"Just as expected of a great sect with a legacy—standing tall for ten thousand years was no trifling matter!" Zhang Xiaohua could not help but feel heartfelt admiration at the sight.
Of the Five Sects of Immortal Path Inheritance, Zhang Xiaohua had now seen three. Among them, the Misty Sect was the one toward which he felt the deepest emotions and the closest affinity. Yet it was also the weakest of the three. It basically possessed only martial arts, with scarcely any trace of the Immortal Path to be seen. Only the few forbidden grounds within Misty Manor could indicate that the Misty Sect had some connection to the Immortal Path. Even Sect Leader Ou Peng's cultivation was merely martial, and not even at its peak; he did not possess a shred of divine sense.
Looking instead at the Incense-Passing Cult, traces of the Immortal Path could be found everywhere. Zhang Xiaohua's series of immortal encounters had all been achieved within the Incense-Passing Cult, and its Cult Master, Abbess Jingyi, was herself an Immortal Path Qi Practitioner. As for Great Forest Temple, although he had yet to meet Master Changsheng, merely looking at the Primordial Qi within the temple, then at a few ordinary protector disciples who could disrupt that Primordial Qi by deploying a martial formation, made its Immortal Path inheritance self-evident.
The Incense-Passing Cult revered female disciples and imposed stringent requirements for its inheritance, while Great Forest Temple was the opposite, accepting only male disciples. Though men and women were equal in this world, men's aptitude for cultivation surpassed women's by far more than several times over, and the number of men able to cultivate was hundreds or thousands of times greater still. By that reasoning, Great Forest Temple should have been stronger than the Incense-Passing Cult. Of