The booklet wasn't long, containing just over a thousand characters in total. Xu Yi spent a little over a hundred breaths reading it all and committing it to memory.
Just as he'd expected, trial disciples were called disciples, but they couldn't be considered true disciples. They were merely included on the list of candidates.
Only after becoming an Outer Sect Disciple could one receive cultivation techniques and share in the sect's resources.
Without these two most distinctive traits, trial disciples couldn't be considered true disciples at all.
Compared with Outer Sect Disciples, trial disciples also had to shoulder heavy sect duties. Their primary task was to gather Crimson Pearl Grass in Qitian Mountain Valley and supply it to the sect.
Besides that, their cave dwellings were free only for the first year. Afterward, they had to pay three origin pills in rent each year.
Most crucially, if they failed to become Outer Sect Disciples within ten years, their status as trial disciples would be revoked, and they would be expelled from the sect.
And for the rest of their lives, they would have no further chance to use an Ascension Token to join a sect.
What Xu Yi hoped for from the sect wasn't cultivation techniques, but a path to advance his own cultivation.
At this stage, what concerned him most was whether he could smoothly enter the Spirit Root Realm. Taking that step would mean crossing into an entirely new major realm. Of course, even the tallest towers began on level ground. His most pressing task was to settle into his new life and learn how to be a competent trial disciple.
Setting the booklet aside, Xu Yi began sorting through what he'd gained on his trip to the trial grounds.
A quick count revealed more than a hundred