"Sys, can an outer sect disciple be promoted to an inner sect disciple?"
[Yes! If their loyalty exceeds 60%, the host can manually promote them to an inner sect disciple!]
"Then what are the conditions for the next system upgrade?"
[Recruit a full roster of disciples, inner sect disciples' loyalty must be ≥80%, outer sect disciples' loyalty must be ≥60%, and at least one disciple must break through to the Golden Core stage!]
"Does Zhao Feng's Golden Core count?"
[Why wouldn't it?]
Lin Yan: ...
Honestly speaking, the system's upgrade conditions were quite harsh.
Five spots for the inner sect, ten for the outer sect, making a total of fifteen people.
Filling the quota wasn't hard; the hard part was the loyalty.
The reason Liu Ruyan, Ye Xiaoqin, and Zhao Feng had such high loyalty was because he appeared when they needed him most and gave them exactly what they wanted.
Emperor-tier cultivation methods, a remolded dantian, and the chance to wash away their past humiliations.
These were all massive favors!
But disciples like them could only be encountered by chance, not actively sought out.
For most rogue cultivators, loyalty was not something so easily raised!
Just like the dozen or so registered disciples Zhao Feng had found—they all ran away the moment a Nascent Soul True Monarch tricked them!
"I have to think of a way!"
Lin Yan stroked his chin.
He couldn't just max out the disciple roster but have their loyalty remain stagnant!
Suddenly, Lin Yan's eyes lit up!
"Why am I making things so complicated?"
If he had to go out and individually find people like Liu Ruyan, Ye Xiaoqin, and Zhao Feng, who carried deep blood feuds and were driven to the brink of despair, he would die of exhaustion!
However!
He could just let these people come to his doorstep on their own accord!
All he needed to do was place the Heart-Questioning Pavilion at the foot of the mountain and announce that those who could climb to the 60th floor could enter the outer sect, and those who could climb to the 80th floor could enter the inner sect. Wouldn't that solve everything?
Each floor of the Heart-Questioning Pavilion represented 1% loyalty. Reaching the 60th floor meant their loyalty exceeded 60%!
This way, the disciples who joined would instantly meet the loyalty requirements for the upgrade!
Upgrade the moment the roster is full!
After all, in this dog-eat-dog world, the last thing it lacked was people harboring deep grudges and intense hatred!
Even less did it lack those who wanted to reach the heavens in a single bound and defy their fate!
The hard part was finding those people!
But why actively look for them?
As long as he spread the name of the Tianyan Sect, there would naturally be an endless stream of people wanting to join.
Theoretically, as long as there were enough people, there would definitely be some who could directly reach the 60th, or even the 80th floor!
Not to mention, the Tianyan Sect's reputation was already out there!
They had just obliterated one Nascent Soul and ten Golden Cores!
Even if it wasn't much in the Great Qian Dynasty, it was absolutely an earth-shattering event in Azure Cloud City, or even the entire Cangwu Commandery!
Once the news spread and fermented, there would be no shortage of people wanting to join the sect!
And all he had to do was comfortably lay low on the mountain!
"Perfect! Let's do it!"
Acting on his words, Lin Yan waved his hand and, with a mere thought, directly placed the Heart-Questioning Pavilion at the foot of the mountain!
The sect's current territory spanned a radius of ten miles, which was more than enough to cover the base of the mountain.
If he upgraded the system one more time, it might even cover Azure Cloud City directly!
...
At the foot of Azure Cloud Mountain.
As twilight faded and night fell, the crowd at the foot of the mountain didn't decrease; instead, it grew larger.
The incense burning before the ant grave was ridiculously vigorous. Offerings piled up like a small mountain, and the curling incense smoke could be smelled from half a mile away.
"I beg Lord Ant Immortal for your blessing..."
"Please bless this junior to enter the Tianyan Sect, even if it's just as a handy disciple..."
"Lord Ant Immortal, this disciple kowtows to you, please point me to a clear path..."
"Bless me, bless me. I don't ask for immense wealth or status, just a stable place to settle down..."
"You're praying for that too? Lord Ant Immortal probably doesn't manage things in such fine detail, right?"
"Mind your own business! It doesn't hurt to ask!"
...
Right at this moment, the ground suddenly shook violently.
"What's going on?"
"What happened?"
"An earth dragon turning over?"
"It doesn't seem like it..."
The rogue cultivators and passersby were completely dumbfounded.
Then, they witnessed a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
On the empty plot of land beside the mountain path, the dirt cracked open, and a pavilion slowly rose from beneath the ground.
It wasn't built; it was grown out of the earth!
Cyan bricks emerged from the soil layer by layer, stacking into walls; dark tiles laid themselves out piece by piece, forming a roof; sweeping eaves and upturned corners jutted out from the walls like a bird spreading its wings.
A few breaths later, a hundred-story tower stood tall above the ground.
The tower's body was entirely bluish-gray, possessing an ancient and solemn aura.
On the lintel above the door were three large, gilded characters: Heart-Questioning Pavilion!
The foot of the mountain fell silent for a moment.
Then, it exploded into an uproar.
"A towering building rising from flat ground!"
"What kind of immortal method is this!"
"A hundred-story tower! A full hundred stories!"
"Too shocking! I've never seen such a scene in my entire life!"
"A miracle! This is an immortal miracle!"
...
Inside a small courtyard at the foot of the mountain, Zhao Feng was meditating.
Hearing the commotion outside, he was about to get up when his body suddenly stiffened.
A calm voice echoed in his ear without any warning.
Zhao Feng immediately rolled off his bed, fell to his knees, and pressed his forehead against the bluestone floor, remaining completely motionless.
He knelt there quietly, respectfully listening to every command from his Lord.
Even though his Lord wasn't physically in front of him.
A long while later, Zhao Feng stood up, his expression shifting from respectful to solemn.
He straightened his robes and strode out of the courtyard.
The people outside were still gathered in front of the Heart-Questioning Pavilion, discussing fervently. Seeing Zhao Feng come out, their voices gradually quieted down.
Zhao Feng walked up the steps of the Heart-Questioning Pavilion, stood with his hands behind his back, and scanned his surroundings.
"Everyone."
He spoke. His voice wasn't loud, but the imposing aura of a Golden Core Ancestor suppressed everyone present into silence.
"Today, my Tianyan Sect officially opens its gates to accept disciples!"
"This pavilion is named the Heart-Questioning Pavilion, and it has a total of one hundred floors!"
"Anyone who can climb above the twentieth floor may become a handy disciple and receive the sect's protection!"
"Anyone who can climb above the fortieth floor may become a registered disciple, practice Nascent Soul-tier cultivation methods, and enjoy cultivating on a spirit vein!"
The moment his words fell, the crowd erupted into chaos.
"What! A Nascent Soul cultivation method?"
"A registered disciple can practice a Nascent Soul cultivation method?"
"And a spirit vein! Since when did Azure Cloud Mountain have a spirit vein?"
Zhao Feng didn't pause and continued, "The two great mountains you all saw descending from the sky just now were precisely the spirit veins of the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Earth Saber Sect."
"The Sect Master used his supreme divine abilities to extract the spirit veins of those two sects and merge them into Azure Cloud Mountain. Today, Azure Cloud Mountain possesses two spirit veins. Its spiritual energy density is unmatched in all of Azure Cloud City!"
Boom!
The crowd exploded once again!
"What? Those two mountains just now were spirit veins?"
"Spirit veins can actually be extracted? What kind of method is that?"
"Two spirit veins! Azure Cloud Mountain now has two spirit veins!"
"No wonder I feel so comfortable just standing here..."
"A registered disciple can enjoy a spirit vein? Even the official disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect don't get this kind of treatment!"
"The official disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect can only cultivate on the periphery of the spirit vein; only core disciples can approach the spirit eye. Yet a registered disciple of the Tianyan Sect can enjoy it?"
"And a Nascent Soul cultivation method! Only the core disciples of the Biluo Sect are qualified to practice Nascent Soul cultivation methods! A registered disciple of the Tianyan Sect can practice one?"
"What kind of immortal sect is this!"
The crowd completely boiled over.
The news was simply too explosive!
Two spirit veins, Nascent Soul cultivation methods, and registered disciples could enjoy them!
Throwing out any one of these terms casually would be enough to detonate all of Cangwu Commandery.
Right at that moment, Han Lie, who was kneeling on the ground and being tortured by strike after strike of the sword, suddenly raised his head. The expression on his face shifted from numbness to absolute terror.
"You cannot!"
"Cultivation methods must not be passed down so lightly! How can you casually teach a Nascent Soul technique!"
"How dare you!!!"
"You are making enemies out of the entire cultivation world!"
"Lunatics! You are all lunatics!!"
His voice was incredibly loud, but no one paid him any attention.
Even Mo Wentian did not bother to spare him a glance, merely continuing to hack at his neck, sword strike by sword strike.
Han Lie's face flushed the dark purple of pig liver. He tried to stand up, but his body simply refused to obey, remaining completely immobilized.
Zhao Feng waited for the crowd's murmurs to die down a bit before speaking again.
This time, his voice was louder and carried even more power.
"Anyone who can ascend past the sixtieth level may officially become an outer sect disciple!"
"Anyone who can ascend past the eightieth level may enter our inner sect!"
He did not specify what benefits outer and inner sect disciples would receive.
But the crowd could easily fill in the blanks!
If mere registered disciples were treated this well, wouldn't official disciples soar to the very heavens?
"I want to join!"
"Me too!"
"I am going to climb straight to the eightieth level!"
...
"Silence!"
Zhao Feng unleashed the full imposing aura of a Golden Core Patriarch!
"Line up! Come up one by one!"
"Everyone will get a chance!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
