Tian Lei tapped the scroll.
"So land comes last?"
The clerk nodded.
"Yes. Once your sect passes the evaluation, the Empire grants you land based on your strength and resources. But passing the evaluation is the real challenge."
Tian Lei smiled faintly.
"This works."
He already had plans—undead soldiers, altered bloodline disciples, experiment subjects… and soon, essence core cultivators.
Finding ten disciples would be the easiest part.
His real goal was something else entirely—
A hidden sect.
A place where he could do experiments freely.
A force loyal only to him.
He folded the scroll.
"I'll be back soon," Tian Lei said.
The clerk didn't even look up. "Sure, sure. Everyone says that."
After arriving in the capital, Tian Lei sat in an inn, casually eating lunch while thinking about his next move—specifically, how to get land and the required members for his future sect.
