Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 3: The Hypocrite
At that moment, the master received a "Spring and Autumn Pill" issued by the sect; as the name suggests, the user can increase their refined cultivation power by one year!
This was the reward the master received for completing the sect's task. I remember the master once said that it was useless for him to take such medicine again, so he intended to choose one of his three disciples to consume it.
The Spring and Autumn Pill made Chu Yang feel a wave of sadness; this worthless item, which nobody would pick up even if thrown away, became the excuse for the eldest senior brother to frame both him and Tan Tan!
In his past life, it was this Spring and Autumn Pill that the eldest senior brother, Stone Thousand Mountain, had gotten...
Until Tan Tan met with an unforeseen accident and died, during one of his visits to pay respects to Tan Tan, he accidentally saw the eldest senior brother there, standing before Tan Tan's tombstone, mentioning this incident that he had overheard. That was when he realized that the senior brother, whom he and Tan Tan had always respected, was such a despicable person!
Thinking of this, Chu Yang sighed in his heart. How foolish he and Tan Tan were in their past lives...
Stone Thousand Mountain was slender and looked quite refined, around twenty-three or twenty-four years old. Usually, he treated Chu Yang and Tan Tan very well; it seemed that this senior brother was even closer than a biological brother.
But unexpectedly, all of this was a facade! He had been using Chu Yang and Tan Tan from the very beginning! His daily disguise was all to eliminate the two of them at a critical moment to monopolize the sect's cultivation resources!
Chu Yang understood why Stone Thousand Mountain did this. He desperately wanted to enter the inner sect of the Sky Tower and obtain the status of an inner sect disciple. Then he aimed to become the eldest senior brother among all the inner sect disciples, entering the place where the Seven Yin gathered in the Sky Tower!
Once there, he would be a candidate for the next sect leader! Throughout the history of the Sky Tower, only one person could enter!
Stone Thousand Mountain had a fervent pursuit of power! In his eyes, he wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice everything to achieve his goals!
Chu Yang and the other two were merely outer disciples of the Sky Tower. According to common sense, there was absolutely no chance for them to enter the inner sect. For Stone Thousand Mountain to enter, he had to stand out in the ongoing competitions among disciples until the very end!
This had also been a method to motivate disciples to strive for excellence in the Sky Tower throughout the generations.
Therefore, although the Spring and Autumn Pill could only enhance one year of refined cultivation power, for these young disciples, a year’s worth of refined cultivation power was enough to leave their peers far behind!
In his past life, Stone Thousand Mountain succeeded. He climbed step by step from his current position as an outer disciple to finally entering the inner sect, gaining the qualification to compete for the position of the eldest senior brother.
But four years later, for an unknown reason, the Sky Tower was suddenly besieged by various major sects and vanished into thin air overnight!
Chu Yang, severely injured, fell into a coma, buried under heavy corpses, and when he woke up, it was already three days later.
At that time, the Sky Tower was engulfed in raging flames, still not completely burned out. After three days of intense burning, the main structure of the Sky Tower finally collapsed completely, nearly crushing Chu Yang, who couldn’t move at the time.
But after the collapse, a sword tip emerged from the deep foundation, shining brilliantly! It seemed to carry the temptation of a devil...
That was the tip of the Nine Calamity Sword.
By sheer luck, Chu Yang obtained the tip of the Nine Calamity Sword, and thus began his rise... and by that time, he was already twenty!
And that collapsed foundation, in Chu Yang's memory, was the location where the Seven Yin gathered in the Sky Tower!