The Sect (Lots of numbers/details (Warning!))

[Author Note – Lots of numbers explaining details about sect, such as numbers in each stage, professions n stuff. If you care and are interested you can read the numbers and see the progress of the sect but if not then feel free to skip, you're only missing on exact numbers of like who is in what realm, how many alchemists n stuff they have. It is a lot of numbers so its fair to skip but just adding it since this is a part kingdom building novel so adding details and numbers, I feel is necessary for readers to get a scope of the progress n stuff. I will mark off the start and end of the numbers so people who don't want to know the details can skip.]

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After Su Da had finished explaining the production side of things she moved onto the disciple's progression since she was the one who organised and watches over them all the time, she knows their progression the most.

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"Out of the 40,000 disciples we have between ages 8-16 less than 1,000 of them are learning a profession. So far, we have 400 learning alchemy, 500 learning weapon refining, 78 leaning inscriptions and, 10 learning runes.

Of the 400 alchemy disciples 300 have reached rank 1 and 3 have reached rank 2 in knowledge but waiting for cultivation to catch up. The rest are very close to rank 1 and are only a few weeks away at most. Due to refining requiring less talent all of the 500 disciples have reached rank 1 with 20 already at rank 2 in knowledge with cultivation still being the limiting factor.

So far only 4 disciples have reached rank 1 in inscriptions while the rest are around 1 – 2 months away. So far none of the rune disciples have reached rank 1 but that is the most difficult profession and the one that require extensive talent, the closest disciple is still over 2 months away from being able to make a rank 1 rune.

Even though that sounds like not much progress has been made its actually a very large amount as a normal talent reaching rank 1 in alchemy would take between 6 – 9 months yet ours have only taken between 2 – 4 with the most talented only being around a month. This progress is mostly due to the extensive information master has given them along with the near infinite rank 1 and 2 resources for them to practice. Metals are still an issue as we can't grow them but using mining as training for the body refiners and weapon refiners, we are able to gather a lot while also training their body's using weighted and blunt pickaxes.

Now for the non-profession disciples. Around 39,000 of them don't have talent and aren't studying a profession and are either a Qi cultivator or a body cultivator.

Of the 39,000 around 15,000 are Qi cultivators while the remaining 22,000 are body refiners mostly due to lack of talent in Qi. While 2,000 are talented in both and are practicing both body and Qi techniques.

First, I will start with the body refiners. Since most of the body refiners don't have much talent for anything and can only rely of hard work through body strength, they have been progressing pretty fast due to the amount of effort they have put in.

18,000 of them have reached level 9 stage 0, 4,000 have reached rank 1 and 3 have reached rank 2 just barely. Due to your input once they have reached rank 1, they have purposefully slowed down to build a foundation in their chosen weapon or fighting style and have been spending more time fighting than refining their body's.

As for the Qi cultivation disciples, 14,000 have reached level 9 stage 0 while 1,000 have reached stage 1. In comparison to other sects who have thousands that are of even stage 2 and 3 we are falling short, but compared to them we have only been set up for no longer than 5 months. For almost all 40,000 students to have reached stage 1 within half a year is something that only the big sects from the main land could achieve and they have more resources than we do.

The 2,000 that are doing both body and Qi have only just started to break through to level 9 stage 0, but due to practicing both Qi and body it takes them a lot more time but they are still as strong as the level 2 stage 1 disciples, so hopefully they end up being powerhouses that can kill across levels.

I will not mention the individual special disciples since although there aren't that many there are still so many it would take a while to talk about.

Next up is the 17+ old disciples numbering around 12,000. Since some of them have either already started cultivation or have not started at all there is a more diverse range of strengths. Luckly due to master for the most part avoiding 17+ year old people who haven't yet started their cultivation the few we do have are still only mid-way through stage 0, with only the body refiners of the bunch reaching around level 7-8.

Due to them starting cultivation so late in their life lots of the potential from when they were younger is gone and they advance much slow since they didn't build the foundation when they were young. Most of them do put in a lot of hard work though which means they should be able to keep up with the less talented younger children.

As for those who already started cultivation there is a verity of ages from 17 all the way to people in their 40's. Most of those above 30 are separated since they have already solidified their foundation while those below has been working on altering their foundation while they are still reasonably young and are slowly working to build a foundation similar to those of the younger children by burning cultivation levels.

So right now, of the 12,000 17 + we have 1,000 still in stage 0, 3,000 in stage 1, 700 in stage 2 for Qi cultivation while for body cultivation we have 300 in stage 0, 6,000 in stage 1 and 1,000 in stage 2 with a couple in stage 3.

There are the current elders and teachers but I will not talk about them since they aren't as relevant as the sect disciples.

Is there anything else you would like to know?"

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"No that should be everything, good job on keeping up with things and making sure everything is on track. Im am very impressed that you are taking the job seriously and know all the information, as a reward you will have 5 bars per week as your allowance of chocolate, if you continue to do your job well It could improve."

"Really 5 bars, I went through all that work for 5 bars. Ive read through all of those hundreds of books, noted down every detail that you asked for and all I get is 5 bars per week. You bully, how could father leave me to someone who doesn't even treat me."

He didn't really know what to say at her sudden outburst. Looking at her as she angrily glared at him he could only fold and giver her more since she did seem to put in a lot of effort and her father did leave her to him.

"Find I will increase it to 10 per week but should I find you slacking it will reduce every time. I will also take extra payment of you calling me darling from now on, your father did give you to me along with his blessing."

Her face blushed at having to call him darling. Previosuly she has been avoiding calling him anything since she was still unsure how to address him. Although her father gave her to him to be his wife and he did save her she was still unable to just love someone so quick to start addressing them as her husband. She also didn't want to call him master since she isn't actually a servant like the others and he specifically said that she doesn't need to call him that.

As someone from a powerful background before, she feels reluctant to call someone master who is weaker than what she is, well used to be. Due to the chocolate's temptation however, she decides that its time she actually starts to look at him as her husband and starts to grow some feelings, it was her father's dying wish after all.

She turns to look at him with a conflicted gaze before sighing and speaking. "Fine I will accept 10 chocolates per week. As for calling you darling I am still not at the point where I can coumfortably say that, instead I would like to call you Fen Chang and slowly grow feelings to the point I can naturally call you darling.

After what happened with that man who betrayed me, I still feel the reluctance in my heart to address someone as darling as that is what I used to call him whenever I dreamt of him or was near him."

She hugged and rubbed her arms in awkwardness and sadness over thinking of her past love. He could only sigh, because as much as he would normally just enslave them to get past such feelings easily he is unable to do so because of her powerful soul and can only go around it the normal way.

"I guess that's fair. Fine instead of darling you can call me brother Chang, and when you are ready and more comfortable around me, we can start going on some dates maybe. You like chocolate a lot so maybe our first date can centre around chocolate."

Her mouth starts to salivate at the thought of chocolate. She nods her head in both agreement of the deal and somewhat as an automatic response as she thinks about chocolate.

He says good bye and hands her the weeks supply of chocolate for her to enjoy and heads towards his next stop.

Wading through intense snow he slowly starts making his way to the centre of a giant snow plane. The snow is many meters deep and the temperature is well below -100. The snow plane is desolate with only mountains and plains with no vegetation in sight.

Using the specially made shoe attachments combined with his Qi he is able to walk across the top of the snow but the snowfall builds up so quick that with each step many inches of snow has already accumulated on top of the shoes.

He soon reached the middle of the plane he was in and in front of him was a giant mound of snow. The snow looked to have been piled on top of some sort of rock as that's the only way for the snow layer to be at a different height.

He smiles as he looks at the snow mound. He gets into a punching stance and has his palm facing outwards as it was tightly packed near his chest. He starts to infuse Qi into his palm and pushes it forward.

The force of the push created a mighty gust of wind and a handprint made of Qi lashed forward with mighty strength. When the palm hit the elevated snow layer it blast the tightly packed snow apart.

Beneath it was a pure white smooth rock berried in the snow.