A piece of news—or rather, an established fact—quickly spread among the Luo Tian Association's fewer than one hundred cultivators.
The Luo Tian Association had gained a "President"!
This was a new position, unlike hall masters, elders, stewards, or even minor managers.
Yet everyone accepted it quickly.
President, as the name implied, "gathering matters together and making judgments upon them."
It was hardly strange for such a position to appear.
In a Cultivation Family, it would be the family head, second only to the Clan Leader.
Within a sect, it would be the sect leader or Sect Master, second only to the Supreme Elder.
The role was to handle and decide the myriad trivial affairs on behalf of the true leader of the faction.
The Luo Tian Association had merely chosen a more plainspoken and easily understood title.
What puzzled the cultivators was that the position of President had not gone to the familiar Murong Qinglian, nor to Qin Liangchen, who held an empty title, had little to do, yet shared a close relationship with the Chairman.
Instead, it had gone to a female cultivator from the Gold Hall.
Sima Hui Niang!
Everyone was fairly familiar with her.
She was the principal figure of the Sima Three Cultivators, a famous small group of independent cultivators in Great River Market.
She had always enjoyed considerable fame outside. She carried herself with grace and composure, knew when to advance and when to retreat, and could be both gentle and firm in her methods.
After entering the Luo Tian Association, she had drawn much attention as one of its four female cultivators at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
Of the Luo Tian Association's four female cultivators at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, Granny Yuan was advanced in years, while Murong Qinglian's heart already belonged