Boom!
Those words were like a bolt of Chaos Divine Thunder, exploding in the depths of every Jie Sect Disciple's primordial spirit!
Across Golden Ao Island, the clamor that had only just begun to recover from the deathly silence abruptly ceased once more!
A falling pin could have been heard!
Everyone wondered whether something had gone wrong with their ears.
They stood frozen in place, their minds grinding to a complete halt, utterly unable to comprehend what they had just heard.
Inherit... the Interception Sect's Great Lineage?
Master... was passing on his position?!
"I... I didn't hear that wrong, did I? Our venerable Master... is handing the Sect Leader Position to Senior Brother Changqing?"
"Heavens! This... how is this possible!"
"Since the Interception Sect was founded, its Sect Leader Position has never changed hands. Today... are we about to witness history?"
After that brief, deathly silence came an uproar a hundred times more terrifying than the one that had greeted Ji Ren's attainment of sagehood!
Cries of utter shock and disbelief converged into a terrifying wave of sound, threatening to overturn every cloud in the sky above Golden Ao Island!
If Ji Ren's attainment of sagehood had brought them shock and a shared sense of pride...
Then Sect Master Tongtian's earth-shattering declaration brought an endless tempest powerful enough to overturn their entire understanding of the Primordial World!
The Interception Sect Leader!
What did that title represent?
It was the supreme authority of one of the Primordial World's foremost Saint's Lineages!
No!
In the world as it stood now, it could even be called the foremost, without equal.
After all, the Interception Sect was the strongest in both name and fact. No other lineage could compare.
To hold that position meant commanding the fortune and lineage of the entire Interception Sect,