The academy had been forced to negotiate a cap on his resource allocations to avoid extreme expenses, but fortunately, the Ashenway and Dravenholm families had given a subsidized amount to increase the limit.
Yet even this generosity paled compared to the income he generated through his written cultivation methods, sales of innovative items, and acquisition of incredibly high-quality resources.
Wei, the professor who had once publicly humiliated him, now worked as his personal editor and copyist. The irony wasn't lost on either of them, but Wei had proven surprisingly skilled at refining Ren's technical explanations and making them accessible to less advanced cultivators.
"Your understanding is extraordinary," Wei had admitted during one of their editing sessions, "but your explanations often are random or assume knowledge that most people simply don't have. You need to remember what it was like before you knew everything."
