After receiving the sect resources allotted to him, Wei He was chased out of Mysterious View by Yao Wan and swiftly began learning the Thousand Mountains Ten Thousand Locks Art.
This foundational art of the Mountain Lock lineage also had another name: the Mysterious Lock Skill.
Yao Wan gave Wei He a roster listing the registered senior brothers, senior sisters, and other elders of the Mountain Lock lineage.
These were all people he needed to remember. Worth mentioning was that Xuanmiao Sect ranked its members not by strength, but by the order of their generation upon entering the sect.
Wei He saw his own name on it as well, placed in the fourth generation. Directly above him were Yuan Du Zi and the others of the third generation.
Above them was the second generation, represented by the three founding masters of the three lineages.
After leaving Mysterious View, he passed through another stretch of pitch-black territory as usual, then returned before the Mysterious Violet Jade Wall under Yao Wan's guidance.
"It starts here."
Yao Wan stood beside the jade wall and snapped her fingers.
Snap.
The surrounding scenery trembled slightly, as though something had twisted.
Wei He noticed that two branching paths had appeared to either side.
There had originally been only one path into the inner mountain, but now there were three.
"This?" He blinked, wondering whether his eyes were playing tricks on him.
"You saw correctly. This is the inner mountain you normally enter and leave now," Yao Wan said coolly.
"Inner mountain disciples generally move around through these three paths. The middle one leads to your residences. Explore the other two yourselves."
"Senior Sister. Didn't you say newcomers like us could only move about within Mysterious View?" Wei He asked in surprise.
"Yes. This is all Mysterious