A Mouthful of Croak
[Wow, she even took credit for her ten-year-old sister's artwork and signed it herself! How shameless!]
Shen Ji: So that's how it is! I even bought this fellow Daoist's paintings, and it turns out they were all copied! What kind of character is that!
Xiao Tingyu: So, it seems her ten-year-old sister is the real genius? Wouldn't it be a pity if her talent were just buried like this?
Fu Fengyuan: What a shameless cultivator.
The Painting Fairy glanced this way. What's going on with this group from the Flowing Cloud Sect?
Why does her gaze seem a little strange?
The old man's beard twitched, and he continued reading, "The ' Bugua Zi Finger-Reckoning Divine Diviner ' from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion ranks seventeenth on the Azure Cloud Ranking."
In the crowd, a disciple who was blind in both eyes stood up and nodded to the crowd.
[Tsk tsk, this person is pretending to be blind just to gain sympathy.]
[While his fortune-telling is inaccurate, his skill at staged accidents is top-notch.]
[His hobby is pretending to be a fool and going to mortal cities to stage accidents for others. Last time, he swindled an elderly couple driving an oxcart out of thirty taels of silver.]
Shen Ji: This is actually a fake blind man? Didn't anyone in the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion notice?!
This truly shocked my whole family!
Xiao Tingyu: Goodness, his moral standards are so low, how come he didn't get hurt?
The old man licked his index finger, turned a page in his little notebook, and was about to read.
Wen Zhi: Stop taking attendance! Is your little notebook cursed?!
The old man then said, "Shen Ji of the Flowing Cloud Sect is ranked first on the Azure Cloud Ranking."
brush--
Only the disciples of Ethereal Peak looked at Shen Ji, with several junior brothers and sisters staring wide-eyed like copper bells.
Shen Ji snapped, "What are you still looking at me for? Haven't you all already heard all my gossip?!"
Junior brothers and sisters: Oh, you're right.
The love-hate relationship between the eldest disciple and the demoness of the demonic sect is now a thing of the past.
Shen Ji: What's with that regretful look on your face? Are you expecting me to give you some new gossip?
The junior disciples pretended to look away, not wanting to get involved in their senior brother's gossip.
[Oh, someone else is here.]
The group turned around at the sound and saw a male and female cultivator leading a group of disciples arriving late. Both of them were wearing the robes of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, with phoenix feather patterns embroidered in gold thread. Their aura was intimidating, and they were clearly not ordinary people.
[Wow, the big one is coming!]
Senior brothers and sisters:?!
After all these minor scandals, is the big one finally coming?
I'm so excited!
Chapter 38 One mouthful
The arrival of these two cultivators with extremely strong auras caused quite a stir.
The disciples of the Flowing Cloud Sect were feeling proud as they introduced their senior brother's name—he was number one on the Azure Cloud Ranking! Their senior brother was truly remarkable!
They had just gained some attention when it was snatched away by someone else, leaving them feeling quite frustrated.
You have to understand, it's not easy for their Flowing Cloud Sect to make a name for themselves!
Perhaps this will be their first and only moment of glory in this sect competition.
However, they were also somewhat helpless. After all, the other party was indeed very powerful. In front of these two, everyone else's brilliance would be overshadowed. Even though they were half an hour late, no one dared to say a word.
The old man holding the booklet walked shakily down the stage, bowed to the two men, and said, "Your Excellencies, please take your seats."
These two were none other than two of the three leaders of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion: Commandant Nangong and his dao companion, Madam Rushui.
As the head of the four major immortal sects, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion does not have the position of Supreme Elder. Instead, the Pavilion Master, Song Wuya, is the most respected. Below the Pavilion Master, there are three Commanders who are in charge of the affairs of the Pavilion.
Among the three leaders, the Commandant Nangong has the highest cultivation level. He Mid Mahayana the Mahayana realm and is proficient in Yin-Yang divination techniques. Compared to the semi-reclusive Song Wuya, he can be said to be the true power figure of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
Although Hall Master Liu had risen to the Commandant Feng, he was only considered the lowest of the three commanders, far inferior in status to Commandant Nangong. This man appeared to be no more than thirty years old, with sharp, angular eyebrows and a cold, stern face. In reality, he was about the same age as Elder Bing, already over a thousand years old. It was just that a cultivator's appearance remained at the beginning of their cultivation journey, while Elder Bing entered the path much later, thus appearing much older.
Madam Rushui, who was beside him, had a completely different temperament. She wore a lake-blue fairy dress, her long hair was tied up in a high bun, revealing her elegant swan neck. She was noble and elegant, and her appearance attracted the attention of many disciples.
After the two sat down, they asked how far the competition had progressed. The old man nodded and bowed, saying, "We just introduced the top-ranked member of the Azure Cloud Ranking, Shen Ji, a disciple of the Flowing Cloud Sect."
Everyone noticed the subtle pauses he made while speaking.
Qiaoqiao: [Wow, he's actually quite nice; he didn't announce the senior brother's name in public.]
Shen Ji:
Can we please stop talking about this...?
I guess the old man also felt it was indecent to read it aloud in public.
[However, since the eldest brother is number one on the Azure Cloud Ranking, why does the Flowing Cloud Sect always come in last place in the sect competitions?] Qiaoqiao was very puzzled.
This question also raised the doubts of the senior brothers and sisters. In previous years, because elite disciples from Moonlight Peak and other peaks competed for the spots, apart from Shen Ji, the other four had never participated in the sect competition and did not know the specific situation.
The group exchanged glances privately, and Xiao Tingyu bravely asked the question.
Shen Ji's expression was complicated, "Actually..."
"It's because Senior Brother Shen is being targeted!" Flowing Cloud Sect disciple chimed in. "Everyone knows that if Senior Brother Shen is defeated, the Flowing Cloud Sect loses. That's why Senior Brother Shen always draws some incredibly tough opponents in the first three rounds..."
In the Azure Cloud Ranking, only Shen Ji of the Flowing Cloud Sect stands out. The overall strength of the other disciples is not as good as that of the other three sects. As long as they target Shen Ji, the Flowing Cloud Sect will naturally not be able to get a good ranking.
This is similar to how, although Shen Ji is one of the strongest disciples of the Flowing Cloud Sect, the strength of the Ethereal Peak is still at the bottom among the ten peaks. The strength of one person alone cannot make up for the overall gap.