"Chu Shixiong!"
At that moment, a voice came from below.
Chu Mu turned to look, only to see Xu Changqing striding over the waves atop the spirit lake.
His aura was restrained, yet it was not difficult to tell that he had already reached the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
After years of the Demon Calamity, in order to make up for its previous severe losses, the Longevity Sect had thrown open its sect treasury. So long as they were elite Longevity Sect disciples who had survived, resources for their cultivation were supplied without restraint.
Later, the sect had directly and formally accepted all disciples with False Spiritual Roots or better from the inheritance secret realm into the Longevity Gate, sweeping up nearly every disciple in that secret realm with decent aptitude in one net.
As for Xu Changqing, as far as Chu Mu knew, he had broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm with exceptional ease in the second year after the Demon Calamity erupted, becoming another new Grand Elder of the Longevity Sect after Chu Mu.
Only...
This address of "Shixiong"...
Chu Mu's expression turned strange.
After forming his Nascent Soul, the way he addressed the Longevity Sect Master and Xu Lingtian, the Peeking Truth Lineage Master, had changed from the former address of senior to Shixiong.
And Xu Changqing was calling him Shixiong as well...
These seniority ties... were a little tangled! In but an instant, Chu Mu cast this stray thought from his mind. If anyone was to blame, it could only be that he was not an orthodox Longevity Sect disciple and had never taken a master. Strictly speaking, he was perhaps more like someone existing outside the Longevity Sect's system.
Within the Longevity Sect, he had neither a master nor any disciples. Of the fellow