"It's a hard road. But if you work hard, you will build a fortitude of mind unlike no one before you. So go little Yating. Step into the world of cultivation."

After that, sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Zheng Jie turns away, looking at the report Lang Li has left for him. He has never even once suspect his disciple of anything, and trust her words on that basis.

The moment he reads on the missing masters part, there was a small smile that graces his face.

"Finally everything is coming into place. After this, the Nine Cloud Kingdom will be purged of all corrupting influences."

He trusts his disciple and did not see through her replacement. He did not see the conspiracy being created in the background behind his back either.

However, it is not like the Heavenly Saint does not have his own arrangements. While everyone knows him as straight forward, being oblivious to all the schemes around you only leads to death within the cultivation world.

Every day, countless top masters disappear without even a hint of resistance. It was because the force used against them was too great for any single master to fight, however that force was not Zheng Jie.

Everything was going into place.

At that moment, seeing the expert sending a manual, even Yijun also got a bit greedy. That guy is ungodly strong, just how heaven defying is his cultivation manual going to be?

She clicks on the Inner Steel Heart manual and starts studying it.

Shi Xiang with his curiosity also clicks on the manual. However he was still in the business of running a calligraphy shop, so he doesn't have the luxury of cultivating right then. However, he is sure that whatever teaching the great sect master has, it is going to enlightening.

Zhang Yating only looks at the instruction with a curious eyes. She still doesn't know what everyone means, but if she follows this instruction it is going to be clear right?

With a strange familiarity upon hearing the name, the Black Devil, whose name is Yan Yu open the manual.

'Before you cultivate the body, you have to cultivate your heart.

Sharper than blade, more durable than steel.

Never straying, never faltering.

Like a blade standing under the heaven.

If you fail, fall away forever

That is the meaning of cultivation.'

The condition was extremely harsh as is the meaning behind it.

You have to follow the one path, without failing or else your cultivation would be harmed.

With that kind of harshness, a hardened heart and mind is formed. Completely rigid without changing, a cultivator practicing this manual must not falter or even waver out of the correct path.

Even in their every day life, they must live in according to the law of heaven, if they falter, they will fail.

In their heart, they still must follow the truest path, and there need to be no hesitation, else they would fail.

In cultivation, they must not even have a bit of hesitation, the Inner Steel Heart cultivation is extremely hostile to other method of cultivation.

If you cut off in the middle, changing your cultivation method, you will lose more than when you start cultivation.

Frankly speaking, it is an inappropriate teaching to pass down to someone who just start cultivation. Actually, it is inappropriate to pass it down at all. It is something that shape the very core of a person's philosophy. An extremely rigid mindset, only knowing "righteousness".

And yet, Yan Yu did not laugh at the sect master passing down such a things to innocent mind who didn't know better.

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It was because at that moment, he has another thing on his mind.

"Inner Steel Heart manual... now where did I hear that name from before?..."

He whispers to no one.

"...Of course, once upon a time, I was the one who write it and pass it on to my sect...

...The Heavenly Sword Sect...

So Zheng Jie really did come from me then."

It was a story from a very long time ago when Yan Yu was a different man.

Lei Xingyue knocks on his niece's door, hoping to bring up the matter that he has "accidentally overheard" in a discrete way. However, immediately he barges in after sensing something was wrong.

"Yating stops! Who taught you that crummy method?"

Back in her own room in the branch sect of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Fairy Yijun was applying a black powder on her face.

It was a poison means to exaggerate the scar on her face even worse.

It was because of her cultivation method, the Earth Reborn Technique, was an extreme rejuvenating method. Even wear and tear from a life time could be reverse, let alone some scars?

It is not known how long until that master that bastard Zheng Jie sent will come, she needs to maintain her "beauty" after all. She needs to maintain it so that pervert does not come after her again.

After all that time, the Earth Reborn Technique was truly an amazing cultivation method that has followed her all this time, and even allowed her to ascend.

However, is it better than something that bastard Zheng Jie has though?

...She is only going to take a quick look.

In her room, alone, Fang Yijun suddenly spits out blood, cursing Zheng Jie's name to high heaven, while quickly shifting her inner energy to start cultivating with the Earth Reborn Technique to revert the damage.

All her method to keep the scars on was for naught as the moment all the earth energy start rushing to her in that panic, all the poison was removed, and the scar starts closing.

Though it is unknown where that burst of energy comes from, seeing as the Heavenly Sword Sect was a "sword" sect, they don't cultivate that kind of Earth energy within their ground.

Then and only then, did a System Notice appears:

"System Notice: Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Zheng Jie has been banned for three days."

Looking at the sudden notice, the sect master actually has a look of surprise on his face. He didn't even do anything or type anything to the system in the last three hours. If it was for the Inner Steel Heart manual then why didn't the System bans him then instead of now?

Truly, there are still many more secrets to this system.

The reason was very simple however. At that moment, there was a conversation that no one in the Heavenly Dao Discussion notice, which lead to the 3 days ban of Zheng Jie.

Finally, after closing his shop, Shi Xiang goes home, ignoring the pestering people from the Hu family and the Ling family. After Yan Yu's enlightenment, he chooses to ignore their needless conflict. However, after Zheng Jie's urging he may need to venture into that den of viper again.

After coming home, opening the manual, Shi Xiang becomes the third victim of the Inner Steel Heart manual, spitting up blood on the spot, yet doesn't understand why. He correctly deduces that it was because his cultivation was not enough to understand such a profound method and not because the method Zheng Jie passes on to him was actually bad.

No not at all.

After that, Shi Xiang passes out on the spot, still believing that.

However, because his house was supervised by many powerful force, someone saw that and, using the opportunity, strikes