"Senior Brother, don't you think he looks like a Great Sage of the Human Race?"
Qingxu gazed delightedly at the newborn baby.
The little bundle didn't cry at birth. His eyes were bright and clear as he looked around at everyone. He was nothing like the human infants they had seen before, who had wailed the moment they were born.
"Such a sign appeared before he was even born. He must be a Great Sage!" True Lord Yu Ding declared with certainty.
He didn't know what his own birth had been like, but he had never seen anything like this when his junior brothers were born.
"Looks like we'll take a Great Sage of the Human Race as our disciple before Eldest Senior Brother does."
Grand Master Lingbao sounded deeply moved.
Guang Chengzi had forced the four of them to go their separate ways. Who would have thought they would stumble across the child after all?
"It's a shame Second Senior Brother isn't here. He'd be desperate to take the baby as his disciple."
Qingxu grinned fondly. The more he looked at the little one, the more he liked him, especially when the baby smiled at him.
Qingxu had always been the youngest disciple in the Exposition Sect. With this child around, he no longer would be.
I'll have to show him the authority of his youngest martial uncle, Qingxu thought.
The child had yet to become anyone's disciple, and Qingxu was already thinking of himself as his martial uncle.
"I wonder when Second Senior Brother will return."
"Soon, I'd think. He's been gone a hundred years. Whatever urgent business he had should be finished by now."
"When he returns, the four of us can teach the child ourselves."
At the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain, Chi Jingzi slowly