"But if you're going to compete for a former residence, remember to take me along. Even if I don't get a baptism of sacred power, I'd be happy just watching the excitement," Ao Huang said with a grin.
Fang Yun shook his head gently. "A Half-Sage Former Residence isn't like other things. Although the Sacred Academy doesn't forbid competing for one, it is still, in essence, the private property of an aristocratic family. And once a Half-Sage Former Residence emerges, its owner's descendants will sense it immediately and arrive at once, far sooner than anyone else. To this day, I haven't read any details about competing for a Sacred Residence in any book. At most, there are a few scant lines, hardly enough to glimpse its secrets."
"Now that you put it that way, you're right," Ao Huang said. "I've never seen anyone compete for a former residence either, though I do know some of the rules. For example, whoever first opens it may take one item. If it's a Sacred Way scripture, the Half-Sage's descendants are permitted to exchange a sacred object of equal value for it. The first opener may also enter the Half-Sage Former Residence before anyone else to receive its baptism, but the residence itself must be returned to the Half-Sage's descendants. Of course, the first opener receives a total of ten years of cultivation time and may enter the Half-Sage Former Residence to cultivate whenever they wish. Also... I've heard you can kill people while competing for a former residence?"
"That depends on the method of opening it that the Half-Sage established. For example, a residence belonging to a Half-Sage of the School of War might be impossible to open without killing a few people, while those belonging to Confucian School Half-Sages rarely involve crossing