After the examination ended, the individual commendations and stunts were well done. Li Chengfeng alone had spent a full quarter of an hour on it.
The goal was obvious, it was to stimulate the other disciples' ambition and vanity.
Who said cultivators had no desires?
Who said cultivators had a pure heart and few desires?
On the contrary, cultivators had the strongest desires in the world!
Ordinary people only wanted wealth and prosperity, a house full of children and grandchildren. What did cultivators want?
Cultivators wanted immortality, to be invincible!
From this point of view, was there anyone more greedy than cultivators?
Thus, most of the cultivators present here were excited and excited by this long list of praises. Especially those cultivators that were participating in the test for the first time. All of them were excited to the point their entire bodies trembled while their eyes turned red, and they swore that they would cultivate desperately in the following period of time so that they would surely seize first place in the future!
If Li Chengfeng could do it, why couldn't they?
Youngsters were, after all, spirited, especially after their first failure in the assessment battle. Only those senior brothers who had participated in many assessments and finally realized the gap between their strength and the others' after repeated setbacks, were slightly calmer.
But their gazes were even more frightening. It was pure jealousy!
After Li Chengfeng left, the Spiritual Mountain Sect began their 'rewards'. Once there were sixteen people, they would no longer be given out in the form of resources.
Due to the huge number of people to come, there were more than two thousand of them. If they were all distributed in the form of cultivation resources, it would be a terrifying administrative disaster. Hence, the Spiritual Mountain Sect distributed the remaining disciples in the form of silver taels.
Zhao Xiaobao received five hundred and thirty thousand taels of silver. This meant that he could receive five hundred and thirty thousand taels of silver every year from the Spiritual Mountain Sect!
What did five hundred and thirty thousand taels of silver mean?
Zhao Xiaobao had never seen so much money in his life!
Even the Cleansing Moon Li family's ten years of hard work and frugality only amounted to this much!
Han Tianxing received one hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver a year!
When Han Tianxing heard his name announced and the amount of silver, he was so emotional he burst into tears.
Zhao Xiaobao was someone who had seen wealth before. A starving camel was still bigger than a horse. Although the Cleansing Moon Li family had fallen, they still had Madam Xie's support.
But what had Han Tianxing seen?
The largest amount of silver he had ever seen was one hundred taels!
That was someone else's …
But all of a sudden, he actually received a subsidy of 120,000 taels of silver!
The first thing Han Tianxing thought of was that he could finally repay his mother for raising him!
Finally, his mother would not have to suffer anymore!
Why were there so many people in the world who were obsessed with cultivation and wanted to squeeze their way in by all means possible?
That was the answer!
For a moment, there was no end to the cries. Most of them were poor disciples of Hidden Modesty Court. They had fought hard all the way, and more or less received some subsidies. Although compared to the top ranked disciples, it was negligible, but compared to their past, it was still a shocking amount of money.
Those senior brothers with more experience looked at them mockingly, sympathetically, and even pitifully. Not only because they had been through all this, but also because … they did not realise that this amount of money was just a drop in the bucket. It might even be the beginning of their fall into the abyss!
The assessment would motivate them to become stronger, but to do so, it was not enough to rely on their own talent and cultivation. They had to have their own talismans or even talismans, and talismans and talismans were a bottomless pit of money!
It was no different from a fool's dream if they wanted to rush up by relying on the subsidies from the assessment. However, in order to rush up to a higher rank, they had to pay even more and make up even more!
In this way, they would not be able to make ends meet. Everyone would crazily invest in it. This was like a different kind of "arms race". Whoever fell behind was likely to have their ranking drop in the future, and the resources they would receive would be even less!
If they wanted to become stronger, to protect their position, or even their own lives, then they had to keep throwing themselves into it and become stronger!
Cultivators who did not have enough resources had to work hard to complete the missions given by the sect, in order to receive rewards to supplement their own cultivation. This continued until everyone was tied to the huge war chariot that was the cultivation sect, unable to extricate themselves.
As the saying went, 'The poor are scholars, the rich are martial artists, and the family is ruined for cultivation'!
Because of this assessment, Li Chengfeng had a deep understanding of the Spiritual Mountain Sect's terrifying wealth. Just the amount of resources given out this year was more than a hundred million taels!
And this was a fixed annual expenditure!
What a terrifying gold-devouring beast!
When the assessment ended, before Xiaobao and the rest could excitedly rush towards Li Chengfeng, a figure barged in between them.
Grand Senior Sister did not even look at Xiaobao and the rest. She stared at Li Chengfeng. "Come with me!"
Li Chengfeng's heart skipped a beat. He nodded slightly at Xiaobao and the rest, gesturing for them not to worry. Then, under everyone's watchful eyes, he followed Grand Senior Sister.
All the disciples in the surroundings watched them leave, and then they instantly started whispering to each other.
"Sigh, I thought Grand Senior Sister had abandoned Li Chengfeng. Who would've thought she'd make up with him as soon as she reached the top?"
"Pfft, what do you know?!
This is called 'the deeper the love, the deeper the responsibility'!
She didn't stand up for him before because she had confidence in him! "
"Confidence my ass! If the Sect Master didn't stand up for him, Li Chengfeng would've been disqualified a long time ago!"
These people chattered but none of them knew that even if Li Chengfeng did not get first in the assessment, Grand Senior Sister would still give him the Setting Sun Spear.
Forcing Li Chengfeng to get first was just to push him to the heart of the struggle. As long as she was satisfied with his performance in the assessment, she would give him the Setting Sun Spear.
Grand Senior Sister did not speak as she brought Li Chengfeng to the Hidden Beauty Court's platform. She walked to the lone pine tree and reached into the hollowed-out tree trunk to pull out a long object wrapped in black cloth.
She peeled off the black cloth to reveal a long spear glowing with silver light. It was the Setting Sun Spear!
"Catch!"
Grand Senior Sister tossed the Setting Sun Spear at Li Chengfeng, as if she was tossing a common spear that could be bought on the streets.
Li Chengfeng's heart thumped wildly. He reached out to catch it, only to feel the weight in his hand. The spear did not look heavy but it was actually quite heavy.
Li Chengfeng greedily stroked every single pattern on the spear's body, his fingertips lingering on the spirit crystal on the body of the spear.
"How do I use the Setting Sun Spear?
What's the secret behind it? "
Li Chengfeng suppressed his desire and looked up at Grand Senior Sister, only to see her studying him.