Lu Chen Instructs Dixin

"Tongtian, Sage, I humbly beg you to accept me as your disciple!"

Shen Gongbao suddenly dropped to his knees in midair above Golden Turtle Island and bowed deeply.

"I humbly beg Tongtian, Sage, to accept me as your disciple!"

"I beg you to accept me as your disciple..."

Shen Gongbao's pleading, earnest voice echoed above Golden Turtle Island.

"Foolish child, leave. The Interception Sect has sealed its gates and will accept no more disciples."

An ethereal yet majestic voice entered Shen Gongbao's ears.

"Sealed... sealed its gates!"

Shen Gongbao's body stiffened.

They all said Golden Turtle Island was the sacred land of the East Sea, where cultivators came and went in endless streams and Myriad Immortals Paid Homage. Yet now that he had come to seek a master, he heard that the mountain had been sealed.

He could not help but overthink it...

Could Tongtian, Sage, have seen the Jade Clarity Formula within me and thus refused to take me as his disciple?

That had to be it. One master would not teach two disciples. As soon as the thought arose, Shen Gongbao immediately felt that this was the root of why Tongtian would not accept him.

Only two paths lay before him. One was to cripple his own cultivation to prove his resolve and seek Tongtian's pity, hoping the Sage would accept him because of his sincere desire for the Dao. The other was to leave.

Shen Gongbao rose from midair and turned around. At that moment, he made his choice.

Compared to crippling his cultivation to demonstrate his resolve and gambling on a trace of the Sage's compassion, he could not bear to abandon the cultivation he had earned through such bitter effort.

At that moment, Shen Gongbao was filled with regret. Back then, Jiang Ziya had invited