Connections?

"Father, what exactly is going on?"

"They aren't people with connections some elder is planning to sneak into the sect, are they?"

"How could Heaven Rank talent appear so easily? It seems there has never even been a case in the sect's history!"

At this moment, unlike the celebrating crowd, Yun Nianshan looked utterly puzzled.

Because she knew her father all too well.

If everything that had happened today were real, her father should have been overjoyed, not as expressionless as he was now.

The only possible explanation was that something was wrong with the Qianyuan Spirit Stone, or that all of this had been deliberately arranged!

"Father, I never imagined you would become this sort of person!"

Yun Nianshan spoke with immense distress.

There were indeed elders in the sect who liked to cut corners, but her father had always stamped out such behavior!

She had never expected that this time, he would actually wallow in the same mire as them!

"Shan'er, what are you thinking..."

Faced with Yun Nianshan's questioning, Yun Tianci did not know whether to laugh or cry.

His cultivation might have been powerful, but his acting really was lacking!

If he forced himself to act happy now, those old Peak Masters might think he was having an epileptic fit...

"Hmph, am I wrong? Then can you explain to me what exactly is going on, Father?"

Yun Nianshan said indignantly, "Don't tell me this is real. You know how tiny the odds are!"

"Shan'er, there are some things you'll understand later..."

Yun Tianci spoke helplessly. He could hardly tell Yun Nianshan outright that those two were monstrous powerhouses who could slap her father to death with a single blow!

Wouldn't that scare his daughter to death!

Besides, before Lin Yu had left yesterday, he had spoken to him about this very issue!

Lin Yu had said that if he saw him at today's sect recruitment assembly, he should simply pretend he had not seen him!

That made it even more impossible for Yun Tianci to lay out the whole truth!

Unless he wanted to go against Lin Yu's wishes!

Offend two powerhouses who could casually destroy their sect? Yun Tianci was no fool.

If he kept these two powerhouses happy, perhaps the Qianyuan Sect might even replace the Eastern Domain Holy Land!

What more could he possibly ask for!

Yet to Yun Nianshan's ears, Yun Tianci's words took on an entirely different meaning.

"I'll understand later? Father, have you really started wallowing in the same mire as those elders?"

Yun Nianshan's voice rose a full ten decibels. She absolutely refused to watch her father fall into depravity like this!

"Hmph, if you won't resolve this, Father, I'll resolve it my own way!"

With a cold snort, Yun Nianshan prepared to head toward the testing platform!

Her movement gave Yun Tianci such a fright that he jolted!

If Yun Nianshan went down there just like that, there was no telling what trouble she might cause!

His daughter might even lose her life over it!

"Shan'er, calm down! I promise you, things are absolutely not what you imagine!"

"Once this sect recruitment assembly is over, I'll definitely give you an explanation!"

Yun Tianci spoke in great urgency, but his daughter was, after all, thinking wholeheartedly of the sect. Amid his anxiety, he was also deeply moved.

Hating evil as she hated her enemies, brimming with righteousness-this was his daughter, Yun Tianci's daughter!

If anything happened to him, he could entrust the sect to his daughter and die with his eyes closed.

"Well... all right." Though Yun Nianshan remained deeply suspicious, her father still carried tremendous weight in her heart.

Moreover, after calming down for a few minutes, she did feel there was a very small chance she had misunderstood.

Yun Nianshan decided to watch the entire sect recruitment assembly first.

If doubts still abounded, it would not be too late to confront him face-to-face!

"Con... congratulations, Miss Xiao... Xiaobai. Talent rank: Heaven Rank!"

At last, the color on the Qianyuan Spirit Stone settled into an incomparably brilliant, dazzling gold.

The elder overseeing the test announced the result in a violently trembling voice!

The placid stillness in his eyes as he looked at Xiaobai had also turned into utter shock!

Unlike before, the elder only announced that her talent rank was Heaven Rank, without saying whether it was upper, middle, or lower grade.

The reason was simple: before today, they had never even seen Heaven Rank talent!

No, rather, they had never even heard of it!

Although some elders had never seen Earth Grade Middle Rank talent before either, when Yun Tianci explained the Qianyuan Spirit Stone's function to the elders, he had mentioned how to determine the grades of Earth Grade talent!

But Yun Tianci had never explained Heaven Rank talent to them at all!

Simply because even Yun Tianci himself did not know exactly how its grades were distinguished.

In the history of the Qianyuan Sect, there had been one, and only one, person with Heaven Rank talent!

That was Yun Qian, the Qianyuan Sect's first Sect Master!

According to legend, the Qianyuan Sect's two sect-guarding treasures, the Qianyuan Sacred Stone and the Qianyuan Sacred Sword, had both been left behind by its first Sect Master, Yun Qian!

As for Yun Qian himself, after reaching the peak of the ninth level of Tribulation Transcendence, he had successfully survived the ninefold lightning tribulation and ascended to the Immortal Realm!

Of course, only those people from ten thousand years ago knew how much truth there was to that.

The method of using the Qianyuan Spirit Stone had also been passed down by Yun Qian to the second Sect Master, and from then on, from generation to generation!

After Yun Qian, there had been no more Heaven Rank talents!

"Didn't I tell you to dilute your spiritual power a little?"

Beside the testing platform, Lin Yu shook his head with an amused laugh.

He had not expected this silly cat to cause such a huge commotion.

"But I already diluted it several million times..."

Xiaobai sounded somewhat aggrieved. "I may be a bit of a glutton, but I'm very obedient."

"Who knew that even after diluting it so much, I'd still end up with Heaven Rank talent?"

"You can't blame me for this!"

With an innocent expression, Xiaobai kept shaking her head like a rattle-drum.

Yet a trace of slyness quietly appeared in her eyes, and she stole a glance toward Ling Yiran.

At the same time, as though sensing something, Ling Yiran also glanced in Xiaobai's direction.

Without realizing it, Ling Yiran clenched her fists, a heartbreaking stubbornness showing in her eyes.

Sure enough, all the girls around him were so outstanding...

I had to work even harder...

On the other side, Xiaobai looked much more relaxed.

She had indeed diluted her spiritual power just now, but not by as much as several million times.

Though she was an immortal beast from the Immortal Realm, she had not yet reached maturity, and her power was restricted by the Principles of the mortal world, so it was not quite that outrageous.

Furthermore, although Yun Qian's strength had not amounted to much in the Immortal Realm when he left the mortal world, the Qianyuan Sacred Stone he left behind was still a genuine Immortal's possession.

Thus, the Qianyuan Spirit Stone derived from the Qianyuan Sacred Stone could just barely withstand Xiaobai's diluted spiritual power.

"What a strange competitive streak."

Lin Yu shook his head with a faint smile.

He had no idea where women's desire to outdo one another came from.