Chapter 1468: Controversy of the Son
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Fairy Palace
- Drill
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- 2021-01-29 03:10:02
I saw a fire falling from the sky. Fortunately, Ye Tian had not had much spiritual power loss before, and had always been alert, reminding everyone that he could avoid the meteorite in time even when he was meditating.
After the meteorite fell to the ground, it began to tremble, and it skyrocketed in an instant, gradually turning into a giant spirit man with flames all over his body.
The flame giant had just formed, but he involuntarily captured everyone, and saw a large amount of flame lava spewing out where the giant was passing, and everyone instantly turned into a lava zone within a hundred miles, as if The view of purgatory.
The flame power of this giant spirit man is no less than the fire of the sky thunder. Although everyone is already immortal, even if it is not Li Xiu, the flesh is very powerful, but when everyone approaches the flames, they can still feel Burning sensation.
"These giant spirit people are a bit wise, they take advantage of the time I am waiting for a rest." Huang Yuche soared into the air, and saw that he was holding a golden long sword in his hand, and above the sword, There are actually nine five-clawed golden dragons wandering in it.
"Fortunately, there is only one giant spirit man, that is, I have not waited for the spiritual power to recover, and with the power of the five of you and me, it can be dealt with." The long spear in Zhan Mengchang's hand raised slightly, with a blood-red golden breath. Shrouded his whole body.
At this moment, the earth began to fission. A large amount of metal fell from the sky, and everyone's hearts quickly scattered. Who knew that when they scattered like this, they actually let the giant spirit man find a chance to live.
The ground slowly rises, and the five people are locked in five terrains.
Ye Tian looked at the earth wall slowly rising in front of him, raised his hand and slashed at the earth wall with a sword. However, his sword energy only left a crack on the earth wall, and the crack healed quickly.
"It seems that this thing is trying to trap us in one place and destroy each one."
Huang Tianxia’s voice came from the communication talisman, "You guys hold on, wait for me to solve the trouble here, and go and support you immediately."
Ye Tian looked at the giant spirit man who was entangled in layers of vines in front of him, a ray of flame appeared on his fingertips, and he set the ray of flame on his sword.
In a short time, that ray of flame met the spiritual energy on the sword body, just like dry wood met a raging fire, it burned quickly.
"Quick battle and quick decision."
Ye Tian holding a blazing flame sword, looked at the giant spirit man in front of him, standing proudly.
The five of them seem to be teaming up, but in the battle, none of them showed their true strength.
Know that in the next trial, it is very likely that they will become enemies of the other party. Excessive exposure of their moves and abilities to the other party is undoubtedly a very dangerous behavior.
Not only Ye Tian, Zhan Wudi and Huang Tianxia did not even show one-tenth of their strength.
It didn’t take long for the surrounding soil wall to collapse. Ye Tian looked at other people at this moment, the others seemed a little embarrassed on the surface, but the aura in the body was not disturbed at all.
After the trial, the five of them occupied the top five in the rankings.
The first thousand players will stay for the final round of trials, and these thousand players have been disciples of the Taoist School since then.
But this is just an inexperienced handyman among Taoist Sect.
If you want to win the favor of Taoist gods, unless you can get a higher ranking in the third round.
The first two rounds of competition are just to be able to screen out those mediocrities from the crowd. Only the third round is the real decision, the status and resources they can obtain after entering the Taoist School.
On the other side, Ye Tianpan was sitting in the inn, and neither Gu Xuanji nor Huang Tianxia came to look for him.
At this time, there is no need for them to cooperate. The next is the individual competition.
And they are opponents to each other.
At this moment, a figure appeared in Ye Tian's room, it was the mysterious howling.
"I don't know why fellow Taoist Xiaoming is looking for me?"
"Transaction."
"trade what?"
"Help me enter the Taoist School to steal things. I deliberately lost to you in the competition to improve your ranking."
"Stealing things in the Taoist First Sect, you can do it yourself."
Ye Tian opened his eyes and looked at howling coldly. Wanting to take advantage of him is too whimsical.
At this moment, Xiaoming pulled off his mask, and her long hair spread out like a black waterfall, and a ray of devilish energy was emitted. This mysterious howling was actually a demon woman?
"Now you know why I can't enter Taoist School." Xiaoming looked at Ye Tian and smiled charmingly.
"Then you have to tell me what you want first." Ye Tian knew that people of the Demon Race really couldn't enter Taoist Sect.
"Don't worry, all I want is the Phoenix Nie Profound Pill in Taoist First Sect." Xiaoming smiled lightly and walked towards Ye Tian.
"Then why did you choose me?" Ye Tian stepped back, not wanting to make more contact with Xiaoming. This woman has a lot of secrets, and he doesn't want to get it.
"Other people are more or less related to the Ten Great Sacred Grounds and the Ten Great Evil Sects. Only you have no background." Xiaoming was a little surprised when Ye Tian resisted.
She had just performed the technique of on Ye Tian, and she didn't want Ye Tian to be unresponsive.
"As long as you can agree to my terms, I will help you remove all obstacles. Help you get to the top of the rankings and gain the favor of the Taoist gods." Xiaoming's eyes flowed, and this posture, I am afraid that I will do anything. When a man sees it, he will be confused by it.
"Yes." Ye Tian nodded calmly.
He doesn't need the help of Howling. With his own strength, he can become the number one. It's just that a demon girl who can contemplate appears in such a trial field, and the secret in it is what he really wants to know.
Even if it has nothing to do with him, the more muddy the water is, the better he will act.
"Then I'm leaving, I will definitely cooperate with you that day." Xiaoming smiled charmingly and turned away.
"If you play a crooked way like this day, I will personally kill you." Ye Tian played with the cup in his hand and said coldly.
"I see." The enchanting figure who had left froze and smiled hard.
On the day of the final competition, the Taoist man revealed his true body, spread his palms, and a beam of light condensed in his hands.
Wave a big hand, throwing out the light in the hand.
The light collapsed rapidly, forming a singularity. Eventually it erupted, and thousands of small imaginary worlds were born. It's like a firework bubble, seemingly true or false.
These small worlds will constantly move and randomly collide with other small worlds. Once the two small worlds start to collide, they will merge into the same world.
If there are two or more players in the same small world within the specified time, then both will be judged as losers.
In the end, these small worlds will continue to collide and merge until there is only one person left.
Ye Tian stood in one of the small worlds. This small world was really small, not even as big as a small village.
However, the barrier of the small world is extremely hard. Ye Tian tried to attack the barrier and took the initiative to find other small worlds.
can be knocked out with one move, and the barrier remains intact. It seems that you can only wait for the small world to merge with each other before you can make a move.
With the violent shaking of the small world, Ye Tian could see that the small world he was in was slowly blending with another small world filled with yellow sand.
A figure appeared not far away, and fell directly in front of Ye Tian.
"A monk without a foundation is really boring."
Master Wang’s Master looked at Ye Tian disdainfully.
"This young master comes from the Wang family, an affiliated family of the Ten Great Sacred Lands. If you directly surrender, if the province young master takes more effort, you can still get some compensation when you go out. For you, I am afraid that you have never seen this in your life. ."
Young Master Wang Jia said proudly that the ten holy places had already known the content of the game before they came in.
In order to save energy and be able to win in the final duel, they did not intend to duel with some little guys, wasting aura.
It's better to give these people a little compensation. Anyway, these people without a foundation can never be the top three.
"Since I reported my family, but my life, do you know?"
Ye Tian looked at Young Master Wang indifferently.
"It's just a little monk with no foundation, dare to run in front of me and pretend to have a deep background?" Young Master Wang sneered.
Since this little monk doesn’t know each other, he will decide quickly.
As for the aura that was wasted in this battle...The Young Master Wang's expression turned harsh, he would naturally find it back from this little monk after going out.
Young Master Wang’s long sword stretched out, and he started the war directly.
Ye Tian didn't evade, and when the sword was only a palm away from him, he stretched out his arm, actually preparing to directly fight the sword with his body.
Young Master Wang’s face was grinning, and he wanted to fight with his body, so don’t blame him for his cruelty.
But when the sword body collided with the arm, the long sword actually shattered into dust.
Hit the elbow towards Master Wang.
One cubit, it made it fly out, blood spraying three feet.
With one blow, Master Wang was killed by Ye Tian.
If you die in the small world, you will be eliminated.
"Impossible, it must be some conspiracy he used, this kind of insidious and insidious means is the most versatile."
Young Master Wang's furious.
How could he be defeated by a little monk, he hasn't even killed anyone!
On the empty field, he was the only one standing.
He was the first to be eliminated!
A great shame!
Wait until the monk comes out, he will find someone to kill him!
Waited a full ten minutes before we eliminated another person.
Young Master Wang's complexion finally improved a lot, and he took the initiative to speak up.
"Who are you eliminated by?"
If he, like himself, is eliminated by a person who has no discipline, then he can still retain some face.
Just looking at this person’s clothes, it should also belong to their top ten holy places.
"I actually encountered the legendary howling, it seems my luck is out of luck."
The monk smiled helplessly, and did not seem very angry about what he had been eliminated by Howling.
I met this person at the beginning, and I can only say that his luck is bad, not because he is poor.
After hearing what happened to that monk, Young Master Wang’s face became more gloomy, so he was the only one who was ashamed!
Ye Tian in a small world, he didn't know the thoughts of someone who was eliminated by him.
After waiting for a stick of incense, the small world shook violently again.
In just a few minutes, a figure fell from the sky, and it was the Longshan mad who had had a feast with him before.
"It turned out to be you, this time I will definitely let you know the fate of offending me!"
Longshan was overjoyed on his face, he would definitely not kill Ye Tian directly.
These small worlds can be seen outside.
He wants to humiliate Ye Tian severely and make him a laughing stock in Taoist One!
Ye Tianao stood still, and did not exchange more local ideas with this person, directly raised the long sword in his hand and pointed it at Longshan Kuang.
"Last time I was careless, you hurt me. Now I won't let you seize the opportunity."
Longshan stared at Ye Tian fiercely.
As soon as the voice fell, a huge pothole suddenly appeared on the ground at the foot of Longshan.
Ye Tian flew up quickly, and slashed to the side, with a ding sound, a series of sparks appeared in the air.
"You deserve to be the number one guy in the standings. He can see my movements clearly, but you have to be careful next." Longshan Kuang's figure appeared from the void, and he sneered.
Slashing the ground, Longshan Kuang left an afterimage on the spot.
With a punch, Ye Tian raised the long sword in his hand, and Long Shan slammed his long sword madly.
Ye Tian only felt that his arms shook, and he gave a sneer, a large amount of flames wrapped around Longshan Kuang's body along the long sword.
"What flame is this?"
When the flames burned on his body, Longshan Kuang didn’t care.
It’s a mere fire, for him, he can’t even burn his hair.
He didn't feel the flames until the strong burning sensation came.
Long Shan Kuang's complexion changed, and he directly cut off his arm.
The severed arm was gradually turned into ashes directly in the flames, and a brand new arm was reborn on his severed arm in Longshan's frenzied face.
"You are not a human."
Ye Tian said calmly.
Such a terrifying regeneration ability, only those monster races with special abilities have.
"Fun, this is our unique ability to find Dragon Mountain. Our Dragon Mountain search technique can transform the blood in the body into dragon blood. As long as the dragon blood continues, we can continue to regenerate."
Longshan glanced madly at his brand new arm, and said proudly.
A person who has no school or school, even if he is talented, what can he do?
"Then I want to be able to see that the dragon blood in your body can support your regeneration several times."
Ye Tian didn't care, and raised the long sword in his hand.
In the next second, Ye Tianzhou turned into a large number of clones, and these clones madly attacked Longshan from all directions.
"Is that enough? It really disappoints me."
Before 's voice, Longshan Kuang's figure expanded rapidly.
A huge tail grew from behind him, and when he turned around, he swept away all the clones.
"Ye Tian, where is your body? You won't hide because of fear, right."
Longshan laughed arrogantly, and grabbed a few clones and crushed them instantly. Longshan Kuang slaughtered these clones wantonly.
Longshan violently released the wind, but unexpectedly Ye Tian suddenly appeared behind him, and a long sword pierced his back.
At the same time, a large amount of spiritual energy was injected into his body, shattering all his internal organs like a whirlwind.
After that, Ye Tian retracted his long sword and looked at Longshan Kuang who had fallen in a pool of blood. Suddenly, the body of Longshan Kuang began to swell rapidly, and the skin on the surface began to generate a large number of scales.
Not much to say, Longshan Kuang has turned into a dragon, his eyes are extremely red, but now he seems to have lost his mind, and he waved it over.
There was a loud bang, the earth cracked, and Longshan slammed into the void with a punch.
With a click, cracks appeared in the void. His dragon claw grabbed the cracks in the void, and he tore the fragments of the void abruptly.
Afterwards, the dragon man who was transformed into a madness of Longshan took the void fragments in his hand and threw it towards Ye Tian with great force.
There is a lot of rule power in the Void Fragment, which can not be easily resisted, but this Longshan Madness is really a lunatic now, and the Void Fragment has always been in his hand.
, his dragon claws had already been cut to blood by the force of the rules emitted by the void fragments, but his injuries had been fully recovered in less than a second.
Ye Tian frowned slightly, and dodged to avoid the attack of Void Shattering.
Ke Longshan Kuang didn't care, his gaze once again focused on the void crack on the side.
Next, he can’t let him break like this anymore. Once the void begins to shatter, the small world he is in will also collapse.
Then, he will lose this game, and all his efforts will be gone.
Thinking of this, Ye Tian flickered and appeared in front of Longshan Kuang, raising his hand with a sword and slashing it over, and Longshan Kuang’s dragon claws directly grabbed it.
Ye Tian wanted to draw out his long sword, but Longshan madly held onto it tightly. Even with the sword energy, the blood that cut his palm was dripping, he still did not let go.
At the same time, the other dragon claw raised his hand and patted it, Ye Tian flipped his palm, and a flame spewed out from the palm of his hand.
There was a muffled sound, and Ye Tian was in pain for a while, and his body flew upside down, hitting the ground with great force.
Ye Tian bared his teeth and looked at Longshan Kuang wrapped in flames in front of him. After transforming into a beast, although his strength and speed have been greatly improved, his intelligence has dropped significantly.
Is it so easy to follow? Ye Tian waited until the flames on the corpse had completely disappeared before slowly walking over. No matter how powerful he was to recover, he couldn't be resurrected after turning into ashes.
After that, Ye Tian picked up the long sword in his hand and sat cross-legged on the ground to continue to welcome the next battle.
In the void, several Taoist gods looked at the smaller and smaller world, and could not help but start discussing.
"Who do you think is the first place in this competition?"
"I think Huang Tianxia is good. He has the dragon spirit of the Nine Dynasties. He is not weak in strength. He is likely to be the last one."
"I think War Invincible is good. Although Huang Tianxia is powerful, it is a one-on-one duel here. War Invincible can maximize his strength."
"Let me say, that little monk named Ye Tian, I can't understand it a bit. The Taoism he uses seems to come from outside the world, but he is not too skilled in using it."
"It is also his luck to be able to obtain Dao Fa outside the world, and I am also optimistic about this person."
As soon as 's voice fell, there was a loud noise in one of the small worlds, and Zhan Wudi held a spear and looked at the opposite blood slaughter.
"The corpse mountains and blood seas I have come into contact with are far more powerful than this, and I dare to show off my little skills in carving insects."
The entire small world has now become a sea of blood, and the blood massacre is quietly hidden in the sea of blood under his feet, and Zhan Wudi sneered.
As soon as the voice fell, a blood spirit figure appeared behind Zhan Wudi, holding a long bow and shooting an arrow into the sky, and a large number of light arrows fell from the sky like a torrential rain.
The lightsaber fell on the ground, and it was inserted there quietly without exploding.
The blood slaughter was hiding in the sea of blood. Seeing this weird scene, there was a trace of vigilance in his heart, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't see any actions of the opposite Zhan Wudi.
Seeing that the time was approaching, Xue Tu was a little anxious. Perhaps this light arrow was just a cover. He was hiding in the sea of blood. The longer the time, the more spiritual power would be consumed.
At that time, the spiritual power is insufficient, and he must be at a loss in the fight between the two.
"The blood slaughter came out in an instant, holding a long knife and slashing straight at the neck of Zhan Invincible.
Zhan Wudi smiled slightly when Xuetu thought he had the chance to win.
In a short time, the lightsabers around turned into thousands of silk threads to see the blood butcher tied together.
"You guy is really good at hiding. The endurance of waiting for a rabbit is really not suitable for me, but fortunately, you finally caught your cunning rabbit."
Xuetu's eyes widened, staring at Zhan Invincible in disbelief.
He was actually designed by Zhan Invincible.
Zhan Invincible is also waiting, waiting for Xuetu to reveal his figure and capture it in one fell swoop. Maintaining these light arrows is the same as Xuetu hiding in a sea of blood, requiring a lot of spiritual power to maintain it, but fortunately this time he won the bet.
Ye Tian on the other side also encountered a special opponent, Gu Xuanji.
"Brother Ye Tian, you and I met again, please enlighten me."
Gu Xuanji looked at Ye Tian and smiled.
"You can do it first."
Ye Tian looked at Gu Xuanji and said with a light smile.
Let him make a move and he can still win.
Gu Xuanji waved his big hand, and behind him a huge giant city condensed, Ye Tian stepped back and left the attack range of Gu Xuanji.
The ground under his feet cracked quickly, and Ye Tian only felt a whirl of the sky, and the world he was in began to turn like a Rubik's Cube.
Not long, a weird little world formed again.
Heaven is the earth, the earth is the sky, everything is turned upside down.
"This is a bit weird."
This Taoist law seems to have almost no offensive power other than the legal composition that affects this small world.
But Ye Tian will not underestimate it. It is natural that he is not a weak one to be among the best in the standings.
The next second, the ground under Ye Tian's feet began to vibrate, and this small world was about to change again. Ye Tian rose into the sky and flew directly above the small world.
The small world at the foot has become a square block of soil, and this block of soil is divided into various fragments, and after rotating, broken and reorganized, a brand new small world has been formed.
Ye Tian frowned slightly, what kind of trick this ancient mysterious machine was playing, if only by such a world change, there would be no way to get him out.
Wrong!
Ye Tian flew forward, the space in front of him suddenly changed, and he was a barrier to the small world. He only needed one step forward to get out of the game.
This Taoist law can actually affect the changes in space, and if I inadvertently, I might step out of this small world in one step.
"Very good Taoism, but if I stay in place, what can you do to me?"
As soon as the voice fell, the small world in front of him began to change again. Those fragments merged into giant meteorites one after another and then smashed towards Ye Tian.
"Is it all this skill?"
Ye Tian's face remained unchanged, and his feet moved slightly. He already knew the spatial changes.
Swinging the long sword, a large amount of sword aura was woven into a sword net. Those giant meteorites fell on this sword net, and in the blink of an eye they turned into numerous fragments and scattered in the void.
After that, these fragments seemed to have life, and gradually began to merge together, turning into a giant palm, and slapped Ye Tian.
Ye Tian raised the long sword in his hand, a large amount of spiritual power was injected into the long sword, the long sword became extremely huge, and Ye Tian drove the huge sword towards the giant palm in front of him.
The giant palm was directly split in half by the giant sword controlled by Ye Tian, but Ye Tian was not satisfied yet, and swept another blow with the giant sword.
One sword, two swords and three swords. Among the many fragments, Ye Tian suddenly saw a familiar figure, shuttled between the many fragments.
"Got you."
Seeing this, Ye Tian chuckled lightly.
As soon as the voice fell, the giant sword in Ye Tian's hand ignited a raging fire, and a huge flame storm instantly swept all the fragmented continents.
Gu Xuanji felt the danger of this flame storm, and hurriedly escaped from the fragmented continent.
At this moment, Ye Tian appeared behind him in an instant, with a long sword pressed against his neck slightly, and smiled: "Brother Xuanji, you have lost this battle."
"In the end, the skills are not as good as humans. Please also ask Brother Ye Tian to give more advice after going out."
Gu Xuanji gave a wry smile. He had thought that using his own natal form could cause trouble to Ye Tian.
However, he never expected that Ye Tian also had his own hole cards not coming out. This terrifying flame is the most terrifying he has encountered so far.
"See you later."
Ye Tian nodded and agreed, killing Gu Xuanji with a sword.
With more and more eliminated, only two of the thousand small worlds are left.
The last enemy, really is howling.
"As expected, it is you, I won to the end." Xiaoming smiled charmingly.
She chose Ye Tian to cooperate, and it was indeed the most correct choice.
"Do you still want to fight?"
Ye Tian looked at Xiaoming, he was quite interested in fighting against Xiaoming.
"Let's wait until the future, you and I can just use a few tricks, I still have a task."
Howling shook his head slightly, Ye Tian was able to win to the end, so naturally he was not an opponent to defeat.
What's more, Ye Tian didn't even hit her mind-killing skills that day and night.
I am afraid that even if he did not make this transaction, Ye Tian would be the final winner.
After several moves, Xiaoming pretended to be knocked down by Ye Tian.
Ye Tian won the first place in the three competitions, which made Huang Tianxia and others envied.
After the game, everyone stood on the square where they had assembled.
A few streamers appeared on the horizon, and several gods and men descended from the sky.
Seeing the gods descending from the sky, everyone couldn't help but get excited.
Everyone looked at those gods with enthusiasm. Once selected by the gods, they don’t have to start from handyman or even ordinary disciples, but directly enter the inner gate.
"War Invincible, I am the disciple of the Huanglong real person, Longteng Shenren. Speaking of which, we have a little fate. If you are willing to come to my sect and become my direct child, I will help you."
One of the gods came out and said loudly.
"The disciple is willing."
Zhan Wudi quickly bowed down to the ground.
"Huang Tianxia, I am the of the gods, whether you are willing to worship my door and become my personal disciple, I will teach you all the knowledge I have learned."
Another came out.
"Sorry to the gods of the gods, let me refuse your invitation, the gods of the gods of the gods had great favors to me a few years ago, and I promised her that if one day enters the Taoist religion, he will definitely worship at his door. ."
Who knows, Huang Tianxia actually chose to refuse.
"Emperor Star God Man... This guy is retreating for a very important thing, and the relationship between our two people is not bad. It is better to study under my sect in these days, and then I will personally You sent it to his door."
Even if it was rejected, the gods of the gods did not get angry with Huang Tianxia. Geniuses are always in demand. I only blame myself for not starting earlier, which made the genius worship others.
"Gu Xuanji, can you come into my door?"
"Yun Hanqing, can you come into my door?"
All geniuses were picked away by the gods. Ye Tian stood on the spot, frowning slightly. Logically speaking, his performance was so excellent that there should be gods who would accept him as disciples. Why hasn’t any gods said to accept them? How about being a disciple?
Other people gradually noticed Ye Tian's situation, and some unreasonable people began to mock.
"Every time I competed to be number one in the rankings, how about it? In the end, no one of the gods liked him."
"It seems that his performance in the game may be due to the existence of moisture, otherwise the gods would have picked him away."
"I thought it was a genius. It seems that they are just like us, who are ordinary disciples."
"Being an ordinary disciple, maybe even an ordinary disciple can't get him, so he can only be a handyman disciple."
Everyone began to laugh, and Ye Tian frowned slightly. If he couldn't be defeated by one of the gods, then it would not be difficult to get from an ordinary disciple to an inner disciple with his own efforts, it just took more time.
I don’t know how much time is left until the secret realm is opened, and whether he can catch up with the secret realm opening this time.
At this moment, the last man of God stood up and looked at Ye Tian. Everyone couldn't help but tighten. Is this man of God ready to accept Ye Tian as a disciple?
Huang Tianxia, Zhan Wudi and others all looked at Ye Tian. Ye Tian's strength is obvious to all, and they are definitely genius among geniuses.
They were also wondering just now why no gods chose to accept Ye Tian as their apprentice.
The god-man unfolded a scroll, and a figure appeared from the scroll. When everyone saw this figure, they couldn't help but breathe in cold air.
Because this figure is actually the leader of the Taoist Church, Taoist God!
"Ye Tian!"
"The disciple is here!"
"You have performed very well in these three tests, so if you are willing to come into my door, as my closed disciple, I will give you a lesson."
"hiss..."
Everyone present couldn't help but breathe a breath of air. No wonder no dared to accept Ye Tian as his disciple. It turned out that the leader of Taoist Sect had already appointed Ye Tian as his disciple.
After that, Huang Tianxia and others reacted instantly. Did the leader just say that he wanted to accept Ye Tian as a closed disciple?
You need to know that there is a huge difference between direct disciples and closed disciples, and direct disciples only exist as candidates for inheritance.
The closed disciple means that all resources will tend to the closed disciple, and finally let him inherit the mantle of the master.
The words of the leader of made everyone look at Ye Tian, who is very likely to become the next leader of Taoist Sect.
All the gods and men did not say a word. Why did the leader accept Ye Tian as a disciple? Only they knew the inside story.