This is his first attempt at forging a level 10 top-grade armament. So he is being very careful.
He has been working on it for 57 hours. He hasn't eaten or rested during that time. He didn't accept any requests for communication during that time either.
His mother has been trying to reach him for a while. He doesn't know what she wants and he doesn't even know that she has been trying to reach him for a while because he put his identity card on mute.
Speaking of his mother, she has helped him to expand his dojo across many cities all over the region. She employed many people who teach students cultivation techniques for free every day.
She didn't do this for him out of kindness. She used the money he sent her to foot her frequent trips all over the region and to employ people to teach in the many dojos she opened for him.
Once she doesn't receive money, she won't do anything. So if he is to guess as to why she is trying to reach him, it is probably about money and would definitely be about his dojo.
Fortunately, the most expensive thing to pay for are the teachers. They didn't have to pay for a location for the dojo because lectures took place outside in the open.
Still, it was a lot of money to run a dojo all over the Five Veins region. This amount only increases the more the dojos are because the dojos don't receive any income.
The whole region has five countries, and each country has around 100 cities. So even if the Red Dojo was established only in the cities, he will need to establish 500 dojos in total.
Each dojo needs two teachers. One teacher teaches the theory of cultivation techniques and answers questions in the evening. The other teaches physical exercises for the techniques and demonstrates them in the morning.
Each teacher is at least at the eight transformation of the first mortal coil and earns a salary of 1 gold coin per day for their work from him.
So 500 dojos and 1,000 teachers will require a salary of 1,000 gold coins per day. In a year, he would have to spend 365,000 gold coins to keep the dojos running.
Each dojo takes care of 1,000 students. This is to maximize appreciation at 10 merits per student.
Any more students in a class would cause classes to become overcrowded and the lessons to become underappreciated. So once the class becomes larger than 1,000, the dojo will split into two.
A new dojo will be established in the city nearby. This dojo will take 500 students to teach. This will continue until a dojo reaches 1,000 students. Then it will split half of its students into a new dojo.
This way, when Arthur built up to 550 red dojos, he had nearly 500,000 students, and each one was giving him 10 merits per day.
He didn't achieve this in a day. It took four years of hard work on both his side, his mother's, and the Apex Alliance's.
He wrote books that the Apex Alliance sold for him. The Apex Alliance took 20% of what he earned, but he earned so much from his books that he had five times as much money as he spent building his dojo left over.
Over the course of four years, he spent about 1.2 million gold coins to set up his dojos. Despite this large cost, he still has nearly 6 million gold coins left over. His books were that successful.
He had so much money that he brought Roar back to the sect two months ago and buys the carcass of rank 2 for him with the money he has to feed him.
The best use of his money was, of course, exchanging it for pills or energy stones to cultivate with and to maintain his focus. To be honest, he hasn't been cultivating much. Most of his time has been spent learning how to create armaments.
He would like to consider himself low key. But what he has been doing in regards to establishing dojos that teach for free have affected the whole Five Veins region.
His actions caused a lot of dissent when he took away many students from dojos where they needed to pay. Many people didn't like that he disrupted their livelihood.
It was what happened at Agate city, but all over the region. So it was more serious and impactful.
Many cultivators at the second mortal coil came out to disrupt the operation of his his dojos. Fortunately all of the troublemakers could be settled by hiring powerful people to talk to them nicely or beat them up.
With money, anything was possible. Currencies like copper, silver, and gold are very useful to cultivators too as they used to make formations or refined to use as forging materials.
So gold could be easily transformed into energy stones. It is at a low exchange rate, but possessing a lot of gold meant that he possessed a lot of energy stones.
A lot of energy stones meant that he had no financial obstacles in his cultivation. He could buy the extremely expensive barrier breaking pill, so his cultivation speed was flying.
He was also earning merit by the fistful every day through his dojo. Most of the merit he earned went to Karma, not Mountain Foundation, but he couldn't complain.
-MOUNTAIN SITTING DAO
State of Existence: Second Mortal Coil (Fourth Transformation of the Body Refining and Fourth Transformation of Energy Refining)
Life Span: 21/(235 > > > 165)
1. Mountain Karma: Level 4 (3,956,250,037/100,000,000,000)
2. Mountain Foundation: Level 3 (2,362,168/1,000,000,000)
1. Power (Body Refining) = 10 (Body) × 5 (Life Force) × 4 (Mountain Karma) = 200.
2. Power (Energy Refining) = 10 (Spell) × 5 (Internal Energy QLTY) × 4 (Mountain Karma) = 200
3. Power (Divine Lightning Armament) = ((5 (Life Force) + 5 (Internal Energy QLTY)) × 4 (Mountain Karma)) × 10 (Divine Lightning Armament) = 400.