Gu Wen asked, "How effective was it?"
"Very little effect," Xie Yunnan shook his head, "Without Spirit Stones and Pills as aid, a mortal would spend decades to at most reach Qi Cultivation Third Level. For three hundred years, not a single Golden Core Cultivator has emerged from the common folk."
This immediately sparked complaints from other disciples of the Sword Sect.
"Every year, the sect still takes a lot of Spirit Stones to subsidize the Cultivation Hall for mortals, but we haven't seen any great power emerge to slay demons."
"I've been there once to teach cultivation, and sometimes it's like a big gathering, with barefoot farmers standing below listening, not knowing if they can really grasp anything."
Gu Wen took these complaints in stride, feeling that the disciples of the Sword Sect were not at fault.
Among mortals, there were scholars, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants, just as among cultivators, there were sect cultivators and Loose Cultivators.
