Before Elder Pei, the Golden Book and Jade Register slowly materialized.
"Conveying the Jun Mountain Sect Master’s Order!"
"Song Yan, ninth disciple under Divine Lord Yangsu of the Sword-Washing Pool lineage, traveled abroad and cultivated without cease, finally attaining the great Dao of the Golden Core!"
A Divine Lord's disciple? What was going on?!
Before Elder Pei had finished, the surrounding cultivators were already discussing it through voice transmissions.
Seeing this, the two Dao-soldier strongmen at the forefront of the clouds hastily deactivated their law-enforcement Recording Pearls and put them away.
Elder Pei continued proclaiming, "His natural gifts, disposition, innate wisdom, and every other quality place him among the foremost of his peers."
"Moreover, with fortune rivaling the heavens, he achieved First-Grade Core Formation, becoming an Immortal Seedling of the highest order!"
What?
"...A First-Rank Golden Core?"
"Fellow Daoist, did I mishear? Did Elder Pei say... a First-Rank Golden Core?"
"Surely not?"
In the tens of thousands of years since Ancestor Zheng's ascension, through all the rises and falls of the Mortal World's immortal Dao, when had anyone ever heard of someone attaining a First-Rank Golden Core?!
Such a thing existed only in legend!
"That's it. That's it!"
Among the disciples, someone recalled the splendor of that sword strike just now and trembled all over in sudden realization.
"No wonder... no wonder he could withstand a Nascent Soul cultivator head-on at the Golden Core Early Stage without losing, and even have strength left to strike back."
Chu Rang was even more dumbstruck.
Though he was the sect master's son, fond of reading and widely knowledgeable, he had never imagined he would see a living, breathing cultivator with a First-Rank Golden Core appear before his own eyes in this lifetime.
By contrast, the Dongyuan Sect disciples watching from afar, who had