The Kongtong Secret Realm.
Golden Mountain's Hanging Peak was where Kongtong disciples underwent trials and where punishments were carried out before witnesses.
Many Xu disciples had just watched a punishment and were now lost in their own thoughts.
Afterward, quite a few gathered at the Stone Pavilion on the North Peak. A jade ranking board hung inside.
The Starweave Ranking.
"Senior Brother Qiao Dongzi and the others went a little too far, but I can understand what they were thinking. They just felt that a newcomer shouldn't get all the benefits, and that the elders were showing her favoritism."
"She was brought in from some minor sect in Shu to begin with. She joined us halfway through, yet the Legacy she received belongs to our sect. And she alone reaped all the benefits and ascended to the heavens in a single step."
"Her Dao Foundation is far too flimsy, like a candle flame in the wind. She's only eighth grade on the Starweave Ranking! What a waste of an opportunity!"
"What are you muttering about?"
Suddenly, a female cultivator descended on a beam of light. Bright-eyed and white-toothed, she wore robes aglow with rosy clouds. She smiled faintly at the group. "You know what happens if word gets out that you're talking about Little Martial Aunt behind her back, don't you? You saw Qiao Dongzi and the others punished just now with your own eyes."
"Third Senior Sister!"
The disciples who had been talking jumped in fright, then relaxed when they saw who it was.
One said, "Senior Sister, we just can't accept it. Little Martial Aunt was born into the Imperial Clan of a mortal dynasty and grew up in silks, eating delicacies. Then she entered the mountain to cultivate, and because she's a Reincarnated Immortal, she got