Li Yan listened to the terms the other party had offered. He knew this was the enormous sincerity of the Breaker Army Sect, so without much hesitation, he agreed.
He certainly could not leave this place anytime soon. Now that his injuries had somewhat recovered, he needed to personally go out and gather all kinds of information, rather than merely learning through jade slips, books, and other people's accounts.
For all this, he could not simply wander about at will. Naturally, he needed a stable place to settle down and gradually familiarize himself with the situation.
However, Li Yan still made his own request. He did not wish to hold any sort of sect-entry ceremony; it would be enough for the two of them to announce it to the outside world.
Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu tried to persuade him further, but Li Yan ultimately declined with a smile. Seeing this, the two could only let the matter rest.
Still, they requested that Li Yan show himself at the sect's internal ceremony, so that the disciples would at least know what he looked like. Li Yan could only agree to that.
At their level of cultivation, Shangguan Tianque had seen plenty of people with even stranger temperaments. The two had decided that Li Yan was the sort of ascetic cultivator who buried himself in bitter cultivation.
Yet that made sense. If he had not devoted his heart and soul to cultivation, how could he have made killing foes above his realm as easy as eating and drinking?
The three spoke for a full three hours before Shangguan Tianque and his junior sister finally took their leave.
Not long after Shangguan Tianque and Ren Yanyu returned, the Breaker Army Sect released a message announcing the appearance of its third elder.
However,