Chapter 716: Breaking Precedent
Night deepened, yet the council hall deep within the Supreme Void Court remained brightly lit.
Chief Seats Xua Ming, Yuanjing, Yue, and Gantang sat on their meditation mats, several cups of clear tea set on the low tables before them.
Chief Seat Xua Ming swept his gaze across the other three and spoke first, "You've all heard that the Warden has accepted Chen Qing as his nominal disciple."
"Of course we've heard," Chief Seat Gantang said in a measured tone, "It is genuinely unexpected."
Her words were understated, but everyone present caught the implication beneath them.
Unexpected hardly began to cover it!
Lin Daoji had cultivated for several thousand years, presiding over the Supreme Void Dao for over a millennium. Generation after generation of talented disciples had risen within the Dao tradition, countless numbers of them longing to be accepted under his tutelage, yet he had never so much as given any of them a second glance.
Back when Chief Seat Yue had still been at the Primordial Spirit realm, her extraordinary talent had been on full display, fighting her way into the top hundred of the Primordial Spirit Rankings, drawing the attention of the entire Jingyang Blessed Land. Everyone had assumed Lin Daoji would break precedent and take her as his disciple. Yet he had not.
This matter, Chief Seat Yue never spoke of it aloud, but a knot had remained lodged in her heart ever since.