Of the Ancient World's Ten Heroes and four candidates, two of those candidates were presently here: Sage of Ritual and Mr. Three Mountains and Nine Marquis.
Judging by cultivation realm, they should have been divided into three tiers. The first tier was naturally Sage of Ritual, Mr. Three Mountains and Nine Marquis, and Zheng Juzhong—all three Fourteenth Realm cultivators.
Then came Yu Xuan, Lü Yan, Bai Jing, and Xiao Mo, who had yet to unite with the Dao and enter the Fourteen Realms.
At the bottom, naturally, was Chen Ping'an, who was not even in the Upper Five Realms for the time being.
Li-Xisheng alone had a rather special identity, making his true realm and cultivation extremely difficult to define precisely.
If calculated solely by Dao age, the order should have been Mr. Three Mountains and Nine Marquis, Xiao Mo, Bai Jing, Sage of Ritual, Yu Xuan, Lü Yan, Zheng Juzhong, Li Xisheng, and Chen Ping'an.
As for Li-Xisheng of today, future White Jade Capital Great Sect Master Kou Ming, White Emperor City's Zheng Juzhong, and Pure Yang Lü Yan, Venerable Master Confucius believed all of them had hopes of joining the future Ten Heroes of the World.
So no matter how one counted it, Chen Ping'an was the one at the bottom.
Still, though he was young, Chen Ping'an had seen plenty of grand scenes. He was not so flustered as to lose his bearings. His Dao heart was still water; he simply did what needed to be done.
When Chen Ping'an followed Zheng Juzhong's reminder and withdrew those fragments of consciousness, each differing in weight and size—
The "Chen Ping'an" on the first floor of Luopo Mountain's Bamboo Building, who had been copying several Daoist texts, instantly went blank-faced and wooden, maintaining his posture with brush raised for