Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

"Why would Senior Brother Yan take the initiative to help a disciple like me with such a low cultivation base?" Chen Tian asked, puzzled. He really couldn't think of a reason.

"You're very surprised, right?" Ji Tianyi smiled and said, "Actually, I'm also very surprised. Although this Senior Brother Yan is enthusiastic, he has always been one to protect himself and wouldn't deliberately provoke trouble. But this time, he actually provoked Pan Xingyu for you, which really surprised me. Junior Brother Chen, tell me, do you know this Senior Brother Yan from before?"

"Senior Brother Ji, you think too highly of me." Chen Tian said bitterly, "I can guarantee that I only met Senior Brother Yan after coming to the Immortal Feather Sect. As for why he suddenly helped me, I don't know either."

"Oh." Ji Tianyi exclaimed in surprise and said, "That's really strange."

Chen Tian smiled helplessly, also looking bewildered.

"Oh well, let's not talk about this. By the way, Junior Brother, do you have anything to do next? If you're free, why not come to my Spirit Book Pavilion for a while?" At this time, Ji Tianyi invited Chen Tian again.

Chen Tian pondered for a while, then smiled and nodded, saying, "Then I'll be bothering Senior Brother Ji."

"Hey, what are you saying? We're brothers, no need to be so polite."

Ji Tianyi laughed loudly and led Chen Tian towards the Spirit Book Pavilion.

On the way, the two chatted and laughed, temporarily putting aside the unpleasantness from before.

As they chatted, the topic turned to the Newcomer Competition.

Chen Tian pondered for a while and asked, "Senior Brother Ji, what's this Newcomer Competition all about?"

"Oh, you mean this? Let me explain it to you." Ji Tianyi knew that Chen Tian had only recently joined the Immortal Feather Sect, so he smiled and began to explain to him.

It turned out that the Immortal Feather Sect would conduct a strength test on its disciples near the end of each year.

If the cultivation test every three months was a small test, then this year-end test was a major test, and not only disciples in the Qi Refining stage but also those in the Spirit Guiding stage had to participate, without exception.

Of course, the benefits were also great.

Not to mention that the top few winners of the test would receive extremely generous pills and magical treasures, but even just participating would earn everyone some pills to improve their cultivation and low-grade magical treasures.

Moreover, the higher the ranking, the more rewards they would receive.

Therefore, the disciples were all eager to try such a test, as it was a rare opportunity.

Cultivators, in fact, cannot achieve the Great Dao solely based on talent; they also need various factors to complement each other. And being able to obtain more pills and resources is greatly beneficial to the cultivation process.

Furthermore, if they obtained a good ranking, they might even attract the attention of the sect and be cultivated as core disciples. That was also a possibility.

At that time, not to mention not having to work, the sect would also reward them with many extra pills and immortal herbs every month to help them accelerate their cultivation, which was what everyone dreamed of.

After hearing this, Chen Tian finally understood, but then, Chen Tian's expression became a little serious.

Because he remembered what Pan Xingyu had just said, that he would first find himself and Ji Tianyi to be his opponents during the competition.

Pan Xingyu's cultivation base was at the ninth level of the Qi Refining stage, while he was only at the first level. How could he possibly defeat him?

Seeing the uncertain look on Chen Tian's face, Ji Tianyi seemed to have guessed his worries and smiled, "Haha, Junior Brother Chen, don't worry too much. Don't worry, I will use the influence of our Ji family to intervene. Pan Xingyu wants to make me look bad in the Newcomer Competition? He's dreaming! I won't let him succeed!"

As he said this, a look of disgust appeared on Ji Tianyi's face, showing how great the feud between the Ji family and the Pan family was.

But hearing Ji Tianyi say this, Chen Tian was immediately pleasantly surprised and said gratefully, "Then thank you very much, Senior Brother Ji."

To be honest, if he were assigned to the same group as Pan Xingyu, he would definitely be ruthless towards him.

But now that Ji Tianyi was helping, Chen Tian immediately felt a lot more relaxed.

"Hey, Junior Brother Chen, here you go again. I've already said that this little thing isn't worth thanking me for. If you do this again next time, believe it or not, I'll get angry," Ji Tianyi deliberately put on an angry look and said.

Chen Tian smiled slightly when he saw this and didn't say anything, just nodded heavily.

As the two chatted, they unknowingly arrived in front of a quaint hall.

This was the Spirit Book Pavilion where Ji Tianyi now worked, which contained many books and various spells.

After pushing open the door, Ji Tianyi smiled at Chen Tian and said, "Junior Brother Chen, you can look around here first. I still have something to deal with over there, I'll come back to find you later."

Chen Tian nodded after hearing this, and Ji Tianyi left.

To be honest, this was Chen Tian's first time here. After all, he usually stayed in his remote and deserted Spirit Beast Garden.

Looking at the rows of neatly arranged books and the ink-scented paintings everywhere, Chen Tian's mood couldn't help but improve.

Chen Tian walked around the bookshelf, scanning the rows with his eyes.

He found that it was roughly divided into two areas.

One area contained various cultivation books and various kinds of immortal arts.

Chen Tian flipped through them and found that the minimum requirement for cultivating these immortal arts was to reach at least the third level of the Qi Refining stage.

Chen Tian shook his head helplessly and looked at the second area.

This area contained books on various functions.

Including auxiliary books on weapon refining, alchemy, and so on.

This didn't have any cultivation requirements, so Chen Tian casually flipped through them.

Chen Tian first skipped over the books on weapon refining and alchemy, after all, these things required many natural treasures, as well as spirit stones, immortal herbs, and other resources, which were not something that a very poor cultivator like him could learn.

However, to Chen Tian's dismay, more than 90% of the books here were related to weapon refining and alchemy, and the rest were some very unpopular and strange books, including books on astral projection and turning stone into gold.

But Chen Tian only glanced at them and determined that these things were all fake.

After searching for a long time, Chen Tian sighed helplessly, it seemed that there was nothing he was interested in here.

Just as Chen Tian was about to turn around and leave, suddenly, he found a very dilapidated old book in the corner.

Chen Tian picked it up and suddenly found three golden characters written on the cover… Talisman Making!