After the blood test before the saber, Chu Xisheng and Chu Ming followed Sect Master Li Changsheng and the others into the Patriarch Hall, where they paid their respects to the successive patriarchs of the Formless Divine Sect.
Ordinary Inner Sect Disciples received no such treatment.
Newly admitted Inner Sect Disciples like Ye Zhiqiu could only enter the Patriarch Hall to pay their respects when the Formless Divine Sect opened its gates for a grand recruitment.
But both of them were Blood-Yazi Candidates, heirs to Blood-Yazi whom everyone in the Divine Sects eagerly awaited, so the sect's Elder Council had agreed to make this exception for them.
After Chu Xisheng offered incense to the many patriarchs, he sensed a vast, mighty power gathering unseen into a small, illusory seal that sank into his mind.
Chu Xisheng knew this was the Formless Heavenly Seal, one of the sect-guarding Divine Artifacts forged from the divine intent left behind by successive patriarchs.
Its main body was nurtured in the Patriarch Hall, while over seventeen thousand three hundred derivative seals anchored themselves within the Divine Souls of all formal disciples of the Formless Divine Sect.
It possessed boundless divine might, strengthening the disciples' Divine Souls by twenty to eighty percent and leaving them unafraid of malign energies below the Sixth Grade.
It could also help them resist all mental Secret Arts and illusions, preventing evil demons from corrupting their minds.
The Formless Heavenly Seal also served as proof of identity for every formal disciple of the Formless Divine Sect.
Only with a Formless Heavenly Seal in their Primordial Spirit were they truly one of the sect's own.
Grand Elder Qingxu Zi then instructed the True Inheritance disciple Zong Lingwei to guide Chu Xisheng to the Heavenly Artifact Academy, the Divine Pill Academy, and other