Chapter 338: First Arrival at the Sect

The welcoming Elder of the Eight Extremes Sect this time wasn’t Ao Rong, but a handsome middle-aged man.

Along with him were two Inner Pupils, one of whom was the ordinary-looking Senior Brother from the competition space.

After they arrived in Yan’zhou Kingdom, they didn’t accept Yun Tian Chen’s invitation to go to the palace. After staying at the Lou Clan for a night, they left the Imperial Capital with Lou Mu Yan the next day.

The Eight Extremes Sect was a Sect that was famous on the Continent for its Smithing and Arrays, so this time, the Elder was riding a Middle-Quality Saint Tool, which also had defensive functions and was no worse than the Sumeru Light Boat Lou Mu Yan owned.

Along the way, the Elder and two Senior Brothers only verified their identities per usual, and the four of them were teleported to other kingdoms to pick up others.

When everyone was picked up, the leading Elder took them back to the Sect on his Magic Tool.

Among the more than a dozen people who were picked up, three maintained the same indifferent attitude, while some revealed irritability from time to time, and were more and more unusually respectful to the three of them.

Only Lou Mu Yan, Ling Fei Yang, Yan Jun, and Mo Ling maintained their calm demeanour from the very beginning of the reception to now.

Because of the influence of the three messengers who picked them up, the atmosphere on the ship was very depressing, and practically no one spoke. Therefore, Lou Mu Yan and her group cultivated in their own rooms and didn’t gather to chat.

On the eleventh day of their journey back to the Sect, the Elder called the more than a dozen people to a room in the boat’s warehouse for tea, and many people revealed flattered expressions.

“Lou girl, I heard that you’re already a Grade 3 Array Master?” Elder Wen, who was sitting in the main seat, looked at Lou Mu Yan with a light smile and asked.

Lou Mu Yan stroked the tea with the cover in her hand, looked up and replied without changing expressions: “Junior is indeed a Grade 3 Array Master.”

“Not bad. Such an achievement at such a young age will surely mean great achievements in the future.” Elder Wen praised her with a smile.

At this time, the seven or eight people who were also selected into the Sect in the competition space began to feel sour and all secretly thought that if Lou Mu Yan didn’t choose the same Sect as them, then would the light of the new pupils not be completely stolen by her?

Thinking of this, many people still leaked unkindness towards her.

“Many thanks to Elder Wen for the praise. Junior doesn’t dare accept.” Lou Mu Yan replied indifferently.

This old fox was obviously drawing hatred for her. But she didn’t remember when she offended him.

“You deserve this compliment.” Elder Wen continued with a smile.

Lou Mu Yan’s eyes were stained with slight ridicule. She smiled faintly and stopped talking.

Seeing that she was ignoring him, Elder Wen appeared to not care, and immediately turned the conversation to Mo Ling, “Kid from the Mo Clan, I heard that you were trapped by a Grade 4 Array when attempting to advance to the top ten. Although you delayed some time, but still escaped. I wonder if you have already advanced to Grade 4 Array Master?”

“This involves the privacy of this Junior, so forgive Junior for having no comment!” Mo Ling’s temperament was still cold and proud, and he probably didn’t even want to talk to Elder Wen, so he just closed his eyes and rested.

Seeing him so arrogant, others frowned and disagreed. Only Lou Mu Yan and Yan Jun didn’t care.

Elder Wen wasn’t angry, then immediately turned his attention to Yan Jun, “Yan Clan’s boy, your Yan Clan is a Great Smithing Clan of Tian’ling Continent. As the most valued descendant, your refining level isn’t too low, is it? Are you at Grade 4 yet?”

“Senior is joking. Where does Junior have the ability to become a Grade 4 Smith. I can only touch the edge of Grade 3 right now.” A huge smile bloomed on Yan Jun’s handsome face.

He wasn’t like Lou Mu Yan and Mo Ling who didn’t bother to talk to Elder Wen, but instead dragged Elder Wen to talk nonsense.

During this period, Elder Wen also asked a few random questions to everyone else, which seemed to be nothing, but just made Lou Mu Yan ponder deeply.

The content of the conversation was basically small talk. Only after three hours did Elder Wen let the pupils present return to their rooms to rest.

When they were gone, the ordinary-looking young man beside him suddenly said: “How is Elder’s test to them?”

Elder Wen glanced at him, then pouted: “I sure didn’t want to test them. These monkey cubs are shrewder one after the other. I blame those old things in the Sect for posing me this problem.”

When they set off, the strongest Managing Elder of the Outer Sect ordered the three to ignore them when they picked up the more than a dozen pupils, letting them hang cold for ten days. Then to observe the expressions and reactions of the dozen or so people, mainly to examine the temperament of this group of pupils.

“Then did Elder gather anything from it?”

“Gu Xiu, first tell me what you think of this group of students.” Elder Wen asked instead of answering, looking at the young man with an ordinary face but very restrained temperament.

Gu Xiu pondered for a while, then said: “The talents in this group of pupils are all good, but in terms of character, I only think highly of Lou Mu Yan, Ling Fei Yang, Yan Jun, and Mo Ling.”

Although the four of them didn’t have as high a cultivation base as him, but they always gave him a sense of incomprehension.

Whether their attitude towards them was cold or warm, it didn’t matter to the four of them. They didn’t care at all.

“Yeah! I’m also more optimistic about the four of them.” Elder Wen continued with a helpless look and said: “I sure was done dirty by those old things now. When I asked them questions before, Lou Mu Yan’s impression of me wasn’t good at all.”

Her plain gaze of ridicule earlier made him feel extremely awkward. It was all those damned old things who asked them to test their temperament and made them do things that offended people.

“Didn’t you also dig a trap for Mo Ling and Yan Jun? It’s just that they didn’t jump.” Gu Xiu smiled slightly, “I believe Lou Mu Yan can see that you didn’t mean to target her.”

“True. Of course, I don’t want to offend the pupil that even that old man Ao Rong considers important.” Elder Wen sighed, his face filled with helplessness, but the interest in his eyes still revealed his bad tastes.

Gu Xiu knew this frivolous Elder’s temperament. Now that he was eyeing Lou Mu Yan, he really didn’t know whether it was her luck or her trouble.

Half a month later, Elder Wen arrived at the Eight Extremes Sect with the group of people.

The Eight Extremes Sect was built atop a big mountain with constant rain and snow all year round. From a distance, the light rain pattered, giving people a very hazy feeling.

The high mountains stood in the clouds, making it impossible to see its true nature, like a shy girl wearing a veil, half-hidden.

Elder Wen took out the identity token and tossed it upwards. The token flew up and merged into the rain, and one just saw a transparent cover appear. Nothing could be seen inside.

“Let’s go. If you aren’t pupils of this Sect, then it’s practically impossible to infiltrate the Sect.” Elder Wen said to the several people with a smile.

The several people no longer hesitated to follow him through the light cover, then the scenery changed.

The surroundings weren’t the scene of gentle rain like just now. As soon as they stepped into the light cover, they were teleported to the peak of a mountain.

Gazing from the top of the mountain, one only saw more towering mountains surrounded by clouds, and huge rainbows hung over the mountain peaks.

There were even numerous mysterious islands suspended in the air. Cranes, and beautiful flying Demonic Beasts soared in groups, with gorgeous colours. It was as if entering a celestial land on earth.

There were many buildings on the farthest mountain, and if one looked closely, one could see many red-clothed pupils walking around.

Not only were other people dazed by such a scene, even Lou Mu Yan couldn’t help but be stunned.