For cultivators in the Azure Realm, reaching the Spirit Severing Stage at just over five hundred years old truly marked one as a genius.
But then they remembered that the Azure Tide Sect also had a monster like Chu Mojin, who had reached the Spirit Severing Stage at three hundred, and suddenly none of this seemed quite so surprising.
After all, the Azure Tide Sect considered both temperament and aptitude when accepting disciples. Over the past ten thousand years, it had almost never gone wrong with disciples selected on those two criteria. Otherwise, it would not have remained firmly seated as the foremost sect on the Azure Mist Continent.
Oh, Sun Dongdong was an exception.
On the day Ning Hai emerged from seclusion, not only did members of his own sect come to congratulate him, but the sect masters of quite a few other sects also arrived bearing gifts.
Even the Misty Immortal Sect, with whom they had little acquaintance, sent someone to the Azure Tide Sect to offer congratulations.
To Ning Hai, anyone who came was a guest. Even though the matter of the Liu Household had left him somewhat dissatisfied with the Misty Immortal Sect, he did not let his feelings show. Such was the bearing of someone in authority.
In truth, the sect master of the Misty Immortal Sect was uneasy as well.
Originally, the only Spirit Severing cultivator on the Azure Mist Continent had been the sect master of the rather weak Heavenly Secret Sect, who posed little threat to their relocation. Thus, without giving much thought to notifying the continent's other sects, they had moved there privately. They had never expected the sect leader of the Azure Tide Sect to advance to the Spirit Severing Stage before they had even been there ten years.
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