Chapter 1284: Heaven and Earth Academy!

As for why so many commoners in the Southern Heavenly Gate Sect had become cultivators, it all stemmed from them being imbued with free spiritual energy.

Otherwise, out of the hundred thousand commoner disciples they found, using the cultivation methodologies of the Erhai Sect, being able to retain a hundred would have been an achievement.

After all, not everyone possessed their own inexhaustible resource of spiritual energy, squandering it on commoner disciples whose talents could barely progress them to Elemental Warrior status.

"Elder, what is this village called, and where is the nearest city?"

Li Zhongnan took out a gold coin and asked an old farmer.

Upon seeing the shiny gold coin in Li Zhongnan's hand, the old farmer's initial fear of this cultivator was temporarily cast aside.