The closer the Sect Competition drew, the livelier the sect became.
Evasive Lights crisscrossed between its peaks and branches.
Disciples visited one another frequently.
Using the Sect Competition as an excuse, disciples who had rarely ventured beyond their own peaks began meeting fellow sect members elsewhere.
Rather than an internal contest, it looked more like a stage the sect had built to help its disciples grow familiar with one another.
In the mortal world, they would have called it making friends through martial arts.
But disciples determined to place well had no intention of wasting the opportunity. Each did everything possible to strengthen themselves.
Trades in pills, talismans, Magic Treasures, and Magic Tools kept climbing.
The Su Ling Sect's Marketplace and shops in the surrounding immortal cities were raking in profits.
On Jade Spring Peak,
Wan Jiuzhang was still in charge. Beneath his kindly brows, his aura had grown ever more profound.
Clearly, he had not neglected his cultivation over the past few decades.
He watched the junior brothers, junior sisters, and disciples he had taken in gather before him, then nodded with satisfaction.
Thanks to their master, True Person Yao Xi, Jade Spring Peak enjoyed considerable renown within the Su Ling Sect. In truth, though, it had produced relatively few accomplished disciples.
Compared with True Person Zhi Bei, another of the Su Ling Seven Truths, it fell far behind.
True Person Zhi Bei was He Yuan, after all. He personally oversaw the entire Alchemy Institute, had disciples of his own, and had a family behind him as well.
Throughout the Su Ling Sect, he stood above everyone except the eight Spirit Transformation elders.
Yet through Wan Jiuzhang's efforts over the years, promising younger figures had gradually emerged on Jade Spring Peak.
Junior Sister Liu Muhan, standing at the front,