'Profound Heaven Sect? this name was very fuzzy in her memory as if she knew it from somewhere but cannot recall it.'
Initially she was not in a mood to join a sect for now, but her intuition told her that she should join a sect and this one in particular with no particular name to it sounded just perfect.
In this life she was not going to disregard her intuition like she did in her previous life, usually her gut feeling while joining the Celestial Sword Sect was not positive, it was only that maybe her brain had been fed to dogs in her previous life.
"Okay, senior brother, if you have a place to stay and cultivate Miao doesn't mind joining you." spoke Shen Miao truthfully anyway she was sure the current her had nothing to give the people of the Profound Heaven Sect, and she was sure they had no ulterior motive to invite her.
Usually little sects who were not famous would pick up the disciples who were not selected at the sect selection as no genius would join a small sect, it was inevitably a vicious cycle, without a talent it was almost impossible for a sect to grow and talents usually went after huge sect.
Seeing other small nearby recruiting the remaining people Shen Miao went along with Yu baiji.
"Little Junior sister, you can call be fourth senior brother, my name is Yu Baiji and i am fourth in line of seniority there are three more senior brother and sister above me."
With that he took out his natal sword and took her hand to fly on the sword, ' wow the sword looks impressive' thought Shen Miao, she wanted to ask Yu Baiji about his cause of blindness but thought maybe this is not the right time to do so.
On the journey towards the Sect, Yu Baiji filled her up with information about the Profound Heaven Sect, apparently, the sect was located on the Wuji Mountain rage just beyond the valley of Wood Spirit, which provided a perfect camouflage and a natural cover to the sect, there were only about total of eleven disciples in the Sect with her being the eleventh one recently recruited.
Shen Miao was dumbfounded, to have just eleven people in the sect, this sect was not even as big as a small family in village.
"Fourth Senior Brother why are there so many few people in our Profound Heaven Sect?" asked Shen Miao.
Yu Baiji rubbed the top of Shen Miao's head and felt the silky touch smooth to his skin making him extremely happy" That is off course because the eligibility criteria of our Profound Heaven Sect is extremely difficult and not just anyone can enter." spoke Yu Baiji with a refreshing tone.
'Difficult? it doesn't seem like that, does it?' though Shen Miao in her heart.
"Little Junior sister believe it or not not just anybody can enter Profound Heaven Sect, without the permission of the sect guardian, only those whom the sect guardian approves wholeheartedly can enter profound Heaven Sect." said Yu Baiji
"The Sect Guardian is off course in the sect, with that he brought forth an essence mirror, this is an artifact to select a disciple, the sect guardian sees through this essence mirror and gives consent if the stone brightens, it means yes if not then its a no, earlier the stone clearly shone when i was talking to you, that means that you have the Sect Guardians approval" Yu Baiji said, dissipating Shen Miao's doubt.
'What kind of weird sect was this, instead of getting spiritual roots checked they relied on a sect guardian to choose disciple, in all of the cultivation world history this was unheard of, but anyway there always were unique and weird things in this world and this was not that surprising.
It took Shen Miao and Yu Baiji one of to travel towards the Wuji mountain range and Shen Miao was mesmerized by the beauty the valley, two water falls were flowing from the adjacent mountain ranges pooling the water in a stream and the whole stream was circling around the valley of wood spirit making, the place was rich in spiritual essence.
In fact Shen Miao can feel the rich spiritual energy emitting from the valley, just as they crossed the valley and reached the top of Wuji peak, the rich immersive spiritual Qi became more pure and dense.
In Shen Miao's experience in her previous life the Celestial Sword Sect, even while possessing a good spiritual Vein, did not possess such dense and pure spiritual Qi.
As her eyes landed on the peak she could see a beautiful carved stone door sandwiched between two of Wuji Mountain Ranges making a natural entrance for the sect, the beautiful and bold calligraphy done on the stone emitted a strong profound spiritual energy, just like its name' Profound Heaven Sect.'
"Junior Sister we have arrived." came the voice of Yu Baiji.
As they entered the sect the natural barrier gave way and let them enter unhindered, " Only those getting recognizing are allowed in the sect."
As they walked further a lotus pond came in view and surrounding the pond were beautiful Sakura trees making the place look beautifully enchanting, about a dozen courtyards were located between a hundred meter distance of each other, on the peak like a mountain terrain making it look like a mountain civilization.
What caught Shen Miao's Eyes were the area beyond was far and wide with no end in sight, this place was even bigger than the Celestial Sword Sect!, that too with just eleven disciples, it was insane!.
All of this and still a small sect Shen Miao was truly shocked this time.
"Junior sister the whole Wuji Mountain and the valley are part of the wood spirit and consequently it is the territory of our Profound Heaven Sect, you can go anywhere you want without worries.
That said he took her to another peak where the Library Pavilion was situated, it was a tall building of about six floors and each floor had different levels of teaching manuals and techniques on cultivation, mastery of different arts, alchemy, formation, talisman making and artifact refining..
"Fourth Senior Brother, where is master?"
Yu Baiji flinched at the question and a wry and embarrassed smile came on his face." Well Junior Sister, the only issue in Profound Heaven Sect is that we don't have a master, and we all are basically self taught."
"Wait, no master then who manages the sect?"
"Well with ten people earlier it was managed by us only, also it was not like we didn't have a master, initially he was here but, then he went missing, in my all years of being in Profound Heaven Sect, only First Senior Brother and Second Senior Brother has seen him, rest of us had been found by our senior brother and sister only by the help of the Sect Guardian."