Gather under Holy Master Lin, go hungry nine meals in three days. The only thing he served in abundance was pie in the sky, one promise after another.

Ye Fan had believed Lin Xian's nonsense and joined the penniless Heavenly Jade Sacred Land, thinking he would gain a powerful backer. Instead, the holy master kept all the rare treasures for himself.

The one benefit was that Ye Fan no longer had to worry about cultivation scriptures. Whether it was the Wheel of the Sea chapter of the Dao Scripture, the Dao Palace chapter of the Western Empress Scripture, or the Four Extremes chapter of the Hengyu Scripture, he no longer had to rack his brains to collect them.

On top of that, he had the Heavenly Emperor Scripture known as the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art for reference. His path of cultivation grew ever smoother, and Saint Son Ye Fan was several times stronger than the Sacred Body Ye Fan of old.

It was a stroke of fortune, but also a calamity. It meant Ye Fan's Four Extremes Heavenly Tribulation would be more powerful than anything before or since, with trials beyond imagination.

Even with tens of millions of jin of Source and several Enlightenment Tea Leaves at hand, Ye Fan still felt uneasy. He paced beside the Dragon Transformation Pool until even Lin Xian grew annoyed.

"Why are you dithering like this? It's just a Dao Injury. A small problem!"

Lin Xian brought out one immortal treasure after another from his Sea of Bitterness and declared, "I grant you the Bodhi Seed to comprehend the great Dao, the Kirin Elixir to protect your life, the Sacred Fruit to heal your Dao Injury, and the Divine Spring to restore your body."

"As the Tianxuan Saint Son, these four things should have been yours all along."

"Besides, as holy master, I also grant you a bottle of lunar yin true water and a blossom of solar yang true fire to nurture