After saying to follow him the patriarch start to walk to walk toward the great tower sitting in the centre of the sect territory.

Gold quickly follow behind him.

Felling a bit stress by the complete silence from the patriarch. After walking for almost an hour they arrive in the lush garden surrounding the tower.

He look at the eternal flowering plum blossom and the numerous rare flowers filling the garden the style of the garden was quite unoriginal but that don’t remove any bit of it beauty.

He look forward in front of him was what people call the sky splitting tower he always heard of it stupidly high size but seeing it in front of him was something else the style of tower was not inspire too it was very standard pagoda style you see in almost every city it was just a higher than the others one.

They reach the entrance of the tower on the ground was only a big hexagonal formation in it centre probably a substitution teleportation array it was a pretty interesting piece of work it transform the person using it into origami like piece of paper before sending it into void space bridge toward the end destination.

He love looking people using it. It was like seeing a piece of art in action but he really hate using them it was really not a comfortable experience to live but he heard the central guild of the mystic array was working on a better version.

The patriarch without slowly down send a bit of his qi into the control panel before being transfer higher into the tower.

Without really a choice Gold step into the array and after feeling like his skin was replace by thousand of ants he emerge inside the new room.

Inside was just two sofas with a table between the patriarch was already sit on one serving himself some tea.

He make sign to him to sit on the other side.

Gold walk toward the sofa and sit on it the patriarch present him a cup of tea and after he accept it the patriarch start to talk :

“Before we start I need to make one thing clear you have done nothing wrong your just a bit of unusual place but don’t worry nothing really worrying.”

After he say that Gold feel a bit a pressure disappear the patriarch continue :

“What had happen it what a lot of people start to call the path of trials it’s an anomaly of sort something that happen rarely and break the know rules of paths.”

He start to get even more confused a path that break the know rules of paths ? That just weird :

“How does it break the known path knowledge I have a hard time believing that something like that is possible.”

The patriarch sigh and after a drinking a bit of his tea he start to explain :

“You know what is traditional path you have a theme that you need to follow a set of goal to accomplish. Finish a set amount of task will let you attune yourself to the world and if do it enough you can start to cultivate to slowly reach immortality.”

Gold nod he continue :

“But the path of trials are much more particular in some way that you can’t cultivate or attune yourself instead your path will replace it by something else for example one of the elder of the Construction of the heaven sect is one them to make progress he need to carve something and that his equivalent of circulating qi for him but at one difference for him the better his creation the greater the reward.”

Gold was a little shock by the information he will never be able to cultivate he don’t know if he should be happy or sad but now he know that he will have it hard without the accumulated knowledge to help him advance he will struggle a lot more.

The patriarch finish his tea :

“But that not all almost everyone of them give some form strategic advantage to continue my previous example all of his carving give some form of effect to it surrounding.”

He take a pause :

“Do you understand in what type of position your are now the great alliance has a long establish rule that everyone with a path of trials will need to contribute directly to the alliance effort to defend against the void.”

He fall back in the sofa visibly frustrated by the situation :

“That mean that we will try to understand your path from now and find how he can help us all. Do you have any questions ?”

After he finish talking Gold start to process everything he just learn he can understand why it’s not that their path are more powerful or useful they are very rare and so the utility they provide is not common an alchemist is really not a path regarded with envy because they are extremely common but everyone know that the alchemist is one the most important part of a sect.

But after he think a bit more :

“Patriarch I will not need to go the frontier ?”

The patriarch turn serious :

“I can’t promise you but the chance are low so don’t worry .”

After that they continue to talk about the small detail for a few hours.

From now on the patriarch will guide him every morning and he will to train the rest of the day in the inner training sanctum :

“I know that don’t really give you the choice but the alliance will continually ask for your contribute and until your give major contribution to the alliance you will not really be free of what you do. ”

Feeling a bit down by this conclusion but in the end it will help him develop his path so that was not so bad for him after they finish talking and the patriarch say to meet him in front of the tower the next day he finally exit the room after that .