[Year 503]
Eternal Sun Prefecture and Duravia Trade Prefecture were as stable as ever.
Today, the Skyveil Sect was at its liveliest.
It was also the time for all of Azure Cloud's young talents under the age of fifty to showcase their prowess.
Every ten years, the younger generation of Azure Cloud would be ranked.
A competition for the younger generation was held in rotation among the Three Great Families and Six Great Sects, and today it was the Skyveil Sect's turn.
The Sect Master of the Skyveil Sect, Wuyazi, was watching the floating arena, his face beaming with pride.
The arena was surrounded by a spiritual formation to prevent the aura from the disciples' competition from leaking out. Inside, disciples were paired off and competing.
"Sigh, Wuyazi is going to come out on top in this competition again."
"Tell me about it. That old fellow's three personal disciples are one more monstrously talented than the next. Forget Azure Cloud, in the entire Eternal Sun Prefecture, no one can match them."
"The four great powers of Eternal Sun Prefecture are really shameless. They actually explicitly forbade those three from competing in the Eternal Sun Prefecture, claiming their strength was already beyond the scope of the younger generation. Heh... hehe."
"..."
The leaders of the major powers of the Azure Cloud Region gazed at Wuyazi with envy, but there were smiles on all their faces.
Aside from Li Xinnian, Su Chen, and Nangong Qingya, the major powers of Azure Cloud had also produced quite a few young talents.
The Ghost Eye Sect produced a Ghost Sword King.
Xuan Ji of the Black Tortoise Sect trained a Formation Master, Zhuge Yun, who is proficient in all methods.
And Heavenly Master Jinshou of Longevity Mountain, at the end of his lifespan, poured all his effort into training a young Daoist.
These fellows are all outstanding youths, in no way inferior to the young talents of Eternal Sun Prefecture and Duravia Trade Prefecture.
These are the benefits brought by the vast lands of the Eternal Sun Prefecture and the Duravia Trade Prefecture, as well as their countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and numerous secret realms and treasured lands.
"Hahaha, this year I, Wuyazi, am afraid I'm going to take all three top seats among Azure Cloud's young talents."
Wuyazi was indescribably proud.
Li Xinnian had been trained by him since childhood, and after Li Xinnian reached the Golden Core realm, he already had nothing left to teach him.
Only he knew that Li Xinnian's Golden Core had already reached the pinnacle of a Heaven-rank Core, almost becoming a legendary Divine Core.
He had seen Li Xinnian's Dharma Body; that Primal Giant Dharma Body was incomparably formidable at the Golden Core realm, to say nothing of the fact that Li Xinnian cultivated only high-level techniques.
It's just that this kid, ever since he was young, has always liked to hide his true strength.
As for Su Chen, he was truly a disciple who had exceeded his expectations.
Who knows where this child got his fortuitous opportunities, but the cultivation method he practices is one that even he had never heard of, and his foundation is even more solid than his own was back then.
Moreover, Su Chen loves to go out adventuring. Every time he returns, Wuyazi feels that Su Chen has grown stronger once more.
And then there's Nangong Qingya.
This girl hails from the Nangong family of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, yet who knows where she learned the techniques of Eternal Sun Prefecture's major powers.
She has also been hiding her strength.
With three disciples here, all possessing the potential to reach the Divinity Transformation realm, Wuyazi doesn't even know how he could possibly lose this competition!
"In a hundred years at most, I'll be able to hand the Sect Master position over to Su Chen and become the Grand Elder, just like Master."
Wuyazi was beaming, already imagining his future life as a Grand Elder.
"This hellish life of dealing with sect affairs all day... I can finally pass this wretched duty on to my unlucky disciple.
Then I can always attend to Master's side, listen to his teachings, and together, we can comprehend the immortal sound of the Great Dao."
Just as this blueprint for the future was forming in his mind, a Skyveil Sect elder came rushing over.
"This is bad, Sect Master! Su Chen... he's not in the sect cultivating!"
"Hm?"
Wuyazi's expression changed.
The elder's expression was ugly as he said, "We are holding our competition, and the Duravia Trade Prefecture is doing the same. Su Chen left a letter. He has already secretly gone to the Duravia Trade Prefecture.
He said he found an ally in the Eternal Sun Prefecture who can help him bring back the woman he loves."
"That scoundrel!"
Wuyazi slammed his hand on the table in anger.
He knew about Su Chen and Liu Rusi's situation, but it was just a pity that the Aeternus Sect and the Ding family were such colossal powers.
Even he, as Su Chen's master, had to swallow his pride to go and ask for a marriage proposal on his behalf, only to return in failure and humiliation.
He said angrily, "This kid... he's still fixated on it. So many years have passed, and the Duravia Trade Prefecture has long been on guard against us.
Even the Li family, with their Void Refining realm guest retainers, isn't confident in just killing their way into the Duravia Trade Prefecture.
So where in the world did this kid find his backing?"
"Foolishness, ah, foolishness!"
The more he spoke, the more Wuyazi's heart pounded. He glanced at the bustling Skyveil Sect, and his mouth twitched. "Where's Xinnian? Where's Qingya?"
The elder looked at the assembled geniuses from the major sects, and then at the remaining Skyveil Sect disciples who were still decent. His face instantly darkened.
"They have always advanced and retreated together. What do you think, Sect Master?"
"Scoundrel!" Wuyazi shot up from his seat abruptly.
For a moment, he felt the world spin, and his eyes were vacant as he muttered, "Master, this disciple has failed you. The way to lose the younger generation's competition... this disciple has finally found it."
"Sect Master?"
The elder quickly steadied Wuyazi. As the many judges began to call out the names of Su Chen, Li Xinnian, and Nangong Qingya, he said, frantic and overwhelmed, "Sect Master, what competition is there left to compete in?! Your three personal disciples have charged off to the Duravia Trade Prefecture!"
"Right, right, right!"
Wuyazi's eyes flew wide with anger, and his Nascent Soul emerged from the crown of his head.
His voice spread out in all directions.
"Everyone from Azure Cloud, Wuyazi has an urgent matter to ask of you!"
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