After Zhong Yi delivered the Feather Saint Sect's jade decree regarding Wei Tu's disposition to the middle-aged beautiful woman.
The next day, the Liu Clan Chief whom Wei Tu had seen at the Five Clans Auction arrived riding a cloud and summoned Wei Tu to the main hall of Deer Mountain Daoist Grounds.
Her purpose was precisely what Zhong Yi had mentioned: taking Wei Tu as her disciple.
"You are already at the late Golden Core stage and not far from the Nascent Soul Realm. Were you in the lower realm, your current cultivation alone would be enough to found a mountain sect, proclaim yourself an ancestor, and establish your own school..."
"Thus, if you become my disciple, you will naturally be vastly different from Shui'er. Do you understand this?"
Inside the main hall of Deer Mountain Daoist Grounds, the Liu Clan Chief studied the calm-faced, ordinary-looking Wei Tu. After her gaze narrowed slightly for a moment, she spoke these meaningful words.
Her meaning was simple.
Wei Tu was older and at a higher realm. His thoughts were more complicated, and cultivating his loyalty would be far more difficult than with a cultivator like Ruan Shui'er, who had only recently stepped onto the immortal path...
Therefore, when it came to the division of future resources and opportunities within the sect, Wei Tu was destined to rank behind Ruan Shui'er.
This was also an unspoken rule in the cultivation world.
"Outer disciples" expanded the faction's power; "inner disciples" inherited the family estate.
A sect would never allow "outer disciples" to touch its true core inheritance or core resources.
Though these "outer disciples" were called disciples, they were more often sect enforcers bearing a disciple's name, occupying the same position as the "adopted sons" taken in by mortal military commanders.
Still, Wei