The rankings of the nine peaks were never fixed. Take the current Ninth Peak, Lotus Peak, as an example. It held the title of ‘ninth’ simply because it ranked last among them. This ranking had clung to Lotus Peak for countless years.0

Changing positions, in theory, was simple. Every thousand years, the core disciples of all nine peaks of the Origin Sect would compete in the Nine Peaks Dao Contest. When that time came, the rankings would be reshuffled according to the performance of each peak’s core disciples.0

Of course, in the many Nine Peaks Dao Contest of the past, Lotus Peak’s dismal performances had left its ranking firmly fixed at the bottom to this very day… If the nine peaks were ranked by overall strength, Lotus Peak was undeniably the weakest. 0

Thus, when the elders and disciples of the Ninth Peak saw that the successor brought back by Peak Master Qiu Wuyu was Lin Xun, they were all visibly astonished. After all, they knew what had happened during the three rounds of the assessments. How could they not know how heaven-defyingly powerful Lin Xun was?0

What they hadn’t expected was that Lin Xun would actually choose to join Lotus Peak, the lowest-ranked...0