A technologically powerful nation: The national treasure is actually myself.

Rong Feng smiled as he looked at everyone's expressions:

"Of course you can leave. After all, some people are used to being independent cultivators. Joining a sect is not mandatory. But if you want to leave, you need to pay off the 100,000 years of living expenses and other costs first."

After saying that, he explained it to everyone.

Free residence for 100,000 years is a rule of the entire Primordial Ancient Continent human race, in order to provide the most basic guarantee for newcomers to the Primordial Ancient Continent.

As for 100,000 years later, they had become completely familiar with the Primordial Ancient Continent, and their cultivation had also improved.

At this point, they had one more chance to leave the sect that had initially guided them.

After all, one had no choice in which sect one was guided to.

Therefore, there is a chance to leave the sect and choose freely.

However, once they choose to leave, they can basically only become independent cultivators.

Of course, you can also choose to join other sects.

However, joining another sect is not so easy.

Because only the sect that initially recruits newcomers is obligated to unconditionally accept them as disciples.

After leaving the original guiding sect, one will have to undergo some entry tests if they want to join other sects.

At that time, there was no guarantee that I would be selected.

If they are not selected, they will be forced to become independent cultivators.

However, it's not so easy for independent cultivators to survive on the Primordial Ancient Continent.

Therefore, in most cases, except for some special circumstances, very few people would choose to leave their original guiding sect 100,000 years later.

After Rong Feng explained, everyone understood the reason and then expressed that they would not leave.

Some people are not in such a hurry to express their opinions.

Since we have 100,000 years to understand the situation here in detail, we should make good use of it.

Lin Yang didn't say anything and followed Rong Feng to a mountain range where people lived.

The mountain range was filled with Daoist charm. Rong Feng said, "This is for those of you who are not yet formal disciples to live in. The living environment here is uniform, with no distinction between good and bad."

"However, after 100,000 years, once you officially join a sect, you can exchange your merits and contributions to the sect for better living conditions. The better the place, the richer the Daoist aura."

"Within these 100,000 years, you can also take on sect missions to accumulate contribution points, but generally the better missions will only be given to formal disciples."

"At the same time, apart from the fact that you can only stay on the first floor of the Hidden Dao Pavilion, there are not many other restrictions."

"Now I'll distribute temporary disciple identity tokens to you. The rest is up to you to figure out and familiarize yourselves with."

After Rong Feng finished speaking, he gave everyone an identity token.

With this token, one can freely enter and exit certain locations of the Moonshadow Sect and go out.

Then everyone chose a cave to stay in.

Lin Yang chose a cave near the foot of the mountain.

Anyway, it makes no difference; being closer to the foot of the mountain means you'll have to walk a few fewer steps to get out.

The cave dwelling is also a self-contained space, with a courtyard and several rooms, including a special secluded meditation room. The Taoist aura inside the meditation room is even stronger, and the conditions are quite good.

Lin Yang sat down on a stone bench in the courtyard, contemplating his future path.

He didn't know anyone else on the Primordial Ancient Continent, so he could consider joining the Moon Shadow Sect directly.

"As for cultivation..."

Lin Yang whispered:

"After reaching the ninth level of the Dao, one must ignite the Dao Fire to further transform, refine, and enhance the Dao power within the body."

"As Senior Brother Rong Feng said, Dao Fire Pills can be used to increase the success rate of igniting Dao Fire. Usually, before reaching the Dao Fire Realm, the main goal is to collect Dao Fire Pills."

"As for Dao Fire Pills... they can either be exchanged within the sect using contribution points, or purchased outside in places like merchant guilds, but they are quite expensive."

"Or we could gather the materials and refine it, but apart from those who are extremely skilled at refining Dao pills, the success rate for others is not high."

"..."

As Lin Yang pondered, he gradually came up with a clear plan.

The currency on the ancient continent at the beginning of the primordial era was called Yuansha, which could be absorbed by cultivators to enhance their Dao power.

Yuansha is relatively difficult for newcomers to obtain in large quantities. For example, joining a sect only provides a subsidy of one hundred Yuansha for every hundred years of cultivation above the Dao level.

Otherwise, they would sell various resources in exchange for it.

However, most of the resources in high-level spacetime were not valuable on the ancient continent of the Proterozoic Era.

To acquire resources of sufficient value, one needs both luck and skill.

Completing sect missions is one of the best ways for newcomers to obtain Yuansha.

But as Rong Feng said, good sect missions are not given to these non-official disciples.

This is very difficult.

"Perhaps we could consider joining the sect early and becoming a formal disciple."

Lin Yang thought to himself.

Although there is a 100,000-year selection period, it is possible to join earlier.

As long as you make the decision yourself, that's fine.

But before that, he still wanted to learn more about the situation here.

"Let's find an opportunity to go and see Baichi City first."

Besides sects, there are also cities here composed of human cultivators.

After all, besides the people inside the Time-Space Tree, there are countless people who were born directly on the Primordial Ancient Continent.

Baichi City is the city closest to the Moon Shadow Sect.

However, going to the city also carries some risks.

Because we'll be passing through wild areas, we might encounter leeches.

After making up his mind, Lin Yang left the cave and followed the directions to the External Affairs Hall.

There are spaceships that travel to Blazing City from time to time.

Traveling to Blazing City by airship with the Moonshadow Sect members is not only safer, but also faster.

Subsequently, Lin Yang learned that the next spaceship to Baichi City would depart in 126 years.

This wasn't a long time, and you could even say it was quite lucky.

Because sometimes it takes thousands of years or even longer.

"This new junior brother, there is something I need to tell you in advance. The spaceship going to Baichi City this time will be led by Senior Brother Zhan Ning, who is at the Dao Fire Realm. There is no need to pay any extra fees. However, in case of an accident and defeat, Senior Brother Zhan Ning has no responsibility or obligation to risk his life to save people."

"This means that if you encounter danger on the way, you may need to escape on your own. Please be aware of this."

"Alternatively, you can wait for a paid spaceship to Blazing City, which would be safer, but it might take longer."

Just as Lin Yang was about to return to his cave to wait, the disciple from the External Affairs Hall suddenly said something to him again.

Lin Yang paused, then nodded to indicate that he understood.

The journey to the city involves traversing the wilderness, where one may encounter gnats or even swarms of gnats, or other dangers.

The sect's spaceship cannot guarantee the safety of everyone.

In particular, he is not yet a formal disciple.

Naturally, no one has an obligation to protect him at all costs.

As for paid spaceship flights.

Those groups are usually composed of several senior disciples at the Dao Fire Realm within the sect, formed specifically to earn travel expenses and to take newcomers to the city.

Because it's a paid service, the level of security is naturally higher.

However, for Lin Yang, there was no need to wait.

After all, if we really encounter an insurmountable danger, things will still be the same as before.

Furthermore, since newcomers don't have much Yuansha, the senior disciples will wait a long time before forming paid escort teams to jointly escort them to the city in order to ensure they have enough Yuansha to pay.

He didn't want to wait that long.

Go to Blazing City as soon as possible, sell all the resources you can, and then decide whether to join the Moonshadow Sect immediately based on the situation.

This concerns the progress of cultivation. (End of Chapter)