The scene left the waiting disciples below the stage wearing expressions of deep envy.
They had lingered in the square for several days without being allowed inside.
Yet some people could be personally received by the Pavilion Master the moment they arrived.
The difference was staggering.
"Little brother, wasn't Zhu Chen only at the Cave Heaven Realm before? How did he suddenly reach the Inscription Realm?"
Shi Qingfeng pulled his gaze away from Zhu Chen's departing figure and turned to Shi Hao.
But Shi Hao was just as bewildered and could offer no answer.
"How could this be? Did Willow Deity lie to me?"
"Impossible… Willow Deity wouldn't lie. It must be that Zhu Chen's cultivation speed is simply too fast, and Willow Deity's information hasn't caught up yet…"
Shi Hao rested his chin on his hand, pondering for a moment before everything clicked.
Even so, the shock he felt at Zhu Chen's terrifying progress refused to fade.
He secretly decided that the next time he entered the Heaven Mending Pavilion, he would definitely seek out Zhu Chen and ask how he cultivated.
"Loves eating beast milk…"
Just as Shi Hao was lost in thought, a clear, delicate shout rang out from the sky.
He looked up and saw a large group of cultivators riding spirit birds descending toward the Heaven Mending Pavilion's mountain gates.
At the forefront was a woman clad in golden armor, radiating a mature and valiant aura.
She possessed an outstanding figure—slender where it should be slender, and full where it should be full. Her chest was not merely ample; it resembled two snow-capped peaks straining against her armor, eye-catching in the extreme.
Her arrival instantly drew the gaze of every male cultivator present.
"Huh? Isn't that the female war goddess from Zhulu Academy? What is she doing at the Heaven Mending Pavilion?"
"I just heard her shout 'loves eating beast milk.' Is she here to buy some? But the Heaven Mending Pavilion doesn't sell beast milk!"
"Idiot! 'Loves eating beast milk' is that brat's nickname!"
"Who's the brat?"
"You don't even know the brat? He's the ruthless little monster who shattered countless records in the Void God Realm and even dared to clash with the four great families. It's said that he broke many of the records left by the double-pupiled Shi Yi in the Initial Land!"
"I remember now! Could he also be entering the Heaven Mending Pavilion?"
"Most likely. Otherwise, why would the female war goddess come here specifically? I heard she tried to recruit that brat to Zhulu Academy back in the Void God Realm, but he turned her down."
"Heavens! Is the recruitment for the Heaven Mending Pavilion this year really this stacked? First we get the Fire Kingdom's Holy Son, whose talent rivals the first-generation geniuses of the Upper Realm, and now this beast-milk-loving brat shows up! Even the ancient sects and holy lands of the Upper Realm couldn't possibly gather so many peerless disciples at once, could they?"
News of Shi Hao's rampage through the Initial Land of the Void God Realm had already spread across the entire Desolate Region. Now that the female war goddess had arrived and publicly called out the brat by his infamous nickname, many instantly guessed her purpose.
She was here to poach top talent!
...
Zhu Chen paid no attention to the commotion outside the Heaven Mending Pavilion's mountain gates.
He had already been personally escorted by the Pavilion Master to the inner hall deep in the back mountain.
This was the pavilion's most restricted meeting hall, a place ordinary disciples were normally forbidden from entering.
But in special circumstances, exceptions could be made.
Once they arrived, the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master, along with Ancestor Mu Yan and the other elders, discussed Zhu Chen's position within the sect.
According to their prior agreement with the Fire Emperor, Zhu Chen and Huo Ling'er were originally meant to become core disciples upon joining.
However, Zhu Chen's situation was unique.
Cultivators at the Inscription Realm were already considered elders in the major sects of the Lower Realm.
Even Elder Xiong Fei of their own Heaven Mending Pavili
on was only at the Spirit Transformation Realm.
It would be inappropriate to treat him as a regular disciple in training.
After some discussion, the Pavilion Master made a decision unprecedented since the sect's founding:
He would directly induct Zhu Chen into the inner pavilion and exceptionally appoint him as an external affairs elder!
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