"Patriarch Zhou"!

The Great Expansion Tournament.

It had once been one of the Divine Land's greatest events, hosted by the Divine Land Heavenly Court with the Four Great Dao Sects joining in the grand occasion. Fourth-rank cultivators competed for supremacy, vying for the top spots in the Cauldron-Claiming Realm's four realms. The winners could enter the Great Expansion Go Board to seek an opportunity to attain the Dao.

Long ago.

Chen Jichuan had participated in one such tournament.

It had been the last tournament of the old era, and also its most glorious. Every champion of the four realms had attained the Dao.

It had even produced a legendary figure like Patriarch Dong Qi.

But after the new era began and the Heavenly Court was reestablished, True Immortals emerged one after another, instantly eclipsing the Great Expansion Tournament and the Great Expansion Go Board.

The One Origin Dao Sect could produce over a hundred new True Immortals every ten thousand years. By comparison, the Great Expansion Go Board offered only four places, without even guaranteeing that all four would attain the Dao. It truly inspired little interest.

It was nowhere near as direct as attending lectures under Patriarch Zhou.

Thus, the first two Great Expansion Tournaments after the Heavenly Court's reestablishment were rather lackluster affairs. Although many fourth-rank cultivators from within and outside the Dao Sect still participated enthusiastically, and their numbers and quality were not necessarily inferior to those of the Four Dao Sects era.

Whenever they thought of how there were ultimately only four places, perhaps producing just one or two True Immortals, many True Lords and Star Lords in the Heavenly Court felt there was little point.

A grand event held once every 490,000 years, only to produce one or two True Immortals?

In that time, Patriarch Zhou would