In the Shanhai Realm, a standard top-tier sect is expected to have at least one cultivator at the Tribulation Crossing stage, supported by several Dao Integration masters.
Within these prestigious sects, the most powerful combatants are rarely the sect leaders themselves, but rather their fellow disciples or the Grand Elders. This is because a sect leader must divide their attention between administrative affairs and cannot focus solely on secluded cultivation. Consequently, the supreme geniuses nurtured by each sect are almost never tasked with the burdens of leadership.
Ye Hanyuan, the Grand Elder of the Zhengang Sect, is the uncle of Sect Leader Liu Aotian and the last remaining powerhouse of the sect’s oldest generation; his peers have either exhausted their lifespans or perished under the lightning of their own Tribulation Crossings.
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