Yun Huanling's question left the Fourth Elder speechless.
Although those who pursued cultivation also said that no life was nobler or humbler than another, anyone with common sense knew that in this world, lives were indeed ranked by worth and status.
Those lofty, righteous declarations were nothing more than self-deceiving nonsense spouted by disciples with poor aptitude.
It was not only the Fourth Elder who fell silent. Lan Fang Ziyi and the other two junior disciples who had come along did too.
After a long while, Yun Huanling was still the first to speak. "The theft of the Spirit Banner was our Heavenly Secret Sect's responsibility to begin with. Every one of us has a duty to capture those souls and bring them back, and as a disciple of the Heavenly Secret Sect, I'm no different!
"No one is an exception in this matter!"
At that moment, the Fourth Elder suddenly laughed, a faint sheen of tears shimmering in his eyes. The boy they had protected all along the way had finally grown up.
The pill refining competition began.
Sect Leader Li was still offering words of encouragement to the pill refining disciples from the various sects.
Su Jiu, meanwhile, was looking at the pill refining platform for this competition.
Clearly, pill refining differed from a contest of Arts. The pill refining platform looked much larger. After all, it had to accommodate over a hundred contestants. If the platform were too small, even an exploding furnace would affect the other disciples.
Besides that, the enormous platform had two special areas.
One held five seats, clearly prepared for the judges.
Looking at those tables and chairs, Su Jiu thought that the Heavenly Dawn Sect really was wealthy. Even its furniture was far from ordinary.
The chairs were woven from thousand-year-old