The Pill Gourd was handed over to Shui Yuan. Lu Ye left Shouzheng Peak and headed straight for Green Bamboo Peak.
He encountered quite a few junior brothers and sisters soaring about in midair. Upon sensing his aura, they all halted and bowed to him.
Ao Mountain was gradually becoming more lively as well. The disciples accepted in previous years had steadily improved their cultivation. Unlike the first few years after Lu Ye joined the sect, when every return to Ao Mountain found only two or three strays here, leaving the place empty and desolate.
Only now did the Crimson Blood Sect truly possess the bearing a sect ought to have!
The younger generation of disciples came in an unbroken stream, while those accepted in earlier years saw their cultivation steadily rise. Only by passing the torch from generation to generation, carrying on the past and opening the way to the future, could a sect flourish and prosper.
Lu Ye ran into several familiar faces, all from the earliest batch to join the Crimson Blood Sect. Most of them had now reached the Cloud River Realm.
Compared with the speed of his own advancement, their cultivation was progressing very slowly. Yet this was actually the normal pace of a cultivator's journey.
Not to mention Lu Ye himself—even Hua Ci, Jujia, and the others were people of peerless talent. Coupled with sufficient Battle Merit and Merit, this was how they had left ordinary people far behind in cultivation speed.
The Crimson Blood Sect was now thriving as a whole, but it still lacked high-end combat power. This was not something that could be resolved in a short time. Only when the endless stream of disciples advanced to the True Lake Realm and Divine Sea Realm in the future would the situation