Chapter Thirteen: Xiao Tian

Jiang Chen first received the upgraded Mountain Protection Formation. The Mountain Protection Great Formation directly rose from ninth to eighth grade, and several mountain peaks rose from the ground, corresponding to the constellations in the sky.

Then, Jiang Chen placed ten eighth-grade Spirit Gathering Formations on his own Inch Peak, helping Inch Peak gather spiritual energy. The ninth-grade Spirit Gathering Formation obtained earlier was evenly distributed between Clumsy Peak and Yilin Peak.

As for the pills, he neatly stored them in his storage ring, categorized and organized.

After completing all this, Jiang Chen excitedly looked towards the sect buildings obtained from the daily check-in rewards!

The so-called sect buildings each had their own functions, and many were essential for a sect to operate smoothly.

[Sect Building: Martial Hall] Description: This is where disciples practice martial skills and test each other's strength. There are 100 battle arenas and 3000 martial skill training rooms inside. Additionally, it has the effect of gathering spiritual energy, equivalent to a first-grade Spirit Gathering Formation.

Jiang Chen nodded in satisfaction. The Martial Hall was indeed a place for practical combat training, and having dedicated rooms for martial skill cultivation was very considerate. Otherwise, if everyone practiced martial skills on mountaintops, it would lead to significant destruction once they reached the Sea Expansion Realm.

The martial skill training rooms were necessary.

The Martial Hall was quite good.

Next up was the main attraction, the Treasure Pavilion which Jiang Chen had been eagerly anticipating!

Following Jiang Chen's gaze, information about the Treasure Pavilion appeared on the ink panel.

[Sect Building: Treasure Pavilion] Description: This is where the sect stores cultivation methods, martial skills, and secret arts. Function: Enhance and synthesize cultivation methods, martial skills, and secret arts. Enhancement: Consuming one cultivation method or martial skill can enhance another. Synthesis: Three identical cultivation methods or martial skills can be synthesized into a higher-grade one. (Can only be synthesized three times.)

At first, Jiang Chen was extremely excited. However, upon seeing the limitation of only being able to synthesize three times, he realized that the Treasure Pavilion wasn't as overpowered as he had imagined.

According to Jiang Chen's initial idea, if synthesis was possible, he could gather numerous Yellow Grade cultivation methods and endlessly synthesize them, eventually creating Emperor Grade techniques. However, the introduction of the Treasure Pavilion clearly stated that the synthesis was limited to three times.

In other words, after synthesizing three Yellow Grade techniques into an Emperor Grade one, he couldn't use them for further synthesis.

This dashed Jiang Chen's hopes of synthesizing Emperor Grade techniques from Yellow Grade ones.

"Well, one should not be too greedy. Contentment brings happiness," Jiang Chen comforted himself.

At least now, if he found another Emperor Grade scripture, he could synthesize it into a technique surpassing Emperor Grade!

He still needed a disciple, and a volume of Emperor Grade scripture!

He still needed to work hard!

Meanwhile,

Outside the gate of the Taiyi Sect, a young man in tattered clothes, with a pale complexion, finally arrived outside the Inch Peak!

The young man's name was Xiao Tian, with a complexion as pale as snow, as if he had endured severe injuries. His cultivation was only at the third stage of the acquired realm, but the only remarkable aspect about him was his exceptionally resolute gaze.

After all, he had experienced going from being a genius to being trash, falling from grace to the bottom, enduring countless disdainful gazes.

In the young man's hand, there was also a silver-white ring.

The young man, Xiao Tian, murmured softly, "Elder, is this the place?"

A weak voice emanated from the soul inside the ring, "Yes... this is the place. I used all my remaining life force to calculate the divine signs, and it shows that this is the only place where you can be saved."

"But this is just a small sect in a remote area," Xiao Tian said, puzzled.

The voice of the elder became solemn, "The divine signs never lie, and... look at this stone tablet, faintly emitting an aura of fortune. It is the legendary Sect-Sealing Stone Tablet! Even a first-grade major sect would find it difficult to obtain one! Yet the Taiyi Sect has such a large piece, towering a hundred meters! It's definitely not simple."

Xiao Tian sucked in a breath of cold air, his gaze repeatedly shifting towards the massive stone tablet engraved with the three characters "Taiyi Sect," unable to help but sigh, "Unfortunately, my Dao Bone was seized, and my strength was lost. Now, I can't even see through the Sect-Sealing Stone Tablet..."

"Tian'er, trust in the divine signs. If you join the Taiyi Sect, you can survive," the old voice said.

"Alright, Elder, I'll listen to you," Xiao Tian nodded heavily, showing utmost respect to the soul within the ring!

He was Xiao Tian, born into one of the branches of the prestigious Xiao Family in the Qingyu Domain. He was born with a Dao Bone and was hailed as the divine child of the Xiao Family, possessing extremely formidable strength.

However, later on, he was deceived by the treacherous schemes of his clan members, and his Dao Bone was cruelly seized from him by the main clan members through extremely ruthless means, leading to the loss of all his cultivation.

The most terrifying part was that all his relatives in the branch family were exterminated by the main clan, and it was only thanks to the branch family's Patriarch, who spared no effort, burning his lifespan to calculate the location of his lifeline, that he managed to escape. Then, he fled all the way here.

The ancestor of the Xiao Family, due to fortuitous circumstances, did not dissipate but survived within the ring.

As for Xiao Tian, although he managed to escape, his Dao Bone was seized, and his cultivation was almost completely destroyed. His lifespan was only three months!

Taking into account the time spent fleeing here, Xiao Tian had just over two months left to live.

If he couldn't retrieve his Dao Bone, he would have no way out.

Right now, he had no other choice but to beg to join the Taiyi Sect, as this was the place where the ancestor had calculated his lifeline by burning all his essence!

So, Xiao Tian knocked on the gate of the Taiyi Sect, waiting quietly.