Having asked the man who turned out to be a sect deacon where the Library Pavilion was, they began their walk, along the way they saw outer sect disciples who had been in a previous batch walking and going about their everyday lives, they wore the outer sect uniform which was a grey sect robe with a screaming ghost on the back with 4 circles surrounding it with the 4th circle being green and the others being white.

The building looked far more normal than either of them expected, having heard that they were going to an evil sect they expected a far more dark and dreary atmosphere but surprisingly there wasn't it looked to be a normal sect they were walking through, for Silvia that is.

"Fuck me this lingering feeling around here is immense, can't you feel it, Silvia," Kraven asked not understanding how she was unaffected.

"What do you mean I can't feel anything, wait Kraven have you killed anybody before," Silvia asked.

"Yeah, why," Kraven answered nonchalantly.

"Then that means you're feeling the Killing Intent of the older outer disciples walking around, who now view both of you as competition," An unknown man said walking towards the two.

"But since there is a rule that new disciples have a 1 year protection period, older disciples can't attack them until it has expired," The man explained.

"Who are you exactly," Kraven said curtly.

"Don't you think you should be less arrogant when talking to someone stronger than you, I'll forgive you since you don't know who you're talking to, I'll even offer you my protection," The man said annoyingly.

"Don't need the forgiveness or protection of a loser who can only act big to new disciples," Kraven retorted mockingly.

Hearing this the man was furious at Kraven's words so much so that he almost attacked him on the spot.

"You better hope that you're as talented as you are arrogant or else you might end up meeting an early grave," The man said threateningly.

"Why would I be afraid of you when you're at most what a Mid-Tier," Kraven said mockingly.

"You little bastard I'll fucking kill you!!" the man said looking at the smiling Kraven.

"When the protection period is over I'll be looking for you, you better remember the name, Randal Thorne," The man, now known as Randal said while leaving furious.

"Why did you antagonise someone as soon as we entered the sect, you idiot," Silvia said looking at Kraven who had an excited expression on his face.

"I've put up with people who use their words to deceive me enough and know I'm here, I won't for a second longer," Kraven remembered the maids who used to lie to him when he was younger, resulting in him getting beaten up.

"But to start a fight with an older disciple before we've even gotten our Cultivation Techniques, you're so reckless," Silvia said trying to reason with him.

"Nothing like the threat of death to get you motivated," Kraven said continuing his walk with a smile.

Finally arriving at the Library Pavilion after the distraction earlier the two were expecting a giant tower that stretched to the sky but what they found was a 1-story building with 5 entrances, that didn't look big enough to handle the swarm of people entering but it showed no signs of being full.

After entering the duo felt a familiar sensation.

"Space is being distorted, it's way bigger on the inside, that's insane," Kraven said earning them quite a few mocking looks.

Not knowing where they are going or what to do they went up to a deacon to help them navigate.

"How do we choose our techniques," Kraven asked in a monotone voice.

"All you have to do is go over to one of the stone tablets and enter the criteria for the technique you wish to redeem and it will show you all the techniques that meet your criteria and it will appear in your hand," The deacon said annoyed at Kraven's tone but did he best to keep his annoyance hidden.

"Thank you," Silvia said following Kraven who had already started to walk away after the deacon finished speaking.

"I'll wait for you after I've chosen my technique," Kraven said while walking to the tablet, Silvia agreed while following him with a smile.

Ignoring the line of people who were waiting to use it, Kraven walked up to a stone tablet with Silvia waiting to go next and looked at the options that appeared.

Selection Point

Cultivation Technique Martial Art

Realm(Locked) Body Tempering

Grade: Peak High Mid Low

Physical Elemental

Please choose your criteria.

Kraven quickly selected Cultivation Technique, Peak, and Physical which unlocked further options.

Peak Physical Cultivation Technique Selected

Strength (Increases Muscle Strength)

Agility (Increases Speed and Flexibility)

Endurance (Increases Durability and Stamina)

Vitality (Increases Recovery Rate)

Perception (Increases the Five Senses)

(Please choose 2)

Kraven remembered running out of energy from using Saber Intent and wanted that to never happen again so he chose Endurance, then remembering his upbringing and all the wounds he had and how long they took to heal he chose Vitality.

Please Confirm Endurance And Vitality

After he confirmed the selection a list of Cultivation Techniques appeared on the stone tablet. Kraven set the sort by to highest difficulty

Sort By (Highest Difficulty)

Scanning through them Kraven was only really interested in the as it had 3 attributes attached to it, it had the Endurance and Vitality that Kraven had selected but it also had Strength, thinking this was a mistake he called over the deacon that he had talked to before.

"Hey, why does this cultivation technique have 3 attributes when I only selected 2," Kraven said as the deacon was puzzled he looked at what technique Kraven was referring to.

"The is one of the 5 Kings of Body-Tempering techniques or at least that's what we call it," The deacon said.

"5 Kings, what the hell does that mean," Kraven questioned.

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"The 5 Kings are what we call the best techniques of each attribute in the Body-Tempering realm the is the king of Vitality, far surpassing even the 2nd best technique, What sets them apart is that they have 3 attributes but this also makes them much harder to cultivate than other Peak-Tier techniques, if I'm not wrong nobody has reached the even the 2nd layer of one of the 5 kings in well over a 10,000 years," The deacon explained to the best of his knowledge.

"Thanks for the info," Kraven said while selecting the .

"Are you insane, did you not hear what I just said the difficulty to cultivate is insane," The deacon said imploring Kraven to change his mind.

"I'm ranked 1st so why settle for 2nd," Kraven said very arrogantly.

The deacon looked at him like he was an idiot, but had done enough to try and dissuade him from his choice.

A book that had appeared in his hand, Kraven looked at it with great interest but put it in his storage ring for later, it was Silvia's turn now.

Silvia walked up to the tablet activated it and chose, Cultivation Technique, Peak, and Physical.

For attributes, she chose Agility and Perception, having looked at her options she chose the .

"That's the King of Agility are you both insane!!" The deacon said shocked that not just one but two people chose such insane techniques.

"I'm also ranked 1st so why settle for 2nd," Siliva said parroting what Kraven said which earned him a laugh from him.

The both of them laughed then Kraven remembered something.

"Hey how do I use this," Kraven said then a Mid-Tier technique token appeared in his hand.

"You touch the tablet with it and then it absorbs it and you can choose a technique," The deacon answered already done with the 2 weirdos.

Kraven used the tablet again by tapping the token on the tablet, it was absorbed immediately.

Selection Point

Martial Art

Realm(Locked) Body Tempering

Grade: Mid

Weapon:

Please choose your Weapon.

Kraven chose Saber, and a massive list of Saber Arts appeared in front of him looking through them he chose the which promptly appeared in his hand and was put in his storage ring.

"Okay let's go," Kraven said as he began walking out not even looking at the line of angry people behind him.

"Okay," Silvia said following him.

After walking for a bit they arrived at the residence area, and they quickly saw the 10 single occupancy houses 2 belonging to Kraven and Silvia respectively.

"This is me I'll see you in the morning when we go to our introduction lesson," Silvia said reminding him of something she was sure he had forgotten.

"Oh, that's right I totally forgot," Kraven said remembering what the deacon guy said as they were leaving.

"Yeah I'll see you then," Kraven said as he walked to his house that was next door.

Opening the doors Kraven was greeted by a large training area and a single-bed house with a decent amount of storage, while the whole house was devoid of decoration it was incredibly sturdy even a full power strike from a Peak-Tier Body Tempering 9th Stage would not be able to damage it.

Kraven thought about reading the contents of the but the fatigue was hitting him hard and he needed to sleep so he quickly jumped into bed and fell asleep immediately.

Kraven was awoken by a loud knocking at his door so he went to see who it was incredibly annoyed for waking him up, Kraven opened the door to see Silvia standing there.

"What do you want, Silvia," Kraven was slightly less annoyed because it was Silvia but he was still annoyed.

"We have an introduction remember," Silvia said more annoyed than Kraven.

"Oh, shit when is it," Kraven said.

"In 5 minutes you idiot!!" Silvia replied annoyed at Kraven's unbothered attitude.

Silvia having woken Kraven up quickly dragged him to the lesson that they barely made it to on time completely due to Kraven.

"Well it's nice of you to join us you two," The outer elder said annoyed at the fact they weren't there early.

"I see the young man didn't bother to put on his sect uniform, I wonder if he can explain that to me," The elder said looking at Kraven's attire.

"I just woke up 5 minutes ago what do you expect," Kraven explained without a shred of respect for the elder.

"You would do well to show more respect to our esteemed teacher or things could be hard for you," a disciple in the front row said trying to earn the elder's respect.

"What a kiss ass," Kraven said with a chuckle.

"What did you say, you slave bastard, I'll kill you if you continue," The disciple said finally looking at Kraven and Silvia.

His eyes widened at the realisation that he had just threatened the joined 1st place.

"1st place, fuck" the disciple mumbled.

"If you want me to put my uniform on I'll do it now," Kraven said ignoring the disciple who shouted at him.

Kraven quickly took his sect uniform out and put it on top of the training clothes he received from Jason.

The outer elder watching this had a shocked expression on his face looking at his uniform as it had a second emblem, a silver bolt of lightning on his chest covering his heart.

"That... that is Elder Silverstorm's emblem why is it on your uniform," The elder asked.

"Oh, you know my master," Kraven said looking at the elder.

"How are you a Core Elder disciple you only just entered the sect that's impossible," The elder said but suddenly looked at Silvia who also had an Elder emblem on her uniform.

"That's Elder Eternal Snow's emblem, who the hell are you two," the elder said but rembered what the disciple said.

"You two are the two that tied for 1st place," The elder said shocked.

"Bingo," Kraven said sitting down.

The elder recovering from his shock decided to just act like nothing happened and continue the induction.

To summarise:

Sect Rules

1st: All new disciples get 1 year where older disciples can't attack them.

2nd: Killing disciples will incur a fine of contribution points unless both parties agree before the fight, also if you are attacked and you kill the attacker you do not have to pay the fine.

3rd: It is not allowed to share techniques you redeemed in the sect with others, the punishment will always be death, however, if the technique is bought or found outside the sect then there is no problem.

"Now I've explained most of the important rules and places in the sect, Now leave," the elder said.

"Wow that was boring," Kraven said standing up with Silvia while yawning.

"Have you read the first layer of your Technique yet," Silvia said ignoring what he said.

"No not yet, Why," Kraven said.

"Did you even listen as the elder was talking, you can claim the resources for the first layer for free from the Hoarding Ghost Building," Having been told this by Silvia, Kraven looked at the first layer of the .

"According to this, I need Ogre blood essence, for the 1st layer," Kraven said energised by the fact they were finally talking about cultivation.

"It says I need to drink the Ogre blood essence and fuse it with my blood essence, but one wrong move and it could destroy my heart, sounds like a challenge," Kraven said with a smile as he and Silvia walked to the Hoarding Ghost Building.

This time, the building wasn't tiny like the Library Pavilion; instead, it was massive, at least 15 stories tall. It was decorated with gold and jewels, and it looked like it would cost more than a country. After recovering from their shock, the duo walked in and found that it was also bigger on the inside, with a large open area and people standing behind desks taking orders for resources.

"Let's go get our stuff," Kraven said walking to a deacon working there.

"How can I help you," The woman said politely.

"I'm here to collect my free resources," Kraven said

"No problem, I just need you to display your disciple I.D," The woman said.

"It's in your storage ring inside the box that the deacon gave us when we entered," Silvia said seeing Kraven look confused.

"Oh," Kraven said taking the box out and finding his I.D. and showing it to the woman.

"Okay, no problem, and I see you choose the is that correct?" The woman said not surprised a new disciple believed themselves talented enough to cultivate one of the 5 kings.

"Yes," Kraven said getting annoyed at the questions.

"You will be provided 2 barrels of ogre blood essence when you run out you can come back here and get more," The woman said as 2 barrels appeared next to Kraven who quickly put them into his storage ring.

Silvia went through the same process and got her resource, it looked to be some sort of gem, but Kraven didn't ask, the duo quickly walked to their respective homes to begin cultivation.