There are time when you have to make sacrifice on the path of cultivation.

Kowtowing to a stronger cultivator, kowtowing to your senior within a sect, kowtowing to someone with connection.

However, sacrifice is meaningless when everyone around you are mad.

Listening to Zheng Jie, and respecting his feats, Fang Yijun seeks out his sect, even if it is just branch sect because she believes that one day if she joins that sect, she could be as strong as him too. She was prepared to make sacrifice, even with Zheng Jie not helping her because after the PvP battle, he has been silent. She was expecting to work her way up the sect, without any favor whatsoever.

But the moment she entered this sect is when found out just how wrong she was for listening to Zheng Jie. Even if she screams, no one would listen to her, and that bastard Zheng Jie isn't answering either. There was a time Yan Yu was silent too, and he didn't offer any advice either. He just relentless mock her.

On that day after she escapes from the guards, Dong Yu and Dai Qiu, Yijun runs desperately to the nearest town she could find.

It turns out she was out in the edge of continent, the farthest reach of the continent where no one frequent.

However it seems in this far out place, the branch sect of the Heavenly Sword Sect chose to take root. The journey toward the heart of the continent outright is a tribulation in its own right. It is a nightmare trek, filled with treacherous beasts and poisonous illusion made by the immortal trees growing around the edge of the continent. Only someone who could pass that treacherous journey from the heart of the continent is worthy of joining the sect is probably the reason.

By chance, of all place, Yijun manages to ascend right there.

But that fortune of her definitely has to be a misfortune because that sect... that sect...

On her escape, Yijun found a small shelter that seems to have other people inside on the side of the road. It's an abandoned settlement, but due to chance, on that day, there was people there.

At first she was glad to have found other people on her treacherous escape.

The first person she met was a gentleman, beautiful more than anything she has seen before.

Yijun is sure that the guy did something to her. However she chose to play along, pretending to be woo by that visage. She only needs direction toward the Heavenly Sword Sect, and then she can escape into the earth again.

"Brother. You have to save me. I just recently ascended but there are two ugly guards who tried to take advantage of me."

As expected, the man gently pull her closer while patting her back in a comforting fashion. She immediately knew he was a pervert. That kind of man she has met countless time before in her youth. That is the wisdom of a 500+ year old cultivator who has turned back time for herself to look young again. Sometime she wonders if she shouldn't have performed the Earth Reborn Technique after all, beauty only bring disaster after all. However, this much, she can cope with.

"There there. With me here, no one would dare to do anything."

However, the man was even more bold, continuing to molest her.

Immediately she tries to escape the situation.

"Ah brother. I'm so thankful ah. However, no worry, I already have a senior up here awaiting for me. You only need to show me to this place and I will be forever thankful. That place is calle-"

Suddenly from inside the shelter, there was a crashing sound, and someone crush the door to piece to walk out. Even the pervert seems surprised even though he was with the person inside, as if he didn't expect that person to show his face.

After all, Yijun has to contain her scream.

That person was covered in blood.

His own blood.

"Ah sect master..."

The pervert immediately let go and pretend that nothing has happened.

The man continues to puke out blood on his shirt while his face can only be described with one word.

Menacing.

The man doesn't even seem lucid but he was standing.

"What happened here?"

With an intimidating voice, the man command Yijun after looking at her.

"...I was just going to enter the Heavenly Sword Sect."

Everyone present immediately quiet at that moment.

Even the pervert was looking at her as if she has just requested a death wish.

At that moment, Yijun didn't know...

She didn't know how horrible the branch sect of the Heavenly Sword Sect is.

She didn't know that the lecherous man and the mad man in front of her was the leadership of the Heavenly Sword Sect. Suddenly, the bloodied man laughs

"Amusing. I accept her."

...

Apparently the sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Ren Cheng was infamous within the continent for being cruel and tyrannical.

He seeks out powerful masters and challenge them.

If they accept his challenge, he cripple and kill them with his domineering sword technique.

If they refuse, he cripple and kill them and destroy their entire sect or clan with them.

Apparently the entire continent know just how bloodthirsty the man is. Well, the entire continent, except her. Zheng Jie didn't know either, he didn't know about someone continents away, who has a habit of killing or causing bloodshed.

There is only word to describe his ambition. Bloodthirst.

The man is extremely bloodthirsty. Even his sect disciple, sometime he kills them out right. That was what Yijun heard immediately after coming back with the two men and joining the sect.

She immediately tried to contact Zheng Jie after that but-

Silence.

There was only silence.

The Sect Master is a mad man who thirsts for blood and kill without abandon.

The second in command is lecherous man who has taken notice of her.

Just what did she get herself into?