After deciding how to obtain management rights over Tianmu Star, everyone continued celebrating. Huangfu Qiye and the other juniors, including Long Xing, actually began placing bets on which faction would secure the rights. Ling Tian listened for a moment and saw that the odds against Lingxiao Pavilion were extremely low. He couldn't help feeling rather pleased. Lingxiao Pavilion was finally growing strong.
Although everyone was drinking and celebrating, they all had their own thoughts. Most of the people from factions hostile to Lingxiao Pavilion, such as Ten Thousand Swords Cliff and Thunderclap Pavilion, wore grave expressions—especially after learning that Chong Lou had joined Lingxiao Pavilion. Chong Lou had a rather distinguished standing in the Cultivation World and represented the younger generation of Tianyin Temple. His joining Lingxiao Pavilion said a great deal.
What was more, everyone remembered how Chong Lou and the others had performed at the previous Cultivator Assembly. If Chong Lou joined Lingxiao Pavilion, then even without counting allies like Hua Min'er and Tian Xin, Lingxiao Pavilion alone would have four enforcers. That would undoubtedly give the pavilion considerable influence in the Cultivation World, making Shangguan Longyin and the others even more wary.
Ling Tian had no idea what everyone else was thinking. As he drank, his heart gave a sudden jolt, and then he was overjoyed: he sensed that his true body in the Small World had awakened. Xiao Shi's ancestral inheritance had come to an end.
Inside Shi Tian's core space, Ling Tian had already awakened. He rose to his feet and surveyed his surroundings.
The spiritual energy in the core space was now countless times thinner than before. The Demon Core had also shrunk considerably, its energy nearly exhausted. The Demon Core orbiting around it still rotated by instinct, but far more slowly.
"Ling Tian,