Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint

Following up,

Jiang Ning lingered in the Internal Affairs Office for about half an hour.

During that half hour, he also learned about some general things.

In the Inspection Office, the salary he received was neither Silver Tael nor Gold.

It was Contribution Points.

Contribution Points could be obtained in multiple ways.

One way was by completing missions, and another was through the exchange of salary and precious metals.

As a Secondary Eighth-Rank Deputy Commander, he could receive a hundred Contribution Points each month.

What did a hundred Contribution Points imply?

According to the elderly woman from the Internal Affairs Office, if Contribution Points were acquired by donating silver, then two taels of Silver would be exchanged for one Contribution Point.

This meant that, if exchanged for Silver, a hundred Contribution Points would be equivalent to two hundred taels of Silver.

Conversely, if Contribution Points were used to get Silver, then one Contribution Point would exchange for one tael of Silver.

In other words, looking at it from this point, his current salary amounted to a hundred taels of Silver per month.

It might not seem like much,

but it was actually an extravagant salary.

From what he knew, the purchasing power of one tael of Silver was equivalent to a thousand dollars in his former life.

So, a hundred taels of Silver meant that his salary was equivalent to a monthly income of a hundred thousand.

What did a hundred thousand a month signify? In his former life, that was an income only the elite class could earn.

If it were the official system, that would be a salary inconceivably high to be disclosed publicly.

Therefore, from this viewpoint, his current salary was undoubtedly very high.

However, Jiang Ning knew that this one hundred taels of salary was just the official amount.

With his current status, if he wanted to make money, it would not be difficult to earn up to a hundred times the monthly salary.

But it was unnecessary.

Because he did not lack money currently.

He had previously sold a shipload of iron ore to the Weapon Forging Shop, earning slightly over ten thousand taels of silver.

Additionally, other spoils of war were sold to Wanhua Building which had earned him another five thousand five hundred silver notes.

The total silver in his possession now, along with gold leaves, was close to twenty thousand taels of silver.

To people like Lin Qingyi, twenty thousand taels of silver might not seem much, but for him at the moment, it was quite a substantial fortune.

With such wealth, he was not short of money for the time being.

But he also wasn't planning to donate this money to the Inspection Office to obtain Contribution Points, as the two-to-one exchange rate was too much of a loss.

He had just looked at the list the old woman had handed him. It included all the items within the jurisdiction of his authority that he could view at the Inspection Office.

Although the variety was complete and abundant,

his current authority allowed him to exchange for any lower-level martial arts, and even middle-grade martial arts,

but as for superior martial arts, he temporarily had no right to exchange.

Yet, for martial arts, Jiang Ning didn't have much demand.

What he truly needed were treasures that could accelerate the progress of refining his body.

Before reaching the Fifth Grade, it was all about refining the body.

At this stage, many treasures could have significantly noticeable effects.

These were exactly the kind of treasures he needed.

Those treasures, which he needed and that were completely obtainable with Contribution Points, he saw on the list the old woman gave him.

These items were also available at the Wanhua Building, purchasable with merely money.

Besides these, Jiang Ning also saw on the list the methods for Seventh Grade Refining Muscle, Sixth Grade Bone Refining,

and even the Fifth Grade Internal Strength Method,

Five Qi Chaoyuan Breathing Skill,

a middle-grade Internal Refining Method,

and it was the only Internal Refining Method he was eligible to access.

It required fifty thousand Contribution Points to exchange.

And according to the record on the list, a normal middle-grade martial art only required ten thousand Contribution Points to exchange.

This demonstrated the preciousness of the Internal Refining Method.

According to what the old woman said, this was a special benefit given to the lower echelons by the higher authorities.

If it wasn't for this reason, this Internal Refining Method would not have even appeared on the list,

nor would it be available for just fifty thousand Contribution Points.

The Internal Refining Method was much more precious than Jiang Ning had initially imagined.