Inside the temporary cave abode on Pure Fire Peak.
Wang Yu stood beside a spirit pool in the cave abode, watching the two Iron-Head Crocodiles frolicking in the water with a thoughtful expression.
Clearly, he could not stay out of this Sect Grand Competition. He would have to participate.
Although he had also been a True Disciple in the Four Symbols Sect, that status in a Golden Core sect was naturally very different from the same status in a Nascent Soul sect.
During his casual conversations with Yan Lingxiang on the journey to the Green Water Palace, he had learned that its seventy-two True Disciples were practically all in the Foundation Establishment realm. Even those at the early stage were few and far between, unlike the Four Symbols Sect, whose True Disciples included Qi Refining disciples.
The Green Water Palace was nearly ten times the size of the Four Symbols Sect. There were plenty of Inner Disciples who had reached Foundation Establishment at a young age and met the requirements to become True Disciples, and the seventy-two True Disciples were unquestionably the cream of that crop.
Although he had never participated in the Four Symbols Sect's Sect Grand Competition, he had heard many people discuss it. Presumably, the Green Water Palace's Sect Grand Competition rules would not differ too greatly.
Generally speaking, the Sect Grand Competition did not restrict magical artifacts, talismans, or even spirit beasts. After all, these all represented part of a cultivator's strength. When competing for a True Disciple position, strength was sometimes not the only consideration; one's background and accumulated resources mattered too.
After all, if a competing disciple had no backing whatsoever and could not even borrow a suitable magical artifact, how could they talk about vying for a True Disciple position?
Without sufficient accumulated