"Oh?" Please let me know, senior. Long Chen asked.
"In the inner courtyard, the Chu Alliance ranks seventh among the inner court guilds, with six guilds even stronger than the Chu Alliance." The elder said.
Mu Qingyun was surprised, but Luo Bing and Luo Ning were not, because they had long known that Luo Alliance ranked tenth, at the bottom of the top ten guilds.
The elder said, "The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth guilds—if you provoke them, so be it. Although you might suffer losses, it won't be too serious."
But the first and second alliances must not be provoked. As for why, once you enter the inner courtyard, you can find out slowly and find out.
And even if you don't provoke them, you still need to be cautious. I believe you understand what I mean. "
Long Chen certainly understood the elder's meaning: you shouldn't provoke them, but if Chu Yang secretly tried to broker them and cause conflict, he would still be easily affected. So he warned Long Chen in advance.
"Thank you,"
Long Chen cupped his fists. This elder was quite good; knowing he was new, he had specially reminded him.
After bidding farewell to the elders, Long Chen and the others walked forward along the passage, where two tall mountains appeared ahead—a natural gateway.
Illuminated by colorful divine light, Long Chen arrived at the doorway. Suddenly, his body felt lighter, and the scenery before him changed—they found themselves atop a stretch of rolling mountains.
Meanwhile, Luo Bing, Luo Ning, and the other disciples from the Immortal Academy had already disappeared. It seemed this was the residential area of the Divine Academy disciples, so Luo Bing and the others had probably been teleported to the Immortal Academy area.
Normally, disciples at the Metamorphosis Realm cannot use teleportation arrays, but Long Chen and the others had already reached the peak of the Transcendence Realm, their internal mortal energy had depleted, and their physical bodies were strong. The teleportation array had little effect on them.
Long Chen stood atop a high mountain, seeing countless peaks around him, each marked with symbols, and each peak had countless cave entrances.
Each cave entrance has its own cave dwelling. Unlike outer disciples, each inner disciple has their own independent cave dwelling.
Moreover, inside the cave residence, there are functional areas such as the Spirit Gathering Array, meditation rooms, and training rooms. Compared to the communal living of outer sect disciples, the treatment is truly world-class.
Everyone has their own identity tag, and you must use it to find your own cave dwelling.
However, there are huge differences between cave dwellings: the cave dwellings at the foot of the mountain are the worst, while those at the summit are the best.
The entire mountain was a massive spirit-gathering array, with spiritual energy flowing from top to bottom. The cave atop the mountain was the densest spiritual energy, then gradually faded as it descended.
But even so, not to mention cultivating inside the cave dwelling, even training outside, the concentration of spiritual energy from the inner sect is much better than that from the outer sect inside the Spirit Gathering Array.
The first thing everyone did was look for their own cave dwellings. For newly initiated disciples, their initial positions were all at the foot of the mountain.
If you want to live somewhere better, it's simple: see whose cave dwelling is better and who you think is weaker. If you're confident you can defeat them, you can climb the Divine Dao leaderboard. As long as you defeat them in the arena, you'll not only get their ranking rewards, but also their cave dwelling.
So, those in good positions aren't so easy either. They have to constantly accept challenges from others, and if they lose, they have to hand over their own cave dwellings.
But the cave dwellings at the foot of the mountain were not contested because there was no need to compete for them. Anyone who entered the inner sect would be assigned one and everyone would get a share.
Long Chen quickly found his cave residence and entered through the entrance. Inside, it was spacious and clean, with nothing in the hall spanning more than ten zhang.
Entering the hall, there were three doors. Opening one of them, spiritual energy immediately surged forth—this was a cultivation room.
Inside the cultivation room, there was a formation disk, densely covered with small holes used to store immortal crystals.
If you feel the spiritual energy in the cultivation room is insufficient, you can use formations to release the power of immortal crystals and increase the immortal spirit energy. This is a money-burning item, capable of placing hundreds of immortal crystals at once, instantly releasing all the immortal spirit energy inside the crystals.
In other words, as long as you have money, you can have as much immortal spirit energy as you need. Normal people simply can't afford to play with it.
He entered another room, where there were several puppet dolls. Long Chen glanced at them and pursed his lips.
This was a training room. These puppets also had formation disks behind them. By consuming a certain amount of immortal crystals, they could activate the puppets and treat them as opponents to accompany others in training.
Looking at the formation disk, Long Chen wanted to try punching it, but he saw a prominent mark on the puppet's body: it must be activated with Immortal Crystals to be used, or else it would be damaged and compensation would be required.
He actually managed to break it? Long Chen shook his head and decided not to; who knew if one punch would ruin everything.
"Bang!"
Long Chen slammed his fist into the wall, causing the entire room to tremble. The wall was left with a fist imprint about an inch deep, but it quickly disappeared.
On the wall, there was a formation that could repair itself, used by cultivators to test their own strength.
"If the record is broken, you can go to the Inner Court Ranking Registration Office to claim 3,000 Immortal Crystals."
A dull voice echoed through the small room. Long Chen's punch actually triggered the formation's recording function.
"Breaking records, and there's even a reward?"
Long Chen was stunned and punched the wall again. With a loud bang, the runes on the wall instantly went out, and then there was no sound at all.
"No way, seriously? Did it break it?" Long Chen was speechless. It seemed this cave dwelling was really low-level.
But thinking about it, it's true—anyone can have something at random, so it's definitely not something good.
Besides the training room, there was a quiet room nearby. There was nothing else. Such an independent cave dwelling might already be excellent for outer disciples, but for Long Chen, it felt nothing.
After inspecting the cave dwelling, Long Chen exited. The stone door slowly closed, and after discerning the direction, he dashed toward the mountaintop.
"From now on, I must live on the mountaintop. Not to mention, the teleportation array is really close."
At the summit of every high mountain, there is a teleportation array, and the mountains here are especially vast, spanning hundreds of miles. The distance from the summit to the foot of the mountain is quite far, making it inconvenient to use the teleportation array.
Not far from the teleportation array was a cave residence with its own gatehouse, resplendent and grand, but the main gate was tightly shut, so it was unclear what was inside.
Long Chen glanced at the cave residence, walked into the teleportation array, activated it, and the scenery before him changed—Long Chen appeared in a hall.
The hall was bustling with people coming and going, but as soon as Long Chen appeared, many people cast surprised glances, as everyone else was dressed in white, except Long Chen who was dressed in black.
Long Chen ignored the surprised looks from those and headed straight to the end of the hall, flashing the nameplate in his hand:
"I want to enter the Divine Fire Spirit Pool."