Chapter 333: Sect Competition Begins

His Second Martial Uncle announced that the sect’s internal competition would be held seven days later.

The top ten cultivators in each cultivation realm would receive generous rewards.

More importantly, they would also earn the opportunity to cultivate inside the Time Pavilion.

The higher their final ranking, the longer they would be allowed to remain inside.

It was also announced that the Time Pavilion was a spatial temporal treasure capable of adjusting the flow of time between the outside world and its interior.

One day outside could become ten days, one hundred days, or even one thousand days inside.

And that was not all.

Aside from the Qi Refining division, the top three winners in every cultivation realm would also receive qualification to participate in the Heaven Origin Grand Competition.

The moment this announcement was made, the entire Eternal Amulet Peak erupted with excitement.

"So this is the kind of sect life I’ve been looking forward to!" Hu Yitian’s eyes lit up with excitement.

"As expected of a real sect!"

"Even though it’s only a newly established sect, it actually holds an internal competition and the winners can even earn qualification for the Heaven Origin Grand Competition!"

"Only sects and factions recognized by the Nine Great Sects are eligible to participate in the Heaven Origin Grand Competition.".

"I never imagined that this newly founded sect I joined would actually have participant slots. That’s incredible!"

The other disciples also began discussing the news enthusiastically.

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Eternal Nightlight Peak.

Gou Jin came from a collateral branch of Gou Guangyan’s family line.

For many years, he had been suppressed by the Gou Family Patriarch.

He had long possessed the qualifications to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, but because the patriarch’s direct lineage monopolized the cave dwellings with the richest spiritual energy and deliberately withheld the Nascent Soul Pill he needed, he had remained trapped at the final step of forming his Nascent Soul.

His lifespan was nearly exhausted, yet he still could not advance. Then, one day, the direct branch of the Gou Family that he had sworn loyalty to suddenly announced that they were joining a sect he had never even heard of.

What surprised him even more was what happened after entering the territory of the Eternal Prosperity Sect.

The spiritual energy there was so extraordinarily dense that he broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm without needing the Nascent Soul Pill at all.

Because his breakthrough occurred after joining the sect, the Senior Brother of the Eternal Prosperity Sect personally arranged layer upon layer of defensive formations to protect him from the heavenly tribulation.

After successfully advancing, he also received a generous reward from the sect for becoming a Nascent Soul cultivator.

It was treatment he had never once received during the hundreds of years he had spent in the Gou Family.

At that moment, he finally understood the true meaning of belonging to a sect.

There were many others just like him among both the direct and collateral branches of the Gou Family, as well as their affiliated families.

After breaking through, all of them were filled with gratitude toward the Eternal Prosperity Sect.

They eagerly accepted every task related to constructing and developing the sect, doing their part to help it grow.

They had been busy every single day, so busy that they had barely found time to cultivate.

Fortunately, the spiritual energy throughout the Eternal Prosperity Sect was so abundant that their bodies absorbed it automatically even without deliberate cultivation.

The rate of improvement was often several times faster than when they had painstakingly cultivated in the Gou Family.

Because of that, none of them had been too concerned about their lack of cultivation time.

So they had never expected to suddenly hear Peak Master Gou Guangming announce that the sect’s internal competition would be held seven days later.

There would be generous rewards.

There would be qualification slots for the Heaven Origin Grand Competition.

There would even be opportunities to cultivate inside the Time Pavilion.

All of this made them realize that the sect they had joined possessed far more than an excellent location, abundant spiritual energy, and outstanding spirit veins.

The Heaven Origin Grand Competition qualification slots proved that the Eternal Prosperity Sect had already been recognized by the Nine Great Sects.

Its future potential was truly exciting.

Even as members of a great cultivation family, none of them wanted to miss those rewards.

So the moment Gou Guangming finished speaking, Gou Jin immediately stepped forward and said eagerly, "Peak Master, I wish to register for the Nascent Soul division."

"I want to register for the Golden Core division!"

"I’d like to register for the Foundation Building division!"

For a time, the registration became even livelier than anyone had expected.

After the disciples from the collateral branches and affiliated families had mostly finished registering, Gou Yue, who had been holding back for quite some time, cautiously asked, "Peak Master... May I participate as well?"

"Me too?" Gou Heng asked with a sheepish smile.

Gou Zhi’s gaze remained fixed on Gou Guangming.

The Time Pavilion.

A cultivation treasure where time flowed many times faster than in the outside world.

How could he possibly miss such an opportunity?

After reaching the late Spirit Transformation Realm, cultivation progressed at an extremely slow pace.

Even in places with exceptionally dense spiritual energy, advancement depended almost entirely on the accumulation of time.

Even on Eternal Nightlight Peak, where the spiritual energy was nearly liquefied, it would probably still take five or six hundred years to make significant progress.

If that same amount of cultivation time could be spent inside the Time Pavilion, then regardless of its exact time acceleration ratio, it should at least reduce the required time by half.

Such an extraordinary opportunity was something that even a former shadow guard did not want to miss.

Besides, they had already stepped out of the shadows and become official disciples of the Eternal Prosperity Sect.

Although they still carried the responsibility of protecting Peak Master Gou Guangming, they were now disciples of the sect in their own right.