In the cultivation world, cultivators often waited until very late in life before taking disciples.
The reasoning was the same as an emperor not wanting to have children, and there was deeper meaning in it.
People like Jing Jiu and Zhao Layue, who began taking disciples so young, were truly rare.
"Junior Martial Aunt!"
"Junior Martial Uncle."
"Yao Songshan pays his respects to both martial elders."
As these greetings rang out, Jing Jiu and Zhao Layue walked along the mountain path.
Mist filled the view in the distance, and disciples of the Green Mountain Sect seemed to appear suddenly beside the road, for this was a mountain.
The mountains lay west of Chaoge City, and many elegant courtyards had been built among them. This was a place the Imperial Court had set aside specifically for Daoist cultivators to stay, named West Mountain Residence.
The Green Mountain disciples saluted one after another, their gazes somewhat complicated as they looked at Jing Jiu.
They had all heard that the Divine Emperor would come to watch the contest, and were somewhat nervous.
They worried that Jing Jiu would be nervous.
Jing Jiu was not particularly popular. After his clash with Gu Han beside Sword-Washing Creek back then, his relationship with Twofold Forgetting Peak had deteriorated, and Twofold Forgetting Peak was the place young disciples most yearned to join.
After he severely wounded Gu Han and broke Guo Nanshan's sword at the Sword-Testing Assembly, his middling popularity naturally became poor.
The Green Mountain disciples worried about him not out of respect for a martial elder, but simply as a natural response when facing an outside enemy.
Besides, the person Jing Jiu intended to challenge this time was Tong Yan.
As the two highest peaks among the orthodox cultivation sects, any contest of