Declaration of Peace by the Nether Saber Sect!

[Ding!]

[The transfer has succeeded!]

[Triggered Twentyfold Critical Critical Compensation!]

[Obtained Divine Lightning Aura*20,000]

The system prompt sounded in Su'en's mind.

Twentyfold? Still acceptable, he supposed. At least, better than a tenfold Critical Compensation.

He had only cultivated the Divine Lightning Sword Technique to its first level and still needed about 11,000 Divine Lightning Breaths. If it had been a tenfold Critical Compensation, he would still need about 1,000 more points to cultivate the Divine Lightning Sword Technique to perfection. However, there was no more Divine Lightning Breath in the Dao Sect.

"I won't be able to use up all this Divine Lightning Breath. I'll give the rest to my junior."

...

Traveling at a moderate speed, they both reached the Heavenly Domain.

"Senior, this is a letter from the Nether Saber Sect." A disciple approached them once they had returned to the Daoist Square.

"The Nether Saber Sect?" Su'en gave a slight frown. Were they demanding an explanation, or issuing another special challenge? He had crippled a Golden Core Realm elder, and entering the Golden Core Realm was considered a formidable achievement amongst the Nether Saber Sect's ranks.

'What does it say?' Su'en asked.

"I haven't opened the letter yet. Senior, take a look!" The disciple brought the letter to Su'en. After he opened the letter and briefly scanned its contents, it disappeared on its own.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. How typical of the Nether Saber Sect."

Su'en smacked his lips.The Nether Saber Sect had expressed their apologies for an elder of theirs interfering with a dispute between disciples, but they had already lost the elder in questions. They hoped that both sides would not harbor any further hatred. Essentially, the equivalent of an apology. However, from beginning to end, the letter mentioned nothing about compensation.

"Looks like the Nether Saber Sect is still a little unhappy with me for crippling one of their elders!" Su'en muttered to himself.

The sect was, admittedly, rather clever. The rules of the Heavenly Domain were clear: Any elder who attacked a disciple had already violated the law. If the Nether Saber Sect still wanted to take revenge, the entire sect would probably be chased out of the Heavenly Domain. Similar incidents had happened before.

Although the Nether Saber Sect promised not to disturb me anymore, I still need to increase my cultivation. Su'en's gaze grew serious. If my cultivation level reaches the Spirit Convocation Realm, I won't have to worry about the Nether Saber Sect at all.

He needed to become stronger!

In this world, cultivation was everything. One whose cultivation was weak had no pride to speak of. Abiding by the rules was one thing, but why not be the one to make the rules in the first place?

After taking a deep breath, Su'en decided to continue his seclusion. This time, he had to cultivate the Divine Lightning Sword Technique to perfection!

With that in mind, Su'en headed for his courtyard. However, before going into seclusion, he had to take care of matters involving Chen Ziling. Between their natural talent, Chen Ziling held the edge. If he nurtured her well, she might become the backbone of the Dao Sect in the future.

Su'en found Chen Ziling and led her to a new courtyard about the size of his own.

"This is the high-grade Profound-rank sword technique of the Dao Sect: the Mystic Lightning Sword Technique. When you're more or less done cultivating it, I'll give you a higher-level cultivation technique." Su'en took out a cultivation technique book.

High-grade Profound-rank!

Chen Ziling was full of excitement. She hadn't imagined that she would be able to cultivate such a high-level sword technique as soon as she entered the Dao Sect. The highest-level cultivation technique amongst her family was only a Yellow Rank one! As expected of a sect in the Heavenly Domain, their cultivation techniques were of a much higher level.

And her senior had said that there would be higher-level cultivation techniques in the future. Wouldn't that mean an Earth-rank cultivation technique?

"There are many medicinal pills and spiritual plants in this spatial ring. It should last you through your cultivation for more than half a year."

Su'en took out another ring. The Meru Ring was a ring with special properties of space: it could store items that were larger than itself, because it was made from Meru Stone. The Meru Stone's unique trait was akin to a void, allowing items to enter another space and be stored there. It was even said that spiritual plants would not lose their medicinal properties after being placed inside for a long time.

Lifeless things like pills and spiritual plants could be stored inside, but not living creatures. Once, someone had specially placed some creatures inside and released them all at a certain time. The result? All of them had died, with no survivors. From then on, no one put their pets in their spatial rings anymore. Of course, there were some who didn't believe the tale and still chose to put their pets inside–to their eventual regret, of course.

This spatial ring was quite precious in the secular world, but almost everyone had one in the Heavenly Domain.

"Senior, are you going into seclusion again?" After Chen Ziling took the items, she stared at Su'en with wide eyes.

"How did you know?" Su'en was surprised.

"That's what you've been doing most of the year."

"How clever." Su'en patted her head, feeling her sleek, dark waves of hair. "As for how long it will take for you to enter seclusion, I don't know, but you have to work hard at cultivating. I hope that when I come out of seclusion, you will have already broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm."

"I will, Senior, don't worry!" Chen Ziling replied with a smile.

"Okay!" Su'en smiled back, nodded, and left Chen Ziling's courtyard.

There was still half a year until the Heavenly Domain Ceremony. He needed to become more powerful, or he wouldn't be able to compete with the true prodigies of the high-level sects. After the position of the Heaven Lord had alternated between different sects for so many years, one could imagine how many resources they had accumulated, and what kind of realm their disciples would be at!

Su'en shook his head, pushing the thoughts from his mind, and took out the system's compensation for the Divine Lightning Breath.

A total of 20,000 ingots were placed in a purple box. With so many wisps of Divine Lightning Breath together, even contained in the box from the system, he could still feel their powerful, destructive aura.

"My seclusion begins now!"

Su'en opened the purple box a fraction and channeled the Divine Lightning Sword Technique, slowly guiding the Diving Lightning Breath into his body.

Wisps of lightning entered his vast Energy Sea, rushing towards his sword embryo like lightning in the sky, and getting absorbed bit by bit. As more and more lightning entered the sword embryo, the latter's illusory figure began to slowly materialize.

A terrifying aura gradually appeared around Su'en–accumulating strength, just like a caterpillar that was about to break out of its cocoon and become a butterfly!