"But why did Master Song perish without any warning? I remember that he had only passed his third Great Heavenly Tribulation a little over a thousand years ago. Could he have encountered danger while away from home?"
A question immediately arose from among the walkers.
"I do not know the specifics either, but I heard that Master Song met Ancestor Xuling before his death, and something happened afterward. Even stranger, the two Jin Fu Seniors, who had originally been qualified to succeed to the position of Zhai Master, chose to give up one after another."
A Mayfly Cultivator named Ling Feng, dressed in a green robe with wind patterns on his face, said with a doubtful expression.
"The successor is not one of the two Jin Fu Seniors? Then who could it be?!"
This gathering could be said to be the most complete assembly of Canghu walkers in the past several thousand years. Other than those with pressing matters that kept them away, nearly all of them were now gathered in this Heavenly Book Pavilion.
One of their main purposes in coming today was to meet the new Zhai Master.
After all, although the Zhai Master did not hold the power of life and death over walkers like them, maintaining a good relationship would certainly make things more convenient in the future.
Yet even Lei Yunzi had not known that the new Zhai Master was not one of the two seniors he had expected!
"I do not know, but his cultivation surely cannot be too high. Otherwise, he would certainly be well known."
Ling Feng shook his head.
Upon hearing this, Lei Yunzi's eyes shifted as he raised a jade cup. His hand then paused, and he said:
"On my way here, I encountered an alien cultivator surnamed Luo. He