Chapter 62: Successor

After Ning Lingge and Cihang Zhenren completed the handover, he officially resigned from the position of Tiangang Hall Master, and only retained the identity of Canzhi Zhenren. However, as long as he still has this identity of Canzhi Zhenren, he is still one of the thirty-six people second only to the three deputy masters and several Pingzhang Da Zhenren, and it is not difficult to make a comeback.

After Cihang Zhenren officially took office as the head of Tiangang Hall, he did not reappoint a new deputy master, but promoted the original eighth deputy master to the seventh deputy master, and it was not even a horizontal transfer. His subordinates are still the original subordinates, just changed their names.

Because of the battle of Cowenbu, not only Shangguan Jing died in the battle, but also the Taoist priests and spiritual officials under his command suffered heavy casualties, and it was no longer a system.

Cihang Zhenren simply incorporated all of Shangguan Jing's old subordinates into the Yaoguang Division under Zhang Yuelu's name, and let Zhang Yuelu replace him as the eighth deputy master, and the ninth deputy master was vacant.

In this way, although Zhang Yuelu still ranks last among the many deputy hall masters, if the ninth deputy hall master is appointed again, he will be ranked after Zhang Yuelu. And in this way, there is no need to assign a special spiritual officer to Zhang Yuelu, so that Zhang Yuelu suddenly becomes a deputy hall master with real power, instead of the flower stand before.

Everyone knows that Cihang Zhenren is paving the way for his disciples, but no one can say anything. After all, Zhang Yuelu is still ranked last and has not surpassed anyone. In addition, before Zhang Yuelu was named by the Earth Master as the ninth deputy hall master, Tiangang Hall had eight deputy hall masters, and now it is equivalent to returning to the original pattern.

However, Zhang Yuelu's promotion speed is really enviable. It has only been less than a year since he was promoted to deputy hall master, and he has moved forward one place. At this speed, in another ten years, he should be the chief deputy hall master, which is a high position that can only be held by the second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests, and he is only one step away from the Chanzhi Zhenren.

This move also confirms Zhang Yuelu's status as the orthodox successor of Cihang Zhenren in a sense.

You should know that Cihang Zhenren not only has Zhang Yuelu as a disciple, but also has senior and junior sisters. However, there is only one position for Cihang Zhenren. Who can inherit her mantle, resources, connections, and status depends on Cihang Zhenren's own intention.

Since ancient times, "establishing a crown prince" has always been a major event. Only when there is a successor can people's hearts be stabilized. In the past, the competition for the Grand Master had not yet entered a white-hot stage, so this matter could naturally be left aside for the time being. Now that Cihang Zhenren has personally taken action, it cannot be ignored.

Similarly, Qingwei Zhenren and Donghua Zhenren also each introduced their own successors, which is also the same idea.

For this reason, Qingpinghui launched the Ruyi List at this critical juncture, allowing Li Changge and Yao Pei, two people who were not well-known in the past, to surface. The deep meaning of this is intriguing, and it is hard to say that there is no intention to add fuel to the flames.

Cihang Zhenren chose Zhang Yuelu as his successor, which obviously took many factors into consideration. Age is undoubtedly a very important factor. It is not good to be too old, and it is not good to be too young.

If they are too close to the age of Cihang Zhenren, for example, Zhang Yuelu's sisters are more than ten years older than Cihang Zhenren. When they were young, a thirty-year-old woman and a teenage girl were twice as old. When they are old, the age difference between a ninety-year-old man and a seventy-year-old man is nothing. When Cihang Zhenren retires, they are also too old to take over the mantle. It is the same reason that the three deputy masters and several other Pingzhang masters all withdrew from the competition for the master.

If the age difference with Cihang Zhenren is too big, for example, Zhang Yuelu's sisters are still ten-year-old children, they are ten years less, too young, and may not be able to reach the right position at the right time.

Only Zhang Yuelu is of the right age. If this trend continues, the second-grade master in his early thirties and the forty-year-old assistant master will definitely be the strong contenders for the position of the master. Others can only say that they are unlucky and cannot blame others.

Then there is the background. Cihang Zhenren does not deny that some people can ascend to the throne of the Grand Master without relying on family background, such as the fifth generation Grand Master, but such extraordinary people cannot be judged by common sense. The sixth generation Grand Master also came from an ordinary background, and by chance, he ascended to the throne of the Grand Master, but it became an empty shell.

Most people still consider the help or influence of the family background behind them.

Zhang Yuelu was born in the Zhang family, so there is no need to say more, and the key is that she was favored by the Earth Master.

Zhang Yuelu has two unique skills, one is "Cihang Pudu Sword Canon", which was taught to her by Cihang Zhenren, and the other is "Six Void Tribulations". Cihang Zhenren does not know such means, which is the secret of the Earth Master lineage, but Zhang Yuelu has learned it, which is undoubtedly taught by the Earth Master. From this point of view, Zhang Yuelu and the Earth Master also have some master-disciple fate. She said that if she was forced to go to Quanzhen Dao, it was a rant, but not a lie.

If Zhang Yuelu can become the Grand Master, then Quanzhen Dao will probably not strongly oppose it.

The more critical point is that Zhang Yuelu is willing to work.

Li Changge, Yao Pei and others are indeed good, capable and have backgrounds, but if they don't come out to work, there is no reason to promote them, so they are still fifth-grade Taoist priests, that is, alternate priests.

Looking at Zhang Yuelu's posture, he is not far from being a third-grade Taoist priest.

As Ning Lingge said, there is no shortage of opportunists in the Taoist sect. They don't have the ability to compete for the position of the Grand Master, but they want to follow the right person and ask for a credit for supporting him. Some people saw that it was difficult to count on the election of the seventh-generation Grand Master this time, so they set their sights on the candidates for the eighth-generation Grand Master in advance.

The candidates for the third path are already very clear, but they are also starting to emerge. In terms of age, qualifications, and background, they are Zhang Yuelu from Zhengyi Dao, Li Changge from Taiping Dao, and Yao Pei from Quanzhen Dao.

Among the three, Li Changge has the highest cultivation level, but Zhang Yuelu has the richest resume. Although the three ways are different, there is me in you and you in me. People of Taiping Tao may not support Taiping Tao wholeheartedly. In the same way, the same is true for Zhengyi Tao and Quanzhen Tao. Zhang Yuelu's experience of slowly climbing up the ranks of the Nine Halls will give her many colleagues, old subordinates, bosses, and friends. They may not be members of the same party, but they have a close relationship with Zhang Yuelu. After decades of accumulation, they will become Like a large net woven tightly, this is a huge energy that cannot be suppressed by a high level of cultivation.

Therefore, many people are very optimistic about Zhang Yuelu and have begun to prepare to move closer to Zhang Yuelu.

This undoubtedly increased Zhang Yuelu's momentum and made Zhang Yuelu's status rise invisibly. Within Tiangang Hall, even the top deputy hall masters did not dare to underestimate this junior.

By this time, the Zhang family no longer pressed for Zhang Yuelu's marriage.

If Zhang Yuelu can really achieve the status that Master Cihang has today, marriage is definitely not feasible and it will definitely be a marriage.

Tantai Qiong even joked with Zhang Yuyue in private. Thanks to Qi Xuansu, if she really made a marriage arrangement with the Yan family, she would regret it now.

After all, no one expected that Master Cihang would become the Master of Tiangangtang. After a series of reactions, Zhang Yuelu surfaced in advance and confirmed the identity of Master Cihang's successor.

After all, in the past, there was still a feeling of being shrouded in fog. Except for Zhang Yuelu who was determined to compete for the position of Grand Master, no one else was sure whether Zhang Yuelu could compete for the title of Grand Master. They just felt that she could definitely become an ordinary person. Real person, as for knowing the real person, it also depends on some luck.

Who would have thought.

At this time, Qi Xuansu still didn't know that the difficulty of marrying Zhang Yuelu had been raised one step higher. This was no longer a problem that a second-grade real person could solve.