Tongtian froze. He had no recollection whatsoever of this so-called sect assembly or any ranking of prodigies.
"The sect assembly? What's that?"
At his question, Kuxiu could only smile bitterly.
"Sect Master, you really do know very little about these matters."
"Then again, it's hardly surprising. Apart from me, who likes wandering around when I have nothing to do, even Elder Ying Dang seems uninterested in such things."
"That was more than three hundred years ago."
Every six hundred years, the Human Emperor Manor Assembly of Brahma Heaven Province summoned the sects within its borders for a sect assembly!
Usually, however, only the top sixty sects were qualified to attend, and only those sects could nurture true favored sons of heaven!
Kuxiu had always enjoyed roaming far and wide. By chance, he had reached Human Emperor Commandery in Brahma Heaven Province near the end of the last assembly, where he had witnessed countless powerful cultivators from the major factions!
Although reaching the Dao-Unification Realm already made one an expert among the major sects, Human Emperor Commandery had dozens of people like Kuxiu, who was at the second heaven of the Dao-Unification Realm. He was nothing remarkable there.
What truly inspired awe were the young Dao-Unification Realm experts nurtured by those major sects. Even a genius like Nan Yi, who had attained Dao-Unification after cultivating for only ten Primordial Eras, had placed only third at the sect assembly three hundred years ago!
Kuxiu shrugged helplessly.
"Sect Master, I don't know much about these matters either."
"After all, three hundred years ago, I was only passing through in a hurry. All I picked up were a few scraps of hearsay."
"A place like Human Emperor Commandery is far too terrifying. Never mind the dozens of Dao-Unification Realm experts-even Primordial Chaos Realm experts