A group of people walked out of the valley where smoke was rising.
As soon as they exited the valley, several people from the Internal History Department were waiting there for them.
Seeing that they had all obtained the Taiyi Order, the people from the Internal History Department guided them into one of a row of thatched huts nearby.
In that thatched hut, they were immediately announced to have been promoted to Outer Disciples. A middle-aged man with a square face and slight mustache then stepped forward and passionately read out the rules for Outer Disciples, so intensely that spittle flew as he spoke about loyalty to the sect, and so on.
Duan Rong and his companions found themselves quite bewildered by it all.
Advancing to Outer Disciple was considered a rather significant and honorable event, yet they were dismissed in such a simple thatched hut.
They had originally thought there might be a ceremony of some sort.
