Liu Xingyu was a guest elder stationed by the Grand Void Sect in East City, Yiyao, a Nascent Soul, Third Layer cultivator.
He had only come to Heavenly Zither after forming his Nascent Soul in the lower realm. He was not much of a student—he had been over seven hundred years old when he formed his Nascent Soul.
To the Grand Void Sect, cultivators like him were neither here nor there. If he wanted to leave, Grand Void would not say a word to keep him.
Moreover, he was not a proper disciple dispatched from Grand Void. He had merely stumbled upon Grand Void's inheritance by chance. Though he desperately wanted to remain with Grand Void, he could hardly find anyone willing to speak for him.
Fortunately, he had one redeeming point: he had once damaged his foundation in a fight, delaying him for more than three hundred years. Without those three hundred lost years, he should have formed his Nascent Soul at around four hundred.
By that calculation, he could barely be considered a genius, perhaps?
But in truth, no cultivator's path toward the Dao was Smooth Sailing. Who had not licked their wounds at home?
Still, his attitude was firm enough that the Grand Void Sect gave him a guest elder position. As for what came next, that depended on his own efforts.
After becoming a guest elder, Liu Xingyu kept an extremely low profile and voluntarily requested an assignment outside the sect. Cultivation conditions were better within the Grand Void Sect, but local postings brought some extra income and, more importantly, freedom.
Yiyao happened to have a vacant post and lacked a Nascent Soul cultivator to oversee it, so he came. Ever since arriving, he had performed well: punishing those who needed punishment, providing aid where aid