"Venerable Sect Leader?!"
Yue Wen knew who this man was. Besides feeling ill at ease, he was also rather puzzled, and for a moment, he truly did not know what to say.
This was his first time meeting someone on the level of a Void Realm Dao Lord. Moreover, this was the Sect Leader of the Azurefall Profound Gate, a figure who stood at the very top even within the Void Realm.
For countless people, a single meeting would give them something to boast about for the rest of their lives.
What did he want with me?
"Relax." Venerable Xuanting lowered his hand in a calming gesture, then said, "I came here today to ask you something."
"I'll answer whatever you ask," Yue Wen said with a nod.
Then Venerable Xuanting asked gently, "If I wanted to take you as my Personal Disciple, would you agree?"
Huh?
Yue Wen was utterly stunned. The Sect Leader of the Azurefall Profound Gate wanted to take a lowly independent cultivator like him as his Personal Disciple?
For most people, this was no longer a windfall on the level of pies falling from the sky. It was a gold pie dropping straight onto the back of their head, with their ancestors setting off fireworks underground and smoke in all seven colors billowing out of the ancestral graves.
A single leap straight to the heavens!
Yet amid his shock, it also felt somewhat unreal. Had Perfected One Nagiko sent him to test him?
Stop testing me! I really have no disloyal intentions!
He asked hesitantly, "Venerable Sect Leader, wouldn't that go against the rules? I'm a junior, after all. However you look at it, I'm nowhere near qualified to become your disciple..."
"Normally, yes. My disciple Delong was originally supposed to take you as his