Listening to his master's words, Liu Ji'an was plunged into memories.
Memories of last year.
Liu Ji'an finally had answers to some of the unreasonable things that had happened to him since he went to the Sect.
First, on the day he joined, several Elders vied to take him as their disciple.
At the time, he thought it was because his cultivation talent was very high, so high that these Elders, in front of him, were openly undermining each other to recruit him.
In the end, it was the Sect Leader who intervened, letting the Elders use the ancient method of drawing lots to decide who would take him on, and his master won the draw.
Watching his master's uncontrollably excited expression at the time, he thought his talent must be so astonishing that his master wept tears of joy at having found a successor.
But after a year of cultivation, Liu Ji'an became puzzled.