"Fifth Junior Brother, I'm back!"
Zong Yuan returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and found Mo Xin.
Mo Xin, who had been asleep, instantly opened his eyes and said bitterly, "Fourth Senior Brother, I've finally waited for your return!"
He had been Sect Master for eighteen hundred years!
Which patriarch in all the generations had served for so long?
He had thought Third Senior Brother's hundred-odd years had already been an exceptionally long time. Who would have thought that he himself would be holding down the sect for a full eighteen hundred years...
Wasn't this Fourth Senior Brother's cultivation a little too... thorough?
Zong Yuan said awkwardly, "Fifth Junior Brother, sorry. I truly wanted to cultivate as quickly as possible... I first cultivated in the Lesser Thousand Worlds for more than eight thousand years, then traveled through the worlds of heaven and earth, comprehending the Dao for several hundred years before finally reaching the Dao Treasury Realm.
My talent isn't as good as yours. I could only slowly wear away at it with time.
Now that I'm back, Fifth Junior Brother, you can ascend."
Mo Xin looked at Zong Yuan with a complicated expression. Eight thousand years—wouldn't even an iron rod have been ground into a needle by then?
"If you had returned earlier, you could have directly taken over as Sect Master. No one would have had anything to say." Mo Xin shook his head. "But after being gone for so many years, quite a few Dao Realm cultivators have emerged among the Azure Cloud Sect's Nine Peaks.
They are all qualified to take over as Sect Master.
According to the Rules Master set back then, we need to hold a recommendation.
You must at least obtain the support of five peaks before you qualify to become Sect Master."