Chapter 395: The Origin Martial Way: "Please vote with your monthly tickets!"
When the Zhou, Bai, Chen, and other lineages heard the news, their initial delight soon gave way to anxious preparations.
They had participated in more than one Xu Clan Tournament and knew full well how strong the Xu Household's own descendants were.
Stroking his beard, Zhou Zongdan told his lineage's juniors, "This is the first Clan Tournament since Patriarch Xu emerged from seclusion. Its significance is extraordinary.
"If you can make the patriarch and elders regard you more highly during the tournament, that alone will count as success.
"As for the top thirty-two, only Zuyuan and perhaps one or two others have any hope."
"Household Head, this Xu Clan Tournament is divided into the Youth Showcase Tournament and the Sixty-Year Tournament. You fall within the age limit for the Sixty-Year Tournament. Will you participate?" a young Zhou Household disciple asked.
"Of course," Zhou Zongdan replied. "But with my cultivation at the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, I'll need some luck to break into the top thirty-two."
More than a dozen Xu Household descendants were at Foundation Establishment late stage or higher.
Among the other disciples they had recruited, quite a few had reached Foundation Establishment middle stage—over twenty, in fact.
Most were immortal seedlings the Xu Household had recruited in its early years.
Back then, the Xu Household had supplied them with resources without restriction.
Only several years after Xu Chuan and the others left for Southern Heaven had that policy changed.
But that, too, was an inevitable part of the lineage's growth.
Then there were the previous Foundation Establishment early-stage cultivators, along with those who had broken through to that stage over the past six months or so.
The number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in Dongxi already