Soul Oath

"But before You start there is another thing, that every member of the sect has to do. No matter who they are, servants or disciples its not something You can avoid"

Sima fell into deep thought. Soul Oaths, the reason why their Sect accepted only kids without cultivation was exactly this. As long as someone never cultivated there was no way to cheat this one out! It was extremaly important event for the Sect, as having internal members scheming against their interest was not something they could afford to. After all, their members could keep an eye out on their enemies, but who could keep an eye out on them?

"Long ago our Sect established a rule. Any person that wants to join, the moment they are about to start cultivating is the time when they have to swear a Soul Oath in the presence of the sect Elder. All the kids that joined with You already did this. Now its Your turn"

"Repeat after me. I Ren Li here by swear on Soul, on my Dao, on my Life that i will never go against sect general interest. I wont scheme against Sect core members and i wont damage Sect possesions". It wasnt any complicated Oath and it on purpose left a lot of things person could do in the open. After all its a Hegemon Sect, conflict between its members is as common as breathing. If they had to endure completly, no one knew what kind of consequences would follow!

"I Ren Li here by swear on Soul, on my Dao, on my Life that i will never go against sect general interest. I wont scheme against Sect core members and i wont damage Sect possesions" As Ren finished speaking he felt weird sensation sweep over him. It was not painful, but He felt like someone put rope over his head! It was really weird and mystic

"Master since everyone swear this Oath is there really no way to break it?" This was what he was interested about! Sect was a giant, how many members of all kinds in total Sect had propably nobody knew! So even something as mystic as this was probably already broken by somebody right?

Hearing his disciple speak Sima Long laughed and laughed loud!! It was a powerful Soul Oath, not something any random Harry or John could go against.

"To be honest there is a way" Hearing this Ren Li eyes lit up, even after the feeling vanished, fe still felt uncomfortable!

"There is a powerful Spirit Cleaning Elixir, its mid 8th grade Elixir. Only powerful 8th tier Alchemists that specialize in refining Elixir has a chance to ever make it. As for our Sect, the sole 8th tier Master has specialization of pills. So tell me its something possible to accomplish or not?" Ignorant were just that! What was 8 tier Alchemist? What was 8 grade Elixir? Even if someone could get one, it would be something to help with cultivation, only an idiot or someone who made dumb Oath that could ruin their life would waste insane amout of resources to buy useless one like that!

"Master how long it will take for someone to become 8 tier Alchemist?" This was something Ren wanted to know the most! His goal was to become the most rich person in this World and it seemed like 8 tier Alchemy was super expansive!

"Hahahaa ignorant, really ignorant. Kid someone with right appitude and talent can become 6 tier Alchemist in their lifetime. How long that would take? Hundreds of years for some, for others thousands! For someone who is fully focused on Alchemy and Alchemy only, i believe the record in our Sect was to reach 6th tier by the age of 50, the same person reached 7th tier by the age of 300 and 8th before 1000. His cultivation wasnt high enough, only third stage of the Void Core realm and even after using precious treasures to prolong his life he died at the age of 4000 without reaching 9th tier, where average lifespan of 3rd stage Core cultivator is 3000. Tell me do You still think its easy?"

Hearing his Master words Ren fell silent. Then again his Mother used to say one phase all the time... Cultivation is difficult!