Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

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"Nine Rites... Xuanyuan?"

Seeing the words "Limited-Time Quest," Yuzhao showed no surprise, instead there was an expression of 'just as I expected.'

How could the Wandao School release so many high-order spiritual objects, Divine Power mana points, and even superior immortal implements, if not for something in return—surely it wasn't out of a sudden burst of generosity, intending to benefit the world?

The world hustles and bustles, all for the sake of profit!

Even if the Wandao School is dedicated to dealing with the Demon Catastrophe, it wouldn't benefit others without reason.

This movement must have an ulterior motive!

What exactly are they aiming for?

The answer was already laid out before his eyes.

Yuzhao raised his hand to touch the quest interface, and what appeared was...

Limited-Time Quest—Nine Rites Xuanyuan!

Quest Details: Starting today, cultivators across the world can use the swordsmanship mana point to refine the Nine Rites Xuanyuan Sword required by the Wandao School.

The Wandao School will offer a high price for purchase; a Xuanyuan Sword of Magical Treasure tier can be exchanged for five hundred thousand academic credits, and a Nine Rites Xuanyuan Sword of Spiritual Treasure tier can be exchanged for five million academic credits, without any limit on the quantity.

Refining Method: The Nine Rites Xuanyuan, forged by heaven and earth, requires the Essence of the Earth and Mysterious Iron Refined Gold as the sword artifact embryo. Then, combining the power of thunder, infuse with the Heavenly Earth Prime Spirit, nurturing it day and night, thus finally achieving success.

The refining process is quite difficult; artifact refiners below tier three are not recommended to attempt it.

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Looking over the quest details and then opening the detailed swordsmanship mana point, Yuzhao fell into silence after seeing the stringent requirements for refining the Nine Rites Xuanyuan Sword, and for a long time he said nothing.

Indeed, there are no pies falling from the sky in this world; even the Wandao School wouldn't simply hand over such treasures. This limited-time quest was clearly aimed at those cultivators from the blessed lands.

To the bystanders, it's quite clear that the main challenge for the Wandao School now is to complete the reorganization work of the Federation, suppress the Heretic God Sects causing trouble across the lands, and establish an order that belongs to the Wandao School.

But in reality, this isn't much of a challenge. Although there are frequent disturbances across the land, and the Heretic God Sects are causing continuous unrest, these are but minor ailments that can't pose a substantive threat to the Wandao School.

Unless someone can match those three people, this situation will be suppressed sooner or later, and the governance of the Scholar's Palace is an unchangeable outcome.

Therefore, the Wandao School does not need to offer a substantial reward, tempting those cultivators from the blessed lands, to combat the rebellious Heretic God Sects.

In fact, even without the rewards of the Wandao School, those cultivators from the blessed lands would actively engage in demon-exterminating and guard of the Dao, driven by their own needs to gain merits.

Hence, this limited-time quest is not aimed at the Heretic God Sects, but rather at the high-tier cultivators from the ancient sects of the blessed lands.

The Wandao School wants to use them to refine these Nine Rites Xuanyuan Swords.

Yes, use them!

Use both their manpower and their resources!

Yuzhao saw the extremely demanding refining requirements for the Nine Rites Xuanyuan Sword; not only is it necessary to use such essence of earth as Mysterious Iron Refined Gold for the embryo, but it also requires a tier-three or above refinement master with superb artifact refining skills, using the swordsmanship mana point, and pouring their heart and soul into working tirelessly day and night to possibly achieve success.

How much effort, how much time would be consumed?

And how much manpower, how many resources would be invested?

Those artificers with average skills and ordinary talents would have to go through several failures, learn from experiences, and draw lessons before possibly refining a qualified Nine Rites Xuanyuan Sword.

The cost of labor, cost of resources, along with the investment and the losses from failures, all had to be borne by the refiners themselves.

The Wandao School only purchases the finished products; it doesn't provide guidance, much less bear the cost of materials for refining the sword or the losses from failures, effectively transferring all the risks.

If this isn't using them, what is?

The Wandao School, still in its initial stages, has trained many artifact refiners, but they are essentially only capable of refining magic artifacts and spiritual artifacts, lacking the capability to refine magical treasures and spiritual treasures.

Even if they could, they would face a massive risk of failure, and calculating all the costs involved, it would be far less profitable than outsourcing the "manufacturing process."

So, they offer huge rewards, letting those ancient sects from the blessed lands contribute both manpower and their own resources to manufacture for them, refining these Nine Rites Xuanyuan Swords, in order to earn academic credits to exchange for high-order spiritual objects, Divine Power mana points, and precious immortal implements listed on the rankings.

Under normal circumstances, exchanging high-order spiritual objects and superior immortal implements for magical treasures and spiritual treasures is a losing deal, because trading higher-tier for lower-tier, even with a compensation in quantity, invariably leads to a loss.

But now is clearly not a normal circumstance, and these Nine Rites Xuanyuan Swords are not ordinary magical treasures or spiritual treasures. Considering the high difficulty of refining, the costs involved in terms of time, effort, and the risk of loss from failure, making such an exchange turns out to be a huge, even extremely profitable deal for the Wandao School.

When these calculations are done, will those ancient sects from the blessed lands still "manufacture for" the Wandao School?

Of course, they will!

Though the people of this world are mostly not fools, and those cultivators from the blessed lands are particularly shrewd—calculating the gains and losses is not something they can be deceived about—this doesn't stop them from jumping into this pitfall.

Helpless, opportunities like this are rare!

Exchanges between cultivators are basically equitable; spiritual treasures for spiritual treasures, immortal artifacts for immortal artifacts, same-tier items for same-tier items, and it's rare to see higher-tier being traded for lower-tier, or a few for the many.

Because the value of high-tier spiritual objects can hardly be compared to that of lower-tier ones, for instance, a superior immortal implement may be priced at one hundred million spirit stones in the marketplace, but you would hardly be able to exchange one hundred million spirit stones for a superior immortal implement.

This touches on an issue of "practicality" and "scarcity;" spirit stones can be obtained through many means, but superior immortal implements are rare treasures that, in most cases, are hard to come by.

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