Hearing their words, Wei Chituo's face soured. These junior brothers and sisters were too much to handle. Originally, among the disciples of Little Bamboo Peak, besides Li Wuyi, his cultivation ranked first. But Sixth Junior Sister had obtained some opportunity in the Secret Realm and had surpassed him in the past six months, reaching the Pseudo-Core realm. Although he was only half a step away from the Pseudo-Core realm himself and would likely reach it with some more hard cultivation, if they were to fight now, and considering Gong Chenying's terrifying physical strength, his chances of winning even with his trump cards were less than thirty percent.
"When did Little Bamboo Peak become so full of hostility? Naturally, seniority is determined by who entered the sect first. If everyone is like this, will you one day be calling Old Eighth 'Senior Brother'? After being a senior brother for decades, could you even open your mouth to say it in the end?" Wei Chituo's round eyes glared as he spoke somewhat unreasonably.
His words were met with a burst of laughter from the crowd as they gradually flew away. They understood in their hearts that even if Li Wuyi became an elder, he would still be an elder of Little Bamboo Peak. The overall strength of Little Bamboo Peak would rise another notch in the sect, so they were all happy about the increase in their own peak's strength. As for who was the head disciple, these few, under Wei Zhongran's free-range style, had no such concept and had long been accustomed to the order of their entry into the sect.
A month later, Li Wuyi came out of seclusion to participate in the sect's promotion ceremony for him to become an elder. This was something that hadn't happened in forty years, which showed that even for a large sect like the Malevolent Spirit Sect, producing a Golden Core cultivator was extremely difficult. Wei Zhongran and his wife also came out of seclusion on time and led Li Yan and the other seven to attend the ceremony.
Miao Wangqing had also just finished her seclusion ten days ago. Her cultivation had reached the peak of the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment. Originally, after coming out of seclusion, Miao Wangqing was overjoyed and planned to show off to Li Wuyi. But she couldn't find Li Wuyi, who was still stabilizing his realm, and instead received a piece of news that left her completely dumbfounded. Although she knew that Li Wuyi would form a Golden Core sooner or later, and this idea was very firm in her heart, she never thought she would receive this shocking news right after coming out of seclusion. Miao Wangqing stared blankly at the sympathetic-looking Wei Chituo in the main hall, muttering to herself, "So he's a Martial Uncle now? Li... Martial... Uncle? Wuyi... Martial Uncle?"
Although the cultivation world did not forbid elders from marrying juniors, this sudden change in status made Miao Wangqing not know how to address Li Wuyi when she saw him again. Although she imagined that with Li Wuyi's personality, he wouldn't care about these things, could she really be as unrestrained as before?
The entire ceremony was very grand. Dozens of Golden Core elders from the five peaks gathered, and the number of disciples under them was countless. Looking at the handsome and elegant Li Wuyi on the stage, every disciple silently dreamed of their own day like this.
Li Wuyi was as gentle and refined as ever, but the aura on his body had become extremely sharp. This was not intentional on his part, but because he had just been promoted to the Golden Core realm and could not yet freely control the aura on his body, causing his Golden Core aura to leak out. After he cultivated for half a year to a year, the aura on his body would become fainter and fainter, until those with lower cultivation than him would be completely unable to detect it unless he released it himself.
After receiving the Golden Core elder token from Yan Longzi, as expected by Wei Chituo and the others, Li Wuyi did not accept the right to choose a cave residence on any of the five peaks. Instead, he expressed that he would still live in his previous courtyard on Little Bamboo Peak. This was to show that he would not take up a position as an elder on any other peak.
But then, at the great assembly of the Malevolent Spirit Sect, in front of nearly ten thousand people, Li Wuyi slowly spoke, saying something that no one had expected. "I was brought into the sect by my master since I was a child. All my skills were taught by my master personally. From Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment, from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, Little Bamboo Peak has been integrated into my flesh and blood. Here, I have my master, my martial mother, my younger sister, my junior sisters, and my junior brothers. Today, I have stepped into the Golden Core realm. Besides the added responsibility of being an elder of Little Bamboo Peak, my master will always be my master, my martial mother will still be my martial mother, and I... am still the Senior Brother of Little Bamboo Peak." After speaking, he actually turned around and knelt before Wei Zhongran and his wife again.
His sudden action silenced the entire Lord Lao Peak. Among the nearly ten thousand people, not a single one spoke. They were all stunned on the spot. Since ancient times, cultivation has been divided by realm; this was an unchanging rule for millennia. Although there had been people as sentimental as Li Wuyi today, it had not been heard of on the Desolate Moon Continent for several thousand years. His unusual action caused the entire scene to freeze for a moment. A moment later, the entire place erupted, and the sound of uproar was endless.
Wei Zhongran had been watching Li Wuyi, who was standing in the center of the field receiving the identity token from Sect Master Yan Longzi, with a smile on his face. He was also proud of Li Wuyi in his heart and did not feel any displeasure because of his disciple's promotion. He was also a cultivator and was used to this kind of thing. It was just that his own master's cultivation was too high, so he had never thought of something like this happening. For a moment, he was stunned, and the smile froze on his face.
Looking at Li Wuyi kneeling before him, a shy young boy of about ten years old gradually appeared in Wei Zhongran's eyes. Decades ago, he had knelt before him just like today, but the timid gaze of the past had turned into a gaze full of respect now. The boy of the past slowly overlapped with the jade-like young man before him. He was still the child he regarded as his own son. Immediately, Wei Zhongran couldn't help but laugh heartily. His hands rested on the armrests of his chair, and his laughter was full of relief and joy. His laughter shot up to the sky, and even in the noisy square with nearly a thousand people, it resounded in all directions.
But the beautiful palace-dressed woman beside him was already teary-eyed. She quickly helped Li Wuyi up and patted the non-existent dust from his knees, while also constantly complaining that Li Wuyi was so grown up yet still so willful. But no matter how one listened, it sounded like a mother nagging her child.
This scene also stunned the dozens of Golden Core elders. After a while, Yan Longzi couldn't help but smile wryly, while the other elders had different reactions. Some were surprised and then immediately returned to normal; some had looks of incomprehension; some seemed to be touched and lowered their heads without speaking; some had a hidden trace of disdain in their eyes. The reactions were varied.
Yan Longzi, on the other hand, had a trace of joy in his eyes. He considered things differently from others. As the Sect Master, he knew what Li Wuyi's action meant. It meant that as long as Wei Zhongran was around, Li Wuyi would not betray the Malevolent Spirit Sect. And he knew better than anyone who Wei Zhongran was. In the long run, with Wei Zhongran's and Li Wuyi's aptitudes, they could both be ranked in the top three of their generation. Their chances of forming a Nascent Soul were at least ten to twenty percent higher than ordinary Golden Core cultivators. This was an important cornerstone of the Malevolent Spirit Sect. How could he not be overjoyed? A powerful general had been firmly tied to the huge war chariot of the Malevolent Spirit Sect. At the same time, he also saw the disdain that flashed in the eyes of several elders. He couldn't help but snort coldly in his heart. Those elders had their own families or sects. They could have returned to become overlords after forming their cores, but they stayed because they coveted the cultivation resources of the Malevolent Spirit Sect. How could Yan Longzi not know their thoughts? But when a family business grew large, there would always be some people like that. Although these people were not loyal to the sect, if something happened to the Malevolent Spirit Sect, they would still need some extremely strong cannon fodder, Yan Longzi thought coldly.
As for the nearly ten thousand disciples in the square below, the pot had long since exploded. Li Yan and the others revealed smiles. Especially Miao Wangqing, who had been feeling lost since she first saw Li Wuyi on the stage today. Seeing this result, she couldn't help but jump for joy on the spot, her eyes narrowing into slits.
Only Wei Chituo, after seeing the scene in the square, his mouth had been wide open. Finally, when he heard Li Wuyi say, "I... am still the Senior Brother of Little Bamboo Peak," his face immediately turned beet red, and then he deflated like a balloon, muttering incessantly, "You damned Li Wuyi, you've been pressing on my head for decades. Now you're a Golden Core, and you're still fighting with a little Foundation Establishment cultivator like me to be the Senior Brother. You... you... you're shameless! You... you... despicable! You... you're really shameless..." By the end of his muttering, a look of grievance actually appeared on Wei Chituo's face, which made Lin Daqiao and the others who saw his expression laugh even harder.
In the distance, in front of the disciples of Never-Parting Peak , Li Changting, who had been looking somewhat resentful, was first stunned when she suddenly heard Li Wuyi's words, then she started giggling, her voice like a yellow oriole. Her entire person became incomparably charming and enchanting. She extended her half-exposed, lotus-root-like plump jade arm and hugged Zhao Min beside her, who rarely showed a trace of warmth in her eyes. "I told you our Wuyi is sentimental. How about it? How about it? How's your Senior Sister's judgment? Our Wuyi is just this unpredictable, hehe. To do this in front of nearly ten thousand people, they must all be stunned. I really want to kiss him right now." Hearing this, Zhao Min felt a chill run down her spine and quickly struggled free from Li Changting's snake-like entanglement. She then looked at her with the eyes of a stranger, thinking of the piles of Gu-insects that had been pinched to death by her in various ways this past month, and the medicinal wine she had made with these dead Gu-insects, and the words she said while brewing the wine: "Martial Uncle Li, right? Martial Uncle Wuyi, right? Didn't you say you don't like to drink wine with live Gu-insects, your old self? Then this junior will brew you some corpse wine. They won't move anymore, but the taste is even fresher. Look at this Gu, its white intestines swaying in the wine, don't they look like thin threadworms..."
In the distance, Baili Yuan smiled faintly and actually cupped his fist at the square from afar. Gan Shi, on the other hand, let out a loud laugh and whistled away, leaving only his wild laughter in the air. "I'm going into seclusion too! What a good Golden Core!"
Wang Tian hugged Zuo Shengyan's shoulder tightly. Zuo Shengyan looked in Li Changting's direction, then at Wang Tian, and whispered, "I don't want to be a martial niece." A trace of a smile appeared on Wang Tian's cold face. "And I don't want to be your martial uncle."
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The entire ceremony ended in an unexpected way, but the impact of this matter was far from over. Until a long, long time later, whenever a cultivator in the Malevolent Spirit Sect was promoted to the Golden Core realm, they would remember a cultivator named Li Wuyi.
Li Yan looked at the messy cups and plates in the courtyard, rubbed his nose, and smiled faintly. With a wave of his large sleeve, a gentle breeze swept through, and the small courtyard was clean and dustless.
Li Yan slowly sat down at the stone table. Thinking of last night's events, a smile curved Li Yan's lips.
At some point, Li Yan's small courtyard seemed to have become the default gathering place for the senior and junior brothers of Little Bamboo Peak. After returning from Lord Lao Peak, Li Wuyi and his martial brothers had come to Li Yan's place with their arms around each other's shoulders. Not long after, Li Changting and Zhao Min arrived gracefully.
Thinking of how Miao Wangqing, after drinking too much last night, held her Gu-wine and, with Li Changting cheering her on, shouted, "Martial Uncle Li, this martial niece will have another drink with you," and how Li Wuyi tried to hide, Li Yan's smile grew wider. Then he thought of how Second Senior Brother, perhaps really having held it in for too long, lost his temper after only four cups and actually shouted that he wanted to teach Li Wuyi a lesson. In the end, Li Wuyi didn't even use his magical power and just used his fists to beat Wei Chituo until he was crawling all over the courtyard. After the beating, Li Wuyi said faintly, "You... are the eternal number two."
But just as he finished saying this, he was slapped on the head by a blushing Li Changting. Li Wuyi clearly heard the wind but took the hit with a pained expression.
The smile on Li Yan's face grew even wider. After a while, Li Yan gathered his thoughts. Next, it was time for him to work hard on his cultivation.
'Great Perfection of the Qi Condensation stage,' Li Yan thought to himself.
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