Elder Shang walked up the other side of the room and pulled out a stone tablet just like every single other one. She then handed it over to Alex.
Alex looked at the thing, surprised to see that it was sohow already carved with his na on it and a number to the side in the 6 digit.
"What is this, Elder Shang?" Alex asked.
"It's a Dao tablet," the woman answered. "It is what we used to keep track of our disciples and their health. It is connected to you, so we can see how you are doing in the world without having to keep our eyes on you."
Alex looked around at the many tablets that filled the entire room. "Then… these are all disciples?" he asked.
"Disciples and elders," the woman answered.
Alex couldn't fathom the number he was seeing. The place was stacked with tablets and it was well in the upper 20 thousand. "So many," he said to himself.
"Of course," the woman said. "This place records all disciples since the beginning of the Blue Silk sect."
Alex paused. "Since the beginning?" he asked. That… didn't seem right to him. The nearly 30 thousand individuals of the sect made sense, but only for the current period. The Blue Silk sect was a very old sect, so how could it only have this few disciples?
"Isn't this too few?" Alex asked. "Or does the Blue Silk sect not take in that many disciples?" he asked. That didn't seem right. They took 400 disciples every century, so it had to be a lot.
"Oh, no. What you see isn't all the tablets. Most of the tablets from the past, especially ones belonging to disciples who have died are no longer here. When they die, the tablet loses its aura, which lets us know that they died. Those ones we keep in a secure place inside this building that you won't see."
"Ah!" Alex thought and looked at the tablet in his hand. "Do I just pour my Qi into it?" "Yes," the woman said. "It will bond to you and the registration will be complete."
Alex nodded and poured his Qi into the simple tablet. As soon as he poured his aura into the tablet, it glowed a dull yellow before receding back to its shineless state. There was a vigorous aura to it, which surprised the old woman a bit. "That's the most aura I've seen in a while," she said as she took back the tablet and placed it on the shelf next to her. Alex's na was now along with many of the other tablets in the room.
Alex looked at the other tablet in the room and asked, "Elder Shang, you ntioned that you take away the tablets of disciples that die. Does that an that the disciples with these inert tablets are still alive?"
"No, those are the ones that belong to the dead," the woman said. "The reason we haven't stored those is because they belong to so of the more famous disciples that have co out of our sect. Look through them, you may recognize so nas."
Alex looked through them as he was told to, but he didn't recognize any nas at all. The woman expected him to know about this world a bit too much for soone who had co here less than 10 years ago.
He expected to find nas such as Redscion, Brightviper, or Pinklight, who were said to be the more fad individuals to co out of the sect, but perhaps because their original na was written on these tablets, Alex didn't recognize any of them at all.
He looked through the rest of the nas and was about to look away when he finally saw a na that he did recognize.
"Bao Fengyu," Alex said. "Isn't that senior Reverend Sixghost?"
"He is," the woman said. "The only disciple before you to have a Celestial grade talent. His is perhaps the greatest na to co out of the sect."
Alex looked at the tablet without any sort of aura. 'So he really is dead,' he thought. They had ntioned in the reports that his death had been confird, but Alex hadn't fully believed it just yet.
"Is it true that senior Sixghost left behind his sabers in the TwinSaber sect?" Alex asked. "Soone sold a ticket to their secret realm. I wonder if I'm wasting my ti or not."
"You bought one of their tickets?" she asked with a single raised eyebrow.
"Yes. The woman who sold it to said that only the ones below the Immortal Origin realm could enter, so I accepted it," he said.
"I see. I wouldn't say you're wasting your ti precisely. I do not know whether Brother Sixghost truly left behind his sabers or not. I don't see how he could have considering those were his Creations, but I don't believe him to be a liar so there have to be treasures inside the secret realm."
"Even without your ticket, we have our disciples enter that secret realm when the ti cos anyway. Since it was Brother Sixghost's wish, we make sure to keep it going for as long as we can."
Alex was a little surprised to hear that. He hadn't expected the Blue Silk sect to be looking after the secret realm. Maybe he wasn't wrong in getting their tickets.
"I will look forward to when it opens then," Alex said. "You should," the woman said. "I do not know what treasure Brother Sixghost left behind, but considering his closeness with the then Saber god, it has to be sothing significant."
Alex nodded. 'Saber god, huh?' he thought. He wondered if Godslayer knew about the guy. 'I'll have to ask him when he wakes up.'
They walked out of the building and the formations ran back up, making the building untouchable.
"Congratulations. You are now officially a mber of the sect," Elder Shang said.
Alex gave back a bright smile. "Thank you, Elder Shang."
Elder Shang took him away from the First Mountain to the inner sect. Alex observed the various mountains as he was taken away. He ca to realize that the Qi here was stronger than the ones back in the Newsky city and perhaps would continue to be stronger once he moved away from here.
A few uninhabited mountains later, they arrived at a tall mountain with a large building standing at the summit. Alex ca to know that it was a skill library after listening to the elder.
"Every new disciple gets to pick two skills from the library. Go in and look at what you want. You have 2 days to do so."
"Skills?" Alex asked in surprise, looking back at the magnificent tower that was the library. He hadn't expected that the first thing he would do after entering the sect was get a skill.
"What do you lack in your cultivation? Tell , I'll suggest you so skills to get and learn," she said.
"Hmm," Alex thought. What was he missing really?
There were so many skills that he had learned in the past that were no longer useful as their grade wasn't the highest. Even after Alex improved them to their peak, they were still not as good as any other technique might have been.
After thinking for a decent amount of ti, he decided that there were two types of techniques that he desperately needed.
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