Even then, force diagrams were rare because reaching the second mortal coil is just the minimum requirement to create them.
After all, it is one thing to know something and understand it, but it is another thing to be able to articulate it perfectly so that others can learn that thing and understand it enough to use it to transcend too.
So it is those at the third mortal coil that can produce force diagrams reliably. It is why force diagrams are very expensive in this day and age. They are valuable even for a powerful cultivation family like the Dyson family.
He doesn't think he is a genius capable of breaking through on his own. Even if he is, he will still need time to break through on his own. It is time that he can't afford.
It might take decades for him to find enlightenment and a breakthrough on his own. But he doesn't have decades. He only has a maximum of eleven years to prepare for the special regional sect examination.
The sect examination will be held next year when he is 12. Then it will hold when he is 17 and 22. If he misses the one by 22, he will become too old to participate in the one after that. That means he will miss his greatest chance of entering a sect.
So he does have time to look for chance enlightenment, which is why it is best that he starts preparing for the acquisition of the force diagram as soon as possible.
When he was done exercising, he had his bath and then had his meal with Ruff. After that, he took his major blood pills and then went to bed.
As he lay on his bed, he thought about his plans for the future. "Specialize in my wine winemaking process to increase productivity, join the hunter's guild to acquire the force diagram, and then build a dojo to harvest Karma."
He thought about these three things over and over again as his eyes became heavy and he went to sleep.
When he woke up the next morning, the first thing he did was to go out to buy bread.
It made him sigh and say, "Look at what I've become. I am even buying bread myself now instead of relying on the generousity of others. I have fallen so low."
When he thought about how his neighbors must be dancing and having a party right now because he is no longer there to terrorize them, he snorted in annoyance.
He stopped thinking about how happy others would be because of his absence so as not to get himself angry the first thing in the morning.
"Since I'm getting bread, I should get the wine I need and the other things for the dojo."
The good thing about not being limited to bread from his neighbors is that he can buy as much as he wants. That is as long as he has money.
He has a lot of money. It is about 50 gold coins. His wealth will increase once he starts producing and selling his wine. So he can buy a lot of bread.
He can afford it, but he didn't buy high-quality bread like the one his neighbors make. Those one costs as much as 10 bronze coins each.
If he is to buy the 45 that he usually distributes daily, he will need to spend 450 bronze coins every day. That's 4 and a half silver coins just for 45 bread.
If he buys that for a year, he will be spending 17 gold coins per year for both the bread and the cost of transportation. That is just too expensive for him.
So he just brought ordinary bread, which cost 2 bronze coins. It is nothing fancy, but it is better than the black bread, which costs 1 bronze coin.
This kind of bread is already a luxury to the poor people he will be distributing them to. It is not something they can afford normally since they are poorer than the servants that work at the Dyson family, so they will still appreciate it.
He nodded to himself after making the decision. "It should do nicely. I won't earn 3 Karma like I used to do with each bread, but I should have no problem earning 2 Karma."
"So the exchange rate is 1 bronze coin for one Karma. That is very efficient. With enough money, I can upgrade very quickly.
Since the cheap bread costs 2 bronze coins each, he will be able to buy 225 of them with 450 bronze coins. If he gets 2 karma for each, he will get 450 karma as opposed to the 135 karma that he will get from the 45 high-quality bread.
"100% efficiency as opposed to an efficiency of 30%. Ordinary bread is the way to go."
This calculation helped him to make up his mind.
Next he found two large boards and wrote something on them. What he wrote on them was Red Dojo.
He took one of the boards and hung it on top of the entrance to his compound. He took the other one with him to buy bread.
He left Ruff at home to guard the house while he took a carriage to buy bread. The distance to the place to get bread isn't far, so he can walk there. But he took a carriage since he was going to buy 500 loaves of bread. That much bread isn't something he can carry easily, so he got a carriage.
Since he was buying a lot of bread, he got a discount of 50 bronze coins. So he only paid 950 bronze coins for the 500 loaves of bread.
Then the carriage helped him move the bread to the outskirts of the city past the seventh street where the poor live. There he began handing out bread.
He was swarmed immediately he announced that he was giving out bread. His words caused an uproar in the slums and drew a lot of attention. They were about to overrun him in their desperation to get to him.