After achieving Nascent Soul True Lord, True Lord Zhan Yuan immediately announced another bombshell.
He would be taking up a teaching position in Evil Slaying University's Evil Slaying Department and competing for the vacant post of Deputy Director.
Taihua Tianji wasn't the only one eyeing the Deputy Director's seat. Another contender was a Sword Dao True Lord from the Evil Slaying Sword Sect, who had broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm five years ago: Yang Hao True Lord.
On the same day Taihua Tianji announced his candidacy for Deputy Director of the Evil Slaying Department, Yang Hao True Lord also made a high-profile announcement that he would become one of the department's new instructors.
Yang Hao True Lord's résumé was every bit as impressive as Taihua Tianji's, if not more so.
He had already led teams to conquer three Medium-sized Worlds occupied by the demonic path, and the Yang Hao Sword Sect he founded was a renowned major sect throughout the federation.
This stood in stark contrast to Taihua Tianji, who seemed to ruin every field he worked in.
Still, Taihua Tianji had one enormous advantage: he was young.
He was a full thirty years younger than Yang Hao True Lord!
He had formed his Nascent Soul twenty-five years younger than Yang Hao True Lord had.
A mere twenty-five years seemed like nothing to Nascent Soul True Lords, whose lifespans exceeded a thousand years.
But this touched on the question of potential.
The modern Cultivation World generally believed that cultivators who formed their Nascent Soul before the age of fifty were far more likely to become Spirit Transmutation Heavenly Lords than those who did so after fifty.
That twenty-five-year age gap put Taihua Tianji in the former group and Yang Hao True Lord in the latter.
So even though