After the cultivators of the various sects arrived at Green Mountain, they found no scholars from One-Thatch Studio, which raised many questions.
Even if Bu Qiuxiao was at the critical juncture of becoming a sage, given One-Thatch Studio's relationship with Divine End Peak over the past century and more, it ought to have sent some disciples.
Only when they saw Liu S sui now were their questions answered.
Everyone knew of the relationship between Liu S sui and Jing Jiu, and he was now an important figure in One-Thatch Studio. This arrangement was indeed eminently suitable.
Some people with darker minds thought further.
The disciples Bu Qiuxiao most favored and valued were Xi Yiyun and Liu S sui. The future Studio Master would surely be chosen from those two. It was said that One-Thatch Studio had already split into two factions over this matter. On the surface, Xi Yiyun and Liu S sui seemed entirely unconcerned, remaining close and respecting each other, but who knew what went on beneath the surface?
Now that Bu Qiuxiao could not attend to affairs, if Xi Yiyun had sent Liu S sui to the Green Mountain Grand Ceremony, was he trying to signal something?
Regardless of what those people were thinking, the Green Mountain Grand Ceremony had to continue.
The Great Marsh Magistrate delivered an address as the representative of the guests from the cultivation world, offering all manner of praise, yet no one considered it excessive, because... the recipient of that praise was Jing Jiu.
Those words of praise, like passages from a history book, danced like flowers around Heavenly Light Peak, stirring the wisps in the sea of clouds.
As people looked at the man in white on the summit, their feelings were complicated. There was admiration and reverence, but more than