"Haha, that was true!" Xiao Hua said with a laugh. "Your master had not originally intended to take Wu Tian as a disciple—or rather, I had only intended to place him in the outer sect. But his circumstances were rather special. If he did not follow me, disaster might easily descend upon him, so I accepted him into the inner sect. I had also wanted to rank you by cultivation, but then I thought that the Creation Sect should not judge superiority by cultivation. Family bonds should come first, so I simply ranked you according to when you entered the sect. This was merely a temporary thought of mine..."
"But Master's cultivation is growing ever higher. In the future, it would not be impossible for you to accept disciples at the Nascent Soul, Spirit Severing, or even Great Confucian level. Everyone cared about face. Asking them to address disciples like us, whose cultivation is lower, as senior brothers would probably be inappropriate, even if they were outer-sect disciples!" Fu Zhiwen said with a bitter smile. "Master should think this matter over carefully."
Xiao Hua thought for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "Among ordinary cultivators, disciples who enter a master's school earlier receive more instruction, and their cultivation will certainly be deeper than those who enter later. But things are different with me. You fellow disciples are so numerous, and what I teach each of you differs. Leaving aside Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, even within the Daoist sect, each of you focuses on different aspects of cultivation, and your future attainments will differ as well. Take Wu Tian, for example. Although he is now a Golden Core cultivator, his future cultivation will absolutely not surpass Yuan Ya's, much less Liu Yi's or Wang Zhengfei's. Even if he were made eldest senior