect. Aside from these shops, they also had a lot of taverns, inns, and other shops. It can be said that the Sea Exploring Sect used these two years to not only change the atmosphere of their sect, but also spread out a large net, a huge information network that covered the entire Sword Spirit Boundary.
Originally, Zhao Hai's information network could only cover the Demon Realm. Because of the Poison Tree Sect, the Poison Tree Sect became an information network for the Poison Dragon Sect. However, it wasn't controlled by the Poison Dragon Sect, but by Zhou Fengming. However, Zhou Fengming didn't know that this information network was actually controlled by Zhao Hai. This was because the controllers of this information network, Wu Kai and the others, were all Zhao Hai's slaves.
However, it was very difficult for this information network that covered the Demon Realm to enter the Righteous Sects' territory. This was because if this network extended its tentacles into the Righteous Alliance's territory, then the Righteous Alliance's people would definitely retaliate. Those people from the Righteous Alliance weren't people with good tempers.
Zhao Haili used two years to establish this information network in the Righteous Dao Alliance. Now that it had reached a certain scale, it was connected to the Demon Domain's information network. This information network covered the entire Sword Spirit World.
Naturally, Zhao Hai also didn't let go of the 72 Southern Islands. However, he didn't set up a shop there. The people of the 72 Southern Islands were quite xenophobic. If you set up a shop there, then the people of the 72 Southern Islands might discover you. This wasn't something that Zhao Hai wanted. Zhao Hai still wanted to maintain a good relationship with the 72 Southern Islands. He couldn't do anything that would make them suspicious.
However, Zhao Hai didn't need to do anything. This was because he already had the 72 Southern Islands in his Space Map. If he wanted information about the 72 Southern Islands, then he could see it at any time. There was no need to worry about anything.
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