Cultivation: Fortune by Lots

Chapter 905: Chapter 340: Xuanxiao Zi, the Chosen One (Double-Length Chapter) (Part 2)

Yuan Mobai, Lei Jun also achieved the Eighth Heaven Realm.

Listening to his respected teacher’s words, Lin Shan smiled: "As a disciple, I believe that under the leadership of the current Sect Leader and the soon-to-be successor Junior Brother Lei, our sect will flourish further, and more fellow disciples will continuously progress."

Shangguan Ning lightly nodded: "Indeed."

Although Tang Xiaotang has served as the Celestial Master over these years, it often gave people a sense of unease and instability.

But to be fair, during her term, the Celestial Master Mansion successfully passed the previous low period, restoring its vitality.

As of now, she has been in position for twenty-eight years.

By the number of years, she might contend for the title of the shortest-serving Celestial Master.

However, in these short twenty-eight years, she and the Celestial Master Mansion have experienced much together, more tumultuous than some ancestors’ two hundred eighty years.

Her career as Celestial Master began with the battle of Li Wai, expelling Xinzhou’s Li Clan.

This very act could be counted as one of the most significant events in the Celestial Master Mansion’s recent hundred years.

Thereafter, in the battle of Jiangzhou, breaking the Lin Clan Ancestral Land of Jiangzhou, the Celestial Master Mansion completely broke the spine of its thousand-year-old foe, the Jiangzhou Lin Clan, forcing them to migrate far away.

Since Lin Che was the clan chief at the time, many of the top experts of the Jiangzhou Lin Clan perished, and the clan’s treasure, the Dragon Serpent Pen, was destroyed and became history.

The Guanlong demon chaos erupted, and the Eighth Heaven Tang Xiaotang wielded the Celestial Master’s Sword to aid, battling the Ninth Sky Great Demon, becoming one of the pivotal figures among human cultivators in this war.

In the Mortal Tao Country’s attack on Dragon Tiger Mountain’s great war, the Thousand Leaves Butterfly King, Rong Guangchen, and Wei Qiyue, the three great experts, all perished within Tang Xiaotang’s Divine Court’s Pure Yang Law Realm.

Later in the Earth Sea, she achieved the Great Vehicle High Immortal of the Ninth Heaven, directly slaying the veteran strongman of the same Ninth Heaven, the Blood River Sect Leader Wei Ancheng, making this heretical giant her stepping stone, shocking the world.

And this year, a complete extermination of the Great Tang Mortal Tao Country’s war, and resolving the Celestial Master Mansion’s historical issue of the Yellow Sky Sect, battled the heretical cult of Inner Mount Shu in Bashu and Nanzhao, once again battling the Ninth Heaven Inner Mount Shu expert Taoist Kong An, breaking the White Bone Divine Boat, injuring the Inner Mount Shu Sect Leader Ji Yao, completely establishing the Celestial Master Mansion’s prestige in the current Great Tang Dynasty.

Not to mention, during her tenure, she had previously broken the Yellow Sky Sect’s Main Altar overseas, cutting off the Yellow Sky Sect’s destiny for the first time.

She brought the heritage of the Yanshi Lineage from Heaven’s Principle, adding a new branch to the Dragon Tiger Mountain Celestial Master Mansion.

Moreover, welcoming back the three treasures of the Celestial Master’s Sword, Celestial Master Seal, and Celestial Master Robe that had been lost successively!

Any one of these achievements could be monumental for a Celestial Master’s term.

Now the Great Tang Mortal Realm is at the critical stage of massive tides sweeping through, with changes in heaven and earth, many people and affairs are engulfed by the tide, buried by the waves, becoming mere traces of history.

Yet, the Celestial Master Mansion under Tang Xiaotang’s tenure has, at least as of now, successfully withstood the tide of the era.

This is, of course, not solely her merit.

But when future generations speak of today’s affairs, her presence as the Celestial Master cannot and should not be bypassed.

As for where the great ship of the Celestial Master Mansion goes next, whether it sinks or floats, will depend on the next leader at the helm.

As for the next Celestial Master...

"Junior Brother Lei’s talent and character are unmatched," said Lin Shan with emotion, "Reflecting now, over these years, he has been involved in all of our sect’s major events..."

Although he might not have been deeply involved in some events, Elder Lei has been through most of the major events during Celestial Master Tang’s tenure.

Aside from the early Li Wai battle, the Guanlong demon chaos, and the recently concluded Shushan heretical war in Bashu and Nanzhao, Elder Lei was mostly at the side of Celestial Master Tang.

In the battle of Jiangzhou, Elder Lei secretly broke through to the Seventh Heaven, escorting the Celestial Master’s Sword to Jiangzhou to join Celestial Master Tang, assisting in breaking the Lin Clan Ancestral Land of Jiangzhou.

Breaking the Yellow Sky Sect was precisely Elder Lei, accompanied by Elder Xu Yuanzhen, who went overseas successfully to breach the Yellow Sky Sect’s Main Altar, exposing the existence of the Mortal Tao Country.

In the Dragon Tiger Mountain battle, Elder Yuan and Elder Lei entered the Pure Yang Law Realm, assisting Celestial Master Tang in eliminating the Great Demon, Thousand Leaves Butterfly King, and high-ranking experts Rong Guangchen and Wei Qiyue from the Mortal Tao Country.

With Heaven’s Principle manifesting overseas, it was Elder Lei assisting Elder Shangguan, jointly representing the Celestial Master Mansion.

Also, it was after this battle that Elder Lei assisted Celestial Master Tang to introduce the Yanshi Lineage’s heritage into the Great Tang Mortal Realm, establishing the Mystery Observatory as a new branch of the Dragon Tiger Mountain.

During Celestial Master Tang’s battle in the Earth Sea, where she slew the heretical giant Wei Ancheng, it was Elder Lei who guarded her during her cultivation and breakthrough in the Earth Sea, risking severe injuries himself, using the Celestial Master’s Sword and Seal to fend off Li Yan and Wei Ancheng, both Ninth Heaven masters, successfully protecting Celestial Master Tang as she emerged.

This recent purge of the Great Tang Mortal Realm Tao Country’s warfare needs no further elaboration.

After Huang Xuanpu was wounded and fled from Xu Yuanzhen’s Liheng Halberd, it was Elder Lei who personally slew him, the Dragon-Tiger Strike shaking the entire Snow Mountains of Western Sichuan, breaking the new Main Altar of the Yellow Sky Sect, thus making the Yellow Sky Sect history and facilitating this Huangtian Returning to Sect.

If in earlier years, due to his cultivation realm, Elder Lei was mostly assisting from the sidelines.

Then in recent years, as his cultivation realm continuously improved, he gradually became a pivotal force helping the Celestial Master Mansion stand at the forefront of the times.

One could also say that his growth and rise perfectly align with the Celestial Master Mansion’s journey from a low period back to the peak.

"By stepping down from her position, the Sect Leader doesn’t mean leaving our sect, she will still be a High Merit Elder, and both she and Elder Lei are young; the two swapping positions, they will continue to help our sect stand strong in the world." Shangguan Hong sincerely said.