Dongyang Zi, Lingkun Zi, and Zen Master Dejie exchanged glances and laughed in unison.
Lu Zheng had only emerged recently. He had not even traveled through the various provinces of the realm, and aside from showing his face at White Cloud Temple's New Year Dharma Assembly, where the major sects of Sanjiang Province had gotten to know him, he had interacted with few people in the cultivation world.
Although he had visited the Jinhua Sect and Flying Feather Mountain, toured Red Cloud Temple and Fahua Temple in Zhongjing, and come to know experts from Qingwei Palace, Pure Yang Palace, and the Heavenly Evasion Sect, word had not spread far. He remained little known, spending his days holed up in his own Tonglin County, enjoying his leisure.
Truth be told, both Green Physician Goddess and Peach Blossom Fairy were more famous than he was.
Yet in the eyes of those who knew him and understood the inside story, Lu Zheng carried far more weight than Liu Qingyan and Shen Ying.
After all, Lu Zheng deserved part of the credit for Shen Ying and Liu Qingyan's reputations. Even their cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds because of him.
In the eyes of White Cloud Temple's disciples, Lu Zheng had already been considered the figure who would hold up White Cloud Temple's banner in the generation after Real Person Qing Song.
Of course, that had been before. Dongyang Zi no longer thought so now. Real Person Qing Song's next generation would have to continue searching and nurturing talent.
Perhaps before even a hundred years had passed, Lu Zheng would already ascend with Si Lingxi.
Mm, and probably Shen Ying and Liu Qingyan as well.
So enviable...
As Dongyang Zi pondered this, Lingkun Zi on the other side said somewhat sourly, "White Cloud