Aptitude

Ye Yan studied the spiritual plant nurturing manual carefully and synthesized another nine-square-meter spiritual farmland. Then he planted some spiritual rice seeds in the internal storage, leaving only a few for future use. After about two hours, he was finally done with all this work. He returned to the bottom of the root willow and began to think about the direction of the sect's future development.

First was the sect hall. The red soil that his companions had dug up last time was still in his internal storage. The most important thing now was to build the hall. Otherwise, the sect would be too shabby to only have so few facilities.

Then there was the issue of the spirit stones. After spending some on automatic cultivation these few days and buying some necessary things, such as daggers, he was almost out of spirit stones. If he didn't think of a way to get more, he wouldn't even be able to afford the automatic cultivation.

Other than that, there was also the problem of money. Right now, his sect did not have any funds at all.

In the future, the sect would have many more people as it would definitely grow bigger. People from all over the world might come to join, so he had to find a way to let these people have a place to live and food to eat.

After all, they were all human. Xiao Bai could live off a simple straw shed and dry food, but not humans. Humans needed to eat and sleep, so money was simply indispensable.

Ye Yan could even foresee that the future expenses of the sect would be astronomical figures, so he had to find a way to make the sect gain some funds.

There was another problem, which was the labor force in the sect. After all, the spiritual plants and spiritual rice in the spiritual farmlands had to be planted by someone. As the sect master, he couldn't possibly do everything himself.

Ye Yan suddenly remembered that he hadn't read through Er Dan, Brother Scar, and Hong En's interfaces, so he opened them up.

[Name: Zhang You]

[Bone Age: 8 years]

[Physical State: Healthy]

[Aptitude: Ordinary]

[Cultivation: 0/100 (mortal, no realm)]

[Sect Identity: Outer sect disciple (+)]

[Sect Position: None (+)]

Ye Yan looked at Er Dan's panel and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Er Dan was someone who was funny and single-track-minded in daily life. He didn't expect him to be as such in cultivation as well.

[Name: Hong En]

[Bone Age: 8 years]

[Physical State: Healthy]

[Aptitude: Slightly ahead]

[Cultivation: 0/100 (mortal, no realm)]

[Sect Identity: Outer sect disciple (+)]

[Sect Position: None (+)]

Looking at Hong En's panel, Ye Yan had to admit that he was surprised. Judging from Hong En's quick-witted character, he didn't expect his aptitude was so ordinary.

It seemed that the evaluation of aptitude was solely based on one's talent of cultivation and had little to do with individual attributes. Fortunately, the other party was still a little more talented than ordinary people, though only just a little.

The last one was Liu Yi's panel. Probably due to yesterday's unexpected breakthrough, but Ye Yan was looking forward to seeing Brother Scar's aptitude.

[Name: Liu Yi]

[Bone Age: 8 years]

[Physical State: Multiple injuries]

[Aptitude: Hard to find within a thousand miles (originally ordinary, changed)]

[Cultivation: First level of the beginner Qi-forging Realm]

[Sect Identity: Outer sect disciple (+)]

[Sect Position: None (+)]

Hmm? Ye Yan was stunned. He didn't expect Liu Yi to be so talented. But what did the "change" mean? So Liu Yi used to only have an ordinary aptitude, but now he had become a rare talent?

In that case, it seemed that it was possible to improve one's aptitude. If he worked hard, would he be able to become more outstanding?

Then, the next one was the little fox, Xiao Bai.

[Name: Xiao Bai]

[Race: Fox]

[Gender: Female]

[Bone Age: 2 Years]

[Physical State: healthy]

[Aptitude: Ancient nine-tailed divine fox bloodline]

[Cultivation: First level of the Spirit-awakening Realm]

[Sect Identity: Outer sect disciple (+)]

[Sect Position: None (+)]

Wow! Even someone calm like Ye Yan couldn't help but be flustered after seeing Xiao Bai's panel. He didn't expect the fox to have the bloodline of a divine fox. Although he didn't know what kind of existence a divine fox was, it shouldn't be any inferior since the system mentioned it.

On top of that, its cultivation level is not in the Qi-forging Realm like the rest of them, but in the Spirit-awakening Realm. It seemed that due to its different cultivation methods, the realm had a different name.

Ye Yan was silent for a moment before beginning to change everyone's sect position. He naturally couldn't let his friends have lowly identities, so he changed all of them to personal disciples.

There was no limit to the number of personal disciples, so it didn't matter if he had a hundred. As for the sect positions, Ye Yan first added a "Sect Teacher" position, then added it to Liu Kan's panel.

Then he made Hong En the "Treasury Elder". Although Hong En was the same age as him, he had been quick-witted since young. He was particularly concerned about money and knew how to manage it.

Then it was Zhang You's turn. Ye Yan scratched his head and thought for a long time, but he didn't know what position to give the other party. After all, Er Dan had neither culture nor intelligence, simply a reckless child. After thinking about it, it seemed that only his strength would be of some use. After all, he was the most muscular among them. As such, he might as well gave him the position of "Construction Elder". When the time came, he would leave all the mining, smithing, and wood-chopping to Zhang You.

Inadvertently glancing at the spiritual farmland, Ye Yan thought for a while and gave Ye Wen the "Farmland Elder" position. In terms of farming, Ye Wen was the best in this group. Under the double education of Ye Dahai and Grandpa ye, his farming skills had long been perfected.

The only ones left were Xiao Bai and Liu Yi.

Xiao Bai could be emergency food? No, no! Ye Yan shook his head to dispel this idea. He left the fox's sect position idle, for now. He would think about it later.

[Ding!] Suddenly, the system's voice sounded in his mind, and a line of words appeared in front of Ye Yan.

[The number of sect positions has reached five. A special mission has thus been issued: Sect salary.]

[Mission Details: Please pay the sect members' salary.]

Ye Yan was speechless.

Wow, what a good system. Now it came out to make things difficult for him. How was he going to pay? Never mind the fact that Ye Yan was poor now, now that they were all cultivators, their salary couldn't just be money. There should also be other things such as cultivation methods and herbs.

But now, Ye Yan had no money and also few spirit stones in his internal storage, not even enough for cultivation. How could he get manage to pay his sect members a salary? Just as Ye Yan was worried, the system's mechanical voice sounded in his mind again.

[Dingg! Congratulations to the host! Disciple Liu Kan has broken through to the first level of the beginner Qi-forging Realm!]

Good job! As soon as this notification came, Ye Yan immediately put his troubles to the back of his head. As expected of a Dao sect's proud son of heaven, the speed of Liu Kan's breakthrough was indeed very fast. Now, the God-slaying Sect had four cultivators in the first level of the beginner Qi-forging Realm, namely Liu Kan, Liu Yi, Chen Geng, and Xiao Bai the fox.

Ye Yan was very excited. It had only been a few days and half of the members in the sect had broken through. The speed was good enough.

It was quite impressive for a small village like Dumen Village to have so many talents. Ye Yan found that many of them had good aptitudes. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel proud.

Birds of a feather do flock together. Since he was so outstanding, the people in the village were naturally the same. Tsk, it can't be helped, they were all too strong.

With that, Ye Yan immediately made up his mind to get some funding! For the future of the sect's talents and the future of the sect itself, he had to start making money! It just so happened that tomorrow was the monthly market day of Dumen Village, and the villagers would go to town to buy necessities.

The current salary would still be copper coins and silver, for now. After all, the members of the sect were currently not that strong yet, so they didn't need things like spirit stones and spiritual herbs. Copper coins were much easier to get than spiritual stones.

Ye Yan chuckled and opened a panel.

The [Item Synthesis] function!