The advance party of cultivators still needed time to act: how to attract the Undead's attention, how to get as close to Xunfeng Valley as possible, how to avoid scattering in a panicked rush...
During the long wait, several leading cultivators aboard the flying boat began to chat.
"Senior Brother Han, what do you think of Senior Brother Tang from the Wu Sect suddenly advancing to the upper realm?" Lou Yue asked tentatively.
Han Tiangang gave him a meaningful look. "Every household knows its own affairs. Senior Brother Tang suddenly advanced to the upper realm, and the Wu Sect has kept its secrets very well. The truth is shrouded in mist, with everyone offering a different account. But overall, one of the Twelve Zodiac Constellation True Disciples is gone, and that vacancy will have to be filled sooner or later.
"Like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, everyone must display their own divine abilities. How could anything be predetermined?"
He knew perfectly well what these True Disciples were thinking. They simply had their eyes on the vacant Constellation True Disciple position. Lou Yue, for instance, came from the Zhou Sect, which currently had no Constellation True Disciple, so he coveted it intensely.
And it was not just Lou Yue. Huai Liangyou beside him also wanted to take another step upward, making his sect the continent's only faction with two Constellation True Disciples and truly establishing the Qi Sect as the leader of the Brocade Continent's Daoist sects.
But only actual Constellation True Disciples like them understood that this position could not be inherited in orderly succession. It truly required strength surpassing others and some hidden peculiarity of one's own. These two before him ranked among the best True Disciples in strength, but they were still far from overwhelming the others.