Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 132 Disciple Expansion Plan
While the return system is powerful, it also has many limitations.

The most important rule is that the items given must match the disciple's current realm and be something the disciple truly needs; otherwise, not only will the critical hit reward be affected, but even the basic return multiplier will be impacted.

Like the previous time, he gave the "Eight Formations" Thunder Secret Manual as a gift to his second disciple, Liao Li. However, because the other party did not have the corresponding talent in this area and had no interest in the Thunder Secret Manual, the basic return rate was reduced to the lowest '1x'!
Ultimately, the deal ended in a draw, causing Qi Yuan to waste a chance to return the favor.

Furthermore, based on his experience of giving gifts multiple times over the years, Qi Yuan also vaguely discovered that if he continuously gave the same type of treasure to the same disciple, the chance of a critical hit would gradually decrease.

The first time you give it away, you might be pleasantly surprised to receive a critical hit multiplier of 50 or 60 times.

However, if the same or similar items are given away again in a short period of time, the critical hit multiplier may drop to 30x, 10x, or even only the guaranteed base multiplier reward.

If Qi Yuan wants to maximize the efficiency of the return system, the best way is to recruit as many outstanding disciples as possible and distribute the return opportunities among different disciples.

However, the situation is different from the predicament I was in when I first arrived in this world.

After years of development, he has now established a solid foundation, and therefore adheres to the principle of "better to have none than to have bad ones" when recruiting disciples.

In the last hundred years, the only disciples he has taken in are his sixth disciple, Long Ji, and Hu Ge, who just "walked into the trap".

However, with this batch of Xuan Yuan Divine Light, he can lower the bar a little when recruiting disciples.
"With the Xuan Yuan Divine Light in hand, I can completely lower the threshold for recruiting disciples to 36 times the limit. There are still quite a few young cultivators at this level in the Blue Bay Star Region."

"However, while the qualification requirements have been lowered, the tests of character need to be more rigorous. The items I present will become increasingly valuable in the future, and anyone with impure motives could easily bring trouble upon me."

"By the way, it would be best if they have a good interest and aptitude for array formations. I need to quickly find any possible 'Void Arrays' and also complete the 'True Explanation of Array Dao'."

Qi Yuan kept thinking, and soon many ideas kept coming to mind.

In recruiting new disciples, Qi Yuan set his sights on the 'wild talents' in the Blue Bay Star Region who were not from the major world lord forces.

The Blue Bay Starfield has tens of thousands of star systems. How much territory do those world lord families occupy? The chances of geniuses emerging in the vast other territories far exceed those of those world lord families.

These ordinary geniuses may be slightly inferior to the core geniuses carefully cultivated from childhood by the realm lord forces in terms of their potential, but they far surpass them in number!
However, Qi Yuan's requirements are not that high now, and it shouldn't be difficult to find some people who meet the requirements from among these people.

Moreover, these people don't have any powerful backgrounds involved, so their minds are relatively purer, and once they join the sect, they will be more conscious of protecting the interests of the sect.

Once the goal was set, he quickly developed a series of plans.

Using his authority as the head of the Armed Forces Department of the Blue Bay Branch, he retrieved a list of all the 'elite talents' recruited by the Blue Bay Branch over the past ten thousand years.

After excluding those who had already joined the company's "internal" network and whose actions were restricted, as well as those with their own family or power backgrounds, only those remaining were considered to be within his selection range.

However, this only means they've entered the screening range. He plans to spend a considerable amount of time 'observing' and appropriately 'testing' these people.

The purpose of observation and testing is, of course, to understand these people's character and conduct as much as possible.

As Qi Yuan said before, he would rather have fewer but better disciples than accept inferior ones. He would rather spend more time than let someone with a bad character or improper conduct infiltrate his class.

Only those who pass his observation and testing will he find an opportunity to verify their base multiplier and attempt to take them on as apprentices.

In addition to poaching talent from Virtual Universe Company, he also made demands of his disciple Longji.

Over the years, the Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce, which integrates resources across the entire Willow Spring Galaxy, has grown rapidly and has now expanded its trade routes to dozens of surrounding star systems.

Qi Yuan ordered another large batch of 'Qiyuan Towers' and asked him to settle them as soon as possible in the main locations of the Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce in various star regions and star systems.

Firstly, by leveraging the gimmick of "Qiyuan Tower," they can help the Red Leaf Merchant Guilds in various regions attract more customers. Secondly, they can also take this opportunity to find some talented individuals with good abilities in formations.

However, Qi Yuan also emphasized that on the surface, it can only be said that this is the normal business activity of the Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce. As for discovering and seeking talents, it must be done in a more secretive manner, and the contact should be made in the name of the Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce recruiting members.

After all, the Lanting Universe Kingdom has established 'Lanting Dojos' on major planets in various star regions. If you open a sect and recruit disciples in the Lanting Universe Kingdom without their permission, you will probably be called out soon.

Qi Yuan devised two methods to recruit new disciples: one was to use the internal channels of the virtual universe for 'precise positioning,' and the other was to use the channels of the Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce for 'wide net casting.'

However, although the plan has been formulated, its implementation and eventual success will take a considerable amount of time. Qi Yuan entrusted Long Ji with overseeing the recent recruitment of 'external elites' by the Virtual Universe Company and the establishment of the Qiyuan Tower at various Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce locations.

Given the unique abilities of the Time-Swept Insect and the resource network of the entire Red Leaf Merchant Guild, it was just right to entrust these matters to him.

In addition to recruiting disciples, he also made some targeted arrangements for the Qiyan Galaxy.

In addition to the previous star fortress, Qi Yuan also instructed Long Ji to contact people from the Cosmic Galaxy Bank to modify a large area of ​​the surrounding starry sky, deploying a large number of technological weapons and monitoring equipment, turning it into a 'palace' with an extremely high level of security.

Not only were there a group of ninth-tier stellar-level guards brought by Long Ji in the palace, but Qi Yuan also secretly placed a plant life form called 'Nightmare Flower' that had grown to the ninth tier of the World Lord level inside.

After doing all this, Taiqing's clone returned to Red Leaf Star with several disciples.

In the following period, he first had the Taiqing clone quietly return to his inner world. With the help of the nurturing power of his inner world and the innate secret technique 'One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones', he also raised the genetic level of the Taiqing clone to the limit of a hundredfold.

He then threw himself back into teaching his disciples and cultivating himself.

However, this time, he had one more person to focus on teaching—Hu Ge.

Under the influence of Taiqing's clone's 'education' ability, Hu Ge, who had already reached the peak of the universe level, successfully broke through and advanced to the domain lord level in no time.

Qi Yuan even bestowed upon him a Primal Crystal. With the help of the Primal Crystal, which greatly increased his speed of law perception in a short period of time, Hu Ge not only successfully crossed the threshold of the Fire Primal Law, but also gained some understanding of the Space Law.

Unfortunately, Hu Ge also lacked talent in formations and was unable to become the inheritor of the Fire Secret Manual of the Eight Formations.

However, being able to gain a 'tool' that can be used to quickly gain insights into the laws of space is not bad.

In the days that followed, Qi Yuan practiced his cultivation while teaching his disciples.

The monthly return opportunities were mostly used up on imparting cultivation experience.

Most of it was still used on Longji to further advance his understanding of the laws of time.

When Shangqing's clone encountered difficulties while studying the notes of King Zhuankong, he would occasionally spare some time to go to Hu Ge's side and quickly break through bottlenecks by taking advantage of the cultivation experience returned by the system.

Time and space are the two most mysterious and powerful supreme laws in this universe, and also the two mountains that must be completely conquered to become the master of the universe.

Qi Yuan, possessing two avatars, Yuqing and Shangqing, and with the cheat-like existence of the Return System, was rapidly advancing on the path to conquering the two great mountains.
Time passed month by month.

On this day, the Bahrain Squad, which had been fighting continuously in the Thousand Islands Domain of the extraterrestrial battlefield for over a hundred years, temporarily stopped their adventures and directly boarded a spaceship to quickly return to the 031st military base.

Inside the spaceship, the team members all looked extremely cheerful.

Since Qi Yuan joined the team, the team's overall strength has increased significantly, and their efficiency in hunting alien races to obtain resources has also greatly improved.

The gains of these past hundred years are greater than what they made in the hundreds of years before!
"Haha, everyone has worked hard these past few days. Let's go back to the barracks base to rest for a while and take the opportunity to process the spoils of war and exchange them for resources to improve our strength."

Captain Balin also had a big smile on his face, "Once we've digested what we've gained this time, everyone's strength should have improved a lot. Next time we come back, we can consider exploring a bigger island."

“It’s time to move to a different place. The remaining alien races on Island 2932 are now quite familiar with us. If we continue to stay here, our efficiency will decrease significantly.”

"Yes, let's change locations. Those familiar faces are all slippery and difficult to deal with now."

Poison Bee and several other team members echoed this sentiment.

Just then, Qi Yuan, who was sitting on the sofa, turned his eyes slightly and took the opportunity to speak:

"Captain, during the squad's rest period, I'd like to take this opportunity to return to the human territory."

(End of this chapter)