The next day, inside the sect hall of Tian Yue Peak, the main peak of the Moon Gazing Sect.
"Greetings, Martial Uncle Ning!"
A resounding, perfectly synchronized shout rang through the hall.
Thirty or forty Core Formation Cultivators bowed in salute.
At the front of the hall sat four Nascent Soul Cultivators. One of them, a handsome and elegant young man, smiled. "Nephews, no need for such formality."
Only then did the Core Formation Cultivators rise and return to their seats.
Some still could not suppress their curiosity and secretly studied this newly joined Nascent Soul Elder of the sect. They could not help being astonished by his youth, but their faces remained thoroughly respectful, not daring to reveal the slightest oddity.
At that moment, True Monarch Cangya, seated in the seat of honor, smiled and said, "All right. Since you have all met Junior Brother Ning, you may leave for now."
At his words, the Core Formation Cultivators filed out one after another.
Ning Fa's gaze lingered for an extra moment on a beautiful woman in a blue dress, a flicker of something unusual passing through his eyes.
Beside Ning Fa, a gentle-looking middle-aged man in a scholar's robe looked at him with curiosity and said warmly with a smile:
"Junior Brother Ning, it is truly regrettable that I failed to witness your heavenly tribulation. Senior Brother Cangya said that the circumstances of your tribulation were a sight rarely seen in the mortal world."
This middle-aged man was Duan Ming, another Nascent Soul Cultivator of the Moon Gazing Sect, at the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
It was plain to the naked eye that his complexion was somewhat grayish-white, as though his vitality had been gravely damaged.
This was because, during the previous battle over that Golden Abyss between Qiyuan