Over all these years since becoming his disciple, Zhang Wan had only met Martial Ancestor Qin Kexing once.
But at that time, his cultivation had still been shallow, and he had been completely unremarkable. He had barely exchanged a word with Martial Ancestor.
He only knew that Martial Ancestor was the head of the Dust Bone Branch, and that the heads and vice heads of the First Branch and Fourth Branch under the Dust Bone Branch were all Martial Ancestor's disciples. He was also senior and junior in the same sect with the Vice Branch Head of the Dust Bone Branch, and the two of them were both disciples of the Spirit Planter Hall Master.
The Spirit Planter Hall Master and Vice Hall Master were both disciples of the sect's Old Ancestor Jade Bone.
The entire upper echelon of the Jade Bone Sect was passed down through this kind of master-and-disciple inheritance, with Old Ancestor Jade Bone as the source.
But the fact that the sect's upper echelon were all senior and junior brothers and sisters did not mean that competition between them was any less fierce.
Take the Dust Bone Branch alone.
It could be simply divided into the Qin Kexing faction and the Xu Niannan faction.
Qin Kexing and Xu Niannan were senior and junior in the same sect. They jointly controlled the Dust Bone Branch and had a close relationship, but this in no way prevented the people in their two factions from fighting tooth and nail over benefits.
The First Branch and Fourth Branch of the Dust Bone Branch both belonged to Qin Kexing's faction.
Yet there was competition between the two branches as well.
In fact, because Wang Yue and Li Guannian of the Fourth Branch were nearing the end of their lifespans, many of