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Seeing this place completely surrounded.
These are all Daoist Soldiers, previously called Guardians, each with considerable combat power, but generally without much potential.
Well, this lack of potential doesn’t mean they can’t improve, it just means that without consuming some precious materials, it’s very difficult to improve under normal circumstances.
It’s safe to say the cost-performance ratio is too low, which means they lack potential.
This allowed the goblins rushing out to be quickly killed.
Although these goblins are all of the Second Realm, their attack methods are simple and can’t compare to the coordinated Daoist Soldiers. Moreover, with their teamwork, they have elite ratings, and the captain is even a martial artist of the Third Realm.
Without coordination, there are no elites, no kings; it’s not that they can’t be trained, it’s just that the cost-performance ratio is too low.
Back when the disciples of the Five Elements Sword Control Sect and Small Knife entered the Goblin Mini World, it’s a pity they couldn’t bring Daoist Soldiers, otherwise, with their potential, unleashing a hundredfold combat power wouldn’t have been an issue.
Moreover, they had many methods. Given enough time, they could have even left coordinates for the Five Elements Sword Control Sect, but sadly, they didn’t survive.
Small Knife reached out and tore open the goblin’s skin, revealing his original body, still wearing the Five Elements Sword Control Sect’s outer sect disciple’s attire.
He seemed very excited at this moment.
Finally coming back, alive.
"I’m an undercover!" Small Knife almost shouted out loud.
Of course, he still carried the jade token representing his identity.
As for the disguise, it naturally came from the treasure chest.
Killing goblins brought out a lot of things, some bizarre and strange ones not worth mentioning.
Soon, the space rift disappeared, other goblins were eliminated, and Small Knife was surrounded and monitored by Daoist Soldiers.
He didn’t wait long before three disciples arrived via sword control.
Two inner sect members, and even one core member, but judging by their appearance, they were not young, probably without the potential to advance further.
Nonetheless, having lived long enough, they were considered old disciples, so their combat power was stronger than those of the same realm, and they had more methods.
Generally, they were called Stewards, such as Inner Sect Stewards, Core Stewards, and so on.
They held certain rights and duties, but had no further opportunities.
Of course, this is under normal circumstances; with treasures or spirit medicines, advancement is also quite common.
After confirming Small Knife’s identity simply, he was quickly taken away.
Unsure if it’s a Spiritual Artifact or Spiritual Treasure?
Here, Small Knife’s mind was foggy, as if hypnotized.
When questioned by the person in front of him, he could only answer instinctively.
If Small Knife hadn’t always maintained a portion of his spiritual power in his personal space, keeping a balance.
Otherwise, he would have been exposed at the first question.
The personal space is always so reassuring; with a portion of his consciousness in the personal space, under the special treasures, Small Knife became like a robot, answering whatever was asked.
Fortunately, there was a general control of consciousness entering the personal space, repeating the fabricated lies.
These were statements designed and researched by many teams, setting it as Small Knife being lucky to have survived.
There were coincidences and efforts, finally escaping back.
Returning alive.
He was praised as a disciple with fortune.
And went through investigation and testing.
After much trouble.
In the end, he was forced to make a Heavenly Dao Oath.
It was unfortunate that no signal or coordinates of that world were obtained from Small Knife.
However, there were still rewards.
So Small Knife became an inner sect disciple.
And received a reward of one million contribution points.
Of course, after becoming an inner sect disciple, his soul lamp was also lit, imposed with the Five Elements Sword Control Sect’s restrictions.
Beep: Your soul’s aura has been captured and made into a soul lamp.
Tip 1: The soul lamp can determine your general location and condition, and can curse your soul in many ways.
Tip 2: The soul lamp stems from a trace of your soul fragment’s aura, limited to the current body’s soul, not affecting the main body.
Tip 3: Across worlds, it can only determine life and death, isolating anything below Immortal Level means.
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After returning, Small Knife naturally first obtained the inner sect disciple’s cultivation technique.
After some selection, he chose the Five Elements Sword Mansion Formulas.
This is a Purple Mansion level cultivation technique, suitable for those at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.
Don’t let the name fool you; it is in fact the main cultivation technique for most disciples of the Five Elements Sword Control Sect.
As an inner sect disciple, reaching the Third Realm Purple Mansion Realm allows you to obtain the further Five Elements Sword Pill Formulas for free.
If mastered, the core disciple status can be directly obtained, along with the subsequent Five Elements Sword Infant Formulas, granting access to the Fifth Realm Nascent Soul Realm.
Achieving the Fifth Realm does not automatically make one a core disciple; one must cultivate the Five Elements Sword Infant to achieve it.
For instance, now Small Knife, although having gained the Five Elements Sword Mansion Formulas, even though it directly points to becoming an immortal,
it is extremely difficult to master completely.
First, one must have all Five Spirit Roots to possibly cultivate it successfully.
This is something most outer sect disciples cannot achieve in their lifetime.
Unless born with Five Spirit Roots, otherwise each Spirit Root costs a million contributions to exchange for spirit medicine to supplement postnatally.
Even when supplemented, mastering it is still highly challenging.
It is at least five times more difficult for a single Spirit Root cultivator to reach the Purple Mansion Realm.
Why are single Spirit Root cultivators the strongest in small sects? Dual Spirit Roots next?
It is because single Spirit Root cultivation only needs to reach one-fifth of the Five Spirit Roots to advance further.
Core Formation and Nascent Soul are alike in this respect.
Five times faster and five times easier compared to Five Spirit Roots.
Having more Spirit Roots only means more types of Spiritual Qi and more spellcasting types, offering little advantage before Nascent Soul.