Before the deacon could continue with his melancholy thoughts, the jade in his robe suddenly vibrated.
"Hmm? Sect master..." Surprised, he thought that it was the first time she had personally sent a message to him which made him a little nervous, but as soon as he read the message he was able to relax.
Pop!
Suddenly he clapped his hands in an attempt to get the attention of all the young cultivators who were about to take the test.
"Testing of the physique rank is temporarily suspended!"
"The sect master ordered a man named Victor to take the test now"
Though the deacon said it with a relaxed tone, his mind was in an unrest, he was curious who the person that the sect master had to personally inform the deacon about was, but unfortunately since he was in a low position he could ask the question, it would have been impudent if he had dared to ask.
Before the crowd stirred, his attention was drawn to a young man who was slowly approaching the stele. His appearance clearly stood out from the others, his snow-white hair and violet eyes providing a clear contrast to the others.
There was a bright smile on his face while his thoughts were simple.
'To hell with everything! I'll just go with the flow.' Victor no longer refused the holy son's position, instead he coveted it. If he had the Dark Moon Temple behind him and Xue Yan as his master, would there be a daredevil who would dare to challenge him?
It was a good chance to get rid of a lot of problems. He gained a physique and thanks to the sect he will be able to get rid of Su Rong, whom he no longer wanted to meet ever again.
As he slowly approached the stele, the crowd silently gave way to him, forming a kind of corridor; it was unknown if they were acting out of fear of the sect master or not.
As he approached the stele, he slowly reached out and placed his palm on the stele.
'From now on, there will be no more insecurity.
Once his hand was on the stele it, to the surprise of many, didn't react.
"Did the sect master suspend the testing for such a man?"
Suddenly all their thoughts froze and their facial expressions were shocked.
The stele, which until that moment had not reacted at all to Victor, suddenly shook slightly and the light, which was not there before, began to slowly illuminate the surroundings getting brighter and brighter, until it completely absorbed the immediate grounds and then the entire territory of the Temple of the Dark Moon.
The light from the stele became so bright that it was like the sun, only after a few breaths did the light begin to darken little by little until everything fell into place altogether.
Silence. Absolute silence enveloped the square. Not only the young cultivators, but even the deacon, the elders, and all the high-ranking members of the sect were speechless.
'Worthy to be my man' Standing above the clouds and looking at Victor who was dazzling involuntarily thought Xue Yan, as soon as she thought about what just said, she blushed and shook her head in an attempt to throw those thoughts away, but despite that her lips slightly lifted in the form of a smile. It was something no one in the sect had ever witnessed Xue Yan doing.
"Divine... Divine rank physique!" - At that moment, a loud scream that echoed throughout the area suddenly pulled all gathered out of their thoughts.
Victor stood silently, looking at the mad screams of the young cultivators, which made him sigh silently. Even if he did not want to stand out in front of everyone unnecessarily, now it was all over. He was sure that today the whole world of cultivators would be shocked by this news.
A young cultivator of the demonic sect with a divine physique, god only knew how many enemies he would make among the righteous sects. But in spite of that, Victor was smiling.
Holding the position of holy son of the Temple of the Dark Moon, he could get stronger without any problems, which would save a lot of time.
"Victor, physique of the divine rank."
The deacon's voice echoed throughout the area, he was as stunned as the others as well as pleased. Even the sect master has the physique of a heavenly rank while the young cultivator in front of him is a legendary divine rank, which was thought to be only a myth, never to be met in current times.
The deacon was not surprised that Victor was already in the late stage of Earthly Ascension(2) at such an age it was quite logical, with such a physique the place of the first genius was already predetermined.
And it was not a practitioner of the righteous path or the empire, but of the demonic path. Such an event would not only undermine the prestige of the righteous sects and the Blue Wind Empire, it would also elevate the status of the Temple of the Dark Moon.
While many were going crazy, Elder Zhang acted unlike them, he clearly understood that Victor was destined to become the one who would conquer heaven and earth.
'He's a good match...' He thought about it, and soon he had a rather unusual idea.
"Sect master, where did you find such a genius?" - With curiosity he asked. He thought it was impossible to meet such a genius unless the sect master had hidden it all along, allowing it to grow stronger and once it became strong enough like the best geniuses of the righteous path she decided not to hide it anymore.
p Xue Yan was speechless for a while, she couldn't say that she met him by accident and that she had almost killed him and until that moment she didn't even know he possessed such a physique.
"Just a chance encounter." - She answered briefly, the elder didn't take it seriously as he didn't think it was true, so he just nodded his head.
'So the sect master didn't look for a suitable cultivator all this time just because of him.' Among all the sects, both demonic and righteous, only the Dark Moon Temple didn't have a holy son yet, which puzzled the high ranking members of the sect and even under persuasion she refused to pass the position to anyone.
Only now many realized that she did not need to look for anyone, and that all this time the place was already occupied by the man in front of them.
"Sect Master, this subordinate has a small request." - Elder Zhang did not want to let such a promising young man go.
"Tell me."
He put on a dignified look and spoke in a righteous tone:
"This subordinate has a daughter about the same age as Victor and she has a heavenly physique. How about marrying her off to Victor?"