The Sect opened its Outer Gate to recruit disciples and teach the arts of cultivation. But to become a disciple, to study and practice, one had to pay.
Tuition varied by a Sect’s grade; the higher the grade, the steeper the fee.
Jianyun Gate was merely a first-grade Sect in the vast Tao Cultivation World, but within Jianyun City—a place of only first-grade Sects—it was the largest. The annual tuition was one hundred Spirit Stones, and that
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