Eric wanted to upgrade more things but the cost had all gone up. To upgrade anything to 3 stars was 1 platinum coin which was worth around 100 gold coins. It was a coin that the majority of people could never even see.
He could create 10 more people but he decided not to since he still needs to have some money for himself.
Eric also thought about getting Nash to use the 2-star cultivation technique but he decided not to in case someone found out about it.
The next week, Eric started going back to work again.
Just like this, almost a year passed by with nothing interesting happening.
It was the weekend and Eric was about to wake up like usual but then a surprising knock on his room came. Besides his sister, no one usually knocked on his door.
"Who is it?"
The voice outside the door responded with, "It's me brother."
Knowing that it was his sister, he quickly got up and opened the door, and hugged his sister.
"Why are you here?"
"I volunteered to come here to test the people here to see if anyone has the talent for cultivation."
"I came a week early to see you."
Eric started to talk with his sister and as he did so the news about Sara and Nash returning from the sect started to spread throughout the city.
Eric learned that his sister had just gotten to the third level of Qi refining.
"I heard that it would only take about 7 months to reach the third level of Qi refining, why have you just gotten to it?"