This Medicine Ceremony ended in a humiliating fashion the Yao Clan had not experienced in several hundred thousand years—an unexpected ending, but undoubtedly the most humiliating one possible.
Along with news of this Medicine Ceremony, renowned throughout the Dou Qi Continent, three other major pieces of news spread across the land: Lu Yuan, the youngest Three-Star Dou Sheng in history; Venerable Yao, the master of Starfall Pavilion, appearing in public once more after a century; and the Yao Clan calming Yao Chen and the others' anger at the cost of one Seven Star Dou Sheng and one Four-Star Dou Sheng.
Any one of those three pieces of news was an absolute bombshell.
Thus, only a small number of people paid attention to the information they wanted, losing interest in the rest that they neither wanted to know nor cared about.
Most people were left reeling by those three explosive bits of gossip.
After all, even amid the current chaotic situation, those three stories had the potential to remain popular for a long time and become topics of after-dinner gossip.
And that was indeed the case.
To independent cultivators unaffiliated with the Ancient Eight Clans, Lu Yuan becoming a Dou Saint at the age of twenty—the youngest Dou Saint ever—was undoubtedly a remarkable piece of news, not some sensationalized inside information. They were naturally curious about how Lu Yuan had become a Dou Saint. After all, most people at his age were merely Dou Zhe or Dou Masters. The occasional exceptionally gifted individual might at most reach Da Dou Shi, nowhere near the level of a Dou Ling or Dou Emperor. That was the reality for independent cultivators without resources or backing. It was impossible for Lu Yuan to become one of the strongest experts standing at the pinnacle of the