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"Elder Brother Dai, wake up, wake up."

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Dai Bufan faintly heard someone calling his name.

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Who's calling me, so noisy.

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Dai Bufan struggled to open his eyes and saw Lu Yang's big face very close to his own, looking at him earnestly.

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Seeing that he had woken up, Lu Yang's big face moved a little further away.

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Dai Bufan shook his head, feeling like he had forgotten something. What had happened before? Why had he passed out?

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"Is it Junior Brother Lu? What do you need?"

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Lu Yang revealed a line of people behind him, all trussed up like zongzi (rice dumplings).

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Lu Yang bragged to Dai Bufan, smiling somewhat sheepishly, "Elder Brother Dai, I just went out for a little adventure and, by accident, I captured the Four Ancient Immortals, all the sleeping Semi-Immortals from the ancient past, the first Emperor Qian, the first Emperor Yu, the first Imperial Teacher, the first Emperor Xia...

Now the conflict of the Great Era will definitely be won by our Seek Dao Sect!"

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"What?!"

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Dai Bufan's eyes snapped open, he sat up straight, his eyes wide and round as he looked at Lu Yang's detestable big face.

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He looked confusedly at Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and the others, the trussed-up Four Ancient Immortals had all vanished without a trace.

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"So it was a dream, just a dream..."

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Dai Bufan felt a chill down his back, recalled the scenes from his dream, a false alarm, and was immensely relieved.

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The Grand Elder was proficient in Dream Spell, and Dai Bufan also knew some dream magic skills; it had been hundreds of years since he last had a nightmare.

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"Elder Brother Dai, are you alright?" Lu Yang asked concernedly, thinking to himself that Elder Brother Dai's spiritual fortitude was lacking, this was hardly anything significant. If not for fear that Elder Brother Dai might end up on the must-kill list too, I'd be tempted to reveal Grey Bean's identity to you.

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Memories gradually coming back, Dai Bufan remembered what Lu Yang had said before he fainted.

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"Lu Yang, you really are trouble. They say there are no Semi-Immortals in the East Sea, yet you went there, and not only did you make it so the East Sea had Semi-Immortals, you also managed to get two of them killed.

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As for the battle of Immortals, it hadn't been initiated in thirty thousand years.

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"Everything that happens in the East Sea will make history, and you're telling me all these events are related to you?"

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Lu Yang felt strangely flustered being praised by Dai Bufan out of the blue, "It's not as great as you make it sound..."

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Dai Bufan forcibly stabilized his heart of Dao, "All of you tell me properly, how did it go from playing in the East Sea for two days to causing a great battle among Immortals?"

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As the one who had experienced most of it, Lu Yang recounted the majority of events, while Meng Jingzhou and the others supplemented the story.

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Dai Bufan finally untangled the sequence of events. Based on what Lu Yang and his group had described, the trouble in the East Sea couldn't really be blamed on Lu Yang; it was just a matter of pure luck.

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From the intelligence perspective, this was invaluable information that was worth its weight in gold. Dai Bufan could say that the events in the East Sea had shaken the Cultivation World, but the ins and outs were only fully understood by Lu Yang and his group, while others only saw the superficial phenomena.

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From the perspective of the manager of the Task Hall, Dai Bufan just wanted Lu Yang to take his place.

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Dai Bufan held his forehead, feeling a headache coming on. He chased the group out like he was shooing away flies, "Alright, alright, I get the picture, let me have some peace."

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He needed to properly digest the intelligence from the East Sea.

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After Lu Yang and the group left, Dai Bufan sat cross-legged, steadied his breath, and repeatedly went over the events of the East Sea in his mind, finally exploding in a roar.

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"Even if it was luck, everything that happened was just too unbelievable!"

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Boom—

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In a fury, Dai Bufan's aura surged to the sky, and he ascended to the mid-stage of the Body Integration Realm in one fell swoop!

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𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

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A month had passed since the entrance exam of the Seek Dao Sect, and the four new disciples who were recruited had all joined the tutelage of various Elders.

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Daoist Xiantian became a disciple under the Vast Sea Daoist Lord, Gu Junye under the Grand Elder, Zhou Xing'er under Uncle Ba, and Zhuang Ping under the Fourth Elder.

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With the Grand Elder nowhere to be found, presumably lying in a coffin somewhere, Elder Brother Dai had no choice but to take on the role of master, instructing Gu Junye in an open area behind the mountain.

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Just the thing to change up the mood.

"Our lineage, not only in charge of the Task Hall, also holds the power of punishment; the most important thing is to avoid causing trouble. Since you've joined our lineage, you must follow the rules and remember not to stir up any problems,"

"Alright, Senior Brother," Gu Junye sat honestly across and listened attentively.

"Speaking of bad examples, Lu Yang here is the most typical case. Whenever he goes out on a mission, he's bound to cause some sort of trouble.

At first, it wasn't too bad, just getting mixed up with the Eternity Sect and the like, but then he attended the Qingzhou celebration, encountered two ancient cultivators in the Body Integration Realm and one in the Transcendance Tribulation Stage, later went to Wild State, and ran into three ancient cultivators in the Transcendance Tribulation Stage...

Not long ago, he returned from the East Sea, and the affairs of the East Sea are not unrelated to him,"

Dai Bufan carefully listed Lu Yang's inexplicable connections with high-ranking cultivators, each time Lu Yang returned, what he brought back nearly scared him to death.

"Gu Junior Brother, what did you learn from all this?"

Gu Junye's eyes sparkled with admiration: "A real man should be like this!"

Dai Bufan: "..."

Is it still possible to switch out this junior brother for another?

...

When Lu Yang returned to Sky Gate Mountain, he saw Eldest Senior Sister and Ao Ling drinking tea; Ao Ling was sitting with her legs crossed, looking very relaxed and bold.

"Our Sect already has Fairy Eternity and Elder Lianyi as our guest officials; I wonder if Elder Ao Ling would be interested in becoming a guest official of our Sect."

"Damn it, Lianyi managed to get ahead of me again," Ao Ling regretted. Why was it that Jiang Lianyi woke up first and not her?

Being a step behind meant lagging in every aspect; even if she became a guest official now, she was still one Jiang Lianyi behind Fairy Eternity.

"So, what are the benefits of becoming a guest official?"

"There are of course many benefits to becoming a guest official. For example, if the elder fancies anything from our Sect, feel free to take it,"

"Oh, there's such a good deal?" Ao Ling's gaze landed on the recently arrived Lu Yang, showing a keen and playful smile, which gave Lu Yang a bad premonition.

"Junior Brother is not an object," Yun Zhi reminded.

"However, our Sect has caught a few Semi-Immortals, confiscated their possessions, and now they are all placed in the treasury; the elder can pick one item you like from there."

Now that Lu Yang had been used as bait to hook a bunch of Semi-Immortals, the foundation of the Seek Dao Sect was richer than that of the Long Clan.

"Or make contributions to our Sect, earn Contribution Points, and exchange them for 'A Day as Sect Leader Experience,' temporarily becoming the leader of our Sect; everyone in the Sect must follow the orders of the Acting Sect Leader."

"Does that include guest officials as well?"

"Guest officials are no exception."

Ao Ling slapped her thigh: "I'm in!"

"Can I also earn Contribution Points?" Fairy Eternity suddenly thought of it, as she hadn't earned any Contribution Points in a long time.

Yun Zhi said, "Fairy Eternity has made indelible contributions to our Sect, naturally, you have earned Contribution Points."

"Then I want to exchange for 'A Day as Sect Leader Experience'!" Fairy Eternity's eyes gleamed.

Yun Zhi was not surprised: "May I know how long the fairy wants to exchange for, one year or two years..."

Seek Dao Sect had caught a few Semi-Immortals, and Fairy Eternity had made many contributions, her Contribution Points could be described as massive.

"One year will do,"

Yun Zhi nodded: "That being the case, starting from today..."

"Hold on, I'm just exchanging in advance; I don't want to be the Acting Sect Master right now,"

Fairy Eternity recalled that the last two times she immediately became the Acting Sect Master, organizing a Five Elements Sect exchange meeting, and hosting the twelve-million-year celebration of the Seek Dao Sect; both were fraught with difficulties. If it hadn't been for having Lu Yang as a trump card, she would have faced significant challenges.

This time, she was going to choose a good opportunity to be the Acting Sect Master again.

This time it was Yun Zhi's turn to be astonished; she hadn't realized that when she wasn't paying attention, Fairy Eternity's intelligence had greatly improved.