Chapter 326 Heavenly Cauldron (2/2)

Nobody expected the headmaster to hand this person to Lu Shouyi.

Some people felt it was a pity. Since Lu Shouyi had an odd encounter and had entered Huandan, while he was not as good as the headmaster, he was a rare talent. A lot of doyens had the intention to send someone to cultivate under Lu Shouyi, but they had no means to.

Since Shen Lian achieved immortality. But it was not necessarily for him to be the chief for long. Lu Shouyi had the huge potential to be the next chief.

As Qing Xuan was on the rise, even if cultivators were known to not care too much about fame or status, it did not mean they did not care at all.

Young students were good as they mostly still had hopes to achieve immortality like Shen Lian. For older doyens or students, they most knew that they had no hope. They just wanted to gain more power or techniques to live longer. They wanted to form relationships with the powerful people in the sect, even if they had no hope to achieve Dao, they could still venture out to the mortal world and spread their wings.

The cultivation community was not extremely calm, and there were almost always difficulties. Techniques, instruments and good relationships within the sect became even more important. After a while, Gu Caiwei entered and a lot of people greeted her in a polite way. This was because Gu Caiwei had been handling the matters in the sect in place of Shen Lian. Furthermore, Gu Caiwei was practicing under Taixu Strategy, once she achieved Huandan, she would be one of the top within the sect. No one could underestimate her.

Some of the doyens realized that the core power of Qing Xuan nowadays were all in the hands of Shen Lian's generation.

Chen Jianmei, Gu Caiwei, Yan Bugui and Lu Shouyi, the four combined could form a force against the rest of the doyens.

Every one of them belonged to the clique of Shen Lian. Even there were another immortal Zhenren in Qing Xuan within a hundred years, it was most likely to be one of the four. If they could work slightly harder, in a few hundred years, perhaps Qing Xuan would have four to five immortal Zhenren all at the same time. It was an inspiring thought.

After the doyens and students exchanged greetings, they all spoke together, ”May the Headmaster live through ten thousand years.”

After they finished greeting, they then took their seat.

Shen Lian was sitting on the stone couch. Jing Qing and Ruoxi were standing next to him.

He took a glance at everyone. His deep eyes had a piercing look. Everyone was afraid of the Headmaster's power which was not measurable. As he evaluated them, they all felt that nothing could escape from his eyes in the Boundless Universe.

As Shen Lian spoke, his voice was soothing like the spring breeze. It eased everyone's heart.

”Since I took on the position of the chief, I feel like I've contributed little to the sect. I feel sorry to the previous Chief, Zhenren Zhang.”

”Since Headmaster you took over, Qing Xuan is on the rise. Everyone can see that.”

Immediately some students responded sincerely, as Shen Lian had a mild temper, even the lowest ranked student had received his guidance. He did not have favoritism because of their talent.

Shen Lian put his hand down and everyone turned silent. What he said was sincere, he had not been paying too much attention to the work within the sect.

He continued, ”Now I am approaching the states of celestial and hence I have some time now. I decide to open up the Heavenly Cauldron again to forge some treasures and to fill up the treasure chest. You can exchange it with your merits.”

The Heavenly Cauldron, by its name, implied that it was made in heaven. It used the spiritual opportunity of heaven and earth as the fuel, Taiyi Peak as the cauldron, and the mana of immortal Zhenren as a catalyst to activate creation and to forge treasure. Every treasure was extremely precious.

The first thing was that the spiritual materials were hard to come by, and the spiritual opportunities needed to be accumulated. The second thing was that for the past few hundred years, as Fairy Ziling was reacquiring immortality, and the Grand Ancestor Master was going through the Daoist trials, there were no immortal Zhenren available to unseal the cauldron for the forging of treasure.

As now Shen Lian decided to unseal the Heavenly Cauldron, all the doyens were glad, and as the students found out, they were all looking forward.