The Demon Cultivator of the Sword

Chapter 33 Reward
Once you have secretly learned the skills from powerful Star Realm masters like them, unless you don’t get discovered, or kill people to silence them and never perform it in public again, what awaits you is endless pursuit by the Feitian Demon Sect.

No one can save you. No one will.

Fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones, a low-grade treasure, and a local high-level secret book.

It would be a lie for Gu Yuan to say that he was not tempted. Fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones meant that Gu Yuan would basically never be short of spirit stones in his future cultivation.

A low-grade treasure can directly increase his strength by 10% or 20%.

As for advanced earth-level secret manuals, they can no longer be purchased with low-grade spirit stones.

Even if you give me a mid-grade spirit stone, it won’t work.

The secret skills are not to be passed on to outsiders.

Even within the sect, it is only open to core disciples, and most people are only allowed to study one book.

It’s not that the sect is stingy, but the more advanced the secret book, the more difficult it is to practice.

If you don't have enough talent, you will end up being neither high nor low, wasting your time.

Therefore, the sect will only consider teaching you the next one when you have practiced this secret book to a certain level.

Below the core disciple level, it is basically impossible to get in touch with them unless you are accepted as a disciple by an elder in the Star Realm.

Of course, considering Gu Yuan's potential, the price is indeed worth it. What large sects lack the least is secret manuals. After all, a large sect that has been passed down for thousands of years may not have many top-level earth-level secret manuals, only a handful, but there is definitely a large number of high-level earth-level secret manuals.

About half an hour later, the inner disciples ranking competition came to an end, and the people in the martial arts square gradually dispersed.

After receiving the reward, Gu Yuan did not rush back to his residence, but went to the fourth floor of the Martial Arts Pavilion and picked out a high-level earth-level body movement secret book called "Ghost Shadow".

(ps: This Ghost Shadow Mystery is not the same as that Ghost Shadow Mystery. It is the high-level earth-level body movement that Mo Yan displayed on the Hidden Dragon List in the original novel. Although Mo Yan is a clown and his strength is poor, the Ghost Shadow Mystery is still very strong. In the original Hidden Dragon List, it seems that only Sikong Sheng and Ye Chen and a few others can surpass him in Qinggong.)
Then, after asking the elder who was in charge of the Martial Arts Pavilion, he assigned a deacon disciple to lead the way for him, and then he came to Baoguang Pavilion, another core place of the Feitian Demon Sect besides the Martial Arts Pavilion.

Baoguang Pavilion is located between the Feitian Demon Sect's Martial Arts Pavilion and the main hall.

Except for the sect master, the core elders, and the supreme elder of the Feitian Demon Sect, no one else can enter without permission, not even the inner sect elders.

To enter, you need to redeem the sect's contribution points.

Of course, if you win first place in the inner disciple ranking competition, you can also enter.

But it’s limited to one layer.

"Junior Brother Gu, the secret chamber is right here. I can't go in, so I can only take you here."

The person who led Gu Yuan was a middle-aged man in his forties. He took Gu Yuan to the Baoguang Pavilion. He pointed to a three-story attic in front of the palace, and felt a little sad.

He was originally an inner sect disciple, and one of the weaker ones in the Feitian Demon Sect. As he had been unable to enter the Star Realm, he temporarily served as an inner sect deacon.

Seeing that Gu Yuan was so young, but he had already comprehended the sword intent that swordsmen dreamed of and became an inner disciple, and if nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely become a pillar of the Feitian Demon Sect in the future, I couldn't help but feel emotional.

Why doesn't he have such talent and opportunity?
"Well, thank you, brother."

Gu Yuan thanked him and walked towards the palace complex without paying attention to the middle-aged man's envious expression.

There were many defense lines outside the Baoguang Pavilion. Gu Yuan didn't want to cause trouble, so he took out a token he got from the inner disciple ranking competition. With this token, he could choose a low-grade treasure at will in the Baoguang Pavilion. "Stop."

The journey was smooth and smooth until he arrived at the gate of Baoguang Pavilion. The elder guarding the first floor of the secret pavilion came out and blocked Gu Yuan's way.

The elder guarding the pavilion was a white-haired old man with an aura as deep as the ocean. Although he did not give Gu Yuan the same terrifying feeling as the leader of the Feitian Demon Sect, he was much more terrifying than those inner sect elders.

Even if it is not the Linghai realm, I am afraid it is not far away.

"Disciple Gu Yuan is the new inner sect's top disciple."

Gu Yuan showed his token as usual.

"The disciple of that little Black Crow lost?" A hint of surprise flashed across the eyes of the elder guarding the pavilion, and then he looked Gu Yuan up and down. Gu Yuan instantly felt as if someone had seen through him from beginning to end, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart.

The elder guarding the pavilion smiled and said, "Yes, at such a young age, you have cultivated to the peak of the middle stage of the Condensation Realm, and you have also cultivated the most difficult middle-level earth-level technique, the Three-Turn Heavy Yuan Gong, to the eighth stage. This is indeed rare. However, I seem to sense a sharp aura from you. Let me ask you, have you comprehended the sword intent?"

"Yes." Gu Yuan answered frankly. This was no longer a secret.

"Well, that's good. Since you have won the first place in the new inner disciples, come in."

The elder guarding the pavilion nodded with satisfaction. Being able to comprehend the sword intent at this age, his future prospects are definitely limitless. He might even be able to stand on equal footing with Sikong Sheng, who has the blood of a king in Xuankong Mountain.

"Thank you, elder."

"Haha, it's my duty. It's nothing."

The elder guarding the pavilion is named Tian. He has a high level of cultivation and has already reached the peak of the late Star Realm. Although he is only a pavilion guarding elder and has no power, he has a high status in the Feitian Demon Sect, second only to the sect master and the supreme elder.

He belongs to the older generation of the Feitian Demon Sect and is over one hundred and fifty years old.

Be it seniority or strength, there is no doubt about it, otherwise such an important place as Baoguang Pavilion would not be handed over to him for management.

"Baoguang Pavilion has three floors. The first floor contains low-grade treasures, secret techniques below the high-level Earth level, and some elixirs that help warriors below the Baoyuan realm improve their cultivation, as well as elixirs that restore true qi or heal injuries."

"The second level contains mid-grade treasures, high-level earth-level secrets, and some elixirs for the powerful people in the Star Realm. Of course, there won't be too many mid-grade treasures, and most of them have been exchanged by the elders."

"I won't go into detail about the third level. You will know it later. You can now choose a low-grade treasure that suits you."

The elder guarding the pavilion knows all the floors except the third one.

But in fact, even if the other party didn't say it, Gu Yuan could guess it.

As expected, it was the profound martial arts created by the predecessors of the Feitian Demon Sect.

As for top-grade treasures, I’m afraid there won’t be too many.

After all, the Feitian Demon Sect was just an ordinary sixth-grade sect, without a single Spiritual Sea Realm master in the sect. Even if there were really top-grade treasures, they would be given priority to the Spiritual Sea Realm Grand Elders.

Gu Yuan did not aim too high to look at those secret methods, but looked at the column of elixirs and asked, "Elder, can I buy these elixirs from Baoguang Pavilion?"

ps: Second update, thanks to [Xiao Chenyu] for the 5000 starting coins reward

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