The Tianhe Sect placed great importance on the Ascension Ceremony. That sounded like a meaningless statement.
Yet different people could hear different implications in it.
Li Qing's eyes flickered slightly as thoughts raced through his mind.
"Could something unusual happen at this Ascension Ceremony? Or does the Tianhe Sect intend to use this to draw something out?"
The Cultivation World had been anything but peaceful lately. First there were the Flying Eagle Bandits, then the Tianhe Sect's Spirit Stone Mine was attacked.
Even now, they had yet to determine who the culprit was.
What was certain was that some force or faction of unknown origin was definitely watching the Tianhe Sect in secret.
Before long, Li Qing recalled a piece of intelligence regarding the Tianhe Sect, something he had heard at a previous trade fair.
A Core Formation ancestor of the Tianhe Sect had taken in a final disciple with a Heavenly Spiritual Root!
Putting himself in their shoes, Li Qing's lips twitched faintly as an unusual conjecture arose in his heart.
Could the Tianhe Sect be planning to use that Heavenly Spiritual Root disciple as bait, letting them shine brilliantly at the Ascension Ceremony and thus lure out the force secretly targeting them?!
On further thought, that really did seem possible—and not unlikely at all!
At once, much of Li Qing's slight envy toward that exceptionally talented disciple vanished.
"Looks like joining a sect is not all good. Once you bear a sect's mark, some things will no longer be within your control."
Though rogue cultivators lived from one day to the next, never knowing whether tomorrow would come, they at least enjoyed freedom.
If one had to judge which was better, joining an Immortal Dao Sect was certainly more appealing: stable spirit stone stipends, the protection of a