Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

"Yuan clan?", Zhan Chen felt confused as he had never heard any such name in his life time. He looked towards the girls and they also had a clueless look on their faces.

There was something off about Zhan Qingyue's expression but she was quick enough to mask it. Zhan Chen could not notice her changed expression and turned to look towards Lu Tai Cang for an explanation.

"You have never heard about the Yuan clan because people generally have no idea about the existence of hidden powers", Lu Tai Cang spoke.

"Hidden powers! I have heard about them somewhere but I have not much information on them", Zhan Chen replied with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"There is lack of information on them because these powers generally do not interact with eachother. Even our Lu clan has only some basic informations on these powers", Lu Tai Cang explained.

"As for the Yuan clan, it is one of the most mysterious and powerful clan among all hidden powers. Nothing is known about them except their mastery over darkness element and their fearsome assasination techniques", Lu Tai Cang spoke.

He spoke about some other rumours about the Yuan clan and the girls listened to his words with fascination in their eyes.

The magical beast carraige ran at its usual speed and it finally stopped after reaching near the entrance of the sky tower. Zhan Chen, Lu Tai Cang and the girls stepped out of the carraige and their eyes immediately went towards the huge gathering of cultivators ahead.

"It is very lively today", Lu Tai Cang commented. He paid the beast carraige driver and led Zhan Chen and the girls towards the entrance of the sky tower.

"Keep one thing in mind after entering the sky tower. Avoid being overly greedy and look for the exit when you are tired", Lu Tai Cang spoke to Li Shu, Li Yan, Kai Min and Zhan Qingyue. As for Zhan Chen, he purposefully ignored him because he was sure that Zhan Chen would never listen to his suggestion.

Zhan Chen, Li Shu, Li Yan, Kai Min and Zhan Qingyue bade farewell to Lu Tai Cang and walked along with other cultivators towards the entrance of the sky tower.

There was a huge line of cultivators ahead of them. Zhan Chen and the girls had to wait a while before they could see the cultivator incharge of the registration process.

There was a huge stone altar infront of the cultivator in charge of the registration. He instructed Zhan Chen's group to climb it after noting down their basic details.

The altar had one simple function. It could easily see through the skeletal age of a cultivator.

Zhan Qingyue - twenty years old

Zhan Chen - eighteen years old

Li Shu- eighteen years old

Li Yan- eighteen years old

Kai Min- eighteen years old

"Young lady, you can't fight in the first round of the grand sect competition as there is an age restriction of eighteen years. You can participate in the later rounds where the age limit is twenty five years", the cultivator in charge spoke to Zhan Qingyue.

"Senior, I only want to enter inside the sky tower. I have no planning for joining the grand sect competition", Zhan Qingyue replied.

"Each of you have to give hundred spirit stones before you receive your token", the cultivator in charge of registration spoke. Zhan Chen took out five hundred spirit stones and handed it over to the cultivaor infront of him.

The cultivaor took a look at the spirit stones and handed over five tokens to Zhan Chen's group. He also handed over five escape tailsman to Zhan Chen before looking at the other cultivators.

"Kai Min, Li Yan, you two are planning to enter in the grand sect competition, am I right?", Zhan Chen looked towards Kai Min and Li Yan.

"Yes", both of them nodded their heads and waited for Zhan Chen to speak further.

"Then, you two need to be more careful. A participant have to pass through at least two floors of sky tower before he or she was allowed to join in the grand sect competetion", Zhan Chen spoke.

"As for Li Shu and big sis, both of you have no such restrictions. Try to stay as much longer as possible in the sky tower and use the escape tailsman if there is any problem", Zhan Chen spoke.

All the girls nodded their heads and followed behind Zhan Chen. There were two Spirit palace guards at the end of the corridor. They checked the tokens of each one and pointed towards a stone altar infront of them.

"Teleportation formation!", Zhan Chen murmured to himself after checking the stone altar. The altar radiated multicoloured lights after Zhan Chen, Li Shu, Li Yan, Kai Min and Zhan Qingyue climbed on it.

All of them felt dazed for a moment as their bodies vanished from the top of the stone altar.

"Another five have entered. what floor do you think they can climb to?"

"At most third floor. Only some choosen geniuses can enter the fourth floor at their age", the two Spirit palace cultivators talked among themselves.

Their conversation continued while Zhan Chen found himself in a grassy plain. He stood stunned for a moment after seeing the surrounding around him.

"There is clear sky and the sun! What is going on here?", he thought to himself.

There was no one to give him answer. So, he had to suppress his curiousity and walked ahead. The inside of the sky tower was like a real plain. Wind was blowing and there was luxuriant grass all around.

Zhan Chen walked leisurely while waiting for his preys to appear. He didn't have to wait longer as a boar came charging towards him from his left.

Zhan Chen wrapped the boar with his soul consciousness curiously and an amazed look appeared on his face. "An energy body! This tower is really interesting", he thought to himself.

He swung his hand and the body of the boar split into two. Tiny dust like energy particles came out of the body of the boar and floated towards Zhan Chen. It took less than a minute before the body of the boar turned into nothing.

"It is pure energy yet the quantity is miniscue. This ground floor is meant for Essence gathering realm cultivators and Meridian opening realm cultivators", Zhan Chen thought to himself.

After he killed a single boar, two boars came out of nowhere towards him. After finishing the two, two pairs of boars came towards him simultaneously.

"This is meaningless", Zhan Chen murmured after killing the four boars. He walked ahead while killing the boars left and right. He had to walk a while before reaching the entrance of the second floor.

There were two similar looking stone altars in the Northern end of the grassy plain. Zhan Chen immediately knew that the two stone altars could be used for teleportation purpose.

One of the altar had an upward symbol on it. Zhan Chen climbed on it and the teleportation formation activated on it's own.

While he was acting leisurely, he didn't know that someone had taken an interest on him in the sky tower.

It was the highest floor of the sky tower where a creature was floating in the air. There was a curious look on it's face as it observed Zhan Chen with a curious look on it's face.

Zhan Chen couldn't feel any soul consciousness or anything around him but the creature could somehow observe every activity, he was doing.