To prevent further complications, Elder Xiao took Tian Lin to a side room for a secret discussion. Afterward, he left the room and handed over the formula of the Heart Inquiry Pill to the sect leader Zhou.
Sect leader Zhou glanced over the formula twice before handing it to the Great Elder.
As the Great Elder took the formula and entered the side room to try refining the elixir, Sect leader Zhou took off a tag from his waist, seemingly made of wood but not wood, and handed it to Tian Lin:
"Every disciple of our Heart Inquiry Sect has such a tag. Now that you have cultivated the Heart Inquiry Skill, although you are not a member of the Zhou family, you are also considered a disciple of our sect."
Tian Lin took the tag and looked at it briefly, noting that the front of the wood tag was engraved with the words 'Heart Inquiry', while the back had an asymmetrical ten-character phrase: 'Holding the pen to draw the worldly society, watching the universe from the palm.'
