Soon, the young Earth Rank cultivators of the Azure Cloud Sect assembled and stood ready, answering the summons to head north.
They were bound for the northern Yinshan Kingdom, where they would join the army retreating south at its capital, Tower City, reorganize the defensive lines, and resist the Central Province Coalition Army.
At the time, Liu Yeye did not yet know that others had also been summoned and were making their way there by other routes. She only learned of it after the welcoming banquet, when another female cultivator among the Eight Geniuses came to chat with her.
"Senior Sister Fang, are you saying that, besides the sect elders already in the Northern Frontier, all eight of us are also going there to serve under Grand Elder Bu?"
"That's right." Fang Lian nodded and said, "I only heard about this from someone a short while ago. I doubt many people know yet, but by the time we get there, everyone probably will."
"So many people..." A trace of gravity appeared on Liu Yeye's face. She was no longer an ordinary disciple, but an Earth Rank Spirit Tamer who had likewise been appointed an elder. Naturally, she knew more about the movements of the sect's leadership and the state of the world.
"Yes. This is the first time all of us Eight Geniuses have been mobilized together!" Fang Lian sighed.
She was deeply proud to be one of the Eight Geniuses, feeling that it was a sign of recognition.
After all, almost every year, a sect would have anywhere from three or five to seven or eight people advance to the Earth Rank. Taking twenty years as a generation, that amounted to well over a hundred!
Of these, the vast majority had, at best, the potential to reach the middle