What's with that look you're giving me, like I'm some defeated loser?

Meanwhile.

Chi Jiuyu's cave abode.

Living room.

Chi Jiuyu leaned against the sofa, looking like she wasn't in the best of moods.

Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei were sitting beside her.

Over the past fifty years, the three of them had stayed in frequent contact and had even teamed up to complete Ascension missions several times.

"You two have probably heard, right?" Chi Jiuyu sighed.

Zhao Ruohan pressed her lips together.

"Yeah."

She had heard the news from her mother too.

She knew she would be sent out of the Great Profound Realm along with the other cultivators below Void Return, and wouldn't be able to come back until everything was over.

Knowing exactly what was going on, yet being powerless to do anything about it...

It was unbearable.

"What did the Supreme Dao Sect say?"

"They'll choose an acting Sect Master to temporarily stabilize the situation in the Time Branch, but they haven't settled on a candidate yet."

The Supreme Dao Sect's ways...

If you knew, you knew.

Things had improved over the past fifty years, but it would probably take quite a while to correct everything completely.

The cultivators between Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation, in particular, were the worst hit by the Dao of Cowardice.

"Most likely, my brother will end up as acting Sect Master."

Brother Dog was going to be acting Sect Master?

"Then it'll probably be you for the Sword Sect, right?" Ye Zhiwei suddenly said.

Unlike the disappointment and melancholy plain on the other two's faces, she seemed much calmer.

"Probably." Chi Jiuyu didn't look particularly excited. "After all, I'm first on the Sword Rankings. There isn't a single Spirit Transformation cultivator who can beat me."

The two of them fell silent.

What arrogance...

But it was also the truth. They couldn't argue