When Ian Song entered Whitewater Courtyard, the six senior disciples all wore complicated expressions—especially Stuart Situ, whose eyes flashed darkly before he quickly forced a smile. "Junior Brother Song, please get up! You’re being way too polite—we really can’t accept that!"
"Yeah, Junior Brother Song, get up! We’re all brothers and sisters here, you don’t have to be so formal!"
Miles Gongsun also chimed in with a cheerful laugh.
After a round of introductions, both sides got to know each other.
But Ian quickly noticed that these six senior brothers and sisters seemed to have some opinions about him.
He felt a flicker of realization.
Ian took out six pill bottles from his storage ring and handed one to each person. "Since it’s our first meeting, I’d like to give each of my senior brothers and sisters a little gift!"
"Whoa, these are top-grade Law Pills!"
Stuart Situ had meant to politely refuse, but when he heard Kathy Wenren’s excited cry, he swallowed his words. Top-grade Law Pills aren’t ordinary pills—they’re incredibly valuable for Profound Immortals, worth five billion immortal stones each. Ian was actually giving them two apiece.
Just like that, he dropped six thousand billion immortal stones—no wonder he’s Ancestor Martin’s disciple, talk about filthy rich.
If you ask who’s the richest in the Immortal World, nine out of ten people will say pill refiners.
As the saying goes, when someone gives you something, it’s hard to refuse; when someone feeds you, it’s hard to criticize.
After accepting Ian’s gifts, the six senior brothers and sisters became much warmer toward him.
"Junior Brother Song, Master is still waiting for you—go see him quickly!" Jenny Gu reminded.
"Thanks for the reminder, Senior Sister Gu!"
Ian nodded, then followed the six to meet Ancestor Cyrus.
A round of formal bows.
Ancestor Cyrus immediately took Ian away, leaving the six seniors looking a little downcast.
Ian had always had a talent for formations, but he’d lacked a master’s guidance. So for the next year, he learned formation arts from Ancestor Cyrus.
After a year, he felt as if all the formation arts he’d learned were fusing into one.
After a year, Ian returned to Greenmount Courtyard.
He repeated this several times and ended up studying under the two Ancestors for a total of six years.
His understanding of pill-dao and formation-dao rose by countless levels.
Back then, the System’s third task was to occupy a city and build his own power, requiring at least ten Profound Immortal subordinates. He’d already met that requirement.
Over those six years, he refined many top-grade Law Pills and raised all his Golden Immortal followers to the Profound Immortal realm. Including his wives, Elder Faye Moon, Jasmine Jiang, and Lana Gale, his Profound Immortal subordinates now numbered over five hundred.
He also had tens of thousands of beast-cultivators in his Divine Temple.
They all underwent tribulation and became Immortals—most reached late-stage Human Immortal, some reached Earth Immortal, and a few exceptionally gifted ones even advanced to Golden Immortal.
These beast-cultivators counted as his reserves.
The second part of Task Three was to occupy a city within fifty years and hold it for three years.
Previously, this task was pretty difficult for Ian.