There was still the better part of a day before the grand assembly at the Holy Mother Palace began.
Dong'an City.
The elders and disciples from the Cast Cloud Sect who were attending the assembly converged here with those of several brother sects.
A young man had asked his master for a short leave, clutching a dozen bottles of Elixir Pills and a pile of Spirit Stones, arriving at the front of a Magic Artifact shop in Dong'an City. He actively revealed his identity as an Inner Sect Disciple and quickly spoke a few words to the shopkeeper.
"Niu Qi?"
"Yes, he's quite tall and robust."
"I have an impression of him, he still looked rather youthful when he arrived."
The shopkeeper recalled carefully:
"But he only worked here for half a year, then he made an excuse to visit his family and left. He never came back.
"He probably felt that there was no future in being a menial disciple here, and went to seek his own fortune."