There's Only So Much Cultivation, Why Should You Get It?

Gu Heng is just an ordinary outer disciple of the Qingyue Sect at the second level of Qi Refining. When a supposedly safe sect mission suddenly spirals out of control, he discovers an unexpected ability: as long as his companions are willing, he can pool together their remaining cultivation and redistribute it. Three people with nine cycles of spiritual breath in total could be split as two, four, three—or become zero, six, three. But the total never increases, and power already spent never returns. If one person takes more, someone else must take less. The first time, Gu Heng gives his own cultivation to the strongest member of the group, and all three survive. But he soon realizes—the strongest isn't necessarily the one who deserves the most power. From a three-person team to sect missions to real battlefields, more and more people are willing to place their power in his hands. Yet Gu Heng always faces the same question: There's only so much cultivation to go around—why should you get it? — Description from novelcodex.org