Chapter 744: Long Continent Grand Sect Tournament
The Patriarch’s words were confusing to all and they waited for him to give an appropriate response. Even Supreme Elder Weizhe was ready to oppose the patriarch if he did not give a solid reason for doing so.
“The reason I want them to be chief disciples is because of the Long Continent Grand Sect tournament.” Patriarch Bing revealed.
As soon as he said this, a hint of realizing apparel on supreme elder Weizhe. The other elders though were still not fully understanding it.
“The Long Continent Grand Sect Tournament?” Pei Jun said in confusion.
“This was one of the topics of discussion in last year’s meeting of the sects. Back then, we were given five spots to compete in, but with the incident last year… we were greatly weakened.
The other sects decided that we didn’t have the necessary strength and were threatening to take away our spots, leaving us with only one. With great difficulty, we managed to let them leave us with three spots.
Traditionally these spots would go to the chief disciple and the core disciples. But in our condition, they are still indenting to push with lessening our seats. There is a chance that they might still knock off our seats when we actually get to the tournament.” Patriarch Bing explained.
“Wait… if it is still like this, then what is the merit of making us into chief disciples?” Pei Jun asked feeling doubtful.
“It is to prevent them from knocking off our spots.” It was elder Weizhe who spoke this time. “There is a set of rules that dictate the eligibility of the candidates as well as how the number of seats is to be assigned. There is a certain clause in this… a clause that dictates that the spot for the chief disciple cannot be removed as long as the sect they belong to is in the top ten.” He explained.
Hearing this, Wang Xiong and other elders instantly understood Patriarch Bing’s play.
“Isn’t this… kinda shameless?” Wang Xiong spoke.
It was a play on the rules of the tournament, but this rested on the fact that the sects only had one chief disciple. After all, if there were more than one in the rank, the meaning of chief didn’t really make sense.
“It would indeed be so normally… but in our situation, we have to try everything. Also… it could be a loss of face if the disciples were not up to the mark of a chief disciple. But I reckon since Pei Jun and Tian Xiaoge have accomplished the same as what you have, they are deserving of the position.” Patriarch Bing elaborated.
The elders could fully tell that this was still shameless but they didn’t care. The face of the sect was still at hand and as long as Pei Jun and Tian Xiaoge could keep up with Wang Xiong’s power level, it would all be fine.
“If it’s like this then… guess we’ll have to go ahead with it.” The elders finally agreed.
Wang Xiong too didn’t find any opposition with it, even though he found it strange.
‘Though considering the importance of the tournament, it is understandable…’ Wang Xiong thought to himself. ‘I’ll need to inform Senior Lin Wu about it too, he’ll definitely want to know more.’
The meeting continued on for another day in which the details of Pei Jun and Tian Xiaoge’s duties were given. Then the situation of the sect was revealed to the disciples of the sect openly as well as the addition of the thirteen new elders.
It was a piece of earthshaking news for the Frozen Cloud sect. The disciples couldn’t believe that overnight they had gained thirteen more Nascent soul realm elders. But when they heard that Pei Jun and Tian Xiaoge were promoted to chief disciples in addition to high elders they were absolutely at a loss for words.
At first, they wondered how this was possible since this was against the rules and tradition of the Frozen Cloud sect. But then Patriarch Bing officially announced the amendment of the sect rules.
From this day onwards, the Frozen Cloud sect can have three chief disciples as long as they fulfilled certain conditions set by the patriarch. These conditions were not revealed though as they pertained to the secrets of the sect.
The day was certainly shocking to all the disciples of the sect.
But they didn’t know that it was only the beginning of many more that were to come in the future.
Once everything was settled at the sect, Wang Xiong took the earliest opportunity to contact Lin Wu.
Lin Wu had simply been cultivating in this time and was woken up by Wang Xiong’s call.
“Senior! I have a piece of big news for you.” Wang Xiong almost screamed.
“Calm down, what is it?” Lin Wu asked.
Wang Xiong then went on to explain everything that had happened at the sect as well as the fact that the three of them would be participating in the Long Continent Grand Sect Tournament.
Lin Wu was certainly surprised hearing it all, but the tournament was new information for him.
‘The system probably has more info, though since he’s already saying it, I may as well ask Wang Xiong.’ Lin Wu decided.
“What is this tournament tell me more?” Lin Wu questioned.
“It’s the biggest tournament for cultivators on the Long cloud continent. In fact, the Long Continent Grand Sect Tournament is only a part of the entire tournament which is simply the Long Continent Grand Cultivator tournament.
There are three tournaments in it all, pertaining to different levels of the cultivators. The lowest ranked tournament is for those cultivators who are not from any sects. The cultivators from different organizations, clans as well as rogue cultivators will bipartite in this.
Then there is the mid ranked tournament which is for all the disciples of the sects. In this, the normal and average cultivators of the sects will compete. Finally, we have the highest ranked tournament which is only for the chief disciples and top core disciples!” Wang Xiong answered.
