Finally, the time has come for me to turn off the time speed in the Tower, and then return to the tunnels under the Heaven Basin.

  Bai held my hand and smiled in encouragement, but my new Sword Saint status has given me a lot more confidence anyway. We stepped out together, hand in hand.

  "Junior Sister...and Pef?" Lin Fei exclaimed as he saw us appear.

  I grinned and gave him a thumbs up. "I got taller, right?" I asked with a teasing tone.

  The man sighed and ruffled my hair. He was still a bit taller than me. "We only have a few hours left, but I located two stone doors that should lead to more inheritances." he said in a calm voice, then frowned as he realized my new Saint level.

  "Good. But it's not certain if we'll get the tablets I want. Let's see what these rooms have!" I declared while taking the lead and jumping on my sword, while Bai stepped on her on sword as well.

  Then we rushed towards the nearest memorized room and reached it in a few minutes, at a much faster speed than my first try as a Xiantian cultivator. Three energy swords flew out and sliced and entrance through the stone door, and I just had to peek into the room for a second and scan the tablet with my Discerning Eyes.

  Another Essence cultivation sutra. Not necessary. "Next!" I demanded in a bored voice, and flew away, followed by Bai and Lin Fei who barely kept up. I did get much better in the last 5 years of closed cultivation. Although it was mostly my Saint Realm Soul. They both lacked the soul cultivation.

  The next room had a different kind of tablet though. 'Soul Consolidation Mantra, used to cultivate the soul up to 7th level of Saint Realm. Worth 3 billion spirit stones.' Hmmm. It wasn't perfect, but I couldn't complain much. I will find better one day. But until then...it was something I lacked.

  "Bai, you take this tablet and wait outside!" I asked my white-haired lover and hugged her for a minute.

  "Good stuff?" she asked to make sure.

  "Soul cultivation." I said, and her eyes lit up with joy. In a few seconds, she picked up the jade tablet and vanished in a green flash.

  "You could explain how you grew up so fast..." Lin Fei spoke in a warning voice, flying after me as I headed for the next room I had memorized.

  "I could. But then you could explain what happens to the women in your sect. None of them ever reach Divinity." I spoke in the same tone, and noticed Lin Fei's aura flutter for a second. So he knew, or suspected, the truth.

  "Those Young Masters from the top peaks do not grow so fast without doing bad things." he admitted in a lower voice.

  "Bai will speak with a few women she trusts, and see if they want to live a bit longer." I said and stopped in front of the next stone door. A few slices with my sword intent and the door fell to pieces. 'Golden Saint Body. Used to cultivate the body up to 9th level of Saint Realm. Worth 1 billion spirit stones.' I read with my eye skill.

  A body cultivation tablet! Not exactly necessary, but neither my Dragon Mammoth nor the Asura method was compatible with mass-cultivation like I wanted. "You can take this one, Lin Fei. A proper body cultivation sutra, not that junk you found in a cave." I pointed out with a nod towards the metal tablet.

  Lin Fei glanced at me with a doubtful face. "We'll have to speak properly, Young Master Pef." he almost growled before taking the tablet and vanishing.

  I kept going, flying through dim-lit tunnels and searching for something of value. More of the same kind of tablets, body and essence cultivation, and the rare soul method once in ten rooms. Then, just before the time was almost up and the Heaven Basin was due to close, I found my jackpot.

  'Vajra Three-folded Path, a set of Saint Realm combat techniques, worth 9 billion high-grade spirit stones.' I read as my eyes grew wide.

  I ran my Concealment Skill and picked up the tablet, and felt the teleport Formation Array lit up under my feet. I could escape the array if I wanted to, so I just shifted into my Tower dimension with the jade tablet in hand.

  "What dog shit luck is this!" I heard Grandpa complain as he appeared beside me and scanned the tablet.

  Mentally, I powered up the time compression back to 1000 times, then sat down to read and memorize the new techniques. Imagine I had become a Sword Saint without any Saint technique. Now I had a full set of such techniques, two for the body, three for my essence and two for my soul.

  It took almost two weeks to learn every technique, since they were quite complicated, especially the soul techniques. The Vajra Lightning Tower would provide an armor for my soul, looking like a purple pagoda with three roofs and lots of soul sigils to be forged as the mastery increased. The Vajra Lightning Spear was a soul attack move, basically projecting a lightning strike to shake the enemy's soul.

  "You learned everything?" Grandpa ghost asked as I handed over the tablet to him.

  "I memorized them all, yes. Practice will take a lot more time, especially that Soul Tower. Seems very complicated." I admitted with a casual voice.

  "Yes. This is an immortal techniques set, dumbed down for Saints. But is not dumb enough. Most of the Soul sigils become real only at Origin Realm." the old ghost said with a wry tone.

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  My eyes glinted with the new knowledge. "So you're saying, with a bit of effort, we could dumb down or upgrade this set a few Realms up or down?" I asked with a childish voice.

  The Tower's Spirit glared at me. "Again with the 'we' ? This is not like waving my finger to make a bed out of logs and feathers, you know? I mean, it's kinda like that, but with the bed the size of this Tower dimension." he grumbled in a displeased voice.

  "A set of Xiantian techniques would be useful, right? I should achieve Mastery in a few days with all of them." I proposed with a grin, then shifted outside the Tower, and ran back to collect the rest of the inheritance tablets.

  Waste not, right? These tablets were rare and precious, even though I got the best stuff already.

  Then, after collecting a dozen tablets, I stopped to think for a moment.

  My ring was infinite inside, right? Infinite was bigger than this secret realm called the Heaven Basin. Maybe I could fold it all inside the ring?

  So I tried just that, I felt my head grow wider and wider, as my mind expanded to englobe the entire dimension. Then the pain started, since even a Saint wasn't strong enough to lift a continent and store it in a ring.

  I drew back and only collected the movable things, like metal puppets and various beasts and herbs, as well as fruits and flowers and mushrooms.

  As I reached the sunk skeleton under the Noxious Swamp, the pain started again, as the thing was heavier than Crimson Iron, so probably a Divine Beast or something.

  Then the Heaven Basin turned from real to virtual in front of my eyes, and I got expelled outside, along with a hundred other disciples from the Oracle Mountain. Only I was under concealment, so I stepped aside and began searching for my Bai.

  A bit later, I found her with several other girls holding a gossip conference about the fate of female cultivators in the sect, and the likely fates of those which vanished. I walked a bit closer, then shifted back inside my Tower.

  "You saw that, Grandpa?" I asked while taking a few pills and spirit stones to replenish my health and energy.

  "Oh. Did I see a little Saint trying to fold an entire dimension inside his ring, and failing miserably? A Divine Core would fail as well, and maybe even a bad Divine Manifestation cultivator. That Flood Dragon skeleton is also at Divine Core realm." he said in a mocking tone.

  I sighed and sat down to rest, in hyper speed. I was relatively strong already, and I could possibly split down a mountain with my strongest sword strike. But my cultivation was still low.

  Then I expelled a hundred metal puppets, and Grandpa grabbed them with a Formation Array before they got too aggressive on my ass.

  "Now this is a good find, Young Master. These puppets can be used with my Combat Array once I over-write their soul imprints." he considered while tugging at his beard.

  "And some guards for the Tower and bodyguards for me too. Wrap them in full armor suits, maybe?" I proposed and took out a few tons of rare metals from my ring.

  The old ghost measured me with a surprised glance for a second, then nodded. "It's good you know you're still weak, Young Master. And inner guards...you expect new guests in the Tower?" he asked in a sneaky voice.

  "Yes. Now that I'm outside, I will start recruiting a few thousands people as my agents and spies. But can't have them bicker and fight while they train here. We need something imposing to intimidate them into obedience." I explained while thinking ahead again.

  "Food, clothes, tools and equipment, furniture and weapons for thousands of people...quite a expensive plan, Young Master. Find an auction house and sell some of the loot. Aim for a billion spirit stones at least." Grandpa advised me in a wise voice.

  Sects are expensive to maintain I know. No wonder cultivation sects held a large territory under them, for taxes and farms.

  Once I was rested, I dressed in my best robes and shifted outside, and stepped beside Bai as her sect sisters split in two, those who wanted to stay and those who wanted to live.

  "Ladies, I am the Master of the Tower. If you want to live, take my hand." I offered with my hands out.

  "Caihong, Mei...hurry." Bai whispered as the other girls examined me in surprise. I was quite young for a Saint, much like Bai had been when we met.

  Two more girls hesitated, then also changed sides and touched my hands, vanishing into my Tower. Bai joined the four girls and shifted into the Tower, while three sect disciples drew back with wary faces, even though they were all Saints as well.

  I just sighed and used my new Vajra Lightning to strike their souls, and watched them fall dead to the ground. Then stored their corpses into my ring.

  No point leaving behind evidence, for their sect to come after me. They had their chance and chose death.

  I barely moved a hundred meters away when a Sect Elder teleported at the site, and scanned around with glowing eyes. I should have known this sect would have some method of keeping track of their disciples. Or their deaths.

  Anyway, I kept walking away, heading towards Lin Fei sitting on a bench with another sect sister, also a Saint Realm.

  "Senior Sister, I admired you for a century. But if you chose to stay...you know what happens then. There is no Divine Realm Elder for women." Lin Fei spoke while holding a flower in his hand.

  The woman sighed and poked my friend in the forehead. "I am not stupid, Junior Brother. I was planning to leave on an extended mission, and return only after my Ascension."

  "In a million years, how many smart women had the same idea, Senior Sister?" I asked while sitting beside Lin Fei, and stealing the flower in his hand.

  'Extreme Spirit Petunia, used to increase cultivation from 9th to 10th Saint level. Worth 7 billion spirit stones.' I read with my special eyes. Hmmm. This woman should be at the 9th level then, if Lin Fei got this flower for her.

  "You're stealing my herbs again, Young Master?" Lin Fei said with a sad voice.

  "Shut up, idiot!" I growled and elbowed him into my Tower before he could ruin my image.

  The woman frowed and scanned around, just as warning dongs began to sound in loud patterns all over the sect, most likely for intruder or murder. Possibly both.

  I held my hand opened towards her. "Come with me, if you want to live." I offered in a casual voice.

  Her eyes became colder for a second, then soft again. "He really is an idiot..." she whispered in a longing tone, and poked my palm.

  We shifted into the Tower, and I gave the flower back to Lin Fei. "Grandpa will give you rooms in my Tower. What's is your name, auntie?" I asked the newest guest.

  She held a finger up, then lowered it slowly as she realized her new status. She wasn't an Oracle Mountain disciple anymore. "I am Ming Yue, Young Master. Quite the place you have here..." she spoke while looking around my pocket dimension.

  "This is the Heavengaze Tower. If I want to, I can speed up time a thousand times in here. Pretty good, right?" I commented as a towering armor suit landed behind me.

  The woman glanced up above me, as the puppet stood a meter tall above me. "Peak Saint Realm?" she asked a bit intimidated at my bodyguard in plate armor. Exactly the image I wanted, so good work Grandpa!

  "Lin Fei, you're in charge of Ming Yue. That arena is for combat training." I pointed to the side where Grandpa had created a larger array for the new reccruits.

  "Pef, these are Caihong, Mei, Linhua and Xia." Bai came and introduced her friends one by one.

  I just nodded and held my hand out. Bai frowed, then took out the Soul cultivation tablet she got from the tunnel.

  "Take your friends and set them up in new rooms. I have to read this tablet now." I told Bai, and powered up the time compression again.

  Time to learn a new cultivation method, for my soul.