Today, guests arrived at Crow Mountain.
A man and a woman. The woman was Gu Yange of Youzhou's Pipa Peak, a Grandmaster newly ranked among the Ten People of the martial assessment.
Of Master Lin's four direct disciples, two were at the Two Extremes Realm and two at the Peak Realm.
The eldest disciple was Zhao Hechong. He was now the one truly handling affairs at Crow Mountain, a Limitless Martial Cultivator who had long since made his name.
The second disciple, Qi Huajian, was respectfully called Madam Qi on the mountain. She was a full-figured woman of exceptional charm, and she too was at the Limitless Realm.
A certain Mr. Zhu of Ruzhou and his close friend Sect Master Lu had respectively praised Madam Qi as "lushly alluring" and "coolly glamorous."
There were also Zong Xuequan and the youngest disciple Song Yue, both now very young Peak Realm Martial Cultivators.
Rumor had it that Zhao Hechong, the eldest disciple, had not been included in the martial assessment rankings because Master Lin had warned Self-destruction Mountain in advance: if his eldest disciple made the list, Self-destruction Mountain's Martial Cultivators need never be ranked again. Of course, this claim had never been verified and could not be investigated.
The key was that Lin Jiangxian had accepted only these four disciples, yet every one of them had become accomplished and risen into a martial arts giant.
Speaking of Yuan He, the former abbot of Xuan Du Temple whose Daoist name was "Qingyuan," his aptitude for taking disciples truly was something others could only envy.
Yet before Yuan He's seven direct disciples—Wang Sun, Sun Huaizhong, and the others—he had taken several earlier groups of personal disciples, adding up bit by bit to nearly twenty people.
Lin Jiangxian, meanwhile, had taken in four martial