122: Promotion Conference

After leaving the Immortal Cave, Long Aotian was led by Ao Jingtain to roughly tour the place where she grew up.

Growing up alone on Dragon Peak, it could be said that she was lonely.

At this moment, Long Aotian couldn't help but feel a pang of pity for her. His Revered Master was truly overbearing. He didn't know what the situation of Ao Jingtain's birth mother's family was now, but he figured everything was unimportant now. The Sky Ruins Continent was so vast, who knew from which corner his Revered Master had abducted his Senior Sister.

This matter could not be investigated.

What if Revered Master had annihilated the other party's clan? Discovering the truth might make his Senior Sister grieve to death... Long Aotian released his Divine Sense, and all activities within Dragon Peak were under his control.

After nearly half a year of an all-peak mass seclusion, Dragon Peak's overall strength had significantly improved.

When they first entered Dragon Peak, a small portion of the approximately two thousand Cultivator Disciples of The Long family were still in the Vein Opening Realm. Now, after just half a year of mass seclusion, all Disciples in the Vein Opening Realm had entered the Foundation Establishment Realm, and had even reached the middle to Late Stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

It was foreseeable that in another one or two years, the lowest-cultivation Disciple on Dragon Peak would also be in the Transformation Sea Realm.

During this mass seclusion, many Disciples advanced from the outer sect to the inner sect. They were still in seclusion. With such a good Cultivation environment, if they didn't cherish it and Cultivate diligently, they would feel they were letting themselves down, letting their families down, and letting the air down... No one from the inner sect entered the core sect.

The requirement to Breakthrough to the Spirit Division Realm to enter the core sect was indeed high.

Among the two thousand Cultivator Disciples of The Long family, besides Long Aotian, the highest-cultivation individual was Long Wudi, who had now Breakthrough to the Out-of-Body Realm and reached the sixth revolution stage of the Out-of-Body Realm. This surprised Long Aotian, as he hadn't expected his Grandfather's Martial Arts Talent to be so strong.

However, upon remembering that the leaders of The Long family for several generations were all Cultivators with pure metal Spiritual Root, Long Aotian felt relieved.

Cultivators with pure Spiritual Root attributes indeed possessed unique natural advantages in cultivation advancement. Unlike him, with twelve attribute Spiritual Roots, it was like twelve people were Cultivating. The Cultivation resources consumed alone were twelve times that of a pure Spiritual Root attribute Cultivator.

Besides his Grandfather Long Wudi's sudden burst of Martial Arts Talent, which surprised Long Aotian, his Great-Grandfather Long Shijie also Breakthrough to the fifth revolution stage of the Out-of-Body Realm. Additionally, his father Long Bubai Breakthrough to the Ninth Revolution Peak Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

The cultivation Realm of these three improved the most rapidly, all advancing by more than five minor Realms. Especially his father Long Bubai, who directly soared from the Early Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm to the Ninth Revolution Peak Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, just a step away from the Out-of-Body Realm.

However, his ancestor Dragon War God, although also possessing a pure metal Spiritual Root, seemed to have slightly inferior Martial Arts Talent compared to his Great-Grandfather, Grandfather, and father, possibly due to his older age. Although he also Breakthrough to the fifth revolution stage of the Out-of-Body Realm, he was clearly surpassed by his son Long Shijie.

Nevertheless, even though he was surpassed in Martial Arts Talent by his descendants Long Shijie, Long Wudi, and Long Bubai, Dragon War God's Martial Arts Talent still placed him among the top tier within The Long family.

After observing the seclusion and Cultivation of The Long family, Long Aotian was quite satisfied with The Long family's current overall situation. The number of Out-of-Body Realm, Nascent Soul Realm, and Golden Core Realm Cultivators was increasing. Among the Ten Disciples, Meilan, Zhuju, and Xue had all Breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm, and Yu, Zhou, Hong, Huang, and Wu were just a step away from the Golden Core Realm.

Give The Long family another one or two years, and Long Aotian believed that his Great-Grandfather Long Shijie, Grandfather Long Wudi, and even his late-blooming father Long Bubai, might all Breakthrough to the Spirit Division Realm.

They were all Martial Arts Talent who had Cultivated themselves into ten-thousand-year Prodigies using low-quality Cultivation resources. Now, given the best Cultivation resources, it would be strange if they didn't soar in Cultivation.

It was worth mentioning Hua Buqi.

Long Aotian had given her several Cultivation Technique, and she ultimately chose to Cultivate the Purple Reincarnation Skill. Her cultivation had now also Breakthrough to the Late Stage of the Golden Core Realm, making her the fastest-improving among the Golden Core Realm Disciples.

Hua Buqi also possessed a pure Spiritual Root, and a very rare pure light-attribute Spiritual Root at that.

Within the Hua Family, Hua Buqi's Martial Arts Talent was undoubtedly the best.

The reason her cultivation was so lacking was partly because she spent several years accompanying Long Aotian, and partly because she didn't have a very good light-attribute Cultivation Technique.

Now, Long Aotian had given her a Heaven-Defying Purple Reincarnation Skill, and with Long Aotian no longer needing her care, she fully dedicated herself to Cultivation. The continuous supply of top-tier Cultivation resources, a Heaven-Defying Cultivation Technique, and excellent Martial Arts Talent allowed her cultivation to rocket upwards... Time flew by.

Ten days passed in a flash.

These ten days were undoubtedly the happiest time Ao Jingtain had ever experienced since growing up, and it was also the first time she felt how wonderful it was to have a Dao Companion on the path of Martial Dao.

At least, she wouldn't feel as lonely as before.

“Dong dong dong dong—”

The bell for the Cloud Peak Promotion Ceremony rang. This was a special parent-child sound transmission Magical Artifact. The parent artifact was on Cloud Peak, and each of the other eleven peaks had a child artifact.

The sound of the bell and the number of rings had special meanings.

The bell for Long Aotian's Promotion Ceremony as Deputy Peak Lord was a promotion sound, ringing four times. This meant it was either a promotion to Deputy Peak Lord or to one of the Ten Elders or Ten Protectors.

The power structure of Cloud Palace was such that the Grand Elder was in the first tier.

The Palace Lord was in the second tier.

The Peak Lord was in the third tier.

Deputy Peak Lords, Ten Elders, and Ten Protectors were in the fourth tier.

Core Elders were in the fifth tier.

Inner Sect Elders and Young Peak Lords were in the sixth tier...

Upon hearing the bell for the Promotion Ceremony assembly, all participants had to immediately fly to the Cloud Palace Great Hall on Cloud Peak.

As the main character of the promotion, Long Aotian also flew to Cloud Peak with Ao Jingtain.

Perhaps knowing that today was a somewhat special day, Ao Jingtain didn't dare to let Long Aotian be her mode of transport today.

Otherwise, she was truly worried that her admirers would literally devour Long Aotian.

Even if they couldn't literally devour Long Aotian, bringing so much hatred upon him was not something she wished to see.

Dragon Peak was at the very end, the farthest away, yet Long Aotian and Ao Jingtain were the fastest to arrive. Neither he nor Ao Jingtain were slow in terms of speed; Long Aotian had the Tai Xu Divine Steps, and Ao Jingtain had the Piao Yao Divine Skill.

However, arriving quickly didn't mean they were the first to arrive. For example, the Ten Elders, Ten Protectors, and several Deputy Peak Lords of Cloud Peak, as well as the Core Elders of Cloud Peak, already lived on Cloud Peak and arrived even faster than them. The number of people was nearly two hundred, and Long Aotian couldn't help but be secretly astonished by the strength of Cloud Palace.

Just one Cloud Peak had nearly two hundred powerhouses at least at the Mahayana Realm level! The strength of Cloud Palace was indeed terrifying, truly worthy of being one of the two major Cultivation powers in the Eastern Desolate, and even the strongest power in the Eastern Desolate in a practical sense.

“Hmph, you are Long Aotian? I, Nangong Baobao, disagree with you becoming the Deputy Peak Lord of Dragon Peak. Let's have a fight on the arena! Only by defeating me will you be qualified to be promoted to Deputy Peak Lord of Dragon Peak. If you can't defeat me, then obediently go back to Cloud Peak and be a Core Elder!”

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