When Lv Yang walked out of the meditation room, he found that someone was already waiting outside.

Lv Yang was startled. The person who approached him was wearing a black daoist robe and had a sinister expression. It was none other than the black-clothed daoist who had assigned him to the Huanhuan Hall before!

"I've seen you before, Senior Brother." Lv Yang hurriedly greeted.

"You're quite good, you're a talent," said the black-clothed Taoist with a smile. "I had heard that Yu Suzhen had kidnapped a very capable young man into her house, and his breakthrough to the Qi Refinement stage was imminent..." "But I never expected that bitch to fail." At this point, the black-clothed Taoist looked at Lu Yang with a strange expression.

Three days, three whole days!

Yu Suzhen's cries could be heard even from outside the quiet room, and even the black-robed Taoist, who considered himself well-informed, could not help but feel a sense of admiration at that moment.

If this child doesn't die, he will surely become a pillar of the Holy Emperor in the future!

"Follow me." The black-robed Taoist, named Liu Xin, was an official disciple of the Mending Heaven Peak, one of the four inner peaks. He was responsible for guiding registered disciples who had advanced to the next level and briefing them on matters related to the sect.

"There are four palaces outside the gate and four peaks inside the gate, all corresponding to each other." On the way, Liu Xin introduced to Lu Yang with great interest, "Apart from the Sacred Flame Cliff where the headmaster resides, our Holy Sect is mainly centered around the four peaks inside the gate." "Since you came from the Huanhe Palace, you will naturally join our Butian Peak. I will take you to update your name on the roster first." With someone guiding him, Lu Yang naturally couldn't wait: "Thank you very much, Senior Brother Liu." "It's just part of my duty," Liu Xin said calmly. "After updating your name on the roster, I will take you to the other three palaces. The benefits of being a formal disciple are quite substantial, which can be considered as a perk from the Holy Sect." "According to the rules, each formal disciple can only claim it once," Liu Xin said with a hint of melancholy. "After you enter the inner gate, if you still want to obtain something of the same level, you will have to complete tasks issued by the Holy Sect and earn contribution points to exchange for it." Lu Yang frowned and asked, "Contribution points?" "They are the currency issued by the Holy Sect," Liu Xin explained. "After you update your name on the roster, you should be able to see it through your disciple token." Intrigued, Lu Yang immediately followed Liu Xin to update his name on the roster.

The process is also quite simple. It's just about relocating the life lamp he lit when he first started, from the outer door area to the inner door area.

Subsequently, Lv Yang injected a strand of true qi into the token on his waist, and a line of text immediately appeared on it: "Official disciple, Lv Yang." "As an official disciple, the Holy Sect will gift you 50 contribution points for free. Contribution points can be used to exchange for spirit stones, cultivation techniques, magical artifacts, cultivation caves, etc." "Upon entering the inner sect, you will need to pay contribution points to rent a cultivation cave, with a monthly rental fee of 30 contribution points. Of course, you can also choose to purchase a cultivation cave. As a newly promoted inner sect disciple, you can enjoy a 20% discount on the down payment if you purchase a cultivation cave within ten years." - Such introductions filled up more than a dozen pages.

After carefully reading through, Lv Yang came to the conclusion: "This inner sect only cares about money!" Those with contribution points can have everything they want, including cultivation techniques, elixirs, and magic treasures. Those without contribution points, however, find it difficult to move forward, and can't even afford to live in the cave abode.

Meanwhile, Lv Yang also learned what the "benefits" mentioned by Liu Xin referred to.

After being promoted to a formal disciple, every registered disciple can use their disciple token to select one magic treasure, one medicinal pill, one companion spirit beast, and one dual-cultivation furnace from the Treasure Refinement Hall, Pill Refinement Hall, Beast Domination Hall, and Joyful Union Hall, respectively, without having to pay any contribution points.

"From this perspective, it's indeed a benefit." Lu Yang's mind stirred, and he used his disciple token to open the list of items that could be exchanged for contribution points. Immediately, corresponding lines of text appeared on the screen.

Cultivation techniques, magical artifacts, medicinal pills, spirit beasts, and alchemy furnaces... even the cheapest ones require 100 contribution points.

Correspondingly, the rewards for tasks in the Holy Empire are pitifully low, all with single-digit contribution points, and very few reaching double digits.

It can be seen that the free four-piece set after being promoted to a formal disciple is worth at least 400 contribution points, which is also a huge sum for a formal disciple.

While pondering, Lv Yang followed Liu Xin to the Treasure Refining Hall.

The person responsible for receiving them was Chen Hao, a deacon of the Treasure Refinement Hall. It was said that he was also a formal disciple, and his duty was to serve as a deacon of the Treasure Refinement Hall.

According to Liu Xin, tasks with fixed positions are the most lucrative in the Inner Sect. Not only do they offer a lot of contribution points, but often one task alone can support a formal disciple. Moreover, they are stable and can be considered as an iron rice bowl. Unfortunately, there are too many people competing for too few positions, and without some connections, it's impossible to obtain such tasks.

"Senior Brother Liu? It's been a long time." Upon entering the Treasure Refining Hall, Lv Yang noticed that Chen Hao first sized him up before turning to Liu Xin and warmly saying, "You brought new disciples over again?" "Yes," Liu Xin grinned, and in a hinting tone, he said, "If you know, why don't you quickly bring out the best magical artifacts in the Treasure Refining Hall for Junior Brother Lv to take a look?" "Alright!" Chen Hao nodded obsequiously and then led everyone into the inner courtyard of the Treasure Refining Hall. However, as they walked along, Lv Yang frowned in surprise, "This... is the disciple's cultivation meditation room, right?" Shouldn't we go to a warehouse or something like that to retrieve magical artifacts?

Upon hearing this, Chen Hao first showed confusion, then suddenly understood and laughed loudly, saying, "Junior Brother Lu may not know, but all the best magical artifacts are here." Before he could finish speaking, the three of them stopped in front of a cultivation room.

"The junior brother in this room has a long seniority. He has been a registered disciple of the outer sect for three years. Unfortunately, he has a bit of a fixed mindset and has gone astray in his cultivation technique..." With these words, Chen Hao directly pushed open the door of the room.

Then, Lv Yang saw a Taoist priest sitting on the straw mat in the center of the room, with his eyes tightly shut, muttering to himself, seemingly lost in a dreamlike state.

"I've done it... I've done it..." Immediately after, Chen Hao activated a spell. The Taoist priest in the room suddenly opened his eyes, and his originally dull expression was replaced by a look of wild joy: "Haha! I've succeeded, Master Taoist!" Boom!

Before the words were even finished, his entire body exploded, with flesh and blood flying in all directions. Then, he rolled back and merged into the skeleton that remained in place.

In a blink of an eye, a living person vanished.

Instead, a "bone sword" as translucent as jade, with each segment orderly arranged, gently landed on the futon, emanating a dazzling spiritual light of a magical artifact.

Chen Hao stepped forward, picked up the "Bone Sword" and handed it to Lu Yang. He then said with satisfaction, "The magical artifact 'Bone Jade Sword' is considered superior in the 'Book of Hundred Treasures of the Cave Truth'. This junior brother is indeed a talented person. After years of hard cultivation, his skills are exquisite. Otherwise, the magical artifact's spiritual light would not be so pure." Lu Yang: "...". Looking at the Bone Jade Sword in Chen Hao's hand and recalling his past life's experiences, Lu Yang felt a chill down his spine and gained a deeper understanding of the style of the Early Sage Sect.

In summary, it boils down to two words: survival of the fittest, and making the best use of everything!

The sect has expended resources to cultivate you, registered disciples, so you must create value for the sect. If you cannot create value, the sect will create it for you!

If one breaks through and is promoted to a formal disciple, naturally everyone will be delighted.

If you can't make a breakthrough, the sect won't support you for life without expecting a return. Naturally, they will recoup the resources invested in you to ensure that the sect doesn't suffer losses.

Therefore, in the view of the initial Emperor Shenzong, the disciples in the sect are like clouds and water, differing only in their actions; they are all talented individuals, with no useless ones.

"This is indeed... true to its name." Lu Yang closed his eyes, exhaled deeply, and then remembered that he still had the Hundred Worlds Book to fall back on. When he opened his eyes again, he had regained his composure.

"Junior Brother has a good temperament. Indeed, you are a handsome and talented person!" On the other hand, seeing that Lv Yang calmed down so quickly, Liu Xin's eyes first flashed with surprise, and then his smile on his face became even brighter.

Immediately afterwards, Lv Yang followed Liu Xin to the Alchemy Hall and the Beast Hall, where he received a "Qi-Replenishing Pill" and a "Human-Faced Owl" respectively. The former could nourish true qi after being ingested, while the latter functioned like a carrier pigeon, commonly used for message transmission among formal disciples.

It was only when he reached the last furnace that Liu Xin encountered a dilemma.

"Junior Brother, you've advanced too quickly," Liu Xin shook his head and said, "You've just joined the outer sect and practiced Qi Refinement for just one day. The furnaces reserved for the Huanhe Hall haven't even arrived yet." "Why not wait a few days, Junior Brother?" What furnaces? Lu Yang naturally didn't care. He immediately clasped his hands and said, "I'm all yours to arrange." Liu Xin burst out laughing, then took out a jade slip and handed it to Lu Yang, "This is the secret true technique of our Bùtiān Peak. Take it back and practice it well." Lu Yang took the jade slip and immediately used his spiritual consciousness to check it.

In the next second, a complicated and intricate cultivation technique popped into his mind.

"Innate Dao Scripture"