If I followed the usual path, step by step, I'd fade into the crowd before long!
So why not make the most of my strengths?
His mind made up, Tang Changsheng ignored True Lord Wu's objections and declared, "This disciple is willing!"
At those words, even the Sect Leader's disciple who had just been scolded until his face turned ashen lost all hostility toward Tang Changsheng. There was even a trace of pity in his gaze.
Sect Leader Chen laughed heartily. "In that case, the Order won't shortchange you. You'll receive triple the usual allotment!"
Both True Lord Wu and the Sect Leader's disciple reacted visibly. Clearly, those three shares Sect Leader Chen had mentioned were no small sum.
The Sect Leader's disciple, in particular, wore an expression that shifted between light and shadow.
"I'll follow all the Sect Leader's arrangements," Tang Changsheng said.
Once Tang Changsheng and the Sect Leader's disciple had withdrawn, True Lord Wu began to complain. "Junior Brother, even if you couldn't bear to part with a fine set of Daoist Grounds, you didn't have to exile Tang Changsheng to Cloudtail Mountain!
"He may not have grown up among us on Great Expansion Peak, but he has rendered great service to our lineage and to the Taiyi Immortal Sword Order..."
Sect Leader Chen smiled. "Senior Brother, where did you get that idea? Now that we've accepted Tang Changsheng as a direct-line True Disciple, we'll treat him the same as everyone else. Why would we deliberately suppress or exile him?
"The truth is, we've only made cursory surveys of most of Nine-Chamber Mountain. We've never explored it thoroughly.
"Especially the newly formed lands. We know even less about those. Some places might rival Shangyuan Mountain!"
True Lord Wu knew he had a point. The Taiyi Immortal Sword