Brothers and Sisters!

A moment later.

The five people in the hall straightened, and the atmosphere relaxed at once. Shi Ze looked at Chen Jichuan and clicked his tongue. "Little junior brother, we meet again."

"Senior Brother Shi."

"Thank you for looking after me back at Dongqi Dao Academy."

Chen Jichuan cupped his hands toward Shi Ze.

"No need to thank me. It was no more than a lift of the hand. I never expected that after going out for a stroll and returning just six hundred years later, you'd have advanced to the Fourth Rank and become our little junior brother."

Shi Ze was openhearted and generous. He walked up to Chen Jichuan, making no effort to hide his warmth.

Chen Mo smiled beside them and made the introductions. "This is your twenty-fourth senior brother, Shi Ze. I hardly need to introduce him. And this is your twenty-third senior sister, Snow Valley. She's barely over twenty thousand years old, yet she's already at the Fourth Rank, Fourth Realm. A few days ago, she passed the Twelfth Peak of Sword-Testing Peak."

"Greetings, Senior Sister Snow Valley."

Chen Jichuan looked at the only woman in the hall, astonished.

Passing the Twelfth Peak of Sword-Testing Peak meant different things for different cultivators. A Spirit Transformation cultivator who passed it was still at Spirit Transformation. But for a Fourth-Rank Upper Immortal like Snow Valley, it meant her combat strength stood at the pinnacle of ordinary Fourth-Rank cultivators. The Thirteenth Peak beyond it was one that, for the most part, only Peak Fourth-Rank cultivators who had begun comprehending the Dao could hope to pass.

And strength enough to pass the Twelfth Peak would be sufficient to sweep aside Fourth-Rank cultivators outside the Dao Gate.

"Junior Sister Snow Valley, are you heading out to establish a Dao academy