Chapter 1430 Surprise of the Alchemy and Blacksmithing Hall

Chapter 1430 Surprise of the Alchemy and Blacksmithing Hall

As the competition concluded without any problems, the disciples and elders of the sect who had joined to watch these seniors of the sect show off their skills, did not react like how most of the participating elders had expected them to react.

Instead of the number of disciples joining the blacksmithing hall and the alchemy hall following the awesome display of profound skill from their seniors, the number of disciples interested in alchemy and blacksmithing instead seemed to see a significant decrease. Lowering the number of disciples joining the two professions, while as an unintended side effect, increasing the number of disciples deciding to join the formation hall to become a formation master and causing the remaining disciples to focus on their cultivation more seriously than they had done in the past.

As a result of this, the already busy Combat Hall of the sect became even busier, as discussions of expanding the Combat Hall soon reached the ears of Elder Song, who was more than happy to allocate some of the sect's resources towards the expansion of the Combat Hall. After all, the younger generation's current drive to increase their strength was an unexpected surprise and something that would help increase the overall strength of the sect.

Even though it was not the intended effect he had wanted from the competition, it wasn't bad in any way... And with the lower number of disciples joining the alchemy hall and the blacksmithing hall, Elder Song found a way to funnel some of the resources that would originally have gone towards expanding these two towards the expansion of the Combat Hall.

In the end, the only ones who ended up losing out were the alchemy hall and blacksmithing hall, who didn't see the expected increase in disciples joining them and instead just saw the resources originally allocated for their expansion decreasing visibly.

Of course, given that the competition was nothing short of perfect in the eyes of the alchemists and blacksmiths who had taken part in and watched the competition, they couldn't understand why this was the case.

After all, the group of elders taking part in the competition had all perfectly shown off their splendor and deep comprehension regarding alchemy or blacksmithing. Especially Bai Ning and Qing Yi, who had stood out as the youngest participants during the competition.

However, given that it was a fact that new disciples didn't rush over to join them following the end of the competition, they still understood that there might have been something that they couldn't see that ended up going wrong in the eyes of the younger disciples for them to suddenly become so disinterested in alchemy and blacksmithing.

Unable to cope with the fact that the number of disciples joining the alchemy hall or the blacksmithing hall continued decreasing with each passing week until no one showed up any more, one of the elders from the alchemy hall decided to join hands with another elder from the blacksmithing hall to investigate the situation and find out the reason for the younger disciples sudden extreme disinterest in learning the art of blacksmithing or alchemy.

Not that surprisingly, after asking a few of the disciples, they managed to find an answer to their question.

At the same time giving the newly recruited disciples of the formation hall a chance to grow up.

...

Unaware of the growing conflicts between the formation masters of the sect and the alchemists and blacksmiths of the sect, Xuan Hao was quietly cultivating inside his room back on the Seventh Star Peak for the past month.

"Looks like nobody beyond the Domain Lord Realm entered the city over the past month..."

Opening his eyes at this moment, his eyes shone briefly, as the divine sense that had been constantly monitoring the Falling Star City for the past month quietly retracted.

Although he felt that his previous act as a senior figure above the Dao Seed Realm was flawless in every sense of the word and shouldn't have been seen through even by someone in the Celestial Immortal Realm unless they attacked him to directly confirm his strength, he was still worried and had thus decided to quietly cultivate while also using his divine sense to monitor the situation of the Falling Star City.

If someone above the Dao Seed Realm ended up appearing, he would know that the Blue Sea Empire had managed to pick up on something and decided to personally verify things even at the risk of offending an ancient hidden sect, something that would only happen if they doubted the Star Shattering Sect's identity as an ancient hidden sect.

Luckily, it seemed like nothing like that had ended up happening and his worst fears were unfounded.

The strongest person who had shown up inside the Falling Star City over the past month had only reached the Domain Lord Realm. Far from enough to draw any attention from him, as even if they were spies from the Blue Sea Empire, they were far too weak to find out anything about the Star Shattering Sect.

Only if they were in the Dao Seed Realm would they have a chance of noticing something off about the Star Shattering Sect and the Shattered Star Peaks, while those in the Celestial Immortal Realm would almost certainly discover something after investigating the Star Shattering Sect for a bit. Especially when it came to the overall level of the disciples and elders who normally wandered around outside the sect.

Even if it was a hidden ancient sect, it would be odd that all the elders of the sect wandering around outside the sect were only in the Domain Lord Realm, with not a single one in the Dao Seed Realm.