Chapter 350: Divine Empyrean Dharma Shedding, Green-Faced Ghost Crab (6,000 words delivered, requesting monthly votes at month's end~)
"Hall Master, I would like to see the fourth courtyard first."
Cheng Xinzhan spoke.
The old hall master smiled at that and said,
"You aren't the first to say that. Almost everyone qualified to enter the fourth courtyard says the same. And I will repeat my warning as always. Listen carefully:
"If you take a yin corpse from the third courtyard and fail to nurture intelligence in it within three years, or take one from the fourth courtyard and fail to nurture intelligence in it within five years, the corpse will be reclaimed. Besides that, you must find another yin corpse of the same grade and deliver it here within one year. If you cannot, you yourself will be refined into a yin corpse."
The old hall master delivered these words lightly, bringing Cheng Xinzhan to a sudden realization: this was the Demon Sect, not some kind, tolerant Righteous Path school.
Naturally, though, Cheng Xinzhan would not be frightened off by such rules. He answered,
"I am willing."
The old hall master nodded. He knew everyone who came here believed themselves an unparalleled genius blessed with fortune as high as heaven, destined to find an extraordinary corpse, advance by leaps and bounds, catch the Divine Lord's eye, and rise straight into the clouds. Most, however, returned their extraordinary corpses and were themselves refined into corpses. Most of those were even too low in cultivation to enter the Corpse Residence and were casually thrown into the sea. Only a few were placed in the first or second courtyard for later arrivals to choose from.
But the longer someone remained in the cult, the more deeply they understood the difficulty of nurturing extraordinary corpses,