Master Xiao Zhen looked at the young man lying low before him, and even with his extensive experience, he found it difficult to imagine how someone who had only just entered the threshold of the Pulse had climbed to his current position within a mere few decades?
And within the Quanzhen Sect of the powerful Shan Sect, was his brilliance not suppressed?
He did not know who, in the end, would be able to use the stepping stone of becoming a True Disciple of the Anhe Daoist Sect to take that step? This was his intuition, but other Nascent Transformation Masters might have their own intuitions as well—everything was still unknown, one could only do their best.
He had several candidates with this potential, including cultivators nurtured within the Anhe Daoist lineage, several cultivators from the Chu Sect, and now adding Hou Niao to the list; these were all the candidates he could find within the limits of his abilities.
