Heart of Disobedience

Qiao Gu, Jiang Guo, Bai Jingming, Jing Mei, and others led two hundred thousand outer sect disciples to pay their respects to the sect master.

Chen Shi sat in Biyou Palace to receive the great bows of the assembly, his gaze searching all around, though he saw no trace of Crippled Jiao. He felt a lingering reluctance in his heart, knowing Crippled Jiao had already departed.

Crippled Jiao was an inconspicuous figure within the Jie Sect; during the bloodbath of the War of Punishing Shang back then, he had slipped through the net simply because he was too insignificant. Later, when Sage Tongtian reincarnated to become the Master, he followed as one of the Master's three thousand disciples.

He followed the Master, relocating Golden Ao Island to fly into the Earthly Immortal Realm, and after the Master departed, he became the sole guardian of Golden Ao Island.

What he guarded was not only Golden Ao Island, but equally the Master's lineage.

Now that he handed the position of sect master over to Chen Shi, he could finally lay down his heavy burden and pursue his own ideals.

"Uncle-Master Jiao, may you avenge your grievances, wash away your past humiliation, and successfully cultivate into a Zenith Heaven!"

Following the ceremony, Chen Shi wielded broad axes and heavy halberds to reform the structure of Golden Ao Island.

Golden Ao Island now possessed twenty hundred thousand outer sect disciples, yet only a little over ten inner sect disciples; the inner circle was light while the outer was heavy, which was severely uncoordinated.

Chen Shi permitted these twenty hundred thousand outer sect disciples to pass the Dao Comprehension Cliff examinations one by one, and anyone capable of advancing to the fourth move could become an inner sect disciple. This was the first measure.

Secondly,