"At your age, why are you still so flustered? What kind of behavior is this?!"
Seeing this, Old Ancestor Banshan could not help but frown and rebuke him.
Generally speaking, forms of address and seniority among cultivators were ranked according to the height of one's Cultivation Realm.
For instance, if a cultivator who entered the sect later broke through to the Spirit Wandering realm, then even an Inner Sect disciple at the Out of Body Stage realm who had entered several decades earlier would have to address him as Senior Brother.
If the former took on an even higher position, such as that of a steward elder, the latter might even have to call him Martial Uncle in public!
Such was the hierarchy of the Cultivation World, where the strong were revered.
Yet there were exceptions to this.
One of them was fellow disciples who had entered under the same Master and thus shared a closer relationship!
Among fellow disciples of the same Master,
their seniority was generally determined by the order in which they entered the sect.
Even if a Junior Brother who entered later surpassed a Senior Brother who entered earlier in strength,
their identities as Senior Brother and Junior Brother would still be ranked by the order of entry, with little change.
Wu Tianhao and Shen Changchuan were one such example.
Even though Shen Changchuan's current strength had long surpassed that of Wu Tianhao, who had once brought him into the sect, by an unknown margin, and had also exceeded Wei Yuting, Hong Yang, and the others,
he still addressed them all as Senior Brothers for precisely this reason!
That was because those under the same Master
shared closer bonds as master and disciples, as well as fellow disciples!
The relationships linked together through the same Master