Chapter 3508 — The Successors Arrive
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All these successors had now stepped down from their vehicles and found places to sit. The rules would be announced before the trial, and it was surely about to begin.
Sure enough, seeing that everyone had arrived, Ancestor Xuanchen nodded calmly and said, "Very well. Since all the personnel are present, let us begin. First, a word of self-introduction. Many of you likely know me already. I am Xuanchen, acting sect master of the Five Luminaries Sect, and the chief overseer of the Heaven-Tier trial, the Heaven-Tier Assembly, and the Cloud-Tier Island initiative."
Ancestor Xuanchen's words sent a tremor through the trial participants below, and they grew greatly excited. Cloud-Tier Island, the Heavenly Dao—these were the higher pursuits of such cultivators. Who would not wish for greater power?
Some might ask: you are already a top-tier existence in the mortal world, a veritable walking atomic bomb—why seek further advancement? There is a saying: learning has no end, and the path of martial cultivation is no different.
Once a bottleneck is reached, one wishes to break through it. This is the lifelong pursuit of cultivators like us.
"For this trial, two of my assistants will help everyone take part. One of them is my son-in-law, Kang Jingming. You should all have met him by now; he is also an elder of the Xuandan Sect," said Ancestor Xuanchen.
This set the trial participants below astir with surprise. Many had not known Kang Jingming's identity, and now that Ancestor Xuanchen had spoken, they immediately grew cautious. This Kang Jingming was someone they would need to curry favor with.
"And the other is the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect—Tianchan!" Ancestor Xuanchen dropped another bombshell, pointing to Tianchan as he spoke.
The trial participants below all stared at Ancestor Xuanchen in an uproar. Was the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect not a man? How had he become a beautiful young woman? Were the rumors wrong, or... was this a man in woman's guise?
And wasn't the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect named Tiancanbian? How had that become Tianchan?
Most shocked of all, of course, were the successors and the people of their sects. These successors' sects had, one after another, received marriage proposals from the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect. But now the young sect master turned out to be a woman? Then where had the rumor of a harem of wives and concubines come from?
If she was a woman, what was the point of those marriage proposals? Was Ancestor Xuanchen deceiving everyone?
"As for the matter of the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect being a woman, I was the one who had them conceal it. The proposals to the successors' sects were likewise my arrangement. I will announce the specific reasons at the Heaven-Tier Assembly. For now, your primary task is the trial—put such matters out of your minds," Ancestor Xuanchen explained briefly, then went on: "These two are both disciples of my Five Luminaries Sect. Kang Jingming is my disciple, and Tianchan is the disciple of my second senior brother. They are the senior assistants who will help oversee the trial affairs."
"Whoa—" Another wave of shock and uproar swept through the trial participants below. Tianchan, the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect, was an assistant too? It seemed they had one more person to curry favor with. (Reserve your July guaranteed monthly votes! Please support Yuren!) RS