The Undying Immortal System

When I exited seclusion, there were only eight months until the next Entrance Exam for the Nine Rivers Sect. As a Martial Grandmaster 1, I met the minimum requirements to compete for a position, but I didn’t know my odds of being selected.

Previously, I had only asked simple questions to understand the basic requirements for entering the sect, but I didn’t have any real information about the place or what they expected of someone trying out to become a disciple. Was Grandmaster 1 good enough, or did I need to try to reach Peak Grandmaster?

My first instinct was to go buy herbs for Rank 3 pills and cultivate as quickly as I could. With another eight months, I expected I could potentially reach at least Grandmaster 3, possibly 4 if I pushed myself hard enough. Having a higher cultivation at a younger age should make me appear more valuable since it would indicate a stronger talent in cultivation.

I thought about walking down this path, but I stopped myself. I’d already spent over four years doing nothing but cultivating. I had told myself I needed to find a way to have more balance in my life, and I had seemingly thrown that idea away the first chance I got. I had felt that it was for good reason since I had to at least reach Grandmaster within my self-imposed time limit of ten years, but it was clear to me that I was walking down the wrong path once again.

Instead of immediately returning to my room to cultivate, or going to the Pavilion to buy herbs to make more pills, I decided to spend some time exploring South Gate City. I wanted to learn more about this place and the sect I was planning to join. I could return to the Pavilion and ask Miss Kang, but relying so heavily on a single source of information was also a bad habit that I needed to get away from.

Still, I couldn’t completely silence the part of my mind that told me that only walking around town would be a waste of time. A part of me felt that doing such a thing could not possibly help me progress, even though I knew it would. I had to consider what it was that I wanted. What was I trying to achieve?

Aside from a general sense of improvement, what I wanted more than anything was a larger storage space which would allow me to fundamentally change the rules of my resets.

As a Martial Grandmaster 1, I could cultivate at a far greater speed than I had the last time I tried expanding it, and I could begin to make serious improvements to its size. I just needed to spend time gathering enough energy to do so.

Passive cultivation only granted me a limited amount of energy, which meant I needed to actively cultivate to grow my space as quickly as possible. It would be best if I had a way to grow my space while also exploring the city. Should I try to learn to actively cultivate while walking around outside?