"I heard you returned the Little Blazing Sun Art?"
"I did."
"Learned it?"
"I've mastered it. I'll practice at the sect for a few more days, then once I'm back in Jade Capital, I'll start incorporating it into the Thousand Mechanisms Art."
"You're pretty good with spell runes."
"I wouldn't dare boast in front of you."
"I'll come watch you practice when I have time."
"All right."
After making a circuit of Jade Summit Mountain, Chen Shu returned to the courtyard.
Though it was a top-tier sect, life here was nothing like the immortal's paradise people imagined. There were no servants, nor anyone assigned to see to his daily needs. Chen Shu had to take a quilt from the cupboard and make the bed himself.
Life in the Spirit Sect was already quite comfortable.
As far as Chen Shu knew, some Top-Tier Sects were so remote, and their surroundings so harsh, that life there could almost be called "grueling." Even the signal was poor.
He lay down on the bed. All was silent.
Having tasted the benefits of the Esoteric Sect's potion, he no longer wanted to subject himself to mass-produced potions.
As a rule, advancement grew dramatically harder after the Third Tier, while the help potions provided was already limited and fell off a cliff with every tier. Chen Shu had used a mass-produced potion to reach the Fourth Tier. Though it had been one of the better ones, it had still taken two attempts. If he used commercially available potions again to reach the Fifth Tier, even the better ones would probably take four to six attempts.
The potions alone could cost nearly ten million.
Reaching the Sixth Tier would be harder still.
The sect would provide them now, so he would not have to pay, but the