Feng Jun's Core Embrace celebration could not really be called grand, but neither was it shabby.
To say nothing else, none of Red Phoenix's three Merit Honorees who had achieved Core Embrace had held a Core Embrace celebration—yet they were Red Phoenix disciples. Shouldn't achieving Core Embrace warrant a ceremony?
Theoretically, it should have. Red Phoenix ranked among the Four Great Sects; if someone achieved Core Embrace, shouldn't there be a celebration?
But in reality... there was no way to go into detail. The more one said, the more tears there were.
Whether it was a lower sect or an Upper Sect, lineage mattered. If an Emergence from Dust Adept recorded in the registers successfully achieved Core Embrace, it was certainly an event worth celebrating at length. When Xiaomeng achieved Core Embrace, for example, the Red Phoenix Sect had sent out many invitations.
But upon closer calculation, Xiaomeng and Qu Jianlei had always been bickering rivals, and they were about the same age. Qu Jianlei was even somewhat younger than both Nie Chifeng and Guan Hongxiu.
In other words, when Guan Hongxiu and Nie Chifeng had been making waves within the Red Phoenix Sect, Xiaomeng had still lagged behind them. But the two of them had fallen, and Xiaomeng had risen. It was that simple.
So one could imagine how Guan Hongxiu and Nie Chifeng felt when Xiaomeng achieved Core Embrace and the Red Phoenix Sect sent invitations everywhere.
There was definitely some jealousy; there was no need to deny that. The key was that, at the time, the two of them were already finished.
When Qu Jianlei achieved Core Embrace, Red Phoenix had held a small celebration internally. But he was only a guest elder, so the scale had been limited to begin with. Besides, he wanted to conceal