After cultivating he slowly rose as he donned his outer sect robes. He stretched as he walked to the entrance as he had heard knocking on the outside.
Upon entering the courtyard, he saw a beautiful young lady. She was dressed in the white outer sect robes of the Yin Gate with a silver sword box.
"Young Lord Jīn, I am sorry for my previous transgressions and I am to be your attendant starting today."
The young lady was Li BiHua.
The tall, slenderly built young lady, with fair skin and pouty pink-tinged lips, stared at him as she bowed slightly.
She was removed from the Water Shroud Sect and transferred to the Titan's Gate.
She felt like a scapegoat.
Even though she knew it was a better sect, she was an attendant first and a disciple second.
Her father had tried to reason with her but she still held her resentment. Resentment of following not only a boy who was 4 years younger than her but also for near killing her.
Her father had told her that he'd soon become an influential figure but until that was set in stone, it was like passing clouds to her.
"Water Shroud Sect asked me to hand this to you, it is a small token for acting against you in YanNan." She proceeded to hand over a small QianKun bag.
As he took it from her, he peered inside to see a glowing red pill as well as some yellow small braided ring hair accessories.
As he took one out he looked at her quizzically.
"Those are mortal-grade artifacts. We noticed you like to wear accessories in your hair so..."
She explained.
"It's fine." He then turned it over in his hand. "What do they do?" he looked up from the accessory towards her.
Li BiHua looked at the braided ring as she pointed.
"These help with cultivation as all 6 make up a small qi gathering formation. "
"Oh?" he smirked as he fondled the cuff in his hand.
"And this?" As he held up the jade bottle with a glowing red pill inside.
"That's an earth-grade YuYang pill, it is supposed to purge the body of toxins, similarly to breaking through a major realm," she replied with concealed envy.
A loud shout came from outside as Lu Ji came into the courtyard with Jian Feng. Though senior brother Jian still looked pale, he was doing better and was able to move around.
"Master wants to see you, Junior Jīn." Jian Feng then looked at Li BiHua as his face became stern, "You can come as well," He said flatly.
With that, they all headed to Head Elder ZaiMing's pavilion.
They soon saw the elder sitting within the pavilion overlooking a hot spring lake as the steam lightly floated in the air. His white hair pinned up with a hairpin, his turquoise robes were close-fitting to his slender frame.
"Come sit, Junior Jīn." He smiled as he gestured towards the chair.
Madlenkosi looked intently at this old man.
This was the old man who sought justice for him after knowing he was kicked out.
The one who also was there to welcome him back into the sect.
He bowed slightly as per custom in this new world as he sat.
"Outer Sect disciple Jīn, I am willing to take you as my disciple, are you willing?!" Elder ZaiMing said as he stared directly at Kosi.
Madlenkosi kneeled and kotowed and his head touched the floor 3 times as he said, "I greet you, Master."
He looked to Jian Feng out the corner of his eyes as he saw him nod in reply.
On their way here Jian Feng had explained the customary rituals of accepting a master.
Though he found it strange, he chalked it up to him being from a different world.
Madlenkosi sat in the chair as his new master began to guide him on his cultivation. Li BiHua was there stunned as it seemed her father was right and she listened intently towards the cultivation guidance.
"Jīn'er, your elder brother told me you managed to reach initial Mastery of an Intent, do you fully understand them?" He asked as he then saw Madlenkosi shake his head.
"Well, Intents are a higher step to mastering any technique.
Intent is also broken down into an Initial, Lesser, Greater and Perfection Mastery." He nodded as he saw Kosi paying rapt attention.
"But Intent is only the first stage to fully mastering a technique.
After Intent comes Manifestation which allows the Intent user to manifest certain key abilities of that technique.
After Manifestation comes Domain, which subjugates any weaker Intent Domain than it, only equally powerful Domains can fight each other.
And lastly, there's the Dao after Domain. This stage remains elusive as only 1 person within the past millennia had been able to reach that stage with a technique.
He was the founder of our Sect and the previous Sect Leader of the Dharma Sect.
Due to this link between our sects, this is also another reason why we are ranked higher than the Diamond Buddha Sect as well as the Water Shroud Sect.
So I'll advise you to continue practicing your Fist Intent and if possible aim for a compounded Intent. Though it is harder, the benefits are also much more."
He looked out at the hot spring lake as he then turned back to Kosi. " Pack your things, from today forth you'll be living on Willows Peak with your senior brother and I." As he stood up, he remembered, " Oh and do prepare for the Outer Sect Ranking Battles. " As he vanished like a puff of smoke.
Kosi and BiHua's eyes widened after seeing this. They had never seen anyone just vanished and wondered just how powerful is he?
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On finding a residence on Willows Peak he went straight back into cultivating as he had many Body nourishing pills and Qi cultivation pills as well as some special items.
As he settled down, he placed the braided rings in his hair as he activated their formation. He then also activated the formation beneath him.
The two formations didn't reject each other but the accessories didn't amount to much due to the formation below. The one beneath him was a Mid Earth-Grade Qi Gathering Formation which drew over vast amounts of purified Qi.
As he took out his small, strange, Jade Dragon Statue, he noticed that by placing it in his lap it could perpetually increase the purity of his Qi, albeit at a slow rate.
Upon noticing this he grew extremely excited as this would directly increase the speed of cultivating the Chi of 3 Purities Training Method.
He placed the Jade Dragon back into his storage ring as he took out the wood which gave off vibrant green Qi.
As he placed it between his palms, he felt his heart twitch twice as the Baobab Tree Symbol grew excited.
He began to siphon qi from the wood piece as it was converted into life Qi by the divine tree on his heart.
His aura calmed as his body's cultivation base increased slowly, he still had a month until the Outer Sect Ranking Battles so he focused on cultivating slowly and stably.