Ten days later.
Dao Alliance, Tianxia Immortal City, inside an antique hall.
"Greetings, Head Meng! Greetings, two Heads!"
Zhou Ling led the seven cultivators who had participated in the trial and clasped his hands in salute to the three Heads present.
"Good, good, good!"
"Zhou Ling, you did brilliantly this time and brought glory to our Dao Alliance!"
"First place in the trial—this is something the Dao Alliance has never achieved in all these years."
Head Meng said excitedly.
Even though he had thought highly of Zhou Ling, he had never expected him to claim first place in the trial outright.
This had never happened in the Dao Alliance's tens of thousands of years of history.
For many years, they had been suppressed by the Heavenly Palace and the Immortal Gate.
At times, they had even fared worse than the Wild Domain.
Yet this time, Zhou Ling had crossed the two great mountains of the Heavenly Palace and the Immortal Gate in one stride.
He had fulfilled their long-held wish.
Most crucially, with first place in this trial, the Dao Alliance would hold the greatest say in the Four Great Grotto-Heavens for the next ten years.
"Refining Baleful-Mist Absorbing Stones, slaying two Fifth Order Golden-Eyed Spirit Race commanders, and destroying a Sixth Order Blood Eye."
"To achieve such results in merely half a year, you are indeed worthy of being the Chief Inspector of our Inspection Division."
The dignified middle-aged man on the right, clad in a profound yellow robe, spoke up.
"Head Lin overpraises me!"
"It was also everyone's cooperation, along with a bit of luck!"
Zhou Ling clasped his hands toward the man.
This man was Lin Zegong, Head of the Inspection Division.
It was also Zhou Ling's first time meeting him.
"No need for modesty. The combat