Oh, there was no need to tell Little A-Xu about something like that. It would hurt his dignity as a master too much.
"Why does Master say that?"
"Nothing. When the time comes, just listen to your sect master's instructions. On this matter, his heart and mine are in the same place." Speaking of this, Divine Venerable Cheng Wei had also heard some gossip. "Last time in Jingyuan City, Jun Zhaoying saved a promising disciple from Bitter Crossing Temple. I heard he was even the son of a divine cultivator—so how did he end up cultivating Buddhism? Tell me about it."
Wen Xu: ...Master had been curious about this for a long time, hadn't he?
Heavy Renovation
The Sect Grand Competition ended amid great fanfare. Some became famous overnight, while others refused to accept defeat and strove to improve. Worth mentioning was the contest between Lin Congcong and Xia Ying for first place in the Foundation Establishment division. In the end, Xia Ying narrowly won by half a move and claimed the championship.
As a result, aside from the Qi Refining division, the top-ranked contestants in this Sect Grand Competition had all come from the same cohort. It gave people the illusion that geniuses had gathered in one heap. In the past, seniors like Xia Ying and Lin Congcong would have been the norm, while people like Little Martial Uncle Ancestor and Martial Uncle Chen were... rare phoenix feathers and qilin horns, seen perhaps once in a century.
And someone like Martial Uncle Bian, who had cultivated a Waste Spiritual Root to such a level, was even more unheard of.
So although some envied the achievements of the three, upon closer thought, those achievements could not be separated from their diligent cultivation. Take no one else but Martial Uncle Chen