As the saying went, old ginger packed the most heat. Compared with those old foxes who had lived for hundreds or thousands of years, his little bit of experience was still rather green.
His first priority upon returning to the Azure Cloud Sect was to shore up his weaknesses and figure out the tricks those slippery old fellows used.
Only by standing higher could he see farther.
Only by squeezing into the Inner Sect could he get close to those slippery old fellows, understand them, and study them, preventing them from taking advantage of him again the next time he pulled off a big job.
The problem with establishing himself in the Azure Cloud Sect's Inner Sect lay not with those slippery old fellows, but with the Inner Sect disciples, where geniuses were a dime a dozen.
He had specifically asked Fang Yuan about it.
The Azure Cloud Sect's Inner Sect had five hundred thousand disciples, all selected every three years from among the hundreds of thousands of Outer Sect disciples.
Inner Sect disciples were further divided into ranks: Ordinary Inner Sect Disciples, Core Inner Sect Disciples, and True Disciples.
And that was only what they showed on the surface. Who knew how many monsters this old zombie of a sect, which had lived for over ten thousand years, kept hidden behind the scenes?
Having stood unshaken in the Eastern Region for ten thousand years and outlived generation after generation of rivals, the Azure Cloud Sect certainly had its exceptional strengths. It could never be as simple as it appeared.
Chun Xiaobai had always known where to draw the line.
He would never underestimate an enemy.
An opponent with one measure of strength had to be treated as though they had three. Only with that mindset could he live a