Advancing to True Disciple, Building a Cave Abode

Half a quarter-hour later, the teleportation array activated. The entire altar blazed with light, shrouding the surrounding space as though heaven and earth themselves had dimmed.

Stars Shift.

The next moment, when light appeared before their eyes once more, everyone had already returned from the Ancient Life Star to Dao Seeking Peak at the Huntian Sect's mountain gate.

More than ten thousand Inner Disciples had taken part in this assessment. Now, fewer than seven thousand had returned alive. More than three thousand had died in a single month—a death rate of over thirty percent. The figure was truly terrifying.

Yet when the Huntian Sect's higher-ups saw this, their faces remained utterly indifferent, without the slightest emotional ripple. To them, the deaths of over three thousand Inner Disciples seemed no different from the deaths of three thousand pigs.

"Those who have completed the mission, hand over your mission items voluntarily. Those who have not completed it may leave now..."

An aged voice rang out. A vague figure stepped from the void and appeared atop Dao Seeking Peak before solidifying into substance. He was a white-haired old man, his expression calm.

His gaze swept across the surroundings as he said coldly, "Hand over your mission items at once. Do not delay. Those who have not completed the mission, leave immediately."

At the old man's command, the expressions of the thousands of Inner Disciples changed one after another. Some immediately turned and descended Dao Seeking Peak, not daring to delay in the slightest. As for trying to muddle through, that was even more impossible. Without the mission items, everything was futile.

And if they shamelessly lingered and refused to leave, their end would definitely not be pleasant.

This old man was a True Disciple Elder of the Huntian Sect, overseeing the advancement of