The Two Dual Cultivation Techniques!

"Disciple Phate, you don't salute the patriarch?" Zhang did not arrive alone, and he returned with Elder Gao and another man; he was also good-looking but not worthy of Phate sparing him a glance, but Phate was forced after the man shouted at him.

"And who are you to speak to the Snow Prince in that manner? He's not officially a disciple of this sect, so his status still matters; watch your mouth! Thank you heavens, he's benevolent!" Thalia warned.

The man immediately quieted up. It was true that Phate was not a disciple just yet; he didn't have anything tying him to the sect at the moment.

They were reckoned to pay him respect - apart from the High Immortal in the hall, of course - not the other way around.

Phate gave the man a proactive smile. He turned to patriarch Zhang, "Patriarch Zhang, elder Sun told me it's you to accept me in the sect officially!" he came to the front of the man. Elder Sun had not told him this, but she told him to wait for the man, so it had to be the reason.

"Umm, that's true, here is your identification, Jade card," Phate caught the card. It was black with pink characters of his name and a zero number just below; a small formation was crafted in the card.

"We're heading to the technique hall now," he turned around, and the others did the same, with Phate and Thalia at the back.

All outer court disciples had one chance to enter the inner court, and they would have to become inner disciples to enter there again.

It was the time they would get their cultivation techniques, and this was because the Dual cultivation technique hall was in the inner court of the sect and so heavily guarded for some reasons.

The place had many attacks, defensive formations, and, strangely, a teleportation formation below it.

"Patriarch Zhang!" the two guards covered in armor saluted him; when Phate tried to prove them, he found they were not living beings but something he failed to explain himself.

This begged for a question of what they were protecting inside here.

"You go inside there. After you enter, sit anywhere and spread your spiritual energy in the room. The cultivation technique will choose you by itself. You don't have to put in any effort; your potential is what matters. Good luck. Open for him." Patriarch Zhang waved his hands at the guards, and they knocked twice on the door.

The door unlocked without making a noise; he only saw white brilliance filling the room. He didn't peek as he was, after all, going to enter. He walked to the door, took a resounding breath, and prepared himself for what would come.

This step would dictate his future; his path was Dual cultivation, and he would never be able to change that ever; meanwhile, The cultivation technique that he will get will accompany him to the end of the road. He can't re-do it.

The primary cultivation technique can't be changed, and you can only have one in life. If he got a trash cultivation technique, he was done for.

Starring his heart from this primary step of his look life, Phate entered, disappearing in the white light.

"Patriarch Zhang, what technique rank do you think he will get?" the other man asked.

The patriarch was quiet for some time. With one hand supporting his chin, he mulled on the possibility. There were many techniques in the sect for anyone to choose from, and more would be left.

But not lost forever; when a cultivator dies, the technique will return to the hall of the same sect, a phenomenon no one can explain.

This is how the cultivation techniques are; apart from the ancient Divine rank techniques, they could choose their wielder;

So, if the user perishes, it would look for another worthy cultivator or return to the sect, two possibilities.

As for the celestial rank, they were just so rare to come by; no one knew for sure.

There's no such thing as one appearing in the hall again.

Not just by judging the potential of the cultivator as all other techniques did, but they had their obscured conditions.

"I don't know, but he can even get a mythic rank technique; based on his status, I think he does have some potential as a Dual cultivator. Why would the goddess send him here," patriarch Zhang said.

"You don't think he can get one of those two techniques, patriarch?" Elder Gao asked.

"Bwahahahahaha, you know how to joke, elder Gao," the other elder laughed.

"Lu Hanchan, you underestimate people too much!" the patriarch Zhang enunciated as he looked at the closed door of the technique hall.

Inside there, there were two techniques. One was once used by the founder of the Cherry Blossom Sect, and it was a peak-tier Divine technique.

No one could comprehend its name and capabilities.

The other he didn't know of its origin as it came to the hall by itself two thousand years ago when he was still a disciple.

The sect leader then tried to gauge its rank, failing as the appraisal artifact was destroyed after it passed the Divine rank.

But they were sure of one thing: it was a Dual cultivation technique!

"Patriarch, you believe that he can get the technique of the first ancestor?" Lu Hanchan asked in surprise.

"That's not what I said, but it can be possible too, so you shouldn't underestimate that Young man; the goddess surely can not give birth to a nobody!" he said.

He looked at the beauty who accompanied the prince; he marveled at her beauty from the start. He wanted to make her his if he got a chance. A maid of the Prince wouldn't be so hard, right?

She should hear their conversation; he thought he would see an angry look on her face, but he found a provocation smile as she kept staring at the shut door of the hall.

____

The moment he sat, light orbs started lighting up the dark place.