Sheng Tian flew over to the tower in the distance, lightning trailing behind him as he arrived there in a few seconds. He was escorted to a room and found all the peak masters along with the sect master present.
"You've arrived"
Sheng Tian bowed and sat in an empty chair prepared for him "for what reason have I been called here?"
Sect Master Long Chen spoke "I'll get straight to the point. You've probably heard of the Gathering Of Geniuses already and know about the secret realm. You can probably guess what we want from you"
"You want me to participate and preferably get first place?"
This time it was Peak Master Mo Shen who spoke, "not just that. We want you to crush the Sacred Blood Sect and the Everlasting Temple's geniuses"
Sheng Tian didn't immediately agree and decided to probe for more information "why is that?"
He explained "not only are they the ones who suppressed us, but they are also confirmed to be demon worshipers"
The Sect Master spoke immediately after "demon worshipers are even more cruel than wicked sects and wish for the revival of the demons. Demons are entities who existed several eras ago. They terrorized all lifeforms and ruled the realms until a large group of cultivators rose and made techniques targeted at the demons. As for the reason the Sacred Blood Sect and the Everlasting Temple still stand today? Their too powerful for any of the sects in the Mortal Realm to handle"
Naturally Sheng Tian already knew all this and merely wanted to act normal. He even put on a slightly surprised expression as to not arouse suspicion. He then put on a face filled with "righteousness" and "indignation" after hearing what they said.
"I will make sure that those fiends won't get what they want as long as I am alive and win the sect first place in the competition"
The Sect Master nodded "go back and cultivate until the competition starts. Oh, and if any geniuses catch your eye you have my permission to take them"
Sheng Tian bowed and left for his manor. He decided to put any thoughts about taking disciples to the back of his head for now. He would quickly leave this realm once he was done settling everything and it wouldn't be wise to bring dead weight to an upper realm filled with greater dangers.
He quickly arrived at his manor and told the servants to not disturb him. It was time to look at what he obtained during his time outside the sect.
He first looked at Mo Nian's spatial ring. To his surprise he found that it was two rings not one. One was an ordinary Earth ranked spatial ring while the other was surprisingly an Earth ranked life ring. Unlike spatial rings, life rings are capable of storing living beings as well as keeping herbs alive.
Inside he found one square mile of land with dozens of valuable herbs all rank four and above as well as a lake thirty meters in diameter. The lake contained hundreds of rank one White Soul Koi that most likely served as food.
Sheng Tian planted all of the herbs he had in the life ring and then checked the spatial ring.
There he found the Spirit ranked saber Mo Nian used and saw that it was not a wicked weapon and decided to keep it. There were also various techniques, treasures, pills, and a small mountain of spirit stones.
Sheng Tian flipped through the techniques before deciding to burn them. The treasures were mostly spatial talismans that teleported one to a random location and the pills were mostly useless to his cultivation.
The spirit stones on the other hand are quite useful. The formation he set up before he left the sect had procured him over ten thousand peak quality mid grade spirit stones. The formation helped the vein increase its purity thus producing higher quality spirit stones. Adding all of the spirit stones he had, Sheng Tian counted over a million low grade spirit stones, fifty thousand middle grade spirit stones, and ten thousand high grade spirit stones.
He put all of the spirit stones in a spatial ring and called Xu Xing over, handing her the ring containing the spirit stones and several other rings. He told her to go to the sect treasury and exchange everything for peak quality peak grade spirit stones as well as give the other servants spatial rings.
After she left, he sealed his room and took out all sorts of materials from his spatial ring. He wanted to increase his already insane battle prowess as all things are worthless in front of strength. He put all of the neidans he got along with soul type spirit herbs in a cauldron. He then put all of the cores with many supplementary herbs in another. Instead of concocting one cauldron at a time, Sheng Tian heated both cauldrons at the same time.
The pills he is concocting are both rank nine pills. In cauldron with the neidans he concocted the Thousand Years Soul Pill. In the cauldron with the cores he concocted the Berserk Beast Qi Pill.
A faint crackle was heard in both cauldrons. Sheng Tian opened them both and found thirteen pills in each cauldron, with each pill having thirteen pill lines and thirteen pill halos. with his abnormal soul and abundant qi, it wasn't hard for him to concoct perfect pills on his first try.
Activating the Thirteen Heaven Chaos Scripture, Sheng Tian swallowed all twenty six pills at once. The berserk nature of the pills became docile once it met the aura of the scripture and allowed itself to be easily absorbed by Sheng Tian.
Instead of using the energy to increase his cultivation, Sheng Tian used it to temper his foundations and refine his power to the peak until it reached perfection. His body was being strengthened and his qi and soul increased in density, quantity, and quality.
BOOM!
His body and soul broke through repeatedly until they both reached the fifth rank. His qi on the other hand reached the peak of the first level. Using his All Seeing Eyes, he saw dark clouds start to form above his manor.
Using his movement technique coupled by lightning, Sheng Tian moved hundreds of miles away from the sect in an instant, with the dark cloud following him.
RUMBLE!
Sheng Tian smirked and as the tribulation challenged him to a round two.