Chapter 3: Inner Sect Fifth

This forest is a place for cultivation, where beasts run rampant. Once night falls, it becomes even more terrifying.

Seeing the long night approaching, Chen Tian did not return to the sect immediately. Instead, he found a safe cave in the forest and began to ponder his next move.

With a thought, Chen Tian already had the only usable beginner's sword from the ring in his hand. As his cultivation improved, Chen Tian found that the ring could now be opened, but what he could take out were only the lowest-grade beginner equipment and cultivation techniques.

Among the cultivation techniques, Chen Tian started to study the Sword Drawing Technique, Spirit Eyes, and the Wind-Stepping Snow-Treading Steps.

The essence of the Sword Drawing Technique lies in speed and surprise. In the game world, Chen Tian almost never used it a second time because it was a unique move. If it didn't kill the opponent in one strike, using it a second time would be easily countered.

Chen Tian drew the beginner's sword and pondered for a moment.

"Clang..."

A resounding metallic sound echoed through the valley, leaving a deep, bottomless sword mark on the rock wall.

The Spirit Eyes technique is the cultivation of vision, allowing one to see through the fog and clearly view everything within four hundred meters.

Only the Wind-Stepping Snow-Treading Steps could not be performed, perhaps because the time was not right.

Chen Tian cultivated alone until dawn when two unexpected visitors suddenly appeared at the cave entrance.

Chen Tian's first glance fell on a woman in red, her figure graceful and alluring, making anyone who saw her feel a burning desire.

"Inner Sect disciple Liu Yan?" Chen Tian was not unfamiliar with this woman in red.

Liu Yan was an Inner Sect disciple of the Heavenly Sect, and her strength was among the best in the Inner Sect. However, what made her most famous was not her strength but her breathtaking beauty. Countless disciples drooled over her, hoping to get close to her.

The man beside Liu Yan was unknown to Chen Tian, but he was only about twenty years old and exuded an extraordinary aura.

Seeing Chen Tian, a mere Warrior, daring to look at Liu Yan like that, the man immediately sneered. "Brat, you dare to occupy our cave? Are you tired of living? Get lost!"

The man's arrogant tone annoyed Chen Tian. "If it's yours, is your name written on the cave?"

"Insolent!" The man roared, his powerful aura pressing down on Chen Tian, who was forced back several steps, his face pale.

This man was already at the Seventh Level of the Martial Disciple stage. Such strength was well-known even in the Inner Sect, and Chen Tian could not match him now.

"I was going to let you off, but you don't know your place. Leave your eyes behind and then get lost."

The man's sword struck like a bolt of lightning, attacking without hesitation.

Chen Tian's Spirit Eyes flashed, revealing the opponent's sword path clearly, and he instantly dodged the attack.

Chen Tian's skillful evasion made Liu Yan's beautiful eyes light up. A Fifth Level Warrior dodging a Seventh Level Martial Disciple's attack was not a common occurrence.

Seeing his attack being dodged, and in front of a beautiful woman, the man's face turned red with embarrassment.

"I'll kill you!"

The man's sword thrust came again, this time not a simple stab but a sword technique. A powerful sword aura surged from his blade, turning the rocks it touched into powder.

This man was also an awakener of the Sword Martial Soul!

"Trouble!"

The sword aura rushed at Chen Tian, who saw no way to dodge. At the critical moment, the Wind-Stepping Snow-Treading Steps activated naturally, and with a whoosh, Chen Tian seemed to ride the wind, darting a hundred meters away.

The sword aura missed its target, and Liu Yan was immediately surprised. The first time might have been luck, but a Warrior escaping a Martial Disciple's full attack was no coincidence. Who could this person be?

Chen Tian survived the Martial Disciple's attack but heard a roar behind him.

"Brat, don't let me, Yu Zhanghao, the Fifth Disciple of the Inner Sect, catch you again, or you're dead."

"Yu Zhanghao, Fifth Disciple of the Inner Sect, I'll remember this!" Chen Tian gritted his teeth. He was a person who would never let an insult go unpunished, but confronting the man now would not be beneficial. He had to leave.

Surviving and becoming stronger was Chen Tian's only desire.

"It's the Sun and Moon Gorge, finally escaped!"

The sun was scorching, and as soon as he reached the Sun and Moon Gorge, Chen Tian saw scattered figures of Outer Sect disciples. This was the outer area of the sect forest, where disciples with lower cultivation levels were active.

"Hmm?" Chen Tian didn't walk far in the Sun and Moon Gorge when he saw four Outer Sect disciples fighting a monster not far ahead.

"That's a late-stage peak First Rank Demon Wolf?" Such a Demon Wolf, when at its peak, would be very difficult for Outer Sect disciples to handle.

The three men and one woman fighting the Demon Wolf were overjoyed to see someone arrive. They found it difficult to kill a late-stage First Rank Demon Wolf, but with one more person, it would be different.

But they didn't know the cultivation level of the newcomer.

"Friend, can you help us kill this Demon Wolf? We would be very grateful." The one who spoke was a sixteen-year-old girl. Though not as fiery and alluring as Liu Yan, she was sweet and beautiful, with a graceful figure, a rare sight of a pure beauty.

Women in the Spirit Martial Continent were more beautiful than those on Earth, perhaps due to cultivation.

Chen Tian's Spirit Eyes showed that the girl's cultivation was at the peak of the Eighth Level Warrior stage, which was quite good for her age.

Chen Tian thought for a moment. "Alright."

"My name is Yi Yun, this is my junior brother Qing Yi, and the other two are my senior brothers Tie Xiong and Yu Zhangqi."

"Yi Yun, a beautiful name. I'm Chen Tian." Since the others had introduced themselves, Chen Tian didn't hide his identity.

But when he said his name, Yu Zhangqi almost blurted out, "Waste Chen Tian, damn it, what bad luck! Are you all fools? You actually expect help from such a person!"

Seeing Yu Zhangqi curse Chen Tian without hesitation, the other three, who had clearly heard of Chen Tian, were momentarily embarrassed.

Is this guy so famous in the Outer Sect of the Heavenly Sect? Chen Tian frowned, feeling uncomfortable with the reputation of being a waste.

"Roar..."

The Demon Wolf, though restrained by Yu Zhangqi, was still a late-stage peak First Rank, with strength comparable to a Martial Disciple. Seeing the group distracted, it roared and injured Yu Zhangqi, forcing Yi Yun and the others to rejoin the battle.

Chen Tian still did not move, but observed Yu Zhangqi. "That guy is Yu Zhangqi? What's his relationship with Yu Zhanghao?"

The Demon Wolf was incredibly fast. In the moment Chen Tian was thinking, all four of them were bitten, and Yi Yun was lightly injured.

Yu Zhangqi, being the strongest, was relentlessly pursued by the Demon Wolf and suffered severe injuries. Seeing Chen Tian still not moving, he was furious. "You waste, do you want to wait for us to kill the Demon Wolf and then eat for free?"

Saying this, Yu Zhangqi deliberately led the Demon Wolf toward Chen Tian, clearly intending to use the Demon Wolf to kill him.

"Chen Tian, be careful." Yi Yun quickly warned, but it was too late.