The Jade Purity Immortal Sect.
Profound Subtlety Peak, Mind-Calming Residence.
Steam rose from boiling water, and the fragrance of tea filled the air.
"I heard a young heaven's pride recently emerged in the sect."
The blue-robed cultivator's gaze shifted. Beside him, a teapot floated into the air on its own and poured two cups of hot tea.
"Oh? Brother Profound Subtlety, you've spent years in seclusion, ignoring worldly affairs and devoting yourself to cultivation. Why would a junior heaven's pride interest you?" another cultivator with a stern face asked.
Profound Subtlety True Venerable sipped his tea and said with feeling, "He swept through the chief disciples of all Five Great Grotto-Heavens at the Grotto-Heaven Grand Tournament and leaped straight to tenth in the Jade Purity Golden Register's ranking. That True Martial True Lord is no dim lamp. His comprehension rivals the Immortal Alliance's heaven's prides who possess top-tier innate Dao bodies."
Hearing this, the stern cultivator frowned slightly, then relaxed. "It's been many years since one of our sect's heaven's prides achieved such results in the Grotto-Heaven Grand Tournament. There's no harm in the sect master making an exception once in a while and placing him tenth in the Golden Register."
"You certainly take things in stride, Brother Great Vast. You don't even care about the position of Jade Purity Sect Leader," Profound Subtlety True Venerable said.
"What difference would caring make? What difference would not caring make?"
Great Vast True Venerable said unconcernedly, "The position of sect master belongs to the most capable. What's mine will ultimately be mine. What isn't mine cannot be forced. Why should I be wary of a junior?"
Profound Subtlety True Venerable was not at all surprised by Great Vast True Venerable's reaction.
Great Vast Zi ranked fifth in Jade Purity's ranking, and his