News of the Six Peaks Competition caused quite a stir among the Danyang Sect's upper ranks, but among the disciples, it set the pot boiling.
The disciples of every peak rubbed their fists and flexed their arms, all eager to try their hand and win a good ranking.
The secret realm opened only once every ten years, and there were sect benefits as well. The temptation was simply too great.
Those who believed they had a chance of being selected had already begun contending both openly and in secret.
Some had even opened betting pools, privately drawing up preliminary rankings.
Gu Mengli was the Gu Household's favored daughter of heaven and a recognized genius in the Dao of Alchemy, so she naturally became a focus of everyone's attention.
But what people relished discussing even more was her relationship with Lin Shisan as dual-cultivation Dao Companions.
The news was dredged up and magnified once again, whipping up an even greater storm in the Danyang Sect.
Most of the young male disciples' hearts shattered all over the ground. Before, they had only heard rumors; now, solid proof was beginning to emerge.
Who was Gu Mengli?
The eldest young lady of the Gu Household, one of the Four Great Original Families, with beauty that could topple cities and kingdoms, cultivation that had advanced to the meridian opening fourth stage, and exceptional talent in the Dao of Alchemy.
She was the white moonlight in countless people's hearts.
And Lin Shisan?
He was merely an outsider disciple who had joined less than three months ago, dark as could be, with cultivation that was hardly worth mentioning.
Although Lin Shisan had already opened three meridians, he amounted to nothing before these disciples who were readily at the fifth or sixth stage of meridian opening, or even