THE RULE KING

"To be honest, the disciple in our sect who possesses the Heaven's Luck Divine Ability has just joined the sect not long ago. His strength is low, and he doesn't have the qualification to participate in the competition yet. Sect Master Sun, please don't laugh at us," Ye Qingbi said calmly.

"That's really a pity. Our sect has opened the Immortality Seeking Platform. Maybe he's the fated one," Sun Yuanzheng said with a smile in his eyes as he glanced at Xu Shan.

It should be him. When he asked the question just now, several people were looking at him on purpose or by accident. And this kid looks like he has the Heaven's Luck Divine Ability.

"Sect Master Ye, if you have anything to remind your disciples, please do it as soon as possible. After the Immortality Seeking Platform selects its master, our sect will immediately send people into the secret realm to start the competition," Sun Yuanzheng said, and then turned around and left.

Xu Shan leaned close to Jin Yangqiu and asked, "Master, what's the cultivation level of the Sect Master of the Zixiao Sword Sect?"

"Nascent Soul stage."

"One of the strongest sects in the Water Mirror Region only has a Nascent Soul cultivator as its sect master. Shouldn't he be the strongest in the sect?" Xu Shan asked in surprise.

Jin Yangqiu smiled. "You're quite smart, kid. Why can't you figure out such a simple question? Do you think it's reasonable that the sect master is the highest cultivation level in such a big sect?"

"Most of the time, except for newly established sects, the strongest people in these long-established big sects are the elders and grand elders in the sect. As for the sect master, he needs to be responsible for many other internal and external affairs, so he has much less time for cultivation.

"The sect master is usually selected from those in the sect who have the most management talent and whose cultivation is unlikely to make further progress. They may not be the strongest, but they are often the best at running the sect. Do you understand?"

"I understand, Master."

In short, it's just like a professional manager, the CEO hired by the founder of a startup company.

At this moment, all the thirty-five sects participating in the competition in the entire venue had arrived.

Sun Yuanzheng, accompanied by a young man, walked up to the steps in front of the main hall, circulated his spiritual power, and said in a loud voice, "For the Centennial Competition in the Water Mirror Region, it's really a joyous occasion that all of you fellow cultivators can gather here.

"Our sect has been looking forward to this for a long time. Some of you should have already received the notice in advance, so I won't say more. Before the competition starts, our sect has decided to open the Immortality Seeking Platform in advance, and take this opportunity to find another talented person for the inheritance left by our sect's ancestors.

"Now, without further ado, let's bring out the Immortality Seeking Platform!"

After Sun Yuanzheng finished speaking, he extended his sword finger and pointed at a raised Eight Trigrams diagram below the steps. A wisp of purple lightning shot out from his fingertip.

Suddenly, the entire square began to shake slightly. The Eight Trigrams diagram, several meters in length and width, was pushed up, and a thick bronze pillar engraved with complex talismans slowly rose from the ground.

There were no magnificent effects. After the initial shaking, the bronze pillar returned to a steady rhythm and just kept extending upward.

The people on the square watched this scene excitedly.

Sun Yuanzheng looked at the young man beside him and said, "Lianfeng, this is the Immortality Seeking Platform. Back then, our sect's ancestor left the Great Dao Law in the Immortality Seeking Platform to maintain a trace of divine consciousness and select disciples after his death.

"Your physique is in tune with the physique of our ancestor recorded in the books, and it's even stronger. The inheritance in the Immortality Seeking Platform is surely yours. However, you need to understand something. Opening the inheritance of the Immortality Seeking Platform publicly is a rule that our sect established at the very beginning to gain a foothold in the Water Mirror Region. It's opened once every fifty years, but this time we're making an exception for you alone.

"So we need to let the disciples of other sects try it first, and you can go last, to avoid our sect being criticized. Don't worry. We know all the disciples of the many sects here, and there won't be any accidents."

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"I trust the sect master's arrangements. But I heard that there is a cultivator with Heaven's Luck Divine Ability in the Water Mirror Region. I wonder if this person is here today?" Diwu Lianfeng looked down and kept searching for something.

Sun Yuanzheng looked in the direction of Xinglan Sect. "Maybe he's over there. But you don't need to worry too much. I heard that the divine ability endowment of this disciple from Xinglan Sect is cooking... I've never heard of such a useless divine ability."

"Cooking?" Diwu Lianfeng followed Sun Yuanzheng's gaze and couldn't help but laugh. "Heaven's Luck Divine Abilities are basically attack spells within the Five Elements. What's cooking? If I'm not mistaken, it should be the person with a white cloth wrapped around his arm, right?"

Diwu Lianfeng slightly raised his chin in the direction of Xu Shan.

Sun Yuanzheng asked curiously, "How can you be sure it's him? Do cultivators with Heaven's Luck Divine Abilities have some kind of mutual induction?"

"No, I just think he looks like it."

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